A film about the Soviet Union's assistance in the development of Asian and African countries.
Indian village. Women with children. Indian youth. B. Ansari working in the field, with his family, riding a bicycle. Construction site in Bokaro. Soviet specialists and Indian workers at the construction site. Construction of a plant (view from above). Radio station in Mogadishu (Somalia). Soviet and Somali specialists at the equipment. Elephants (shot from an airplane). The city of Kisimayo. Juba meat processing plant. Soviet and Somali workers at the plant. Boxes of canned goods. Somali village. Banana plantations. Wheat field. Combine harvesters in the field. Herd of camels. Loading animals onto ships in the port of Berbera. School in Mogadishu. Soviet teacher among Somali students at a labor lesson. A color portrait of President Siad Barre, drawn by V. I. Vyalkin, is printed. Somalis study written signs. B. Ansari works under the supervision of a Soviet foreman. Iraq. Port of Faw. The tanker "Rumeila" is unloaded. A meeting of the Iraqi government on June 1, 1972. People watch TV, listen to the radio. Speech by Iraqi President A. H. Bakr. Demonstrations in the streets. Soviet and Iraqi specialists at an oil facility. The city of Baghdad. City square, monument. Textile mill in the city of Kut. Agricultural machinery plant in Iskanderiya. Construction of the Tartar-Euphrates Canal. Soviet specialists at the construction site. Oil workers' training center. Classes. Egypt. Helwan Iron and Steel Works. Hot rolling shop. Construction of a mine in Bahariya. A group of Soviet geologists V. B. Tsogogva, who discovered the Abu Tartur phosphorite deposit. The Aswan Dam. Arab and Soviet specialists at work. A shipyard in Alexandria. The ship "Ismailiya". Iran. Persipolis. Tomb of King Cyrus. City of Shiraz. Tomb of Hafez. Isfahan Plant. Interview with Iranian Prime Minister Hoveyd (simultaneously in a foreign language). USSR - Iran gas pipeline. Agricultural work. Mosque. India. Streets of Delhi. Architectural monuments. City of Bombay. Unloading of the Soviet ship "Nazım Hikmet". Odessa port. Unloading of ships. India. Metallurgical Plant in Bhilai. Heavy Machinery Plant in Hardwar. Visit of L. I. Brezhnev to India in November 1973. Signing of the Treaty of Peace. Friendship and Cooperation.




Metallurgical plant – general, cf.
Hot rolling mill – cf.
Open-hearth furnace – cri.
Blast furnace – general.
Landscapes, a peasant leading a camel – general, cf.
Indian village: women working near houses – general, cf.
Indian youth Barabadu Ansari, Barabadu with members of his family near his house, Barabadu in the field working, Barabadu’s brothers and sisters – general, cf., Poland.
Barabadu riding a bicycle – general, general.
A car driving along the road – cf.
Construction of a steel plant in Bokaro – general.
A crane operator in the cabin of a crane, a Soviet specialist talking to Indian workers – general, cf.
Barabadu Ansari walking along a construction site – general, Poland.
Construction in Bokaro – general.
Landscapes of Somalia – general.
Radio station in the capital of the Somali Democratic Republic, the city of Mogadishu – Wed, Poland.
Clock – kr.
Radio announcer speaking (synchronously) – general.
Radio antennas – kr, Poland.
Landscapes of Somalia: camels walking, antelopes running, an elephant running, a herd of elephants – Wed, general (from a helicopter).
Meat-packing plant in Kisimayo: a Soviet specialist talking to Somali workers, female workers at a conveyor with tin cans, a machine working, workers at the machines, boxes of canned goods – kr, general.
Somali village: a girl carrying a jug on her head, banana plantations, a field of wheat, combines in a field, a combine operator at the wheel, grain pouring into the combine bunker – kr, Wed, Poland, general.
The port of Berbera, ships in the port, loading livestock onto a ship: a camel is lifted, sheep are loaded into a bunker and lifted into the air to be transferred to the ship – general, panorama.
Ships in the port and at sea – general.
The city of Mogadishu – general.
The Benadir school on the outskirts of Mogadishu – general, Wed.
Students near the school, students in classes during lessons – Wed.
A labor lesson is taught by candidate of pedagogical sciences Eduard Dmitrievich Novozhilov, the teacher monitors the assembly of an electrical circuit, a Somali youth connects wires, a light bulb lights up – short, Wed, panorama.




