The Great Bread of Russia (1973)

Panorama of a room, typists working at desks, typing on typewriters.

Large - text being typed on a typewriter "Socialist obligations of workers of the RSFSR for 1973 ...".

Large - an ear of wheat.

Ears of wheat.

A man in a field.

Large - a field of wheat, ears of wheat.

General plan - a field of wheat, three people walking.

Panorama of ears of wheat.

One of the men throws his cap onto the field.

Large - a cap hanging on ears of wheat.

Winter, a blizzard - panorama of a snow-covered field.

Large - plowing snow drifts on a field.

Tractors driving with fertilizers in trailers, distributing fertilizers over the field.

Large - the blades of an airplane's engine spinning, a flag fluttering.

An airplane sprays fertilizers on fields from the air.

A tractor plowing the land in a field.

Large - a dashboard.

A laboratory employee working with equipment.

A woman in a white coat is sitting at a table, looking at instrument readings, making notes.

Female laboratory workers are sitting at tables, looking into microscopes, conducting research.

Close-up - a female laboratory worker is looking into a microscope.

An elderly man in a laboratory, walking past experimental plant samples.

An excavator-ditch digger is working.

Special equipment is working in a field, the land is being prepared for sowing, a panorama of the driver of the machine.

View of a field.

Tractors are working in the field, leveling the land.

A male surveyor is working with a level, writing down readings in a notebook.

Road works are being carried out - workers are laying and leveling the asphalt surface, a roller (asphalt paver) is driving behind.

Road works - a special roller is working in the frame.

Workshop of an engineering plant - work is underway to assemble and produce agricultural machinery (tractors, combines, etc.).

Panorama of the workshop of the plant.

In the frame - new Niva combines produced at the plant.

A special train with new agricultural machinery is driving.

There is new agricultural machinery in the field.

Machine operators are preparing the machines for agricultural work - washing them, adding diesel fuel, etc.

A column of combines is driving along the road.

Close-up - the combine's thresher is working.

The combine operator is driving.

View of a wheat field.

Combines are working in the field.

View from above - a panorama of the field and the combines working.

A herd of horses is walking across a wooden bridge across a river.

Close-up - the sun is visible through the grass.

Wind before a storm, wheat ears are swaying.

A haystack is flying apart from the wind.

The ears are bending to the ground from the wind.

Lightning, clouds and thunder are in the sky.

It is raining, motorcycles are standing near a tree.

A herd of cows is walking in the rain.

Village, rain, bench, water pump.

Windshield wipers are working on the car's windshield, view of the road.

Saratov, city street, it is raining, city residents are standing near the road, greeting a government delegation.

A motorcade of government cars stops, L. I. Brezhnev gets out of one of the cars, approaches the residents of Saratov, talks to them, the residents applaud and greet the General Secretary.

They give Brezhnev flowers, the General Secretary greets the people, waves his hand.

The frame shows people in the hall, listening to Brezhnev.

Brezhnev is on the presidium, giving a speech.

The people in the hall are listening, taking notes.

Brezhnev is speaking.

The people in the hall are applauding.

Typists are typing texts on typewriters.

Large - the text is being typed on a typewriter "The word of Saratov grain growers: sell 280 million poods of grain to the state." It is raining, a UAZik is driving along the road.

Rain, combines are driving along the road.

Rain. stormy sky, lightning flashes.

A wheat field during the rain.

Ears of wheat pressed to the ground.

A motorcycle with a sidecar is driving along the road soaked by the rain.

A horseman rides along the road.

Men enter the government building.

Large - hands typing on a typewriter.

Large - the text "Stavropol grain growers have committed to providing the state with over 2 million tons of grain" is being printed.

Large - teletype tape.

Large - the text "Orenburg region has committed to providing the country with 3.5 million tons of grain" is being printed.

Large - hands typing on a typewriter.

Large - the text "Obligations of Kuban grain growers: to provide the country with 4 million tons of grain" is being printed.

Large - hands typing on a typewriter.

Large - the text "Rostov region has committed to filling the country's granaries with over 5 million tons of grain" is being printed.

Large - hands typing on a typewriter.

A road muddy from the rain, a view of trucks stuck in the mud (shot from the driveway).

The wheels are spinning, the truck is skidding in the mud, the men are pushing the car.

