The film tells about the system of training young scientists at Novosibirsk University.
A student audience, young people applauding and smiling.
A large announcement hangs: "Mathematician's Day".
Teachers are sitting at a table near the blackboard of the audience.
One of them is speaking into a microphone, answering a joke question.
An audience of students: applauding, having fun. V.N. Vragov, Vice-Rector of Moscow State University.
Teachers are sitting at a table with a samovar in the classroom, formulas are being written on the blackboard and discussed.
Academician Mikhail Mikhailovich Lavrentyev is sitting at the head of the table.
Photos of the founder and first President of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences Mikhail Alekseevich Lavrentyev.
Students at a lecture in the audience.
Academician Valentin Afanasyevich Koptyug is at the blackboard with formulas.
Students are leaving the audience after the lecture.
Interview with V.A. Koptyug about the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
The building of Novosibirsk State University, a memorial plaque on the wall.
A panorama of the wall with bas-relief paintings.
Students in the hallway, talking, a guy is twirling a puzzle in the form of a globe.
A lesson in the form of a business game, students in the role of ministers discuss problems in the field of economics.
Students sit down at computers.
Students on the stairs of the institute.
Stained glass with portraits of world scientists.
A meeting at a large round table, those sitting are drinking tea from cups, discussing problems of relationships between students and teachers.
A physics lab, devices, students participate in the work of scientists.
Seminar: a teacher at the board, students at tables are listening to him.
Devices in the thermal physics lab.
Interview with the rector of Novosibirsk University V.E. Nakoryakov about training personnel for science.
A view from an open window onto a pine tree near the house.
Science
Lavrentyev M.M. -- Soviet mathematician
Academician Koptyug V.A. -- Soviet chemist
Hero of Socialist Labor
Lenin Prize laureate.
Novosibirsk
A panorama of the forest and the buildings of Novosibirsk University.
Employees at work in a chemical laboratory.
Interview with Academician D.G. Knorre about the use of chemistry in biology and the specifics of training biology students.
Experiments in the laboratory.
Laboratory for growing artificial crystals.
A roundtable discussion between teachers.
Speech by Professor V.A. Solovyov about students’ focus on discoveries. D.D. Ryutov talks about honesty in science.
Old books with engravings lie open.
Close-up: hands open an old book.
A repository of ancient manuscripts and old books.
A repository employee teaches students.
The computing center hall, storage media in the form of magnetic disks. V.I. Nifontov talks about his interest in the research process.
Students working on computers.
Simulation of chemical processes on a monitor screen.
Forest, sunbeam.
View of a reservoir and the setting sun.
Weak surf.
The square is packed with people – view from above.
A rally of solidarity with the progressive forces of the world.
A foreigner recites slogans about victory into a microphone, accompanied by musicians playing folk instruments.
The people chant a slogan in Spanish.
Students chant: "We are invincible when we are united!" and sing to the accompaniment of a guitar.
A large bonfire is burning in the square behind the crowd.
Novosibirsk