A journalistic story about the situation of women in the USSR. The film includes stories about women living in different parts of the country and employed in various sectors of the national economy.
Landscapes of Kamchatka. Volcanic eruption. View of one of the villages of Kamchatka. Employees of the Institute of Volcanology in the laboratory, during a helicopter flight to the site of the volcanic eruption, surveying the area. Landscapes of Kazakhstan. A village of a virgin land state farm. State farm machine operators cultivate the land, harvest grain. Views of the Volga River. The city of Tolyatti. Production processes at the Volga Automobile Plant. Production of finished cars. Views of Tashkent. The public on the streets of the city. Honored Doctor of Azerbaijan N. Makhmudova at home, speaking at a meeting as the chairman of the Council of Trade Unions of Uzbekistan, visiting a carpet factory, one of the kindergartens. Views of Samarkand. Landscapes of Chukotka. Chukchi children during a lesson at school. Master bone carvers at work. Herds of reindeer in the tundra. Reindeer herders catch reindeer. Views of Leningrad, Peterhof. Architect I. Benois at work on the restoration of buildings that are part of the Peterhof ensemble.




Moscow – street report – medium, small (summer).
At Moscow State University, students in the auditorium at a lecture by the outstanding mathematician, head of a department at Moscow State University, professor Olga Oleynik – various.
Architects – general, panoramic.
In a research lab, a female lab assistant looks through a microscope – medium, panoramic.
An assembler at the VAZ plant – Valentina Vostretsova in the workshop – medium, small.
In the workshop, the Moldovan weaver, delegate to the 2011th Komsomol Congress Valentina Maroi – general, small.
In the greenhouse, a florist from a Moscow region farm – Margarita Pavlova – general, small.
A teacher with children in a kindergarten – panoramic, medium.
A teacher in the classroom at the blackboard – medium, panoramic.
People's Artist of the USSR, ballerina Natalia Bessmertnova putting on makeup before a performance – kr.
Cosmonaut V. V. Tereshkova performing – general.
Hero of Socialist Labor, first secretary of one of the district committees of the Virgin Lands Territory party, Vera Sidorova talks to a man – kr, Poland.
Kamchatka (winter): Rising sun – kr, Poland.
Landscapes - sea and mountains in snow – general, Poland.
Village – general, Poland.
Northern port – wed, Poland.
Sea, poppies blooming on the rocks, spring – wed.
Steppe with blooming poppies – general.
Interior of the apartment where the world's first female volcanologist, Honored Scientist and Technician, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Sofia Naboko, lives – kr, Poland.
Working at the table – typing – S. Naboko – medium, short, panorama.
Black and white photo – S. Naboko with friends.
Several photographs – portraits of S. Naboko.
Group portrait of students of the geochemical faculty of the Leningrad Mining Institute – medium, dissolve. S. Naboko with her infant son in her arms. S. Naboko’s grown-up son, also a volcanologist, with his daughter.
Portrait of S. Naboko – short, dissolve.
Photographs of volcanoes – medium. S. Naboko showing color photographs in a book about volcanoes – medium, panorama.
Women – researchers in the volcanic eruption forecasting laboratory – medium, short, panorama.
Snow-covered ground from a helicopter – general.
Institute employees in a helicopter – medium, short, panorama.
The helicopter is landing – medium, panorama.
Institute staff survey the area around a volcanic eruption – general, medium, short, Poland.
Shot from a helicopter – snow-covered mountains – medium, Poland.
Snow drifts, icicles – medium, Poland.
Newsreel from 1975. Eruption of the Kamchatka volcano Tolbachik – various. S. Naboko speaking (contemporary footage) – short, synchronous.
Kazakhstan (spring): Mayakovsky state farm – a village, fruit trees in bloom – general, medium, Poland.
Father, virgin land farmer – machine operator Zhamaguly Zharaspayev, a grain grower awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, and his daughter – Aibarshin, machine operator, village council deputy – in a field near tractors, driving tractors across the field, daughter and father – various, Poland.
Aybarshin with friends by the fire – night – Wed, kr, Poland.
Harvesting grain – common, Wed, Poland.
Grain is pouring – kr.
Aybarshin rides by on horseback in national festive clothes, Aybarshin's companion, also on horseback in national clothes – misc., Poland.




