The House near the Road

The House near the Road , 1979 (47:28)

Annotation: The film # 6 from the series "Chronicle of the Baikal-Amur Mainline (a railway line in Russia). About the BAM constructors, their problems.

Film description: Construction of the Baikal tunnel. The explosion of births of children at BAM. Problems with your children in kindergarten, the construction of residential buildings - development zone BAM.

Source description 1: The worker of a BAM tunnel team Ulitin with his son are walking through the forest to the cemetery and standing at the grave.
Hands are laying a wreath on the grave.
A photo of Ulitin’s wife who died in an accident.
Railing.
The team-leader, the Hero of Socialist Labor Victor Lakomov and members of his team are working.
Track laying machine is going by with the inscription on the board: “Daesh Davan!” [“Let Us Reach Davan!”].
The ceremony of greeting the first train in the town of Davan, people are standing.
Among people there is the shaftmen team leader Tolstuhov, graduates of the Institute of Culture Lyudmila and Sergey Davydovs with their child, the chief of the Buryat construction site, the Hero of Socialist Labor Hodakovsky, the obstetrician-gynecologist Ponamarev (winter).
Tolstuhov is working. (summer)
The Davydovs.
Khodokovsky in the office, in the car talking with Komsomol [Young Communist League] members going to the BAM.
Ponamarev is taking off his mask, talking with a man at the maternity hospital.
The panorama of the train going by (winter).
The welcoming people (Buryats) are standing with the bread and salt [traditional welcoming custom].
A meeting.
The panorama of the tape cutting.
The Secretary of Buryat Regional Committee of the СPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) Madogoev is present at the meeting
Hodakovsky is speaking at the meeting.
Cameraman is shooting a film.
Mountains.
Tolstuhov’s shaftmen team members are working in the Baykal tunnel.
Workers are walking along the tunnel deep in water.
The panorama of the rock on the transporter.
Drilling rigs.
Builders are layng explosive.
Hand is pushing the button.
Panorama of the explosion.
Tolstuhov’s team consultation: Tolstuhov is speaking, workers are speaking.
Workers in helmets are sitting.

Source description 2: Tolstuhov’s team consultation is going on.
The team is working.
Vehicles loaded with rock are going by.
Tolstuhov is walking along the town street (autumn), at home – washing himself, having lunch with his wife Valentina Dmitrievnoy (a teacher).
Tolstuhov’s children: the son Jenya (a builder) is writing at the table, the daughter Lena (a schoolgirl) is taking a book.
Tolstuhov is telling about the life on the BAM.
Tolstuhov with his wife and daughter are skiing.
Festival of Seeing off the Russian Winter, people are standing, a man is climbing the post.
Tolstuhov with his daughter at the festival.
Tolstuhov’s family is picking berries and mushrooms in the forest.
Berries are falling in the basket.
Mushrooms. (summer).
An explosion.
The panorama of the Baykal lakeside.
The panorama of lorries going by.
Panorama of the dozer pouring the rock to Baykal Lake
The collective farm chairman is telling about the dangerous environmental consequences of the construction.
Explosions in the forest.
Panorama of the excavator bucket taking rock.
A lorry is discharging soil.
Baykal Lake, the forest on the lakeside.
The panorama of the doctor Ponomarev passing through the airdrome of the town of Nizhneangarsk, coming to the helicopter.
Ambulance is going by.
Ponomarev is talking with a woman in her yard.
The maternity hospital, children are laying.
Ponomarev is telling about his work.
A newborn is opening his eyes.
Women with perambulators are passing through the town.
Teenagers are sitting.
The panorama of children playing outside.
Panorama of fathers walking with their children.
Infants are going.
The nursery entrance.
Panorama of Ulitin walking by with his son.
Teenagers are riding bicycles.
Cars are passing.
People are going, trees are swinging in the wind.

