Towards new frontiers (1981)

Report on Moscow.

The Kremlin Palace of Congresses.

Outstanding scientist and agricultural practitioner, twice Hero of Socialist Labor Terentiy Maltsev, actor Mikhail Ulyanov, passenger airliner crew commander G. Smagina, Ukrainian collective farmer S. Vishtak, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Pyotr Klimuk, poet and public figure Rasul Gamzatov and other delegates on the sidelines of the congress.

Opening of the 26th Congress of the CPSU. General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee L.I. Brezhnev delivers the report "Report of the CPSU Central Committee to the 26th Congress of the CPSU and the Party's immediate tasks in the sphere of domestic and foreign policy" (synchronously).

Launch of the spacecraft.

The Salyut station in flight, the crew on the station.

Construction of the Druzhba gas pipeline.

Meeting of the Political Consultative Committee of the Warsaw Pact member states.

Seeing off Soviet troops withdrawn from the GDR. USSR aid to Vietnam and other countries: sending cargo, specialists.

Meeting of L.I. Brezhnev and I. Gandhi.

Books by L.I. Brezhnev.

Demonstrations for peace in different countries.

Meeting of L.I. Brezhnev and A.A. Gromyko with the President of France V. Giscard-Estaing. A.A. Gromyko speaks at the UN.

Montage plans illustrating the labor achievements and everyday life of the Soviet people. L. I. Brezhnev speaks at the 26th Congress of the CPSU (synchronously).

Hall of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses.

Speaking: miner Naumkin, writer G. M. Markov, weaver V. N. Golubeva, collective farm chairman Chervyakov, builder Surovtsev, academician A. P. Alexandrov.

Delegates listen, applaud, vote.

Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR N. A. Tikhonov delivers a report "The Main Directions of Economic and Social Development of the USSR for 1981-1985 and for the Period up to 1990" (synchronously).

Journalists in the press center; at a press conference for foreign journalists.

The heads of delegations speak at the congress: Cuba – F. Castro, GDR – E. Honecker, DRV – Le Duan, Afghanistan – B. Karmal, USA – Gas Hall, Angola – J.E. dos Santos.

Banners are brought into the hall; L.I. Brezhnev is presented with a report from the Lenin Komsomol; Komsomol members and pioneers greet the congress delegates.

The delegates sing the Internationale.

People buy and read newspapers.