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Jawaharlal Nehru Prime Minister of the Republic of India in the Soviet Union

A film capturing the travels of Indian Prime Minster, Jawaharlal Nehru, around the Soviet Union for 16 days in June 1955. Jawaharlal Nehru's visit to the Soviet Union to help bring about world peace in June 1955 is filmed. Nehru travels around various parts of the country, witnessing the factory production of steel and metallurgical works in Siberia and Georgia. He witnesses the construction and operation of the Hydroelectric Station on the banks of the Volga River, and visits the memorial for the Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943). A common evening recreational activity was going to the ballet, where he sees a performance of "Swan Lake" in Moscow.

Credits

Roman Karmen (director); Irinia Venjer (editing); Irina Setkina (editing); Boris Makaseyev (camera); Yurie Karavkin (script); Ezra Maryamov (script); Dmitry Ritsner (music); David Shtilman (music)

Complete catalog record
Original source: Reproduction of: USSR, 1955. 16mm Comb col pos. | The British Film Institute | Archive Reference: N-508214. | Contributors: Venjer, Irinia; Setkina, Irina; Makaseyev, Boris; Karavkin, Yurie; Maryamov, Ezra; Ritsner, Dmitry; Shtilman, David. | Production Company: Central Documentary Film Studios, Moscow.
Release: Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2018.
Physical description: 1 online resource (video file 0:57:59) : sound, colour | polychrome
Subjects: Visits of state -- Soviet Union | Visits of state | Travel | Soviet Union -- Description and travel | Soviet Union | Newspapers | Peace | Agricultural machinery | Agricultural workers | Anti-fascism | Anti-German sentiments | Architecture | Arts and culture | Ballet | Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943) | Cotton (crop) | Exhibition | Factories | Machinery | Five Year Plan | Crops | Resorts and spas | Health and medicine | Hydroelectric power stations | Mechanisation | Memorials | Metallurgy | Miners and mining | Opera | Rivers | Steel | Underground railways | Universities | Urban life | USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) | Moscow | Stalingrad (Volgograd) | Crimea | Livadiya | Georgia | Tbilisi | Uzbekistan | Samarkand | Leningrad (St Petersburg, Petrograd) | Nehru, Jawaharlal (1889-1964) | Gandhi, Indira (1917-1984) | Bulganin, Nikolai (1895-1975) | Menon, Kumar Padmanabha Sivasankara (1898-1982) | Documentary | Government sponsored film | 1954-1975 | Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964 -- Travel -- Soviet Union | Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964 | Webcast

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Sources

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