Volga landscapes, rainbow, Volga River – wed, cr, Poland, summer.
City of Tolyatti – report – wed, cr.
VAZ – conveyor belt moving – general, wed, cr.
Girls and young people working on the conveyor belt, including Valentina Vostretsova – cr.
Tester of new VAZ cars – Lidiya Dudina in her apartment – cr.
Dudina’s husband playing with the children in her room – wed.
A group of testers near the car. L. Dudina behind the wheel – wed, cr, Poland. L. Dudina testing a new car, cars on the track – general, wed, cr, Poland.
Uzbekistan – mountains in snow, green grass in the valley – general.
City of Tashkent – report on the city – various, Poland.
Newsreel from 1920-1925: An cart passes by, women in burqas walk by.
A woman comes up on stage and throws off her burqa, women burn burqas – kr.
Women walk by in burqas and without them – general.
Doctor of Medical Sciences, Chairperson of the Council of Trade Unions of Uzbekistan Naima Makhmudova walks down the street with her grandson and son-in-law – medium, kr.
Children are swinging on a swing, N. Makhmudova with children – kr, Poland.
Doctors are sitting in the conference hall – among them Umar Makhmudov, Honored Doctor of the Republic, heads a large children's clinic – general, kr, Poland. N. Makhmudova is working on an article – kr, Poland on her book "Cerebral Palsy in Children", various articles by Makhmudova – kr.
Black and white photo: Makhmudova at the congress.; Makhmudova talks to delegates.; N. Makhmudova and Rashidov – medium, kr, Poland.
Makhmudova is riding in a car – Poland, Wed. N. Makhmudova’s speech – Poland, kr.
People at a meeting, a man is speaking – kr.
Makhmudova is talking to women – workers at a carpet factory – Poland, kr.
Makhmudova with those accompanying her, at a carpet factory – Poland, Wed, kr.
Makhmudova is talking to girls embroidering skullcaps – Wed, kr. , Poland.
Makhmudova is visiting a preschool institution, where children are taught while their mothers are busy at the factory, the children are playing – Wed, kr.
Makhmudova is receiving a visitor in her deputy’s office – Wed, kr, Poland.
Makhmudova with members of a dance ensemble, a girl is dancing, other girls are playing national instruments – kr, Wed. (everything is happening outdoors), summer.
Umar Makhmudov cooks pilaf, the Makhmudov family at the table – kr, Poland.
The Makhmudov spouses in Samarkand – cf.
Monuments of Samarkand, fountains – kr, Poland.
Chukotka: landscapes, city – general.
Herd of deer.
Winter – Natalya Elelgina rides in a sleigh – kr, Poland.
Chukchi children in the classroom – kr, Poland.




A female bone carver, finished products – kr, Poland.
A female doctor examining a boy – wed, kr, Poland.
A helicopter landing – kr.
Reindeer herder N. Elelgina with her comrades at work near a herd of reindeer – wed, kr. N. Elelgina throwing a lasso – kr, Poland.
Male reindeer herders catching reindeer from the herd – misc, Poland.
A dog sled running along the bank – general, Poland. N. Elelgina in a helicopter – wed, kr.
Northern Lights – kr.
The city of Leningrad: the Neva River – general.
St.
Isaac's Cathedral – Poland, kr.
Architect Irina Benois looking out the window.
A boat is sailing along the Neva – wed, Poland. I. Benois on the balcony of the mansion – general.
Newsreel from 1941-1944: Panorama from the burning building to the people sorting through the debris – general.
Headless statue – Wed.
The broken head of the statue lies on the stairs – kr.
Destroyed and snow-covered Peterhof – general.
Restored Peterhof (summer).
People at the Big Fountain "Samson" - general.
Fountains of Peterhof – kr.
The building of the restored unique museum of everyday life and artistic culture of the last century, the Palace-Cottage on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, near Peterhof – kr, Panorama.
Architect I. Benois working at the drawing board – Wed, kr, Panorama.
Books – Panorama, kr. I. Benois walks through the rooms of the cottage, the interiors of the rooms – Panorama, various. I. Benois examines a dinner service – kr, Poland.
Visitors enter the Palace-Cottage, climb the stairs – wed, Poland.
A young man and a girl, a woman and a man with a child, girls with flowers pass by – wed, kr, Poland.
A girl with a wreath of wild flowers, a little boy gives a girl spring flowers – kr.
A girl laughs, a girl in glasses – kr.
A young man kisses a girl – kr.
People at the Grand Cascade, and at Samson – wed, kr, Poland.
Naima Makhmudova passes by with children – kr.
A boy looks out the window and points with his finger – kr.
The city of Moscow – Poland, general. from the upper point.