Russian News of the Day 1972 #04 January

Russian News of the Day 1972 #04 January Kremlin, Podgorny w/ Bulgarian Foreign Minister Petar Mladenov on official visit to USSR, delegates shake hands, enter meeting room & sit at table, CU Gromyko, Podgorny & Mladenov. 08:14:44 Kremlin, Podgorny meets Japanese chairman Kenze Kona(?), shake hands, delegation take seats at long table in meeting room; w/ Soviet Union’s chairman Shitikov & National Soviet’s chairwoman Nasridinova. Shots of Japanese representatives, Podgorny. 08:15:28 Kabardina-Bulkaria, tramway over valley & men in carriage. Workers w/ lights on helmets, men work in underground tunnels, drilling ore, loaded into cars & removed. 08:16:23 Vladimirsky (?) region, Glass factory w/ cut-glass ovens and machinery. (14:17:19) Inventors of new glass boiling tehnology check glass quality. (14:17:40) Glass jars in manufactured on automatic machinery, woman works at machine polishing glass edge. Female workers check finished production & pack boxes, shots of glass goblets, tumblers & cutglass ware. 08:17:35 Moscow, Hero of Socialist Labor, 1st chairman of Gosplan, VP of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR - G.M. Krzhizhanovsky at table in office, room from various angles, bookshelf w/ Lenin's books. Krzhizhnovsky’s 100th birthday celebration meeting, audience, speakers on podium - deputy chairman of Soviet Union Council of Ministers - Baibakov & Academician Kirinin(?), audience applaud. 08:18:50 Kremlin, Chairman Thihonov on podium, audience. Thohonov gives prizes to 1971 laureates in Soviet culture sphere: writers, architects, actors, sculptors, producers etc., audience applause. 08:20:09 Bulgaria(?), Shot of atom sculpture, Institute of Physics, hall w/ various machinery, physicists work on new type of hydrogen camera “Ludmila”, CU inventors look at construction plans, demonstrate camera. Bulgarian academic Georgy Nadzhakov opens public viewing, cuts ribbon; people view equipment. 08:21:13 Uljanovsk, car manufacture in name of Lenin, men put together cars, assembly line. Factory’s cars & trucks tested in race thru snowy fields, hills, mud. Men look w/ binoculars. Cars drive thru difficult conditions, some get stuck on hills, slide backwards. Winning driver presented w/ prize. 08:22:26 Hilay, Big factory. Cast iron (?) production construction, Soviet specialists & Indian metalurgists at table in factory, machinery. Indian construction worker meet for official factory opening, shots of huge fiery ovens, sparks, steam in air, large machinery. Men work next to flaming furnaces. Spectacular. Very good quality.