The film tells about the metro of five Soviet cities: Moscow, Leningrad, Kyiv, Tbilisi and Baku, and its technical equipment.
Metropolitan of the cities: Baku, Tbilisi, Kyiv, Leningrad, Moscow. Surface and underground metro stations; decorative design of vestibules, underground metro stations. Passengers on an escalator, in electric train cars. Automatic centralized train control post. Track measuring car inspection run. Detection of rail defects. Washing of train cars. Construction of new metro stations. Georgian artist S. Kayava works on sketches of bas-reliefs for the design of Tbilisi metro stations.




Metro trains leaving the depot – medium, wide shot.
Train entering the tunnel – medium shot.
Baku – wide shot, panorama from a helicopter.
Tbilisi – wide shot, panorama from a helicopter.
Kiev, the Dnieper and the bridge across the Dnieper are visible – wide shot, departure.
Leningrad street – wide shot, departure.
Moscow – wide shot with a high-rise building and a bridge across the Moskva River – wide shot, panorama.
Running onto rails – wide shot.
Metro tunnel – medium shot (from the motion).
People going down the stairs of the Baku metro – wide shot.
Narimanov station – wide shot (from the motion).
People getting off the train – medium shot.
Young Pioneers getting on the train – medium shot.
A train arriving at Ulduz station – medium shot.
Ulduz station – wide shot.
People in the train carriage reading newspapers, talking – wide shots, close-ups of faces.
Girls sitting – close-ups.
A car driving along the street.
Baku – close-up.
People walking on the streets – medium, long shot.
Greenery on the streets – long shot.
New districts of Baku – long shot.
Baku with a view of the bay – long shot, panorama.
Tbilisi – long shot, view of the Kura River – from a helicopter, panorama.
Old district of Tbilisi – long shot, panorama.
Monument – medium shot.
Ancient castle, cars driving below – long shot.
People walking along the streets, palm trees are visible – long shot, panorama.
Metro station building – close-up, panorama.
Another station – long shot, panorama.
Metro building, people walking – medium shot.
Isani above-ground station, people going down the escalator – long shot.
People on the platform, among them women in national costumes – close-up.
A train approaches, people enter the carriage – close-up.
People in the carriage – long shot, close-ups of faces.
Entrance to Marjanishvili station – long shot (shot from the escalator).
Marjanishvili station, people passing by – medium shot, panorama.
Georgian girls sitting and talking – medium shot.
Isani station – medium shot, zoom in on the wall.
Kyiv, the bank of the Dnieper, the monument to Vladimir Monomakh (shot from behind) – long shot.
Bohdan Khmelnytsky monument and cathedrals – long shots.
New district of Kyiv – long shot from a helicopter, panorama.
Khreshchatyk – long shot.
Kyiv street, metro building – medium shot, panorama.
Metro bridge, a train passing by – medium shot, panorama from a house to the metro building – long shot.
Bolshevik Plant station, people getting off – medium shot.
Arsenalnaya metro station building, an old cannon on a pedestal near the station – medium shot.
Universitet metro station – medium shot (above).
A train arrives at Universitet station, young people are standing – medium shot.
University Station – general plan, panorama along marble wall to bust of Taras Shevchenko – close-up.
Train attendant dispatching train – close-up of face.
Engine driver in cabin – medium, close-up.
Passengers in carriage – general plan.
Girl in straw hat and dark glasses – close-up.
Young man and girl by window – close-up (train is going along surface).
New district of Kyiv on other side of Dnieper – general plan (shot from movement along river).
Above-ground metro station, train passing – general plan.
Bridge across Dnieper – medium plan.
Drawn bridges in Leningrad, sunrise over Neva – general, medium plans.
Monument to V. I. Lenin near Finland Station – medium plan.
Leningrad from helicopter, St.
Isaac’s Cathedral is visible – general plan, departure.
Alexander Column on Palace Square (shot through arch) – close-up, departure.
The Admiralty building and others (shot through the arch) – medium shot, zoom out.
The Summer Garden – medium shot.
The monument to Peter the Great – medium shot.
The Rostral Column – medium shot.
The streets of Leningrad, a panorama of the metro building – long shot, medium shot.
Girls walk by the metro building – close-up.
Nevsky Prospekt station – medium shot (above).
People on the escalator – close-ups of faces.
