Academician T. I. Zaslavskaya, director of the Berdsk state farm of the Novosibirsk region, Hero of Socialist Labor I. I. Leunov, head of the Department for the planning and development of rural settlements of the USSR State Civil Engineering B. P. Tobilevich talk about the problems and prospects of the development of small Siberian villages. Workers are dismantling houses in one of the abandoned villages. View of the revived villages Ryabchinka and Aleksandrovka of the Berdsk state farm, which were supposed to be liquidated according to the plan. View of a farm, school, kindergarten in Ryabchinka; construction of houses in Aleksandrovka, agricultural work in the villages.