On the development of various branches of Soviet industry, on the development of the country's energy sector.
General view of the Voronezh hydroelectric power station, the central control panel of the station. Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station. The central control panel of the station, the turbine hall. Razdanskaya GRES (district thermal power plant) in Armenia, Novovoronezh nuclear power plant. General view of the Krasnoyarsk aluminum plant. Production processes in the plant's shops. Tbilisi sugar plant. Production processes at the plant. The Marat textile mill in Estonia. Production processes in the plant's shops. View of the Novorossiysk seaport. Loading and unloading operations in the port. General view of the Kama Automobile Plant. Assembly of heavy-duty trucks in the plant's shops. Assembly of cars in the assembly shops of the Moscow Automobile Plant named after Leninsky Komsomol, in the shops of the Minsk Automobile Plant. General view of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works. Production processes in the plant's shops. Production processes in the workshops of the Novorossiysk cement plant, at the Nevsky plant in Leningrad, at one of the bakeries, at the Moscow plant "Izolyator". Buyers choose goods and make purchases in one of the "Svet" stores.




Cars with construction panels drive by; a crane carries a panel – Wed, general.
Airfield; an airplane is taxiing to the runway – general, Wed.
Souvenir shop: balalaikas, dolls in Russian national costumes on the shelves – kr.
Customers looking at a samovar – Wed.
A model of a satellite in the Cosmos pavilion at VDNKh; satellite installation at the factory – Wed.
A stand with instruments – kr, panorama.
A model of a dam – kr.
The main control panel of the Unified Energy System in Moscow; a dispatcher at the control panel – kr.
A diagram of the Unified Energy System – kr.
Hands toggling switches on the control panel – kr.
Dispatchers on the phone – Wed, general.
Krasnoyarsk Hydroelectric Power Station.
High-voltage transmission line – general.
The dam of the Krasnoyarsk Hydroelectric Power Station – general.
The station control panel; various instruments – general, kr.
A dispatcher at the control panel; hand pressing lever – ed.
Turbine shaft rotating – ed.
Turbine hall – Wed, general.
High-voltage power lines – ed.
Hrazdan Hydroelectric Power Station in Armenia – ed., ed.
Instruments – ed.
Voronezh Nuclear Power Station – ed., Poland.
Turbine hall – ed., Poland.
High-voltage power lines – ed. (summer).
Krasnoyarsk.
Krasnoyarsk Aluminum Plant; plant workshop – ed., ed.
Control panel; worker at the panel; worker's face – ed., ed.
Machine parts; worker at the machine – ed., ed.
Aluminum plates; aluminum briquettes – ed., ed.
Hand on the lever of the unit; hand on the panel – ed.
Woman at the instruments; readings on the instruments; the lights come on – ed.
Krasnodar Furniture Factory: machine for the production of foam rubber cushions for furniture – ed.
General view of the workshop; machine; worker pressing a button, machine working – kr.
Panorama of the high-voltage transmission line at the Tbilisi Sugar Factory – Wed, Panorama.
Control panel for mechanisms; hand on the panel – Wed, Red.
Machine for pouring granulated sugar into bags; bag of sand on the conveyor, Panorama of the worker’s face – kr.
Oil and gas plant – general.
Control panel – general.
Worker walking through the workshop – kr, Panorama.
Building of the Tallinn Marat Knitwear Factory - general.
Spinning machine; factory worker examining fabric – kr.
Spinning shop; yarn on machines – general, Red.
Oil tanker in the Novorossiysk port – general.
Tanker deck – Wed.
Oil tanker workers on the deck of a tanker – Wed, Red.
Worker's hand pressing buttons – kr.
Tallinn House-Building Plant: construction workers at panels – kr.
Hand pressing a button – kr.
Automatic lubrication of joints between panels – kr.
Loading panels onto a panel carrier; crane lifting a panel – Wed, general.
Tanker repair at a ship repair yard in the city of Novorossiysk: the tanker Leninakan in a dry dock – kr, panorama.
Dock control panel, worker at the control panel – kr, panorama.
Ship in the dock – general.
Panorama of the Novorossiysk port – general.
KAMAZ construction site – general.
Machines driving onto the construction site – kr.
Construction of an automobile plant workshop – general.
State Planning Committee building – general.
State Planning Committee computing center – general.
Computers working – kr.
Punched tape on a machine – kr.
Worker at a machine – kr.
A girl works on a desktop computer – Wed.
Moscow Automobile Plant named after Leninsky Komsomol: assembly line for Moskvich cars, car bodies on the conveyor – general, cr.
Assembly of cars; workers assemble cars; a worker inspects a car – Wed, general.
Main conveyor of the Minsk Automobile Plant: BelAZ-540 dump trucks on the conveyor – general, cf.
Dump truck parts; workers assemble parts – Wed, cr.
Finished dump trucks on the conveyor – general.
Worker at the control panel; presses a button; the dump truck comes off the conveyor – Wed, general.
The dump truck drives out of the workshop gates – cr.
Machines in the factory yard – general.




