HU OSA 424-0-1 Propaganda Films in Digital Version

Identity Statement

Reference Code
HU OSA 424-0-1
Title
Propaganda Films in Digital Version
Date(s)
1944 - 1987
Description Level
Series
Extent and medium (processed)
18 16 mm film can, 0.54 linear meters

Context

Name of creator(s)
Geréb, Anna
Archival history
After the ‘House of Soviet Science and Culture’ was closed down following the change of regimes in 1990, this rare collection of films became orphan. Thanks to the efforts of Anna Geréb, film historian of Russian and Soviet cinema, this rich sample of propaganda and educational films was spared from destruction and was archived at the Blinken Open Society Archives.

Content and Structure

Scope and Content (Abstract)
The video collection contains 109 films: popular science, industry, agricultural, army, nature, music, youth and sport films, and also some newsreels. The majority of them were produced in the Soviet Union (98 titles); others were made in Hungary (5), Romania (3), Belgium (1), Bulgaria (1) and Czechoslovakia (1). They were shot on 16mm celluloid film, and released between 1944 and 1987, predominantly in the 1970s and 1980s. Most of the films are dubbed into Hungarian (87). The 16 mm celluloid film prints were stored and occasionally screened for targeted audiences at special screenings in Hungary. One of these venues was the ‘House of Soviet Science and Culture’ in Budapest. This explains the vast variety of topics that the collection covers, from Soviet cartoons to guerrilla tactics in Palestine; from the construction of the Baikal-Amur railway line, or the building socialism in Afghanistan to the sanatoriums in Crimea.
Scope and Content (Narrative)
These films cover a wide range of topics and were made not merely to educate the audience about their subject matters which ranged from soil erosion and modern farming to international relations, child care, history of WWII, nuclear energy, oil production, animal breeding, and the art works in Hermitage, just to name but a few themes. They were to instil a particular worldview and to capture the imagination, to win over the hearts and minds of the viewers to the Communist ideology and to the Soviet cause. The majority of the films tell the Soviet version of both history & science, portraying the Soviet Union and its satellite countries as lands of incomparable wealth, development and happiness. The Soviet block films, building on the popular science and ‘Kulturfilm’ edifying film tradition, employ accessible or even entertaining tones, yet they carry a strong ideological message. The filmmakers know their trade: they are skilful, imaginative and artistic storytellers. Building on the visual language of New Wave cinema, they often employ the most up-to-date montage technique, use panning or hand-held camera which enhances intimacy and credibility of the image. The narrative of the films are well-composed; the camerawork and the music is professional; the narration is well-structured: the films might seem to be purely factual or personal and emotional in order to impact the viewer. The industry films offer a self-celebratory narrative about the development in mining, forestry, foodstuff production or heart disease research, they are powerful and often persuasive. Well-crafted, they convey a humanistic, optimistic, future- and success oriented message.

These films, produced by a variety of Soviet central and regional studios (Leningrad Studio of Documentary Films - LSDF; Central Studio of Documentary Films - TsSDF, Kirgizfilm, Tadjikfilm, and others) reveal a kaleidoscopic reality which, when viewed critically, provides an insight into the visual world of the late socialism.

The 109 films were digitized by OSA. The downsized MP4 versions are freely accessible for on-line viewing at OSA's Digital Repository, see: http://catalog.osaarchivum.org/?f%5Bdigital_collection%5D%5B%5D=Soviet+Propaganda+Film+Collection&per_page=100
Accruals

Not Expected

Conditions of Access and Use

Conditions governing access
Not restricted
Languages
Bulgarian, French, Hungarian, Russian, Slovak

Azonosítás

Jelzet
HU OSA 424-0-1
Idő(kör)
1944 - 1987
Leírás szintje
Series
Terjedelem, adathordozók (feldolgozott)
18 16 mm film doboz, 0.54 folyóméter

Kontextus

Készítő(k) nevei
Geréb, Anna

Tartalom és Szerkezet

Gyarapodás

Nem várható

Hozzáférés és Felhasználás

Jogi helyzet
Not restricted
Nyelvek
Bulgarian, French, Hungarian, Russian, Slovak
Call Number Description
16 mm film can #1
424-0-1:1/1
The Pond and It's Secrets / L'étang et ses secrets

Flora and fauna of the lakes.

French language, 1962, Duration: 18 min. 1 sec.
16 mm film can #3
424-0-1:3/1
BAM Is Ready / BAM est', BAM prodolzhaetsia

Youth involvement in the construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline railway: meeting of constructors from different areas of the project and celebration of plan fulfillment; scenes of completed railway bridges and tunnels, and modern housing districts.

Hungarian language, 1985, Duration: 19 min. 25 sec.
16 mm film can #4
424-0-1:4/1
Faster, Higher, Stronger / Bystree Vyshe Sil'nee

Soviet athletics: Soviet performance at the Munich Olympics with special mention to weight-lifter Vasilii Akelseev (Russia) and track-and-field athlete Jüri Tarmak (Estonia); workouts in an athletics school in Kiev; the story of sprint athlete Olympic Champion Valerii Borzov; propaganda of physical training for children.

Hungarian language, 1972, Duration: 18 min. 30 sec.
16 mm film can #5
424-0-1:5/1
Soviet Army: In One Line / Sovetskaia Armia. V edinom stroiu

Friendship between Soviet and the East German armies, Soviet-East German official relations, friendly connections, and the joint struggle for peace.

Hungarian language, 1983, Duration: 20 min. 4 sec.
16 mm film can #6
424-0-1:6/1
An Honorable Duty / Pochetnaia obiazannost'

A collective farm worker departing to fulfill his honorable duty to serve in the Soviet army.

Hungarian language, 1983, Duration: 14 min. 49 sec.
16 mm film can #7
424-0-1:7/1
State Hermitage. Part 1 / Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh

History and contents of the State Hermitage Museum in Leningrad: the Winter Palace during the 1917 revolution, the nationalization of the Imperial art collection, contemporary display of art of different countries, from ancient times to the late 19th century. Pre-historic, Scythian, Ancient Egyptian, Ancient Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Iranian, Indian, Chinese, Caucasian, Central Asian artifacts.

