Meeting with Karelia (1990)

Monument to Peter I in Petrozavodsk.

Ships in port.

Historical reconstruction - the arrival of Peter the Great in Petrozavodsk.

Petrozavodsk embankment.

Young people gather on the embankment.

Sunset.

Interviews with young people on the embankment.

Chronicle of 1925:

Petrozavodsk.

Railway station.

At home.

Churches.

Petrozavodsk newspaper of 1920.

Chronicle of 1925:

Pioneer detachments in Karelia.

An activist speaks against the background of an airplane.

The rally welcomes her speech.

A meeting of workers.

Collection of works by V.I. Lenin in the Karelian language.

The first book in Karelian.

The author of the Karelian primer Miloradova.

Construction of hydroelectric power plants, factories, the White Sea Canal.

A rally on the completion of the construction of the White Sea Canal.

The ship sails through the channel.

Says I. Chukhin, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the KASSR.

Chronicle of 1925:

There are participants of the All-Karelian Sports Contest.

Competitions.

Newspaper article about the beginning of the Finnish War.

V.M. Molotov's article in the newspaper Krasnaya Karelia.

Soldiers ride in trucks.

Tanks.

Anti-tank barriers.

Karelian forest with stone barriers since the Finnish War.

Monument to the fallen soldiers in the Finnish War.

Graves of soldiers.

Chronicle of 1925:

Election of the Supreme Council of the KASSR.

Chronicle of 1941:

Explosions.

Hitler's speech.

German planes are bombing cities.

Tanks.

Explosions.

Map of Karelia with the land captured by the Nazis.

Soldiers on the Karelian front.

Meeting of the front headquarters.

The participant of the events, Lieutenant-General L. Skvirsky, tells.

Victory Parade.

Representatives of the Karelian Front are marching.

Chronicle of 1944:

Military units and Karelian partisans marched through the streets of Petrozavodsk.

Close-up - the faces of soldiers and partisans.

1990.

The participants of the war are marching.

Petrozavodsk embankment.

Performance of folk ensembles.

Chronicle of 1944:

Performance of the Cantelle folk Ensemble.

Performance of the Cantelle ensemble at the Leipzig Fair in Germany.

Karelian exposition at the fair.

Karelian parquet.

Panorama of the Karelian forest from the plane.

Logging in Karelia.

Says S. Zyabchenko, Director of the Forest Institute of the Karelian branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

Laboratories of the Forest Institute.

Chronicle of 1930:

Logging in Karelia.

Modern logging.

Loggers are resting.

Timber rafting.

Chronicle of 1929:

Kondopoga Pulp and Paper Mill.

The work of the plant in 1990.

An engineering joint Soviet-Austrian enterprise for the production of modern paper-making machines has been created at NPO Petrozavodskbummash.

Segesh Pulp and Paper Mill.

Residential buildings on the background of the pipes of the plant.

People are walking in the park.

Demonstration of residents of Segezha in defense of ecology.

Ski production.

Construction of new factories.

Tractors produced at Karelian factories.

New buildings.

Harvesting in rural farms of the republic.

Greenhouse farming.

Grazing cattle.

Chronicle of 1929:

School.

Modern schools.

Teaching the Karelian language.

Karelian language lesson at school.

Panorama of Karelian nature.

Wooden sculpture.

View of Karelia from the plane.

Lepsky holiday in Sheltozer.

Performance of folk ensembles.

Panorama of the village of Leps.

Fair in Olonets.

Humor Festival in Kindasovo.

Folklore festival on Kizhi Island.

View of Kizhi from a helicopter.

Church in the forest.

Types of Karelian nature.

An island on a lake with a small church at sunset.

Liturgy near the cross of worship.

Patriarch Alexy.

Valaam Monastery.

Chronicle of 1978:

Laying the first brick in the foundation of the Kostomuksha mining and processing plant.

Modern production.

The modern city of Kostomuksha.

Modern shops, hospitals, houses.

The Finnish city of Varkaus is a sister city of Petrozavodsk.

Interviews with schoolchildren in Varkaus.

Says M. Reionen, the second mayor of the city of Varkaus.

The German district of Neubrandenburg is a sister city of Karelia.

Petrozavodsk Street in Neubrandenburg.

Residents walk around the city.

Tells I. Pehnetz, a resident of the city.

Speech in Petrozavodsk by a delegation of businessmen from the USA.

Delegation from Italy, Sweden.

The alley of trees of the twin cities.

Coat of arms of Petrozavodsk.

View of Karelia from the plane.