The 50s of the twentieth century in NEWSREELS, PHOTOGRAPHS, PHONOGRAMS
(1950-1959)

DOCUMENTARY FILMS

Workshop of the MTZ plant, tractor assembly BGAKFFD. Arch. No. 106 "Naviny of the day" 1 h., b/w, zv. Dir.S.Solid

Preparation for the elections, the campaign center at the BSU named after V.I.Lenin BGAKFFD. Arch. No. 98 k/w "Savetskaya Belarus" No. 30, 1 h., b/w, zv. Dir. V.Streltsov. Documentary film

Holding of the autumn agricultural exhibition in Slutsk BGAKFFD. Arch. No. 99 k/w "Savetskaya Belarus" No. 31, 1 h., b/w, zv. Dir. S.Solidnov.

Carrying out chemical weed harvesting with the help of aviation at the Belarusian breeding station “Zazerye” in the Minsk region BGAKFFD. Arch. No. 120 k/w "Naviny of the day" No. 19, 1 h., b/w, zv. Dir. Yu.Stalmakov.

Orsha machine Tool plant “Krasny Borets”, preparation of products for shipment to the Kuibyshev HPP under construction BGAKFFD. Arch. No. 134 k/w "Naviny of the day" No. 33, 1 h., b/w, zv. Dir. I.Shulman.

Students of the Minsk Choreographic School in the classroom of the People’s Artist of the BSSR A.V.Nikolaeva BGAKFFD. Arch. No. 129 kj "Naviny of the day" No. 28, 1 h., b/w, zv. Dir. S.Solidnov

The story of the Skidel sugar mill BGAKFFD. Arch. No. 253 k/w "Naviny of the day" No. 30, 1 h., b/w, zv. Dir. Yu.Stalmakov.

The plot of the role of the intercollegiate hydroelectric power station on the Turovlyanka river in the Vetrinsky district of the Polotsk region in changing the way of life and work of collective farmers BGAKFFD. Arch. No. 253 k/w "Naviny of the day" No. 30, 1 h., b/w, zv. Dir. Yu.Stalmakov.

The foundry of MAZ. At the Stakhanov watch in honor of the 20th Congress of the CP(b)B foremen of steelworkers Alexander Vazhnik and Ivan Platonov BGAKFFD. Arch. No. 249 k/w "Naviny of the day" No. 26, 1 h., b/w, zv. Dir. I.Shulman.

Peat engineering plant “Engine of the Revolution” in Gomel, testing of a new machine at the plant. Machines produced by the peat processing plant BGAKFFD. Arch. No. 277 k/w "Naviny of the day" No. 14, 1 h., b/w, zv. Dir. I.Shulman.

The footage shows the products of MAZ, the MTZ settlement, the footage chronicles the beginning of the construction of MTZ and the first workers. BGAKFFD. Arch. No. 638 k/f "Novy Minsk", 4 hours, b/w, zv. Dir. I.Shulman.

Meeting at the Brest railway station of the delegates of the VI World Festival of Youth and Students, 1957 Directed by L.Matusevich BGAKFFD Arch. No. 485 k/w "Savetskaya Belarus" No.22, 1 h., b/w, zv. Documentary film

Holding the First All-Belarusian Youth Festival in Minsk, 1957, Directed by Yu.Stalmakov BGAKFFD Arch. No. 499 k/f "I-y Usebelaruski festyval moladzi", 3 hours, b/w, zv. Documentary film

Construction of the village of Novostarobinsk (the future city of Soligorsk) and a potash plant, 1958 Directed by L.Matusevich BGAKFFD Arch. No. 568 k/w "Savetskaya Belarus" No. 30, 1 h., b/w, zv. Documentary film

A rally at the MTZ on the occasion of the release of the 100,000th tractor, 1958, Directed by S.Fried BGAKFFD Arch. No. 573 k/w "Savetskaya Belarus" No.36, 1 h., b/w, zv. Documentary film

The beginning of the construction of the Polotsk Oil Refinery, 1958, Directed by L.Matusevich BGAKFFD Arch. No. 566 k/w "Savetskaya Belarus" No.28, 1 h., b/w, zv. Documentary film

