Report, devoted to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the writer Maxim Gorky. Photographs, works of Gorky. Newsreel: Gorky on a train, Gorky and the French writer Romain Rolland, speeches Gorky. Uzbekistan. City Navoi Samarkand, the streets, flowering trees and the machine pours the street. Children swim in the pool. Orchestra performs Piano Concerto with the orchestra composer Rodion Shchedrin. The piano - Rodion Shchedrin, conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Bolshoi Theatre of the USSR M. Plisetskaya dances in the ballet Carmen-Suite by Rodion Shchedrin's "Carmen," based on music by Bizet.