Our Nikita Sergeevich

Our Nikita Sergeevich , 1961 (1:4:14)

Annotation: A biographic film about Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.

Film description: The film used the documents of the Central State Archive of Cinema and Photo Documents (RGAKFD) and materials kinoletopisi. Filming Khrushchev 1930 - 1961. Khrushchev in the cabin, on the collective farms, including corn and sugar beet; his desk, talking with children, residents of cities. Khrushchev's speeches and interviews in connection with various events at different events (synchronous). Nikita Khrushchev visited the construction of the Moscow Metro, the exhibition of achievements of the national economy, the Palace of Pioneers, nurseries, industrial plants, including one of mine, metallurgical plant, one of the virgin state farms; resort Medeo, Veshenskaia. Khrushchev met and talked with members of the delegation of Turkmenistan, agricultural workers of the USSR (synchronously), members of the delegation of the Bulgarian peasants, Prime Minister of Great Britain, Macmillan, American singer and social activist P. Robson, Fidel Castro, of science and culture of the Soviet Union, MA Sholokhov. Khrushchev attends parades and demonstrations during public holidays, including members of the Soviet government, on a holiday Christmas tree in the Kremlin. Khrushchev speaks at a meeting of the World Peace Council, one of the sessions of the UN (synchronously). Fragments of the visits of Khrushchev in foreign countries, including: in China (Beijing), East Germany (Berlin), Poland (Warsaw), France (G. Paris, Marseilles), India, Indonesia, Austria, USA (New York). Filming. 1930 - 1961. City of Moscow. Construction of the metro station "Komsomolskaya". Collective and Theater Square. Shops. Cinema. Stadium. Metro stations "Kirov", "Palace of the Soviets. Construction of new homes. Production processes in industry and agriculture in the Soviet Union. Seeing young people in virgin soil. Restoring destroyed during the Second World War, the industrial enterprises. Personnel chronicle of the Second World War, 1941 - 1945gody. Fighting Soviet troops. Combat and punitive actions of the German troops. Prisoners of war were killed. Street fighting in Berlin, the taking of the Reichstag. Khrushchev, as a member of the Military Council, on various fronts, among other commanders at the headquarters of fronts during the preparation and conduct of military operations, including on the Stalingrad front, on the streets of liberated cities: Stalingrad, Kiev, Rostov - on-Don, Lviv. Khrushchev at military airfields and his wife N. Khrushchev's daughter Rada, son Sergei. Kalinin gives Khrushchev Order. City of Moscow. 1936. 8th Extraordinary All-Union Congress of Soviets. Among those present: Khrushchev, Stalin, Voroshilov, Evdokia and Maria Vinogradova. City of Moscow. 20 Congress of the CPSU (1956), 21 Congress of the CPSU (1959). Delegates to the conference room, lobby. Khrushchev appears (synchronously). City of Moscow. Khrushchev speaking at the Congress of Soviet Writers. (synchronously).

Source description 1: Nikita Khrushchev is in the plane, in the collective farm’s field, with children, talking to people outside, working in his studdy. A newsreel of the middle 1930-s – a speech by Nikita Khrushchev. A newsreel of the first five-year plans – there are workers walking, there is a construction in the “Komsomolskaya” Square in the city of Moscow, subway construction. The pre-war Moscow – the streets, the people are getting into the tram, construction. Nikita Khrushchev is at the subway construction. The first passengers in the subway, ready-built subway stations, the people on the escalator, a train is going by along the railway. A meeting taking place at the “Kolkhoznaya” Square in Moscow , collective farmers are applauding, Nikita Khrushchev is nailing a board with the collective farm name . The pre-war Moscow. Nikita Khrushchev is visiting a nursery, talking to kids. Nikita Khrushchev is in the Moscow “Pioneers Palace”. Photos of Nikita Khrushchev of different years. Nikita Khrushchev is greeting a delegation of Turkmen horsemen. Nikita Khrushchev is in the Mausoleum Tribune during the May Day demonstration (International Workers' Day celebrated on May, 1) . A newsreel of the 1930-ies - Nikita Khrushchev is talking to the farmers at the opening of the regional agricultural exhibition, making a speech. Collective farmers are harvesting wheat in the field, binding sheaves. A village. Nikita Khrushchev is greeting Georgy Dimitrov. There is a parade on the Red Square. M. Gorky, Nikita Khrushchev and G. Dimitrov are in the Mausoleum Tribune. Nikita Khrushchev is making a speech at the meeting of Alexey Stakhanov’s followers in the Column Hall of the House of Unions. Applauding audience in the hall.