Escalator, panorama of Ploshchad Vosstaniya station – long shot, zoom out.
People looking at books at a book kiosk (in the metro) – close-ups of faces.
Technological Institute metro station, a train approaching – medium shot, from a helicopter – long shot.
Two young men talking – close-ups.
Bas-relief of M. Lomonosov on the wall – close-up.
A girl and young men at the station – medium shot.
Bas-relief of S. Kovalevskaya – close-up.
A girl looking – close-up of her face.
Bas-relief by K. E. Tsiolkovsky – close-up.
Technological Institute station – medium shot.




Constructions Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin, Lenin monument is visible – medium shot.
Cathedrals and the Kremlin tower – general shot (shot through the bars).
Kalininsky Prospekt – general shot from the Moskva River.
Prospect (Leninsky) – general shot, panorama.
Sokol metro station building – medium shot, zoom in.
Komsomolskaya Square, Yaroslavsky railway station building – medium shot, panorama.
Komsomolskaya metro station – medium shot, zoom in.
Garden Ring, panorama, zoom in on metro station.
Mayakovskaya – general shot.
Metro bridge across the Moskva River, train passes, high-rise building is visible – general shot, panorama.
Lvov motor ship passes under the metro bridge – medium shot.
Kalininsky Prospekt – general shot.
Old Arbatskaya metro station building – medium shot, panorama.
People near the Moscow metro map – medium shot, panorama.
Hand pressing a button on the map – close-up.
The route sign lights up on the map – close-up.
Above-ground metro line, a train passes by – general, medium shots (from the movement).
New district of Moscow – general shot, panorama.
Different hands put 5 kopecks into the machine – close-ups.
Passengers pass through the turnstile – close-up, panorama.
People walk up the stairs, panorama of the general shot of Kurskaya station – medium shot.
A train passes by (shot from inside the carriage) – close-up.
Nogina Square metro station (inside) – general shot.
A woman with a girl of about 6 years old in a train carriage – close-up.
A doll in a bag, the woman’s hand is visible – close-up.
A black man is standing – close-up.
Close-ups of passengers’ faces – girls, an old man and others.
A bag with tennis rackets – close-up.
Baskets – close-up.
A violin – close-up.
A girl repeats from a notebook – close-up.
Men are sitting with newspapers – medium shot.
Mayakovskaya metro station - general shot (from the movement).
A young man and a girl are standing by the bust of Mayakovsky - medium shot, panorama of the wall.
A young man is sitting on a bench - medium shot.
People are standing and sitting at Mayakovskaya station - medium shot.
A young man and a girl are talking in a carriage, another couple is at the station - medium shot.
People on an escalator - medium shot.
Escalator room under Ploshchad Revolyutsii station - the escalator is rotating (the mechanism is working), people and machines are working - close-up, general shots, panorama.
People are going down the escalator - general shot.
Close-up of a television set.
Image of people walking through the station on a television screen - close-up.
Woman at the television remote control, panorama of televisions - medium shot.
People by the train (on the television screen) - medium shot.
The train goes into a tunnel, panorama of the clock - close-up.
Lomonosovskaya metro station in Leningrad – general shot, panorama.
People entering the carriage – medium shot.
Train and station doors closing – medium shot.
Train departing from the station (shot from the driver’s cabin) – medium shot.
People in the carriage, a boy of about five looking at a book – medium shot.
A girl in glasses reading – close-up of her face.
Automatic installation controlling the train in the driver’s cabin – close-up.
The driver monitors the machine – close-up, medium shots of the face.
Automatic centralized train control post – medium shot.
Face of the young man working at the control panel, panorama of his hands – close-up.
Cassette with perforated tape containing the train movement program along the entire metro line – close-up.
Train approaching the station (shot from the driver’s cabin) – medium shot.
Doors opening, people entering the carriage – close-up.
People walking along Lomonosovskaya station – general shot.
Woman at the control panel – general shot, panorama.
Metro map glowing – close-up.
Subway tunnel – general shot with movement (in Moscow).
People at instruments in a track measuring car making a check run – general, medium shot.
Lights flashing – close-up.
A device drawing a track schedule is working – close-up, medium shot.
Hands are holding a magnifying glass and a film strip with rails on it – close-up.
A woman at a table is examining the film – medium shot.
