The film tells about the hero city of Minsk, the capital of the Belarusian SSR.
Minsk, city streets - general (evening).
Young men and women watching a satellite flying across the sky.
Maternity hospital.
Newborn children.
Minsk (top).
City streets, parks, squares.
Monuments to Yanka Kupala, soldiers and partisans who died in the battles for the liberation of Belarus.
Minsk residents at the monument to the heroes.
The house where the 1st Congress of the RSDLP was held in 1898. Old revolutionary Iosif Petrovich Golubev with children.
Young men and women leaving for the virgin lands.
Ceremonial farewell.
Minsk (top).
Excavations in Minsk.
Streets of the old city.
An issue of the Zvezda newspaper, order No. 1 of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, a portrait of M.V. Frunze - various.
Painting by the artist Shipnev: speech by Ya.M. Sverdlov at the congress in Minsk in 1919. Newsreel 1941-1945: Destroyed Minsk, burning houses.
Photographs: reprisals by German occupiers against Belarusian partisans.
Newsreel 1941-1945: Partisan combat operations.
Portrait of Hitler's viceroy of Belarus Kube.
Newsreel 1941-1945: Kube's funeral.
Soviet troops enter Minsk.
Minsk residents at the monument to the heroes who died fighting for the liberation of Belarus.
Among the Minsk residents are Polish war veterans. G. Trostenets.
Monument to the victims of concentration camps.
Details of the monument - various.
Nikolai Volokhonovich (synchronously) speaks - a Belarusian partisan who miraculously escaped death.
Newsreel from 1941-1945: Destroyed Minsk (from an airplane).
The city of Minsk.
Bulldozer operator Semyon Misunov passes by - cf. S. Misunov at a bulldozer.
Bricklaying.
Mason Denis Bulakhov and builder Maria Makarevich are working.
Reinforced concrete structures plant.
Construction of a production line plant.
Housing construction.
Minsk residents work at the construction site.
Architectural workshop.
Architects work.
Models of the stadium, Lenin Square. M. Makarevich and others at the construction site.
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the BSSR Kozlov presents the Gold Stars and Orders of Lenin to Maria Makarevich, Semyon Misunov, Denis Bulakhov.
Minsk (from the plane).
Streets of Minsk.
Minsk residents on the streets.
Airport.
Arrival of the delegation of Japanese defenders of peace, guests from the German Democratic Republic, China, Iceland.
Lenin Street.
English worker Budgen among Minsk residents.
Tourists on the streets of Minsk.
The family of the French miner Gerard Oshaisky - cr, cf.
The building of the Belarusian State Conservatory.
Classes at the Conservatory.
Opera and Ballet Theatre.
Rehearsals of a new opera.
Rehearsals led by People's Artist of the USSR Aleksandrovskaya and the theatre's principal conductor Lyubimov (synchronously).
A scene from the opera (synchronously).
Performance by a ballet troupe of students of the choreographic school.
Scenes on the streets of Minsk.
Writer Petrus Brovka among workers of the Kirov plant.
Performance by P. Brovka (synchronously).
Scenes on the streets of Minsk.
Shops, cafes, etc.
Shoppers in a department store.
Power Engineering Institute.
Laboratory.
In the laboratory, Academicians Lykov and Kuprevich (President of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR).
Session of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences named after V.I. Lenin.
Participants in the session.
Speaking are the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus Mazurov, the President of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the USSR Lobanov, the President of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of Belarus Lupinovich, and Academician Matsepura.
Among those present are the leaders of the party and government of Belarus.
Participants in the session hall; watching the work of new machines for draining the Polesie Valley.
Outskirts of Minsk.
Industrial district: Sharikopodshipnik plant (from helicopter), tractor plant (from helicopter).
Emblem of the Minsk Automobile Plant.
New houses, streets of Minsk.
Outskirts of the city.
Workers go to work.
Among them is blacksmith Fyodor Samusev with his family.
Performance of children's amateur art groups (synchronously).
Forge shop of the Minsk Tractor Plant.
Blacksmith Fyodor Samusev works in the shop.
Fyodor Samusev and Pavel Shaveiko are talking.
Finished tractors and cars are standing.
Automobile plant shop, design bureau.
Designers Leonid Zoynich, Stepan Kudra are working.
Models of new cars.
Steel foundry.
Steelmakers Dmitry Ivanovich Barashkin, Mikhail Ivanovich Chekulaev are working.
Students of the technical school Emma Kovtyukh, Lyudmila Meranova, Alla Plashakova, Galina Zapolskaya, Elizaveta Franskevich are working.
A workshop of a watch factory.
Maya Zueva and others are working.
A factory of automatic lines.
A workshop of the factory.
Trains with finished products of the factory are passing by.
A new district (from a helicopter).
Two girls are passing by.
One of them is a young journalist Emma Lukanskaya.
The girls are passing by the houses of Matveevsky Lane (the outskirts of Minsk), talking with their residents. E. Lukanskaya is talking with the engineer Nikolai Ignatyevich Bobrovsky.
Lukanskaya's friend Tanya is in a kindergarten.
A conversation with the pediatrician I.V. Korshun. I.V. Korshun is massaging a child.
The Peat Institute.
Director Fyodor Illarionovich Belkevich is in the laboratory. E. Lukanskaya is talking to him.
A journalist talks to a group of construction engineers and the Minister of Construction Zhizhel.
Emma Lukanskaya at the Belarusian Polytechnic Institute.
Students at a lecture.
The lecture is given by Candidate of Technical Sciences Fyodor Vasilyevich Mekhedko. E. Lukanskaya talks to F.V. Mekhedko. E. Lukanskaya and her friend Tanya on the streets of Minsk.
Poet and academician Pyotr Glebko reads poetry in front of a microphone (synchronously). E. Lukanskaya takes pictures of former residents of Matveevsky Lane.
Among the residents are the poet Pyotr Glebko, Fyodor Mekhedko, a university lecturer and doctor Irina Korshun, a scientist Pyotr Belkevich, the Minister of Construction of the BSSR Ivan Zhizhel, vice-rector Andrei Malyshev, a machinist Nikolai Bobrovsky and others.
The Minsk Sea.
Vacationers on the beach.
Performance of the Belarusian folk choir on the open-air stage (synchronously).
Dance group artists perform.
Feasting in the park.
Among the strollers are Samusev and his wife.
Belarusian Art Museum.
Visitors examine the exhibits.
Sculptor Azgura's workshop.
The sculptor at work.
Azgura's works.
Minsk Stadium.
Performances by athletes.
Streets and buildings of the city.
Stalin Avenue, Victory Square, the Palace of Trade Unions, the Government House, the Railway Station Square, etc.
The monument to V.I. Lenin.
Laying wreaths and flowers at the monument.