Wonderful Dnieper

A film about the Dnieper River. Ukrainian SSR, the city of Kiev. Sunset over the Dnieper. City street. The woman is selling flowers. A beautiful working fountain. Granite embankment of the Dnieper. People are relaxing on the city beach. Street cafe on the banks of the Dnieper. Men are sitting at the covered tables of the cafe. Sculpture of cranes holding a lantern with a shade. Lanterns along a street staircase with convenient platforms, built in 1915. People walk up the stairs. The building of the Ukrainian Soviet Government on Kirov Street, built in 1936-1938, designed by Moscow architects I. Fomin, P. Abrosimov, is an architectural monument. A woman and a man with a bicycle stand on the high bank of the Dnieper. A group of young men and women on the Dnieper steep slopes, where a detachment of Komsomol members died a heroic death during the Civil War. Loading watermelons onto barges. People on comfortable passenger ships "Marshal Voroshilov", "Chapaev" ride along the Dnieper. Mechanized harvesting, forage preparation in one of the collective farms. Cherkasy region, the city of Kanev. A group of tourists at the monument at the grave of the poet Taras Grigorievich Shevchenko listen to the guide, a musician playing the lute, singing a song in Ukrainian. Zaporozhye region, the city of Zaporozhye. Fuming chimneys of industrial enterprises on the banks of the Dnieper. Power lines. A passenger motor ship with excursionists is sailing into the open sluice gates of the Dnieper hydroelectric power station. People are looking at the powerful hydraulic structure with interest.

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sound engineer G. Grigoriev, music producer M. Goldstein