Here the Rear Was the Front

The film tells about the labor exploits of Soviet citizens who worked at the enterprises of Kuibyshev during the Great Patriotic War. Many of these enterprises were evacuated from Moscow. Types of Kuibyshev in winter: people walk from the tram stop, buses and cars pass by. Airplane TU-154 at the airport. Boarding passengers on the plane. The plane takes off. General views of the building of the 4th State Ball Bearing Plant in Kuibyshev and one of the new districts of the city with multi-storey residential buildings. Memorial in memory of those killed during the Great Patriotic War and the eternal flame on Glory Square. A view of one of the streets of the city, along which a group of kindergarten pupils passes along with the teacher. Veterans of the Aviation Plant restoring the IL-2 aircraft during the Great Patriotic War in the workshop. Veteran of the 4th Bearing Plant Matryona Klimentyevna Kuznetsova in the workshop behind the machine. Interview with the brigade leader of the 1st front-line brigade of the Aviation Plant Gavriil Fedorovich Izvekov (sync. And behind the scenes.), Who talks about the selfless work of front-line brigades during the war. Newsreel footage of the period of the Great Patriotic War: air combat between Soviet and German aircraft. Military parade in Kuibyshev in November 1941: columns of troops and military equipment, leaders of the party and the city on the government platform are walking along the central square of the city; among them: MI Kalinin, KE Voroshilov and others. Echelons with military equipment are sent to the front. Workers of Kuibyshev's defense enterprises at work in the shops: assembling rifles, airplanes. Women - workers of garment enterprises sew uniforms, quilted jackets, blankets, stack finished products in piles to be sent to the front. Workers of one of the regional collective farms milk cows in the pasture, load flasks of milk on a cart, harvest grain and hay in the fields. The mower is working in the field, women are raking the grain on the current. The movement of military echelons with equipment along the Kuibyshev railway. General view of the Batraki station and the railway junction. Evacuated women with children ride in a train carriage. Arrival of the train at one of the stations. Aircraft at a military airfield, in the air. The foreman of the 1st front-line brigade of the Aviation Plant G.K. Izvekov and members of his brigade at work on the machines. A plant worker at the blackboard with indicators of the implementation of the plan by the front-line brigades of the plant. The director of the plant congratulates the winners of the competition, handing the challenge Red Banner to the foreman G. Izvekov. General view of the aircraft in the assembly shop of the plant. Fanfarers are playing collection. Major General presents the Guards Red Banner to one of the military units on the square in Kuibyshev. Troops are marching across the square. Kuibyshev's schoolchildren are walking along the city streets. General views of the monument to V.I. Chapaev and the building of the Kuibyshev Drama Theater. Geography lesson in one of the classes. The boy at the globe answers the lesson. Volleys of artillery pieces. The floating hospital, located on the motor ship "Klement Voroshilov", is approaching the pier. Women with bouquets of flowers climb aboard the ship, talk to the wounded who arrived from the Stalingrad front, look after them. The wounded soldiers sit at the dining table on the deck. Women prepare gifts for front-line soldiers: they stuff tobacco pouches, pack felt boots and hats with earflaps. Packages with warm clothes for front-line soldiers on the shelves in the room. Transfer of the IL-2 aircraft, manufactured at the expense of the Kuibyshev Komsomol members, to one of the aviation units. The pilot thanks for the plane, sits in the cockpit, the plane takes off.

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sound engineer I. Nifonov, editor A. Solonitsyn