Train wash at the Krasnopresnenskaya metro depot – general, close-up, medium shots, panorama.
A worker is checking a train – close-up, medium shots of a face.
Hands are feeling the parts of the car, holding a hammer – close-up.
A worker is tapping the car with a hammer – medium shot.
Inspection and repair of trains – general shot, panorama.
Above-ground metro line, a train is passing – general shot.
Construction of a new metro station in Moscow – general shot, panorama.
Mechanized tunnel boring machine – close-up, panorama.
A man in a helmet is working, panorama from face to hands – close-up.
Digging a tunnel – different shots.
A crane carries a beam – medium shot.
Welding of structures – medium shot, panorama. of the future metro station (shot from a helicopter) – general shot, panorama.




Kropotkinskaya station - general plan (from the movement).
Komsomolskaya station - general plan.
Columns, chandelier - close-up, panorama.
Shaumyan station in Baku - medium plan (from the movement).
Panorama of the column, the ceiling, the bas-relief - close-up.
A woman taking a photo - close-up of her face.
Bas-relief of Ploshchad Vosstaniya station in Leningrad - close-up.
Ploshchad Revolyutsii station in Moscow - medium plan, panorama.
Sculptures at the station - close-up, panorama.
Oktyabrskaya station in Tbilisi: a train passes, panorama of the panel on the wall - close-up. 26 Baku Commissars metro station in Baku - column, panorama of the bas-relief of the commissars - medium plan.
Monument to 26 Baku Commissars - sculpture and Eternal Flame - medium plan, close-up.
Panorama of a bas-relief on a marble wall – medium shot, panorama, close-up.
Georgian artist Soso Kayava at work, preparing sketches for metro vestibules – long shot.
Kayava’s face, panorama of his hands working on the chasing – close-up.
Sketches on the walls – medium shot.
Chasing – close-up.
Bas-relief at the “300 Aragvintsev” station – close-up, panorama, medium shots.
Other bas-reliefs (stone) – close-ups.
Colored stained-glass windows – close-up, panorama.
Faces of girls – Georgian and Russian – close-ups.
Stained-glass windows of the Novoslobodskaya metro station in Moscow – close-up, panorama.
A girl of about 6 years old is looking – close-up.
Woman with a girl – medium shot.
Novoslobodskaya metro station, panorama of the columns – medium, long shots.
Avtovo station in Leningrad – long shot (with movement), panorama.
Chandelier – close-up, panorama.
A young man and a girl are watching – medium shot.
Members of a foreign delegation are watching – medium shot, panorama.
A girl is taking a photo – close-up.
Rustaveli Station in Tbilisi – general shot (from the movement), panorama.
People are standing, many military men – general shot.
Sculpture of A.S. Pushkin, departure to a general shot of Pushkinskaya Station in Leningrad – close-up, general shot.
Tour guide at the station, panorama of the sculpture of A.S. Pushkin – medium shot.
Faces of a girl, two young men, a Vietnamese young man, three Arab young men – close-ups.
A Russian girl is laying flowers at the foot of Pushkin’s sculpture – medium shot, panorama.
Girl with a braid – close-up of her face.
Elderly foreign tourists are watching a lamp at the station – close-up, panorama.
Pushkinskaya Station, columns – medium shot, panorama, general shot (shot from the escalator).
People in a train carriage – reading, writing – long shot, medium shot.
Girls looking at a book – medium shot.
A man sitting with a fishing rod – medium shot.
People walking along the above-ground Gidropark metro station in Kyiv – long shot, panorama, medium shot.
People walking along a bridge, panorama of a beach with vacationers – long shot.
Metro – bridge, a boat passing below – long shot.
Leninskie Gory metro station in Moscow – medium shot.
People at Sportivnaya station – long shot, panorama, medium shots.
Lenin Stadium during the Druzhba Narodov Spartakiad, people with banners on the stadium field – long shot, panorama from the letter M to the entrance to Mayakovskaya metro station – close-up, panorama.
People at the entrance to the station – medium, close-ups.
Old lady with ice cream – close-up of her face.
Man with a camera – medium shot.
Girl buying flowers – medium shot.
People on the escalator – medium, wide shot, panorama.
People on the platform – medium, close-up.
People boarding the train – close-up, panorama.
The attendant dispatches the train, the train departs – medium, close-up.
Subway tunnel – wide shot (from the movement).