The Home of the Kumyks

Textbook for the course "Ethnography of the peoples of the USSR" (educational film). Maps of the Caucasus, Dagestan; maps, diagrams, models of kumis dwellings (animation). Photos of residential buildings. Dagestan. Landscapes of mountains, valleys, steppes. Valley of the Manas River. The outskirts of the village of Karabudakhkent. Auls. Old and new houses. Narrow, crooked streets, blank walls, gates. Modern street. Vehicle movement. House of culture of one of the villages. Adobe saklya. Yard. Sakli premises, interiors. Manufacturing and drying of adobe bricks. Construction of an adobe house. Stone dwelling. Construction of a stone house. View of a one-story stone house. Turluch dwelling (external and internal views; photographs). Collective farm dwelling. New house with a tiled roof. Glazed gallery. Interiors of rooms. Household premises. Water intake column. Women carry jugs of water. The fitters are conducting radio communication wires. The girls listen to the radio, read the newspapers. Collective farm club. The tractor plows the land. North. Threshing.

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animation artist A. Shelaputin