Winter landscape. Moscow: the Kremlin, the University, the monument to Pushkin. Passers-by. Bathing in the hole in the Moscow River, in the pool. Children slide down slides, play dance around the Christmas tree, go to the top three. Dushanbe - the capital of Tajikistan. Street, passers-by. Teahouse. Pictures of the old city. Modern city. The Dnieper River. Dnieper - Hydroelectric Lenin. Start Kremenchug HPP. The construction of the Kiev and Dneprodzerzhinskaya HPP. Artificial sea, swims "Rocket." Gateways. The crystals obtained in the laboratories of the Institute of Crystallography, USSR Academy of Sciences. Artificial crystals. Scientists are studying atoms with an electron microscope. Academician Engelhardt with assistants. He directs the Institute, which created extra high electron microscope. Rest of the Volga peasants farm Timiryazev in winter. Visit the library, art gallery, the game of chess. Waltzing, watch performance of amateur. Stills from the film "The Cranes Are Flying" starring T. Samoilova. The shooting of the Soviet-Italian film "They would go to the East." T. Samoilov and other actors on the set. The film's director Giuseppe De Santis.