The film tells about ordinary members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union working in various branches of industry, science, etc.
Construction of a ship at the Leningrad Baltic Shipyard. Interview with plant foreman V. Smirnov, who transferred to a lagging brigade. Admission to the CPSU of a worker of the Moscow carriage repair plant "In Memory of the 1905 Revolution" E. Evsikov. Chairman of the Vologda collective farm "Zarya" D. M. Kuzovlev in the field with collective farmers, in his office, at a meeting of the collective farm board. Interview (synchronously) with D. M. Kuzovlev. Meeting of the members of the party committee of the Shchekino Chemical Plant. Secretary of the party committee A. Mokin speaks. Production processes in the shops of the plant. Interview with chemist, academician O. A. Reutov. Disabled veteran of the Great Patriotic War, who lost his hands during the war, N. A. Fenomenov, works as a mechanic in the Moscow metro. Construction of the metro. Electric trains in the metro. M. A. Yasnov presents N. A. Fenomenov with the Order of Lenin and the gold medal "Hammer and Sickle" of the Hero of Socialist Labor. Speech by L. I. Brezhnev at the 24th Congress of the CPSU.
Industrial landscapes - Wed.
Workers going to work - Wed, cr.
Construction – frame of the future dam - general, Poland.
Erection of a building - Wed.
New houses; city street - Wed, cr.
Construction site (shot from the crane operator’s cabin) - Wed, cr.
Poland.
Metal pouring - Wed.
Steelworker at work - general, Wed.
Miners going to work - Wed.
Construction of a hydroelectric dam - general, Poland.
An airplane flying - Wed, Poland.
Construction of a hydroelectric power station - general.
High-altitude fitters working - Wed.
Erection of a satellite - Wed, cr.
Erection of a lunar rover - Wed, cr.
Construction of a blast furnace - Wed.
Laser in a laboratory - cr.
Scientist at a laser - cr.
Workers at machine tools - Wed.
Workshop of an electric bulb factory: a female worker sorting bulbs - close, medium.
Apple tree branches with fruit - close, medium.
A female collective farmer examining apples - close.
A woman at a machine - close.
A young man at the wheel of a combine - close.
Hands pouring grain - close, panorama.
Detail of a weaving loom; a female weaver at a loom - close, medium.
Scientist in a laboratory – zoom in, freeze-frame - close.
Engineer talking to workers - zoom in, freeze-frame, close.
Shipyard workers - zoom in, freeze-frame.
Shipyard of the Leningrad Baltic Shipyard - general.
Workers going to work, climbing the slipway - close.
Foreman of shipbuilders, Hero of Socialist Labor V. Smirnov - close. V. Smirnov and his team at work on the slipway: talking to the workers, welding a seam, etc. - various.
A lifting crane, a panorama from the crane boom on the slipway - general, panorama.
Welders from V. Smirnov's team are working - general.
A ship on the slipway - general, panorama. V. Smirnov walks with the factory banner at the head of a column of workers on the day of the launch of the next ship - general, panorama.
Launching of the ship - general. V. Smirnov watches the launch in a crowd of people - short. V. Smirnov at home with his daughter, a student at Leningrad University - general, short. V. Smirnov at work: watching the workers performing welding work - general.
A ship in the scaffolding - general. V. Smirnov talks about his team (synchronously) - short.
The guys from Smirnov's team are working - various.
Smirnov is talking to the boys - cf.
Workers on board a ship under construction - cf.
The ship is sailing - cf.
Letters addressed to V. Smirnov - kr.
Smirnov is answering letters at the table - kr.
Smirnov's daughter is sitting next to her father - kr.
Smirnov's daughter is talking about her attitude to her work (synchronously) - kr. V. Smirnov is talking to the employees of the Izvestia newspaper - general, kr.
V. Smirnov in his office talking with the workers of the Izvestia newspaper about the best organization of industrial training for young people (synchronous) - kr.
Building a ship - general. V. Smirnov at the shipyard - Wed, general.
Sparks fly from electric welding - kr.
A carousel lathe is working: a part is being processed - general, Wed, kr.
A ship on the slipway; builders on the ship's deck - general, kr.
The ship leaves the slipway, drops anchor in the sea - general.
Party meeting at the "Memory of the 1905 Revolution" plant: the admission of the young worker E. Evsikov to the party - general, Wed. E. Evsikov tells his biography (synchronous) - kr.
Attentive faces of the listening workers - Wed, kr.
A young man asks E. Evsikov a question (synchronous) - kr. E. Evsikov answers a comrade's question (synchronously) - general.
Snowstorm in the village - Wed, general.
Village in winter: winter rural landscapes - general.
Birch tree - Wed, general.
Village houses - general.
Communist D. Kuzovlev, chairman of the Zarya collective farm - general.
