Soviet Tatarstan. Episode 4 (1969)

Text of a letter from a Red Army soldier in Tatar to his parents (voiceover).

Winter rural landscapes of Tatarstan.

The face of an elderly woman, the mother of a soldier killed at the front.

Children standing, leaning on a fence.

A star above an obelisk.

A photograph of people listening to the announcement of the beginning of the war on the street on June 22, 1941. Newsreel: seeing off Red Army soldiers in the first days of the Great Patriotic War at the train station in Kazan.

The train departs, a brass band plays on the platform.

Red Army soldiers and their families wave goodbye.

A banner with a slogan on the wall of a passing carriage.

Burning haystacks in a field (panorama).

Refugees walking into the distance along the road.

Residents of one of the villages near the bodies of relatives killed by the German occupiers.

The faces of German soldiers walking along the road.

Hitler's Minister for Eastern Affairs Rosenberg A. gives an interview while sitting at a table in his office.

Wehrmacht units on the march.

Burning houses.

An artillery unit of the Red Army during the retreat.

Crossing a river.

Wheels of a train.

Arrival of equipment and workers from evacuated industrial enterprises in the Tatar ASSR (alternating with fragments of a feature film).

Kazan resident A. Masautova talks about the arrival of evacuees from the western regions in Kazan (synchronously).

One of the streets of Kazan during the war.

Text of the minutes of the joint plenum of the Tatar regional committee and the Kazan city committee of the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) from November 1941. Newsreel: production of ammunition in workshops of industrial enterprises of the Tatar ASSR. Elderly workers and teenagers at their machines.

Photographs of members of the Komsomol-youth front brigades of Shagidullina and Mukhamadeeva.

Texts of newspaper articles with calls for organizing assistance to the Red Army.

Newsreel: Yegorov, a student at Kazan School No. 15, at his desk.

Text of Yegorov’s application to contribute savings from his piggy bank to the Defense Fund.

Silverware donated by residents of Tatarstan to the Defense Fund.

Women knit warm clothes for the Red Army soldiers and spin wool.

Collection of warm clothes for the Red Army.

Photograph of delegates from the Tatar agricultural cooperative handing over to the Red Army airplanes built with funds collected by collective farmers.

Photograph of the reception of a tank column built with funds from workers of the Tatar ASSR. Text of a telegram of thanks signed by I.V. Stalin.

Newsreel: exercises of one of the military units formed on the territory of the Tatar ASSR in the winter of 1941. Photograph of Marshal of the Soviet Union R. Ya.

Newsreel: a Soviet bomber in flight.

Street fighting in Stalingrad in the autumn and winter of 1942, photograph by Hero of the Soviet Union, Kazan resident V. Grigoriev.

A sniper in position in the ruins of a house in Stalingrad.

A machine-gun crew in a firing position on the balcony of a residential building.

Photograph of Lieutenant General G. Safiullin.

Photograph of German generals captured during the Battle of Stalingrad.

Newsreel: a battle on one of the streets of Stalingrad.

Assembly of combat aircraft in a workshop of the Kazan Aircraft Plant.

View of the assembly shop.

Women at their machines.

Artillery ammunition in a finished goods warehouse.

Newsreel from 1941-1944: shoemaker Nabiullina at work processing felt boots for the Red Army.

Sewing uniforms at one of the sewing factories of the Tatar ASSR. Transfer of warm uniforms made at the Kazan Fur Factory to representatives of the Red Army.

Production processes in the workshops of textile factories.

Weaver of the Kazan Flax Mill N. Lavrentyeva at work.

Women manually harvest wheat at the "Hectares of Defense".

Stacking tied sheaves into stacks.

A girl combine operator at the controls.

Combine reel.

Threshed grain pours out of the combine sleeve into the bunker.

Donation of bread to the Defense Fund.

Text of a letter to Tatar front-line soldiers, published in the Pravda newspaper on March 5, 1943, fragments of the text.

Artillery fires at the enemy.

Tanks go on the attack.

Infantry rising from a trench to attack.

