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Soviet Turkmenistan

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Abstract
1h - (230m). Mass grave of 67 red heroes in Ashgabat; construction of new houses, Ashgabat streets, University named after Gorky, lecture, university laboratory, students in the classroom. 2h - (235m). Oil fields in Nebit-Dag; Candidate of Sciences A.N. Niyazov and his laboratory assistant are examining oil. Sulfur plant in Darvaz; artificial lakes: Saladnoe, Bordeaux, White. Loading salt on a train, carpet makers at work. 3h - (261m). Areas of construction of the Karakum Canal, experimental field of the Ioltan cotton-mocerne station. Cotton field of the collective farm. Thalmann. Harvesting cotton on the Iskra collective farm. The field of Sakorskaya station, where melons are cultivated. Sorting melons. Flocks of astrakhan sheep in pastures. Drying, sorting of skins. 4h - (84m). Hall of the picture gallery in Ashgabat. Meeting of the artistic council at the Turkmen Opera and Ballet Theater, present: Ch. directed by Alty Karliev, dir. K. Japarov, art. M. Kulieva. Poetess T. Esenova reads her poems to schoolgirls; Hero of Socialist Labor A. Begengeva in the park talking with the pioneers. Welder of the Darvaza sulfur mine O. Aikaryeva at work. 5h - (92m) Restoration and construction of Ashgabat. 6h - (251m). Opening of the X Congress of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Turkmenistan. Arrival of delegates; speakers at the congress: Ersarnev, B. Khindyrova, OB Nazarova, Sazonov and others. 7h. - (163m). Grave of 26 Baku commissars, streets, buildings of Ashgabat, restoration of the city. Deputies Ersaryev, A. Begencheva, T. Esenova, A. Karliev. 8h - (223m). On the highway of the Main Turkmen Canal. Sands, dunes of the Karakum desert. Ruins of the city of Kunya-Urgench, minaret, mausoleum of Shah Sheraf and others. Amu Darya river. Prospecting work. 9h - (135m). Camp of prospecting parties at the Yaskhinsky junction on the Uzboy riverbed. Karakul farm near Lake Yaskhi. Engineer Rzhanitsyn surveys the construction site. Professor of Moscow State University examines the places that will be flooded. Klyushkin collects plants at the site that will be flooded, samples of flora and fauna of the desert. 10h - (239m). The old channel Uzboy. Lake Yaskhi. The first expedition of the "Hydroproject" on the site of the future Yaskhinsky reservoir. The first prospecting camp on the canal route. On the site that will be flooded, work is underway: Dementyev, Klyushkin, Rzhanitsyn. Desert sands. Transportation of water by plane. Panorama of the city of Krasnovodsk. 11h - (192m). Krasnovodsk, streets, buildings. Port. Loading of cotton, unloading of timber and water machines; old well in the sands of the desert. Turkmens get water with a leather bucket. 12h - (52m). A rally in the Ashgabat city garden dedicated to the decree on the construction of the main Turkmen canal Amu Darya-Krasnovodsk. 13h - (46m). Meeting at the USSR Academy of Sciences on the construction of the Main Turkmen Canal. Speakers: S. I. Vavilov, V. S. Eristov. 14h - (31m). SI Vavilov and Ch. Engineer of the Turkmen Canal VS Eristov at a meeting at the USSR Academy of Sciences. Neg. 1-287; 2-310; 3-325; 4-89; 5-175; 9-171 partially sync.
Director
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Color
Color
Film ID
17278
Meterage
2234
Number of Parts
14
Operators
Feldman, Lavrov, R. Carmen, Khodyakov
Release Date
1950
Sound