Volga lights № 11 Voice of the free steppe (1989)

Commentator of the program "Time" A. Krutov informs viewers about the decision to stop the construction of the Volga-Chograi canal and the reasons that caused this decision (synchronously).

Cameraman at the camera.

Panorama and views of the protest rally in Elista against the construction of the Volga-Chograi canal.

Poet D. N. Kugultinov among the participants of the rally.

The representative of the state farm "Cengir" speaks about the low quality of drinking water taken from the canal, its excessive salinity (synchronously).

Faces of the rally participants.

Candidate for Deputy, pilot V. Ochirov speaks in his speech about supporting the termination of the construction of the canal (synchronously).

The head of the "Agroprom" of the Kalmyk ASSR says that there is no alternative to the canal, the termination and non-renewal of the construction of the canal (synchronously), the rally participants booed him.

Director of the lower Volga newsreel Studio M. Ivanova talks about preserving the ecology of the Volga and the Kalmyk steppe (synchronously).

Participants of the rally applaud.

Cameramen are shooting.

Chairman of the Yashkul district Executive Committee V. V. Ivanov speaks about the fabricated facts presented in the documentary about the construction of the canal (synchronously).

Participants of the rally booed Ivanov.

Participants of the rally collect signatures in support of stopping the construction of the canal.

Ochirov puts his signature.

Posters with slogans against the construction of the canal in the hands of rally participants.

A visitor from Pripyat calls on residents of Elista to fight for stopping the construction of the canal and improving the environment, thanks the liquidators of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident from Kalmykia (synchronously).

Participants of the rally applaud.

The poet D. N. Kugultinov speaks about the high level of child mortality in Kalmykia, connects this phenomenon with the release of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere by the Astrakhan gas condensate plant, speaks about the need to save the Kalmyk steppes, demands to Finance the termination of construction work (synchronously).

Types of meetings, collecting signatures for the construction of the channel.

View of part of the channel bed.

Panorama of the rally, people applaud Kugultinov.

Members of the film crew on the stopped construction of the canal.

Types of stopped construction, abandoned construction equipment.

One of the crew members digs the channel bed with a shovel.

Views of the unfinished canal, tracks from tracks of construction equipment in the steppe.

A representative of the builders speaks about the temporary suspension of construction.

Construction equipment at the channel bed.

Vimd of an unfinished riverbed.