The film tells about the opening of the V Sports and Athletic Competitions of the USSR Peoples in Moscow.
City of Moscow. Opening of the fifth summer Games of the peoples of the USSR: the Olympic champion athlete PG Bolotnikov lights the torch from the flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin wall. Moments of the parade of athletes at the Central Stadium of Lenin in Luzhniki. Chairman of the organizing committee Spartakiads Pavlov speaks to participants of sports and athletics. Sportsmen pass each other torch sports days, light a flame sports days. Fragments of the speeches of athletes at the stadium in Luzhniki.
This is a story about the opening of the 5th Games of the Peoples of the USSR in Moscow.