On the construction of the Kama plant - the largest construction project of the 9th Five-Year Plan.
Tataria. Kama River. City of Naberezhnye Chelny. Construction of the Kama Automobile Plant (KAMAZ), residential and public buildings. Footage from the period of the first five-year plans. Production processes at industrial enterprises, including: the metallurgical plant in Rustavi, the copper mine in Dzhezkazgan, the Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant, oil fields in the Tyumen region, the Novopolotsk and Yerevan chemical plants, the VEF plant and others. Construction of a gas pipeline.




Summer landscapes of Uglich: forest, forest with a river, sunrise over the river – Wed.
Camp of test drivers and test subjects of future KAMAZ trucks: drivers before setting off on a trip, trucks are parked – Wed, general.
Testing of trucks: driving trucks along forest, country and highway roads – Wed, general.
Driver in the cabin – Wed.
Road – Wed.
Dump truck with soil descends into a quarry, drives through mud – general.
Kama River, pier - general, Wed.
Bank in the area of the KAMAZ plant construction - general, panorama.
Plant construction site – general.
Unloading of building materials at the berths.
Wall panels for the construction of residential buildings are loaded onto special vehicles for transportation to the construction site – Wed, Wed.
Freight trains with building materials and equipment for the plant pass – general, Wed.
Wheels – Wed.
Containers with cargo – kr.
Road sign "KamAZ" (run over) - cf.
Passenger train passing – general.
Builders of the plant getting off a hydrofoil – cf.
Builders getting off an airplane, walking along the airfield – cf.
Construction site of the future plant – general.
There are wooden signs with the names of the future workshops: "Pressed Shop", "Foundry Shop", "Engine Plant", "Main Conveyor", "Forge Shop" - various.
Taverns and bulldozers are working at the site – cf., general.
Start of construction work at all sites of the plant: drilling holes for piles, installing piles, concreting – various.
A group of builders with a plan in their hands – cf.
Builders – kr, cf.
Construction of residential buildings – general, panorama.
Cartoon: map of construction sites of the 9th Five-Year Plan – cf.
The premises of the Main Electronic Computing Centre at the State Planning Committee in Moscow – general, Poland.
Employees at work – various.
Computers in operation – categorized.
Newsreel from 1936: On the façade of the Bolshoi Theatre is the slogan: "Greetings to the delegates of the VIII Congress of Soviets – cf.
Photograph: the hall during the congress.
Congress participants are listening – cf.
A destroyed bridge, a steam locomotive is standing on the tracks, they are transporting mine cars with firewood – general, cf.
Construction of the Volkhov Hydroelectric Power Station – general, cf.
Construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station – general.
Construction of a metallurgical plant, the Komsomolskaya-2 blast furnace - general.
Rustavi Metallurgical Plant – general, cf.
Blast furnace shop - cf., general.
Metallurgists at the furnace and talking – cf.
Breaking through the taphole – cf.
Cast iron is pouring down the trough – categorized.
Open-hearth furnace shop – general, Wed.
Charging machine in operation – Wed, general.
Boiling steel in the furnace – kr.
Steel pouring – various.
Sparks flying – Wed.
Assembling and processing a huge turbine in a plant shop – various.
Testing an earthmoving machine – various.
Copper mine in Dzhezkazgan (Kazakhstan) – general.
Industrial explosion (departure to the quarry) – general.
Excavator bucket loading a dump truck with rock – kr., Wed.
A dump truck loaded with ore passes by – general.
Suspended cableway – general.
Dzhezkazgan Copper Smelter – general.
Metal from the ladle is poured into the converter – general, kr.
Operator at the control panel in the converter shop – Wed, kr.
Converter furnace door – kr.
Production of sheet metal for the Kama Automobile Plant at the Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant.
Rolling mill in operation – general, cf.
Operator at the mill control panel.
Production of gas and oil pipeline pipes – general, cf.
Transportation of pipes by helicopter – general, cf.
Pilot in the cockpit – general.
Drilling rig in the Tyumen region (from an airplane).
Lifting and installing a drilling stand – general. (from the top point).
Oil workers at work.
Oil drill in operation (winter) – general.
Sand dunes, commissioning of the drilling rig – general.
Drilling rigs and gas holders in Mangyshlak (Kazakhstan) – general, general.
Gas pipeline laying (winter) – general, cf.
The city of Novopolotsk in Belarus: houses, streets – general, general.
Oil refinery – general, commissioning.
Operator at the control panel of automated production processes in gas batteries – Wed.
Instrument – ed.
A worker checks instruments.
Production of high-density polyethylene at the Novopolotsk Chemical Plant: a polyethylene tape comes out of the machine – Wed, ed.
The machine sews up the bags – ed.
Bags with plastics on a conveyor and on a forklift in the workshop – Wed, gen.
Production of a new high-quality type of artificial rubber "naprite" at the Yerevan Chemical Plant in Armenia: carbide is poured from an excavator bucket into a mine car – gen.; mine cars with carbide are lifted up to the furnaces by an overhead railway – Wed; carbide is poured from the mine cars into the furnace hopper – Wed.
Furnaces for calcining carbide – gen.
Carbide calcination: flame in the furnace – misc.
Synthetic rubber manufacturing workshop: a white ribbon of synthetic rubber comes out of a machine, a worker straightens the ribbon with his hands – Wed, cr. "Press" on a belt conveyor – general, cr., Poland.
Work at a tire factory in the inner tube and tire manufacturing workshops: a machine cuts the cord tape, the cut tape is fed onto a conveyor – Wed, cr.
Tube blanks and finished tubes on a conveyor – Wed, general.
Manufacturing tires: cutting, vulcanization - various.
A hand presses a button – cr.
Pressure gauge – cr.
The vulcanizer lid is lifted – cr.
The finished tire rolls – Wed.
Field testing of future trucks of the Kama Automobile Plant: KAMAZ trucks with huge trailers drive along the highway – average, general.
Wheels – ed.
Road from traffic (from the cabin) – average.
Riga street – average.
Building of the Riga VESR plant, panorama of the fountains near the plant – average.
Assembly of relay boards for automatic telephone stations – various, panorama.
Checking relay contacts – average, general.
Naberezhnye Chelny.
Construction site of the future automobile plant: finished residential buildings – average, panorama; streets – average, panorama.
Excavator operator in the cabin – average.
Assembly of structures – average, general.
Steeplejacks, fitters, electric welders at work – ed.
Slogan: "Let's make the first Kama automobile in 1974!" - average. L. I. Brezhnev speaks at the 24th Congress of the CPSU – cf.
Participants of the congress in the hall – general, panorama.
Editing plans: steelmakers at furnaces – cf., short; installation of a drill pipe – cf., short; gas holders – cf.; high-voltage line, insulators – cf., panorama; construction of a blast furnace – general; damming of a river – short, general; construction of a hydroelectric power station – general; working people – various.