The First Five-Year Plan in the USSR

Part I. City of Moscow (winter photography). Types of the Kremlin. Transport and pedestrian traffic. V-th Congress of Soviets of the USSR, May 20-28, 1929. Participants of the meeting speak from the rostrum, including: V. M. Molotov, M. I. Kalinin, I. V. Stalin, V. V. Kuibyshev, N. N. Krestinsky. Among the members of the presidium - GK Ordzhonikidze. Streets of Moscow. Square in front of the Bolshoi Theater. A guard policeman regulates traffic. Discussion of the construction project [hydroelectric power station]. A.P. Karpinsky is speaking. Production processes at one of the factories. Construction of an industrial enterprise. Students of the [medical] institute in the classroom, in the library. School of construction apprenticeship of the State Construction Trust. Students in the classroom. Pupils of rural and national schools in the classroom. Children in nursery and kindergarten. Part II. The pilot sits in the cockpit. The plane takes a run, flies. Krstian-Turkmens at the plane, board the plane. Launching and taking off of a seaplane. Participants of the I rally by cars, on the route of the rally. The movement of cars. The movement of a truck and a reindeer team. The car is transported by ferry. The peasants talk with the participants of the rally. An elderly woman at the open window. Middle Asia. Camels and a car on the street of the city. One of the railway stations in Moscow. Boarding passengers on the train. Baku city. Oil fields. Tram movement. Boarding passengers on the tram, passengers in the tram are reading newspapers. The mountains. Explosions in the mountains. Extraction of ore in a quarry. Turksib construction. A rally in honor of the launch of one of the sections, rewarding the builders. Kazakhs on horseback cross the railroad tracks. Simultaneous movement of train and carts. Handover of a steam locomotive built at the expense of the workers of the Alma-Ata depot. Part III. A rally in honor of the launch of one of the sections of the railway. Train movement. A brass band is playing. Construction of the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Combine. Panorama of construction (filmed from a helicopter). General view of Magnitogorsk. Production processes at the plant. Construction of industrial facilities for the 1st five-year plan.

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