Source description 3: Panorama of the festival in the nursery: the nursery employee are hanging paper figures, there is a slogan “Dobro pozhalovatt” [“Welcome!”].
Children in masquerade costumes are singing, dancing, watching, and playing.
The nursery chief and employees are singing.
Ulitin and his son Kirill are playing cubes at home.
Kirill with his father on the boat on the bank of Lake Baykal.
Badges devoted to the BAM; Kirill is watching badges.
Treshkin is interviewing the chief of the nursery Iskra Nikolaevna, she is speaking.
Parents in the nursery chief’s office.
The two-storied children’s complex building, a bulldozer is operating.
Parents are building a temporary nursery.
People are passing by along the street; a woman with a perambulator.
Move to the new flat, people are carrying luggage.
Panorama of people talking in the street, among them Ponomarev.
Painter is giving a lecture and showing the reproductions; women are listening.
The Art Gallery in the town of Severobaykalsk.
The Demidovs and Ulitin with his son are watching paintings.
Landscape of Siberia, cars are going by.
Lorries are going by, special vehicles.
The panorama of staying constructors.
Wagon is being carried.
The cars are hardly going by the washed out road (summer).
Cars are running, headlights are alight.
A driver is repairing a car.
The drivers are talking.
The panorama of the monument obelisks to the drivers and other BAM workers died in car accidents.
The train is passing by the obelisk.
Outdoors Khodakovsky is talking to the construction site managers. (winter)
The building of a bridge across the Tayuru River ; Khodakovsky at the construction site.
Panorama of Severobaykalsk, houses. (summer)
The panorama of the house building, a dozer is operating.(winter)

Source description 4: The houses building. (winter)
The panorama of the construction of treatment facilities.
The panorama of an empty apartment.
Panorama of the port. (summer)
The discharge of food and other goods.
The town, walking people. (winter)
Women are talking of the supply problem on BAM.
Khodakovsky.
A meeting dedicated to supply problems, the supply manager Khodakovsky is speaking.
People are listening, writing down.
Panorama of loading refrigerating plants for meat freezing.
Panorama of the grocery store: bread section, infant food packages.
A canteen; Kirill Ulitin and his father are taking food, they are having lunch.
Panorama of greenhouses.
Panorama of women gathering cucumbers.
Khodakovsky and the Commitee members in the hotbed.
A man is digging potatoes in the garden.
Ulitin and his son in the hotbed.
Hands are digging out a sprout.
Women are buying hotbed cucumbers and tomatoes, carrying purchases.
The Siberian landscape in summer – mountains, a valley.
Women are working in the garden.
A truck is going by.
A woman is pouring milk out.
Khodakovsky is talking to the road-builders; he is crossing the airdrome, he himself and several Committee members are looking through the newly built tunnels.
Railing.
The helicopter is carrying a component, it is summer.
High-voltage line installation.
Panorama of the transmission facilities of the Ust-Ilimsk Hydro-Electric Power Station.
An annual meeting of the Siberian scientists: posters: “Man in the BAM, social problems”.
Scientists, one of them is speaking.
The Siberian landscape – taiga, mountains.
Lake Baikal in autumn.
Cave drawings.
The House Museum of the Decembrists (participants of the revolt in December 1825 in Russia), the inscription: “Decembrist Sergey Trubetskoy…lived here 1844-1856”.
A portrait of Trubetskoy, a writing-table.
The cinema projector is operating.
The Davydovs’ record chronicle.
Sergey is heating the stove, boiling the water; a boy is playing the accordion; people in the small carriage.

Source description 5: The building with the sign “School of Arts”, it is spring.
The organizer Lyudmila Davydova is speaking.
A boy is playing the accordion.
Children, teachers.
A boy is playing the guitar.
Panorama of Davydova and other judges are talking.
The Mother’s Day: men are singing a comic song; panorama of the women listening.
The School of Arts, children running along the corridor.
Panorama of the girls dancing under the guidance of the teacher.
Painting class, children are drawing under the guidance of the teacher.
The Art Song Festival, panorama of the hall.
A Buryat lad singing.
Sergey and Lyudmila at home, reading and keeping the house.
A car, a road sign with the inscription “Budzhekish”, it is winter.
The town, walking people.
Workers are entering the tunnel.
Davydova is conducting a musical party.
Tolstoukhov with his son and daughter are listening.
The work of builders in the tunnel.
The train is going, the inscription: “Tynda-Berkakit is working for the communism”
Panorama of greeting the first train.
Various special vehicles are going by.
A helicopter is carrying a component.
Panorama of greeting the first train in the town of Severobaikalsk in winter.
Lake Baikal in autumn.
Ulitin and his son walking along the Baikal lakeside and dropping stones into the water.

Directors: Troshkin V. P.

Operators: Durandin V., Troshkin V. P., Cherkasov S.

Script writers: Troshkin V. P.

Composers: Gidravichus L.