Congress of creators (1976)

Moscow, the Kremlin – medium, departure.

Portrait of V.I. Lenin; portrait of L.I. Brezhnev and a quote from his speech, the slogan "Forward to the victory of communism" on the building – medium, Poland.

Palace of Congresses, University building, zoom in on the flag – general.

Delegates of the 25th Congress of the CPSU, poet R. Gamzatov, builder N. Zlobin, war and labor veterans in the foyer of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses – various.

Montage plans: combines in a field (from a helicopter); a boat sailing along a river (from the movement of the boat); a flock of sheep in the mountains; schoolgirls walking, a modern building; Lake Ritsa; port cranes; industrial landscapes; welders, a weaver and others working; control panel; workers - winners of a competition - are standing; young men are walking across a field.

Kremlin chimes – 10 o'clock – medium, zoom in.

Opening of the 25th Congress of the CPSU in the KDS – the congress is opened by the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee L.I. Brezhnev.

The delegates applaud.

The member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee M.A. Suslov addresses the guests of the congress with a welcoming speech (synchronously). L.I. Brezhnev delivers a report “Report of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the immediate tasks of the party in the sphere of domestic and foreign policy” (synchronously).

The delegates listen and applaud.

Cosmonaut P. Klimuk is in the hall.

Continuation of L.I. Brezhnev's report (synchronously).

The delegates listen and applaud.

Theater and film actor K. Lavrov is in the hall.

Montage plans: a car and a tractor drive by; people go to work; a driver gets into the truck; a worker at the control panel; a ploughed field; builders walk across a bridge; miners walk through a mine; scientists descend the stairs, stand at the control panel.

A teletype machine working - Wed, cr, Poland.

A girl at the information board - cr.

Journalists of different nationalities working at a teletype, in the press center - Wed, Poland.

Foreign newspapers - Wed, Poland.

Interviews are given by correspondents of foreign agencies Dev Murarka - Observer Foreign News Service, England; Agawa Masishi - Mainichi newspaper, Japan; Frank Kupold - Neue Berliner Illustrierte, GDR; Correspondent of Radio Mogadishu (Somalia) (all simultaneously in Russian).

The following speak at the congress: First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU V.V. Grishin (synchronously), First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan D.A. Kunayev (synchronously), First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine V.V. Shcherbitsky (synchronously).

Delegates in the corridors of the congress – general with v/t, cf.

Delegates reading received telegrams, writing letters at a table with a sign "Post Office", talking on the telephone in booths – short, cf.

A plank with the inscription "To the XXV Congress of the CPSU. Report of the workers of the Sakhalin Region" – short.

The following speak at the congress: First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus P.M. Masherov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan Sh.R. Rashidov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan G.A. Aliev, First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the CPSU G.V. Romanov, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR M.S. Solomentsev, First Secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU Ya.P. Ryabov, First Secretary of the Krasnoyarsk Regional Committee of the CPSU S.F. Medunov.

The congress delegates applaud.

The Kremlin Palace of Congresses and the Spasskaya Tower (lit, evening shot) – general.

The monument to V.I. Lenin in the Kremlin – cf. L.I. Brezhnev, A.N. Kosygin, N.V. Podgorny and other members of the government lay a wreath at the Mausoleum of V.I. Lenin – various (evening shot).

Newsreel: November 7, 1919. V.I. Lenin with the people on Red Square – general, cf.

The Neva Embankment in Leningrad – general, Poland (winter).

The Smolny Building – general.

The delegates of the 25th Congress of the CPSU enter the Smolny building, inspect the office of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin – various.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s desk – short, Poland.

The Moscow River with ice floes, a panorama of the Kremlin – medium.

The following will speak at the congress: First Secretary of the Central Committee of the PUWP E. Gierek, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the SED E. Honecker, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia G. Husak, General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party N. Ceausescu, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party Y. Tsedenbal, First Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party J. Kadar, First Secretary of the BCP T. Zhivkov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba F. Castro Ruz (simultaneously in Spanish), First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Vietnam Le Duan (simultaneously in Vietnamese).

Newsreel of the liberation of Saigon: soldiers with a banner running down the street; a tank with soldiers driving by; soldiers waving flags from a balcony; people throwing a monument (to dictator Thneu) off its pedestal – various (1975).

At the 25th Congress of the CPSU, member of the Central Committee of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam Ngusn Thi Binh speaks (synchronously in Vietnamese), conveying greetings from the National Front to L.I. Brezhnev.

Young Pioneers with banners march through the hall; buglers and drummers play.

Octobrists and Young Pioneers greet the delegates to the congress (synchronously), present flowers to members of the presidium – various.

The delegates to the congress applaud. N.V. Podgorny addresses the Young Pioneers with an appeal (synchronously), the Young Pioneers respond, “Always ready!” (synchronously). F. Castro, T. Zhivkov, S. Dange, G. Winston, A. Cunhal, G. Hall, cosmonaut A. Leonov and other congress delegates on the sidelines.

Monument to Yuri Gagarin in Star City (winter) – general, wed.

Congress delegates visiting the Cosmonautics Museum.

Photograph of Y. Gagarin – kr, Poland.

Museum exhibits – a model of the Moon, an Apollo pennant, photos of American astronauts – kr, wed.

Hall of the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy – general, Poland (with military equipment).

Scientists at the Tokamak thermonuclear installation – kr, wed. (with movement).

President of the USSR Academy of Sciences A.P. Alexandrov introduces the delegation of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic headed by G. Husak to the operation of the installation.

