North Caucasus Number 38

The newsreel tells about the work of an archaeological expedition in the mountains of North Ossetia, organized by the North Ossetian branch of the All-Russian Voluntary Society for the Protection of Monuments and the Department for the Protection and Promotion of Historical and Cultural Monuments of the North Ossetian State United Museum. Mountain landscapes. The mountain river flows into the gorge, the tops of the mountains are in the clouds. Ruins of ancient fortresses, towers in the mountains. Members of the archaeological expedition are standing over the excavation site. Excavation work. The head of the North Caucasian expedition of the Institute of Archeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Candidate of Historical Sciences VB Kovalevskaya, talks about excavations in the vicinity of the village of Chmi, demonstrates finds, among them - ancient Alanian coins. Gas pipeline in the mountains, a village at the foot of the mountain. Construction work in the mountains, next to the ruins of an ancient fortress. The excavator is working. NDP on new buildings, next to - historical monuments. Men are mowing grass on a mountain slope. G. Ordzhonikidze (present-day Vladikavkaz), a bus is passing along the main street, an inscription on the building "Gosstrakh of the RSFSR", passers-by on one of the streets are walking along the passage, a young man with a bicycle is walking down the street, modern multi-storey buildings in a new microdistrict.

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1982