Glorious Way

The film is dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Soviet Georgia. Mountain landscape of the Caucasus. The city of Sukhumi. The area of the city, buildings, sculpture of I. V. Stalin. Steamers "Sakhalin", "Nogin" at the pier. Batumi. Travel along the city street. Tbilisi. Streets. Fountain. Passers-by on the streets. Sculpture of Stalin. Museum. Pages of the Iskra newspaper. Painting "Young Stalin among the revolutionaries", "Beria". Burn. Streets, road. Stalin's house. Museum. Museum exhibits: a portrait of a mother, paintings. Castle on the mountain. Temples. Frescoes. Antique cross with precious stones. Headdress. Old book covers. Drawings in the book. Power plant construction. Kirov Machine-Tool Plant. Batumi oil refinery. Oil and coal deposits in Shirak, Mirzaom, Tkvarcheli, Tkvibuli, Akhaltsikhi. Chiatura manganese deposit. Inguri paper mill. Kutaisi Glass Factory. Weaving factory. Sheep in the pasture. Cows and horses are grazing. Harvesting apples and pears in the orchards of the republic. Making compotes and juices. Girls harvesting grapes. Wine bottles. Wine warehouse. Tobacco on the field. Packs of Georgian cigarettes. Harvesting tea on plantations. Tea factories. Packs of Georgian tea. Collecting rose petals. Drainage of swamps. Planting garden trees on the site of the former swamps. Schoolchildren, students in the classroom in schools, institutes, conservatories. The sports life of the republic: playing football, cycling, hippodrome, track and field competitions, cross-country skiing. Sanatoriums and rest houses of the republic: Borjomi, Tskhaltube, Lake Ritsa, Shori. Vacationers on the beach, at the mineral springs. Georgia during the Great Patriotic War: mobilization to the front, home front work (making shoes, clothes, weapons for the needs of the front), collecting valuables for the defense fund, treating the wounded in the republic's health resorts. Academician N.I. Muskhelishvili in his office at work. Organization of the defense of the Caucasus. The commander of the 46th Army, General Liselidze at the headquarters. Ascent of guns to the mountains, closing of passes. Alpine parts of the Germans in the mountains. Combat action. Presentation of medals "For the Defense of the Caucasus". Meeting returned from the war in the cities and villages of Georgia. Post-war construction in the republic. Election celebrations: parades, festivities.

B&W

7

1946