Construction of Vasilevichskaya GRES (now Svetlogorsk CHP) in the Gomel region, 1958 Directed by L.Matusevich BGAKFFD Arch. No. 546 k/w "Savetskaya Belarus" No.8, 1 h., b/w, zv. Documentary film

A rally on Lenin Square in Minsk in honor of the 40th anniversary of the BSSR, 1959 Directed by M.Gorbunov BGAKFFD Arch. No. 710 k/w "Savetskaya Belarus" No.36 1 h., b/w, zv. Documentary film

Vitebsk plant of radio components – production, inspection and sorting of ceramic capacitors, 1959 Dir. L.Matusevich BGAKFFD Arch. No. 681 k/w "Savetskaya Belarus" No. 7, 1 h., b/w, zv. Documentary film

The grand opening of the monument to the pioneer hero Marat Kazey in Minsk, 1959 Directed by L.Matusevich BGAKFFD Arch. No. 708 k/w "Savetskaya Belarus" No.34 1 h., b/w, zv. Documentary film

PHOTO DOCUMENTS

The first 40-ton dump truck and a ZIS truck placed next to it for comparison on the territory of MAZ BGACFFD. 0-066291. Photo library of the editorial office of the newspaper "Soviet Belarus", L.Papkovich.

An employee of the Minsk greenhouse and Greenhouse complex of the Ministry of Trade of the BSSR Komsomol member L.Tsvirko for picking cucumbers BGACFFD. 0-001237. BelTA photo chronicle, V.Lupeiko.

The foreman of the excellent quality brigade of the Vitebsk shoe factory “Krasny Oktyabr” M.P.Pilantov and Stakhanovets A.A.Matveev for checking the quality of manufactured shoes BGACFFD. 0-001569. BelTA photo chronicle, V.Lupeiko.

Classes at the Michurinsk agrobiological science school of the BVO collective farm of the Lyuban district, participant of the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition BGACFFD. 1-001126. Photo chronicle of TASS.

Researcher at the Institute of Reclamation of Water and Marsh Management of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR M.M.Shabunina during an experiment on studying the fertility of arable and sub-arable layer of peat soils BGACFFD. 1-001342. Photo chronicle of TASS, Minsk.

Construction of an apartment building in Minsk BGAKFFD. 0-018458

An echelon with MAZ dump trucks before being sent to the construction of the Kuibyshev hydroelectric power station BGACFFD. 0-002863. BelTA photo chronicle, V.Lupeiko.

Senior researcher at the Belarusian State Breeding Station, winner of the Stalin Prize P.I.Alsmik for determining the yield and quality of tubers of a new potato variety BGAKFFD. 0-012515. TSGAKFD OF THE USSR.

Stakhanovite-turner of the Minsk Udarnik plant, Komsomol member G. Kunkin at work BGACFFD. 0-002878. BelTA photo chronicle, I.Savich, D.Rudnitsky .

Collective farmers of the Krasnaya Zvezda agricultural cartel of the Mostovsky district hand over sugar beets at the procurement point of the Belarusian Sugar Combine BGACFFD. 0-004949. BelTA Photo Chronicle, Taganovich

Students of the Mogilev regional School of Agricultural Mechanization at practical classes in the laboratory of electrical and radio engineering BGAKFFD. 0-012519. TSGAKFD OF THE USSR.

The senior turner of the Mogilev Locomotive Plant, F.D.Nikitenko, explains the rules for measuring parts to students of technical school No. 10 BGACFFD. 0-005285. BelTA Photo Chronicle, G.Begun.

Delegate of the XVII Congress of the LKSMB, secretary of the Komsomol Committee of the Gomel garment factory “Komintern” Z.Tsareva with a group of Komsomol women, who were awarded pennants for reducing the cost of production and excellent performance of production operations BGACFFD. 0-004430. BelTA photo chronicle, N.Deryugin.

Construction of a reinforced concrete bridge over the river. Svisloch and residential buildings in the area of Kruglaya Square in Minsk BGAKFFD. 0-023841. TSGAKFD OF THE USSR.

