Twice born (1971)

Sunrise over the Volga – general.

Bank of the Volga (morning, summer) – general.

Passenger boat on the river.

Mast of a high-voltage power line – cf.

Steelworker at work near a furnace – kr., cf.

Molten metal pouring out of a furnace - kr.

A crane lifts a caterpillar tractor and carries it onto a railway platform in the yard of the Volgograd Tractor Plant - cf.

The main conveyor for assembling tractors at the plant – general.

Certain moments of tractor assembly on the conveyor – kr., cf.

The city of Volgograd – panorama.

Embankment with stairs and the Volga – panorama, general.

Staircase on the embankment in Volgograd – general.

Volgograd street, transport, passers-by on the street – general.

General view of the street – general. (from the top point).

Streets (from the movement).

City residents in a bus go to work at the Volgograd Tractor Plant.

Gates with the inscription: "Volgograd Transport Plant named after F.E. Dzerzhinsky".

Wall of the plant building - Poland Portrait of V.I. Lenin on the brick wall of the building.

A work shift is entering the plant: they walk to the gates, through the plant grounds.

A new tractor comes out of the plant shop and is installed next to other finished tractors in the plant yard.

Director Valentin Aleksandrovich Semenov is walking through the plant grounds. V.A. Semenov is talking to blacksmith workers in the shop.

Forge and press shop - Poland Press processes a hot tractor part - kr, cf.

Signs on the door of the "Director" office - kr.

Empty office of the plant director - Poland. V.A. Semenov is talking to workers in the shops - general, cf., cf.

Main conveyor shop - Poland. V.A. Semenov is talking to the chief engineer at the conveyor; a tractor is being assembled on the conveyor.

Newsreel from 1919: Testing the first electric plough. V.I. Lenin testing a plough in a field (summer).

Newsreel from 1929-1930: Construction site of the Stalingrad Tractor Plant – Poland, general.

A freight train passes – cf.

Builders with wheelbarrows and shovels work at different sites of the construction.

A concrete mixer is working – cf.

Builders are going to work by tram.

A machine is printing the large-circulation plant newspaper "Let's Give a Tractor!" – Poland.

A rally of tractor builders in honor of the release of a wheeled tractor – general.

A tractor with the inscription "The first from the STZ conveyor" – cr.

Workers welcome the first STZ "International" tractor, the tractor passes, everyone applauds, throws their hats up.

A copy of the newspaper "Let's Give a Tractor!" – cr.

Tractors of various designs in the factory yard – Poland, cf.

The plant director V.A. Semenov walks past the tractors.

Newsreel from the 1930s: Heat-treating furnace.

A worker lifts tractor parts.

Parts in the furnace – Wed, cr.

Heat-treating shop at the plant: machines are working, parts are moved by conveyors.

A woman watches the automatic heat-treating furnace at work.

Heat-treating shop – general.

Volgograd Tractor Plant – Poland, general.

Workers are walking across the territory – Wed.

Steelworkers.

A worker is reading a newspaper: "Soviet Russia".

Assembly foreman Gennady Varfolomeevich Bukayev in the plant library – Wed.

Blacksmith of the Volgograd Tractor Plant Nikolai Yegorovich Bryzgunov in the shop at work at the forging press.

The forging press processes the hot parts of the tractor.

Forge shop during working hours.

Steelmaker of the plant Petr Nikolaevich Bychkov at work in the steel foundry.

Molten metal boils in the furnace.

Molten steel is poured into ladles.

Steel foundry during working hours.

Panorama of the plant's main conveyor shop.

Panorama, general.

A truck with a tractor body drives through the shop.

The tractor body is fed onto the conveyor by overhead cranes. T.V. Bukhaev's team is assembling the tractor on the conveyor. T.V. Bukhaev and members of his team at work. T.V. Bukhaev is talking with members of the team in the shop and giving instructions.

Newsreel 1941-1945: Explosion of an aerial bomb – short.

Series of explosions – panorama, general.

Fascist bombers in the sky – general.

Burning Stalingrad – panorama, general.

Memorial plaque with the inscription: "In this workshop on August 23, 1942, when the Germans broke through in the northern part of the city, tank crews were formed from volunteers of the STZ workers, who went into battle in tanks assembled in the workshop" - short.

Newsreel 1941-1945: Tanks being assembled in the plant workshop – short, medium.

Hammer at work.

Memorial plaque: "Nikolai Vychugov, commander of the tank brigade of the people's militia, worked in this workshop.

He died defending the plant on September 25, 1942" - short.

A memorial plaque with the inscription: "Here, during the defense of the plant, on August 24, 1942, Lieutenant Fadeyev and soldier Popov died at their combat post.

Tractor builder Pavel Andreevich Makarov walks along the conveyor shop of the automobile plant, leaning on a stick. P.A. Makarov talks to a worker at the conveyor.

A memorial plaque in the shop with the inscription: "Here, the heroes of the 37th Guards Division of General V.G. Zheludev stood to the death and won.

October 1942." Newsreel from 1941-1945: A soldier passes through the STZ checkpoint.

A tractor passes through the shop.

A tank track moves.

A tank with volunteer soldiers leaves the plant.

Street fighting in Stalingrad: soldiers shoot, run to new positions among the destroyed houses.

Fighting on the territory of the plant - kr.

Soldiers and factory workers with machine guns in their hands are fighting.

Destroyed Stalingrad in smoke – Polish People's Republic.

Rebuilt city – Polish People's Republic.

Girls playing by the fountain – general.

A little girl crawls up the stairs on all fours.

The face of a smiling woman – red.

