Kazakh Steppe Region From the Series Nature of Kazakhstan and Central Asia

Educational film for schoolchildren on geography. The film tells about minerals, fauna and flora of the Kazakh steppe region. Assembled from film materials. Geographic map of Kazakhstan and Central Asia. The Kazakh steppe region is highlighted on the map. Winter landscape, hills of the Kazakh Upland. Coal mine in Karaganda. Coal quarry in Ekibastuz; a surface harvester is working. Open pit for ore mining in Dzhezkazgan. A railway freight train is moving in a quarry. Landscapes of forest-steppe, steppe, semi-desert at different times of the year. Feather steppe. Overgrown caragana. Birch Grove. Salt marshes. Deer in the forest in winter. Blooming poppies. Cows, sheep, horses in the pasture. Camels. Types of the Hungry Steppe, Kazakh Upland, Turgai Plateau. Birds on the tree. Eagle chicks in the nest. Eagle in the air. Lizard on a branch. Roe deer, fox, hare, Karagan foxes, partridges, ferret, saiga cub. Eagle in flight. A herd of galloping saigas. Reed thickets. Nutria, muskrat in the reeds. Nutria huts. Beaver in the steppe lake. A crow, a heron, a flock of pelicans in the air. Plowed up land. A tumbleweed rolls across the field. Dust storm. Forest belt. Wheat, corn, rice, cotton fields. Blooming sorghum. Blooming cotton. Melons in the garden. The tractor is working on a saline field. Fertilizing the soil.

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scriptwriter A. Burimsky, consultants N. Dick, B. Dobrzhansky, animator E. Bushkin, editor L. Fine-Hirsch