Source description 2: A newsreel - Construction of new Moscow houses.. Bricklayers are at the work, a brigade of the bricklayer Orlov is at work. Frames of working people: at a plant, in the field, at a factory. A textile mill workshop, the weavers Dusya and Marusya Vinogradovas are working.
The shoe seller Smetanin, metal turner Gudov, farmers-Stakhanovites M. Demchenko and M. Gnatenko, tractor driver P. Angelina is working, steelmakers are working. A speech of Nikita Khrushchev. A work in the workshop of metallurgical plant, the steelmaker Korobov is at work.
German soldiers are marching. People are going to the work; the miner is going down a mine.
1936 – the VIII Extraordinary Congress of the Soviets (Councils), the Congress participants in the Kremlin.
There is Stalin, Khrushchev, Voroshilov, Ordzhonikidze, Mikoyan at the presidium of the meeting. The listeners in the hall. Nikita Khrushchev is making a speech. The meeting participants are applauding. The Pervomay [“May Day”] parade and demonstration of 1941 in the city of Kiev. Timoshenko, Khrushchev and others are standing on the tribune. People are passing by, Khrushchev is applauding. The scenes of the Great Patriotic War (USSR’s participation in World War II) - German planes are flying, German soldier are breaking a door of the house, the women are next to the dead men, a village is burning, the wheat is burning, the refugees are coming. Nikita Khrushchev is among the Soviet commanders. Marshal Timoshenko is swearing. Nikita Khrushchev is swearing, he is putting a signature under the oath. Soviet soldiers are going to the front, the tankmen before the fight. Nikita Khrushchev is making a speech to the tankmen. Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev are at the front. Nikita Khrushchev and Timoshenko are in the front headquarter. The antiaircraft guns are shooting, the shot plane is falling down, explosions. Nikita Khrushchev is making a speech at a session of the military council in 1942. The city of Stalingrad is burning.
Nikita Khrushchev and Marshal Eremenko are at the telegraph apparatus. A battle-order signed by Nikita Khrushchev. The battles for Stalingrad – the artillery, “Katyusha” canons are firing, the tanks, infantry are attacking, the planes are flying. A column of the captured Germans is passing by, there is a broken German equipment. The Soviet Flag is over Stalingrad. Nikita Khrushchev is hugging General Rodimtsev. Nikita Khrushchev and the Soviet military leaders are in the streets of the released Stalingrad. Eremenko, Khryukin, Chuykov, Shumilov, Rodimtsev, Rokossovski are passing by. The citizens of Stalingrad are coming back to their houses. A meeting at the square of Stalingrad, Nikita Khrushchev is making a speech. M.I. Kalinin is rewarding Nikita Khrushchev with the Order of Suvorov for the Stalingrad Operation. Nikita Khrushchev with his wife, daughter and the film director Dovzhenko are at the aerodrome before departure to the front.

