A film about the Far East. Far East. Landscapes of the Pacific Ocean, coast, taiga, rivers. Sea lions in the ocean; seagulls over water. Sika deer, chipmunk in the taiga. Flowers, trees. Rosehip, lemongrass, actinidia fruits. Winter, summer, autumn landscapes. Fishing fleet vessels in the ocean. Commercial fishing for herring. Salmon spawning. Scientists-ichthyologists at work in the laboratory. The process of growing fry from caviar in the laboratory. Launching fry into the river. Mountain taiga station of the Far Eastern branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Ginseng plantation. Station staff, including NI Suprunov at work. Ginseng breeding; collection, weighing and packaging of the root. Manufacturing and testing of medicinal products. Professors I. I. Brekhman, A. I. Kurentsov at work. Expedition of station staff in the taiga. Industrial logging. Lumberjacks and equipment are at work. The city of Amursk. Amur river. Construction of a pulp and cardboard mill, thermal power plant, residential and public buildings. The streets of the town. Barbershop. Studio. Students in the classroom at the institute. Zeya River. Construction of a hydroelectric power station, the city of Solnechny. Industrial gold mining. The dredge is working. Gold sand, ingots. Geologists on an expedition. Types of cities: Magadan, Petropavlovsko-Kamchatsky, Khabarovsk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Vladivostok, Blagoveshchensk.