Stages of a Long Journey

Moscow city. February 1956. Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Opening of the XX Congress of the CPSU. View of the presidium, hall. Speech by NS Khrushchev (sinhr.). Donbass city. Miner N. Mamai in the face. Oil rigs of Tatarstan oil workers. Transcarpathia, rafting on the Tisse river. Workers at the furnace of the open-hearth shop of the Stalingrad plant "Krasny Oktyabr". Dump trucks and tractors are leaving the gates of the Minsk plant. Overlapping of the Ob river. Hydroelectric power stations operating and under construction, such as Kuibyshevskaya, Bratsk, Irkutsk. Types of dams. Installation work. Moscow. The building of the Council of the National Economy. The meeting is in progress. Presentation of the Nobel Prize to Soviet scientists P. A. Cherenkov, I. M. Frank, I. S. Tamm. A. N. Tupolev at the aircraft model. Radio operators are recording satellite readings. M.N. Mordasova and the choir perform ditties about the satellite. Space rocket launch. NS Khrushchev in one of the virgin lands. Inspects the fields. The chairman of one of the Lithuanian collective farms V. Mirazas talks with tractor drivers. The work of milkmaids. New agricultural machinery works in one of the Chuvash collective farms. Maize harvesting on a Ukrainian collective farm by S. Vishtak's brigade. Presentation of the Order of Lenin to S. Vishtak. Industrial landscape. Laying pipes in the desert, mountains. Construction of a chemical plant in Azerbaijan. Installation, welding works. Construction of the Novosibirsk academic town. An excavator in the Nazarovo coal basin. Geologists are walking through the taiga, washing diamonds. Construction of the West Siberian Metallurgical Plant. Steelworkers work. The mines of the Lvov-Valynsky massif. Family of pensioner PN Rakov, who worked for 30 years at the Hammer and Sickle plant at home. Secondary school students in practice in one of the shops of the Moscow plant "Red Proletarian". Gorky Agricultural Institute. Students in the classroom. Young people leaving for the virgin lands at one of the Moscow railway stations. Moscow city. Meeting of representatives of the communist and workers' parties of the socialist countries. The heads of state sign the declaration. Including: E. Hoxha, V. Ulbricht, Mao-Zedong, V. Gomulka, Ho Chi Minh, Kim Il Sung, Y. Kadar, NS Khrushchev, T. Zhivkov. I. Moiseev's ensemble on tour in America. P. Robson's speech at the Luzhniki Sports Palace. The clash of the Japanese peasants with the police. Military incursions into Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan. Speech by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR A. A. Gromyko at the UN (sinhr.). Berlin stadium. The local population is seeing off Soviet soldiers to their homeland. Demonstration of workers in Red Square.

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