Mari Republic. Stay in the city of Yoshkar-Ola, pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR V. A. Lyakhov. Meeting at the airport; speech by V. A. Lyakhov before the pioneers at the pioneer rally, before the collective of the factory "Truzhenitsa" in the Museum of Labor Glory of the factory. The cosmonaut's story about his biography, about space flight and work at the Salyut-6 orbital station.