Pearl of the North (1946)

NDP-quote from M. I. Kalinin.

The threshold on the Pechora River.

Blocks of ice are carried away by a river stream.

The broad expanse of the river.

Pechora in a calm state of flow.

The banks of the river.

Pechory.

Map of the Autonomous Republic of Komi.

A biplane flies over the forests of the Pechora Basin.

View of the forest from the biplane cabin.

Forest extraction.

Felling the forest.

Women saw down a fallen tree.

Trucks take out logs.

The forest, bound in rafts, is floated on the river.

View of the floating forest in the river-taken from a biplane.

Workers and female workers direct the flow of logs of the floating forest with poles from the pier.

A worker at the control part of the machine for bundling logs into rafts.

The work of the machine for bundling logs into rafts.

Geological exploration of coal on the banks of the river.

Vorkuta.

Geologists work with shovels, hoes, hammers.

The geologist takes notes.

Newsreel of 1929:

Two-wheeled coal carts pass along a platform made of logs.

Panorama of the river.

Vorkuta, on the shore of which the village of Vorkuta is located: boats on the river, a rider walks in the water along the shore, houses and other buildings on the shore.

View of modern Vorkuta-from above.

Mining enterprises, houses, the "Capital" mine.

Two miners are talking.

Head of the Belokopytsky mine.

The miners enter the elevator and go down into the mine.

Miner Vladimir Fomenko works in the face of an electric drill.

CU. pl. - vrubovy drill crushes coal.

Miner Vasily Bondarchuk in the mine at the wheel of a vrubovoi car.

Miners work with shovels and hoes near the conveyor belt.

Coal falls on the conveyor.

Coal is poured into trolleys.

Trolleys go through the mine.

Elevator of the mine.

Loading coal into the train cars.

Classes at the Mining Technical School of Vorkuta: address plan, students in the classroom for lectures.

Courses for miners.

A class with miners, a teacher.

Panorama from the chandelier of the meeting hall to the presidium of the meeting of the Komsomol drummers.

The auditorium.

Stakhanovites of mines.

Presentation of the Red Banner.

The reading room of the House of Party Enlightenment.

Librarian, readers take newspapers, read.

On the stage of the Music and Drama Theater of Vorkuta, Charles Lecoq's operetta "Madame Arnault's Daughter"is performed.

A man and a woman are sitting on a bench in front of the house.

Children play nearby.

A child holds a cat wrapped in a handkerchief.

Children walk around the fountain.

Factory chimneys smoke against the background of the city.

Power station.

Construction of new mines.

Panorama of the mines of the Vorkutugol plant.

Meeting of the Vorkutugol plant under the leadership of General Mikhail Mitrofanovich Maltsev.

Maltsev M. M. next to the map points to objects.

Map showing coking coal deposits in the area of the village of Halmer-Yu.

Reindeer sleds pass through the village street.

Pedestrians.

Long one-story houses.

A small locomotive rides on rails, with snowdrifts rising on its sides.

Three reindeer sleds are riding in the snow.

Go road cars and all-terrain vehicles.

Construction of a railway in the permafrost region.

Laying sleepers, workers carry rails.

They carry sleepers.

Camp, chum.

Children next to a deer.

A deer with a fawn.

A herd of deer.

The biplane flies over the forest.

Ukhta River.

CU. pl. - plate "Well drilled for oil in 1872 by Mikhail Konstantinovich Sidorov...".

The skeleton of a wooden oil well.

Newsreel 1929: Master Ivan Ilyich Kosolapkin drills the first oil well in the taiga.

An oil rig.

Kosolapkin next to the pit.

Oil flows.

Kosolapkin I. I. directs the work on the tower.

Panorama of oil rigs in the taiga.

Close-ups of mechanisms for oil production.

Ukhta city-top view.

People on the square at the stall, walking around the city.

House of Culture (wooden).

Monument to Pushkin on the square.

Cars pass through the streets.

The first oil production mine in the USSR.

"Oil" pond.

There are platforms and other buildings around it.

Oil workers enter the building.

An in-shaft drilling machine is working.

Komsomol brigade of Dmitry Antonik at work.

Oilman-chief engineer of the mine-Yevgeny Yakovlevich Yudin goes through the mine, examines it.

Hands of oil workers feeling the oil.

Drops of oil slide down the wall.

Workshop with compressors for distilling water for the mine.

Water flows through a channel in the mine, moving chunks of oil.

Chief mechanic of the mine Vladimir Nikiforovich Mishakov at work.

The crankshaft (crankshaft) rotates.

The surface of the" pond " with oil.

Oil pipeline pipes.

Oil tanks.

A railway train with oil wagons is standing on the tracks.

The oil is poured by means of a pump into the tank.

An oil refinery.

Molten mass of oil waste.

A factory employee at work on the street.

Molten paint-bitumen.

A factory employee breaks a piece of bitumen.

Bitumen-CU. pl.

Mountains of bitumen.

Methane gas fountain.

Panorama from the tower to the gas jet on the background of the sky.

An employee of the tower holds on to the meter, his colleagues turn the tap of the gas pipeline pipe.

Gas pipeline pipes in the taiga.

Ukhta.

Soot plant.

Pancake one-story buildings stand close to each other.

Methane flames.

Employees of the plant collect industrial soot in bags.

His hands were black with soot.

An employee holds a bag, soot is poured into it, in the background an employee is surrounded by packed bags of industrial soot.

Loading soot bags on a truck.

A truck drives past the camera.

Light oil oil well.

People run away from the tower before it is launched.

People are waiting for the launch.

Among them: Chief geologist of Ukhtizhemstroi Andrey Yakovlevich Krems, Lieutenant General Semyon Nikolaevich Burdakov, Chief Engineer Konstantinov, General Zakharov.

Oil spurts out of the pipe.

Oil workers shake hands, congratulate each other.

Pumping drilling master Alexander Kuzmich Goldobin.

There are cars with tank cars, railway trains with oil and coal, trucks with timber.

LS. pl. - on the railway bridge over the river goes the railway train.

A barge passes under the bridge.