The educational film tells about the activities to transform nature, carried out in different natural zones.
Cartoon: The Sun and the Earth in space.
Dawn over the fields.
A combine harvests.
An electric train travels along the rails.
A plane takes off.
Panorama of Russian expanses. 1. Forest zone.
Cartoon: temperate forest zone on the map.
Forest panoramas.
Birch grove, a forest is visible on the horizon across the field.
A female deer with a cub is grazing in the forest.
Felling trees.
Loading logs.
Removing timber.
Automatic planting of spruce trees.
The camera moves forward, pushing apart the spruce branches.
Young coniferous forest.
Mushrooms under the trees.
Old spruce trees, treetops against the background of clouds.
Panorama of forests and fields.
Fertilizing fields.
Bulldozer driver.
A man walks on water.
Swampy area.
Panorama of swamps.
Earthworks.
Diversion canal in a field.
Construction and road equipment, work on laying a drainage canal.
A bulldozer drives across the field.
A stack of pipes.
Water flows from a pipe into a canal.
A raven sits on the pipes, the bird takes off.
Panorama of agricultural fields.
A combine harvests.
Grain is poured into the back of a truck, a man and a boy rake the grain.
Grass and duckweed on the surface of the water.
Reed thickets.
A man walks on the grass and moss.
Cranberries.
A pair of black grouse in the grass.
Pine crowns.
Grass thickets in the forest.
Common lynx.
Bison of the Prioksko-Terrasny Nature Reserve.
Pechora-Ilychsky Nature Reserve, a man strokes a sable. 2. Forest-steppe and steppe zones.
Cartoon: steppes and forest-steppes on the map.
Agricultural fields.
Tractors carry out transverse plowing on a slope.
Panoramas of forest-steppe areas and ravines.
Dry bushes in a ravine, a rider gallops along the edge of the ravine.
Residents of the Oryol Region.
Photographs.
Monument to A.S. Kozmenko.
Ravine fortified with forest.
Forest belts on the borders of fields.
Panorama of the agricultural zone.
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Birds are circling in the sky.
Horses are grazing in the steppe.
The director of the farm, T. P. Titov, is driving the car.
View of the road from the cabin.
Sunset over the field.
Plowing the land.
Blooming sunflowers. T. P. Titov tells the cameraman about the black storms of old.
Views from the cabin of a moving car.
Corn thickets. T. P. Titov tells the story.
Chronicle of different years: Dust and sand storm.
Residents hurry to shelter in their houses.
A dog in the yard.
A wall of sand and dust.
A shepherd rides his flock.
Birds are circling in the sky, the sun is peeking through the dust curtain.
People are pushing a car along the sand.
Panorama of fields in the Voronezh Region.
A Volga car is driving along the edge of the forest.
View of the river from the field.
View of the water from the bank.
Cartoon: plan for transferring water from northern rivers.
Movement along the river. 3. Semi-desert and desert zones.
Cartoon: desert territories on the map.
A one-humped camel is walking across the desert.
Sands interspersed with salt marshes.
Karakum Canal, a motor ship is moving along the canal.
The bank of the canal (shot from the water).
Ripe grapes.
Vineyards (shot from the road).
Cotton plantation.
Lizard under a bush.
Road in the desert (shot from a car).
A herd of goats going to the watering hole.
Water flows along the irrigation canal.
Bush branches.
Water flows from a pipe.
Salt marshes.
Irrigation canal.
Filter.
Construction of a drainage system.
Central Asian gray monitor lizard.
A snake is crawling along the sand.
The beginning of a sandstorm.
Sand dunes, canal bed.
Cartoon: plan for transferring water from the Ob.
Water flows from a pipe into the canal.
View of the city.
Blooming rose bushes. 4. Subtropics.
Cartoon: location of the subtropics on the map.
Colchis Lowland, movement along the river.
Photographs.
Eucalyptus forest.
Fields on the edge of the forest.
Flowers and feijoa fruits.
Fruit trees and bushes in open greenhouses.
Women pick tea leaves.
Panorama of reclaimed areas of the Colchis Lowland.
Panorama of agricultural land.
Running line: a quote from the story "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Sunrise.
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