Oil wells - on stream (1980)

An alternation of frames with advertisements on the streets of Western cities.

Closed gasoline pumps at German gas stations.

A caricature in Soviet newspapers on the topic of oil production in Arab countries and the energy crisis.

Wall Street in the USA. A parking lot and cyclists passing by.

People in the West are towing a car that has run out of gas.

A trolleybus is driving along a city street in the USSR. An oil refinery in the Soviet outback.

Oil storage tanks.

A billboard with a diagram of the DRUZHBA oil pipeline.

Oil pumps.

A chronicle of 1943. The first oil gusher in Tatarstan.

Close-up of the faces of oil workers.

An article in a newspaper about an oil field in Tatarstan.

A sign on the first well in Tatarstan.

Winter, oil workers are drilling wells.

A chronicle of 1952. Mugallim Gimazov's team, using turbine drilling, drilled a well in 38 days.

With a commercial speed of 1,374 m per rig per month.

Chronicle of 1954. Mikhail Beloglazov's team reaches the milestone of 5,000 m per rig per month.

Chronicle of 1964. Nikolai Dratsky's team 6,646 m per rig per month.

A note in the Pravda newspaper.

Chronicle of 1965. Nikolai Dratsky's team sets an all-Union drilling speed record.

The growth of oil production in Tatarstan is shown against the background of an oil field.

The clock on the Kremlin Tower.

Chronicle of 1976. XXV Congress of the CPSU. Roads in Tatarstan.

The team of drilling foreman D.M. Nurutdinov of the Almetyevsk Drilling Directorate. D.M. Nurutdinov narrates.

The team at work on the drilling rig is shown.

A collage of frames showing the team developing the well.

Production meeting in the Drilling Directorate.

Team meeting.

The drill is lowered into the well.

Drilling an inclined well.

The story is told by the team member Nurutdinova Sh.

Shaikhutdinov.

Shots of Sh.

Shaikhutdinov at work.

The team works the full cycle of well construction.