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Title USSR Today 1960 No. 2
Production Date 1960
Country of Production USSR
Duration 00:10:46
Production Company Central Documentary Film Studios, Moscow
Film Subject Era 1954-1975
Genre Newsreel/Cinemagazine
Summary Canal for Kara Kum Desert -- Model of a solar electrical power station -- Boarding school in Uzbekistan -- Mobile health clinic -- Foreign students at the Kirov Ballet School -- Excerpt from "Giselle" featuring Ulanova -- Winter sports in the USSR.
Original Title СССР Сегодня
Subjects Construction; Irrigation; Excavation; Machinery; Collective farms; Agriculture and farming; Cotton (crop); Agricultural machinery; Electricity; Power stations; Exhibition; Space; Schools; Children; Education; Health and medicine; Ballet; Winter; Sports and games; Skiing; Swimming; Competition
People Ulanova, Galina (1910-1998)
Places Karakum Desert; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan; Leningrad (St Petersburg, Petrograd); USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics); Caucasus
Fiction/Non Fiction Non Fiction
Sound Sound
Colour Format Black and White
Film Format 16mm Comb BW pos
Language English (Narrator)
Module Newsreels & Cinemagazines
BFI Identifier N-507502
Copyright The British Film Institute