Soviet Tatarstan - Episode 3 (1970)

Photo portrait of the Tatar poet Padi Taktash.

Newsreel: workers at excavation work during construction during the First Five-Year Plan.

Construction of an industrial enterprise, transportation of building materials.

View of an oil pipeline under construction.

Young workers stand in line to receive Komsomol vouchers for construction.

Presentation of vouchers.

Faces of workers.

Procession of Komsomol members leaving for various construction sites in the early 1930s.

Banners with slogans on the doors of freight cars.

Komsomol members of Tatarstan board a carriage.

Komsomol members stand at the wooden handrail of the carriage.

Seeing them off on the platform, a brass band plays.

Komsomol members leaving for construction sites wave their hands from passing carriages.

A train receding into the distance.

Map of the USSR with directions and exit points from Tatarstan to the most important construction sites of the Five-Year Plan in 1931. Views and panoramas of industrial enterprises under construction, alternating with photographs of Tatar construction teams of the first five-year plan.

Photograph of the leading worker Mirsaid Arduanov.

Photograph of the monument to M. Arduanov on the territory of the Berezniki Chemical Plant.

A board with an inscription on the pedestal of the monument.

Newsreel: views of Kazan in the late 1920s - early 1930s.

A car is installed on the street.

Production processes at the Krasny Put machine-tool plant, workers at their machines.

Photographs of the construction of the Kazan State District Power Plant.

Photographs of a dormitory room for the builders of KazGRES, a mobile forge.

Photograph of the foreman of concrete workers L. Minullin.

Interview with L. Minullin about work at the construction site (synchronously, in Tatar, voice-over translation).

Photographs of the area before the start of construction of a new large industrial district of Kazan.

Photographs of construction Sundays of 1932 with the participation of Kazan residents.

Photographs of the construction of various industrial facilities in Kazan in the early 1930s.

Photographs by M.I. Kalinin and the first secretary of the Tatar regional committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) M. Razumov during a visit to Aviastroi.

Photographs of construction sites and industrial enterprises under construction on the outskirts of Kazan.

Panorama of one of the new districts of Kazan (newsreel from the 1930s).

Photograph of the Lenin Bridge, built to the Kazan Kremlin.

Photographs of members of construction teams and the forge of the Kazan aircraft plant.

Photographs of workers of the Leninsky district of Kazan at the May Day demonstration in 1932. Newsreel from 1929: workers sent to work in the village to organize collective farms, leaving the station building.

Passengers boarding the carriages.

Those seeing them off waving their hands, seeing off the "twenty-five thousanders".

View of the front of the locomotive.

Rallies held in villages during collectivization.

Faces of arguing peasants and arriving activists.

Funeral of the village correspondent Yusupov, killed by kulaks, in the Mamadysh district.

Faces of women speaking at a rally.

Tatar kulaks in the dock.

View of the courtroom, everyone stands.

Defendants during the reading of the verdict.

Peasants write and submit applications for admission to a collective farm.

Faces of peasants.

Renting out personal livestock for public use.

Collective farmers carry out spring sowing.

A banner with a slogan.

A speaker speaks at a collective farm rally on the occasion of the arrival of tractors to the collective farm.

Faces of collective farmers.

A banner with a slogan at a collective farm rally.

Faces of collective farmers (panorama).

A tractor making the first furrow.

A tractor breaks a wooden plough.

Interview with a veteran of the collective farm movement about the delivery of the first tractor to the collective farm (synchronously, in Tatar, voice-over translation).

Poster dedicated to education.

Newsreel: residents of Kazan relax in parks and squares in the late 1930s.

Children enter a school building.

Passers-by and public transport on the streets of Kazan.

Building of Kazan State University.

Buildings of newly opened higher education institutions of Kazan.

Students of one of the workers' faculties during another lesson, the teacher explains the subject.

Faces of students.

A student and a teacher at the blackboard.

A student conducts a scientific experiment.

Students in the reading room of the library.

Views of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station during its launch in 1932. Ordzhonikidze G.K. at a ceremonial rally on the occasion of the launch of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station.

View of part of the rally.

The face of the speaker.

Streams of water on the dam.

Views of industrial enterprises built during the First Five-Year Plan alternate with newspaper reports of construction records and posters.

Stakhanovite A. Medmedzyanov and his comrades at work processing fur pelts.

Transportation of processed pelts.

Production processes in the workshops of industrial enterprises, faces of male and female workers.

The face of Stakhanovite stamper Jamal Mulyukova of the Vakhitov Plant.

Stamping bars of soap.

Issue of a newspaper with a portrait of Mulyukova in the printing house.

Mulyukova's face.

