Life and everyday life of the Mari peasants until 1917. Chronicle of the 1920s: the Red Guard company "Mari" is marching in formation, an article in Pravda about the formation of the Mari Autonomous Region (1920), peasants at work, children at school, drought, fire. Filming in 1913: Yoshkar-Ola. Demonstration, parade, train movement, power plant, factory, hospital, club, timber rafting, sowing in one of the collective farms.