Railway freight trains going along the Alsheron steppe. Unloading and loading operations in the Baku and Krasnovodsk ports. The first in the USSR sea railway ferry "Soviet Azerbaijan" in the Baku port. Loading the carriage deck of the ferry by the train. Boarding passengers in the passenger compartment of the ferry. The ferry goes to the Caspian Sea along the route: "Baku-Krasnovodsk". Sea ferry "Soviet Azerbaijan" in the Caspian Sea; engine room, captain's cabin, passenger compartment on the upper deck of the ferry. Ferry captain V. Shulgin. The ferry arrives at the pier of the Krasnovodsk port. The train leaves the ferry; passes through the Trans-Caspian steppe. The city of Gorky. Construction of the second sea rail ferry "Soviet Turkmenistan" at the shipyard "Krasnoe Sormovo". The plant's designers are testing the layout of the third ferry. Construction of new berths and suspension bridges in the Baku and Krasnovodsk ports.