News of the Day No 6

Newsreel of the siege of Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War; Leningraders take water from an ice-hole on the Neva River; "The Road of Life" on Lake Ladoga. Assembling tanks in the shop of the plant. The offensive of the Soviet troops in January 1944. Leningrad, liberated from the blockade. Celebrations in Leningrad to mark the 25th anniversary of the liberation of Leningrad from the blockade; the laying of wreaths at the Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery; the streets of Leningrad are the troops of the Leningrad military garrison. A ceremonial meeting in the Oktyabrsky hall dedicated to the anniversary of the lifting of the blockade of Leningrad. Speakers: V. S. Tolstikov, General of the Army I. I. Fedyuninsky. Fireworks on Senate Square. The city of Moscow, the Kremlin. Receiving NV Podgorny President of the People's Republic of South Yemen KM Ash-Shaabi, who arrived in the Soviet Union on an official visit. Construction of the Achinsk Alumina Refinery in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Welders at work. Kazakhstan. Director of the state farm "Kazakhstanets" N. G. Vus examines the farm: a pig farm, a repair shop; snow retention in a state farm field. The team of skiers "Blizzard" consisting of: V. Kuznetsova, T. Dyakonova, A. Egorova, S. Alexandrova, N. Kuzina start in the ultra-long-distance ski crossing on the route Moscow - Leningrad - Helsinki - Tornio. Concert of participants in the show of choreographic schools on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater of the USSR. Students of the Moscow Alma-Ata, Tashkent choreographic schools are performing.

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1969