Open question (1987)

Residents of one of the villages of the Saratov region answer questions about the desired life expectancy, the qualities of human character, the amount of wages, the number of family members, the economic base in the new economic conditions (synchronously).

A woman answers questions about personal plans that existed in her youth (synchronously).

Type of rural locality.

An employee of the Institute of socio-economic problems of development of the agro-industrial complex of the USSR Academy of Sciences distributes pamphlets with sociological questionnaires to employees of one of the virgin state farms in the Saratov region.

Machine operators view questionnaires and discuss them among themselves.

Pensioners and young people who fill out questionnaires.

Banner with the slogan on the territory of the Central farmstead of the state farm.

People fill out questionnaires.

Panorama of the territory of the Central farmstead of the state farm.

Panel on the wall of a two-story residential building.

State farm workers talk about their daily work, daily routine, lack of time for social and political activities and discussion of issues of solving current problems, the activities of the state farm management, the new Director (synchronously).

Faces of teenagers.

A woman in the yard hangs out Laundry.

The wife of the former Director of the state farm speaks about the feeling of loneliness that she has been experiencing lately, about her husband, who was constantly in a managerial job and was not at home (synchronously).

A man looks through a newspaper, standing at the mailbox at the gate.

A man reads a newspaper while sitting on a bench in the courtyard of his house.

A man stands at the open gate.

View of a rural street.

One of the local residents talks about the large scale of construction in the old days, about the best financing for the purchase of construction materials, talks about the merits of the former Deputy Director for capital construction emtsov (synchronously).

View of the village.

Newsreel of 1955: an eagle soars in the sky.

panorama of the steppe in the Volga region.

Seeing Komsomol members leaving for virgin land, at the station near the train cars.

Komsomol members dance at the car to the accordion.

Loading Luggage into the car.

Steam locomotive under steam.

Departure of the passenger train.

Panorama of the pervotselinnikov tent camp.

Surveyors at work.

Plowing virgin land.

Planting trees.

Local residents tell about the history of the village, the first sowing and laying of the garden, held on a voluntary basis (synchronously).

Views of an abandoned garden, horses and cows grazing on its territory.

The author of the article about the shortcomings of the state farm, says that there are no Newspapers in the village with the published article, lists the main points of the article (synchronously).

Children play at the fence.

The author of the article about shortcomings in the state farm speaks about the wrong, in his opinion, work of the Secretary of the party organization, criticizes it (synchronously).

Children with their parents walk along the village street.

A man and a woman talk about the lack of education of young people, low wages, which have nothing to buy, about the methods of survival used by some residents of the village, stealing food (synchronously).

A woman puts a sound column in the window.

People in the yard at the greenhouse.

Nutria in a cage.

Geese in the yard nibble the grass.

A man releases pigeons, goes to the cage with nutrients.

A little boy is playing in a puddle with a garden hose.

A woman drives cows down the village street past a three-story building.

A man milks a cow.

The locals are a husband and wife answer the questions of the sociologist about his farm, number of livestock and poultry, about the size of farms, the lack of support for content farms from the state farm administration, about the need to produce feed for livestock are not legitimate methods, abandonment of housing in state farm, the construction of houses for each new Director, on the inability to sell his own house (synchronously).

People go to Board the bus.

The bus departs.

Nutria in a cage.

Panorama of one of the private plots with a vegetable garden.

A woman tells the sociologist about her family, about her husband's role in supporting a decent standard of living, about intra-family relationships, about the lack of collectivism among state farm workers, about her husband as the only support (synchronously).

One of the local residents speaks about the feeling of the owner, the need for collective labor and the lack of a good team on the farm, the responsibility of the management for the situation, speaks positively about the Deputy Director of construction, convicted of bribes (synchronously).

The Director of the state farm talks with machine operators during the detour of the brigade sections.

View of the removed field.

A woman in a conversation with a sociologist positively about the former Deputy Director, complains about low earnings, forcing people to leave the farm (synchronously).

A man sells potatoes on one of the streets of the village.

A man in a conversation with a sociologist talks about the role of material well-being in life, about low wages, about his place in perestroika, about the inability to change something alone and the reasons why he does not take part in the social life of the village, about the inability of the current management to manage the economy (synchronously).

State farm workers speak positively about the former Deputy Director of construction Emtsov, who received a prison sentence (synchronously).

An elderly couple expresses their opinion about Emtsov, criticizes his activities, about the current Director (synchronously).

Apples on a branch.

The Director of the state farm shows one of the sociologists a house under construction.

Construction of residential buildings on the farm.

The Director of the state farm answers questions about his predecessor, talks about the activities of Yemtsov, the reasons for his failures, the difficulties of managing agriculture, the need to gain independence in farming, the transition to self-sufficiency, his mistakes while working in the CPSU district Committee, the lack of experience of employees of the party and Soviet bodies, talks about the lack of housing, the transition to new methods of farming and construction by self-financing method (synchronously).

View of the construction site, working concrete mixer.

Interiors of buildings under construction.

Views of the village during the rain.

The Director of the state farm answers questions from the sociologist about the attitude of local residents to it, about the emerging public opinion, and talks about people who have lost faith in perestroika (synchronously).

Newsreel of 1955: view of the handkerchief camp pervotselinnikov.

The girl distributes letters to people.

A man washes under a stream of water from a mug.

Interior view of the tent for girls.

One of the girls is Ironing a dress.

Nina Popova opens the window of a new house.

Popova gets her daughter out of the crib.

Receiving gifts and sports shoes from Moscow.

The landers in the break room listening to the radio, play chess.

Rural landscape.

State farm workers on the river Bank during evening recreation and fishing.

Ldui relax, sitting on the porch of a new house, playing a harmonica player.

Lyubov Kunavina reads a letter to her friends from Saratov.

A team of tractor drivers goes to the cars.

The girl-tractor driver invites everyone to come to work on virgin lands (synchronously).

An eagle soaring in the sky.

Panorama of a part of the plowed zavolzhskaya steppe.

Faulty and incomplete harvesters and other agricultural equipment on a grassy area.

Web on one of the units.

An electric train passing in the distance.

The saleswoman of a local store tells the sociologist about everyday life on the farm (synchronously).

Passengers are boarding the bus.

A girl with a cat in her arms.

Departing the bus.

View of the territory of the Central farmstead of the state farm.

People on the streets of the village, processing the collected personal data at the Institute of socio-economic development of the agro-industrial complex of the USSR Academy of Sciences.