A path equal to centuries (1977)

Contemporary photography - Landscape.

Construction of a house.

Cars passing by.

Ore mining.

Harvesting.

Oil refinery.

Blast furnace.

Rolling mill.

The Kremlin (shot with a zoom in).

Flags (shot with a zoom in).

Newsreel of 1917 - Cruiser "Aurora".

Smolny.

Sailors passing by.

Soldiers at Smolny.

Decree on peace.

Decree on land.

Portrait of V.I. Lenin.

Pre-revolutionary chronicle: Village, peasants ploughing, sowing.

Peasants threshing grain, cutting straw, feeding a horse.

Village huts, peasant family.

Peasants leaving the village.

Factories.

Photo - Baku oil fields.

Pre-revolutionary chronicle: Oil production at the Baku oil fields.

Coal mining in the Donbass mines – miners enter a cage, work underground, a miner drags a cart with coal.

A weaver works.

Workers' dwellings, rooms – close-ups, medium shots.

Portrait of V.I. Lenin – close-up.

Newsreel 1917-1920: Foreign intervention against Russia – a tank drives by, German soldiers pass by, landing forces at sea, an American warship at sea.

Japanese interventionists in the Far East.

Close-ups of Admiral Yudenich and General Kornilov.

White Guards.

The Universal Military Training Parade on Red Square, an orchestra plays, V.I. Lenin at the parade.

A train with Red Army soldiers leaves for the front, cavalry gallops, soldiers run.

Solidarity rally in support of the young Soviet republic (abroad?).

Soldiers return from the front.

Footage of post-war devastation. 1920 – Eighth All-Russian Congress of Soviets. V.I. Lenin speaks.

Close-ups of listeners.

GOELRO plan. 1920-1923 – Construction of the Volkhov Hydroelectric Power Station: men push carts with earth, lay pipes. 1920-1930 – Liquidation of illiteracy: a man reads, a woman answers at the blackboard.

Educational programs in Central Asia. 1928-1931 – Collectivization: rally, a man speaks, peasants listen.

Peasants write applications to the collective farm.

The first Soviet tractors and combines in the collective farm fields. 1925-1930 – Film footage of the first five-year plans: construction of the Turksib, the first cars, opening of the Fergana Canal. A. Stakhanov works, people greet Stakhanov after his shift.

Newsreel of the Stakhanovite movement – steelworkers, weavers, beet growers, tractor drivers.

Close-ups of Soviet scientists – Tsiolkovsky, academician Pavlov, Michurin.

Close-ups of V. Mayakovsky, M. Gorky.

Newsreel of the 1930s – Construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, harvesting grain in the fields

Newsreel 1941-1945. German planes flying, explosions, dead children, a woman crying, a house burning, German soldiers running, a German soldier breaking a window of a house.

Soviet troops advancing - soldiers passing by, guns firing, planes flying, battle.

Residents of different European countries greeting the Soviet soldiers-liberators.

Close-up - Marshal G.K. Zhukov.

Storming of Berlin. 1945 - Victory Parade in Moscow. I.V. Stalin and other members of the government on the Mausoleum tribune.

Soldiers throw fascist banners at the foot of the Mausoleum.

Newsreel 1945-1950 - Restoration of industry and agriculture after the Great Patriotic War: construction of a blast furnace, welders working, harvesting grain, restored canal.

Newsreel footage of the USSR's development achievements over the years: Cartoon - "From the Volkhov Hydroelectric Power Station to the Krasnoyarsk Hydroelectric Power Station".

Panorama of the Krasnoyarsk Hydroelectric Power Station, turbines.

Power lines.

Blocking of the Yenisei - cars with posters drive by, stones fall.

Turbines.

People at the control panel.

Film footage of the first blast furnaces and modern blast furnaces - a workshop, steel is poured.

Coke production.

Steelmakers at work.

Rolling mill.

Cartoon - A miner in pre-revolutionary Russia.

Modern mines - people at the control panel, a miner talking on the phone, a coal combine working, coal pouring.

Cartoon - Oil fields of pre-revolutionary Russia.

Modern oil fields in Baku, Tatarstan, Siberia - general plans.

Oil field in Siberia (shot from a helicopter).

A helicopter flies by.

Oil production, oil workers, an oil rig.

Cartoon - The first Soviet tractors.

Production of modern tractors at the Kirov Tractor Plant.

Modern combines.

The Niva combine.

