A film about the Pyatnitsky Academic Russian Folk Choir. Choir, dance group rehearsals. Choir artists in the dressing room. Choir, soloists, dance group performances (fragments). MI Moskvitina, G. Fufaeva, V. Levashov at rehearsals, give interviews (synchronously). V. Levashov conducts the choir. Voronezh region. House-Museum of M. E. Pyatnitsky. Museum exhibits. Bust of M. E. Pyatnitsky. Opening of the monument to M. E. Pyatnitsky in the city of Voronezh. M. Mordasova is speaking (synchronously). The soloist of the choir V. Klodnina gives interviews (synchronously). Chronicle: the choir sings, V. Klodnina is the soloist, foreign tours of the choir (fragments of performances) (A. Prokoshyna comments behind the scenes); performance of the choir in the throne room of the Vatican, applauding the Pope - John Paul I (filmed from the TV screen). Rural landscapes. Old women from one of the villages are singing, giving interviews (synchronously).