Leningrad chronicles № 32 (1975)

Newsreel №97279, 1 part, duration: 0:10:07
Production: LSDF
Director:A. Pavlov

Annotation:

Special issue: "Frontiers of the Non-Chernozem region" About land reclamation in the Leningrad region, state farms "Pashsky", "Minsk", pipelayers, sappers, excavators, drained parts of the swamp. Workshop of meliorators.

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A bird's-eye view of Leningrad.

Livestock complexes in the Leningrad region.

Harvesting hay for silage.

The dairy farm control panel.

Automated feeding of feed to cows.

Clearing a field for agricultural use.

A tractor driver working in such a field.

Fields where complex land reclamation is carried out.

Equipment for reclamation.

A mobile mechanized column carrying out land reclamation work.

Preparing tractors for work, refueling.

Pipes for reclamation.

The work is being carried out on the Sinyavinsky marshes.

Monuments to soldiers who died in the Great Patriotic War.

Sappers mine the fields from the shells of the last war.

Topographers at work.

The master of the drainage site T.N. Chistyakova works with a level.

Pipelayer R.A. Khodonovich lays the tubes.

A trench with drainage tubes prepared for laying.

Trench excavator.

The excavator digs deep ditches.

P.P. Kozyrev, leads a team working on a team contract.

Meliorators plan areas, lime acidified areas, apply organic and mineral fertilizers.

Sowing of agricultural crops on the plots prepared by land reclamation.

Discussion of field reclamation works.

Regional seminar of meliorators.

Its participants exchange experience in carrying out reclamation works by a flow-integrated method.

The participants of the seminar on the field observe the reclamation works.

A trench excavator digs a trench, workers lay pipes.

Excavator A.I. Voronov prepares a moat to drain water from the field.

Production leaders discuss their achievements.

The house where the Voronov family lives.

The Voronov family has dinner after work.

Voronov's wife works as a forester in the Michurinsky forestry, her son is a schoolboy.

The Voronov family is going to work.

Husband in a car, wife on a motorcycle.

The newspaper "Pravda" with the resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU.

Political information before work.

Portraits of meliorators.

Meliorators are building a polder reclamation system with mechanical water intake.

Dams, drainage channels that protect new fields from spring and autumn floods.

A pumping station that pumps excess groundwater to a nearby reservoir during the rainy season.

Irrigation systems in the Leningrad region.

1 PMK specializes in such facilities.

Dam on the Kuzminki river.

Nizhne-kuzminskoe reservoir.

Irrigation plant.

A herd of cows in a pasture.

A field with sunflower.

Harvesting by combine harvesters.

Northern Research Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Land Reclamation.

The engineer behind the kulman.

Scientists are discussing new developments.

Drawing of a new reclamation machine.

An experimental sample.

Workers of experimental mechanical workshops.

The milling machine is being tested.

With this machine, drainage pipes can be laid in winter.

Stone harvesting machine.

A unit for clearing the land from shrubs and small woodlands.

Institute of Lenhiprovodkhoz.

Employees of the Institute carry out topographic work.

The head of the Lenmelioration association Yu.N. Artyukhin tells.

Unloading of drainage pipes.

Collecting large stones.

The village of meliorators.

Key words

Land reclamation.
Drainage tubes.
Mine clearance.
Irrigation systems.

Personnel:

T.N. Chistyakova, master uchastka. R.A. Hodonovich, truboukladchica. P.P. Kozirev, brigadir. A.I. Voronov, ekskavatorschik. Yu.N. Artyuhin, nachaljnik objedineniya Lenmelioracii.

Locations: Leningrad [848] Leningrad region [785]

Objects:

Sinyavinsky marshes. 1 PMK. Northern Research Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Land Reclamation. Institute of Lenhiprovodkhoz.

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