The film tells about the history of the world's largest dragline at the Ural Heavy Machinery Plant Ordzhonikidze and the fate of its designers and crew members during the adjustment period.
Hall Museum Uralmashzavoda stories.
The current model dragline on the bench.
Head funds N.G.Obuhova museum tells the story of the creation of an excavator (sinhr.).
Chief Designer V.G.Nikolaev Excavator walking, head of draglines UZTM V.L.Raskin, excavator crew talk about their work (sinhr.).
T.S.Antsiferova singer reminisces about his youth and about the songs of those years (sinhr.), sings songs (behind the scenes).
Newsreels: walking excavator at work.
Excavators destroyed at the scrapyard.
Key words
Engineering.
Museums.
Music.