From Our Grandfathers and Great-Grandfathers

The film, based on the material of a tourist trip to the People's Republic of Bulgaria of a group of working Kuibyshev enterprises, tells about the traditional fraternal ties of the city of Kuibyshev and the Bulgarian city of Stara Zagora. The film uses historical documents about the Samara flag, which is now a sacred relic of the Bulgarian people, their liberation war of 1877-1878. 1 part Bulgaria. Meadow flowers. Apple trees in bloom. The bus travels along a mountain road. Tourists on the bus. Waterfall. Sheep by the water. Thracian excavations. Monument to Haji Dimitar. Monument to partisans-fighters against fascism. Monuments to Soviet soldiers who died during the liberation of Bulgaria in World War II. Bulgaria, Sofia. General view of the city. Alabin street. Temple of Alexander Nevsky. Russian tourists in the museum near the Samara banner. Bulgaria, Staraya Zagora. General view of the city. Park named after Lenin. Buildings on one of the streets. Meeting Russian tourists near the bus. Girls hug, talk, exchange icons. Mass grave and monument to Lieutenant Colonel P.P. Kalitin, Russian soldiers and Bulgarian militias. Russian tourists lay flowers at the monument to the Soviet soldier-liberator. Bulgarian worker Dima Stanev walks down the street, works in the shop behind the machine. Kuibyshev tourists visit the workshop where D.Stanev works. Workers A. Ermakov and D. Stanev works together at the machine. Paintings dedicated to the Russian-Turkish war (1877-1978). Russia, Kuibyshev. Archival documents: an entry in the journal of the Samara City Duma of November 5, 1876, No. 22, about the proposal of citizen P.V. Alabin to provide "assistance to our suffering brothers in the cross and blood and to deliver money and materials to help the sick and wounded." Portrait of P.V. Alabin. Banner of the city of Samara, presented to the Bulgarian militias. Worker Alexander Ermakov is walking down the street of Kuibyshev, working at the machine in the shop. Bulgaria. Shipka Pass (shot from an airplane). Freedom Monument in honor of the military cooperation of Russian and Bulgarian soldiers during the liberation of Bulgaria from the Turkish yoke (1877-1878). Russian tourists climb the stairs to the monument. Marble sarcophagus with the remains of soldiers who died during the defense of the pass (1877). Tourists lay flowers. Painting and sculpture dedicated to the defense of Shipka (1877). Newsreel footage of 1944: soldiers of the 3rd Ukrainian Front in battalion columns rise to the Freedom Monument on the Shipka Pass; military leaders and soldiers are kneeling near the monument. 2 part of Bulgaria, Stara Zagora. Tourists visit the production shops of the Natalia knitwear factory. The seamstress at work. A seamstress from Kuibyshev works on a sewing machine with a Bulgarian colleague. Russian tourists try on a knitted dress, coat. Factory worker "Natalia" Zunka Dimitrova at home at a table with her Russian colleagues. Opening of the House of Culture. The building of the nitrogen fertilizer plant. Tourists visit the construction of the "Maritsa-Vostok" complex in Stara Zagora. The party organizer of the Central Committee of the BKP at the construction site M. Ivanov tells tourists about its importance. The building and the engine room of the Maritsa-Vostok thermal power plant. Russia, Kuibyshev. The building of the Lenin hydroelectric power station. Bulgarian tourists visit the Lenin House-Museum; a memorial plaque with the inscription: "In this house lived the leader of the world proletariat Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in 1889-1893." Meeting of the artists of the folk song and dance ensemble from Stara Zagora at the station. Members of the ensemble on the embankment. Performance by the folk song and dance ensemble: the choir performs the song "Native Moscow Region" (sync. In Russian), the choreographic group performs the dance "Thracian Suite". Presenting flowers and gifts to the artists after the concert. The ensemble and the audience scan "Eternal friendship" (sync.).

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scriptwriter V. Kagarlitsky, sound engineer V. Shubin, editor A. Stepanov