Trunks Under the Ground.

Trunks Under the Ground. , 1971 (28:44)

Annotation: The film tells about the subway systems of five Soviet cities – Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Tbilisi and Baku, and their technical equipment.

Film description: Metropolitan cities: Baku, Tbilisi, Kiev, Leningrad, Moscow. Surface, underground subway station; decoration vestibules, underground subway stations. Passengers on the escalator, in electric cars. Post a centralized automatic train control. Advance flight wagon Track geometry car. Identification of defects in rails. Washing cars of trains. Construction of new metro stations. Georgian artist S. Kayava working on sketches for the decoration of bas-reliefs of Tbilisi metro stations.

Source description 1: The film tells about underground systems of five Soviet cities – Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Tbilisi and Baku, and their technical equipment.

Subway trains are leaving the depot.
A train is entering the tunnel.
The city of Baku.
The city of Tbilisi.
The city of Kiev, the Dnieper River and a bridge over the Dnieper.
A street in the city of Leningrad.
A panorama of Moscow, a high-rise building and a bridge over the Moskva River.
Rails.
A subway tunnel.
People are going downstairs staircase in the Baku subway.
The station “Narimanov”.
People are going out of the carriage.
Pioneers are entering the carriage.
A train is arriving at the station “Ulduz”.
The station “Ulduz”.
People are reading newspapers, chatting in the carriage.
Girls are sitting.
A car is going along the street. Baku.
Pedestrians in the streets.
Green grass in the streets.
New districts of Baku.
A panorama of Baku facing the gulf.
A panorama of Tbilisi, the view of the Kura River.
A panorama of the old Tbilisi district.
A monument.
An ancient castle. Cars are going by at its foot.
A panorama of people walking down the streets, palm-trees.
A panorama of a subway station building.
A panorama of another station.
The subway station building, people are passing by.
The above-ground station “Isani”, people are descending by escalator.
People are on the platform, women in national costumes are among them.
A train is approaching, people are entering the carriage.
People in the carriage.
Entrance to the station “Mardzhanishvili”.
A panorama of the station “Mardzhanishvili”, people walking by.
Georgian girls are sitting and chatting.
The station “Isani”, a wall.
Kiev, the Dnieper River bank, the monument to Prince Vladimir Monomakh.
The monument to Bogdan Khmelnitsky [a fighter for the Ukraine’s independence from Poland] and the cathedrals.
A panorama of a new Kiev district.
Kreschatik Street.
A panorama of a Kiev street, a subway station building.
A subway bridge, a train is going by.
The station “Zavod “Bolshevik” [“Plant “Bolshevik” (member of the Lenin fraction of the Soviet Communist Party)”], people are getting out of the train.
The building of the station “Arsenalnaya” [“Arsenal”], an ancient cannon is on the pedestal near the station.
The station “Universitet” [“University”].
A train is arriving at the station “Universitet”, young people are standing at the station.
The station “Universitet”. A panorama of the marble wall and the bust of Taras Shevchenko [an outstanding Ukrainian poet of the XIX century].
A female subway worker on duty is letting the train go.
The locomotive driver is in the cabin.
Passengers are in the carriage.
A girl wearing a straw-hat and sunglasses.
A girl and a boy are standing at the window (the train is going on the ground).
A new district of Kiev on the other bank of the Dnieper River.
An above-ground station, a train is going-by.
A bridge over the Dnieper River.
The drawn bridges in Leningrad, the sunrise over the Neva River.
The monument to Lenin at the Finland Railway Station.
Leningrad shot from the helicopter, St.Isaak's Cathedral.
The Alexander Column in the Palace Square.
The Admiralty and other buildings.
The Summer Garden.
The monument to Peter I.
The Rostral column.
Leningrad streets, a panorama of the subway station building.
Girls are walking by the subway station building.
The station “Nevsky Prospekt” [“Nevsky Avenue”].
People on the escalator.
An escalator, a panorama of the station “Ploschad Vosstaniya” [“The Revolt Square”].
People are looking through books in the subway bookstall.
The station “Tekhnologichesky Institut” [“Technological Institute”], a train is approaching.
Two young men are talking.
The bas-relief of Mikhail Lomonosov [a great Russian scientist, the founder of the Moscow State University] on the wall.
A girl and a boy are on the platform.
The bas-relief of Sofya Kovalevskaya (a great Russian woman-mathematician).
A girl is watching.
The bas-relief of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (a great Russian space and aircraft designer and explorer).
The station “Tekhnologichesky Institut” [“Technological Institute”].

