Time to Create

On New Year's Eve 1963, the filmmakers celebrate the achievements of 1962, the events, the heroes of the past year. Construction of Krasnoyarsk, Sayansk, Bratsk, Kremenchug hydroelectric power plants, Voronezh nuclear power plant, Lugansk thermal power plant. Construction of cities: Baikalsk, Zheleznogorsk. Blast furnaces built in 1962: Cherepovetskaya, Lipetskaya, Krivorozhskaya. Ore mining at the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly. A new oil field discovered in the taiga of the Irkutsk region. The building of the Palace of Pioneers on the Lenin Hills, the Artek pioneer camp, the Sputnik international camp. The city of Dubna. Says (synchronously) Academician L. D. Landau, Yu. Prokoshkin. Production processes in the shop of a new synthetic fiber plant. Launch of spaceships. Astronauts P.R.Popovich and A.G. Nikolaev are walking along the airfield, greeting Nikita Khrushchev and relatives. Says (synchronously) V. Brumel. Rear Admiral A. I. Potemkin, who became a Hero of the Soviet Union in 1962; on a submarine. Meeting of children with the writer K.I. Chukovsky, who turned 80 years old. The inventors of the metallurgical plant in Rustavi P. Tsereteli, K. Grushetsky, I. Zhordania, N. Andryukhin, awarded the 1962 Lenin Prize. Says (synchronously) N. G. Zaglada, Hero of Socialist Labor (Ukraine). Employees of the radiobiological laboratory of the Nikitsky Botanical Garden, which in 1962 celebrated its 150th anniversary, work. Grain harvesting on virgin lands. Testing of a new wide-grip corn harvester developed by the design bureau of the Kherson plant named after Petrovsky. Combine operator Tursunoy Akhunova works in the cotton harvest. Construction of the Druzhba oil pipeline. Builder G. Maslennikov works on the construction of a residential building. Rewarding pilot I. Kunitsyn, who suffered an accident over the North Sea and within 3 days sailed to the shore in a rubber boat. Nikita Khrushchev's speech at the World Congress for General Disarmament and Peace (July 9-14, 1962). A delegation of Soviet youth arriving at the youth festival in Helsinki (Finland). Dancing group of the Voronezh Russian Folk Choir. Stay Leonid Brezhnev in Yugoslavia. Stay A. Mikoyan in Cuba. The Japanese delegation visiting Nikita Khrushchev (at the dacha).

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Sound by D. Ovsyannikov, music by A. Partskhaladze