Contemporary Number 24

The special issue of the film tells about the events that took place within the framework of the Days of Russian Literature in the city of Penza and the Penza region. City of Penza, June 1985 View of a passing Zhiguli car and a trolleybus along one of the streets in the city of Penza. View of the building of the Lunacharsky Drama Theater. Meeting of Soviet writers, who arrived at the opening of the Days of Russian Literature, at the Penza railway station. Among the greeters: the first secretary of the regional committee of the CPSU Fedor Mikhailovich Kulikov, the second secretary of the regional committee of the CPSU Georgy Vasilyevich Myasnikov, deputy chairman of the regional executive committee Yu.A. Vinogradov. A visiting meeting of the Secretariat of the Board of the Writers' Union of the RSFSR in the Penza Drama Theater: Chairman of the Board Sergei Vladimirovich Mikhalkov talks about the opening of the Days of Russian Literature in Penza (sinhr., Behind the scenes). Anatoly Aleksin talks about the importance of children's literature in raising a child (sync.). Among those present in the hall of the drama theater are writers Yevgeny Nosov, Nikolai Dorizo, Valentin Rasputin, Sergei Zalygin, Yevgeny Isaev, Vladimir Kostrov, Yuri Bondarev. V. Rasputin and S. Zalygin talk with livestock breeders in the state farm "Proletarsky" about the reflection of the life of the village in modern literature. Writers at the opening of the monument to Mikhail Lermontov in the Tarkhany Museum-Reserve. People lay flowers at the monument to the poet. Andrey Dementyev reads the poem "Lermontov's Grandmother" (off-screen).

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author of the text S. Smolich, editor B. Kozhin, sound engineer V. Popov