A young man with watermelons in his hands is walking down the stairs on the Volgograd embankment, a young man and a girl are standing under a tree on the embankment, a man is reading a book in a park.

Volgograd – general (from the top).

A wedding car is driving down a city street – general.

Young couples are walking by.

Elderly women are sitting.

A traffic controller girl is standing on the street and letting through the pioneer honor guard heading to the monument on Fallen Fighters Square.

Changing of the pioneer honor guard at the mass grave of those killed in 1919. The inscription on the gravestone: "Here lie the heroic defenders of Red Tsaritsyn, brutally tortured to death by the White Guard executioners in 1919." The inscription on the gravestone: "1942-1943. Eternal glory to the heroes who died in the battles for the freedom and independence of our Motherland" on the Fallen Fighters Square.

Young Pioneers in the honor guard at the monument on the square.

A girl of about 5-6 years old lays flowers on a mass grave – kr.

A man with a girl, a woman with two girls walk past the grave.

Bas-relief of a Soviet soldier on the wall of the restored Pavlov House in Volgograd – Poland.

The destroyed wall of the city mill – kr, Poland.

The main sculpture of the memorial complex on Mamevo Kurgan "Motherland" – general.

Individual sculptures of the complex – kr.

Sculpture "Grieving Mother" - kr.

The sculpture "Motherland" on Mamayev Kurgan – cf.

The inner wall of the Pantheon, the eternal flame – Poland, kr.

The inscription on the wall: "Glory" and a list of the names of the defenders of Stalingrad who died in battle.

An old man bares his head in front of a memorial slab – kr.

A woman with a baby in her arms places flowers on the monument slab.

A preschool-age girl places an apple next to the flowers.

People walk through the Pantheon.

Elderly women are crying – kr.

A young man is standing with a sleeping child in his arms – kr.

An elderly man is crying in the Pantheon.

Men of different ages are standing – Poland, kr.

The Eternal Flame (a hand with a torch) is burning in the Pantheon – kr.

A memorial plaque at the Volgograd Tractor Plant with the inscription: "On February 2, 1943, the plant's territory was completely cleared of the Nazi hordes by units of the 226th and 299th rifle divisions of the 66th army" - short.

Newsreel from 1943: The completely destroyed tractor plant - Poland, general.

Work to clear the territory and restore the plant: a crane removes an unexploded aerial bomb from the ruins, demining work.

Military and civilians work to restore the plant.

A burnt tree trunk with a sign: "Do not break trees" on the territory of the plant littered with the rubble of buildings.

Volunteers who arrived in Stalingrad to restore the city march in formation.

A sign with the inscription: "STZ Personnel Department" - short.

Reception of workers in the Personnel Department.

A female postman brings letters to the site of restoration work.

The inscription on the destroyed wall of the house: "House No. 3, Kirov Street".

A dugout among the ruins.

Volunteer girls wash themselves, pouring water from a mug on the street.

Girls exit the fuselage of a downed fascist plane, walk along the wing with a fascist swastika – cf.

A teacher in winter clothes conducts a lesson with students in a classroom in a ruined roofless building.

Children, wrapped in warm clothes, sit in class – cr., general.

Construction work at STZ: bricklayers and handymen are working – cr., general.

Workers select suitable building materials from the ruins.

Assembly of the first tractors on the conveyor in the unfinished building of the workshop.

The first tractor rolls off the revived conveyor – cr.

The first tractor drives through the factory yard.

Newsreel from 1970: The millionth tractor of the Volgograd Tractor Plant drives through the plant grounds.

The inscription on the tractor: "1,000,000".

Tractor builders welcome the millionth tractor – general.

Cars drive along the evening streets of Volgograd – general.

The building of the Palace of Culture of the Tractor Plant (evening) – general.

Tractor builders in holiday costumes in the Palace of Culture, talking in the foyer.

Steelworker P.N. Bychkov, plant director V.A. Semenov, assembler G.F. Bukayev, blacksmith N.E. Bryzgunov and others with government awards on their chests are talking in the foyer.

Volgograd tractor builders on vacation in the suburbs, fishing with rods on the banks of the Volga. G.F. Bukayev and his wife are cooking dinner over a campfire.

Tomatoes, greens, and a cut watermelon are on the tablecloth.

Steelworker P.N. Bychkov with his family at their dacha.

Blacksmith N.E. Bryzgunov with his son and grandson are riding along the Volga in a motorboat.

Volga (driving along the river) – general.

Boats on the Volga – general.

Chief designer of the tractor plant Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sharov walks through an autumn park, yellow trees. M.A. Sharov in his office – general. M.A. Sharov in the design bureau of the plant – general., Wed.

Design bureaus of the plant – general.

Testing the new powerful DT-75 S tractor – general.

Tractor in the field. M.A. Sharov and plant designers testing the tractor.

DT-75 S tractor with the inscription: "Volzhanin".

Tractor engine – general.

DT-75 S with a cabin for the tractor driver.

Drawing of the new tractor – general.

Testing a steep-slope tractor on a mountain slope - misc.

A tractor of the Volga plant plows the land.

A tractor driver at the wheel – general.

A tractor works in the field – general.

Volgograd Tractor Plant – general (from the top).

Assembly of tracked tractors in the plant’s workshop.

Another tractor comes off the conveyor.

Tractors leave the workshop and are installed on the plant’s platform.

A crane moves tractors from the platform to railway platforms.

A five-pointed star in the plant’s yard – general.

A tank on a pedestal on the plant’s territory.

The Volga, the setting sun behind the river – panorama, general.

A freight train with tractors from the Volgograd plant passes by – general.

Monument to the defenders of Volgograd on Mamayev Kurgan – general (from the moving view).