The film tells about the role of Siberian science in the development of Siberia's riches.




Landscapes of Siberia – general.
Novosibirsk Akademgorodok – general, Poland.
Arrival of the finance ministers of the countries of socialist cooperation to Akademgorodok – wed.
The guests are met and welcomed by the Chairman of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Academician M. A. Lavrentyev – wed.
Academician M. A. Lavrentyev speaks in the audience – cr, wed.
Listeners – general, cr, wed.
In the laboratory of the Institute of Hydrodynamics, Lenin Prize laureate Professor Deribas and his assistants talk and conduct an experiment to study the creative potential of an explosion – wed, cr.
Professor Deribas and his assistants examine a part welded by an explosion – wed.
Part – cr.
Preparation and welding at the testing ground using an explosion of plates made of ordinary and stainless steel – general, cr.
Explosion – general.
Testing the weld with ultrasound – cr, wed.
Machine room of the Krasnoyarsk Hydroelectric Power Station – general.
The turbine with bimetallic blades is rotating – kr.
Water is bubbling – kr.
The dam of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station – general.
High-voltage lines – general.
Landscape of Siberia – general, Poland.
Zoologists Dmitry Vladimirovich Ternovsky and his wife Yulia Grigoryevna are passing by.
River – kr, cf. D. V. Ternovsky sets a trap.
Fur-bearing animals in the wild – various.
Fur-bearing animals in the enclosures of Akademgorodok; zoologists working with fur-bearing animals – various.




Novosibirsk Akademgorodok: driveways, institutes, landscapes – general, Poland (autumn).
Siberian landscape – general, Poland.
Siberian forest – general, Poland; Poland along the trunks and tops of trees – cf.
Siberian silkworm caterpillars on trees – kr.
Professor Gukosyan collects Siberian silkworm caterpillars from a tree branch – kr; works with an assistant in the electron microscope lab of the Krasnoyarsk Institute – kr, Poland, kr.
Microbe under a microscope – kr.
In the forest microbiology lab of the Krasnoyarsk Institute of Forest and Wood, they weigh a medicine created for the taiga on scales – kr, cf.
Dead forest – general, Poland; bare tree trunks – kr, Poland; caterpillars on a tree trunk – kr.
Summer airplane, pollinates forest with insectin - general.
Dead caterpillars - kr., cf.
Well-known specialist in mining technology, Professor Boris Vasilyevich Sudnishnikov - kr.; talks to an employee of the Mining Institute - kr., Poland.
Field tests of a new drilling rig, in which A. I. Kupreev, a tester of new equipment of the Mining Institute, who was awarded the Lenin Prize, takes part - general, Poland, cf.
Designers A. I. Kupreev and others at the table discuss the results of the tests - general, cf., Poland, misc.
In the laboratory of vibrating pneumatic machines of the Mining Institute, designers, together with medical physiologists, conduct experiments with vibrating machines.
Vibrating machine - kr.
Young workers work on a rammer with vibration-proof machines created by scientists of the institute - kr., cf.
Work by scientists from the Institute of Florology and Genetics of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences on creating new varieties of wheat;
a field with a new variety of spring wheat "
Novosibirskaya-67" - kr., panorama of the researchers;
scientists work in a laboratory;
radioactive irradiation of wheat - kr., A field of wheat (radiation variety) at the Iskitimsky state farm near Novosibirsk - kr.;
state farm workers and scientists working on creating new varieties of wheat, in the field - kr., Scientists from the Krasnoyarsk Institute of Physics, who built a space house on Earth to create an "
artificial biosphere", are conducting tests.
Wheat - kr.




Newsreel: A unique experiment at the Krasnoyarsk Institute of Physics: a doctor, an engineer, and an agronomist on a six-month "space" shift.
In the artificial climate chambers, the single-celled alga chlorella – kr.
An experimenter plants vegetable seedlings.
Wheat grains.
A space garden: vegetable beds – kr.
Scientists with ears of wheat grown in an artificial nutrient medium – cf.
Threshing grain, baking bread.
The experimenters clean the grown vegetables, eat salad.
Round-the-clock medical monitoring of the crew's condition: the doctor on duty at the control panel monitors the sensor readings.
Caption: "Today is the 180th day of the experiment" – kr.
The participants in the experiment exit the earthly "starship".
A group of scientists, the creators and participants of the experiment – gen.
Scientists talking – kr., med., Poland.
Novosibirsk Akademgorodok in winter – gen., Poland, med.
Oil rig – general.
Drillers at work – medium, kr.
Panorama from feet to walking geologists – medium.
Exploration of oil fields: geologists transmit data to the computing center.
Computing center.
Employees at work in the computing center – medium, kr.
Computing machine – kr, Panorama.
Automatic drawing of the terrain, employees at work.
Director of the Institute of Economics, Academician Aganbegyan at the industrial map of Siberia – medium, Panorama; speaks about the participation of science in the development of Siberia (synchronously) – medium, kr, Panorama.
Listeners – medium, kr, Panorama.
Scientists in the computing center – general, Panorama, medium.
A village in the taiga – general.
Taiga – general (from an airplane).