Kuzbass Miners Strike

The film chronicle tells about the miners 'strike in Kuzbass in July 1989, which marked the beginning of miners' strikes throughout the country (the first mass strikes in the USSR). Box 1 G. Kemerovo, summer, Soviet Square, a rally in support of the striking Kuzbass miners. Kemerovo region, Prokopyevsk, July 17: miners on the square, on the platform are members of the government commission - 1st Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Lev Alekseevich Voronin, Chairman of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions Stepan Alekseevich Shalaev. Member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee Nikolai Nikitovich Slyunkov and Minister of the Coal Industry of the USSR Mikhail Ivanovich Shchadov address the protesters. Representatives of the strike committees are on the podium at the monument to V. I. Lenin. Miners are sitting in the square - a sit-in strike. Miners in helmets are sitting by the bus, having lunch. Box 2 Prokopyevsk. Miners at Teatralnaya Square. The tram stops, passengers get off. Boys on bicycles ride down the street, in the background - miners are sitting under a canopy by the trees. Miners are having lunch, sitting by the Moskvich car. Night. Participants in a sit-down strike in defense of the demands of the miners of the Tsentralnaya mine are warming themselves by the fire and talking. The boy is standing by the fire. A tram is approaching. The townspeople gather at the Theater Square. Letters on the building "We will implement the historical decisions of the XXVII Congress of the CPSU". Flowers at the monument to Lenin. People are standing at the pedestal. The "Niva" car is parked at the side of the road, a bus is going by. An ambulance and cars are passing along the street filled with people. A mother with her little daughters is standing in the square, one of the girls is crying. The posters “We approve and support the demands of the miners,” “Kuzbass is not a colony,” the protesters are standing nearby, representatives of the strike committee are on the podium. The policeman speaks into a megaphone in the square. A bus arrives from the city of Guryevsk. Chairs and benches left after the strike in the square. A sprinkler is going, watering the pavement. Rubbish left in the square after the strike. Regional committee building. Type of a spent coal pit. A truck loaded with coal is driving along the road. Miners' settlement. Dumps of rock are smoking. Mine structures overgrown with weeds. Deputy Director for Capital Construction at the Kiselevskugol Association, People's Deputy of the USSR, head of the strike committee during the Kuzbass strike Teimuraz Georgievich Avaliani walks along the street of a mining village. Lying houses in the village. Box 3 G. Prokopyevsk, summer. Facade of the Lenin Komsomol Drama Theater. Playbill - August 27 "Miss Prokopyevsk-89". The tram is approaching a stop. A legless invalid on a cart rides along the wooden sidewalk near the barrack. Trams are going, people are walking along a pedestrian crossing, a department store building. Fountain in the park. The man washes the girl's hands with water from the fountain. Sale of books from the tray. Plates on the wall of a 2-storey wooden house “st. Hour 1 "," Dairy Kitchen ", Old trees in the yard. Drying clothes on the line. Early spring, puddles, passers-by on the street. The cameraman gets into the minibus. Snow on the side of the road, cars are driving along the road, a minibus is passing by, houses of the new microdistrict. An old wooden two-story house (12 Ilyicha st.), Firewood in the yard. Ice heaps on the street, ice near the walls of houses, a minibus is passing by. Winter. New microdistrict of Prokopyevsk. Multi-storey building, playground. Children slide down the ice slide in the yard. A flock of dogs on the street.

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