In the frame - wheat beaten by the rain.

Men inspect the field, wheat, lift ears of grain, etc.

Close-up - hands repairing a combine harvester part.

A combine harvester in a field, a machine operator preparing it for work.

Close-up - the combine harvester's thresher is working.

A combine harvester driver is driving a vehicle.

Panorama of a working combine harvester, a field, other combine harvesters in the frame.

A man is driving a vehicle.

View of a combine harvester on the road.

A man is talking on the phone from the car.

A column of combine harvesters is driving along the road.

View of a field (shot from the driveway).

Weather tower.

Special equipment-receiver for receiving meteorological data.

Employees study meteorological data, look at precipitation maps, etc.

Night, it is raining, machine operators are getting off the combines.

Close-up - a sign "Harvesting Headquarters", a panorama of the headquarters members sitting at the table.

Close-up - hands on the map.

The management and employees are conferring at the table.

View of the office through the open window - a man is working at the table, another man is standing and talking on the phone.

The stand "Alarm, they are falling behind!".

Telephone operators are working.

The management is conferring at the table.

In the frame - the first secretary of the Ipatovsky district committee of the party of the Stavropol Territory Viktor Vladimirovich Kalyagin, various plans with people at the table in the office, etc.

Wheat field, working combines are visible in the background.

Panorama of working combines.

Vasily Afanasyevich Kovalenko is sitting at the wheel of the combine, his sons are working nearby.

The frame shows Andrey Kovalenko, Vladimir Kovalenko, Viktor Kovalenko and Sergey Kovalenko.

Panorama of a wheat field and working combines.

View from above - combines in the field harvesting wheat.

Close-up - combine, panorama of a waving red flag.

A man draws stars using a stencil on the combine.

Panorama of a combine with painted stars.

Men are standing near a propaganda vehicle, reading reports from the fields.

A man is hanging a piece of information on a board.

Close-up - propaganda posters.

A man is washing himself, water is poured on him from above.

Close-up - a woman's face in the rearview mirror of a motorcycle.

A woman is sitting on a motorcycle, adjusting her headscarf.

A daughter brought lunch to her father, a combine operator.

Panorama of a walking woman in a headscarf.

Women are walking to the field, panorama of combines, a summer kitchen, where lunch for the combine operators is being prepared in large cauldrons.

Panorama of combine harvesters standing in a field, combine operators having lunch in the back of a truck.

Men in a field, having lunch at a table.

A woman hands a man a mug of water.

A man drinks compote from a glass.

The cook pours soup into a bowl, goes to the table where the workers are sitting.

The men are eating soup at the table.

A combine operator climbs onto a combine harvester, gets behind the wheel, starts the machine.

The combine harvester is working, grain is pouring into the truck.

Evening, combine harvesters are working in a field, trucks are driving nearby, grain is pouring.

Trucks are driving along the road.

A crane is moving a combine harvester.

A man is tying up a machine with ropes.

A combine harvester is being loaded onto a platform with the help of a crane.

Suitcases are on the ground in the foreground, combine harvesters are being loaded in the background.

A combine harvester is being loaded onto a platform.

Combine harvesters are standing.

Siberia, September, trees in the snow.

Snow has fallen in the fields.

A car is driving along a snow-covered road, along the fields, a panorama of the driver behind the wheel.

Panorama of a combine harvester in a field covered with snow.

Altai, Shipunovsky District, a meeting of the members of the Bureau of District Party Committees is taking place at a table in an office.

Close-up - faces of those attending the meeting.

Switchboard, an employee at the console, talking on the phone.

A combine harvester is working in a field.

Close-up - awards are painted on the combine - "Harvest Guard-71", "Harvest Hero", etc.

At the wheel of the combine harvester is Hero of Socialist Labor Ivan Arkhipovich Nedobitkov.

Close-up - hands on the steering wheel.

Nedobitkov at the wheel of the combine harvester.

The work of the combine harvester in the field is shown - the combine harvester threshes wheat, grain is pouring into the back of a truck.

In the frame - Nedobitkov.

The combine harvester is working, grain is pouring.

Nedobitkov in the cabin of the combine harvester.

The work of combine harvesters in the field is shown.

A truck filled with grain is leaving the field.

