Steps Of History.

Steps Of History. , 1976 (58:21)

Annotation: The film tells about realization in real life of the 24th Congress' of the CPSU decisions, about changes in county's life during 1971-1975.

Film description: Newsreel. Completion of the Sayan-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power. Workers on a rig. Address (synchronously) General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev on the retooling of all branches of industry and agriculture. Leonid Brezhnev's meetings with workers, youth, people on the streets. Work crews Zlobin. Interviews (synchronously) Zlobina the high results of his team. The joint flight of Soviet and American spacecraft, the meeting on European Security and Cooperation in Helsinki (Finland). The development of virgin lands: tractor for harvesting. Poems about his native land reads (synchronously) Tanya Smirnova. Northern winter wheat, fodder, preparation of equipment to work in the fields. Cleaning cotton. Construction of KAMAZ and new towns, such as the city of Naberezhnye Chelny. Working at KAMAZ machines on the shop floor at work. 17 Congress of the Young Communist League welcomed the builders of BAM.

Source description 1: Participants of XXIV conference of Communist Party of Soviet Union are applauding.
Leonid Brezhnev is making a speech.
Panel with a portrait of Lenin.
Sunrise over the Red Square.
Connection lay-outs, operation panels, soldiers at the control panel, planes are taking off, cars are passing, coalminer is moving.
“We conquered you, Yenisei!” and “Ilich’s dream to come true!” slogans are written on the mountain.
Preparations for the overlapping of Yenisei for building Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydro Power station.
People are standing, cars are passing.
Drivers’ task master, companion of October revolution and of Labor Glory III degree, Ilya Vasilievich Kojura before overlap.
Newsreel of 1968:
Driver Iliya Kojura is dropping block to Yenisei(constructing of basin on the right side of river)
Workers are applauding
Blocks are falling into the water.
Newsreel of 1975:
Car is driving through the bridge.
Blocks on the waterside.
I.V.Kojura’s back-up - astronaut pilot of USSR G.Y.Beregovoy and the Hero of the Socialist Labor, honoured builder of Russian Soviet Federative Socialistic Republic A.E.Bochkin are passing by.
G.T.Beregovoy is greeting I.V.Kojura
Trucks are driving through the overlap, blocks are falling into the water.
Drivers are in the cabins.
Children are throwing little stones into the water.
Constructing schemes, people in the taiga, stepping out from a helicopter.
Cars and road-free vehicles are driving through.
Tractor is driving out of the plane.
Road in the taiga.
Pipe with a label: “Red joint of the largest oil pipe in the world”
Plane is flying, view of taiga.
Oil isburning.

Source description 2: Canned news of 1971-1975. :
Session of XXIV conference of Communist Party of Soviet Union.
Leonid Brezhnev is making a speech.
Control panel of Leningrad atomic power station.
Mechanisms are working.
High-voltage lines, panorama of power station.
Rocket launch.
Shots of different ages showing the meetings of Leonid Brezhnev the general secretary of Central Committee of Communist Party of Soviet Union with workers, his visits to various factories, trips to republics.
Nowadays newsreel – a panorama of new city region.
Constructing schemes, showing the growth of wellness of soviet people.
Education, enlightenment, recreation, health care, building.
Houses in Zelenograd – suburb of Moscow.
Builder Nikolai Anatolievich Zlobin, member of Presidium of Supreme soviet of USSR, Hero of Socialistic labor, laureate of Governmental award of USSR, and members of his team.
N.A.Zlobin and members of his brigade are passing by.
N.A.Zlobin is in the hall (the Kremlin).
Smelters working.
Spinner E.G.Amosova at work.
Coalminer G.N.Smirnov in the pit and at the meeting of Supreme Soviet of USSR.
N.A.Zlobin on the guest tribune at the demonstration on the 7 of November.
Demonstrators are passing by.
Members of the government on the tribune.