Collective farmers roll logs; D. Kuzovlev gives instructions to the collective farmers - general, Wed.
A tractor drives across a field - general, kr. D. Kuzovlev talks with the collective farmers - general.
Blacksmiths at work in the collective farm forge - general, kr.
Collective farmers near a tractor - Wed.
Wheat field - Wed, panorama.
Kuzovlev and the collective farmers examine a plan of the collective farm lands; walks across the field with the collective farmers - general. D. Kuzovlev talks with elderly peasants about the best way to use collective farm lands (synchronously) - kr, cf. D. Kuzovlev at home at the table - kr.
Kuzovlev's diaries and manuscripts - kr.
Kuzovlev's book "Land and People" - kr.
Forest - general (with movement). D. Kuzovlev is riding in a car - kr.
Village - general (from above). D. Kuzovlev in his office at the table: talking about business (synchronously) - kr.
Meeting in the office of the district committee secretary - general.
Rural landscape - general.
River - general.
Harvesting - general. D. Kuzovlev in his office talking with a collective farm woman (synchronously) - kr.
A collective farm woman talks about the brigade's affairs (synchronously) - kr.
Birch branches - kr.
Harvesting - general, cf.
Notebooks and manuscripts of D. Kuzovlev - kr. D. Kuzovlev speaking (synchronously) - kr.
Combine harvester in the field - general.
Grain is pouring out - kr.
Chemical plant in Shchekino - general.
Meeting of workers of the chemical plant - general, medium, kr.
Meeting of workers of the Shchekino Chemical Plant - general.
Secretary of the Party Committee of the Shchekino Plant, Comrade Mokin, is speaking (synchronously) - cr.
Party Committee work plan - cr.
Two engineers are walking through the plant - Wed, cr.
PNR of the Shchekino Plant - Wed.
A communist of the plant speaks about an experiment in the better use of human resources and equipment, which is being carried out at the plant (synchronously) - cr.
Workers and women workers of the plant are talking to each other.
Classes at the school to improve qualifications - general.
A worker answers questions from a ticket - Wed.
Workers in the plant shops - Wed, cr.
Mokin is talking with workers - cr.
A communist of the plant and secretary of the Party Committee Mokin are talking about the implementation of an experiment in the use of human resources and equipment (synchronously) - cr.
Shchekino Combine – external appearance - Wed.
Shchekino Combine workshop - general.
Main control panel - general.
Chemical laboratory of the combine - general.
Female laboratory assistant; worker at the control panel - Wed, cr.
Weaving workshop - Wed.
Weaving looms - Wed, general.
Hand pressing a button - cr.
Instrument screen - cr.
Young scientist at the control panel - cr.
Instrument control panel - cr, general.
Installation of a synchrophasotron - Wed.
Chemical laboratory at Moscow State University - general.
Academician O.A. Reutov in the laboratory - cr.
Laboratory staff at work - cr.
Panoramic view of the instruments - cr. O.A. Reutov speaks about the future of chemistry (synchronously) - Wed. O.A. Reutov talks with scientists - Wed.
Photo: Makeyevka, where O.A. Reutov was born - Wed.
Reutov is a Komsomol member - cf.
Major Reutov - cf.
Moscow University - cf.
Newsreel: Young Reutov in the MSU laboratory - cf., kr.
Reutov in the laboratory office - cf., kr.
Books by O.A. Reutov: "Through the Eyes of a Scientist", "Theoretical Foundations of Organic Chemistry", etc. - cf.
Reutov in his office at work - cf., cf.
Books, manuscripts on Reutov's desk - cf., kr.
Letters addressed to Reutov - cf.
Academician Reutov's office - general view.
Cartoon: Reutov's portrait in the newspaper - cf.
Newsreel: O.A. Reutov speaks at an international forum to protest against aggression, against chemical warfare - cf.
UN building - general. O.A. Reutov in his office talks about the Americans using toxic chemical agents in the war against Vietnam (synchronously) - cf.
Newsreel from the 1960s: Planes flying over the jungle - general, cf.
Bombs falling - general, Poland.
Vietnamese refugees fleeing - general, cf.
The jungle is burning - general.
A Vietnamese child is crying - kr.
A protest rally against aggression in Vietnam at one of the Soviet factories - cf., kr.
Egyptian pyramids - general.
Construction of the Aswan Dam - cf.
Soviet and Arab workers and engineers at the construction site - cf., kr.
Monument to the Soviet soldier in Treptower Park in Berlin - kr.
Faces of Soviet soldiers - kr.
Radar installation - cf.
An airplane taking off - cf.
A pilot in the cockpit of an airplane - kr.
Faces of Soviet soldiers - kr.
Tanks are approaching - Wed.
Sailor transmits signals with a searchlight - Wed, kr.
Sailors on a submarine - kr.
