Unforgettable Years 1917-1957

The film, created on the basis of newsreels stored in the Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents, reflects the main events in the history of Russia from 1917 to 1957. The building of the Winter Palace; overthrown emblems of royal power. Funeral of victims of the October events in Moscow. Members of the Russian and German delegations who arrived in Brest-Litovsk to sign the Brest Peace Treaty. Foreign intervention against Russia; the Germans at the St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev; British ships in the Arkhangelsk and Murmansk ports; American, Japanese ships in the port of Vladivostok. Lenin's speech in Moscow before the soldiers are sent to the front. The fighting of the Red Army on the fronts of the Civil War. Unemployed at the labor exchange. Children are street kids. Soviet diplomats V. V. Vorovsky, G. V. Chicherin, M. M. Litvinov, who arrived in Genoa for an international conference. The funeral of V. I. Lenin; funeral procession on Red Square. Meeting room of the 13th Congress of the CPSU. On the podium I. V. Stalin. Book "The Five Year Plan". Construction of Dneproges, Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Combine, Gorky Automobile Plant, Turkestan-Siberian Railway. Celebrations to mark the 100th anniversary of the Maly Theater; among those present - V.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko. Peasants vote to join the collective farm. The first tractor leaves the assembly line of the Stalingrad Tractor Plant. Production innovators: A. Stakhanov, A. Busygin, M. Mazay, P. Krivonos; agricultural leaders: M. Demchenko, P. Angelina. Soviet scientists: K. A. Timiryazev, V. M. Bekhterev, A. N. Bakh, I. V. Michurin, O. Yu. Schmidt. Return of the Chelyuskinites to Moscow. Soviet pilots V.P. Chkalov, G. Baidukov, A. Belyakov in America after a non-stop flight. First All-Union Congress of Writers; AM Gorky is speaking. Construction of the Moscow metro. The war in Spain, in Abyssinia, in Poland. Combat operations of Soviet troops on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. Victory Parade on Red Square on June 24, 1945. Meeting room of the XX Congress of the CPSU. Nikita Khrushchev is speaking. Power plants: Kakhovskaya, Bratskaya, Kuibyshevskaya. Uralmashzavod, Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, oil fields in Baku and other industrial enterprises.

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1957