Hungarian language, 1954, Duration: 29 min. 52 sec.
16 mm film can #8
424-0-1:8/1
State Hermitage. Part 2 / Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh

History and contents of the State Hermitage Museum in Leningrad: the Winter Palace during the 1917 revolution, the nationalization of the Imperial art collection, contemporary display of art of different countries, from ancient times to the late 19th century. Russian Paintings; 13th-18th century Italian art; 16th-17th century Spanish art; 17th century Flemish art; 17th century Dutch art; 15th-17th century German art; 18th century English art; 15th-19th century French art.

Hungarian language, 1954, Duration: 29 min. 20 sec.
16 mm film can #9
424-0-1:9/1
Almanac of Cine-Travels. Sevastopol. Autumn Sketch. In Pursuit of the Sun. West Irian Jaya. / Al'manakh kinoputeshestvii No. 3. Sevastopol. Osennii Etiud. Puteshestviie za solntsem. Zapadnyi Irian.

Four sketches that show: history of Sevastopol' with special focus on the Crimean War; autumn in Russia, flora and fauna themes in painting, sculpture, and decorative art; telescopic observations of solar eclipse on the islands in the Sea of Okhotsk; nature, agriculture, crafts, as well as modern architecture and interiors in West Papua (West Irian).

Hungarian language, 1963, Duration: 18 min.
16 mm film can #10
424-0-1:10/1
On Land and at Sea. Singapore / Na sushe i na more. Singapur

Colonial past, modern life and natural resources of Singapore.

Hungarian language, 1960, Duration: 10 min. 7 sec.
16 mm film can #11
424-0-1:11/1
On Land and at Sea. On the Fedchenko Glacier / Na sushe i na more. Na lednike Fedchenko

Research work and leisure activities of the employees of meteorological observatories in the Pamir Mountains.

Hungarian language, 1961, Duration: 9 min. 48 sec.
16 mm film can #12
424-0-1:12/1
News in Pictures No. 43. / Actualitatea in Imagini Romanian

Romanian delegation in Pakistan; work at the Fabrica de Ciment Medgidia, unveiling the monument of Soviet Soldiers; cucumber harvest; national exhibition of commodities, the tour of a Chinese circus; parade on Red Square in honor of the Soviet pilots, Romanian sportsmen at the Tokyo Olympics.

1964, Duration: 9 min. 53 sec.
16 mm film can #13
424-0-1:13/1
News in Pictures No. 29. / Actualitatea in Imagini Romanian

Reception of French ambassador Jean-Louis Pons by Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, signing an agreement with Yugoslavian leaders in Bucharest, work and leisure at a collective farm, cellulose factory, harvest and sale of peaches, zoological museum, recreation on the Danube beach, scenes of modern life in Bucharest, medieval knights costume tournament, toy production in China, football match between Dinamo (Tirana) and Rapid (Bucharest).

1964, Duration: 10 min. 38 sec.
16 mm film can #14
424-0-1:14/1
Physical Education / Urok fizkultury

Ski classes in Moscow, horse riding in Kyrgyzstan, national wrestling competition of schoolboys in Dagestan supervised by world champion Ali Aliev, outdoor sport festivities in Yerevan, sport activities and competitions in summer camps Artek and Orlenok.

Hungarian language, 1980, Duration: 17 min. 27 sec.
16 mm film can #15
424-0-1:15/1
Festival of Sports and Peace / Prazdnik sporta i mira

Different kinds of sport competitions and national dance performances at the World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow.

Hungarian language, 1985, Duration: 15 min. 12 sec.
16 mm film can #16
424-0-1:16/1
My Homeland is a Miraculous World of Love / Moia zemlia volshebnyi mir liubvi

Everyday life of Soviet people, including agricultural work, commemoration and celebration rituals, sports and dancing.

Hungarian language, 1981, Duration: 30 min. 24 sec.
16 mm film can #17
424-0-1:17/1
Khabarovsk Krai: Problems and Solutions / Khabarovskii Krai. Problemy i resheniia

The future of employment under the conditions of labor automatization at Khabarovsk enterprises such as Chemical-Pharmaceutical Plant and Fish Farm, potential solutions to low land fertility, the development of efficient transport connection with Sakhalin, exploration of minerals in the northern part of the Far East, the ecological implications of ore-dressing and timber industries, and the survey of everyday life in Komsomolsk-na-Amure.

Hungarian language, 1983, Duration: 26 min. 39 sec.
16 mm film can #18
424-0-1:18/1
Lenin Prize Laureates / Laureaty Leninskoi premii

Biographies of several outstanding Prize winners living across the Soviet Union: Borys Paton, Ukrainian scientist in the field of welding, metallurgy and technology of materials, Tursunoi Akhunova, brigade forewoman on a cotton farm in the region of Chinaz, Latvian artist Indulis Zariņš, Georgian surgeon Otar Gudushauri and ballerina Maia Plisetskaia.

Hungarian language, 1980, Duration: 28 min. 29 sec.
16 mm film can #19
424-0-1:19/1
Classmates / Odnoklassniki

High school reunion in Moscow of former classmates who are now in their 60s. They share their life stories and recollect World War II experiences and traumas.

Hungarian language, 1980, Duration: 23 min. 49 sec.
16 mm film can #20
424-0-1:20/1
Ten Minites Around the Soviet Union. A Walk in Vitebsk / Desiat' minut po SSSR. Vitebskiie Uzory

Industry, architecture, arts, everyday life, and World War II commemorations in Vitebsk.

Hungarian language, 1973, Duration: 9 min. 26 sec.
16 mm film can #21
424-0-1:21/1
The Most Northern City / Samyi severnyi gorod

Ore extraction and metalwork industries, everyday life, childcare and arts in Norilsk.

Russian language, 1984, Duration: 10 min. 4 sec.
16 mm film can #22
424-0-1:22/1
A Day by the Latorica River / Den na vodach Latorice

The fauna by the Latorica river.

