The film is about the history of the Lenin Order and its first cavaliers.
Newsreel of the thirties: the construction of the Dnieper, the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Combine, Turksib, issue of the first Soviet tractors. Filming beet growers Maria Demchenko, AN miner Izotov, Pavlov, breeder Michurin, Tsiolkovsky, Schmidt, Maxim Gorky, Mikhail Kalinin and others. Ceremony in the Kremlin orders of Lenin, Academician Krzhizhanovsky, the old Bolshevik GI Petrovsky, small arms designer Tokarev (Chronicle of the thirties). Presentation of the Order of Lenin in the Kremlin pilot VV Talalikhin (1942).
The film is dedicated to the history "of the Order of Lenin," and his first ordenostsam.