Tamara Chistyakova

1977 20mMovie

Documentary

A portrait of Tamara Dmitrievna Chistyakova, an outstanding seamstress who worked in the Leningrad association Pervomaiskaya Zarya and who was awarded the State Prize of the USSR in 1976. This is a story about the fate of a Leningrad girl who survived the Nazi siege of the city but lost her parents during the war. Brought up in a childen’s home, she acquired her profession at a vocational college and became renowned in the Soviet Union as the initiator of a competition for mastering complementary skills in the sewing industry.