Slovak language, 1960, Duration: 5 min. 58 sec.
16 mm film can #23
424-0-1:23/1
Ten Minutes Around the Soviet Union: Kazan / Desiat' minut po SSSR. Kazan'

Industry, housing construction, higher education, leisure and traditional summer festival Sabantui in Kazan.

Hungarian language, 1973, Duration: 9 min. 19 sec.
16 mm film can #24
424-0-1:24/1
Railwaylines of the Country / Stal'nye arterii strany

Construction, maintenance, use of Soviet railway network, dispatching, and interior design of passenger cars.

Hungarian language, 1982, Duration: 18 min. 7 sec.
16 mm film can #25
424-0-1:25/1
Soviet Army: The Commander of Military Unit Three / Sovetskaia armiia. Komandir boevoi chasti tri

The story of senior lieutenant Sergei Kolesnikov, the commander of military unit of the Severomorsk navy.

Russian language, 1980, Duration: 16 min. 56 sec.
16 mm film can #26
424-0-1:26/1
Yerevan, the Capital of Soviet Armenia / Erevan, stolitsa Sovetskoi Armenii

Short survey of Yerevan's history, exhibition on Armenia's economic achievements, traditional rug weaving, production of Armenian brandy, the work of the Armenian Academy of Sciences, international student body of Yerevan State University, State Repository of Ancient Manuscripts, commemoration of the victims of the Armenian genocide, Armenian repatriates from abroad, the Museum of contemporary art, Armenian classical music, opera and ballet, drama and the architecture of the drama theater building, Armenian Society of Friendship and cultural connections with foreign countries, Yerevan's modern architecture and population growth, outdoor leisure activities and natural sights around Yerevan, sports, the opening of the metro network, art classes for children.

Russian language, 1980, Duration: 18 min. 53 sec.
16 mm film can #27
424-0-1:27/1
Soviet Georgia / Sovetskaia Gruziia

Metalworking industry in Georgia, Kutaisi automobile factory, newly developed tea-harvesting machine, partially mechanized harvest of citrus fruits, trade connections of the Batumi port, parks and recreation zones, Black Sea resorts, Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory, Georgian scientific intelligentsia, agriculture and wine production, monasteries and monument protection, Georgian Society for Friendship and cultural connections with foreign countries, visit of the delegation from Saarbrucken, Tbilisi's West German twin town, training of Soviet mountain-skiers in Bakuriani, outstanding chess players Nana Alexandria and Nana Ioseliani and World Champion in Women's Chess Maia Chiburdanidze, Tbilisi drama theater, harvest festival in Tbilisi.

Russian language, 1980, Duration: 14 min. 53 sec.
16 mm film can #28
424-0-1:28/1
Newsreels from Moscow No. 56 / Moskva. Kinoobozreniie no. 56.

Ninth congress of pediatrists and new forms of child-and-mother healthcare, Moscow toy factory, electrocardiography examination of pregnant women, a happy Moscow family with many children, and physical training of pre-school children.

Hungarian language, 1983, Duration: 9 min. 3 sec.
16 mm film can #29
424-0-1:29/1
Cosmos in the Service of Man / Kosmos sluzhit liudiam

Space exploration and the use of its results in meteorology, agriculture, aviation, ecologic technologies and global telecommunications.

Hungarian language, 1980, Duration: 10 min. 6 sec.
16 mm film can #30
424-0-1:30/1
The City of Siberian Miners / Gorod sibirskikh shakhterov

Housing, urban facilities and population of the mining city Mezhdurechensk, organization of labor at the Raspadskaia mine, generous vacation opportunities for miners, sport activities, hiking and picnics in the city surroundings.

Hungarian language, 1979, Duration: 10 min. 4 sec.
16 mm film can #31
424-0-1:31/1
Be Firm Like Steel / Bud' tverdym kak bulat

Innovations in metallurgy, developed by Veniamin Fediukin, instructor at the metalwork department at the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute.

Hungarian language, 1981, Duration: 9 min. 53 sec.
16 mm film can #32
424-0-1:32/1
The Singing City / Poiushchii gorod

Song festival in Tallinn: arrival of the guests and the accompanying sailing contest, the opening ceremony with choir's performance and national dances.

Hungarian language, 1980, Duration: 7 min. 58 sec.
16 mm film can #33
424-0-1:33/1
Aerial Lift in the Sky / Rel'si v nebeto

Construction of aerial lift for transporting ore from the mine in Rhodope Mountains.

Bulgarian language, 1962, Duration: 10 min. 22 sec.
16 mm film can #34
424-0-1:34/1
Soviet Russia Industry in the 10th Five-Year Plan / Promyshlennost' SSSR v desiatoi piatiletke

The targets of the 10th Five-Year plan and its sites: production in North Siberia; oil production in Tyumen, Sayano–Shushenskaya Dam, Abakan railway coach manufacturing plant, and Baikal-Amur mainline.

Hungarian language, 1976, Duration: 8 min. 59 sec.
16 mm film can #35
424-0-1:35/1
Powder Metallurgy / Poroshkovaia metallurgiia

Introduction of powder metallurgy into industry and the work of Leningrad Aluminum Institute.

Hungarian language, 1985, Duration: 10 min. 11 sec.
16 mm film can #36
424-0-1:36/1
If I Were a Magiсian / Esli by ia byl volshebnikom...

Children’s drawings from World War II period from N. Ostashinskii's collection, contemporary children's drawings produced in art schools of Kiev and Lviv and in art studio Florichika, Kishinev.

Hungarian language, 1975, Duration: 9 min. 42 sec.
16 mm film can #37
424-0-1:37/1
The Memory of Metals / Pamiat metallov

Physical qualities of different metals, research in metallurgy by Soviet scientist Georgii Kurdiumov, member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and the prospects for constructing ecologic machines.

Hungarian language, 1984, Duration: 10 min. 6 sec.
16 mm film can #38
424-0-1:38/1
Taking a Rest / Kak my otdykhali

Sanatoriums in Crimea, where people of different professions engage in activities such as boating, walking in the forest, fishing, swimming and diving.

Hungarian language, 1976, Duration: 9 min. 19 sec.
16 mm film can #39
424-0-1:39/1
We Are Students / My studenty

Statistic on Soviet institutions of higher education and scenes from student life in universities of different profiles, from electronic technology to athletics.

