For a noble cause (1979)

Landscape.

The Amur River - general view from the top.

A Chinese ship is sailing along the river, people are standing on the deck - medium, medium.

Chinese military exercises.

A Chinese man is shooting.

A tank explodes - various.

Explosions.

Destroyed houses in Vietnam - various.

Protest rally in the USSR against Chinese aggression in Vietnam.

Poster "Shame on the Beijing aggressors!" Speaker at the podium.

Listeners in the hall - general, medium.

Photo: Conference in Helsinki, presidium.

All-China Assembly - medium.

Moscow, the Kremlin, the CMEA building, the embankment of the Moskva River, Kalininsky Prospekt.

Panorama of the House of Friendship building - general, medium.

The House of Friendship building - medium.

III All-Union Conference of the Soviet-Chinese Friendship Society in the House of Friendship.

Conference hall.

Presidium of the conference.

Listeners - medium, medium.

The First Deputy Chairman of the Central Board of the Society, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Comrade S. L. Tikhvinsky is speaking - kr.

Listeners.

Employees of the Chinese Embassy are listening - Wed, kr.

Film director S. A. Gerasimov is opening a photo exhibition (cutting the ribbon) - general.

Visitors are looking at the photo exhibition, Chinese guests are watching.

Photo exposition dedicated to Sino-Soviet friendship - general, Wed, kr.

Photograph of Sun Yat-sen.

Visitors are watching - kr, kr.

Newsreel from 1960: Listeners in the hall of the Sports Palace, they applaud and stand up - general. L. I. Brezhnev is speaking at a rally of Soviet-Chinese friendship in Moscow (synchronously) - kr.

Listeners - general.

Applauding - general.

The Chinese are applauding - kr.

Meeting the Chinese delegation at ZIL. Soviet workers greet the Chinese guests - Wed.

Stadium in Beijing.

Chinese people welcome the Soviet delegation - general, cf.

Chinese women embrace a Soviet female weaver.

Soviet female weavers at a Chinese weaving factory - general, cf.

Soviet delegation on the street of Beijing - general.

Chinese children applaud - general, cr.

Chinese outrages near the building of the Soviet embassy in Beijing - general, cf., cr.

Soviet schoolchildren study Chinese.

On the board there is an inscription in Chinese and Russian: "Liu Hu-lan Chinese Language Circle".

Portrait of partisan Liu Hu-lan - cr.

Schoolgirl at the board.

Sign "Secondary School No. 2 named after V.I. Lenin" - cr.

Books.

Double exposure - portrait of Vil. "Iskra" newspaper.

Book by V.I. Lenin - cr.

Newsreel 1917-1922: V.I. Lenin speaking.

Lenin.

Conference - general, cf.

October Revolution in 1917 in Petrograd.

Capture of the Winter Palace.

Session of the Congress of the RSDLP - general.

Monument to V.I. Lenin near Smolny in Leningrad - general.

Izvestia newspaper - kr.

Newsreel: Protest demonstration in China - general, cf. A.I. Cherepanov's book "Notes of a military adviser in China" - kr. A.I. Cherepanov tells students about China (synchronously) - kr. b/w. photo: Young Cherepanov in military uniform.

Newsreel: Sun Yat-sen, the great Chinese revolutionary democrat - kr.

Students looking at photographs - kr.

Girl listening - kr.

Young man listening - kr. b/w. photo: V.K. Blucher.

Orders.

Newsreel: A group of Soviet and Chinese soldiers - kr, general.

Chinese buglers.

A line of Chinese soldiers - kr.

Photo: 1924. A rally on Red Square (in connection with the death of V.I. Lenin).

Newsreel: A rally in China.

Sun Yat-sen speaks at a rally in connection with the death of V.I. Lenin - various.

Photo: V.I. Lenin.

Newsreel: Sun Yat-sen - kr.

Chinese women embroider a portrait of V.I. Lenin.

An embroidered portrait of Lenin - various.

Photos.

A rally in China - kr, wed.

Explosion.

Newsreel: Japanese militarism has unleashed a war against China.

Soldiers run past.

They fire from a cannon, from a ship.

The city is burning - kr.

The Japanese march through the streets of the city.

A banner on the battlefield - general.

Photo: A protest rally in the USSR - kr.

Books on the desk - red.

Reserve Lieutenant General A. Ya.

Kalyagin gives an interview (synchronously).

Photo of the young A. Ya.

Kalyagin - red.

Photo.

Soviet military specialists in China - medium.

A. Ya.

Kalyagin speaking (synchronously) - short b/w photo: Military equipment - short newsreel: Chinese people near carts.

Chinese soldiers at a gun.

Soldiers firing guns - general, medium, short a flag fluttering on a tower.

The tower is being blown up - general, medium Destruction.

