Contemporary Number 5

The plot of the newsreel tells about the opening of the Kuibyshev Metro. The grand opening of the Kuibyshev Metro on December 25, 1987. Presentation of a symbolic key to the head of the metro, Igor Ivanovich Karnaukh. The first secretary of the Kuibyshev regional committee of the CPSU Yevgeny Fedorovich Muravyov cuts the ribbon. Participants in the opening ceremony of the metro, metro builders and the first passengers on the platform of the Pobeda station, waiting for the first train. Boarding the train carriages. The movement of the train through the tunnel. General view of the stations of the Kuibyshev metro: "Yungorodok", "Kirovskaya", "Bezymyanka", "Pobeda". The train pulls up to the platform. Those present applaud the approaching train. Chronicle of the construction of the metro (1981-1987): General view of the pits at the construction site of metro stations. Technique work. Drivers at work in tunnels. Docking of the running tunnel between Pobeda and Bezymyanka stations. Presentation of flowers to the foreman of drifters Sultangareev. Installation of an escalator at one of the stations. The first subway train was dispatched on November 6, 1987 to check equipment and test tracks and rolling stock. The train arrives at the platform, passengers get out of the cars, enter the cars. Scheme of the Kuibyshev Metro. Passengers go down and go up the escalator.

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