Hungarian language, 1980, Duration: 5 min. 13 sec.
16 mm film can #40
424-0-1:40/1
The Country of Great October / Strana Velikogo Oktiabria

Survey of the Soviet history: the achievements of Soviet regime in labor organization, economy, science, technology, education, gender equality, nationality policy, culture and arts.

Hungarian language, 1987, Duration: 9 min.
16 mm film can #41
424-0-1:41/1
Ten Minutes around the Soviet Union: Sorochinskaia Fair / Desiat' minut po SSSR. Sorichinskaia iarmarka

Trade fair in Sorochino village, Ukraine: agricultural products, earthenware, shoes, and traditional meals, radio sets and bicycles.

Russian language, 1975, Duration: 9 min. 44 sec.
16 mm film can #42
424-0-1:42/1
The Art of Ukraine / Iskusstvo Ukrainy

Performance of opera singer Anatolii Solovianenko, traditional ceramics, textile and woodwork, puppet theater, amateur painters, literary masterpieces and drawings of national writer Taras Shevchenko, paintings by artist Tatiana Iablonskaia, traditional folk songs and dances, bronze reliefs and sculpture dedicated to World War II heroes, the Motherland Monument in Kiev, monuments to Russian and Ukrainian artists, singing competition in Kiev Organ Hall, films by Aleksandr Dovzhenko, choir singing, opera and ballet performances, and popular guitar songs.

Hungarian language, 1983, Duration: 18 min. 4 sec.
16 mm film can #43
424-0-1:43/1
Soviet Georgia / Sovetskaia Gruziia

Metalworking industry in Georgia, Kutaisi automobile factory, newly developed tea-harvesting machine, partially mechanized harvesting of citrus fruits, trade connections of the Batumi port, parks and recreation zones, Black Sea resorts, Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory, Georgian scientific intelligentsia, agriculture and wine production, monasteries and monument protection, Georgian Society for Friendship and cultural connections with foreign countries, visit of the delegation from Saarbrucken, Tbilisi's West German twin town, training of Soviet mountain-skiers in Bakuriani, outstanding chess players Nana Alexandria and Nana Ioseliani and World Champion in Women's Chess Maia Ciburdanidze, Tbilisi drama theater, harvest festival in Tbilisi.

Hungarian language, 1983, Duration: 14 min. 53 sec.
16 mm film can #44
424-0-1:44/1
Mechanical Engineering in the Soviet Union / Mashinostroeniie v SSSR

Fragment of the speech by Nikolai Zinoviev, Head of the trade union of heavy engineering workers, machinery exhibition at the All-Union Exhibition of Economic Achievements (VDNKh), automatized computer-controlled machinery complexes, robotics, production of automatic spinning machines, The Ural heavy engineering plant in Sverdlovsk, Minsk tractor plant, Taganrog combine plant, Togliatti Automobile Plant, Moskvich automobile plant, truck and earthmoving equipment production at different Soviet plants, aircraft production, and the equipment for exploring new energy sources.

Hungarian language, 1980, Duration: 28 min. 45 sec.
16 mm film can #45
424-0-1:45/1
Time to Collect the Stones / Vremia Sobirat' Kamni...

Criticism of the U.S. militarism, aggression and its influence in Greece and England, discussion of social unrest, drug trade, and police aggression in the U.S. , anti-Reagan talk by British communist activist Tony Chater, anti-militarist protest in England, discussion of the peace movement by Dutch theologist Wim Bartels and leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany Willy Brandt, Japanese peace movement and the growth of international anti-militarism.

Hungarian language, 1984, Duration: 30 min.
16 mm film can #46
424-0-1:46/1
He Must Live / On dolzhen zhit'

A guided tour in the healthcare pavilion at the All-Union Exhibition of Economic Achievements (VDNKh), showing medical equipment and discussing prophylactic measures such as exercises in workplaces, medical examinations and sanatoria services.

Hungarian language, 1961, Duration: 20 min. 48 sec.
16 mm film can #47
424-0-1:47/1
Soviet Ukraine / Sovetskaia Ukraina

Natural sites, architecture, Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, urban life, a countryside museum, World War commemorations, official Soviet celebrations, Chernobyl power station, and statistics on Ukraine's production, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, mass housing, secondary school and university education, healthcare and surgery, summer resorts and recreation activities, and traditional culture festival in the Carpathian mountains.

Hungarian language, 1977, Duration: 18 min. 56 sec.
16 mm film can #48
424-0-1:48/1
Tashkent, Film Festival 1982 / Tashkent, kinofestival'-82

The 7th international festival of films from Africa, Asia and Latin America, held in Tashkent: speeches by film professionals from Uzbekistan and from participating countries, scenes from Tashkent streets and urban life, festival guests' visit to the industrial sites of Uzbekistan and their participation in traditional dance festivities in Bukhara; special discussion of the Arab–Israeli conflict at the festival, and the award ceremony.

Hungarian language, 1982, Duration: 19 min. 29 sec.
16 mm film can #49
424-0-1:49/1
Kyrgyzstan / Na zemle kirgiszkoi

Harvesting in fruit gardens and on collective farms, cattle breeding, yak and sheep pastures, sheep shearing, textile factory in Bishkek (Frunze), carpet weaving, horse breeding, horse milking and preparation of kumis, interiors of yurts, horse race, and discussion of the modernization of Kyrgyz daily life.

Hungarian language, 1978, Duration: 16 min. 21 sec.
16 mm film can #50
424-0-1:50/1
Djigits of Our Land / Dzhigity nashego kraia

Central Asian participants at the opening of the Fifth Summer Spartakiad of the Soviet Peoples in Moscow, and Central Asian national sports: archery, horse riding; wrestling, canoeing and polo.

Hungarian language, 1971, Duration: 15 min. 43 sec.
16 mm film can #51
424-0-1:51/1
Lovely is the Dnieper / Chuden Dnepr...

Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, Donetsk coal mines, cargo transportation by the Dnieper, artificial canals, building of cities and districts on the riverside, new districts of Kiev, resting and fishing bzthe river in Kiev, kayaking on the Dnieper, motor boat cruises, "Neptun Day" carnival, waste water treatment plants and nature reserves, and the Berezan island.

Russian language, 1979, Duration: 15 min. 40 sec.
16 mm film can #52
424-0-1:52/1
Like the Phoenix from Its Ashes 4: When Gagarin Still Went to School. / Kak feniks iz pepla. Fil'm chetvertyi: kodga Gagarin eshche khodil v shkolu

Scenes of war-damaged Soviet cities, the residents' efforts to handle their harsh living conditions and their participation in cleaning streets, restoring buildings and constructing new ones, the role of literature in overcoming the war trauma, restoration of industrial plants with the participation of children, construction of new plants across the Soviet Union, sale of new commodities in department stores, of classical ballet performances, the return of evacuated artworks to the State Hermitage, the construction of bunkers in the U. S. in anticipation of war with the Soviet Union, the first Soviet atomic and thermonuclear bomb testing, explained by the physicist Igor Kurchatov as purely defensive measures, the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, Sergei Korolev's rocket engineering, World War II monument in a Ukrainian village, commemoration ceremony in Stalingrad, rejuvenation of cities in Western Soviet republics.

Hungarian language, 1983, Duration: 27 min. 43 sec.
16 mm film can #53
424-0-1:53/1
Like the Phoenix from Its Ashes 3. What Does "You Must" Mean / Kak feniks iz pepla. Fil'm tretii: Chto takoe nado

Women restoring the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station after it was the dynamited in 1944, relaunch of the station in March 1947, restart of the Donetsk coal basin and of Zaporozhie Steel Mill, the U. S. tests of thermonuclear weapons, and the foundation of World Peace Council.

Hungarian language, 1983, Duration: 27 min. 23 sec.
16 mm film can #54
424-0-1:54/1
Tennis / Bol'shoi tennis

Tennis player Aleksandr Zverev participating in the Wimbledon Championship, survey of the history of tennis in England, Russia and the Soviet Union, tennis courts and schools in different Soviet cities, training of young tennis players.

Hungarian language, 1982, Duration: 19 min. 9 sec.
16 mm film can #55
424-0-1:55/1
The Soviet Circus / Dom, gde rozhdaiutsia attraktsiony

Training and performance of circus artists in Russia and Ukraine.

Hungarian language, 1977, Duration: 15 min. 14 sec.
16 mm film can #56
424-0-1:56/1
Taniusha's Toys / Taniusha, Tiavka, Top i Niusha

Animated film from 1954 for children.

Hungarian language, 1954, Duration: 14 min. 16 sec.
16 mm film can #57
424-0-1:57/1
Stories about Soviet Women / Rasskazy o sovetskikh zhenshchinakh

Stories of four women, representing different professions and different generations: director of Tiraspol sewing factory Valentina Solovieva, Kyrgyz film director Dinara Asanova, worker at Moscow electronic equipment factory Nadia Riabova, and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Lithuanian Soviet Republic Leokadija Diržinskaitė-Piliušenko. In addition, survey of the International Women's Forum in Minsk with speeches by the delegates from Belgium, Congo-Brazzaville, and the United States.

Russian language, 1975, Duration: 23 min. 37 sec.
16 mm film can #58
424-0-1:58/1
Soviet Youth / Rasskaz o sovetskoi molodezhi

Young workers, engineers and students in Lithuania and Kazakhstan, cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaia, Georgian construction workers building Baikal-Amur Mainline and the town Niia in Siberia, art gallery organized by history teacher Afanasii Lunev in the Ukrainian village of Parkhomovka, commemoration of the members of Krasnodon Young Guard, participation of youth in the International Association of Peace Foundations and the speech of its head, world chess champion Anatolii Karpov, concert of young singers-songwriters in memoriam of Chilean activist Victor Yara, and internationalist work of sprint athlete Valerii Borzov as the secretary of Ukrainian Komsomol's Central Committee.

Hungarian language, 1980, Duration: 24 min. 26 sec.
16 mm film can #59
424-0-1:59/1
Guerilla Fighters in Jordan / Gerillatüzek Jordániaban

Survey of Arab-Israeli conflict, guerilla fighters in Jordan, the record of an interview with Yasser Arafat, and an interview with Khalid Bakdash, leader of the Syrian Communist Party.

Hungarian language, 1971, Duration: 24 min. 15 sec.
16 mm film can #60
424-0-1:60/1
[World and Science] / [Világ és tudomány]

Survey of culture and architecture of seaside cities: Istanbul, Izmir, Beirut, and Cairo, small segment about measurements and a short animated story of the evolution of the animal world.

Hungarian language, 1964, Duration: 10 min. 39 sec.
16 mm film can #61
424-0-1:61/1
The Rhythms of Tajikistan / Ritmy tadzhikistana

Traditional wedding ceremony, tapestry weaving, embroidery, pottery and sculpture, classical music performance, g`ijjak (traditional string instrument) playing, traditional dance performance, easel painting and drawing, art classes for children, and dancing to pop music.

Hungarian language, 1980, Duration: 18 min. 34 sec.
16 mm film can #62
424-0-1:62/1
Russian Art / Iskusstvo Rossii

Annual celebrations of Aleksandr Pushkin’s birthday in the memorial museum Mikhailovskoe, early Soviet proletarian theater, the nationalization of art collections and the development of Soviet themes in visual art, the art of Ilia Glazunov, and the performance of North-Russian traditional songs.

Russian language, 1982, Duration: 9 min. 33 sec.
16 mm film can #63
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Georgian dances / [Gruzinskiie tantsy]

Contemporary staging of traditional Georgian dances.

Russian language, 1982, Duration: 17 min. 25 sec.
16 mm film can #64
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Like the Phoenix from Its Ashes 2. Spring After Victory / Kak feniks iz pepla. Vesna posle pobedy.

War damage of agriculture in the Western part of the Soviet Union, mass evacuation of collective farms from Ukraine and Belarus to Siberia and Central Asia, and post-war restoration of agriculture and housing in the liberated territories, in particular in Ukraine's collective farms.

