The film tells about various aspects of life in the Upper, Middle and Lower Volga regions, about the cities on the banks of the Volga.




Part of the Volga River on the map of the USSR. Signal flags on the mast of a ship.
View of the Volga bank.
View of the building of the river station in Gorky.
The passenger ship "Ilyich" at the pier before the start of the next navigation.
A brass band of river workers plays, faces of the musicians.
Faces of veteran river workers.
Signal flags on the ropes.
The ship goes along the Volga, the interior of the captain's cabin.
View of a birch forest on the Valdai Hills.
Birds fly over a cliff.
River landscape in the lower reaches of the Volga.
A brood of ducks on the water.
Seagulls fly over the water.
Blooming daisies and lotuses.
View of a pine forest.
Elk in a clearing in the forest of the Middle Volga region.
River landscape.
A hydrofoil ship floats by, view of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin.
Volga landscapes.
Views of cities standing on the banks of the Volga.
A sign at the entrance to Kostroma.
Views of historical buildings and churches in Kostroma and Yaroslavl.
Panorama of the Yaroslavl Kremlin.
View of a section of the city embankment.
Bread and salt on a towel.
Ancient frescoes depicting the harvest.
Panorama of fields in the Northern Volga region.
Sprinklers in operation.
Combines harvesting grain, ripe ears of wheat.
Vehicles leaving a river ferry.
Panorama of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin (above).
Carousel at the city fair.
Selling souvenirs and fabrics.
Visitors in a cafe, a waiter carries a tray with pots.
Freshly baked loaves of bread at a bakery.
A beekeeper collects honey.
Honey pours out of a ladle.
A girl eats an Astrakhan watermelon.
Wooden souvenirs at the fair.
Panorama of a section of one of the quarters of Gorky.
View of the embankment and the river station building (above).
Cranes in the cargo port.
A freight train leaves the port after loading.
Crawler tractors, intended for shipment, are standing in the cargo port.
Products of the Yaroslavl tire plant in the port.
A barge passes the cargo pier of the port.
A cargo ship of the Sormovsky plant after launching.
Faces of shipbuilders seeing off the ship they built.
A barge with cargo floats by.
Panorama of the block on the embankment (above).
Ships are sailing along the Volga.
The captain in the wheelhouse gives commands.
The ship's radar is rotating.
A passenger ship is sailing along the Volga.
1975
Gorky Yaroslavl region
Spring Summer




View of the Kazan Kremlin.
Views of Kazan streets, architectural monuments of the city.
View of the square in front of the Kazan State University (from above).
Students in the classroom during a lecture.
Students' faces, the teacher gives a lecture.
Students during a lab class.
Interior view of Butlerov's chemical laboratory.
View of one of the old classrooms and the university assembly hall.
Monument to V.I. Ulyanov (Lenin) on the square in front of the university.
Volga landscape.
Face of a builder.
View of a construction site.
Welder at work.
Production processes at a weaving mill and in the foundry of a metallurgical plant.
Panorama of one of the new quarters of Kazan.
The motor ship "Ilyich" is sailing along the Volga.
Faces of the captain and the senior assistant.
Views of Ulyanovsk.
Lenin's House Museum in Ulyanovsk.
Houses in which the Ulyanov family lived.
Memorial plaque on the wall of the house.
Photograph of the Ulyanov family.
Interior view of rooms in the Ulyanov Family House-Museum.
Interior of Volodya Ulyanov's room.
Photograph of V.I. Ulyanov in his gymnasium years.
Sculpture depicting Volodya Ulyanov with his mother, Maria Alexandrovna.
A hydrofoil vessel sails along the Volga.
View of part of the Volgograd embankment, a fountain on the embankment.
Views of the memorial complex on Mamayev Kurgan, fragments of monuments.
The Motherland Monument.
The Funeral Hall with the Eternal Flame.
The names of the soldiers who died in the Battle of Stalingrad on a red granite slab.
The sun behind the clouds.
Rainwater flows down the trunk of a birch tree.
Forest trees in the rain, a rainbow in the clearing.
A girl walks, wringing out her wet braid.
Trunks of young birches, children walking in the forest.
Panorama of the Volga Hydroelectric Power Station.
View of the hydroelectric power station dam.
Masts of the Volga Hydroelectric Power Station power line.
A train goes along the bridge over the Volga.
View of the Volga banks.
An oil tanker goes along the Volga.
A sailor washes the deck.
Views of the Kuibyshev embankment.
An airplane on a pedestal.
Airplane assembly in the workshops of the Kuibyshev aircraft plant, workers' faces.
View of one of the buildings of the chocolate factory.
An operator of the automatic control system at the control panel.
Production processes at the factory, finished products on a conveyor belt.
The face of a factory worker showing a box of chocolates.
1975
Republic of Tatarstan Ulyanovsk region Volgograd Kuibyshev
Spring Summer




View of the Volga through a pine forest.
View of a site with passenger buses and one of the quarters of Tolyatti (from above).
View of the parking lot in front of the Volga Automobile Plant (VAZ).
The process of assembling cars at VAZ, new Zhiguli cars coming off the conveyor.
Transportation of cars by rail.
People on a city street.
View of the Volga from the city embankment.
Sailing yachts on the Volga.
Evening Volga landscapes.
A herd of horses at night.
Young herders by the fire.
View of part of a pine forest.
An elderly craftsman carves a wooden spoon, a girl watches him.
Finished unpainted spoons in a basket.
A woman paints wooden items.
Examples of Gorodets blind wood carving.
Flowers in the Volga meadows.
Girls paint wooden trays.
Jewelers of the village of Krasnoye at work.
Examples of products of modern Krasnoye filigree.
View of one of the Volga locks, a ship inside the lock.
The motor ship "Ilyich" is sailing along the lower reaches of the Volga.
View of part of the Astrakhan Kremlin.
Swans on the water, view of one of the city streets.
Casting a net from a fishing vessel.
The face of one of the fishermen.
Fishermen near the shore are choosing a net.
Caught fish in the net.
The process of packing sturgeon caviar into jars.
Moose calves on a farm in a nature reserve.
A girl takes care of the moose calves.
A farm warrior feeds a moose calf from a bucket.
Moose calves in the forest.
River landscape in the Volga delta.
Lotuses in the water, a blossoming lotus flower.
A seagull flies over sedge.
Gamekeepers inspect the territory of the nature reserve in the Volga delta.
Falcons take off from a tree branch.
A man on the bank of the Volga leads a horse by the bridle.
A barge is sailing, a woman is walking along the pier.
Children are playing in the coastal meadow, a panorama of the meadow.
A flock of migratory birds is flying by.
1975
Tolyatti Astrakhan region
Summer