Friendship with the peoples of Africa (1979)

Moscow.

The Kremlin, Gorky Street, the CMEA building, the MFA building, the Bolshoi Theatre, Kalinin Avenue – general, Poland (removed from motion).

Africans talking to Soviet people – general, medium, medium, Poland.

Africans at VDNKh, in the Cosmos pavilion.

Exhibits of the pavilion – general, medium, medium.

An African delegation visiting the Lenin Komsomol Automobile Plant.

A plant workshop, an assembly line, a worker in the car cabin.

Africans talking to workers – general, medium.

The Friendship House building – general.

Black and white photo: foreign guests at the Friendship House.

A foreign guest shakes hands with Yu. A. Gagarin – general, medium, medium.

The Soviet Association of Friendship with the Peoples of Africa is working in the Friendship House – general, Poland.

The President of the Association, Director of the Institute of Africa, Professor Anatoly Andreevich Gromyko, speaks at the anniversary meeting (synchronously) – Wed.

Listeners – Wed, kr.

The inscription "20th Anniversary of the Soviet Association of Friendship with the Peoples of Africa" - Wed.

The poet from Senegal, Jean François Brière, speaks (synchronously in French) – kr.

Moscow, the Kremlin – general. (shot from above), Poland.

On Red Square, people are walking to Lenin's Mausoleum – general.

Guests from Africa are entering the Mausoleum of V. I. Lenin – various.

The city of Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar.

A report on the city, Lenin Street – general.

Africans at stands telling about the USSR – Wed.

Classes for bank employees.

Listeners, lecturer – Wed, kr.

Africans are looking at Soviet books on the stands in a bookstore.

Books by Engels, Lenin – general, medium, small.

Mauritius, Port Louis – travel by road – general.

The Soviet delegation lays flowers at the monument to Lenin – general, medium, small.

Moscow – workshop of the Soviet sculptor Grigory Toidze.

African students from Mauritius talk to the sculptor.

Sculptural portrait of Lenin, author – G. Toidze.

Toidze is painting a portrait of one of the students at an easel – various.

Exhibition of works by the Association activists – Mirel Shaginyan and Max Birshtsin, created on the basis of a trip to African countries.

Paintings, spectators – medium, small.

African woman with a child, girl’s face, girl in national headdress – medium.

Warriors – medium.

African man in national headdress – medium.

Faces of girls and women – medium.

Work in the field – general.

An African picks fruit, fishermen pull their nets – cf.

Sierra Leone – city streets, schoolgirls are walking – general.

Children – cf.

The other day, the ensemble "Desnyanka" performs in Soviet Ukraine.

The president of Sierra Leone, Siaka Stevens, is present at the celebration.

Siaka Stevens greets the Soviet delegation.

The artists are dancing.

Spectators.

Applauding – general, cf.

Driving along the road – general.

African village – general. (from the movement).

Villagers walking – general.

The tribal chief greets the Soviet delegation – general, cr.

The villagers introduce the guests to the customs and original craftsmanship of their artisans: a loom, a ritual dance, a ritual costume – general, cr.

Soviet guests communicating with Africans – Poland, cf.

Madagascar, the city of Antananarivo – a city street – general.

University building – general.

Lyudmila Alekseyevna Kartasheva, the leading expert on the Malagasy language in the USSR, is walking with a group of students – general, cr., Poland.

The students' faces – cr.

The Soviet delegation at a textile factory – general, cr.

Transporting bales of cotton, Poland, cf.

Guests at a livestock farm – general.

Ritual dance – general.

Africans and Soviet guests dancing – various.

The ocean, the Elmina fortress on the shore – Poland, general, Wed.

Fortress guns – general.

The capital of Ghana – the city of Accra, the Cape Coast fort.

The palace – general.

The center of the slave trade.

An African warrior looks through binoculars.

Warriors training – Poland.

Shooting lessons – general.

A warrior shooting – categorical.

Women learning to shoot – general, Wed.

A woman shooting, a target – categorical.

Warriors marching against the backdrop of the setting sun – general.

The city of Addis Ababa – a demonstration on Revolution Square – general, Wed.

Horsemen, infantry marching, the leaders of the Ethiopian government are present at the celebration – general.

Girls with rifles marching, military personnel marching – general.

Soviet tractors in a field, Soviet specialists and Africans near a tractor – general, Wed, Poland.

Hospital building – Poland, opening of a hospital built with the assistance of the Soviet Union – general.

Soviet doctor at an instrument – Poland; face of doctor, patient – cr.

Operating room, operation in progress – Poland, general.

Tema fishing port.

Fishermen walking along the pier, among them Soviet captain Kovalev, establishing fishing industry in Ghana – general, Poland, Wed.

Work in the port – general, Wed.

Soviet specialists and Africans – Poland, cr, Wed.

Soviet and African specialists at a house-building plant in Ghana – Wed, cr, Poland.

Black and white photo.

Soviet cars.

Soviet specialist teaching Africans – general.

Soviet specialist and Africans at an industrial installation – Wed.

African at a microscope – cr.

Soviet teacher Yuri Vladimirovich Sabinin teaching a Russian language course – various.

Member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Andrei Pavlovich Kirilenko leads a delegation to the People's Republic of Angola.

The Angolans welcome the delegation – general, cf.

The Soviet delegation to Socialist Ethiopia is headed by member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Alexei Nikolaevich Kosygin – general, cf.

The Kremlin, Moscow.

The Kremlin Palace of Congresses – general.

On the tribune – L. I. Brezhnev.

Listeners.

Applauding – general, cf.

Africans with Russian books – general, cf.

A simultaneous chess session is conducted by master of sports, Soviet chess player Vladimir Peresypkin – general, cf.

Africa.

Travel by car – Wed.

Society for Friendship with the USSR, listeners – Wed; Soviet representative speaking, African speaking – kr; applauding – Poland, general.

Soviet Cultural Center – general.

Advertising stand: exhibition of Soviet books – general.

A woman looking at books – Poland, kr.

Meeting of the Ghana-USSR Society.

Presidium of the meeting.

Soviet representative presents gifts.

Applauding, speakers – various.

Meeting of activists of the Ethiopian-Soviet Friendship Committee, presentation of a gift, Poland on the applauding – general.

Moscow – general.

Meeting at the Institute for Africa of the USSR Academy of Sciences – general.

Listeners, Soviet scientists, employees of the institute, Soviet representative speaking – Wed.

Peoples' Friendship University in Moscow – general.

Students passing by – various.

University vestibule, classroom – general.

Classes in the classroom – Wed.

Medical students in the operating room – general, medium, kr.

Students in class in the lab – general, medium, kr.

Students playing football – general, medium.

At the university A meeting dedicated to African Liberation Day, listeners, speakers – various.

A student from India, Anjas Gubta, speaking (simultaneously in Russian) – kr.

Celebrating May Day on Red Square.

African students walking – general, medium, kr.

Demonstrators carrying a portrait of L. I. Brezhnev – general.

Demonstration on Red Square – general, medium.