The Altai mountains region in Central Asia (at convergence of Russia, China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan). A small village consisting of huts in the mountains. A village near a river. Native with a heard of cattle in fields. Men and women on horseback watch herd of cattle. Cattle at a water hole. A large bull. Herd of yaks in a field. A woman milks a cow. They pour milk into a large pail. A herd of sheep in field. Shepherd on horseback as he holds a lamb. Sheep, rams and goats in the field.
A film titled ' Soviet Siberia and Central Asia Americas new gateway to Asia' depicts U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace journey to China through Soviet union. Animated map of the world. A portion of the globe. A U.S. Army Air Forces C-54 Skymaster takes off from Bering Strait and lands in Yakutsk. U.S. Vice President being greeted by Soviet leaders and chairman of council of the people's commissars of the Yakutsk Republic. The Vice President with other leaders look at the original wooden tower left in the city. They stand in front of a library. Civilians in the background. The children meet Vice President Wallace. He visits an agricultural station and talks to the people who carry agriculture in the north.
U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace's journey to China through Soviet union. Animated map of the world. He visits Siberian railroad and being greeted by an engineer from Leningrad. Wallace along with American visitors and engineer visit a farm. A view of the houses in the city and ducks in a pond. Then they visit a farm. Tomatoes and cucumbers in the green house. They look at the vegetables and fruits in the farm. Wallace eats a fruit. Pigs and cattle in the filed. He stands with a cattle. Next they visit a small community or a village. They enter a village store. A woman looks out from a window. Next they visit a village soviet. The American visitors shake hands with a man.
U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace on a journey to China through Soviet union. Vice President along with American visitors visit Lake Baikal. The view of mountains around the Lake. Visitors and Wallace on a tug to take a trip of the lake and the scientists explains their work. They then go by a plane to the eastern side of the Lake. He talks to a Russian flier.
U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace journey to China through Soviet union. A animated portion of a globe shows his next destination. Wallace visits Buryat Mongolian Republic. Wallace being greeted by the members of the Ranch Committee. A short man with a Buryat face is the President of the republic. The American visitors see the cattle. They see a horse. A village band. Buryats men and women play loud music for the Vice President. The round cheeked and round eye children listen to the music. A tall man, head of the locomotive work. The American visitors look at the locomotive.
U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace on a journey to China through Soviet union. A animated portion of a globe shows his next destination. The Vice President visits Shushenskoye. The American visitors and Wallace visit Vladimir Lenin's home . Vice President and party aboard a river steamer in Yenisei river and leave for trans Siberian railway. Mountains all around the river.