Mogadishu street – common.
Printing house: printing press working, workers at the machines, portrait of the President of the Republic Siad Barre being printed, worker takes portrait of Siad Barre out of the press – common, common, Poland.
Soviet photographer, offset printer and artist Viktor Ivanovich Vyalkin together with his Somali assistant working on the first map of "Roads of Somalia" – common.
Worker at the printing press, newspapers coming off the press – common.
Somalis memorizing the alphabet printed in the newspaper – common.
India.
Construction of a factory in Bokaro – common, Poland, common.
Barabadu Ansari at the construction site, working under the supervision of a Soviet foreman, Barabadu's hands tightening a nut – various.
Soviet and Indian workers at the construction site in Bokaro and in one of the built workshops – common.
Gas flare at the North Rumaila oil field in Iraq – cf., Poland.
The Rumaila oil tanker off the coast – cf.
Oil tanks and other facilities at the field – gen., cf.
Newsreel from 1972: A meeting of the Iraqi government on the issue of "Nationalization of the Iraq Petroleum Company oil concern" – cf.
Iraqis listening to the radio, watching television – cf.
A sign with the name of the company: "Iraq Petroleum Company" – cf.
People in the streets: people chanting slogans, shouting out demands for the nationalization of the company – gen., cf., Poland.
Speech on radio and television by the President of the Republic of Iraq, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (simultaneously in Arabic) – cf.
People in the street listening to the president’s speech, people in the hospital listening to the radio, people in the streets rejoicing – Wed, Poland.
President A.H. al-Bakr in the street by his car – Wed, Poland.
Empty corridors and rooms of the company’s board – Wed, Poland.
Work on the board after the nationalization of the company, an inscription on the doors – general, Wed.
The tanker “Rumeila” being loaded with oil – general, Poland.
Oil fields: Soviet and Iraqi specialists at the site – Wed.
Oil refineries – Wed.
Oil rig, Soviet and Iraqi specialists at the rig, the drilling rig working – Wed, general.
The city of Baghdad – general.
An old building, a city square – general, Poland.
Iraqi President A.H. al-Bakr speaks about the role and importance of cooperation between the USSR and Iraq (synchronously) – Wed.




The city of Baghdad – general, Poland.
The streets of Baghdad, cars driving by – Wed.
A sign and an inscription in Arabic “Textile Factory” – kr, Poland.
A workshop of the factory – general, Poland.
Girls at their machines, a man at work, spools of thread spinning – kr.
The confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers – general, Poland.
A sign with an inscription in Arabic near a tree growing at the confluence of the two rivers – kr, Poland.
Children playing on the embankment near the tree – general, Wed, kr.
The emblem of an agricultural machinery factory, the factory, workers going to work, the factory workshops, workers assembling a tractor – Wed, kr.
Soviet and Iraqi engineers in the factory’s design bureau – Wed, kr.
Soviet and Iraqi specialists taking pictures near the factory building – general, Wed.
Streets of Baghdad – general, medium.
Construction of the Tartar-Euphrates Canal: a bulldozer at work, an excavator removing earth – kr, Poland, medium, kr.
Construction of the canal – general, Poland.
Iraqi Oil Workers’ Training Center – general.
Drilling rig, young oil workers at the rig, the drill at work, oil workers’ classes – kr, medium.
India.
Barabadu Ansari rides a bicycle to work, passes through the factory checkpoint, equipment being installed in the factory shops, Soviet and Indian workers in the shop, welders at work, the plant in Bokaro – kr, medium, general.
Egypt.
Sphinx – kr, medium.
Helwan Iron and Steel Works – general, Poland.
Rolling mill, hot bars of metal on the mill, operators at the mill control panel – various.
Metal splashes – kr.




Sphinx, pyramid – cf.
Trucks drive through the desert to the mine, the bucket carries ore, the ore is poured into the back of the dump truck, the loaded trucks drive away – cf.
Soviet and Arab engineers discuss the project for further construction of the mine – cf., cr., Poland.
Construction – general, Poland.
A group of Soviet geologists in the desert – general.
The leader of the group, Viktor Batarbekovich Tsogoev, and the geologists examine pieces of rock – cf.
The Aswan Dam, seething water – cf., Poland.
The machine room of the power plant, the control panel, Soviet and Arab specialists at the control panel, the diagram of the distribution of electricity across the country, hands on the control panel, the lights are blinking – cf.
Irrigation canal – cf.
Landscapes of Egypt – general.
A sign with an inscription in Arabic and Russian: "Mechanized farm" – cf.
Agricultural machinery in the field, the machine cultivating the beds – general, Poland.
Field of sunflowers – Wed, Poland.
Shipyard in Alexandria – general.
Soviet and Arab workers building a ship, welders working, the ship "Ismailia" at the shipyard – Wed.
India.
Barabadu Ansari on the plant grounds – Wed.
Installation of equipment, Poland for construction in Bokaro – Wed, general.
Iran.
A car driving along a mountain road, entering a tunnel – Wed.
The ancient capital of Persipolis, a wall with a bas-relief, the tomb of the formidable king Cyrus – Wed, general.
The city of Shiraz – general.
A book of poems by the poet Saadi in Iranian – Wed.
Tombstone and grave of the poet Khazif – Wed, Poland, general.
A car driving along the highway, rose plantations along the highway – general.
Isfahan Metallurgical Plant – general, cf.
Iranian Prime Minister Dr.
Hoveyda speaks about friendship and cooperation between the USSR and Iran (synchronously) – cf.