Hungarian language, 1983, Duration: 27 min. 30 sec.
16 mm film can #65
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Creative Youth / Priglasheniie k trorchestvu

Extracurricular education of children and youth: drawing, basics of zoology and biology, ship and aircraft modelling, basics of astronomy, information science, electronics, and robotics, the educational mission of the journal Tekhnika - molodezhi (Technology for the Young), the activities of an amateur racing and delta plane clubs, diving and study of sea animals, and construction of new cities in Siberia.

Hungarian language, 1980, Duration: 24 min. 40 sec.
16 mm film can #66
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Hungarian Newsreels no. 1070 / Magyar Világhíradó no. 1070

Yugoslav partisans in World War II, athletics, skiing, and swimming in Hungary, traditional Hutsul singing and dancing, water polo competition in Budapest, and church service in Hungary.

Hungarian language, 1944, Duration: 13 min. 28 sec.
16 mm film can #67
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Better Than in the City / Luchshe, chem v gorode

Mechanization of agriculture and animal breeding, housing for collective farmers and projects for typical one-family panel houses, public canteens and self-service shops, a kindergarten with modern interior design and facilities for children's activities, painting gallery, modernist public buildings, planning of housing quarters, traditional summer festival Rasos (Joninės), gardening, decorative art, open air sculptures and interior design.

Hungarian language, 1981, Duration: 19 min. 25 sec.
16 mm film can #68
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Siberia in the 10th Five-Year Plan / Sibir' marshrutami 10 piatiletki

The infrastructure and logistics of industry in Siberia, oil production and logging, the operation of Saiano-Shushenskaia Dam, coal production in the Kansko-Achinskii Basin, the prospects for Siberia's further industrialization, in particular the improvement of industrial technology and the solution of social issues such as housing and childcare.

Hungarian language, 1980, Duration: 20 min. 11 sec.
16 mm film can #69
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Books in the Soviet Union / Kniga v SSSR

People reading in the Lenin Library in Moscow and in public parks, children learning to read with ABC-books, the diversity of children's books published in the Soviet Union, literature for Soviet youth; Gorky Institute of Literature, textbooks of Russian as a foreign language, the repository of ancient manuscripts Matenadaran in Yerevan, painting albums published by Leningrad's Aurora Publishing House, artwork reproductions made by Ivan Fedorov printing office in Leningrad, international trade fair in Moscow bookshop House of Books, prominent Soviet libraries.

Hungarian language, 1983, Duration: 23 min. 44 sec.
16 mm film can #70
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Soviet Union. Pages about Science and Technology / Sovetskii Soiuz. Stranitsy nauki i tekhniki

Brief survey of the achievements of prominent scientists and technicians from early modern to Soviet time, such as polymath Mikhail Lomonosov, inventor Ivan Kulibin, pioneer of rocket scinece Nikolai Kibalchich, rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovskii, botanists Kliment Timiriazev and Ivan Michurin, chemist Dmitrii Mendeleev, the chief of Russian Electrification Commission Gleb Krzhizhanovskii, physicist Abram Ioffe, physicist Piotr Kapitsa, mineralogist and geochemist Vladimir Vernadskii, chemist, inventor of the polybutadiene synthetic rubber Sergei Lebedev, inventor of the first effective filtering activated charcoal gas mask Nikolai Zelinskii, a founding father of modern aero and hydrodynamics Nikolai Zhukovskii, aircraft engineer Andrei Tupolev, the explorer of the Arctics Otto Shmidt, nuclear physicists Igor Kurchatov and Anatolii Aleksandrov, mathematician Mstislav Keldysh, and rocket engineer Sergei Korolev.

Hungarian language, 1982, Duration: 29 min. 52 sec.
16 mm film can #71
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NATO / A NATO

Hungarian journalist József Pálfy speaks about North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) summits that he attended, describes France's position in relation to NATO and the political interests of Greece, Turkey, Italy, and West Germany. The film also shows scenes of nuclear weapon testing.

Hungarian language, 1971, Duration: 16 min. 23 sec.
16 mm film can #72
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Well, Just You Wait! / Nu pogodi

Animation film for children.

Russian language, 1976, Duration: 19 min. 5 sec.
16 mm film can #73
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People Who Are Masters of the North / Chelovek - khoziain severa

Daily life of Evenk and Nenets peoples and their Sovietization, the role of Soviet scientists in the exploration of North Siberia, portraits of indigenous peoples by artist Vladimir Meshkov, the first Evenk women trained as a physician; Konstantin Metsaik’s sailing directions for Enisei, official celebrations in Norilsk.

Hungarian language, 1960, Duration: 20 min. 31 sec.
16 mm film can #74
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Rayon / Relon

Petrochemicals and their use in light industry.

Hungarian language, 1960, Duration: 16 min. 15 sec.
16 mm film can #75
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An Automated Factory / Önműködő gyár

Automatized production of pistons.

Hungarian language, 1954, Duration: 18 min. 25 sec.
16 mm film can #76
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The Lights of Moscow Metro / Ogni moskovskogo metro

Moscow metro construction in the 1930s, night inspection of railing, work of dispatchers, passenger traffic, the architecture of central stations, and the work of metro train drivers.

Hungarian language, 1963, Duration: 18 min. 30 sec.
16 mm film can #77
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Giving Life / Dariashchaia zhizn'

Hemodialysis in the Belorussian center for kidney transplantation, interview with the center's director Nikolai Savchenko and some of the employees.

Hungarian language, 1982, Duration: 17 min. 16 sec.
16 mm film can #78
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Scientists of the Future / [Malaia Akademiia Nauk]

Minor Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the organization of extracurricular education units in research and experimental area, aimed at youth and students.

Hungarian language, 1980, Duration: 20 min. 1 sec.
16 mm film can #79
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Afghanistan. Fighting Unit / Afganistan. Splochennost' v bor'be

Changes in Afghan life after the Saur revolution, the following counter-revolutionary terror and the unfolding war.

