North Caucasus Number 2

The newsreel has two plots. 1st plot. WORK IS WORK. Chechen-Ingushetia, Grozny. Production processes for making bricks in the Keramika cooperative. Workers are laying bricks on the site under a canopy. Chairman of the cooperative "Keramika" under the Chechen-Ingush territorial association of the USSR State Committee for National Security E.N. Yezirsky talks about the brick-making technology used in the cooperative (synchronously, behind the scenes). Finished bricks move on a conveyor. The head of the department of the Chechen-Ingush territorial association of the USSR Gossnab RA Tomasov in his office speaks about the high quality of the products of the Keramika cooperative, about the expansion of the production of the cooperative (synchronously). A bricklayer at a construction site speaks of the good quality of the brick of the Keramika cooperative (synchronously). Builders' carriages. On one of the trailers there is a banner with the inscription: “Every working day - a clear rhythm!”. E.N. Yezirsky on the territory of the cooperative. 2nd plot. MILLIONAIRE - ANATOLY BIZIKOV. North Ossetia, Ordzhonikidze. A meeting of collective farmers of the Terek collective farm, where the future of the farm is discussed, since it is leased by the Sotspredpriymychivost cooperative; acting chairman of the cooperative A. Bizikov, collective farmers (synchronously). A. Bizikov gives an interview in which he criticizes the activities of collective farms, talks about the difficulties in the work of cooperators (synchronously). Sausage production workshop. A worker fills sausage casings with minced meat. Samples of produced sausages. Trading floor of a shop selling meat products. The saleswoman is counting on the accounts. Meat delicacies on the counter. Piglets in the farmyard of the cooperative. Chickens in cages on the territory of a poultry farm. Workers and welders work on the installation of the greenhouse's metal structure. A. Bizikov passes through a snow-covered field. Meeting of People's Deputies (filmed from the TV screen). The newsreel includes newsreel footage of the consequences of the earthquake in Armenia in 1988: the ruins of destroyed houses in one of the city's districts (aerial photography); an elderly man sits on the street near randomly scattered coffins.

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1990