The film tells the story of students who are involved in the restoration of ancient monuments.
Restorers working on frescoes in one of the churches. Students - members of the restoration construction team work on the restoration of architectural monuments of the Solovetsky Monastery. General view of the Solovetsky Monastery, the architectural ensemble in Kizhi. Restoration work in the village of Kondopoga, in the Pafnutyev-Borovsky Monastery, in Mikhailovskoye. Views of Novgorod, the Novgorod Kremlin, views of Suzdal.




Students from Moscow and Leningrad, working in the Novgorod Kremlin, sift the earth, search for and select pieces of frescoes blown up by the Nazis; frescoes are restored in the restoration workshop from individual found pieces – general, cf.
Restored frescoes – ed.
Work in the Novgorod restoration workshops – general, cf.
Solovetsky Monastery on Bolshoy Solovetsky Island – general (from the top).
The student restoration and construction team of the Physics Department of Moscow State University is working on the restoration of the Solovetsky Monastery.
Students are restoring the walls of the Kremlin, the refectory, the domes of churches – cf., ed.
A memorial stone on the shore of the White Sea as a sign of the heroic defense of the defenders of the Solovetsky Monastery.
Towers, walls of the Kremlin – ed.
Old fortress gun – ed.
Student restorers examining the monastery dungeon with frescoes in their hands – general, ed.
Inner stonework of the wall – ed.
A wooden wall destroyed by time – ed.
Student restorers during their rest, in the evening by the fire on Shchuchye Lake: playing the guitar, singing – general, ed.
Fire.
Bucket on the fire – ed, panorama (night).
Sunrise over the forest, over the lake – wed, general.
Dawn: morning fog over the lake – general, wed.
Landscape with forest – general.
Frescoes – wed, general.
Transfiguration Church in Kizhi – general, wed.
Wooden domes – wed, ed, panorama.
Students from the Chemistry Department of Moscow State University are restoring the domes covered with aspen shingles (wood) and the walls of the Transfiguration Church – general, medium, ed.




Wooden tent-roofed Church of the Assumption in the village of Kondopoga – general, medium, Poland.
Pulp and paper mill built in Kondopoga – general.
Church of the Assumption and the mill – general.
Wooden dome of the church – kr.
Several wooden and stone buildings destroyed by time – general, kr.
Restoration work in the former Pafnutyev-Borovsky Monastery: students of the Polygraphic Institute, activists of the All-Russian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments are working – kr., medium.
Iconographic material illustrating the resistance of the defenders of the Pafnutyev-Borovsky fortress, led by the governor Prince Volkonsky – kr.
A running herd of horses – kr., Poland.
On the fortress wall is the coat of arms given to the citizens of Borovsk for their loyalty to the Motherland – kr.
Towers of the monastery – kr.
Landscape with the Sorot River in the village of Mikhailovskoye, Pskov Region.
Pushkin's nanny's house – medium, small.
The house where A.S. Pushkin lived – general (zoom in).
Installation of a memorial stone in Mikhailovskoye with words from Pushkin's poem "I Have Visited Again" carved on it – medium, Poland, small.
Director of the Pushkin Reserve Semyon Stepanovich Geychenko watches the installation of the stone, walks through the meadow – medium, large.
Newsreel from 1941-1945: Mikhailovskoye destroyed and burned by the Nazis (winter) – medium, large.
The "Millennium of Russia" monument destroyed in Novgorod; parts of the monument are lying in the snow – medium, large.
The "Millennium of Russia" monument restored by Novgorod residents - medium, Poland, large.
General plan of Novgorod – PNR. Novgorod Kremlin: wall, territory – general, middle (from the top point).
Several churches in Suzdal – general.
Moscow Kremlin, monument to Minin and Pozharsky (dawn).