Aswan Is the Hope of Egypt

The film tells about the problems of irrigation of Egyptian lands, about the beginning of construction of the Aswan Dam in the United Arab Republic on the banks of the Nile River and about participation in the construction of the Soviet Union. Pyramids. Temple. Sphinx. Desert. Fellah the poor man gets water, scoops up with a bucket, drives a buffalo. Cairo city. Irrigation Institute. President GA Nasser, Minister Hassan Zaki are considering the model of the dam. The Nile River. Nubian mountains. Nikita Khrushchev signs an agreement, greets GA Nasser. Construction of the Aswan Dam. Among the builders were Soviet specialists: Professor I. V. Kamzin, engineer G. A. Radchenko. A freight train with equipment from the USSR is passing by. Construction of the Aswan Dam. Hero of Socialist Labor VM Klementyev teaches an Arab worker. Aswan city. Streets. Temple of Abu Simbel. Pharaoh sculpture. Tourists at the construction site. N. Fedosov is working. Professor I. V. Komzin, Hasan Zaki at construction.

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Sound V. Nesterov