Congress of Tatars (1992)

People stand at the ruins of an old fortress, a man gives an interview.

Fragments of meetings, among the speakers Mintimer Shaimiev.

Participants of the congress are met at the railway station.

People try the cake, give interviews, get on buses.

People with a cake and flowers on the background of the train.

Visitors are greeted and given flowers.

The train pulls up to the platform.

A man with flowers.

The buses.

People hug at the entrance to the car, give flowers.

Speech by a professor from Turkey; during breaks, people communicate in the corridors, sing, lead round dances.

The audience at the concert.

The orchestra is playing.

People quarrel over the right to speak on the podium; a young man is led out of the hall.

The participants of the congress, the faces of the audience in the hall are speaking.

People on the platform, a small rally waiting for the train.

The train is approaching the platform.

People with flowers and cake.

Passengers are greeted at the exit of the train, given flowers.

The buses.

Meetings on the platform.

People try the cake, give interviews, get on buses.

The bus departs from the station.

Holiday, folk fun with birds in a net.

The winner with a prize rooster in his hand.

National Towel Fight (quresh).

People pump the winner.

The winner with a prize ram on his shoulders.

The head of a horse, past the participants of the race, at the wall of the house people in national costumes.

The musicians ride in a team, they are accompanied by riders, people at the house wave after them.

Folk songs and dances, people's faces, applause.

Horse-drawn teams and riders pass under a festive banner.

Adults with children.

The child is walking, holding on to the man's finger.

Elderly women in bright headscarves, small children nearby.

Battle on the bags.

Children compete in the fight.

A festive table with a samovar and a treat for tea.

Rural natural landscapes (trees, wind, river, dusty country road).

Woodpile in the yard.

View of the house and sheds from behind the fence.

Ducks and geese with their chicks in the pond.

Branches of bushes on the background of the river.

Village street, local residents.

People on horseback are riding down the street.

A team and a rider are standing at the gate.

Musicians.

The girl strokes the horse, folds the handkerchief.

The coachman and the musician in the cart.

Horsemen prance in front of the gate.

A crowd of people in a grove, among the fairground tents and carousels.

People at a dilapidated building.

On the wall of the building hangs an appeal of residents to deputies, people want to build a madrasa.

Sabantuy, the faces of men and women, adults and children.

Fighting quresh.

A banner over the crowd.

Spectators in a makeshift amphitheater in a clearing watch the wrestling competitions.

The winner carries the ram on his shoulders.

Participants of the meeting (the presidium and the audience in the hall).

A festive table with a samovar and a treat for tea, women distribute treats to adults and children.

A samovar with a teapot on top.

Women's faces.

The people's entertainments, the young man climbs on a pole, then goes down.

Fighting quresh (children).

The winner is announced.

A game with birds in a grid.

The roof of the house.

An elderly woman.

A cart and riders in front of the house.

The musicians come out of the gate and get into the cart.

Riders.

The musicians are leaving.

Sabantuy in the grove, festive tents.

A table with a treat.

Spectators in the stands.

Horse racing, national equestrian games, ancient rituals.

Trotting races, the winner is given a tractor.

Fragments of races and races, awarding the winners.

The audience in the theater.

People are talking in the street.

Monument to V. I. Lenin in front of Kazan University (KFU).

Flag on the roof of the building.

The auditorium of the theater, shooting from different points.

M. Shaimiev makes a speech.