Mighty Stream

Construction of the Great Fergana Canal in Uzbekistan. Local residents prepare shovels, hoes, stretchers for working on the canal. Surveyors measure land plots on the future route. Cars, carts with builders are moving to the construction site. Columns of local residents pass by the women accompanying them. Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan U. Yusupov, chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Uzbek SSR Akhurakhmanov, secretary of the Fergana regional party committee Nemtsov talks with builders. Meeting of the construction site technical council. Panorama of the construction of the canal. Builders work with shovels, hoes, carry the earth on a stretcher. The work of builders in various sections of the canal. Imploding works. Construction equipment is working. Chefs prepare tortillas, pilaf in the field kitchen. The builders are having lunch, resting in the field camp. Agitators read newspapers to builders. Performances of a tightrope walker, artists of the State Opera and Ballet Theater in front of builders. The leaders of the construction site congratulate the shock workers of the construction site at their workplaces. Among the drummers is 74-year-old Khidyrov. Construction of hydraulic structures and dams. A meeting of builders in honor of the first launch of the water; U. Yusupov is speaking. Members of the choreographic ensemble dance on the banks of the canal. Festive feast. Cotton fields. Fruit orchards. Types of villages in the Fergana Valley.

B&W

5

1939