And It Was Like This

The film tells about the construction of a basin in Biysk, Altai Territory, which completes the construction of the sports complex "Zarya". Customers and [builders] are conferring at the unfinished building of the pool, among those who have arrived is the director of the Altai Scientific Research Institute of Chemical Technologies Yakov Fedorovich Savchenko. Chief Power Engineer of the Altai Scientific Research Institute of Chemical Technologies (ANIIKhT) A.I. Tepin says (sync. And behind the scenes) that the construction of the sports complex has been going on since 1973, and constantly it is necessary to solve complex problems of power supply, installation of automation and engineering networks. But construction is underway. Brigadier Vasily Yegorovich Strelnikov supervises the laying of the cable to the construction site. The power grid is being installed by power engineer Mikhail Kapitonovich Rudny. Members of the construction headquarters, Komsomol members E. Zimin and A. Kalinin talk (sync. And behind the scenes) about how the decision was made to declare the construction of the shock Komsomol youth. Local youth are being helped by the fighters of the student construction brigade of the Leningrad Technological Institute. Students lay out floor tiles. On the floor in the lobby of the pool there is a NDP made of tiles: "LTI SSO". Engineer V.P. Timofeeva in a poetic form tells (sync. And behind the scenes) about the shock work of the Komsomol at construction. During the construction of the pool, Komsomol members remove garbage, unload bricks and stack them on pallets; carry bags of [cement] and building structures; laying insulation in the floor; pick up [asphalt] in buckets; dismantle scaffolding. Builders paint pipes in a heating unit; clean the walls of the tank before laying the tiles, lay the tiles with a pattern on the floor. Welders are installing decorative grilles. The opening of the pool is attended by managers and employees of the Altai Scientific Research Institute of Chemical Technologies (ANIIHT), representatives of the city administration, builders of the Zarya sports complex, among others: Ya.F. Savchenko, Minister of Mechanical Engineering of the USSR Hero of Socialist Labor Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Bakhirev, director of the sports complex A.M. Neverov and many others. Dr. Minister V.V. Bakhirev says (sinhr. And off-screen) that those who built such a beautiful complex have excellent artistic taste and are seriously concerned about the future of young people. Ya.F. Savchenko awards those who distinguished themselves during construction. In the halls of the sports complex, a weightlifter raises a barbell, [Republican competitions of the Zenit sports society in gymnastics for the prize of cosmonaut V.N. Volkov]. Gymnasts do exercises on the uneven bars, perform a vault, perform floor exercises on the "carpet". Among the spectators on the podium are the director of the Biysk chemical plant, candidate of technical sciences Anatoly Vyacheslavovich Karpov, Hero of Socialist Labor Ya.F. Savchenko and twice Hero of the Soviet Union, cosmonaut Vitaly Ivanovich Sevastyanov. The winners of the competition on the podium, the wife of the cosmonaut V.N. Volkova Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Volkova presents prizes and diplomas. At the opening ceremony of the pool, a girl in a Russian sundress and kokoshnik brings out scissors on a tray. Ya.F. Savchenko cuts the ribbon. At the same time, the chief designer of SKB ANIIHT and the chairman of the board of the sports club "Zarya" A.A. Nerchenko, chairman of the trade union committee of ANIIHT N.N. Nazarov, director of the sports complex "Zarya" A.M. Neverov, Chairman of the Biysk City Executive Committee Yu.G. Kapralov, First Deputy Chairman of the Altai Regional Executive Committee V.T. Khristenko and many others. etc. Young athletes are applauding. Swimmers of different ages start. A boy dives into the water from a [ten-meter] tower. Athletes swim breaststroke and butterfly. In the children's pool, the guys are engaged with a trainer, others are watching them. NOTE: RGAKFD lacks the 1st part of the film.

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