Packaged bars of toilet soap called "Shock Worker Jamal" with a portrait of Mulyukova.

Mulyukova with a bar of soap in her hand.

Views of the Column Hall of the House of Unions during the session of the 1st Congress of Soviet Writers in August 1934 in Moscow, A.M. Gorky speaking from the rostrum.

Photograph of Tatar writers, delegates to the congress with A.M. Gorky and A.N. Tolstoy.

Covers of publications of works by Tatar writers and poets of the 1930s.

Posters of performances and concerts based on the works of Tatar writers and composers.

A fragment of a performance by a Tatar theater.

Tatar writer and playwright K. Tinchurin at a rehearsal of a performance, a scene from the performance "The Blue Shawl" based on Tinchurin's play.

Poster of the performance.

Applauding spectators.

Fragments of a musical performance.

Applauding spectators.

Portrait of composer Salikh Saidashev.

People's Artist of the Tatar ASSR G. M. Kaibitskaya talks about Saidashev's work and recalls working with him (synchronously, in Tatar, voice-over translation).

Newsreel from the 1930s: a lesson at a children's music school.

Posters of performances of the Kazan State Opera and Ballet Theatre.

Agricultural posters from the 1930s.

Newsreel from the 1930s: members of the women's tractor brigade of the Aktamysh MTS prepare tractors to go out into the field.

Repair of agricultural equipment.

Tractors go out into the field.

Tractor worker plowing.

A female tractor driver behind the wheel of a tractor.

Plowing the land.

The women's tractor brigade of B. Azimova in the field near their machines.

Threshing grain on a grain threshing floor.

Tying sheaves.

The face of a collective farmer.

A girl places a sheaf in a stack.

Loading sacks of grain into a cart.

The best grain grower Valibabaev prepares for a trip along the "Circle of Honor" with a visit to nearby farms.

Fellow villagers see Valibabaev off.

Newspaper texts about Tatarstan's victory in the all-Union competition for high yields.

Photographs of delegates and sessions of the 1st All-Tatar Congress of Collective Farm Shock Workers in May 1933. Newsreel from 1940: presentation of awards in the Kremlin.

Kalinin M.I. presents awards to milkmaid Yusupova, professor Kurbangaleev, chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Tatar ASSR Dinmukhamedov G.A., secretary of the regional committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Mukhamedov, head of the government of the Tatar ASSR Gafiatullin S.Kh., tractor driver Aglyamov, People's Commissar of Light Industry of the TASSR Izmailova G.G. and tractor driver V. Mannanova.

Fellow villagers greet Mannanova.

Mannanova gets out of the car, hugs her family.

Mannanova gives a speech.

Presentation of a valuable gift to Mannanova during the rally.

Views of the rally and faces of its participants.

Interview with Mannanova (simultaneously, in Tatar, voice-over translation).

Industrial posters from the 1930s.

Newsreel: workers walk through the territory of one of the factories in the second half of the 1930s.

Street views of Kazan, automobile and public transport on the streets.

Faces of rally participants (panorama).

Panorama and views of the rally on Freedom Square in Kazan in connection with the adoption of the Constitution of the Tatar ASSR. A propaganda tram on the streets of Kazan during the elections to the highest authorities of the republic.

Election posters with portraits of candidates for deputies.

Holidays in various regions of the Tatar ASSR, performances by folklore ensembles.

Newspaper reports on events in Nazi Germany.

Posters dedicated to defense themes.

Newsreel from 1939-1940: Gilfan Batyrshin, a participant in the battles at Lake Hasan, gives a speech.

Anti-war demonstration in Kazan.

Cadets of flying clubs in airplane cockpits.

Takeoff of training airplanes.

Pilot getting out of the cockpit.

Performing a parachute jump.

Faces of children watching the airplanes.

Parachutists extinguish their canopies after landing.

Photographs of the first parachutist of the republic A. Mudrin, pilot S. Yarullina.

Photograph of K.E. Voroshilov with Voroshilov riflemen from Tatarstan.

Newsreel of 1940: parade of troops of the Kazan garrison on Freedom Square on November 7, horse artillery, cavalry, tanks at the parade.

Rifle units of the Red Army march across the square.

Printing of sheets of a tear-off calendar for 1941 in a printing house.

Children by the Christmas tree during the New Year celebration.

Performance of a children's dance group.

Faces of children in Tatar national costumes.

Applauding spectators.

A woman with a child speaks from the rostrum.

A mother with a baby in her arms.

Manufacturing tear-off calendars.

Transporting packs of calendars to the finished goods warehouse.

People buying books in a bookstore.

Books on the shelves of the store.