Source description 2: The Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin, the monument to Lenin.
Kremlin Cathedrals and a tower.
Kalinin Avenue.
A panorama of (Lenin?) Avenue.
The building of the subway station “Sokol” [“Hawk”].
A panorama of the Komsomol Square [Young Communist League Square], of the Yaroslavl railway station building.
The station “Komsomolskaya”.
A panorama of the Sadovoye Kol’tso [the Garden Ring Road (the Moscow Ring Highway)], a subway station.
The station “Mayakovskaya”.
A panorama of a subway bridge over the Moskva River, a train is going by, a high-rise building can be seen.
Kalinin Avenue.
A panorama of the old building of the subway station “Arbatskaya”.
A panorama of the people at the Moscow subway plan.
A hand is pushing the button on the plan.
A route is lighting up on the map.
An above-ground subway line, a train is going by.
A panorama of a new Moscow district.
Different hands are putting 5 kopek coins into the slot machine.
A panorama of passengers passing through the turnstile.
People are going by the staircase. A panorama of the station “Kurskaya”.
A train is going by.
The interior of the station “Ploschad Nogina” [“Square named after Nogin”].
A woman with a six-year-old girl are in the carriage.
A doll is in the bag, the woman's hand can be seen.
A Negro is standing.
The passengers’ faces – girls, an elderly man and others.
A bag with rackets.
Baskets.
A violin.
A girl is reciting texts from her exercise-book.
Men with newspapers are sitting.
The station “Mayakovskaya”.
A boy and a girl are standing near the bust of Mayakovsky [ a distinguished Soviet poet], a panorama of the wall.
A boy is sitting on the bench.
People are standing and sitting at the station “Mayakovskaya”.
A boy and a girl are talking in the carriage, other boy and girl are talking at the station.
People on the escalator.
A panorama of the room under the escalator on the station “Ploschad Revolutsii” [“Revolution Square”] - the escalator is rotating (the machinery is operating), people are working, the machinery.
People are descending by the escalator.
A television device.
The image of the people walking along the station is on the TV screen.
A woman at the TV control panel, a panorama of theTV sets.
People are at the train (on the screen).
A train is entering the tunnel, a panorama of the clock.
A panorama of the station “Lomonosovskaya” in Leningrad.
People are getting on the carriages.
The train and station doors are closing.
The train is leaving the station (shot from the cabin).
People in the carriage, a five-year-old boy is looking through the book.
A girl wearing spectacles is reading.
An automatic device driving the train in the driver’s cabin.
The driver is watching the automatic device.
The automatic centralized train control post.
The face of the young man working at the control panel, his hands.
The cassette with the punched tape where the program of train movements along the whole subway line is recorded.
A train is approaching the station (shot from the cabin).
The doors are opening, people are entering the carriage.
People are walking along the station “Lomonosovskaya”.
A woman at the control panel.
The subway plan is glowing.
A subway tunnel (in Moscow).
People at the devices in a track recording car making a check tour.
Lamps are flaring up.
The device graphing the route is operating.
Hands are carrying a magnifier and cine film with the image of rails.
A woman at the table is examiniing the film.
A panorama of washing trains in the depot “Krasnopresnenskaya”.
A worker is checking the train.
Hands are probing the carriage details, holding a hammer.
A worker is rapping the carriage with a small hammer.
A panorama of trains being checked and repaired.
A panorama of an above-ground subway line, a train is going by.
A panorama of constructing a new subway station in Moscow.
A panorama of a tunneling shield.
A man wearing a helmet is working, his hands.
Tunneling.
A hoisting crane is carrying a joist.
A panorama of structures welding.
A panorama of the future subway station.

