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A new rolling mill begins operation at the first Metallurgical Plant in Uzbekistan, USSR
Title slate reads,"the First Metallurgical Plant in Soviet Central Asia." Narrator says construction started 4-years ago during the Battle of Stalingrad in World War 2 (1942-43). Interior of the plant is shown from a vantage point high above the factory floor. Strips of hot steel are seen being extruded from a rolling mill. Closeup of the rolling mill in action and workers standing beside it. Closeup of the mill's rollers and hot steel blank passing through them. Workers handle the hot steel with long tools, as they move it back and forth to different sets of rollers. Narrator says the rolling mill has a capacity of 50 thousand tons per year. Closeup of two steel workers. Change of scene with view from above and then from below, as a furnace is tapped and molten steel flows into a crucible, emiting smoke and flames. Closeup of Uzbek steel workers employed at the steel plant. Next, workers are gathered in a ceremony marking the opening of the new rolling mill. A plant supervisor speaks before the gathering. A huge picture of Joseph stalin forms a backdrop. (Note: This is the The Uzbek Metallurgical Plant, aka V. I. Lenin Uzbek Metallurgical Plant, located in Bekabad, Tashkent Oblast,Uzbekistan. The 300-millimeter light rolling mill, seen here, began operating in October, 1946.)
Nazi Germany Luftwaffe bombers bomb Leningrad's industrial area and sink the battleship Marat during the Siege of Leningrad.
The Nazi Germany attempt to capture Leningrad during the Siege of Leningrad in World War 2. A map depicts Leningrad in the USSR. German artillery bombards Kronstadt on the Kotlin Island. An artillery barrel as it is fired. Soldiers load and fire artillery guns. Smoke due to the explosions. German aircraft attack the Kronstadt harbor. Explosions in the water. A soldier mans a gun. The Soviet battleship Marat (Petropavlovsk) is hit by a German Junker Ju 87 or Stuka. The battleship enveloped in smoke. German Luftwaffe bombers in flight overhead. The aircraft bomb the industrial area of Leningrad. The bombs descend to the target area. Smoke due to the explosions.
Soviet fighter pilot, Aleksandr Pokryshkin, lands at an Air Base, where he is greeted with a piano concert, during World War II
A concert pianist (Emil Gilels) in civilian clothes sits at a grand piano set up on a stage outdoors on the flight line of a Soviet Air Base during World War 2. Soviet airmen dressed in flight gear, listen attentively to the concert, as several sit in their cockpits or on the wings of their Mikoyan-Gurevich (MIG 3) fighter aircraft. Many others are assembled around the stage.(Several lend-lease C-47 aircraft are seen in the background.) A Mig-3 flies low over the the assembly.Lieutenant Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin,a renowned Soviet fighter pilot, is seen in cockpit of the plane, after landing, as he shuts the engine down. He climbs down, wearing a seat-pack parachute, and walks across the ramp toward two decorated Soviet airmen. They exchange salutes. Pokryshkin then joins them,leaning against the wing of a MIG-3. The camera focuses upon Pokryshkin. The concert pianist finishes playing and the airmen applaud. Scene shifts to airmen loading boxes of supplies aboard a C-47 transport airplane. A C-47 in flight overhead.
Soviet ground and air forces early in World War II. Wartime views of citizens in a Soviet City
Soviet military operations in World War 2. Soviet tanks and infantry moving quickly through area of trees and fields. Soviet soldiers throwing hand grenades and firing field artillery. Squadron of Soviet Polikarpov I-16 pursuit aircraft taking off. Soviet Pe-2 bomber in flight and dropping bombs. Wartime views in a Soviet city. People going about their daily activities. Soldier directing traffic. Civilian air raid wardens wearing armbands.
Soviet aircraft recognition footage depicting several different German warplanes
Soviet animated aircraft recognition footage showing German warplanes including: Heinkel He 111; Junkers Ju 88 ; Me-110 and Dornier Do 215 aircraft. Airspeed indicators illustrate speeds of several of the aircraft.
Soviet World War II primer on high explosive bombs
Different types of high explosive bombs are shown in a Soviet civil defense film from World War 2. Bombs of different sizes are shown in a room. A Soviet specialist shows and discusses the bombs. A German Heinkel He 111 bomber aircraft in flight. The hand of a pilot at the controls, releasing bombs. A bomb explodes destroying a dwelling.