Gift to Lenin

The film tells about the craftsmen of metal notching on wood from the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, who in 1921 made a gift to V.I. Lenin. Dagestan SSR. In the mountains of Dagestan, in the village of Untsukul, a very rare artistic folk craft is successfully developing - metal notching on wood. At the "Untsukulsky Combine of Artistic Products", men work on woodworking machines, grind them, and carve out individual figures with an ax. Others, bending over tables, hammer metal wire strictly according to the pattern into the cuts of wooden products. Tools for this need the most simple: a hammer, wire, metal discs, a knife, an awl, scissors, etc. Young artist Magomed Ali Gazi Magomedov and Honored Master Magomed Abdulagadzhiev are discussing a new ornament. Young men and women are taught skills by an experienced worker Magomed Zagid Mirzoev, show him their work. Products manufactured by the plant: patterned colorful vases, jugs, walking sticks, glasses, mortars, candlesticks and many others. etc. A motor road to Untsukul, a motorcyclist is riding along a narrow street in the village, an ambulance is passing between houses, a helicopter is flying in the sky, schoolchildren with schoolbags on their backs go to school. Local aksakals, including the honored worker of applied arts of the Dagestan ASSR Nurmagomed Khanbudaev, remember (sync. In [Avar]) when there were no roads or helicopters in the aul, and they worked with smokehouses and torches. It was then, in 1921, that young N. Khanbudaev and his friend Magomed Kebedov made V.I. Lenin is a writing instrument. Moscow. The oldest master in the Kremlin study-museum V.I. Lenin examines her work; holds an ashtray in the form of a ladle, a candlestick. An inkwell, paperweight and other items are on the table.

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scriptwriter M. Kryukov, sound engineer A. Ovcharov