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Fulfilling Lenin’s Behests R3 of 5

Reel Number: 221390-03

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1968

Country: Russia,USSR

Location: Chukotka,krasnoyarsk,Moscow,Siberia

TC Begins: 02:21:34

TC Ends: 02:31:41

Duration: 00:10:07

Fulfilling Lenin’s Behests R3 of 5 High pan across new town under construction. INT Chukchi children in school classroom; CUs kids learn traditional skill of bone carving; examples of carvings. CU newspapers off printing press; Chukchi daily newspaper office. Library w/ books in native languages. Chukchi author at typewriter. 02:24:13 Chukchi kids at home watching dance performance by Chukchi Eskimo Ensemble on television; cutaways to programme being filmed in studio - dance depicts history of indiginous people. control panel. 02:25:54 Scenic views of Chukotka region Russian Far East. Large statue of Lenin. Meeting of Chukchi Soviet. Soldier w/ rifle on guard in mountains. Mining explosion - start of construction for nuclear power station. Titles in Russian re a land electrified. 02:27:28 Lenin’s Kremlin office - preserved as it was - CUs desk. Exterior shots Bolshoi Theatre where 8th Congress of Soviets held in 1920 - Lenin’s GOELRO Plan for electrification of Russia adopted. Interview w/ Konstantin Ygorov ?, delegate of 1920 Congress. B/W stills of post-WWI devastation. INT small museum w/ exhibit about opening of rural hydropower station attended by Lenin & wife Nadezhda Krupskaya - CUs photo of Lenin & guests at opening & invitation written by village to him. 02:30:07 Good shots of hydroelectric dam / hydropower station under construction w/ cranes & aerial views. Former construction worker Andrei Botchkin - now in charge of Krasnoyarsk hydropower station construction - various shots talking w/ colleagues on site. Russia / USSR; Travelogues; Heavy Industry; Communism; Sustainable Resources / Energy; Ethnic;

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