Akademgorodok, near the Siberian city Novosibirsk. Researcher at the Institute of Nuclear Physics, Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the laboratories of the Institute of the work at the instruments. Nuclear installation, computer room, control panel. Lenin Prize winner, physicist V. Sidorov at work at the Institute, home, on a ski trip. Georgia, Mr. Chiatura. Cable car over the city, in the Chiatura manganese mines. Cable car coming to the station. Passengers board a funicular. Design engineer G. Pansulaya checks cable car. Members of the amateur ensemble Riga Department at work and during the performance. The orchestra, soloist singing Kurzina L., M. Shnyutsene.