The film shows a variety of national games of the peoples of the USSR: games of gorodki and "cauldron" in Russia, Khevsur fencers in Georgia, trick riding in Kuban and Kyrgyzstan, jumping over sleds, throwing a lasso and a reindeer sled race against the backdrop of new buildings in Yakutia, archery in Buryatia, and the Tuvan wrestling "Khuresh".
View of the stadium during the opening of the next Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR (above).
Participants of the festive event walk along the stadium tracks, carrying the coat of arms of the USSR. Episodes of a football match.
Swimmers on the lanes of the pool.
The face of an athlete shooting from a bow.
Archers during the competition.
A gorodki player with a bat.
Competitions in national types of wrestling among the peoples of the USSR. Fragments of competitions in national sports.
Festive events to mark the opening of competitions in national sports of the peoples of Siberia and the Far East.
A horsewoman in the saddle.
Participants of the festival install a carved pole - a symbol of courage, friendship and nobility.
Performances of national folklore ensembles of the peoples of Siberia before the start of the competition, faces of dancing young men and women.
The face of a girl in a national costume.
The flag of the RSFSR flutters.
Wooden churches on the shore of the lake.
Historical monuments of Novgorod.
Ancient sports equipment for playing "cauldron".
Reconstruction of the game "cauldron" today.
Teenagers play with bent wooden sticks, trying to drive a wooden ball into the central hole.
Performance of folk dance ensembles at the "Russian Winter" festival.
Competitions and contests held as part of the festival.
Sledding down the mountain in Russian sleighs.
A sleigh pulled by three horses is traveling along the road.
Competitions of troikas, horses running in a harness.
Landscapes of the Caucasus.
Panorama of one of the ancient Khevsur fortresses.
Views of one of the settlements in the foothills of Georgia.
Children's competition in parikaoba - Khevsur fencing with swords.
A duel with wooden swords, faces of the young participants in the duel.
An elderly teacher shows fencing techniques to one of the students, points out mistakes.
Faces of the parents of young fighters.
A sword duel on a bridge over a mountain river.
Fragments of the duel, elements and techniques of Khevsur fencing with swords.
Spectators watch a duel between men.
The face of an elderly Khevsur.
Views of a mountain river.
Bathing horses in Kuban.
A father in a Cossack Circassian coat teaches his young son to ride.
A horse-drawn carriage with riders passes through the streets of the city.
A horse-racing competition in one of the Cossack villages of Kuban.
A demonstration of vine cutting.
Fragments of a battle called "The Fight of the Sultans".
The participants in the competition knock balloons off their opponents' hats.
Mountain landscape of Kyrgyzstan (panorama).
Kyrgyz men in saddles during a festival.
Participants in a Kyrgyz dressage competition before the start of their performance.
Fragments and stages of the competition.
National game - "Fight for the Goat Carcass", goat-pulling.
The participants in the game throw the goat carcass into the opponent's goal.
Winter landscape of the Arctic Circle.
An all-terrain vehicle passes by.
View of the power plant building.
An icebreaker moves through the ice.
Cars and pedestrians on the streets of a city in Yakutia.
A small aircraft takes off.
View of the tundra (from above).
A herd of reindeer in the tundra.
Reindeer herders throw lassos.
The start of a mass ski race.
1982
Novgorod region Georgia Krasnodar region Kyrgyzstan Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
Summer Winter
Reindeer sled racing in Yakutia.
Rope throwing competition.
Sled jumping competition, faces of the competitors.
Faces of applauding spectators.
Snow wrestling competition.
Rivals, bare-chested, during a fight.
Performance by a local folk ensemble, playing national musical instruments of the peoples of the North.
National dances.
Participants in the Tuvan national wrestling competition "Khuresh" perform the "Eagle Dance" before the start of the fights.
The beginning of one of the fights.
Fragments of the fight, legs and arms of the wrestlers.
The end of the fight.
Children from the Yakut village of Churapcha during summer wrestling training.
Coach Dmitry Korkin watches the fights of young wrestlers.
View of the site with wooden exercise machines, Korkin supervises the training.
Students of the Khapsagay National Wrestling School, under the guidance of Korkin, perform traditional sports exercises during training.
Training on wooden sports equipment.
Korkin during training in the gym.
Fragments of free-style wrestling matches using hapsagay techniques.
Photos of Soviet wrestlers and Olympic champion R. Dmitriev.
Khapsagay training in the gym under the guidance of Korkin.
Faces of fans and spectators during competitions in national sports.
Fans in the stands.
View of a part of the competition ground for the game of gorodki.
Setting up one of the gorodki figures.
A player with a bat in his hands.
A player breaks a figure with a bat.
Panorama of the competition ground for the game of gorodki (from above).
Winners of the competition with their awards.
Faces of the fans.
Training on the ground.
Coach A. Sitnikov watches the players.
The face of Sitnikov's son Andrey during training.
Sitnikov shows his son techniques for swinging a bat.
Sitnikov sets up another figure.
Andrey Sitnikov knocks down a figure with a bat.
View of the court (top).
A player smashes figures with a bat during a "gorodki" competition.
The face of an archer pulling a bowstring.
Archery competitions using leather bags with numbers at the "Surkharba" festival in Buryatia, faces of female archers.
Knocking out bags with numbers.
A bow in the hands of one of the participants in the competition.
Making a bow using ancient technologies (reconstruction).
Master Dzhambalov at work.
Participants of the Buryat national emblem in folk costumes.
Artists of the Buryat folklore ensemble dancing.
Faces of the artists.
Dzhambalov in a yurt checks the tension of a finished bow.
Archery competition using leather bags, faces of archers.
Sports bows of modern design.
Modern archery competitions.
World champion Butuzova N.A. shoots a bow during another competition.
The face of world record holder V.N. Yesheev during archery.
Participants in competitions in national sports of Siberia and the Far East during a ceremonial parade in front of spectators.
Athletes with medals on ribbons walk along the tracks of a stadium in Moscow.
View of the stadium (from above).
Butuzova Natalia Anatolyevna - archer Yesheev Vladimir Nikolaevich - archer
sports figure
trainer
1982
Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) Republic of Tyva Republic of Buryatia Russia Moscow
Summer Winter