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Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".

About the reindeer herding collective farm in Kamchatka.

About the fates of three Soviet people, different in age, profession, and character. 1 — Vladimir Nikolaevich Filimonov — an electrical installer at the Krasnoyarsk Hydroelectric Power Station; 2 — Vladimir Ivanovich Karpov — the foreman of the "Biysky" grain sovkhoz; 3 — Pyotr Kuzmich Anokhin — an academician, physiologist.

On December 7, 1988, a catastrophic earthquake occurred in Armenia that claimed more than 25 thousand lives. The film tells about the first days after the tragedy.

About the people working in the fur seal industry on the Commander Islands.

Through the fates of specific characters, the film tells about the achievements of a country that has gone through a 60-year journey after the victory of the Great October Socialist Revolution.

Celebration of the 50th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Brest, Volgograd, Murmansk, and a remote Siberian village where the writer V. Astafyev lives.

The love story through correspondence between the prisoner A. Yudkevich and the journalist A. Berezhkova.

A story about the cardiac surgeon R.S. Akchurin, his work and life.

"Our film is about the religious sect of Russian Pentecostals, one of the most reactionary and fanatical cults. Their actions are incompatible with the life and laws of our society. We testify that every frame of this film is documentary."

Dedicated to the memory of L.I. Brezhnev.

The fate of former juvenile prisoners of fascist concentration camps.

The Baikal-Amur Mainline is known as one of the largest railway lines in the world. The construction of the main part of the railway, which took place in difficult geological and climatic conditions, took more than 12 years. By the decree of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers of the USSR dated July 8, 1974 "On the construction of the Baikal-Amur railway", the necessary funds were allocated for the construction of the first category railway with a length of 3,100 km, the second Taishet—Lena track — 740 km, the Bamovskaya—Tynda and Tynda — Berkakit lines - 400 km. BAM was declared an All-Union Komsomol construction site, and masses of young people were sent here for internships.