USSR on Screen Number 2

All-Union Population Census in 1939: census census enumerators fill out questionnaires for residents of a Moscow apartment, for passengers in the waiting room of the Kazan station (Moscow), for highlanders in a high-mountain village of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, including 140-year-old Nana Kilayeva. Exhibition of scarves in one of the exhibition halls in Moscow. Fishing vessels in the Kerch Strait. Mechanized unloading of anchovy for processing at the Kerch Kamyet-Burunskiy fish factory. Barrels with anchovy in the port. Sawing trees with a chain saw, transporting logs from the forest on tractors to the river flowing into the Yenisei for timber rafting. (Siberian taiga). Preparation of Tajik horsemen for military exercises. Horse riders, collective farm workers. The female choir performs the Georgian folk song "Suliko". Moscow. Skiing from the mountains and ski jumping in the park of culture and recreation. Laboratory assistants conduct experiments under the guidance of Professor E. N. Pavlovsky to extract the venom of the cobra and develop an antidote against the bites of poisonous snakes.

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