Channel

A film about the problems of flooding (water supply) of the arid lands of the Stavropol Territory and the Kalmyk Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Kalmykia), and the problems of building the Volga-Chograi canal. Chronicle footage: clouds, wind and dust storm in the steppe, a herd of sheep is running across the steppe, cracked earth. Volga-Chograi canal project. Canal construction. A rally of opponents of the channel. Articles in newspapers demanding the termination of construction. Abandoned area of the canal construction. Video filming. Meeting of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. NI Ryzhkov speaking. Landscapes of the Stavropol Territory. G. Stavropol. Collective farm market. Chronicle footage: 1948. Opening of the Nevinnomyssk Canal. Canal watering and irrigation systems. Rural settlements. Fields. Fruit orchards. Vineyards. Pravo-Yegorlyk Canal. Chronicle: 1960s. Construction and opening of the Great Stavropol Canal. Big Stavropol Canal. Water intake unit. Pumping station. The city of Neftekumsk. Sculpture "Asia". The audience in the park. Chronicle: dust storm in the Nogai steppes. Irrigation of fields with sprinklers on the collective farm "Path to Communism". Pelleted feed plant. Shearing. The city of Budenovsk. Drainage pipe plant. State farm "Krasny Manych". Maize harvesting. Pig farm. Harvesting vegetables. Volga river. The movement of the ship "Raketa". Sturgeon fishing. Combines and tractors in the fields of the Stavropol Territory. Supporters and opponents of construction give interviews (synchronously).

Color

6

1990