Amateur artists - to the Motherland (1977)

Opening of the First All-Union Festival of Amateur Artistic Creativity of Workers, a combined brass band playing.

A veteran conductor.

Drummers marching.

View of the square.

People applauding.

A welder lifts his mask.

Female builders on the balcony of a building under construction, view of the block from the balcony.

Workers walking toward the doors of the ZIL checkpoint.

Bodies of new passenger cars on a conveyor in a workshop.

Construction of apartment buildings.

Blooming tulips, the Triumphal Arch in the background.

People on the streets of Moscow.

The Manege Central Exhibition Hall, a queue at the entrance to the exhibition.

Announcement banners on the southern facade of the building.

Visitors at the opening of the exhibition.

At the microphone, Secretary of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions Zemlyannikova.

A woman's face.

Chairman of the Board of the Union of Artists of the USSR N.A. Ponomarev.

People in the hall.

Zemlyannikova cutting the ribbon.

Applause from visitors, people walking into the halls.

People looking at the exhibition, the halls of decorative and applied arts and fine arts.

Alternation: people's faces, paintings on the walls, sculptures made of glass, clay, wood, and other folk art items.

Art students walking down the street.

Children's drawing club.

The war memorial in Khatyn.

A man is drawing S.I. Selikhanov's sculpture "The Unconquered Man".

People with flowers at the foot of the monument.

Blooming tulips.

The war memorial in Volgograd on Mamayev Kurgan.

Veterans with flowers.

A family with a sign with the name of their division.

A man is drawing in a crowd.

Visitors looking at paintings in the halls of the exhibition.

Photography.

Minsk region, Nesvizh, children are playing near a wooden house in the form of a knight's head.

Doctor and sculptor V. Ulyanov at work.

Children are playing on the playgrounds decorated with V. Ulyanov's works. V. Ulyanov is working in the workshop.

A child is fastening his sandals.

Children around a wooden hut.

Visitors in the exhibition halls.

Wooden and wicker sculptures.

Clay jug. M. Zverko working at the potter's wheel.

Clay jugs.

The master decorates the product.

Painted jug at the exhibition.

Table with clay dishes, decorative candlesticks and other items.

Girl's face.

Georgian craftsmen and their wood works.

Worker-artist and master of chasing K. Kobadze paints the faces of women passing by.

Alternation: K. Kobadze works on chasing, women's faces, finished paintings.

Visitors examine the paintings at the exhibition.

The artist works at home, the room is filled with paintings.

Engineer Egorov paints.

Welder G. Shishkin in the open air.

Guests of the exhibition.

Paintings.

The exhibition is visited by adults and children.

Dolls made of fabric.

Woven carpets.

Apples on branches.

Mogilev region, Makrany village, craftswomen in national costumes walking along the street.

Works of craftsmen.

Women working on old looms.

Works of weavers at the Moscow exhibition.

Foreman A.I.Polischuk talking to a journalist.

An elderly man.

Paintings.

A doctor filling out a patient's card.

Paintings.

Visitors to the exhibition.

A residential building is under construction.

A builder makes sketches in a notebook.

A construction crane.

Faces of workers.

Workers walking through the workshop.

Paintings.

Alternation: metallurgical workers, a man drawing his colleagues.

Paintings.

Guests of the exhibition.

A festive concert of the festival in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, musical groups of the union republics take the stage.