The film tells about the mentoring movement at the enterprises of the USSR Ministry of Power Engineering, about the role of mentors in training young personnel at the enterprise.
A mentor and his young apprentice are walking through the city.
The camera singles out the mentor and apprentice among the plant workers going on shift.
The meeting is in a home environment, an experienced worker and his apprentice are talking, a family nearby is listening attentively to the conversation.
In the museum, visitors are listening attentively to a specialist.
Yu. V. Kotov, Deputy Minister of Power Engineering, is speaking.
Yuri Vladimirovich talks about mentoring.
The shops of the leading enterprise in the industry, Atommash, are shown.
The control panel of the rolling mill.
An older comrade mentors a young worker.
Nikolai Goryunov, Chairman of the Council of Mentors of Atommash, speaks about it.
Members of Goryunov's team are shown at work.
Nadezhda Ilchenko, winner of the competition for the title of best mentor of the enterprise.
Gennady Kolchin, Chairman of the Shop Committee of the Main Production, talks about the tasks of mentoring.
A lathe.
A mentor and apprentice are watching the machine in operation.
The checkpoint of the Atommash plant, in front of it is a bust of I. V. Kurchatov.
Portraits of production leaders.
Panorama of the plant's environs.
The Izhora River, fishermen on the bank.
Buildings of the Izhora Machine-Building Plant named after Zhdanov.
Views of the city of Kolpino.
The city's Historical Museum.
Model of an armored car.
Young visitors.
Old engravings showing the construction of ships.
Model of a ship.
Model of an old cannon.
Blooming mill model.
Historical photographs of the workshops.
A poster from 1941. Information about the plant during the Great Patriotic War.
Faces of young workers - visitors to the museum.
Open-hearth shop at the Izhora Plant. S.I. Ilyin with a student near the open-hearth furnace. S.I. Ilyin shares his experience with SGPTU students.
Faces of the students.
Vasiliev, head of the model shop, tells the story.
Alternating shots showing experienced workers and SGPTU students undergoing practical training in the model shop.
Professional skills competition.
The work of the contestants, nearby are mentors and young guys who have just started their training.
Factory, Mentor, Student, Vocational school
Yu.V. Kotov, Deputy Minister of Power Engineering.
Nikolay Goryunov, Chairman of the Council of Mentors of Atommash.
Nadezhda Ilchenko, winner of the competition for the title of best enterprise mentor.
Gennady Kolchin, chairman of the main production shop committee.
I.V. Kurchatov, nuclear scientist.
S.I. Ilyin, teacher at Saratov State Pedagogical Technical University.
Vasiliev, head of the model shop.
Volgodonsk., Kolpino, Leningrad region
Volgodonsk plant "Atommash"., Izhora Machine-Building Plant.
Processing of large-sized parts at the Izhora Machine-Building Plant named after Zhdanov.
The holder of the personal brand Berezina works at the machine.
Next to him is his former protégé Petrov, who has already become a master himself.
Conversation between the mentor and the former student.
Panorama of the section where the press is in operation.
The forge and press shop at the Izhora Plant.
Views of various sections of the shop.
Viktor Pshetnikov, senior blacksmith of the plant, talks about his mentor V.P. Kapyshev.
Territory of the Podolsk Plant named after Ordzhonikidze.
Young workers go to their shift.
Basic vocational school of the plant.
Director of the school Papirov tells the story.
Training shop.
Students work at the machines.
The foreman of industrial training checks the manufactured parts.
Swimming pool at the school.
Shooting range.
Welding training.
Foreman of electric welders N.I. Aistov.
A shop at the plant where welding is carried out. N.I. Aistov tells the story.
Aistov meets with schoolchildren.
War veteran mentors and students of the State Vocational School come to lay flowers at the monument to the fallen heroes of the Great Patriotic War.
A mentor came to see his student serving in the Soviet Army.
A soldier talks about his teacher.
Letters from soldiers to mentors.
Machine operator M.E. Zakharov helps his student complete a difficult job.
A meeting of the mentors' council. M.E. Zakharov speaks. M.E. Zakharov in the library.
A repeat of some scenes from the film.
Factory, Lathe, Forge and press shop, Vocational school, Mentor, Student, Electric welding, Council of Mentors
Viktor Pshetnikov, senior blacksmith of the plant.
V.P. Kapyshev, mentor.
Papirov, director of the State Vocational School.
N.I. Aistov, foreman of electric welders.
M.E. Zakharov, master machine operator.
Kolpino, Leningrad region, Podolsk.
Izhora Machine-Building Plant named after Zhdanov., Podolsk Machine-Building Plant named after Ordzhonikidze.