Building, auditorium, foyer, lobby of the Bolshoi Theater of the USSR. Scenes from operas: "Ivan Susanin", "Sadko", "Eugene Onegin", "Prince Igor", "Boris Godunov", "The Queen of Spades", "Khovanshchina", "The Legend of the Invisible City of Kityazh", "Semyon Kotko". Scenes from the ballets: Don Quixote, Swan Lake, Angara, The Dawns Here Are Quiet, Ivan the Terrible, Anna Karenina, Spartacus, Giselle, Romeo and Juliet, The Nutcracker ". The performances are attended by: singers - I. K. Arkhipova, T. A. Milashkina, A. P. Ognivtsev, V. A. Atlantov, A. A. Eisen, G. Oleinichenko, T. Tugarinova, G. Borisova, N. Grigorieva, B. Morozov, A. Piavko, E. Raikov, E.E. Nesterenko, E.V. Obraztsova, N.A. Obukhov; ballet soloists - N. I. Bessmertnova, V. V. Vasiliev, M. L. Lavrovsky, M. E. Liepa, E. S. Maksimova, M. M. Plisetskaya, M. V. Kondratyeva, L. Semenyaka, A. Godunov, M. Kryuchkova, M. Trembovelskaya, N. Pavlova and others. Solemn meeting dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the Bolshoi Theater of the USSR; theater director G. L. Ivanov accepts congratulations from the director of the Teatro alla Scala, Cuban ballerina A. Alonso, French ballet master S. Lifar. V. Grishin, First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU, presents the Order of Lenin to the theater. The theater group is photographed. Artist A.P. Ognivtsev reads notes carved on the gravestone of the composer M.P. Mussorgsky. Entrance exams at the Moscow Choreographic School. Chief conductor Yuri I. Simonov, conductor MF Ermer, chief director B. A. Pokrovsky, chief choreographer Y. N. Grigorovich, chief choreographer A. V. Rybnikov, chief artist N. N. Zolotarev at rehearsals. Exhibits of the theater museum. Archival photographic documents about the history of the theater. Tours of the theater corpses to Kiev and Leningrad.