Bondyuzhsky character (1990)

View of the square in Mendeleyevsk, people walking across the square.

People entering the Palace of Culture to celebrate the 110th anniversary of the first director of the chemical plant L. Ya.

Karpov.

Faces of the participants in the anniversary event.

People in the foyer of the Palace of Culture are waiting for the event to begin.

One of the guests talks about the history of the city, talks about the residents of the Bondyuzhsky settlement (synchronously).

Members of the female choir of veterans are preparing for a performance, a story about the history of the Bondyuzhsky settlement is heard off-screen (synchronously).

The guests talk about the role of Karpov and his associates in the creation of the city's industry, the role of ordinary people in preserving the plant, and Russian-Tatar friendship (synchronously).

Faces of the choir members behind the curtain.

The curtain opens, the choir of veterans begins to perform a song accompanied by a button accordion, a portrait of Karpov above the stage.

Faces of the choristers.

Rural landscape, panorama.

Destroyed buildings of the old Ushkov chromium peak plant.

Photographs of the Bondyuzhsky Plant, sailing ships on the Kama.

Photographs of Ushkov and his family.

Exhibits in the halls of the Karpov Chemical Plant Museum, with a portrait of the plant's founder, Ushkov, on the wall.

Schoolchildren listening to a guide telling the history of the plant, children's faces.

The paybook of a worker at the Ushkov plant on display at the museum.

The first page of the "Internal Regulations...".

Photographs of the plant's workers and employees.

Photographs of the Bondyuzhsky Plant buildings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Photographs of the Ushkov house in Kazan.

Photograph of part of the Ushkov plant.

Photograph of Pyotr Ushkov on his deathbed.

A museum exposition recreating the atmosphere of a peasant's hut.

A woman talks about her great-grandfather, who worked at the plant (synchronously), a portrait of the great-grandfather.

The children and grandchildren of the plant's workers show photographs of their fathers and grandfathers, talk about them (synchronously).

Participants of the anniversary event in the auditorium.

View of the stage of the Palace of Culture.

Portrait of L. Ya.

Karpova in the plant director's office.

Karpov's son, Yuri Lvovich Karpov, gives an interview to the film's authors at his home in Moscow.

Paintings and works of art in Yu.L. Karpov's apartment.

Portraits of L.Ya.

Karpov and his wife in their youth.

Photographs of the Bondyuzhsky settlement, with Yu.L. Karpov's story about his parents heard in the background (synchronously).

Portrait of the writer and poet Boris Pasternak, who lived in the Karpovs' house in 1916-1917. Pasternak's self-portrait, painted in charcoal.

Yu.L. Karpov talks about his acquaintance with Pasternak, his love of painting and music (synchronously).

Portrait of L.Ya.

Karpov, painted by Leonid Pasternak, with the artist's autograph.

Interior view of the plant director's office.

Portraits of L. Ya.

Karpov, engineers and workers of the plant in the early 20th century.

Photograph of members of the party organization of the plant in 1918. Headline of the newspaper "Social Democrat".

The factory whistle blares.

Newsreel: a speaker speaks at a rally.

Panorama of the rally.

Fragments of the feature film "October", scenes of the storming of the Winter Palace.

Photographs of members of the commission for the nationalization of the Ushkovs' enterprises.

Portrait of L. Ya.

Karpov.

View of the building of the factory museum and the square with a bust of Karpov.

Chairman of the board of the factory museum, historian V. N. Solovyov speaks about the history of the plant and the city, about the revolutionary past of the plant (synchronously).

Map of the area of combat operations of Azin's division on the Eastern Front.

Newsreel alternating with photographs: units of the Red Army conduct military operations on the Eastern Front.

The propaganda steamer "Red Star" sails along the Kama in 1920. Workers of the Bondyuzhsky Chemical Plant greet a steamship.

Krupskaya N.K. delivers a speech to the workers.

Panorama of the meeting.

Molotov V.M., authorized representative of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, delivers a speech.

The next speaker delivers a speech, Molotov stands nearby.

Photograph of the steamship crew members.

Locomotive wheels.

The engineer looks ahead.

A train is coming.

Photographs of the plant workers, plant veterans speak about the workers’ struggle to save the plant in 1928 (synchronously).

Photographs from the history of the plant in the museum exposition, alternate with newsreel.

Photograph of workers in the plant’s roofing workshop.

