Lower Povolzhie № 12 Ice house (1969)

Spring rural landscape, melting snow.

Interior views of the ice cave.

One passes under the icy vaults.

Director of the farm "Engels" A. Sukhanov tells about the solution to the problem of preserving vegetables in fresh form by the construction of underground repositories, cheaper solutions to this problem (synchronously).

Installation of wooden frame for the frozen vegetable store at the farm, "Engels", the carpenters at work.

Crimping frame store film and other materials.

The walls of the vaults, covered with gauze and burlap.

Watering water the covered frame.

Ice crust formed as a result of irrigation.

Panorama of the territory of the ice warehouses (above).

Transportation of the briquettes from snow to build warehouses.

Crushing ice and watering it with water from a hose.

The encasing ice storage the briquettes from straw.

The supply of sawdust for the construction of storage facilities.

Sprinkling sawdust straw cover.

Compaction of sawdust and straw.

Panorama ready ice warehouse (above).

View of the warehouse (above).

A. Sukhanov says about the economic efficiency of ice storage (synchronously).

Transportation and sorting of the apples within the warehouse.

The warehouse worker is trying one of the apples.

Apples in a warehouse in wooden containers.

The author of the project V. I. Krainov developing new variants of the ice warehouses.

Letters from collective and state farms, addressed Krainov, Krainov sits down and begins to make out the letters.

The spring countryside, the panorama of the river with melting ice.

Chunks of ice left over from the construction of the ice warehouses.

Interior views of the ice warehouse.

The locked door of the ice storehouse.