The film tells about the workers of the Hammer and Sickle plant.
The Hammer and Sickle Plant. Rolling mill. Pipe-rolling shop. Mukhina's sculpture "Worker and Kolkhoz Woman" made of steel from the Hammer and Sickle Plant. Columns of the Mayakovskaya metro station made of steel from the plant. The Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Amateur art concert. Performance by the ballet troupe of the Hammer and Sickle Plant's Palace of Culture. The open-hearth shop of the plant. Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR V. Klyuev watches the smelting and takes a sample. Steel is poured. Hero of Socialist Labor, rolling mill operator at the Hammer and Sickle Plant V. Dyuzhev in the auditorium of the Palace of Congresses, in the sheet rolling shop. Professor of the metallurgical institute existing at the plant N. Gromov with students in the sheet rolling shop. Students at a lecture at the institute. The plant's Palace of Culture. Ballet studio. A. Messerer and Lopukhina during classes with children. The head of the people's theater of the plant N. Loginov speaks (synchronously). Chronicle. An old house. Children at a column. A woman pours water into a bucket. A garbage dump. Children play in the yard. The city of Moscow. Novogireevo district. Metallurgov Street. The building of the crèche and kindergarten. Children sleep, play, dig beds and plant flowers, go for a walk. Boats on the river. V. Klyuev fishing. Fishermen by the fire, cooking fish soup. The sanatorium of the Hammer and Sickle plant. Vacationers in the treatment room. They play billiards, chess, badminton. Chronicle of the war. Battles for the liberation of Volokolamsk. A monument to the metallurgists of the plant who died in the war.
Rolling shop of the Moscow Metallurgical Plant "Hammer and Sickle": a red-hot steel billet comes out of the furnace - kr; a crane carries red-hot billets around the shop - Wed, kr, general; rolling mill-750 is in operation - Wed.
Red-hot pipes are cooled with water - general, kr, Wed, Poland.
Detail of Vera Mukhina's sculpture "Worker and Kolkhoz Woman" - the hands are holding a hammer and sickle - kr.
Sculpture - kr, wed.
Vestibule of the Mayakovskaya metro station - Wed, Poland, general.
Entrance to the metro - Wed.
Mayakovsky Square - general.
The Kremlin - general.
The Kremlin Palace of Congresses - Wed.
Spectators are walking to the Palace for a concert of amateur art groups from Moscow enterprises - Wed, Poland.
In the dressing room, the participants of the amateur performance – the ballet troupe of the Palace of Culture of the Hammer and Sickle Plant - Wed, kr.
Spectators in the hall of the Palace - general, Wed.
Among the spectators are Viktor Dyuzhev, Hero of Socialist Labor, senior rolling machine operator of the Hammer and Sickle Plant and Viktor Klyuev, deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, steelmaker - kr. V. Klyuev is making steel in the open-hearth shop: he is observing the melting, taking a sample - kr.
Open-hearth shop - general, Wed.
Loading the charge - kr, Wed.
The metal is melting - Wed, kr, general.
Sample - kr.
Devices showing the melting process - Wed, kr.
Steelworkers are observing the melting - Wed, kr.
Punching a taphole - Wed.
Steel is flowing - kr, Wed, general.
Pouring steel - Wed.
On the stage of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, amateur performers from the Hammer and Sickle plant perform a suite from the ballet Youth by composer Mikhail Chulaki (synchronously) - general, Wed.
The audience applauds - general, Wed; among them is V. Dyuzhev - cr.
Work in the sheet rolling shop: red-hot sheets are moving - cr.
Senior roller V. Dyuzhev watches the work in the sheet rolling shop, talks with his former teacher and shop manager, and now professor at the metallurgical institute existing at the plant Nikolai Pavlovich Gromov and student A. Bychikhin - cr., Wed. N.P. Gromov gives a lecture in the institute's auditorium - cr., Wed.
Students are listening - Wed., cr.
Student A. Bychikhin listens, counts on a slide rule, answers at the board - cf.
Classes in the ballet studio of the Palace of Culture: children and adults study - different.
The classes are led by Asaf Messerer, People's Artist of the Republic, and Honored Artist Valentina Lopukhina - cf., kr.
Interview with the head of the drama group of the Palace of Culture of the Hammer and Sickle plant Nikolai Loginov, Honored Worker of the RSFSR (synchronously) - kr.
Newsreel: An old, poorly maintained house.
A garbage dump.
A woman pours water from a pump into a bucket.
Children are playing in the yard.
The settlement of metallurgists of the Hammer and Sickle plant in the Novogireevo district - general, panorama of new houses.
A sign on the house with the name of the street: "Metallurgov Street 9-31" - kr.
The building of the crèches and kindergarten - general.
Sleeping children - general, medium, kr.
Toys - various.
Children are playing, dancing to music (indoors), digging beds, watering flowers, walking - various.
Boats with fishermen on the Tishkovskoye Reservoir - general.
Steelworker V. Klyuev fishing - various.
Fishermen cooking fish soup over a fire - Wed, general.
Factory workers, including A. Bychikhin, V. Dyuzhev and others on a bus heading to the factory holiday home - kr, Wed.
Sign: "Moscow Order of Lenin and Order of the Red Banner of Labor Metallurgical Plant "Hammer and Sickle" Health Resort" - Wed.
Vacationers entering the health resort building, receiving medical procedures, seeing a doctor, playing billiards, chess, badminton - various.
Former factory worker, retiree I. Yakovlev, among the vacationers at the health resort and filmed on Astakhov Bridge on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment - kr.
The place on the bridge where "on February 23, 1917, during a demonstration of Moscow workers, Comrade Illarion Tikhonovich Astakhov, a mechanic from the Guzhon plant (now the Hammer and Sickle plant), was brutally murdered by an assistant bailiff" - an inscription and a bas-relief of Astakhov on a monument - kr.
Moscow River - general.
Near Volokolamsk, where in November 1941 the Nazis shot 8 Komsomol partisans, including 5 workers from the Hammer and Sickle plant, a resident of the village and an eyewitness of these events, Vera Karachenko, tells schoolchildren about the death of the partisans - kr., cf.
The house where the German headquarters was located - general, Poland.
The road along which the Komsomol members were led to execution and the place of execution - general.
Cartoon: photo of the gallows with the hanged - general.
Newsreel from 1941-1945: Women are crying - medium, small.
Guns are firing.
Tanks are advancing.
Skiers in white camouflage coats are advancing, Soviet troops are advancing.
A tank monument on a pedestal on Volokolamsk Highway - medium, small.
A monument to the executed Komsomol partisans near Volokolamsk (sculptures of a young man and a girl) - general, medium, small.
Inscription on the monument - medium.
A monument to the metallurgists of the Hammer and Sickle plant who died in the war - general, small.
Inscription on the monument: "Metallurgists to their fallen comrades 1941-1945" - small.
Steel is pouring - medium. V. Klyuev at the open-hearth furnace - medium.
Sparks - general; flame - small.
Sculpture by Mukhina "Worker and Kolkhoz Woman" - general.
Detail of the sculpture - sickle and hammer - red.