From heart to heart (1976)

Members of the Soviet delegation drive along the streets, people greet them.

Trips of L.I. Brezhnev to different countries, meetings with people.

Moscow – the Kremlin; Red Square; monument to V.I. Lenin – various.

Soviet flag – short, medium.

People enter the Lenin Mausoleum – general.

Poland.

Moskva River – general.

Building of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses; delegates to the 25th Congress of the CPSU, L.I. Brezhnev speaking.

The delegates listen, stand up, applaud.

Editing plans: high-voltage power line; nuclear reactor, scientists at work; steel is poured; steelmakers in a workshop; plant workshop; worker at the control panel; rolling mill; plant; tractors in the factory yard; cars on the conveyor; airplane taking off; combines in the field; grain is poured; BAM – track layer at work; the first train passes, builders greet.

Moscow, Moskva River embankment, CMEA building – general.

Foreign tourists near a bus, on the bank of the Moskva River, taking pictures – medium, small.

Bolshoi Theater building – general.

Luzhniki Sports Complex – general. (with a/t).

Newsreel: Old Moscow: cars driving along the street; people in the square.

Foreign tourists in the Moscow Kremlin near the Tsar Bell, taking pictures, Ivan the Great Bell Tower.

Triumphal Arch, cars driving by – general.

Ivan the Great Bell Tower – general.

Kalinin Avenue – general. (with traffic).

Friendship House building, sign on the building – general, small.

Meeting of the Council and Presidium of the Soviet Societies for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries.

Speaking is the Chairman of the Presidium, member of the CPSU Central Committee, deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Z.S. Kruglova.

Building of the Column Hall of the House of Unions – general.

Delegates of the III All-Union Conference of the Union of Friendship Societies and foreign guests pass by.

Delegates in the hall.

Candidate for membership in the Politburo, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee B.N. Ponomarev speaks.

Delegates listen and applaud.

Awarding of the Order of Friendship of Peoples to the Union of Friendship Societies – short.

Cartoon: world map showing the Union’s connections – medium.

Participants of the international seminar of representatives of friendship societies listen; Z.M. Kruglova speaks.

Meeting of the Polish participants of the seminar with the head of the Soviet-Polish Friendship Society, Chairman of the Council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR A.P. Shitikov.

Head of the Gdansk Society of Polish-Soviet Friendship M. Yaloshinskaya speaks.

Poland, Gdansk – Poland (with military equipment).

Solemn ceremony of launching a ship for the Soviet Union: military orchestra plays; rally at the Lenin shipyard; M. Yaloshinskaya at the rally; a speaker is speaking.

A woman is smashing a bottle against the side of a ship; the ship "Captain Zamyatin" is being launched – cf.

A ship in the bay – general.

The House of Peace and Friendship in Leningrad – cf., kr.

Poland.

A photo exhibition dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the liberation of Romania from the fascist dictatorship, in the hall – general.

Poland.

Black and white photographs telling about Romania – various.

Hall of the Mir energy system – general, average (from movement).

Power line; gas pipeline in the taiga – general (from an airplane).

Smelting of friendship – steelmakers at the furnace, steel is poured – various.

A weaver works – in the workshop of the Krasnaya Roza textile mill – comparable.

Polish.

Members of the Bulgarian delegation in the workshop of the mill – a collective member of the friendship society, talking with the weavers – comparable.

Polish, average.

An airplane takes off and lands; the pilot is in the cockpit – various.

Aircraft designers A.N. and A.A. Tupolev at the airfield, greeting the pilot – comparable.

Chairman of the Soviet-Bulgarian Friendship Society A. Egorov and Chairman of the All-People's Committee of Bulgarian-Soviet Friendship Tsola Dragoycheva sign long-term agreements between the friendship societies of the USSR and the PRB, congratulate each other.

Newsreel: L.I. Brezhnev speaks, awards the People's Hero of Bulgaria Ts.

Dragoycheva the Order of Friendship of Peoples, congratulates her.

Chestnut trees, Japanese cherry trees, etc. are in bloom. – General.

PPR, CR (with movement).

Participants in a seminar of activists of friendship societies of socialist countries (Kyiv) pass by – General.

Hotel building – General, PPR. Khreshchatyk – General. (with v/t).

City street – General.

People taking pictures – General.