Workshop of the Moscow Automobile Plant named after Lenin Komsomol – general.

Young workers at work – Wed, kr.

A car rolls off the assembly line – Wed.

A delegation of the Polish United Workers' Party visits a factory; a worker presents E. Gierek with flowers and a badge.

A meeting of friendship between Soviet and Cuban youth, dedicated to the 25th Congress, at one of the Moscow institutes.

First Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League E. Tyazhelnikov is on the presidium.

A Cuban representative is speaking.

Delegates to the 25th Congress of the CPSU are heading to the Palace of Congresses, walking through the Palace – general, Wed.

Speaking: Chairman of the National Council of the Communist Party of India Sh.A. Dange (synchronously in Hindi), General Secretary of the Portuguese Communist Party (synchronously) A. Cunhal (in Portuguese). A. Cunhal speaks at a meeting in Portugal – Wed.

The people chant, raising their fists – Wed, kr.

Rally - commonly., Wed.

At the 25th Congress of the CPSU, Alves Batista, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) speaks (simultaneously in Portuguese).

Rally in Angola – Wed.

Soldiers with machine guns are standing – red. square persons.

The following speak at the congress: Enrico Berlinguer, General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party (simultaneously in Italian), Bea Hall, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USA (simultaneously in English), Americo Zorrilla, member of the Political Commission and Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Chile (simultaneously in Spanish).

Counterrevolutionary coup in Chile: an airplane flies; a house explodes; a house is on fire; soldiers tear up and burn books in the street, stand with machine guns; a dead man lies; a demonstration is dispersed; demonstrators throw stones; those arrested are taken off the bus. L. Corvalan gives an interview to a journalist.

Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee B.N. Ponomarev reads out the statement "Freedom for the prisoners of imperialism and reaction!" The congress delegates vote, stand up, and applaud.

Representatives of the Soviet Armed Forces walk through the hall.

The presidium applauds.

The commander of the strategic missile forces division, Major General Kochemasov, delivers a greeting (synchronously).

Soldiers take an oath (synchronously).

Montage plans: warships at sea; a hovercraft; military jets in the air; a missile is taken out of a hangar; a missile takes off in the forest, soldiers run.

The sculpture "Motherland" and the memorial on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd (various figures) - medium, small.

Delegates of the 25th Congress of the CPSU (various nationalities) looking on - small, Polish.

Inside the memorial, a guard of honor marches along the walls with the names of the heroes – Wed, Poland, general.

The eternal flame is a hand with a torch – Wed.

The Kremlin Palace of Congresses, flags near the building – general, departure.

Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR A.N. Kosygin delivers a report at the 25th Congress of the CPSU (synchronously).

The delegates applaud standing up.

Banners with the inscription: "Let's mark the 25th Congress of the CPSU with new labor successes!" – short, departure.

A rally dedicated to the opening of the All-Union Honor Board at VDNKh.

Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee A.P. Kirilenko speaks and hands over the ribbon.

All-Union Honor Board: bas-relief of V.I. Lenin, his words: "We will achieve victory of communist labor!"; gold plaques with the names of the best organizations (factories, collective farms, and so on) – various.

Participants in the rally pass by.

Foreman of the integrated brigade of builders of the city of Moscow N.A. Zlobin delivers a speech at the congress (synchronously). N.A. Zlobin and other builders at a construction site in the city of Zelenograd – general, general.

New houses – general, departure, panorama.

A panel truck is moving – general.

The construction site is filmed from the cabin of the crane (from movement) – general.

Speakers: tractor driver of the Kharkov state farm in the Kustanai region Donenbaeva K.B. (synchronously), turner of the Baltic Shipyard, twice Hero of Socialist Labor A.V. Chuev (synchronously).

Shipyard of the Baltic Shipyard in Leningrad – general. with military equipment.

The world's largest nuclear-powered icebreaker Sibir on the slipway – general, panorama.

Rally in honor of the early launch of the icebreaker – workers are standing with slogans, red. square of persons.

The side of the icebreaker with the inscription "Sibir".

Murmansk", panorama of the propeller – red.

A brass band is playing – Wed, cr.

The launch of the icebreaker – general, Wed, Poland.

The workers are applauding – Wed.

The icebreaker "Sibir" sets sail – general.

Assembling cars at the Kama Automobile Plant, young workers in uniforms with the inscription "Kamaz" are working – Wed, cr, Poland.

A rally in the assembly shop of the plant to mark the release of the first "Kamaz" car, a poster with the inscription "The people and the party are united".

Crop plans of the workers' faces.

The winners of the socialist competition are standing with ribbons over their shoulders – Wed.

The first car with the inscription "KAMAZ No. 0000001 to the XXV Congress of the CPSU" – Wed.

The test driver of the first "Kamaz" is speaking (synchronously).

The first "Kamaz" with the inscription "Our labor gift to the XXV Congress of the CPSU" drives through the shop. "Have a nice trip" – Wed, Poland.

Assembly plans for the construction of the BAM: laying rails; a train traveling over a bridge, people on the train; felling timber; transporting a pipe.

At the 25th Congress of the CPSU, the foreman of the brigade of concrete fitters of the Baikal-Amur Mainline, L.D. Kazakov (synchronously), and L.I. Brezhnev (synchronously) speak.

The delegates applaud and sing "The Internationale" (synchronously).

The bust of V.I. Lenin – cf.

The delegates chant slogans (synchronously). L.I. Brezhnev waves and applauds.

Short plans of working Soviet people.

Moscow, Palace of Congresses – total.