The film tells about the activities of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, on the work of the leading institutes of the Academy of Sciences: LPI Institute of Organoelement Chemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences, Institute of Russian Literature "Pushkin House".
XXII Congress of the CPSU. Speaker Keldysh.
Nuclear reactor.
Starry sky.
Emblem of the Academy of Sciences.
Kunstkammer in Leningrad.
Lomonosov hall, laboratory.
Photos scientists A. Butlerov Mendeleev I. Sechenov, Pavlov and others.
The Academy of Sciences in Leningrad.
Petrograd in 1917
Shot cruiser "Aurora".
Lenin.
Station "Salyut" space.
Blast-off.
The building of the Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
Pulkovo Observatory.
Institutions in Leningrad: Physics and Technology, Russian literature.
Repository of manuscripts.
Says Academician: NV Izmailov.
Excavations Sogdiana.
Academics: Skobel'tsyn Vavilov, Frank, BA Cherenkov, L. Tamm and others.
Radiotelephones; Serpukhov, Simeis.
Akademgorodok near Novosibirsk.
Institute of Organoelement Compounds.
Chemical laboratory.
Academics say: Nesmeyanov, Vinogradov.
Volcano in Kamchatka.
Key words
Science.
Communist Party.
Nuclear physics.
Museums.
Astronautics.
Astronomy.
Archaeology.
Disaster.