Cathedral – General.

PPR. Vladimirskaya Gorka, Dnieper – General.

Participants in a seminar on a steamship – General, CR. Bridge across the Dnieper, new district in the distance – general (with h/t).

A hydrofoil boat is sailing along the river – general.

Hungary – Budapest – general (with h/t); street – general (with h/t).

House of Soviet Culture and Science, people are entering the building, looking at the exhibition – medium, general.

Studying Russian – teacher at the public address system – general.

Hands are opening a volume of poetry by A.S. Pushkin – kr.

A girl is taking a record with an opera by P.I. Tchaikovsky from the shelf – medium.

Building of the Hungarian House of Friendship. L.I. Brezhnev enters the building, people greet him (meeting with the activists of the Hungarian-Soviet Friendship Society).

Awarding of L.I. Brezhnev with the gold badge of the House of Friendship; exchange of gifts, L.I. Brezhnev is speaking.

Building of the House of Friendship in Berlin (GDR), sign – general, kr.

Berlin Square – general. (with military); street report – Wed.

Poland.

Radio factory building – general.

Workers from the German-Soviet friendship brigade at work – various. “Friendship office” - people talking, hands opening a book about V.I. Lenin (in German).

Flags, commemorative pennants of the USSR and the GDR – Wed.

The building of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, flags of the USSR and the GDR near the building – Wed, departure.

Queue at the museum – general.

Poland.

Visitors in the halls of the museum looking at paintings of the Dresden Gallery – general, Wed.

Paintings by Rubens, Ter Borch and other artists – Wed, Wed.

Station platform in the GDR, a military orchestra playing, the friendship train departing – general, Wed. (with military).

People waving from the train car window – Wed.

Poland.

River, landscape – general. (with movement).

Activists of Soviet friendship societies, leaving for the 30th anniversary of the liberation of Czechoslovakia from the fascist invaders, talking in a train car – Wed, CR. Veterans of World War II L.A. Govorukhin, M.Z. Beznoshchenko, K. and I. Biryushov, N.I. Borisov in a train car.

At home – general (from the movement).

Member of the Soviet Women's Committee Natalya Belyaeva in a train car – Wed.

War photographs of the young radio operator N. Belyaeva – Wed, CR. Poland. N. Belyaeva at home talking to children, looking at photographs – Wed, CR. Czechoslovakia – women decorating a shop window with a photograph of a Soviet soldier – Wed, CR.

Meeting of the Soviet delegation on the platform, young people standing with posters; greeting – general, categoriz.

Meeting of female combatants – radio operator of the general headquarters N. Belyaeva and liaison of the partisan detachment, Czech Aliza – general.

Monument (sculpture and obelisk) to Soviet soldiers who died for the freedom of Czechoslovakia – general.

Members of the Soviet delegation lay a wreath at the monument – various.

Graves of Soviet soldiers; women and war veterans – members of the Soviet delegation lay flowers at the graves, cry – various.

Landscape on the site of the village of Lidice, burned by the Nazis – general (with military equipment), Poland.

Monument – sculpture of a woman – general, categoriz.

War veterans pass by, Czechoslovak pioneers stand.

Veterans tie red ties on children – various.

Apple trees in bloom – moderate.

Panorama (with movement).

Children playing on the playground – general.

Wedding, guests dancing – general, cro.

Panorama.

Prague – general.

Panorama (with a/t).

Report on the city.

Members of the Soviet delegation at a sign on a house with the inscription "Checked.

No mines" – cro. L.A. Govorukhin, M.Z. Beznoshchenko and Julius Fuček's comrades, brother and sister Kisela, pass and stand on the bridge – general, cro.

Farewell to activists of Soviet friendship societies at the train station; Young Pioneers waving – various.

Cuba photo exhibition hall; visitors in the hall – general, cro.

Photographs telling about Cuba and the Soviet-Cuban friendship – various.

Drawings by Cuban children who visited the Soviet Union – various.

President of the Soviet-Cuban Friendship Society, cosmonaut V.A. Shatalov and members of the Cuban delegation in the Cosmos pavilion at VDNKh in Moscow – various.

Spacecraft – general.

Poland.

Cosmos pavilion – general. V.A. Shatalov gives an autograph – Wed.

Cosmonaut Viktor Gorbatko gives an autograph – Wed, cr.

