North Caucasus Number 17

The newsreel consists of three plots. First plot. The troubles of spring. The plot tells about the spring work of the gardeners of the Prigorodny state farm in the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Sunrise. Mountains in the snow. Mountains in the fog. A waterfall in the snow. The foreman of gardeners H. Temishev drives a car along the road. Gardeners collect dry branches in the garden, cut dry branches. General view of the garden. Tractor rides between trees, spraying branches. Working in greenhouses, planting seeds, seedlings, watering seedlings. Second plot. Tunnel Bamburov. A film sketch about the hydro-constructor V.I.Bamburov, who is participating in the construction of the Miatlinskaya hydroelectric power station. Waterfall in the mountains. The Sulak river in the mountains. Construction of the Miatlinskaya HPP. Workers at the entrance to the tunnel. Tunnel construction. Surveyors take measurements with a level. The drifter V.I.Bamburov works in a tunnel in the mountain. Third plot. Front-line operators. A story about front-line operators - employees of the North Caucasus newsreel studio M.Ya.Barbutly and V.P. Eremeev. Snow-capped mountain peaks, clouds. Mountains are reflected in the water of a mountain lake. M. Barbutly stands at a movie camera on one of the streets of Pyatigorsk, an assistant is standing nearby. V. Eremeev conducts a survey in the shop of one of the factories. M. Barbutly and V. Eremeev are working at the editing table at the film studio. Assembly table with disassembled material. M. Barbutly receives a diploma from the Komsomol of Stavropol named after Skokov on stage, the girl presents him with flowers. M. Barbutly in his apartment at the desk. M. Barbutly descends the stairs on one of the streets of Pyatigorsk. The plot includes newsreel footage of 1941-45: sea battle, Soviet planes flying in the sky, air battle, cavalry rushing across the field, battlefield, gunners at the cannon, battle in the mountains, a battle on the embankment, a soldier bandaging a wounded on the battlefield, a meeting of Soviet soldiers on the street of one of the liberated cities, Soviet mountain-climbers in the mountains, shooting Katyusha, salute over the Kremlin.

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1982