Soviet-Arab friendship will grow stronger (1981)

Performance of a Soviet ensemble on the seashore in the Arab Republic; Arabs watch and applaud.

The Euphrates Dam.

Soviet tourists inspect the Euphrates Hydroelectric Power Station.

Moscow (Kremlin area).

Gagarin Square.

High-rise building.

Employees of the Hydroproject Institute are developing plans for technical assistance to the liberated countries.

The chief engineer of the institute, N.A. Malyshev, examines the project with the employees of the institute; the project.

Newsreel: N.A. Malyshev and a group of scientists are designing dams for Egypt and Syria. N.A. Malyshev speaks.

Newsreel: Construction of the Aswan Dam in Egypt with the help of the USSR; bulldozers and an excavator are working. G.A. Nasser at the construction; the people rejoice. G.A. Nasser throws the first stone.

Damming of the Aswan River; Egyptians are smiling.

Construction of the dam (N.A. Malyshev’s voice is heard off-screen).

Construction of the Tartar-Euphrates irrigation canal in Iraq with the help of the USSR; Bulldozers and an excavator are working; a worker in the excavator cabin.

Canal construction.

A flare of burning gas, oil fields of the Arab Republic.

Oil rig, workers.

A drilling rig is working.

Faces of the workers.

An oil refinery.

The exterior of a metallurgical plant; rolled metal production in a plant workshop; a worker at the control panel.

Soviet specialists in the Syrian port of Latakia are talking with Syrian specialists about expanding the port.

A diver jumps into the sea.

Ships in the port.

Cranes are working; a crane with a load is moving.

A bell.

Cadets from the PDR Yemen during classes at the Higher Maritime Engineering School in Odessa.

Laboratory of the Moscow Civil Engineering Institute; among the students in the lab are Arab boys and girls.

Operating room of the Moscow Medical Institute; an operation is in progress.

Rector of the Institute, Academician Yu.M. Lopukhin, speaking; students of the Institute at a lecture; Among the students are Arab boys and girls (voice of Yu. M. Lopukhin off-screen).

Monument of ancient Syrian culture – ancient Palmyra; ruins.

The city of Petra, carved into the rocks; tourists examine the cultural monument.

Ancient capital of Georgia – Mtskheta.

Bells.

Tourists examine the cathedral; icons.

Tbilisi.

Squares of Tbilisi; report on the streets of the city.

Girl working at a weaving mill; workshop of a weaving mill; Arab guests in the workshop of the mill; the girl gives them flowers.

Friendship meeting of workers of a weaving mill with Arab guests; poster about Soviet-Arab friendship; guest from the Arab Republic speaking; workers applauding; the OAR ensemble performing for the workers; workers applauding.

Streets of Amman with traffic and pedestrians.

A sign with the inscription "Lada" on the building of the representative office.

A Jordanian driving a Lada.

Meeting of Soviet citizens with Jordanians at the Jordanian-Soviet Friendship Society, talking, looking at photographs.

Building of the Jordanian Senate.

Meeting of Soviet citizens with the Chairman of the Senate of Jordan Bahjat at-Talkhuni.

Bahjat at-Talkhuni speaking (about his visit to the USSR in 1969).

City of Tashkent; fountain.

Report on the streets of Tashkent; traffic passing, pedestrians walking; a female police officer regulating traffic on a city street; city street.

New building of the hotel.

Participants of the Tashkent Islamic Conference leaving the hotel.

Participants of the Islamic Conference in the hall.

Chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Central Asia and Kazakhstan Mufti Ziyautdinhan ibn Ishan Babakhan opens the conference.

Participants of the conference listen.

Representatives of Muslims from different countries of the world speak.

Guests visit the Miri-Arab madrasah (a school for training ministers of religion) in Bukhara; students greet guests.

The Supreme Sharia Judge of Jordan, Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Qattan, speaks; students listen.

Young men copy the Koran (the sheikh's voice-over).

Muslims pray.

A muedin reads a prayer.

The Supreme Mufti of the Yemen Arab Republic, Ahmed Muhammad Zabarra, speaks.

A fountain (Ahmed Muhammad's voice-over).

Conference participants read ancient Arabic manuscripts kept in the USSR. Paintings in the hall of the Tretyakov Gallery; paintings about life in the Arab East; visitors examine the paintings, Polenov's "View of Mount Hermon".