Fragment of the text of the appeal of the regional committee of the RCP(b) of the Tatar Republic on saving the plant, photographs of the workers.

Newspaper publications on the subject of the plant’s closure, group photographs of the workers.

Monument to L.Ya.

Karpov on the plant’s territory.

Newsreel from the 1929-1930s.

Trains with coal and equipment are coming.

Construction of new industrial enterprises of the First Five-Year Plan.

Miners working at the coalface.

Welders at work.

A train of tank cars passes.

Explosive shells.

Portraits of female factory workers - participants in the Great Patriotic War.

Faces of senior pupils of School No. 1. War veteran V.V. Georgievsky speaks about the school's pupils - Heroes of the Soviet Union, about the bravery of the Bondyuzhites at the front (synchronously).

Schoolchildren during recess.

Portraits of Heroes of the Soviet Union hanging in the school corridor.

Newsreel from 1945: a meeting of victorious soldiers at the Belorussky railway station.

View of Red Square on May 9, 1945, people celebrating Victory.

Sailing yachts sail along the Kama, river landscape.

Veterans of the plant look at post-war photographs of the plant, talk about the destruction at the plant due to its deterioration, about the threat of the plant stopping and the work collective overcoming it (synchronously).

Photographs of the director of the plant Valnov.

Faces of veterans.

Newsreel: the operation of drilling rigs in the 1960s.

Panorama of the petrochemical plant.

Panorama of one of the new chemical plants.

Rural landscape, with city houses in the distance.

First Secretary of the Mendeleyev Regional Committee of the CPSU M.M. Khasnullin speaks about the development of Mendeleyevsk as a city of chemists, about the construction of a new chemical plant.

Panorama of a part of Mendeleyevsk.

Panorama of the mineral fertilizer plant (from above).

View of the buildings and territory of the plant.

View of the control room of the plant.

Chief engineer of the plant Busygin speaks about the modern production processes used at the plant, about waste-free production and a modern cleaning system (synchronously).

Panorama of the L. Ya.

Karpov Chemical Plant.

View of the building of the chemical laboratory of the plant where D.I. Mendeleyev.

Mendeleyev's portrait on the laboratory wall, laboratory employees at work.

Mendeleyev's portrait.

Photograph of the Peter and Paul Fortress.

Photographs of Mendeleyev.

Employees of the plant laboratory at work.

Samples of the plant's products.

Photochemicals manufactured by the plant.

Production processes in the plant shops, faces of female workers.

Packaging of finished products.

Faces of representatives of the plant's worker dynasties.

Workers are photographed for the plant newspaper, the photographer takes pictures.

Visitors in the halls of the city art gallery.

Plant director H. Mustafin speaks about the benefits of fine art for people (synchronously).

Meeting in the plant director's office, Mustafin's face.

Mustafin speaks at the meeting.

Faces of specialists and engineers - meeting participants.

Meeting participants leave the director's office.

Panorama of part of the plant's territory.

Mustafin speaks about his work as plant director, about the difficulties overcome, the development of plant traditions, about interaction with the party and trade union organizations (synchronously).

Views of parts of the plant's territory, movement of freight transport.

Interior view of one of the factory workshops.

The head of the hyposulfite production shop Minakhmetov talks with workers and the plant management.

Minakhmetov walks through the shop, observes the production process, a story about Minakhmetov is heard off-screen (synchronously).

Part of the production process for the manufacture of hyposulfite.

Hyposulfite packages on a conveyor belt.

Panorama of part of the finished goods warehouse.

Packing hyposulfite on an automatic machine.

The production process at the packing section, the workers' faces.

Plant Director Mustafin talks about the advanced workers and their role in increasing labor productivity and modernizing the plant, their rationalization proposals (synchronously).

Panorama of the building of the silica gel production shop.

Internal views of the shop, the production process.

The shop technologist discusses production issues with the workers.

Shop manager Karimov talks about the technologist's merits in the development of production (synchronously).

The technologist in the shop discusses current issues with the workers, inspects the equipment.

Faces of workers and engineers.

Plant party organizer B.N. Piraeus talks to workers and engineers.

Piraeus speaks about the merits of the first director of the plant L.Ya.

Karpov, about continuing his work at the plant, about the role of the party organization in the implementation of new economic relations (synchronously).

Commemorative inscription on the building of the magnesium sulfate workshop.