Converter shop of the Isfahan Iron and Steel Works – cf.
Soviet and Iranian specialists in the shop, workers at the control panel – cf., general.
Pouring steel – cf.
Metal splashes – cf.
Control room – general.
Training centre at the Isfahan Iron and Steel Works, classes at the training centre, a Soviet specialist conducting classes – cf.
Fish hatchery on the Caspian Sea, built with technical cooperation from the USSR – cf., departure.
Jets of water, sturgeon fry in the water, plant workers conducting experiments – misc.
Landscape of Iran – cf.
Gas storage facility at the Astara station on the border of the USSR and Iran, where Iranian gas is delivered for the industry of Transcaucasia – cf.
Instruments, gas pipeline, gas distribution station – cf., general.
India.
Dawn over Delhi – cf.
Rural landscape, peasants passing by in carts – general.
Tractor in a field, peasants in a field – general, kr.
Old buildings in Delhi – cf.
Rickshaws on the streets of Delhi – cf., Poland.
Bas-relief on the wall of a building – kr., Poland.
Chasser at work, jugs – kr., kr.
Architectural monuments – general, Poland.
Animal sculptures on the streets of Delhi – cf.
Streets and buildings of the city of Delhi – various.
Bombay – cf.
Unloading of the Soviet steamship Nazim Hikmet, workers in the port, cranes carry cargo – cf., general.
Odessa: an Indian ship at the berth, unloading the ship, workers in the port, boxes with the inscriptions "Odessa", "Moscow" – cf., Poland.
Iron and Steel Works in Bhilai – general, Poland.
Newsreel: The place where the construction of the plant began – general, Poland.
Mining ore by hand, smelting pig iron – medium, strict, Poland.
A man hammers a sign with the inscription in Russian and Indian, “The first blast furnace will be here” – medium, Poland.
The beginning of the construction of the plant in Bhilai: women carry earth in baskets – general, strict, Poland.
Bhilai’s first pig iron – medium.
Jawaharlal Nehru at the plant in Bhilai – medium.
The Bhilai Iron and Steel Works – medium.
An open-hearth furnace, an Indian steelmaker at the furnace – medium.
Soviet and Indian steelmakers at the furnace, taking steel samples – medium, strict.
Soviet steelmaker Yuri Aleksandrovich Kamensky and Bhilai's chief steelmaker Kulwan Singh Nagi in the shop at the furnace – kr., cf.
Kamensky with his wife visiting Nagi – kr., cf.
Panorama of the construction sites of the expanding Bhilai plant – gen., cf.




Heavy engineering plant in Hardwar – Poland, general.
Plant workshop – Wed.
Indian and Soviet specialists at machine tools – kr.
A part of the mill rotates, production of equipment for the metallurgical plant in Bokaro – Wed, Poland.
A passenger train passes by – general.
Bokaro workers are walking – general, Poland.
Plant in Bokaro – general.
Unloading coke ovens – Wed, kr.
Soviet and Indian specialists in the plant workshop, molten metal flows through a chute – kr, Wed, Poland.
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi gives an interview about Soviet-Indian cooperation (synchronously) – Wed.
Portrait of L.I. Brezhnev on a street in Delhi – general. L.I. Brezhnev's visit to India: L.I. Brezhnev and I. Gandhi at the airport – Wed, general.
Signing of the Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Cooperation between the USSR and India – Wed, Wed. L.I. Brezhnev and I. Gandhi exchange documents and shake handshakes – Wed.
Smoking chimneys of the plant – general.
Molten metal pouring into the ladle – Wed.
Indian specialist at the furnace – Wed.
Somali boys and girls – kr, Poland.
Workers in the workshop – Wed.
Barabadu Ansari and other workers of Bokaro riding bicycles – general.
Girls at sewing machines in the workshop of the knitwear factory – Wed, Poland.
Workers going to work, girls walking down the street – Wed, general.
Launch of the plant in Bokaro, converter, steel pouring – Wed.
A boy smiling, children's faces – kr.
Metal pouring, sparks flying – kr.