Newsreel from the 1960s: Mount Hermon; Israeli tanks drive by; planes drop bombs; explosions; cars with soldiers drive by; dead civilians lie; destroyed houses; Soldiers run through the smoke.

The destroyed Syrian city of Quneitra.

A border guard looks through binoculars.

The Golan Heights.

Brest Fortress.

A monument to Soviet soldiers; a man lays flowers at the monument.

Khatyn Bell.

The Eternal Flame and a monument on the square of Minsk.

Residents of Minsk lay flowers at the monument.

Khatyn.

A group of veterans talk; graves.

A child walks among the killed Arabs.

A newspaper with a statement of protest of the Soviet government against Israeli aggression; newspapers are turned over.

A rally at one of the factories against Israeli aggression; posters calling for an "end to aggression"; a worker speaks; they listen, the stern faces of the workers; the rally participants applaud.

The city of Damascus; a street in Damascus; a cage with birds, pedestrians on a city street.

Newsreel: an Israeli plane in the sky, buildings are burning.

A demonstration against Israeli aggression on a city street; Police disperse demonstrators; a young man is led away; residents watch a plane fly by; a shot down Israeli plane falls; a dead person is carried out of a building; the wounded are in the hospital.

Newsreel: the destroyed building of the Soviet Cultural Center; a wrecked car.

Photographs in an album; photographs of Syrian Muhammad Amin and Soviet teacher A.P. Kalinicheva, who died under the rubble of the Soviet Cultural Center.

Street of Damascus, building of the rebuilt Soviet Cultural Center.

A group of Syrians during a Russian language lesson in the language lab of the cultural center; teacher.

Poetry evening at the cultural center; working poet and locomotive driver Barakat Latif reads his poems; Syrian boys and girls listen; collections of the poet's poems.

Street of Damascus (shot from a car window).

Barakat Latif drives a car (poet's poems are heard off-screen).

Damascus square.

Report on the streets of Damascus.

City of Damascus.

Newsreel: UN building, flags in the foreground.

UN emblem.

Meeting of representatives of different countries in the UN (on the Israeli issue); film reporters are filming.

Members of the UN Security Council vote (condemned the proclamation of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel; only the US representative abstained from the vote).

Jerusalem; praying soldiers with machine guns on a city street.

The Israeli flag over the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River.

A bridge.

Israeli soldiers at the bridge.

A bus with Palestinian refugees passes over the bridge.

A street of a poor neighborhood in one of the countries that has sheltered refugees; women and children on the street; a man at work on a city street (hammering nails).

Newsreel: a building in a Palestinian refugee camp is burning; Palestinians are running, ruins, a destroyed building; a dead child; a woman is crying; boys near a shell fragment; a man talks about the atrocities of the Israeli aggressors.

Palestinian children are dancing - a girl with a Palestinian flag and a boy with a rifle; young men with machine guns are dancing; young men and women are walking and singing.

Chairman of the Presidium of the Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries Z. M. Kruglova receives Palestinian guests headed by the Chairman of the Palestinian-Soviet Friendship Society Mahmoud Abbas, who have arrived for the Days of Soviet-Palestinian Friendship; they greet each other, sit down at the table, and discuss a plan for expanding cooperation between the Soviet and Palestinian public.

A rally of solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people in the House of Friendship; the presidium and the audience applaud; Soviet and Palestinian speakers speak; the audience and the presidium stand up, applaud, and chant.

Muscovites at an exhibition of Palestinian artists and poster artists examine the exhibits; a painting; they play the piano, girls sing the song "Let There Always Be Sunshine".

Palestinian children are given toys and dolls.

Red Square.

Newsreel: L. I. Brezhnev meeting with Y. Arafat in the Kremlin; a cameraman films.

Guests from the Syrian Arab Republic at a reception hosted by L.I. Brezhnev; sitting at a table, chatting; photojournalists taking pictures.

Signing of the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation between the USSR and the Syrian Arab Republic; exchanging folders.

Moscow (Kremlin area).

Members of a Soviet ensemble and Arab youth dancing on the seashore in the Arab Republic.

Spectators and members of the ensemble watching and applauding.