Contemporary Number 29

The movie "Contemporary No. 29" tells about the events in Samara on May 25-26, 1991. Samara city, 1991. Motor ships "Lenin", "Valerian Kuibyshev" sail along the Volga River. Passengers climb the ladder of the ship. Workers dismantle the Kuibyshev sign on the river port building, replacing it with the Samara sign in connection with the renaming of the city. View of a watering machine on one of the streets of the city. People are sunbathing on the beach. A solemn procession on the Day of Slavic Literature and Culture on Kuibyshev Square. Customers queuing up for goods at the fair. View of the Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on Frunze Street, built in 1902, designed by the Moscow architect F.O. Bogdanovich-Dvorzhetsky in the neo-gothic style. The building has a cruciform shape. The facade is decorated with two 47-meter pointed towers. Spectators watch the parachutist soaring in the air.

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Editor B. Kozhin, sound engineer V. Shubin, announcer V. Tumanov