Using the means of cinematic journalism, the film analyzes the current problems of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works.
I.Kh.
Romazan tells the story.
A vocational school student speaks out.
Students during practical classes.
Opinions of veterans.
Interview with vocational school students.
A worker tells the story.
A bookstore salesperson tells the story.
Customers look at books.
A monument to V.I.Lenin in front of the entrance to the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works.
Flowerbeds in bloom.
A quote from a dictionary.
The center of Magnitogorsk.
Plant structures.
A complex under construction.
Slogans at a construction site.
A train enters the plant.
Electric welders at work.
Views of a construction site.
Alternation: production processes, workers in the workshops, an interview with the director of the plant.
Stories of workers.
Metallurgists in the workshops.
Romazan I.Kh. -- metallurgical engineer
inventor
manager
Director of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works named after V.I. Lenin
Hero of Socialist Labor
Honored Metallurgist of the RSFSR.
1988
Magnitogorsk
Summer
Everyday life at the plant, metal production.
Shipment of products on railway platforms.
Smoking chimneys.
A tractor drives across the territory.
Information stand.
Construction site of the new complex.
Workers lay out a diagram.
Visit of the commission.
Alternation: work at the construction site, interviews with builders.
Posters on the stand.
Workers at a meeting.
The meeting is chaired by A.P. Shkaraput.
Views of the workshop under construction.
Slogans.
Climbing the steps.
Monument.
Alternation: current work at the plant, as described by the secretary of the plant committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League I. Pavlov.
Schoolchildren climb on a monument locomotive.
A call-up call on board a locomotive.
Winter snow drift.
Photographs.
Park in Magnitogorsk.
Monument to the first Komsomol builders.
Shkaraput A.P. -- civil engineer
Hero of Socialist Labor
Honored Builder of the RSFSR.
1988
Magnitogorsk
Autumn
Interspersed: photographs, narrated by N.I.Keleshyan and M.M.Keleshyan.
Chronicle of the 1940s: Magnitka during the war.
Production of shells and aerial bombs.
Narrated by a female veteran.
Veterans climbing the stairs.
Propaganda posters.
Narrated by a veteran of the plant.
Changing of the guard of honor.
Monument on the territory of the memorial complex "Rear - Front".
Interspersed: monuments to the first achievements of the plant, metal production.
Workers posing for a photographer.
People disperse.
Production of coke batteries, a team at work.
1940s
Magnitogorsk
Winter
An issue of the newspaper "Magnitogorsk Worker".
A quote from the article.
The winning team of the socialist competition.
Workers answer journalists' questions.
A member of the informal public association "Counter Movement" tells the story.
Participants of the movement at a rally.
The "Rear to the Front" memorial.
Residents of Magnitogorsk on the streets of the city.
A meeting of "Counter Movement".
An interview with doctor O.T. Efremov at a rally.
Participants of the rally.
A view of the plant from the river.
Alternation: sites and workshops of various areas of the plant, smoking chimneys.
Newspaper pages.
Residents of Magnitogorsk, it is raining.
A meeting with representatives of "Counter Movement", O.T. Efremov comments on the situation.
Traffic.
A view of the river from the bridge.
1988
Magnitogorsk
Summer Autumn
View of the river from the bridge. I. Pavlov narrates.
Workers discuss housing problems.
Workers go to their shift.
Interspersed: excerpts from an interview with I.Kh.
Romazan and vocational school students.
Young people at a concert by the group "Time Machine".
A tank monument.
Changing of the guard of honor.
Construction site of a new workshop.
Construction and assembly work in progress.
A tank truck.
Parking lot.
Streets of Magnitogorsk.
View of the plant.
Romazan I.Kh. Makarevich A.V. -- musical and social activist
Honored Artist of the RSFSR
People's Artist of the Russian Federation.
1988
Magnitogorsk
Autumn Winter