Ships and People

The film tells about the past and present of the city of shipbuilders Nikolaev. First part: A squad of drummers is walking down the street. The territory of one of the shipyards, a meeting, workers' faces. New ship "Ivan Privolsky" at the shipyard. Shipbuilders smash a bottle of champagne on the side, the ship sinks into the water, floats. NDP on the grass in the steppe (filmed from a flying helicopter). A horse with a foal graze in the steppe. Surf at sunset, seagulls over the sea, pebble beach. Panorama of the new districts of Nikolaev, passers-by walk along the street, traffic. Black Sea shipyard. The floating dock takes ships from the conveyor belt in turn, lowers them into the waters of the estuary. Outbuilding embankment, ships at the pier, cranes. Service in the temple, the NDP on the vaults. Building of the Museum of Shipbuilding and Navy. Ancient buildings in the city center. Model of the sailing ship "12 Apostles". The second part: A mock-up of a coastal defense battleship. Bust of naval commander Admiral S.O. Makarov. House where S.O. Makarov was born. Nikolaev Art Museum named after V.V. Vereshchagin, the interiors of the museum. Summer, young people on the street. Nikolaev Shipbuilding Institute, students in the corridors, lectures in classrooms, classes in the workshop, laboratory studies, the defense of diplomas. Testing of the design system for small size fleet. Shipyard workers. Design workshop of the plant. Computer center. Model workshop. The ship "70th Anniversary of October" is sailing in the estuary. Newsreel footage: 1905, footage of the Russian-Japanese war; 1930s, the Ermak icebreaker goes on the ice. The third part: Shipyard named after 61 Communards, employees leave the entrance. Monument to the Nikolaev Communards, shot by the White Guards on the square in front of the Russut plant. Fountain, in the background - the townspeople are resting on the benches. Newsreel footage: [1914-16], Nikolaev, explosions on the ground, soldiers running in a trench, hand-to-hand combat footage, a naval battle, a shipbuilding plant shop, launching of the battleship "Empress Maria", Nikolai P with his family and accompanying persons faces greet those gathered for the descent of the ship, the battleship "Empress Maria" in the sea; 1917, Petrograd, demonstration with banners "Long live the constituent assembly!", "Long live socialism!"; 1918-1919, Austro-Hungarian soldiers marching down the street, a ship under the English flag in the harbor, British and French officers at the pier, flags of the Entente countries on ships, a White Guard cavalry detachment in a snowy field; 1920s, the queue of children for bread by ration cards, a starving woman with children sitting at the wall, the restoration of a destroyed factory, sailors are restoring the building; shots of the first five-year plans; 1947-52, J.V. Stalin and his entourage at the shipyard; 1930s, parade of athletes; late 1930s, Germany, soldiers marching across the square, a book fire is burning; 1941-42, German planes shoot down a convoy of refugees, cruisers at sea, explosions, fascists set fire to houses in the village, a burning sailor on a ship. The fourth part: G. Nikolaev, a memorial complex in honor of 68 heroes-paratroopers. Solemn procession of veterans to the Eternal Flame on May 9. The sailors lay a wreath. The boy in the budenovka lays flowers. Workshop of one of the shipyards. Supertrawler "Efim Gorbenko" on the pier. Ocean shipyard. Large-tonnage ore carrier on stacks. Newsreel footage: 1940, the future leader of the Nikolaev underground V. Lyagin skates with a girl; 1941-44, German soldiers in Nikolaev walk past burning houses, a German officer checks the documents of the residents of the city, a view of a shipyard; 1943-44, explosions in the city, collapsing factory buildings, cranes; March 1944, residents of the city meet Soviet soldiers-liberators, a woman is guarding a soldier in the street; 1945, view of the destroyed city, restoration work, workers restore the Black Sea shipyard; 1950s, rally at the Nikolaev ship, launching the ship, construction of the flagship of the fishing flotilla of the Sovetskaya Ukraina ship. The fifth part. The second stage of the Okean plant. NDP in the shops of the plant. The workers go to the factory. Checkpoint. The ship "Viktor Bakaev. Tallinn" goes down to the water. The ship "70th Anniversary of October" is sailing in the estuary. Young people ride skateboards on one of the city streets. Water skiing athlete jumps from a springboard into the water. A fragment of a football match, fans in the stands. The musical group performs on stage. City Beach. Rest house "Miskhor", children play in shallow water, Neptune holiday. City yacht club. Sailboats in the estuary. Solemn meeting of athletes who have made a round-the-world trip on the Ikar yacht. View of the city from a flying helicopter. Construction of new neighborhoods. School graduates are walking down the street. Newsreel footage: 1950-60s, the ceremonial launching of the ship "Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya".

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Script writers V. Ganichev, Y. Demyanko