Source description 3: A newsreel - the Soviet armies enter the released Rostov. Nikita Khrushchev and the commander of a Southern front R.J. Malinovski are at the streets of Rostov. The citizens of the city of Rostov are at the grave of people killed by the Germans, the dead bodies of tortured people, the women are crying, the destroyed buildings. Nikita Khrushchev at the aerodrome. Nikita Khrushchev’s son, military pilot Leonid Khrushchev and others are at the aerodrome. Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev are going to plane. A portrait of L. Khrushchev killed during the fulfillment of his combat mission. An attack of the Soviet armies at the fronts of the Great Patriotic War – there are the planes flying, soldiers running, wounded soldier, the soldiers are dragging a canon. Nikita Khrushchev is talking to political commissioners. Nikita Khrushchev is in entrenchment. There column of the captured Germans is passing by. Nikita Khrushchev is talking to the captured Germans. Nikita Khrushchev is talking to the wounded Soviet soldiers. The soldiers are at the front - in entrenchment, in the hut. The soldier is reading the letter. Nikita Khrushchev in entrenchment near the city of Kiev. Combat operations to release Kiev - the artillery is shooting, explosions. The Soviet soldiers are crossing the Dnepr, the soldiers are forcing the Dnieper River. An air battle, the plane is falling down. Battles on the streets of Kiev. The citizens of Kiev are greeting the Soviet soldiers. The people are hugging Nikita Khrushchev. Nikita Khrushchev is being presented a key from the city of Kiev. A photo of Nikita Khrushchev among the guerrilla warriors. Nikita Khrushchev is in Kovpak's guerrilla brigade. Guerrilla warriors are liberating the village, the Soviet tanks are going to attack. Nikita Khrushchev is talking the citizens of the liberated city of Lvov. A photo of Khrushchev with soldiers of a Czechoslovak brigade. An attack of Soviet tanks and aviation.
The Soviet armies are forcing the river of Oder. The Soviet tanks are on the streets of the city of Berlin.
The soldiers at the Reichstag, raising a flag over Reichstag. Relatives are meeting the soldiers who have returned from the front. The destroyed Dneproges (Dnieper hydroelectric power station), destroyed blast furnace, the factory. The miners are in the destroyed mine. The workers are restoring a blast furnace. A steelmaker is working.
The miners are carrying a trolley with coal. Nikita Khrushchev is visiting miners, going down into mine, receiving a miner's lamp as a gift, the girl is presenting flowers to Khrushchev.
The Rutchensky factory where Nikita Khrushchev worked, a machine tool. Nikita Khrushchev and his escort are at the metallurgical plant. The steelmakers are working, the steel is flowing. Nikita Khrushchev is among the steelmakers.

Source description 4: Newsreel of 1956. Moscow streets. Participants of the XX Congress of the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) walking along the territory of the Kremlin, delegates are in the lobby of the Congress. Nikita Khrushchev is talking to the delegates. Nikita Khrushchev’s speech at the Congress, delegates are listening, applauding. Steel maker working, a worker behind the machine, a scientist in the lab. Nikita Khrushchev speaking in public. Construction of a dam, workers working. Nikita Khrushchev presenting awards to the workers of the city of Krasnogorsk Plant. Harvesting machine working in the field. Fields of cotton, sunflower. A corn field, a collective farmer in the field, corn harvesting. Nikita Khrushchev in the corn field. Nikita Khrushchev observing a beet harvesting machine. Nikita Khrushchev meeting agricultural pace-makers in the Kremlin. Nikita Khrushchev is speaking, collective farmers are applauding. In the Presidium the collective farm chairman U. Khodkhayev is kissing Nikita Khrushchev. The best agricultural workers N.Mamay, S.Kotova, V.Gaganova in the lobbies of the Kremlin. Declaration of the volunteers to go to exploit virgin lands, young people receiving permits at the local committee of Komsomol (Young Communist League), a train with people going to exploit virgin lands departing, people seeing off the train. The first furrow on the new land, earring wheat. Nikita Khrushchev and his escort in the new land. Grains pouring, threshing-floor. Nikita Khrushchev among exploiters of new lands, visiting new settlers. Nikita Khrushchev being treated with the new land’s honey. Letters written to Nikita Khrushchev. Nikita Khrushchev’s aides reading the letters. Nikita Khrushchev is reading the letter from a collective farmer Yuri Smirnov from the city of Kursk.

Source description 5: Residential housing construction in Moscow. A plant of reinforced concrete constructions.
Construction of a residential house from assembly parts, construction workers working. New house, new settlers arriving in, a new apartment. A block of new houses, new street in Moscow.
Nuclear-powered icebreaker “Lenin”, the rocket ascending. Nikita Khrushchev speaking.
The delegation of collective farmers from Bulgaria at the reception of Nikita Khrushchev. The English Prime-minister M. Millan in the summer cottage of Nikita Khrushchev. Riding the troika. Meeting between Nikita Khrushchev, having a vacation in Crimea, with the singer Paul Robson and his wife. Cultural workers and scientists visiting Nikita Khrushchev in his state summer house near Moscow, among the guests: M. Sholokhov, D. Shostakovich, T. Khrennikov, A. Khachaturyan, Sobolev. The Congress of writers in the Kremlin. Ekaterina Furtseva, Malinovskiy, Nikita Khrushchev talking to the participants of the Congress. Nikita Khrushchev’s speech at the Congress of writers. Delegates listening and applauding.
Nikita Khrushchev in the Bolshoi Theater is watching folk talents.
The audience applauding, folk dance being performed.
New Year tree in the Kremlin, children dancing around the tree.
Nikita Khrushchev with his former schoolteacher among children near New Year Tree.
Thesis of the report of Nikita Khrushchev about the seven-year development plan of the national economy being discussed at industrial plants.
The XXI CPSU Congress - participants of the Congress walking along the territory of the Kremlin, A.Mikoyan, S. Khrushchev and delegates talking behind the scenes.
Presidium and participants are applauding.
Nikita Khrushchev’s speech at the Congress, delegates are listening, applauding.