Hungarian language, 1982, Duration: 16 min. 39 sec.
16 mm film can #80
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Trans-Carpathia, A Village in the Center of Europe / Zakarpat'e, selo v tsentre Evropy

Life in Delovoe village in Trans-Carpathian Ukraine, one of the presumed geographical centers of Europe: forestry, the marble quarry, collective farming, medical care, traditional decorative arts, secondary school education, traditional music and dancing.

Hungarian language, 1983, Duration: 14 min. 48 sec.
16 mm film can #81
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The Heart / Serdtse

Cardiac surgery on children, performed at the Institute of cardiac surgery of the Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences, under the guidance of its director Vladimir Burakovskii.

Russian language, 1987, Duration: 20 min. 39 sec.
16 mm film can #82
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Physicians / Vrachi

Medical profession, health care and prophylactic recreation in Adygea autonomous district.

Russian language, 1985, Duration: 17 min. 25 sec.
16 mm film can #83
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On the Baltic Shores / Na beregy Baltiki

International tourism in Lithuania and the republic's international economic and scientific relations.

Hungarian language, 1977, Duration: 17 min. 40 sec.
16 mm film can #84
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Caspian Sea: People and Oil / Kaspii: liudi i neft'

History and current state of oil production in the Caspian Sea and the life of industrial settlement Neft Daşları (Oil Rocks).

Russian language, 1980, Duration: 14 min. 21 sec.
16 mm film can #85
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Man and the Sky / Chelovek i nebo

Soviet parachute jumpers, including world record-holder, master of parachute sport Valeriia Marinisheva. Film with Hungarian subtitles.

Russian language, 1963, Duration: 9 min. 6 sec.
16 mm film can #86
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I Want to Know Everything No. 2 / Khochu vse znat' № 2

International Year of Geophysics and Soviet latest geographic research, in particular Antarctic expeditions.

Hungarian language, 1957, Duration: 10 min. 18 sec.
16 mm film can #87
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Marina Popovich / Marina Popovich

Professional achievements and family life of fighter pilot Marina Popovich.

Hungarian language, 1970, Duration: 19 min. 19 sec.
16 mm film can #88
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Nanai Portrait / Nanaiskii portret

Survey of the personal exhibition of Moscow artist Evgenii Korolenko, who traveled to the Amur Region to portray Nanai people.

Hungarian language, 1979, Duration: 15 min. 14 sec.
16 mm film can #89
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Sofia Golovkina / Sofia Golovkina

Moscow Academic Ballet School and its instructor Sofia Golovkina, Honored artist of the Soviet Union.

Hungarian language, 1982, Duration: 23 min. 34 sec.
16 mm film can #90
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Ivan Pavlov / Ivan Pavov

Professional biography of physiologist Ivan Pavlov and the large-scale impact of his scientific discoveries.

Hungarian language, 1980, Duration: 29 min. 11 sec.
16 mm film can #91
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Gift for the City / Ünnepi ajándék

The opening of the sport center in Szombathely.

Hungarian language, 1963, Duration: 15 min. 56 sec.
16 mm film can #92
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Music Makes You Happy / Nemnogo muzyki i... khoroshee nastroeniie

Musical film with tap dance, ballet and circus performances.

Hungarian language, 1980, Duration: 32 min. 13 sec.
16 mm film can #93
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Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism / Muzei istorii religii i ateizma

The collection of the Leningrad's Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism: artifacts and artworks related to different world religions, to the atheist ideas of the 19th century, to the Bolsheviks' anti-religious campaign and to the Soviet space program. Pre-historic artifacts; Ancient Egyptian artifacts; Ancient Greek artifacts; Roman artifacts; Byzantine artifacts; Indian artifacts; Chinese artifacts.

Hungarian language, 1958, Duration: 20 min. 25 sec.
16 mm film can #94
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The Lenin Library / Leninskaia biblioteka

Internal structure, organization, collections and readership of the State Lenin Library in Moscow.

Hungarian language, 1952, Duration: 20 min. 19 sec.
16 mm film can #95
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Krasnoiarsk Pillars / Krasnoiarskiie stolby

Krasnoiarsk rocks, known as Stolby Nature Sanctuary, the fauna, rock climbing activities, and the revolutionary history of this region.

Hungarian language, 1951, Duration: 10 min. 24 sec.
16 mm film can #96
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New Minsk / Novyi Minsk

Everyday life in the city of Minsk including factories and plants, communication network of telephone operators, new architectural sites, public parks and housing quarters, kindergartens, various research institutes, theater and choir performances. The film includes an account of the post-war reconstruction on Minsk.

Hungarian language, 1954, Duration: 29 min. 43 sec.
16 mm film can #97
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Like the Phoenix from Its Ashes 1. And the Soldier Returns / Kak feniks iz pepla. Fil'm pervyi: i vernulsia soldat domoi

Victory Day celebration, the soldiers' return home, the scale of war destruction, the start of the reconstruction of cities and industries, the revival of regular higher education and the postwar baby boom, setting up the United Nations, bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Hungarian language, 1983, Duration: 28 min. 46 sec.
16 mm film can #98
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Lessons of History / Uroki istorii

Survey of the history of World War II on different fronts, with special focus on the Eastern front with emphasis on the strong sense of international friendship at the end of the war.

Hungarian language, 1985, Duration: 30 min. 6 sec.
16 mm film can #99
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Protection of Soil in Soviet Steppe Areas / Pochvozashchitnoe zemledeliie v stepnykh raionakh strany

Measures and mechanisms for protecting soil in steppe areas from wind and water erosion, developed in the All-Union Research Institute for Grain Farming (VNIIZKh).

Hungarian language, 1977, Duration: 43 min. 35 sec.
16 mm film can #100
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Western Siberia and Western Europe / Zapadnaia Sibir' - Zapadnaia Evropa

The Soviet Union's agreement with West Europe, in particularly Germany, banks and companies, on financing and supplying the construction of the Urengoy–Pomary–Uzhgorod pipeline, the actual process of pipeline construction, housing and the everyday life of workers and other people in the construction areas.