High-voltage power line supports; trucks drive across a snow field – general.
Driver in the truck cabin – general.
Oil rigs on a snow-covered field – general.
Snow-covered expanses of the Samotlor oil field – general.
Drilling rig; worker at work near a drilling rig – general, general.
Magnitogorsk blast furnace – general.
Iron and steel works – general.
Blast furnace shop of the iron and steel works – general.
Hot metal flows – general.
Newsreel from the 1930s: Magnitka – a poster in the shop with the inscription: "Give us pig iron – we have it!" - general.
Molten pig iron pours – general.
People at a rally – general.
General view of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works.
Rolling shop of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works – general.
Rolling mill "2500" - general.
Machine operator of the 2500 mill V. V. Umin at the mill control panel – kr.
Metal bars on the wall – Wed, Poland.
Hot rolling mill: slabbing; hot metal on slabbing – general, Wed, Poland.
Slabbing operator V. I. Ovsyannikov, City Council deputy, recipient of the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, at the mill control panel – kr.
Newsreel from the 1930s: Workers at the construction site of Magnitka; construction of blast furnaces; blast furnace with the inscription "Komsomolskaya" - general.
Classes at the workers' faculty: teacher at the blackboard; workers at their desks; a worker is making a drawing, a panorama of his feet in bast shoes – Wed, Poland.
Novorossiysk cement plant: control panel – general, Wed, Poland.
The dispatcher writes down instrument readings in the log – Wed, Poland.
Cement plant furnace – general.
Sacks of cement on a conveyor; a worker is packing the sacks – Wed, kr.
Turbine shop of the Nevsky Lenin Machine-Building Plant: workers are assembling a turbine for pumping gas; turbine parts; workers' faces – Wed, kr, general.
Moscow pilot plant for bagel products: automated line for the production of bagels – Wed, kr.
Raw bagels on a conveyor; finished bagels on a conveyor – Wed, kr.
Female operator at the control panel – Wed, kr.
Dough being mixed in a vat – Wed.
Raw croissants on a conveyor; finished croissants on a conveyor – Wed.
Computing center of the 2nd watch factory – general.
Girls at the computers – Wed, kr.
Hand on the control panel – kr.
Watch assembler, commissioning of the watch factory workshop – kr.
Girls are assembling watches – Wed.
Finished watches – kr.
The senior dispatcher of the Unified Energy System gives an interview in the station hall about the use of electric energy in our country – kr. (synchronously).
Map of energy distribution in different regions of the country – kr. (animation).




Design bureau of the Leningrad Metal Plant named after the 21st Congress of the CPSU – Wed.
Bureau employees at drawing boards working on the drawings of the most powerful turbine in the world – Wed, kr.
Workshop of the Plant named after the 21st Congress – worker at the control panel – kr.
The turbine is rotating; the worker is turning a part of the turbine – Wed, general.
High-voltage laboratory of the Moscow Izolyator plant - general.
Workers are installing insulators for super-powerful power lines – Wed, general.
Testing new insulators in the laboratory – kr.
Hand on the control panel – kr.
Institute for High Temperatures of the USSR Academy of Sciences, installing a magnetohydrodynamic generator for the power plant of the future – Wed, general.
Worker at the instruments – kr.
Generator parts – general, Wed.
Newsreel of the 1920s: Construction of the Volkhov Hydroelectric Power Station – general, Wed.
Workers at a construction site – general.
Wed.
Hydroelectric power station dam – general.
Volkhov hydroelectric power station building – general.
Leningrad television plant named after Kozitsky – televisions on a conveyor belt – Wed, kr.
Worker adjusting a television – kr.
Panorama of color televisions – kr.
Electrical goods store in Tallinn – chandeliers and lamps hanging – general.
A customer choosing a lamp – Wed.
A saleswoman talking to a customer – kr.
Illuminated advertising; illuminated city streets at night – Wed, general.
The Kremlin at night – kr, general.
Raushskaya embankment of the Moscow River – general. (night plan).
Dispatchers at the control panels of the Unified Energy System; the dispatcher gives instructions over the phone (synchronously) – kr.
Control panel – kr.