Soviet aviation in action.

Portraits of Tatar heroes of the Great Patriotic War.

Portrait of Musa Jalil.

Photograph of a fence of a German concentration camp.

Photographs of signs to settlements where the Tatar SS Legion was formed, which went over to the side of the Belarusian partisans.

Portraits of underground activists in the Tatar Legion.

Photograph of a guillotine in a cell of Plötzensee prison, where Musa Jalil was executed.

Manuscripts of prison poems by Musa Jalil.

Photograph of the prison building.

Interview with writer Mirsay Amir about Tatar literature of the 1940s (synchronously).

Newsreel from 1943: panorama of a mourning meeting during the funeral of one of the heroes of the liberation of Belarus.

Lieutenant General Chanyshev Ya. delivers a speech over the coffin of his comrade-in-arms, an honor guard at the coffin.

Sending a coffin by truck to the deceased’s homeland.

A drilling rig in operation at one of the first oil reservoirs in Tatarstan.

Interview with geologist S.P. Yegorov (synchronously).

Production processes at enterprises in Tatarstan in 1944-1945. Certificate of awarding the Order of Lenin in 1944 to the Kazan Fur Factory.

Chemists the Arbuzovs conduct experiments in the laboratory.

Professor G.Kh.

Kamay conducts another study.

Interview with Kamay about his work during the war (synchronously).

Soviet artillerymen fire at Berlin in April 1945. Street fighting in Berlin.

A photograph of one of the walls of the Reichstag with autographs of Soviet soldiers.

Fragments of one of the monuments to the defenders of Stalingrad.

The name of artilleryman Fattakhutdinov on the pedestal of the monument.

General Chanyshev with officers at the Victory Column in Berlin in 1945.

A photograph of girls on a street in Kazan on May 9, 1945. Newsreel: a Tatar dance and folklore ensemble performs on one of the city squares during the celebration of the Victory over Nazi Germany, faces of applauding spectators.

Lieutenant General G. Safiullin speaks to the residents of Kazan.

Safiullin is presented with a bouquet of flowers.

Panoramas and views of the banks of the Volga.

Passengers disembark the ship, a soldier returning home walks along the gangway.

A soldier, leaning on a stick, walks through a wheat field.

A soldier enters a village.

The text of the minutes of a meeting of one of the collective farms about assistance to the Oryol region liberated from the Nazis in 1943. Panorama of part of the territory of the Frunze collective farm.

The chairman of the collective farm Gazizov walks along the equipment storage area.

Gazizov's interview about the meeting in 1943 and the life of the collective farm after the war (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Former collective farm chairman, pensioner Zakirov harnesses a horse to a cart.

Faces of elderly women in national Tatar headscarves.

Newsreel: views of houses and factory workshops destroyed by the German occupiers.

Library staff rescue books from under the rubble.

Panorama of a part of Kazan in the 1950-1960s.

View of the new Leninsky residential area of Kazan.

Panorama of the new buildings of the Kazan Compressor Plant in the early 1950s.

Sign above the factory gates.

Production processes in the plant workshops.

Production process in one of the workshops of the Kazan Instrument-Making Plant.

Assembly of watches at the Chistopol Watch Plant.

Transportation of drilling rigs to one of the oil fields in Tatarstan.

Drillers at work.

The process of drilling oil wells.

View of one of the streets of Kazan in the 1950s.

Composer N.G. Zhiganov at the piano.

Sculptor Akhun S. at work in his studio.

Writer Kavi Nadjmi working on a new novel.

Monument to Musa Jalil in Kazan.

Publication of works and portrait of Musa Jalil.

Text of one of Jalil's poems from the "Moabit Notebook" cycle.

Articles about Musa Jalil published in newspapers.

Building of Moscow State University.

Participants of the decade of literature and art of Soviet Tatarstan drive in an open car through Moscow.

Delegates of Tatarstan during an excursion to the Moscow Kremlin and Moscow.

Performance of the Tatar Folk Ensemble on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater, faces of the audience.