Source description 3: Festive demonstration of November, 7th on the Red Square.
N.A.Zlobin is giving an interview on the Red Square.
Demonstrators are waving with flowers, carrying ensigns, transparent with portraits of Leonid Brezhnev .
Rocket is launching.
Flight control panel.
Cartoon: Rocket in the space.
Meeting of the soviet and American astronauts, participants of flight “Souz - Apollon” [“Union –Apollo”] in the space.
Moscow, Kremlin.
Soviet and American astronauts in the Kremlin.
Leonid Brezhnev with astronauts.
Conference about European safety and cooperation in Helsinki.
Leonid Brezhnev and other heads of states are signing Concluding act of conference.
Monument “Mother – Cradleland” on Mamaev borrow.
Veterans of Great Patriotic War are going through the street, hugging and kissing.
Children and women are throwing flower to their feet.
Leonid Brezhnev is kissing with his fellow soldiers (Novorossiysk).
Minute of silence.
Eternal flame.
Leonid Brezhnev , A.N.Kosygin, N.V.Podgorny and others are standing.
Girl is putting flowers on burial plates with text: “1942” (Moscow).
Battlefield.
Mid-Russian autumn view.
Horse in the filed.
Man is going through the plowed filed.
Harvesting of the bread in state farm “Novy Put’ [“New Way”] situated in Karaganda region of Kazakh SSR.
War veteran who lost two legs during war deputy of Supreme Soviet of USSR a hero of socialistic labor, a knight of two orders of Lenin and of order of Red Star, Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov is driving a harvester, wiping the window, drinking water in the field.
Newsreel of 1954-56:
Barracks on virgin soil.
Arrival of people on virgin soil.
Field.
Leonid Brezhnev on the tribune in the field.
Tractors in the field.
Sky, clouds over the field.
I.I.Ivanov is passing through formation of pioneers. They are applauding.
I.I.Ivanov in the lobbies of Supreme Soviet session.
Grain pouring.
Night harvesting.
Drops of rain on the window of the car.
Men inspecting cereals after the rain.
Hands hold spikes bruised by hail.
Dry, cracked ground.
Cloudy sky.
Raining.
Washy ground.
Nowadays filming.
Tractor driver passing.
Elevators.
Harvesting.
Tilling.
Buildings of new livestock complex.
Automated feeding of livestock.
Ameliorative works, tractor grabbing cut trees, digging trenches.
Grain is falling into the machine.

Source description 4: Tanya Smirnova the main agriculturist of state farm “Druzhba” [“Friendship”] situated in Parfenievsky region of Kostroma Region is going through the field (autumn). Talking over the phone.
Conference of administration of state farm (average age of members of administration is 24 years old}.
T.Smirnova and her husband Valery, the director of the state farm, on the conference.
Tanya goes through the plowed field with horse.
Harvesters standing.
Harvester goes through collecting chaff.
T.Smirnova directs the harvest.
Blossoming sunflowers.
Tanya Smirnova – members of soviet wide conference of young writers is reading her poems.
Tanya is riding a horse, walking with her son.
A car (of the Gorky Car Plant) is going by.
T.Smirnova at the farm.
V and T. Smirnova and other members of administration inspecting agricultural equipment.
Agricultural machines at the factory.
Crane lifts tractor.
Finished tractors, harvesters and trucks standing.
Assembling of machines.
Harvesting of cotton in Uzbekistan. Harvesters in the field.
Trucks with cotton are driving through.
Inobad Ahunova the director of state farm “Uzbekistan” situated in Golodnaya moor is going through cotton storing bunkers, taking cotton, in cabin of harvester.
Black and white shots:
Hands are grinding the dry soil.
Hurricane on the field.
Covering the cotton.
Drying cotton on the road.
Women harvester driver in the cabin.
Cotton storing bunkers.
Old man and a girl gather branches of cotton an put them to the box, nailed down to wall.
Naberejnie Chelni (shot from a moving car).
Text on the bunder on Russian and Tatar language: “Naberjnie Chelni. Yar Chali”
Brass band is playing.
Citizens are passing through.
Child is in the cradle.
Other child is moving.
Children are playing in the kindergarten.
Children are talking about who they will be in future.
Constructing works on KAMAZ (Kama Automobile Plant).
Passing through construction site.
Section of Kamа Plant.
Excavator working.
Excavator driver in cabin.
Girl-cook and a young boy are sitting on the tractor.
Cars with building equipment are passing through.

