Members of the expedition of the Institute of Geography of the USSR, headed by D. Yu Wenner go on snow-covered area; spend filming. Coal mining in the areas of settlement Chulman and Aldan industrial way. Harvesting at the farm "yield" of the Altai Territory. Members of the expedition at the airfield in the town of Mirny. Fishermen village Yarsale fished on the River Ob. Chukchi village CHPCHHKH. Construction of new homes in the mine Nelkam in Yakutia. Production processes in the construction of the Novosibirsk hydroelectric power station. Reindeer herders in the collective farm. Stalin's Tyumen region. Cameramen shoot the taiga, the Lena River, mountains, Lake Baikal.