The newsreel tells about film and photo documents stored in the Central State Archive of Film and Photo Documents of the USSR. Employees of the archive: E. Shebunina, V. Borisova looking through photographs of F. I. Shalyapin, photographer M. A. Sherling. Employee G. Bazhenov looks at the filming-scene-joke "Fish", which is attended by artists of the Moscow Art Academic Theater: KS Stanislavsky, IM Moskvin, VI Kachalov, Vishnevsky, Luzhsky. Photos of the photographer N. M. Petrov - V. Mayakovsky in the editorial office of the newspaper "Izvestia"; AM Gorky on the balcony of the Izvestia editorial office. Newsreel: the city of Moscow during the 1920s, the wooden Mausoleum of V. I. Lenin, Sukharevka and others. A plot from the documentary film "Anna Pavlova". A. Pavlova performs "Night" to the music of A. Rubinstein, choreographic study "Dying Swan" to the music of C. Saint-Saens. Collection of photographic portraits of the photographer M.S. Nappelbaum. A film plot about the life of the writer L. Andreev in Finland in the village of Vyammelsuu. Photographs by photographer D. Debabov. Photos of the writer P. P. Vershigora about the partisan division of S. Kovpak. Newsreel: sculptor V. I. Mukhina is working on the sculpture "Worker and Collective Farm Woman". DS Pereverzev hands over to the archive documentaries about I. V. Kurchatov. Photos of Marshal K. V. Blucher.