Protest demonstration in China - various Rally – speakers and listeners - general, medium The Soviet Army’s offensive against the Kwantung Army of the Japanese invaders: soldiers running, firing, loading guns.

Explosions - general, medium Soviet soldiers are greeted in a square in China.

The Chinese greet Soviet soldiers - various Photo: The Chinese rock Soviet soldiers - short Veterans of the Soviet-Chinese friendship – their portraits, photographs - short Photo: In China, a monument to fallen Soviet soldiers - kr.

The Chinese flag flutters - kr.

Newsreel from different years: Landscapes of China - general.

Chinese peasants working in the field - general, wed, kr.

The Chinese delegation inspects an MTS in the Soviet Union - general, wed.

A Soviet worker trains a Chinese worker - kr, kr.

Chinese delegates examine ears of wheat in a field, examine beets - kr.

Delegates visiting a Soviet collective farm - kr.

A Soviet combine harvester works in a field in China - general, wed, kr.

A train with Soviet equipment - general.

Soviet and Chinese specialists are building a bridge in China - general, wed.

Bridge builder, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Lenin Prize Laureate Silin in the laboratory - wed, kr.

Photo.

Silin at the construction of a bridge (among Soviet and Chinese specialists).

Bridge over the Yangtze River - Wed, kr.

Train passing over the bridge - general.

Soviet and Chinese specialists at the construction site of the Changchun Automobile Plant - general., kr.

Soviet and Chinese workers at the ZIL plant in Moscow.

Assembling cars - Wed, kr.

Chinese workers and specialists undergo practical training at the Gas Processing Plant, at the Soviet Metallurgical Plant - Wed, kr.

Turbine Plant workshop - general.

Chinese worker among female workers at a cable plant - Wed, kr.

Chinese specialist speaking - kr.

Chinese specialist talking with Soviet female workers.

Chinese and Soviet specialists taking pictures - various.

Wuhan Iron and Steel Works - general.

Pouring metal.

Chinese workers thanking a Soviet specialist for his help - various.

Assembling the first Chinese car.

Chinese celebration on the occasion of the first car rolling off the assembly line - general., Wed, kr.

Deputy Head of the ZIL Tool Shop P.I. Khristoforov talks to a worker - kr. P.I. Khristoforov gives an interview (synchronously) - cf.

ZIL Tool Shop - general, cf.

Chinese people visit the Soviet exhibition in Beijing in 1954 - general, cf.

The Chinese are examining the exposition of the exhibition - kr.

Moscow, the building of Moscow State University.

Soviet and Chinese students in the laboratories and in the auditorium - general, kr.

A Chinese cellist and a Chinese pianist (synchronously) perform in the hall of the conservatory.

The winner of the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, pianist Liu Shikun, is playing - various.

Applauding.

Liu Shikun bows - cf., kr.

Soviet ballerina Galina Ulanova is driving along the streets of Beijing - kr.

A street of Beijing - general.

Photo: Master of the Chinese stage Mei Lanfang, G. Ulanova and others.

Mei Lanfang - kr.

Fragment from Gliere's ballet "The Red Poppy" featuring G.S. Ulanova (synchronous) - general.

People on the Shanghai pier greet a Soviet ship that has come here on a friendly visit.

Soviet sailors receive Chinese sailors on board the ship - general, cf.

Chinese women dance on the ship.

Soviet sailors applaud the speakers - general, cf.

Newsreel from 1950-1959: People's Artist of the USSR Boris Efimov speaks (synchronous) - cf.

Moscow - House of Friendship - general.

Chinese guests are among those listening in the hall - cf.

A pianist and a violinist are on stage (synchronous) - cf.

The Museum of Fine Arts is showing an exhibition of fine and applied art of China.

Exhibits.

Visitors are examining the exhibits - general, cf.

Deputy Chairman of the Central Board of the Soviet-Chinese Friendship Society, Secretary of the USSR Writers' Union, Editor-in-Chief of the Foreign Literature magazine Fedorenko hosts an evening in memory of the Chinese writer.

Fedorenko speaks (synchronously) Listeners - general, medium, short An exhibition of Chinese books in Moscow.

Visitors, a stand of classical Chinese poetry - medium, short A hall of the library of foreign literature.

Girls are looking at books and drawings.

A young man is listening to a tape recorder - medium, short A Chinese language textbook.

A teacher is giving a Chinese language lesson.

A girl is answering (synchronously in Chinese) - short B/W photo 1979: The first session of the All-China People's Congress of Representatives of the fifth convocation in China.

Speakers are speaking - short A statement by the Soviet government in the Pravda newspaper - short Moscow. L.I. Brezhnev is speaking in the Kremlin at the 25th Congress of the CPSU - medium Listeners in the hall - different.

Newspaper page - kr.

Moscow.

Kremlin - general, kr.