Hungarian language, 1983, Duration: 56 min. 34 sec.
16 mm film can #101
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Country and Science / Strana i nauka

History of the Russian Academy of sciences: the crucial role of Mikhail Lomonosov in developing Russian science, geographic expeditions in the 19th century, geometry of Nikolai Lobachevskii, periodical table of Dmitrii Mendeleev, Lenin's role in the management and promotion of Soviet science, Research Institute of Physics and Chemistry founded by Lev Karpov; experiments by Ivan Pavlov, North Pole expeditions, State Electrification Plan (GOELRO), the first Soviet cyclotron, republican branches of the Academy of Sciences, the role of Soviet science in first five-year plans and in World War II, Sergei Vavilov’s elaboration of luminescent lamps in the late 1940s, the construction of the new building for Moscow State University, the research on potential uses of nuclear energy for peaceful ends, Akademgorodok in Novosibirsk, scientific center in Vladivostok, Tashkent University, cybernetics, Kursk Magnetic Anomaly, development of new sorts of grain, protein synthesis, gas and oil production in West Siberia, the Institute of Economics and Mathematics, Voronezh atomic power plant, contacts and exchange with foreign scientists, prospects for practical uses of laser, and Soviet Space program.

Russian language, 1974, Duration: 51 min. 33 sec.
16 mm film can #102
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Heading the People, Together with People / Vo glave naroda, vmeste s narodom

The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, survey of the Party’s history from its second Congress in 1903 to the current moment.

Hungarian language, 1984, Duration: 49 min. 42 sec.
16 mm film can #103
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Leningrad, the City of Peace and Friendship / Leningrad, gorod mira i druzhby

Scottish journalist Margaret Henderson preparing the book “Dear Allies: A Story of Women in Monklands and Besieged Leningrad” (published in 1988) about the Scottish women’s contributions to the British Red Cross for Russia Fund, celebration of the 70th anniversary of the October Revolution in the Leningrad People’s Friendship Society, Chinese lessons in a Leningrad primary school, Dresden delegation at the State Porcelain Factory, Leningrad culture days in Dresden, Astrid Lindgren’s visit to Leningrad, Leningrad culture days in Cuba, Finnish-Soviet negotiations on restoring historical buildings in Leningrad, Italian Catholic visitors to Leningrad Theology Academy, U. S. visitors at Victory Day celebration.

Hungarian language, 1980, Duration: 27 min. 56 sec.
16 mm film can #104
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Composer Aleksandra Pakhmutova / Kompozitor Aleksandra Pakhmutova

Aleksandra Pakhmutova’s creative biography, her music performed by singers, choirs and orchestras and featured in films.

Hungarian language, 1977, Duration: 29 min. 3 sec.
16 mm film can #105
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Peaks of Armenia / Armianskiie vertikali

Armenia’s mountainous landscape, paintings by Martiros Sarian, a quarry, Lake Sevan, vineyards and gardens, Alaverdi Copper Smelter, textile and food industries, repository of ancient manuscripts, research institute and museum Matenadaran, computer Nairi, geophysics research, housing and metro in Yerevan, high percentage of youth and children in Yerevan’s population, Aram Khachaturian’s music, festival with traditional meals, music and dances.

Hungarian language, 1981, Duration: 47 min. 2 sec.
16 mm film can #106
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Great Unity / Velikoe edinstvo

Celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution in different Soviet republics, short survey of the Soviet history, nationality policy and political geography, republican representation in the Soviet Union's Supreme Soviet, Brezhnev’s Constitution, industrial centers across the Soviet Union, outstanding achievements of people from different Soviet republics and regions in industry, science and creative professions.

Russian language, 1977, Duration: 50 min. 39 sec.
16 mm film can #107
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Soviet Diploma / Sovetskii diplom

Graduates from Soviet educational institutions working in their home countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe, among them Congolese cameraman Jean-Batiste Elanga, employees of Veterinary Research Institute and Children’s hospital in Brazzaville, Bulgarian architect Georgii Stoilov, and Hungarian transport engineer András Dunajszky, energetics engineer Nevil Rajapeksa in Sri-Lanka, and others, international student life in Patrice Lumumba People’s Friendship University in Moscow, the Mineral Resources University in Leningrad, the Institute of Oil and Chemistry in Baku, Kiev University of Civil Aviation, and other universities, common space flight of Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez and Yurii Romanenko on Soyuz 38 spaceship, Cuban circus artists educated in the Soviet Union, staging the ballet Spring by Cuban choreographer Alberto Méndez in the Budapest Opera House, with Soviet-educated Hungarian dancers, Syrian, Palestinian and Mongol students in the Repin Institute of Fine Arts in Leningrad.

Hungarian language, 1982, Duration: 49 min. 57 sec.
16 mm film can #108
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The Voice of Soviet Women / Golos sovetskikh zhenshchin

Valentina Tereshkova’s anti-war speech in the Soviet Women’s Committee, Soviet women’s anti-war protests, anti-war propaganda in Soviet women’s journals, female veterans of World War II, Zaria Volkova, director of the Minsk laboratory of women’s labor hygiene, international meetings of Soviet Women’s Committee, world peace conference in Prague, young musicians festival in Smolensk, cosmonaut and space researcher Svetlana Savitskaia, schoolchildren in Kiev make drawing on the theme of peace.

Hungarian language, 1983, Duration: 26 min. 42 sec.
16 mm film can #109
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Cambodia Builds a New Life / Kampuchia stroit novuiu zhizn'

Reconstruction and new development of educational system in Cambodia after the defeat of the Khmer Rouge regime: primary education, Cambodia-Soviet Union Friendship Technical Institute and its Russian language lessons, producing new textbooks in Khmer language, public celebration in Phnom Penh, school of fine arts and studio of traditional dances in Phnom Penh, Cambodian students in Moscow and Leningrad, agriculture in Cambodia and the dramatic legacy of Pol Pot’s agricultural policy, Cambodia-Soviet Union Friendship hospital and the first Cambodian female pediatrist, a new school in Cambodian village built by peasants.

Hungarian language, 1985, Duration: 40 min. 27 sec.
16 mm film can #110
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Mengo Means Star / Mengo - eto zvezda

Rehearsals, performances and tours of Kamchatka-based Koriak national dance and music ensemble Mengo.

Russian language, 1983, Duration: 26 min. 20 sec.