Land reclamation works at the I.V.Stalin collective farm in the Drissen district BGACFFD. 0-031326. BelTA photo chronicle, M.Voronin.

The director of the Eye Diseases Clinic, Honored Doctor of the Republic, Professor T.V.Birich advises graduate student E.E.Zakharchenko, who is preparing to defend her PhD thesis BGACFFD. 0-007569. BelTA photo chronicle, A.Ditlov.

Agronomist of Gorodishchenskaya MTS E.Knepa, agronomist of the regional agricultural administration V.V.Kabanova and civil aviation pilot V.K.Degtyarov inspect the winter rye crops pollinated with pesticides of the kolkhoz. Rokossovsky Gorodishchensky district BGACFFD. 0-006455. BelTA Photo Chronicle, p.A little bit.

The Stakhanovka of the Borisov Glass Factory named after F.E.Dzerzhinsky L.Poretskaya examines the exhibits of the exhibition of fine art opened at the factory BGACFFD. 1-000315. Photo chronicle of TASS, P.Novatorov.

Performance of the united choir of the BSSR as part of the State Choir of the BSSR, the national Choir of the BSSR, the choirs of the Belarusian Radio Information Committee and the choir of the State Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater of the BSSR, prepared for the decade of Belarusian Art and literature in Moscow BGACFFD. 0-042589.

Inspection of the receiver of the 1st class “Belarus” in the assembly shop of the Minsk radio factory BGACFFD. 0-028826.

On the construction of the Minsk Worsted Mill BGACFFD. 0-012789.

The building of the Druzhba Narodov hydroelectric power station on Lake. Drisvyata, which provides electricity to the neighboring collective farms of the BSSR, LitSSR and LatSSR BGACFFD. 0-021944.

A collective farmer of the I.V.Stalin Indursky collective farm with K.E. Boris with an advance payment received in kind for workdays BGACFFD. 0-026352.

Shift chemist of the Glubokoe cannery N.S.Semenova at work BGACFFD. 0-026364.

Workers of the Minsk watch factory while working on a pulsating conveyor in 1957, Minsk. Photo library of the Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War BGACFFD 0-106810 Photo document

Chairman of the collective farm named afterStalin of the Lukhovichi district of the Moscow region, twice Hero of Socialist Labor F.S.Generalov (second from left) during a conversation with delegates of the Republican Congress of agricultural specialists of the BSSR on March 26, 1957, Minsk. BelTA photo chronicle, V.Lupeiko BGACFFD 0-031248 Photo document

Spreading peat with an electric power machine at the Bolshevik peat plant in the Gomel region on April 16, 1957, Gomel region. Photo chronicle of BelTA, F.Romanov BGACFFD 0-074989 Photo document

In the workshop for the manufacture of cellophane of the Mogilev Artificial Fiber Plant named after V.V.Kuibyshev on April 25, 1957, Mogilev. TASS photo chronicle, M.Minkovich BGACFFD 0-066595 Photo document

MAZ products – 40 ton dump truck “MAZ-530” May 28, 1957, Minsk. BelTA photo chronicle, V.Lupeiko BGACFFD 0-040405 Photo document

View of the border arch “USSR” on the border with the People’s Republic of Poland during the YI World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow 1957, Brest. Collector L.Papkovich BGACFFD 1-006844 Photo document

Performance of athletes of the DSO “Labor Reserves” at the Dynamo stadium in Minsk at the I-th All-Belarusian Youth Festival July 1957, Minsk. Photo library of the Zvyazda newspaper editorial office, V.Kitas BGACFFD 1-000334 Photo document

Teacher of the school of working youth No.8Mogileva K.A.Metelitsa tells 9th grade students about the flight of the first artificial Earth satellite launched in the USSR on October 8, 1957, Mogilev. BelTA photo chronicle, Ch.Mezin BGACFFD 0-038378 Photo document

Visitors inspect paintings in one of the halls of the State Art Museum of the BSSR November 1957, Minsk. Photo library of the editorial office of the newspaper “Soviet Belarus”, L.Papkovich BGACFFD 0-066252 Photo document