Trucks are driving across the field, combines are working, there are haystacks.

Panorama of the field, combines at work (shot from above).

Awarding of the best combine operators (assignment of the guards title).

Close-up - faces of combine operators.

Machine operator from Stavropol Nikolai Nikolaevich Vyskvarko with a ribbon over his shoulder "Harvest Guard".

Colleagues congratulate Vyskvarko, shake hands, etc.

Children play musical instruments in a brass band.

There are stars painted on the combine.

Wheat field, panorama of the combine.

Alexandra Porfiryevna Kudryashova is driving the combine.

Panorama of medals, awards, award sheet of Kudryashova.

Kudryashova is presented with a government award in a ceremonial atmosphere.

People applaud.

Kudryashova with the Hero of Socialist Labor medal and the Order of Lenin on her chest.

A children's brass band plays.

The villagers greet Kudryashova and other leaders with bread and salt.

People in the hall applaud and stand up.

Veteran Akim Vasilyevich Gorshkov is presented with a government award.

People applaud.

In the frame is twice Hero of Socialist Labor Gorshkov.

Close-up - the "Veteran of Labor" medal.

In the photographs - young Gorshkov and other members of the commune.

Panorama of the village, street, houses. "Household Services" in the village.

Department store building".

Gorshkov talks to colleagues, fellow villagers.

Machine-building plant workshop (Leningrad Kirov Plant) - shown at work on production of tractors for agriculture.

Platform with new tractors is moving.

Polyachenko state farm.

Photograph of K-700 tractor designer Vitaly Aleksandrovich Polyachenko.

Sign with the name of the state farm.

Combine driver climbs into the combine cabin.

Combines are working in the field, horse is galloping in the foreground.

Land in the field, panorama of working tractors.

Tractors in the field.

Tractor driver is reflected in the rearview mirror.

Tractors are plowing the land in the field.

Panorama of harvesting figures and statistics.

Veteran is speaking.

New Niva combine in the plant workshop.

Rostov, a city street, a poster calling for help for grain growers is hanging on a building, a column of trucks with banners is driving.

A truck with grain is driving.

The truck driver leans out of the cab, looking back.

Grain is pouring out of the truck.

Women are raking grain with shovels.

Large - grain is pouring out.

A column of trucks with grain is driving along the road along a field.

Trucks with grain are standing near a grain storage facility.

Large - grain in the back of a truck, grain is pouring out, grain is on a conveyor belt, a woman is raking grain with a shovel, etc.

A girl is sitting at the control panel of the equipment, a panorama of the diagram.

Grain is moving along the conveyor belt.

Grain is pouring out of the back of the truck.

A train is driving, a freight train, grain is being transported in special cars.

Embankment, pier, panorama of a barge with grain.

Grain is pouring out.

Large - hands folded in a lock, panorama of awards and the face of a labor veteran.

A ceremonial rally, in the frame a crowd of people with flags and banners.

The first secretary of the Saratov regional party committee, Aleksey Ivanovich Shibayev, is speaking from the rostrum.

In the frame are people at the rally, with flags and banners.

Shibayev is speaking.

In the frame are the faces of people participating in the rally.

People are standing with banners, flags, portraits of Brezhnev, etc.

A parade on the streets of the city - an orchestra is playing, people are walking with banners, flags, etc.

A car is driving by, festively decorated with artificial sheaves with ears of corn, ribbons, etc.

Large - articles from Soviet newspapers dedicated to the harvest in the fields, congratulations from the Soviet leadership, etc. (in the frame are the newspapers "Pravda", "Izvestia", etc.).

Various fragments from articles, photographs.

Articles about awarding the title Hero of Socialist Labor to leading grain growers.

Stavropol - harvest festival.

Grain growers in festive costumes are sitting at a set table.

City street, crowd of people, decorated horse-drawn cart is riding, woman in festive clothes is getting off.

Faces of young girls are in the frame.

Harvest festival - folk festivities, artists in folk costumes with sheaves in their hands.

People are applauding.

Wedding - newlyweds are walking past people, they are showered with grain according to old Russian tradition.

The bride and groom kiss their parents.

Baskets are put on the newlyweds, grain is poured into them.

The bride and groom are walking through the field, sowing grain.

Sunset sun.

General shot - newlyweds in the field.