The film tells about various aspects of life in the Mari ASSR and the republic’s achievements on the 20th anniversary of the October Revolution.




Panorama of a field after harvesting.
Harvesting grain with horse-drawn reapers in one of the collective farms of the Mari ASSR. Tying sheaves.
Sheaves stacked in stacks.
Transportation of sheaves to the threshing machine by horse-drawn transport.
Collective farmers working on a grain threshing floor, panorama of the grain threshing floor, the threshing process.
Collective farmers throw sheaves into the threshing machine.
Loading sacks of grain onto carts.
Pupils of the junior group of one of the kindergartens on a walk in the countryside.
Children and teachers returning from a walk, view of part of the wooden building of the kindergarten, a slogan on the wall.
Children having lunch in the fresh air.
A herd of collective farm cows on a pasture.
Cows chew grass.
Milkmaids go to milk the cows in the field.
The process of manual milking, milkmaids at work.
Pouring freshly milked milk into cans, the accountant records the amount of milking from each cow.
Panorama of a collective farm apiary.
A beekeeper extracts honeycombs from a hive.
Extracting honey from honeycombs.
A tractor plowing.
A tractor driver is driving a tractor, a foreman is sitting next to him.
The ploughshares turn over layers of earth.
Measuring the depth of a furrow.
The heads of the collective farm examine the measuring ruler, evaluate the results of the measurements.
Machine operators in the field near the combine do industrial gymnastics.
Ears of ripe wheat.
A team of mechanics carries out preventive work in the field to service the mechanisms of the tractor.
Harvesting with a trailed combine.
The trailer-combine operator is at the controls.
The combine reel rotates.
The threshed grain pours out of the combine sleeve.
A cart with grain moves next to the combine with churns.
Straw falls out of the bunker of the threshing combine on the move.
A trailed combine during harvesting.
Harvesting with a tractor mower.
Women tie sheaves.
Collective farmers in the field during a break dancing to the accordion, faces of collective farmers playing Mari folk instruments.
Extraction of logs delivered by timber rafting from the water.
Timber rafters at work.
Transportation of logs from the water using a special chain conveyor.
Types of conveyor parts.
Rolling logs off the conveyor.
Mechanized stacking of logs in piles.
View of the haulage tower.
Operation of mechanized equipment of a coastal woodworking enterprise.
Types of wooden buildings of the enterprise.
Delivery of logs inside the workshop using a chain conveyor.
The production process of processing timber.
Interior view of one of the workshops of the woodworking enterprise.
Workers stack slabs sawn from logs.
Mechanized stacking of boards in piles.
Forest landscape.
Panorama of part of the village of Marbumstroy (from above).
Two-story wooden residential buildings of the village.
Children playing by the flowerbed.
View of the building of the new school.
Panorama of a part of the Mari Sulfate Pulp and Paper Mill.
Views of the mill buildings under construction.
A team of masons laying bricks.
View of a part of the mill construction site (top).
Reinforcers at work.
Panorama of one of the mill buildings.
Mari embroidery masters at work, panorama of the workroom.
Faces of the craftswomen.
Samples of embroidered patterns.
Women's dresses decorated with Mari national embroidery, worn by mannequins.
Girls jumping into the water from a wooden tower.
Panorama of a part of the water station territory (top), people riding boats.
A boy launches a model airplane.
The model in flight.
Spectators watch the model fly, faces of the pioneers.
Preparing the model airplane for takeoff.
Girls reading a magazine.
Children on a walk in the park.
Toddlers ride pedal cars and bicycles.
A young photographer with a camera.
Performance of a children's amateur string orchestra, children dancing on the lawn to the accompaniment of the orchestra.
View of the sanatorium building - the former castle of Count Sheremetev on the bank of the Volga.
Vacationers at the entrance to the sanatorium.
View of part of the territory in front of the sanatorium building.
Views of the territories adjacent to the sanatorium, vacationers during a walk.
Panorama of the pond bank.
People go to relax on the bank of the Volga.
A steamboat sailing along the Volga.
People rowing boats.
Swimming in the Volga.
Young people relax on the beach.
People walk along the paths of the park, relax, lying in hammocks.
People on the bank of the pond.
An elderly man and a girl read books, sitting on a bench.
Playing cricket.
1937
Republic of Mari El
Summer Autumn