Meeting of the Soviet-Mongolian Friendship Society.

The leader of the Mongolian People's Republic Yu.

Tsedenbal speaks and presents the head of the society V. Gorbatko with the Order of Sukhe-Bator; those present applaud.

Meeting of Soviet representatives with members of the Vietnamese delegation, presenting flowers.

Vietnamese soldiers running with a banner; Vietnamese waving flags.

Traffic controller on a city street; female warriors driving by in a car.

Vietnamese passing by with flags.

Rally of Soviet-Angolan friendship at the Lenin Plant; The representative of the plant and the President of the People's Republic of Angola A. Agostinho Neto speak.

The workers listen, applaud - etc. B.N. Ponomarev is in the presidium of the meeting.

The building of the Moscow House of Friendship – general.

Foreign students and guests are presented with commemorative badges – ed.

PNR. Young men and women of different nationalities dance in a circle, dance – various.

Member of the board of the Soviet Association of Friendship with the Peoples of Africa, engineer of the Izmailovo depot metro train Valentina Gessler in the House of Friendship; walks through the depot, climbs into the cabin and drives the metro train – various.

A metro train passes by – general. (with movement, with military transport).

The coast of the African continent, the ocean in the distance – general. (with military transport).

Report on an African city.

Meeting of members of the Cultural Center – various.

A ceremonial meeting in honor of the memory of the activist of the friendship society, Soviet soldier Nikolai Pyaskorsky, who died while demining Algerian territory after foreign aggression.

Photo by N. Pyaskovsky and the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Photo: Soviet students at a construction site in Algeria.

Joint Soviet-Syrian construction of the Euphrates Dam – the river is dammed, equipment is working; the people are jubilant.

School building in Moscow – general.

Poland.

Hindi language lesson (4th-5th grade); teacher and students speak (synchronously) – various.

Children – cr.

Boy writes in Hindi – cr.

Teacher and students look at a magazine – cf.

Souvenirs from India – toys, etc. – cf.

Poland.

India.

Meeting of representatives of the Indo-Soviet Cultural Society with L.I. Brezhnev, who is in India on an official visit; L.I. Brezhnev speaks (synchronously); those present listen, stand and applaud.

B/w: Rally of solidarity with Chile, organized in Moscow by activists of the USSR-Chile society and youth organizations of the Soviet Union.

Gladys Marin and others speak; the rally participants applaud.

Colour: Ceremonial meeting of Luis Corvalan, Secretary of the Communist Party of Chile, in Moscow: people are standing with posters, greeting; L. Corvalan and his wife are walking by, greeting.

Film set of the Gorky Film Studio, lighting fixtures are on – cf.

Head of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR, film director Lev Kulidzhanov is conducting actor auditions for the television film "Karl Marx.

Young Years", talking to the actors – various.

Flags of the USSR and Mexico – kr.

Chairman of the USSR-Mexico Society L. Kulidzhanov speaks and presents the prize of the Union of Friendship Societies to Mexican film director Sergio Olkhovich (in the House of Friendship with the Peoples of Foreign Countries); S. Olkhovich speaks, those present applaud (at the International Film Festival) – various.

Poster of the Peoples' Friendship University named after Patrice Lumumba – cf., general.

The ceremony of initiation of young people from Asia, Africa, Latin America into students – a University teacher speaks and hands over a symbolic “key of knowledge” to the students.

Students of different nationalities listen, applaud, take an oath – various things.

The ceremony of signing the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, signed by L.I. Brezhnev.

The Neva River – general.

Report on the streets and squares of Leningrad.

The cruiser Aurora, people board the cruiser; a sailor in the guard of honor – general.

Opening of the exhibition dedicated to the 500th anniversary of the Italian sculptor Michelangelo; visitors at the exhibition – general., kr.

Photo reproductions of Michelangelo's sculptures – kr.

Foreign tourists in Peterhof – general., cf.

Monument to Peter the Great – general.

Poland.

Fountains of Peterhof – general., departure.

Activists of the Finland-USSR Society board ships sailing along the Volga, talk with the ship's captain, examine a souvenir – various.

The Volga River – general.

Poland.

Yaroslavl – general.

Building of the Volkov Theater – general.

Tourists from Finland visit a motor plant, talk to workers in the workshop – general, cf.