Source description 5: Newsreel 1971-75:
Section of Kamа Plant.
Workers near the press.
Cars are driving through the streets of Naberejnie Chelni.
Cranes at the construction site.
Workers on the construction site.
Cooks in refectory of Kama Automobile Plant is laying the food.
View of refectory.
Workers are having a dinner.
Rais Salahov, initiator of slogan “two work for three”, knight of the “Sign of honor” order, brigadier of builders, is smoking.
Panorama of recent development of Naberejnie Chelni.
Deputies of the Supreme Soviet of USSR in the lobbies of premises where session take place.
R. Salahov, N.Zlobin, I.Ivanov, G.Smirnov in the lobbies of the session.
Locksmith Aleksey Vasilievich Viktorov, Hero of the socialistic labor, members of central committee of communist party of Soviet Union, in the lobbies of the session and making speech on the tribune.
Audience in the hall.
N.V.Podgorny bestows award to A.V.Viktorov.
Photo:
A.Viktorov and others at work.
Brigadier A.Viktorov is working in first bearing factory.
Bearing lie and moving.
Young man is working.
Master is inspecting scheme.
Former locksmith, secretary soviet-wide central soviet of labor unions A.V.Viktorov is passing trough the section, greets his scholars and other workers.
Newsreel of the 1920-s
Section of ball-and-roller factory.
Workers near the machines.
Workers are smiling.
Newsreel 1970th
Meeting of L.Brezhnev with initiator of Stahanov’s movement, spinner Maria Ivanovna Vinogradova, beet grower Marina Vasilievna Gnatenko, turner Ivan Ivanovich Gudov, smith Alexandr Haritonovich Busigin, show manufacturer Nikolai Ivanovich Smetanin, coalminer Konstantin Grigorievich Petrov, harvester driver Konstatntin Aleksandrovich Borin.
Newsreel of the 1930-s
Young M.Vinogradova, P.Krivinos, M.Gnatenko, I.Gudov, A.Busigin, N.Smetanin, K.Borin are working.
Congratulating A.G.Stahanov.
Grinding of a roller.
Minsk factory of computing devices named after Ordzhonikidze.
Control panel of atomic power station.
1971. L..Brezhnev is making a speech on XXIV conference of Communist Party of Soviet Union.

Source description 6: Computers assembly.
Scientists of laboratory.
Constructing schemes, sign with text: “Academy of science of the USSR”.
Scientists and teachers are talking with students.
Experiment is being held.
Delegates of XVII conference of all-union Leninist Young Communist League are greeting future builders of Baikal-Amur Mainline.
Representative of komsomol is reporting.
Seeing off of Baikal-Amur Mainline builders to the railway station.
Close ups of youngsters.
Siberia. Near Tundra. Opening of the first bridge over the Lena river.
Flag, view on the brass band.
First train goes trough the bridge.
Young builders in the train.
Man with a child in his hands is looking.
Baikal-Amur Mainline builder are driving through the snow drift.
Woodcutters are working in the taiga. Trees are falling.
Explosions.
Packing up railway sleeper.
Plane is flying.
Lakes.
Barge are going by a river.
Construction site.
Oil-workers at their work. Girl is assembling clocks. Workers are smiling. Girl is navigating plane.
Close up of workers’ faces. Trucks in the sand career. Spinners going through the section of factory and congratulating the coalminers – heroes of the Socialistic competitions. Roads. Planes are flying over the water. Metallurgical complex. Gas cisterns. Trucks are driving through. Rocket is ready to launch. Scenery and other views.

Directors: Rychkov B.N.

Operators: Baykov V., Kochetkov A. S., Myakishev G., Orlov U.

Script writers: Rychkov B.N.

Composers: Shainskiy V.

Announcer: Konsovskiy A.