On the development of virgin lands by young people in Kazakhstan.
A film about the development of virgin and fallow lands in Siberia, Kazakhstan, and the Volga region. A meeting of Komsomol members at which they are presented with Komsomol vouchers to the virgin lands. February 22, 1954. Komsomol members in the St. George Hall of the Kremlin. N. S. Khrushchev speaks (synchronously). Seeing off the first Komsomol echelon to the virgin lands at the Kazan Station in Moscow. Seeing off Komsomol members in Leningrad, Baku, Odessa, and other cities. Meeting and rallies of Komsomol members in Barnaul, Akmola, and Kustanai. A girl takes off her shoes and puts on felt boots. Komsomol members in the families of collective farmers. Wooden houses, trailers, and tents in the steppe on the site of future grain state farms. Tractors move across the steppe; they plow virgin lands. Komsomol members sign a competition agreement. A fire is burning, new settlers are preparing dinner, resting, writing letters home. A new settlement in the steppe.




Arable land.
Close-up: a plow plowing the land.
A female tractor driver in the tractor cabin.
Close-up: a flag on the tractor.
A plowed strip of land.
A man smoking, sitting on the ground.
The foreman explaining something to the tractor driver.
Filming the field from a helicopter.
Harrowing.
The first shoots.
Panorama of the field.
Spring