Young Pioneers greet guests from Finland with bread and salt; Young Pioneers and guests dance the "letka-enka" – general, cf.

Annual poetry festival dedicated to A.N. Nekrasov – people at the festival, poet A. Surkov performs – various.

Girls in Russian national costumes dance – general, cf.

Polish People's Republic.

Finnish tourists on a motor ship – general, kr.

A hydrofoil vessel passes along the river – general.

Polish People's Republic, departure.

Residents of Dushanbe greet participants in the Days of France in the Soviet Union, headed by the chairman of the board of the France-USSR friendship society, former commander of the Normandie-Niemen squadron Pierre Pouyade, and present flowers to a member of the presidential council of the society, film actress Marina Vlady.

Dushanbe street – general. P. Pouyade and other French guests talk with the head of the republican friendship society Makhrifat Karimova.

People at the cinema – general.

PNR. M. Vlady gives an autograph. M. Vlady and P. Pouyade dance with residents of Dushanbe – various.

Meeting of guests from France with the rector of the Tajik University, member of the Academy of Sciences of the Tajik SSR, professor Pulat Babadzhanov.

People at the posters, in the hall of the exhibition of works by the laureate of the International Peace Prize of the French artist Jean Effel – general.

Photo portrait and drawings by Effel – various.

Photographs of Paris – general.

The French meet L.I. Brezhnev, who arrived in Paris, L.I. Brezhnev greets the people.

Foundation of the new friendship society "USSR - Portugal" - people talk, the speaker speaks, listeners in the hall.

The building of the House of Friendship in Moscow – general.

TASS Director General and President of the USSR-FRG Society L. Zamyatin greets the Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany Willy Brandt; W. Brandt speaks; those present applaud.

Report on Tbilisi; theater building, philharmonic society – various.

Palace of Pioneers building – general.

Pioneers present flowers to residents of the West German city of Saarbrücken.

Children dance a Georgian national dance; guests applaud – various.

Children see off guests from Germany – average, general.

In the Moscow House of Friendship, Soviet ballet master Sulamith Messerer welcomes artists of the Japanese ensemble "Girls from Takarazuka".

Performance of the ensemble's artists - dancing and singing (synchronously in Japanese) - various.

Spectators in the hall, film director M. Donskoy among the spectators - average, general.

Artists from different countries talking and walking.

Performance of American students from the state of Tennessee: playing, dancing and singing (synchronously in English) - various.

Chairman of the Supreme Court of the USSR, President of the Association of Soviet Lawyers L.K. Smirnov and other lawyers talk with American lawyers.

Newsreel of 1945: Nuremberg Trials; lawyers-prosecutors from different countries at the table, Rudenko, Smirnov speaking; war criminals sitting.

President of the USSR - USA Society, Director of the Institute of Oncology N. Blokhin preparing and performing an operation. N. Blokhin, Soviet pilots, pilot Chkalov's wife and son talk with guests from the USA – various.

Newsreel from the 1930s: An airplane flies; Soviet pilots Chkalov, Baidukov, and Belyakov meet after a nonstop flight to the USA; Americans greet them.

USA – a monument in Vancouver in honor of the flight, the NDP on the monument – medium, ed.

Spacecraft takeoff – various.

Soviet and American cosmonauts in the cabin of a spacecraft, their hands holding the emblem of the joint Soyuz-Apollo flight.

Issue of the Union of Friendship Societies newspaper "Moscow News" (in English) – ed. traditional international figure skating tournament, flags; spectators applaud. L. Pakhomova and A. Gorshkov, I. Rodnina and A. Zaitsev perform.

Buses drive by – general.

Panorama.

Residential building of a pioneer camp, pioneers are passing by – general.

Young people from different countries who have arrived in Moscow for the Russian Language Olympiad are passing by – general.

Poland.

A foreign girl and a young man from Africa are speaking (synchronously).

Young people of different nationalities are listening – various.

Girls from Moscow and Bulgaria are talking (synchronously).

Young pioneers and Olympiad participants are dancing – various.

Russian landscapes – various.

Pioneers say goodbye to guests – various.

Guests are climbing the steps of an airplane.

Faces of young men and women of different nationalities – cl.

Children are running along the boulevard – general, medium.

A seagull is flying – cl.

Poland.

Clouds – medium.

Poland.