Panorama of the workshop building, external repairs of the building.

Faces of female workers in the workshop, pages of an album on the history of the workshop.

Photographs of advanced workers of the 1930s.

Party organizer G.S. Kobzeva holds another meeting.

Faces of female workers-delegates to CPSU congresses.

Female workers in the workshop, the production process.

Veterans of the plant share memories during a tea party.

Presentation of a commemorative badge and gifts to one of the workers.

The family of one of the workers passes along the road.

People enter the yard of the house, greet the owners.

Performance of a children's ensemble at a gala event in honor of the 110th anniversary of L.Ya.

Karpova.

Faces of the spectators.

Views of residential buildings and streets of Mendeleyevsk, a monument to Lenin on the square.

Chairman of the council of the plant's labor collective Polyakov speaks about the urgent need to move from administrative-command methods of management to economic ones, the ability of the working management bodies to solve these problems, the closure of environmentally polluting industries, the implementation of a number of measures to improve the environmental situation (synchronously).

Meeting of the council of the plant's labor collective, faces of the meeting participants.

Panorama of part of the plant's territory.

The chairman of the labor collective council Polyakov speaks about environmental issues, the costs of environmentally friendly production and the need for such production (synchronously).

Pupils of the factory kindergarten during a walk.

Schoolchildren learn to care for horses.

A lesson at the factory equestrian school.

Schoolchildren at a lesson in the sailing section, the face of the coach.

Members of the section carry a yacht to the shore.

Sailing yachts.

A vocal duet performs a song with a guitar, walking along a path in an autumn park.

Yellowing leaves on the trees, views of the streets of Mendeleyevsk.

Parents with a baby walk along a house, autumn cityscapes.

The face of a worker.

Views of residential areas of Mendeleyevsk.

The chairman of the city council speaks about the residents of the city, their traditions, about the reasons for renaming the city to Mendeleyevsk (synchronously).

The arch above the entrance to the Khimik stadium.

A ceremonial procession along the paths of the stadium.

Performance of a dance ensemble during the celebration of Sabantuy.

The audience applauds.

Amateur artists of the plant walk across a meadow.

Head of the amateur artistic activities of the plant L.P. Makhamadeeva speaks about the active participation of people in amateur artistic activities, holding shows and holidays (synchronously).

Fragment of a play staged on the stage of the plant House of Culture.

Performance of the plant vocal and instrumental ensemble, people dancing to music.

People dancing in the cafe hall during one of the festive events.

Members of the folklore ensemble of the plant perform a gypsy song in the meadow.

Performance of one of the plant ensembles during the celebration of the 110th anniversary of the birth of L.Ya.

Karpov, faces of the audience in the hall.

The audience in the hall applauds.

The faces of the audience.

One of the veterans of the plant goes up on stage to applause, the director of the plant Mustafin meets him and accompanies him to the microphone.

The veteran, sitting next to Mustafin, gives a speech, the faces of the representatives of the labor dynasties sitting in the hall.

Honoring the representatives of the labor dynasties of the plant, presenting them with flowers. "Family tree" of the Khamidullin dynasty.

A stand with photographs of representatives of the labor dynasty.

The Mekhtakhutdinov family at the festive table.

A portrait of the founder of the labor dynasty.

The director of the plant, who has come to visit, congratulates the granddaughters of Mekhtakhutdinov.

Mustafin makes a speech, presents the eldest in the family with the key to the new apartment.

The Mekhtakhutdinov family at the table.

Panorama of the new residential area (from above).

The ceremony of marriage registration in the city registry office.

The newlyweds sign in the book.

Panorama of part of the plant territory in winter.

Plant Director Mustafin speaks about the prospects for social development at the plant, the construction of a children's art school, and the prospects for the construction of children's educational and cultural institutions (synchronously).

Panorama of a part of the construction of a new microdistrict.

People in the hall during a festive event.

Plant veterans and production leaders accept congratulations and gifts during the anniversary event.

Mustafin presents a certificate to a plant worker.

A photographer takes pictures of labor veterans.

Honoring labor veterans, plant workers and engineers talk about the "bondage" character of the people working at the plant (synchronously).

Plant veterans on stage with bouquets of flowers.

Performance of the plant folklore and music ensemble, singing a song, faces of the participants in the festive event.

View of the city square during the anniversary event in Mendeleyevsk (above).