City of Wonders

June 16, 1969 Preparatory work for the opening of the Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy: the grass is cut, the sidewalks and flowers are watered. Fountains "Stone Flower", "Friendship of Peoples". Meeting dedicated to the opening of the exhibition. Nikita Khrushchev is speaking (synchronously). Chemistry Pavilion. Visitors at the nuclear reactor. Mechanical engineering pavilion. Map of the country's energy system, diamond deposits of Yakutia. Pavilion "Science". Layout of a hundred-ton converter, electric furnace, solar power plant. The main pavilion of the exhibition. Pictures "Taking of the Winter Palace", "All Power to the Soviets". Models of the Krasnoyarsk and Kremenchug HPPs. Meeting of power engineers. Speakers: the private trader of the 1st Lenin draft power engineers PI Voevodin, the Minister of Power Plant Construction Novikov. Motor-trains at the exhibition. Visitors in trailers, inspecting the TU-104 plane, boating, fishing, sitting in a summer cafe. Demonstration of animals: cows, sheep, pigs. Stand with bread, potatoes. Demonstration of agricultural machinery. Mechanization pavilion. Meeting of the brigades of communist labor of Moscow factories and plants on one of the days of the exhibition. Coal harvester in the Soviet pavilion at the Brussels exhibition. Blast furnace, medical diagnostic device. Electronic computers. Visitors to the circular panorama cinema. Screen. The projectionist is loading the film. Demonstration of the film. Chemical Industry Pavilion. Exhibits. Demonstration of fiberglass and polystyrene products. Construction pavilion. Visitors examine apartments, kitchens. US Vice President Nixon at the exhibition. Space Pavilion.

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Script N. Shpikovsky, music producer N. Geviksman, speaker L. Khmara, sound engineer V. Georgievskaya, artist I. Nizhnik, assistant director M. Naroushvili