The foreman of the brigade fighting for the title of the collective of communist labor of the Polotsk Glass Fiber plant, Komsomolka Z.Lipkova and a member of R.Pisarenko’s brigade in the twisting workshop of the plant (1958- 1960), Vitebsk region. Photo library of the editorial office of the newspaper “Vicebsky rabochy”, N.Sivakov BGACFFD 0-026151 Photo document

The first 25-ton dump truck MAZ-525 of the Belarusian Automobile Plant in Zhodino, Smolevichi district, 1958, Minsk region. MAZ Photo Library BGACFFD 0-127524 Photo document

The first secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, N.S. Khrushchev, inspects the livestock farm of the collective farm.Gastello, Minsk district, January 20, 1958, Minsk region. BelTA photo chronicle, P.Novatorov, V.Lupeiko BGACFFD 0-075003 Photo document

A hundred thousandth tractor that rolled off the MTZ assembly line on April 6, 1958, Minsk. BelTA photo chronicle, V.Lupeiko BGACFFD 0-046399 Photo document

People’s Artist of the USSR, full member of the Academy of Arts N.V.Tomsky among the delegates of the 4th Congress of Artists of the BSSR on April 16, 1958, Minsk. BelTA photo chronicle, V.Lupeiko BGACFFD 0-046399 Photo document

The crew of the Belarusfilm film studio with director P.P.Shamshur on the set of the film “The Clock stopped at midnight” in Radoshkovichi. 1958, Minsk region. Collector P.Shamshur BGACFFD 0-101549 Photo document

First Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPB K.T.Mazurov, Secretary of the Volozhin RC of the CPB F.F.Krivtsov, Chairman of the Molodechno regional Executive Committee P.F.Borisov and secretary of the Molodechno OK of the CPB G.V.Kovalev and S.O.Pritytsky inspecting corn in the fields of the collective farm “Pobeda” of the Volozhin district on September 16, 1958, Minsk region. BelTA photo chronicle, V.Lupeiko BGACFFD 0-075185 Photo document

Construction of the main building of Vasilevichskaya GRES in October 1958, Gomel region. Belox Photo Library, M.Minkovich BGACFFD 0-036389 Photo document

The ceremony of awarding the BSSR with the Order of Lenin during the solemn meeting dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the formation of the BSSR and the CPB, in the State Order of Lenin Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater of the BSSR; in the center of the presidium: I Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU N.S.Khrushchev, to the right of the standard–bearer – chairman of the collective farm “Dawn” of the Kirov district of Mogilev region, Hero Of the Soviet Union, Hero of Socialist Labor K.P.Orlovsky January 1959, Minsk GAKFFD of the BSSR BGACFFD 0-036389 Photo document

At the seminars for the preparation of counters of the All-Union Population Census of 1959 of the 4th census department of the Oktyabrsky district of Vitebsk, 1959, Vitebsk Photo Library of the editorial office of the newspaper “Vicebsky Rabochy”, N.Sivakov BGACFFD 0-047539 Photo document

At the elections to the Supreme Council of the BSSR and local Councils of Workers’ Deputies at polling station No. 2 in Gomel, March 1959, Gomel Photo Chronicle BelTA, F.Romanov BGACFFD 0-020198 Photo document

Presidium and Hall of the First Congress of the Union of Journalists of the BSSR March 1959, Minsk, Central Committee of the BSSR BGACFFD 0-126522 Photo document

100-thousandth car – MAZ products on May 19, 1959, Minsk BelTA Photo chronicle, Begun BGACFFD 0-075255 Photo document

General view of the building of the Minsk State Circus of the BSSR 1959, Minsk TASS Photo chronicle, V.Tyukkel BGACFFD 0-078199 Photo document

Circus posters in 1959 in Minsk for the opening of the circus in 1959, Minsk TSGAKFFD BSSR BGACFFD 0-126511 Photo document

An employee of the Gomel cable plant N.Rakov for the maintenance of a twisting machine on July 16, 1959, Gomel Photo Chronicle BelTA, F.Romanov BGACFFD 0-039685 Photo document

