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USSR Today 1958 No. 6

USSR Agricultural Exhibition in Moscow -- Developments in higher education -- Vladimir Tolstoy and collective farming -- Art gallery -- Tourism in the Caucasian mountains -- Attending the Cannes Film Festival. The film opens with footage shot at the USSR Agricultural Exhibition in Moscow, where displays range from new cars and tractors to an atomic ice breaker and models of Sputnik satellites. The next segment considers higher education and the extent to which examinations have been opened up to the people since the days of Tsarist Russia. Later scenes include Vladimir Tolstoy, grandson of the famed author, cycling to a collective farm when he oversees planting and works alongside children. Other segments focus on civilians at an art gallery, tourism in the Caucasian mountains and a young actress receiving an award.
Complete catalog record
Original source: The British Film Institute | Archive Reference: N-507480. | Reproduction of: USSR, 1958. 16mm Comb BW pos. | Production Company: Central Documentary Film Studios, Moscow.
Release: Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2018.
Physical description: 1 online resource (video file 0:10:13) : sound, black and white | monochrome
Subjects: Agriculture and farming | Industry | Mechanisation | Technology | Automobiles | Science | Space | Exploration | Education | Collective farms | Children | Arts and culture | Photography | Wildlife and nature | Leisure | Tourism | Sports and games | Table tennis | Film history | Moscow | Vilnius (Vilna) | Tashkent | Caucasus | USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) | Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910) | Kalatozov, Mikhail (1903-1973) | Newsreel/Cinemagazine | 1954-1975

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