Source description 6: Overview of a metallurgical plant, steel-makers working. Construction of a Hydroelectric Power Station, laying gas pipes, a canal, an oil storage facility, harvesting machines working in the field, a herd of sheep, a corn field, a new settlement, children going to school, an ambulance car passing by. A Moscow street, a food store, a cinema, fans at the stadium. Retired soldiers on construction site. Different views of children. Session in the “October Hall” of the Kremlin dedicated to the awarding of Nikita Khrushchev with the International Lenin Peace Award – pioneers are giving flowers to Nikita Khrushchev, spectators are applauding, Nikita Khrushchev is speaking. Nikita Khrushchev visiting China, meeting with Mao Tse Tung. Nikita Khrushchev in the plane. Nikita Khrushchev visiting Berlin – meeting at a Berlin square, on the platform there are Nikita Khrushchev, V. Ulbrikht, O. Groteval. Nikita Khrushchev meeting with Polish miners in Warsaw. Nikita Khrushchev and others are frying shashlik (meat barbecue) on fire (during the visit to Czechoslovakia). Nikita Khrushchev visiting India – people greeting Nikita Khrushchev, Nikita Khrushchev planting “the tree of peace”, Nikita Khrushchev visiting the Bkhilay industrial complex, talking to the workers, farmers. Nikita Khrushchev is meeting with the President of Indonesia Sukarno. A plane in the air. Nikita Khrushchev is visiting seamen. Nikita Khrushchev is in the train, in the bus, talking to the collective farmers. Nikita Khrushchev and his escort visiting the Australian farmers. Nikita Khrushchev in Austria is meeting with the Austrian workers. Nikita Khrushchev visiting France – French people greeting the Soviet delegation, Nikita Khrushchev responding to the greetings. A French magazine with photographs of Nikita Khrushchev and his family (different views). Nikita Khrushchev talking to journalists in the plane. Nikita Khrushchev’ visit to the USA - Nikita Khrushchev holding a little American girl, people greeting the Soviet delegation in the railway station.

Source description 7: The USA. Peace demonstrations in the streets of New York. Nikita Khrushchev is talking to correspondents of the American television. Nikita Khrushchev is visiting France – meeting with the mayor of the city of Marseilles, Nikita Khrushchev’s speech in the mayor’s office, Nikita Khrushchev talking to French children. A child and doves, a Chinese girl, a child sleeping in the stroller. Nikita Khrushchev’s speech in the United Nations. A parade of new fascists in West Germany, fascist emblem on a fence. A United Nations session, Nikita Khrushchev’s speech, the audience are applauding. Nikita Khrushchev is talking to Fidel Castro. Press-conference by Nikita Khrushchev. Nikita Khrushchev’s trip to the city of Sevastopol – meeting at the city square, Nikita Khrushchev talking to the residents of the city. Nikita Khrushchev at the model of the new city. Nikita Khrushchev’s meeting the writer M. Sholokhov at the Veshenskaya Cossack village. Nikita Khrushchev talking to the craftsmen in the city of Tula. Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Government are having a trip along the Moscow river by boat named “Meteor”. Train on the way. Residents of a station are greeting Nikita Khrushchev, presenting him “Bread and salt” Nikita Khrushchev receiving a diploma of the virgin land exploiter. Nikita Khrushchev is talking to the vacationists in the Medeo resort, Nikita Khrushchev is walking.

Source description 8: Nikita Khrushchev is in a corn field, talking to the collective farmers. Newspapers with announcements on the first flight of a human being to the space. A portrait of the astronaut Yuri Gagarin. Nikita Khrushchev is making a speech. Nikita Khrushchev is passing by, people are greeting Nikita Khrushchev. A view of smiling people. The people in the Moscow streets are greeting Nikita Khrushchev and Yuri Gagarin going by car.

Directors: Setkina I.

Script writers: Zakharchenko V.

Announcer: Khmara L.