Polio Institute. Monkeys in cages. Laboratories. Getting a live vaccine. Director of the Institute, Professor M. P. Chumakov in the laboratory for a microscope. An employee with a monkey. Equipment for the production and dosage of vaccines. Ready-made vaccine in ampoules and dragees. Children take pills for prophylaxis. Vaccine boxes are loaded onto the plane. Riga is the capital of the Latvian SSR. The streets of the town. Lyubov Ulanova is the only woman in the world to command a heavy turboprop airliner IL-18, in a hairdresser's salon, in a bookstore, she receives guests at home, together with the crew goes along the field of the airfield to the plane, at the helm of the plane. Takeoff. Cabin. She is a member of the Supreme Soviet of Latvia. The building and workshops of the Ashgabat carpet factory. The artist at work. Carpets are made by hand. Women at work. Finished carpets. Russian troikas are racing. Competition triplets at the hippodrome. Spectators. Panorama of Elbrus. Winter forest landscape. Vacationers with a camera. Ascent of skiers by cable car. Descent of skiers from the mountain. The building of the Bolshoi Theater. Ballerina Elena Ryabinkina is climbing the steps. In the theater museum, Elena examines the drawings and photographs of the ballerina. Ryabinkina's debut in Minkus's ballet Don Quixote.