White Gold of Our Country

Architectural monuments of Samarkand. Newsreel. Aul in the desert. A peasant plows the land with a wooden plow. The old well "Chigiri". The woman takes a waterskin out of the well. Dry, cracked ground. Bay water at the castle. A peasant by a withered cotton bush. Women in a veil. First decrees of the Council of People's Commissars. Construction of irrigation canals. Mechanized sowing, care, cotton harvesting. Construction, grand opening of the Big Irrigation Canal. Canals, reservoirs on the rivers: Vakhsh, Amu Darya, Syrdarya, Kara-Darya, Zeravshan. Farhad hydroelectric power station. Production of cotton harvesters at the Tashkent Agricultural Engineering Plant. Heroes of Socialist Labor, cotton growers Ersaryev, A. Anarov, Ch. Sharapova at work in the cotton fields. Vice-President of the Agricultural Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan A. Dadabaev and researchers working on the development of a new high-yielding cotton. Chairman of the collective farm "May Day", twice Hero of Socialist Labor Sh. Hasanova and chairman of the Azerbaijani collective farm, twice Hero of Socialist Labor B. Bagirova talk with Professor I. Valiev on cotton issues. Moscow city. All-Union meeting of cotton growers in the Grand Kremlin Palace (February 18, 1958). Speakers: N. S. Khrushchev, S. K. Kamalov, T. Uldzhabaev, S. Babaev, I. D. Mustafaev, I. Yusupov, A. E. Kochinyan, I. R. Razzakov, three times Hero of Socialist Labor H. Tursunkulov, S. Urunkhodzhaev, Sh. Hasanova, N. A. Mukhitdinov, representatives of Bulgaria, Burma, Korea, Afghanistan. The delegates visit the meeting of the Moscow Frunze Spinning and Weaving Factory, the Trekhgornaya Manufaktura textile plant, the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition (VSHV). T. Martsevich presents the exhibition medals to the cotton masters. A big concert for the participants of the meeting at the Sports Palace in Luzhniki. Performers: Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Armenian, Turkmen, Kazakh dance ensembles.

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Screenplay by E. Ryabchikov, sound by K. Nikitin, M. Sobolev