May Day celebration in Moscow, Russia. Cut outs of Russian dignitaries on a wall. Troops stand at a square. Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin walks towards a mausoleum. People watch him. He climbs the stairs of mausoleum. He waves to the crowd. Clock on a tower reads10 O'clock. Soldiers stand with horses. Troops stand aligned. Soviet General Georgy Zhukov arrives and salute. Band plays music. Soviet Army, Navy and Air troops march. Officer salutes. Russian aircraft fly over head. People watch the air show.
Donbas locomotive plant in Soviet Russia. Donbas railroad locomotive plant is restored. Workers make locomotive parts. Workers use equipment in the factory. Parts of locomotives in factory. Wheels and engine in view. Workers paint on railroad cars. Finished engine leaves the plant. Engine on railroad track.
Port of Murmansk in Soviet Russia. Ships dock at the Port site. Several ships in the harbor. Smoke rises up from the smokestacks of ships. Cargo loaded on ships through cranes. Men direct the loading. A man on a truck on the port. Aerial view of the city. Civilians walk on the snow covered ground. Buildings in the background.
Operation Barbarossa - the German invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. German officers question Soviet prisoners. German chiefs confer. German troops advance to find retreating Soviet Armies. German bombers and fighter aircraft in flight. Aerial views from German aircraft as they strafe Soviet positions. Gun camera footage from German fighter aircraft firing on Soviet positions. Smoke rises after aerial bombing by the Germans. A German aircraft strafes a Russian railroad train. Smoke rises from a wrecked train. View of German Luftwaffe pilot inside cockpit of a light bomber aircraft.
Soviet Russian Army units during military maneuvers in the Soviet Union. The Red Army soldiers advancing on a field during the maneuvers. Soldiers on a field. A soldier with a gun perched in a tree. Two soldiers with rifles in prone position. A few soldiers on the field. One of them writes down on a pad. Another soldier with binoculars in hand. A soldiers under cover on field with mortar. Soviet General Timoshenko with other officers view the maneuvers on the field. Soldiers under camouflage cover of bushes. Explosions during simulated enemy attack. Several Polikarpov I-16 aircraft in flight. Soldiers with weapons under cover of net. The General with other officers walk on the field. Machine guns and mortar under cover. The General and the officers on the field. One of the officers writes down a note. The General looks under the camouflage bushes at the soldiers hidden there. (World War II period).
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.)
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