There is a leak in the boat, water is gushing - kr.
Sailors are repairing the breach - kr.
Warships are sailing by - Wed, general.
Submarine is approaching - general, panorama (with military equipment).
Sailors at their posts in the submarine - Wed.
Sailor at the radar screen - kr.
The officer gives commands; hands press the "Launch" button - kr.
Missiles are taking off from the board of the warship - Wed.
Sailors at their combat posts on the warship - kr.
Missile launchers in action - Wed, kr.
Missiles hit the target - general.
Radars - kr, Wed.
A jet plane is flying - Wed, panorama.
The pilot in the cockpit of the plane - kr.
A flight of jet planes in the air - general.
The camouflage net is removed from the missile; the missile is aimed at the target - Wed, kr, general.
Soldiers near the missile - Wed.
A general talks to soldiers by the fire - general, Wed, kr.
Newsreel from 1941-1945: Victory Parade on Red Square: Soviet soldiers carry and throw German flags - Wed.
Victory salute - general, Wed.
A soldier hands shells to the loader - Wed.
An officer gives the command - Wed.
Cannons firing - Wed.
Explosions - Wed.
A tank is advancing - Wed.
Infantrymen going into the attack - Wed.
An officer raises the soldiers to the attack - Wed.
Landing of troops - Wed.
Burning houses - Wed.
A candidate's book, pierced by bullets - Wed.
Soldiers carrying wounded comrades - Wed.
Soldiers' applications for admission to the party - kr.
Fighting on the streets of Stalingrad: a soldier fires a machine gun - Wed.
Explosion - kr, freeze frame. N.A. Fenomyonov, a metro builder, Hero of Socialist Labor, talks about being wounded at the front (synchronously) - kr.
Newsreel 1941-1945: Wounded soldiers - Wed.
Nurse - kr.
Operating room - Wed.
Hospital - Wed.
A nurse walks along the hospital corridor - Wed.
Wounded soldiers in a ward - Wed.
Rails - kr.
An ambulance train is coming - Wed.
Soldiers in a ambulance train - Wed, panorama.
Landscapes - Wed (from the train).
A vice, a panorama of Fenomyonov's face - kr.
Fenomyonov works with a file - kr.
Fenomenovych learns to write again - kr.
Fenomenovych's signature on paper - kr.
Newsreel from the 1950s.
Operating room - cf.
Professor V.P. Filatov performs an operation - kr.
Landscapes of the central zone - general, cf.
Tree - cf.
Winter landscape - general.
Snow drifting - cf.
Dacha in the forest - cf.
Winter forest - cf.
Branches of blossoming apple trees - kr.
Branches of maple trees - kr, Poland.
Windows of the house - kr. N.A. Fenomenovych's friend from work on the construction of the subway, Vereinov, visits Fenomenovych, talks about Fenomenovych (synchronously) - kr.
Fenomenovych's wife talks about her husband (synchronously) - kr. N.A. Fenomenovych walks down the street - kr.
Ploshchad Revolyutsii metro station: Fenomenovy and Vereynov are talking in the station vestibule - general, categoriz.
Fenomenovy and Vereynov are walking along the station vestibule - Wed.
Sculpture of a metro builder at Ploshchad Revolyutsii station - categoriz.
Newsreel from the 1930s: Metro builder in a mine - various.
Feet in water - categoriz.
Builders are loading mine cars - Wed, categoriz.
Girl in a metro mine - categoriz.
Metro tunnel - general.
Builders are riding in a train carriage - Wed.
Builders are attaching a marble plaque with the inscription "Ploshchad Revolyutsii" - general.
Female builder T. Fedorova at work in a metro mine - categoriz.
People are entering the metro - general. T.V. Fedorova talks about her recent meeting with N.A. Fenomenovy (synchronously) - categoriz. N.A. Fenomenovych at the Ploshchad Revolyutsii metro station - kr.
Sculptures in the station vestibule - kr. N.A. Fenomenovych in the metro shaft - kr.
Construction of the Oktyabrskoye Pole station - builders working - misc.
Fenomenovych in the metro shaft talking to other builders - kr.
Interior of metro stations - general.
Trains passing - kr.
Awarding of Nikolay Aleksandrovich Fenomenovych, conferring on him the title of Hero of Socialist Labor: Yasnov pins the Order of Lenin and the Gold Medal "Hammer and Sickle" on N.A. Fenomenovych - cf. N.A. Fenomenovych walks along Kalinina Avenue - cf., kr.
Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin - kr.
Red Square: queue to the Mausoleum - kr.
Red Square - general. (with v/t).
Hall of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses: L.I. Brezhnev (synchronously) - general, medium.
The hall applauds - general.
Columns of demonstrators march along Red Square - general.
A banner with a portrait of V.I. Lenin - short, medium.