Kalmykia is so ancient, so young (1980)

Panorama of the Kalmyk steppe, a flock of grazing sheep.

Jangarchi performs a fragment of the Kalmyk folk epic "Jangar".

People's poet of Kalmykia Sanji Kalyaev tells the content of the epic "Jangar", reads excerpts.

The faces of young people listening to Kalyaev.

A teacher with students passes through the village street.

View of the building of the Kalmyk State University.

A lecture in one of the classrooms, the faces of students.

Students in a class in one of the laboratories.

Lesson in the class of computing machines.

Teachers enter the university building.

The faces of the students.

Newsreel of the early 1920s: Kalmyks-nomads come out of the yurt.

A herd of cows at the yurts, a panorama of a part of the steppe.

Women's faces.

The text of the "Appeal to the Working Kalmyk people".

The galloping horseman.

Map of Kalmykia's uluses in 1920.

Yurt in the steppe.

Portraits of the organizers of the First All-Kalmyk Congress of Soviets Chipchaev, A. Amursanan, K. Herzenberg.

Portrait of Lenin inside the yurt.

The text of the resolution of the Congress on the formation of the Autonomous Region of the Kalmyk people.

Spring sowing in one of the collective farms of the Kalmyk ASSR.

The heads of the district talk to the machine operators, the faces of the speakers.

An agricultural technician goes out to plow.

Small passenger aircraft at the airport.

Pilots specify the flight route.

Drillers at work.

A flock of sheep grazing in the steppe.

Production processes at the enterprises of the food industry of the republic, packaging of finished products.

A worker at the machine.

Trucks at the carpool.

Sorting and drying of fish in one of the fishing farms.

Harvesting grapes.

Employees of the Research Institute of Meat Cattle Breeding conduct experiments in laboratories.

Cows in the pasture and at the trough.

Panorama of the livestock complex.

Types of pig farms.

A herd of grazing horses.

Types of hydroelectric power stations and the Chograi reservoir.

The irrigation sprinkler system works.

Shepherds graze a flock of sheep at one of the points.

A shepherd woman Z. M. Shurbaeva holds a horse by the bridle, talks about her work (synchronously).

Sheep in the pen.

Tshurbaeva sits in the saddle, rides around the flock.

Tshurbaeva lets the sheep out of the pen.

Types of experimental rice field.

Combine harvesters at the grain harvest.

Combine harvester in the cab.

Tracked harvester to harvest rice.

State farm leaders check the quality of the ripened grain, talk to the machine operators.

Facial machine.

The first Secretary of Kalmyk regional Committee of the CPSU V. I. Nikulin speaks with a farm worker.

Milled rice zernotok.

Brigade A. I. Teh farm "Sunrise" on the field.

Harvesting rice by combine harvesters.

Nikulin checks the quality of rice zernotok.

Women work in zernotok.

View of the zernotoka.

Steppe and agricultural landscapes.

Type of irrigation installation.

Agronomists in the field.

Growing on barren land young trees.

Forestry officials inspect conifers.

Panorama of the village, types of streets.

Lenin monument in Elista.

State awards of the USSR on the building of the Kalmyk oblast Committee of the CPSU.

Panorama of Elista.

Masons in the construction of the building, panorama of the building under construction.

Noble Builder Nikolay Kartoev in the family, talks about his family, children and grandchildren (synchronously).

Kartoev talks with members of his team.

Kartoeva sons - Nikolay and Valery plank flooring in a newly built residential building.

Students carry books in the cart.

Settlers enter the furniture to the porch, view of a house.

Hartuv says about the prospects of housing construction in Elista (synchronously), members of the family Kartoeva at the table.

View of the new residential district of Elista (above).

The monument to O. gorodovikova in Elista.

Portraits of the Kalmyk-heroes of the Soviet Union.

Eternal flame burning at the memorial in Elista.

The Poet D. N. Kugultinov tells about the heroes who sacrificed their lives in the name of the people (synchronously), fragments of the memorial.

Is a man with a child in her arms.

Participants of the holiday devoted to the 60th anniversary of the Kalmyk ASSR.

The performance of the national folklore ensembles and orchestras, the spectators in the stands.

Panorama of the stadium during the festival, spectators in the stands under open umbrellas.

The same year, the panorama of the stands with spectators.

D. N. Kugultinov said about the future of the Kalmyk people (synchronously).

Boy and girl go to the Mall, holding hands.

A mother with a baby in her arms.