Link in the chain (1984)

Workers and female workers of the Ivanovo heavy machine-tool plant pass through the checkpoint, present passes.

The janitor closes the turnstile after the passage of workers.

View of the main building of the plant.

Internal view of a part of one of the workshops (from above).

Operation of automatic equipment.

A machine made in Ivanovo.

G.A. Kulagin, former director of the Leningrad Machine-Tool Association named after

Sverdlova and the director of the Ivanovo machine-tool plant Kabaidze talk to each other about the achievements of the plant (synchronously), the persons talking.

A worker at a machine made in Ivanovo.

The face of a worker.

Employees of the design bureau of the plant at work.

The plant's design engineers talk about the freedom of technical creativity that arose due to Kabaidze's arrival as director of the plant, the plant's exit from a difficult financial situation, the reorganization of the work of the design bureau, the solution of production problems related to the manufacture of bearings (synchronously), the faces of engineers.

A machine built in Ivanovo.

Workers at the machines, workers' faces.

Workers in the shop are discussing the production issue.

Kabaidze talks with Kulagin about the creation of the Ivanovo Machine-tool Plant (synchronously).

A worker at the machine, a worker's face.

The production process in one of the workshops of the enterprise.

Entrance to the party committee of the plant, a sign on the door.

The secretary of the party organization of the plant talks about the problems that arose after the establishment of the plant, the release of outdated equipment, the initiative of the management and staff of the plant for the production of new machines, the acceleration of the introduction of science and technology at the plant, the difficulties of this work (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Production processes in the workshops of the plant.

The work of the automated line, the faces of the line operators.

Internal view of a part of the workshop (from above).

Kulagin and Kabaidze talk about the transformations at the plant, about the peculiarities of the leadership of the labor collective, about the enthusiasm of the collective (synchronously).

One of the adjusters talks about the reasons for dismissal from the plant and moving to Novo-Volynsk, about working in Novo-Volynsk and returning to the Ivanovo Machine Tool Plant (synchronously).

Adjusters at work.

Kabaidze talks about using the production experience of neighbors, about the introduction of new technologies and the creation of new workshops (synchronously).

Production processes in the foundry of the plant.

A sign on the door of the head of the foundry shop Tsymbarkevich.

Tsymbarkevich talks about solving production problems, about support from the director, solving the personnel issue (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Production processes at the stump site.

Workers are discussing the current issue.

Production processes in the foundry.

Kabaidze talks about the advanced training of engineering personnel (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Engineers in the workshops at work.

The production process on one of the automatic lines.

Machines intended for export to European countries, inspection of machines by representatives of the OTC.

Kabaidze talks about the export of products to various countries, lists them, about a large number of organizations and ministries standing between the customer, the manufacturer and the consumer (synchronously).

View from the window of the director's office.

The faces of the workers going on shift.