News of the Day No 42

Start-up of the turbine of the Kuibyshev hydroelectric power station. Employees of the Pulkovo Observatory are observing the first artificial Earth satellite in October 1957. Radio amateurs of the cities of Novosibirsk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur receive satellite radio signals. Interview with academician A. A. Blagonravov (synchronously). The plot is devoted to the transition to a 7-hour working day at the plant named after Vladimir Ilyich in Moscow; workers talk in the shop of the plant. VDNKh pavilions: a view of various varieties of apples and pears on the stands; an auction for the sale of calves in the livestock pavilion. Workers of the Velikaya Druzhba collective farm in the Georgievsky District of the Stavropol Territory feed the turkeys. Harvesting grapes at the state farm "Shakhrinau" of the Tajik SSR. Types of new all-terrain vehicles "Penguin" for expeditions in Antarctica, manufactured by the Kirov plant in Leningrad. Moments of the USSR cycling championship competition held in Simferopol. Performances of musicians at the first festival of Soviet music of the Baltic republics, dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution - in Riga (synchronously).

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