Electric pipe welders Yu.Unitsky and his assistant G.Bevshko on automatic pipe welding at one of the sections of the construction of the Dashava-Minsk main gas pipeline on September 30, 1959, Minsk region. BelTA photo chronicle, N.Vasilevsky BGACFFD 0-021052 Photo document

SOUND DOCUMENTS

“Let’s have a look at the future.” The year is 1950. Memoirs of one of the organizers of the industrial exhibition, which opened on September 17, 1950 on the Central Square in the area of ul. Sovetskaya, Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Radio Electronics and Instrumentation of the State Planning Committee of the BSSR Valentin Andreevich Svyatoslavov about its exhibits. Date of recording: 1968, Minsk, Belarusian Republican Radio Center BGAKFFD Arch.№ ML 454 Audio document

“Let’s have a look at the future.” The year is 1951. Memories of Pavel Pavlovich Zhiburtovich, head of the planning and dispatch bureau of one of the workshops of the Minsk Bearing Plant, about the construction site and the release of the first bearing. Date of recording: 1968, Minsk, Belarusian Republican Radio Center BGAKFFD Arch.№ ML 455 Audio document

“Let’s have a look at the future.” The year is 1952. Memoirs of Mikhail Pavlovich Bogomolov, one of the first trolleybus drivers in Minsk, about the first flight on September 15, 1952 on the only line of the Round Square Railway Station. Date of recording: 1968, Minsk, Belarusian Republican Radio Center BGAKFFD Arch.№ ML 456 Audio document

“Let’s have a look at the future.” The year is 1953. Memoirs of the chief engineer of the Minsk Printing Plant Semyon Timofeevich Sizonenko about the beginning of the construction of the plant on the Komarovsky marshes Date of recording: 1968, Minsk, Belarusian Republican Radio Center BGAKFFD Arch.№ ML 457 Audio document

“Let’s have a look at the future.” The year is 1957. Memories of Anatoly Ivanovich Braslavsky, one of the designers of the MAZ-530 dump truck, about the need to create a heavy-duty machine. A story about the characteristics of the giant machine MAZ-530 Recording date: 1968, Minsk, Belarusian Republican Radio Center BGAKFFD Arch.№ ML 459.1 Audio document

“Let’s have a look at the future.” The year is 1957. The story of Gennady Ilyich Korolyov, head of the propaganda department of the State Art Museum of the BSSR, about the history of the museum’s creation Date of recording: 1968, Minsk, Belarusian Republican Radio Center BGAKFFD Arch. № ML 459.2 Audio document

“Let’s have a look at the future.” The year is 1957. Memoirs of the Second Secretary of the LKSMB Central Committee in 1957, Vitaly Ivanovich Smirnov, on the preparation and holding of the First All-Belarusian Youth Festival from June 30 to July 2, 1957. Date of recording: 1968, Minsk, Belarusian Republican Radio Center BGAKFFD Arch. № ML 459.3 Audio document

“Let’s have a look at the future.” The year is 1958. Memoirs of the foreman of one of the first brigades of communist labor A.A.Digilevich about his work, about how success came Date of recording: 1968, Minsk, Belarusian Republican Radio Center FFD Arch. № ML 460.1 Audio document

“Let’s have a look at the future.” The year is 1958. Memoirs of the People’s Actress of the USSR, director of the State Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater Larisa Pompeevna Alexandrovskaya about the production of Alexei Ivanovich Turenkov’s opera Yasnae Svitanne in 1958. Date of recording: 1968, Minsk, Belarusian Republican Radio Center BGAKFFD Arch. № ML 460.2 Audio document

“Let’s have a look at the future.” The year is 1959. The story of the master of the Gomel Cable plant Alexei Mikhailovich Sizogo about the opening of the plant and the release of products Date of recording: 1968, Minsk, Belarusian Republican Radio Center BGAKFFD Arch. № ML 461.1 Audio document

“Let’s have a look at the future.” The year is 1959. Memoirs of the executive Secretary of the Union of Journalists of the BSSR Ales Matusevich about the work of the I-th All-Belarusian Congress of Journalists and solved tasks Date of recording: 1968, Minsk, Belarusian Republican Radio Center BGAKFFD Arch. № ML 461.2 Audio document

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