Comrade Stalins Task Is Completed

The film tells about the construction of a single-track railway tunnel on the Trans-Siberian Railway near Amur. Part 1 Types of Cupid. River flotilla ships on the river. Khabarovsk. View of one of the streets of the city. People on the waterfront. Transport movement. Construction work near the Eastern portal of the tunnel. A train with trolleys loaded with soil leaves the tunnel. The seconded specialists of Metrostroy are walking through the tunnel. Head of construction Nikolay Alexandrovich Ermolaev, deputy for technical part Valerian Stepanovich Volkov, deputy for commercial and financial part Alexei Leontyevich Eremchuk at a construction site. Red Army soldiers of the 7th brigade of the special corps of the railway troops are working in the tunnel. Tunnel tunneling work. Loading soil into trolleys. "Failure" of the first shields in the tunnel. Meeting of two teams of tunnellers. Secretary of the Khabarovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU (b) G.A. Borkov among the workers. The tunnellers of the two teams pose for the cameraman. The engineer takes measurements at the point of "failure". Installation of cast-iron tubing in the tunnel. Compressor station equipment. Workers from the Shchupov brigade go to work in the compressed air zone at the shield number 5, work on the site in the aquiferous sands. Powerful pumping units for pumping water in operation. Lifting a trolley with soil in an elevator. The movement of trolleys on narrow-gauge railways on the site near the tunnel. Section for automated unloading of trolleys. In the tunnel there is a banner with the inscription: "HAPPY THE INSPIRER OF ALL OUR VICTORIES, THE GREAT STALIN!" "Failure" of shields at site No. 5. Meeting of tunnellers of two brigades; among them is the only female drifter Ivashkina. Instrumental verification of the accuracy of the "cross-linking" under the guidance of the chief surveyor of the construction engineer M.S. Cheremisin. The builders are beating off the last cubic meters of soil from the tunnel of the 3rd "cross-linking" of the shields. Brigadiers Astanin and Khilov are the first to go through the "crash". Head of construction N.A. Ermolaev, secretary of the Primorsky regional committee of the CPSU (b) N.M. Pegov, deputy chiefs of construction Butkin and A.L. Eremchuk in the tunnel. A meeting of a team of workers and engineering and construction workers on the occasion of the last "failure"; N.M. Pegov. Construction managers inspect ventilation equipment before handing over to the government commission. Part 2 Meeting of the government commission chaired by Academician Boris Evgenievich Vedeneev during the acceptance of the tunnel. Head of construction N.A. Ermolaev makes a report on the work carried out. Among those present there was A.L. Eremchuk. A solemn meeting on the occasion of the completion of the work of the government commission and the beginning of the operation of the tunnel under the Amur; the rally was opened by the deputy chief for political affairs, Butkin. Speakers: head of construction N.A. Ermolaev, chairman of the Khabarovsk regional executive committee Vladimir Mikhailovich Istomin. Stalin at the Eastern portal of the tunnel. Above the entrance to the tunnel there is a banner with the inscription: “THERE ARE NO FORTRESSES THAT THE BOLSHEVIKS COULD NOT TAKE. I. STALIN ”Portraits of members of the Politburo V.M. Molotov, L.M. Kaganovich, I.V. Stalin on the portal above the entrance to the tunnel. Secretary of the Khabarovsk Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks Gennady Andreevich Borkov congratulates the head of construction N.A. Ermolaev and academician B.E. Vedeneeva, cuts the tape. G.A. Borkov, academician B.E. Vedeneev, the military are standing, giving a military salute. Standard bearers. A brass band is playing. People climb into the carriage of the first test train; among them G.A. Borkov. The train enters the tunnel, passing by the protesters. On the locomotive train is a portrait of I.V. Stalin. Train travel through the tunnel. Steam locomotive "Sergo Ordzhonikidze" leaves the tunnel

B&W

468,9

V. Mirny

1942