At the Origins of Soviet Culture

The film tells about the first steps of the cultural construction of our country. The city of Leningrad. State Hermitage. Paintings, sculptures. Excursion. Moscow city. Tretyakov Gallery, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Museum exhibits. Lenin's decrees on the nationalization of museums, on the centralization of librarianship and the film industry. Museum-apartment of V.I. Lenin in the Kremlin. Library in the city of Tartu (Estonia). Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. The city of Anadyr. National ABC book. Writer Yu Rytkheu gives interviews (synchronously). Children in class at school, the Palace of Pioneers. TV studio. Uzbekistan. Tashkent city. Theater named after Alisher Navoi. Ballet rehearsal. T. Khanum gives interviews (synchronously). Interview with the rector of Tashkent University T. A. Sarymsakov (synchronously). University students in the classroom. Moscow city. Joint plenum of creative unions dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the USSR. Speakers: G. Markov, L. Kulidzhanov; among those present - T.F. Makarova. Solemn meeting dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the formation of the USSR. Yu. V. Andropov speaking. Fragment of S. Eisenstein's film "October" (storming of the Winter Palace). Chronicle footage: MI Kalinin speaks; the agitator distributes newspapers, the people read the newspapers; agitation steamer "Krasnaya Zvezda" at the pier, NK Krupskaya on a steamer, speaking at a meeting; newspapers are being unloaded from the propaganda train; the premises of the club, men play chess, spectators in the hall, a scene from the play; V. I. Lenin at the opening of the monument to K. Marx and F. Engels on November 7, 1918; Lenin at the laying of a monument to K. Marx on May 1, 1920; M. Gorky speaks at the I Congress of Soviet Writers in 1934.

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Text by G. Shergov, announcer Y. Kayurov