Cartoon - Threshing grain in a pre-revolutionary village.

Modern agriculture - harvesting grain (close-up, medium shots).

Lunch in a field camp.

Grain is poured (different shots), cars with grain.

Livestock complex.

Panorama of cows, milking cows, milkmaids, milking machine, milk pouring.

Sheep in a livestock complex.

Poultry farm, feeding birds.

Cotton harvesting (close-up, medium shots).

A woman puts the picked cotton into stacks.

Cotton field (shot without movement).

Irrigation canal.

Cartoon - An old village hut.

Panorama of modern houses in the village.

A woman at the stove, a woman feeding children.

A modern canteen, a new store.

A girl with a purchase, an old woman at the counter, children at the store window.

A helicopter flies over the gas pipeline (general, close-ups).

A welder at work.

An oil refinery, a panorama of the workshop.

Girls at work (shot with a zoom-in), a man at work (shot with a zoom-in).

Products of the refinery.

Equipment of the engineering plant.

Turbines, a worker at the turbine.

Equipment of the plant.

Production workshops.

KAMAZ buildings (shot with a zoom-out).

A KAMAZ truck.

A workshop of the Lenin Komsomol Automobile Plant (AZLK).

A panorama of the faces of the girls at work.

An automobile plant in Tolyatti.

Men at work.

The plant's conveyor.

A Lada car.

Trucks (BELAZs?) drive by.

Construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline – a tractor pulls out a stuck car, a tractor rakes soil, builders work, laying rails, the first train passes.

Construction of the nuclear-powered icebreaker "Sibir".

An airplane flies by, an airport.

Weaver Amosova at work, Amosova is given flowers.

Female tractor drivers, a female scientist, a panorama from a woman's face to awards, female deputies.

Health care for the population – a doctor at a device, an operating room, doctors looking at X-rays, a doctor examining a boy.

Rest of the Soviet people – a beach, a girl water skiing, a child running to the sea.

A woman with a child at a fountain, children splashing in the fountain.

Children swimming in the pool.

Children sliding down a "slide" on a playground.

A team of builders N. Zlobin is working on the construction of a house – a welder is working, a crane is moving a slab.

New residential area.

Bus stop.

A woman with a child is climbing the stairs.

General, medium, close-up – people walking down the street, a girl and a boy walking, people walking home from work.

Elektron plant building.

Television production.

Girls working.

Panorama across color TV screens.

Weavers working (passing through the weaving workshop).

Weaving loom, spools of thread spinning.

Female fashion designer at work.

Hand drawing a sketch.

Fashion show.

Girl trying on a dress in front of a mirror.

Girl at the counter with fabrics.

Panorama across the window of the Russian Flax store, people at the window.

Grocery store.

GUM building.

Man at the counter in a bookstore.

Books (close-up).

Visitors in the reading room of the library.

Panorama across the magazines "Theater".

Theater posters.

Schoolgirl rings the bell.

Children go to school.

Female students in the lab.

Teacher explains at the blackboard.

Students listen.

Teacher teaches a lesson at a vocational school.

Lab assistant in the lab.

Scientist at the device.

Baikonur Cosmodrome, launch pad.

Newsreel from 1961 – Y. Gagarin in a rocket.

Contemporary shooting – Moscow.

CMEA building.

Newsreel from 1973 – Meeting in Crimea within the framework of CMEA of the leaders of communist and workers' parties of socialist countries. L. Brezhnev speaking.

Close-ups of the heads of government of the socialist countries: J. Kadar, T. Zhivkov, G. Husak, E. Honecker, K. Ceausescu, E. Gierek, J. Tsedenbal.

Newsreel from 1975 – Helsinki.

Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. L. Brezhnev signs a document. L. Brezhnev greets British Prime Minister H. Wilson.

Reporters.

The document is signed by L. Brezhnev and Federal Chancellor of the FRG H. Schmidt.

Panorama of photojournalists and cameramen. L.I. Brezhnev and French President V. Gescard d'Estaing are talking.

Red Square (shot zooming out from the star). 1976 - Session of the 25th Congress of the CPSU. L.I. Brezhnev speaks from the congress rostrum (not synchronously).

Festive May Day demonstration on Red Square.

Government rostrum, L.I. Brezhnev on the Mausoleum rostrum, demonstrators pass by, carrying banners and flowers.

A steelmaker works, engineers talk.

Close-up - aircraft designer Yakovlev.

Close-ups of the faces of working and smiling people.