The people's chosen one (1970)

Cosmonaut A.G. Nikolaev at his desk.

Nikolaev's face.

Nikolaev writes on a piece of paper.

Summer rural landscapes of Chuvashia.

Views of the village of Shorshely, Nikolaev's birthplace.

A girl washes clothes in a stream.

Women with yokes leave, having collected water from the stream.

A teenager gives a horse water from the stream.

Children fishing on the river bank.

The apple tree planted by Nikolaev in the school garden, a panorama of a part of the apple orchard.

The house where Nikolaev was born.

The lights come on in the windows of the house.

Nikolaev's mother on a bench by the fence.

Nikolaev next to his mother at the presidium of the reporting meeting of fellow villagers.

Faces of the meeting participants.

The face of Nikolaev applauding, Nikolaev thanks a schoolgirl for the bouquet she gave him.

One of the meeting participants takes photos.

Nikolaev speaks from the rostrum in front of his fellow villagers with a report on his activities as a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR. Faces of the meeting participants.

One of Nikolaev's fellow villagers hands him a note from the hall.

Panorama of the meeting.

Chairman of the collective farm V. Zaitsev talks with Nikolaev about the affairs and needs of the collective farm.

Ears of wheat sway in the wind.

Trees in the protective forest belt.

A herd of collective farm cows goes to pasture.

Haymaking on the collective farm, a teenager at the wheel of a tractor.

Combine harvesters at harvest.

A combine operator at the wheel.

Threshed grain pours out of the combine sleeve into the back of a truck.

Faces of machine operators.

View of the collective farm.

Compaction of the territory in front of the new farm building with a roller.

Buildings of the new club and school on the territory of the collective farm.

View of the outskirts of Cheboksary.

Views of new residential areas and buildings in Novocheboksarsk.

View of the new chemical plant.

Panorama of the construction of the dam of the future hydroelectric power station and the future reservoir on the Volga.

Construction of the port.

Panorama and views of new buildings in Cheboksary.

Nikolaev talks with the chairman of the city council executive committee, representatives of the party and soviet leadership of the Chuvash ASSR, Nikolaev's face.

Nikolaev's meeting with students of the Mariinsko-Posad Forestry Technical School.

View of the technical school assembly hall during Nikolaev's meeting with students.

Nikolaev speaks from the rostrum.

Students' faces.

Production process in the steelmaking shop of the Cheboksary Tractor and Repair Plant.

Faces of girls assembling electrical measuring instruments.

The process of assembling instruments.

View of the electrical appliance assembly shop.

Production processes at the Cheboksary Textile Mill.

Panorama of one of the mill's shops.

Cargo and passenger ships on the Volga near Cheboksary.

People on the embankment (top).

People swimming in the Volga and relaxing on the beach, sailing.

Vacationers on the beach (panorama).

Entrance to the building of the Chuvash State University.

Sign in front of the entrance.

Nikolaev, during a meeting with students and teachers of the university, leaves the podium, takes notes from the audience, reads them, begins to answer questions, returning to the podium.

Faces of students applauding the cosmonaut.

Nikolaev talks to university teachers, faces of Nikolaev and his interlocutors.

People on the streets of Cheboksary.

Passengers get into a taxi.

Newlyweds leave the registry office.

Monument to V.I. Chapaev in Cheboksary.

Views of Cheboksary, monument to V.I. Lenin on one of the squares.

Panorama of one of the industrial enterprises of Cheboksary.

Panoramas and views of city blocks, streets and squares.

Monument to Chapaev in Cheboksary.

Painting by the Cheboksary artist Ovchinnikov depicting I.N. Ovchinnikov talks about working on the painting.

View of the painting.

Monument to the poet Ivanov in Cheboksary (above).

Singer M. Denisov at home preparing for a performance, sitting at the piano.

View of the theater building.

Nikolaev during a meeting with figures of Chuvash literature and art.

Faces of participants in the viewing of a TV show with Nikolaev.

Residents of one of the villages are watching a TV show, Nikolaev on the TV screen.

Faces of TV viewers.

Nikolaev's speech on TV with a deputy report (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Faces of fellow villagers and relatives of Nikolaev while watching a TV show with his participation.

Teenagers from the village of Shorshely are riding horseback from the river, swimming.

Collective farmers are mowing.

A holiday in the village of Shorshely, people are dancing to the accordion around the fire in the evening, the face of the accordionist.

Nikolaev is working at the table with letters from voters, writing the address on the envelope, Nikolaev's face.