Tuva - the Crossroads of Times

Landscapes of the Yenisei River. Newsreel. Shamans, lama, poor Tuvans. A mother with a child at a doctor's appointment in a yurt. Tuvans at their desk, on the construction of the road. Tuva ASSR. Combine harvester work in the field. Shearing. Harvesting. Performing a Tuvan song in the manner of throat singing. Episodes from the life of Shuvu Kular and her 11 children. Mining of asbestos. Quarry, work of drillers. Dump trucks with asbestos are going. Combine "Tuva-asbestos". Director Ch. Ondar is speaking. Workshop work. Construction of the second stage of the plant. The shepherd grazes a flock of sheep. Archaeologist A. Grach at the excavations. Archaeologists are working. The herders are catching the horses. Camels graze. Driving deer. A hunter on skis with a dog goes through the winter taiga. Kyzyl city. People in the park on the national holiday "Nadym" - horse races. Speech by artists of the Tuvan circus. Competitions of the participants of the national wrestling "Khuresh".

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Script by V. Chernykh, O. Sagan-Ool, text by Y. Vizbor, music by V. Geviksman, sound by E. Zatulovsky