Source description 3: The station “Kropotkinskaya”.
The station“Komsomolskaya”.
A panorama of columns, a chandelier.
The station “Shaumyan” (named after a distinguished Azerbaijan revolutionary) in Baku.
A panorama of the column, of the ceiling, of the bas-relief.
A woman is taking pictures.
A bas-relief at the station “Ploschad Vosstaniya” in Leningrad.
A panorama of the station“Ploschad Revolutsii” in Moscow.
A panorama of sculptures at the station.
The station “Oktyabrskaya” in Tbilisi: a train is going-by, a panorama of the panel on the wall.
The station “26 Bakinskikh Komissarov” [“26 Baku Commissars (26 Communist leaders executed by the Englist interventionists in Baku during the Civil War in Russia (1918-1922))”] in Baku – a column, a panorama of the bas-relief of commissars.
The monument to the 26 Baku Commissars – the sculpture and the Eternal Flame.
A panorama of the marble wall on the bas-relief.
The Georgian artist Soso Kayava is working, drawing sketches for the subway station halls.
Kayava's face, hands are minting.
Sketches on the walls.
The minting.
A panorama of a bas relief at the station“300 Aragvintsev” (300 Georgian warriors falled in a battle with the Azerbaijan khan Aga Mohamed at the Gergian town of Krtsanisi).
Other bas-relieves (stone).
A panorama of colored stained-glass windows.
The girls' faces – a Georgian and a Russian.
A panorama of the stained-glass windows at the station“Novoslobodskaya” in Moscow.
A six-year-old girl is watching.
A woman with a girl.
The station “Novoslobodskaya”, a panorama of the columns.
A panorama of the station “Avtovo” in Leningrad.
A panorama of the chandelier.
A girl and a boy are watching.
A panorama of foreign delegation members watching.
A girl is taking pictures.
A panorama of the station “Rustaveli” (named after the great Georgian poet Shota Rusyaveli) in Tbilisi.
People are standing, a lot of military people.
A scupture of Alexader Pushkin, a panorama of the station“Pushkinskaya” in Leningrad.
A guide at the station, a panorama of the scupture of Alexader Pushkin.
The faces of a girl, two boys, a young Vietnamese, three Arabs.
A Russian girl is laying flowers to the pedestal of the scupture of Pushkin.
A girl with a plait.
A panorama of elderly foreign female tourists watching a lamp at the station,
A panorama of the station “Pushkinskaya”, columns (shot from the escalator).
People in the carriage are reading, writing down.
Girls are looking through a book.
A man with a fishing rod is sitting.
A panorama of the people walking along the above-ground station“Gidropark” [“Hydropark”] in Kiev.
People are walking along the bridge, a beach with people.
A subway bridge, a motor-boat is sailing by below the bridge.
The station“Leninskiye gory” [“Lenin Hills”] in Moscow.
A panorama of the people near the station“Sportivnaya”.
The Stadium named after Lenin during the All-Union Sports and Athletic Competitions “The Friendship of Peoples”, people with flags are on the Stadium field. A panorama from the letter “M” to the “Mayakovskaya” station entrance.
People at the entrance to the station.
An elderly woman with an ice-cream.
A man with a camera.
A girl is buying flowers.
A panorama of the people on the escalator.
People on the platform.
A panorama of the people entering the carriage.
The female worker on duty is letting the train go, the train is departing.
A subway tunnel.

Directors: Sofronov V.

Operators: Panov I., Prudnikov M.

Script writers: Kleyner E., Orlov G.

Announcer: Khmara L.