For the Soviet Union No 5

The plot is dedicated to the 2nd International Tchaikovsky Competition, held in Moscow. Monument to PI Tchaikovsky at the building of the Moscow Conservatory. Competitors lay wreaths at the monument. The members of the jury of the competition are standing: K. Vilkomirsky, M. Moreshal and others. The guest of honor of the competition is Queen Elizabeth of Belgium in the box of the conservatory hall. Awarding the winners of the competition: composer D. D. Shostakovich presents awards to musicians. The audience applauded the winner of the competition - the Soviet violinist B. Gutnikov. Pianist V. D. Ashkenazi performs Tchaikovsky's First Concerto (synchronously). English pianist J. Ogdon performs F. Liszt's concerto. First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee NS Khrushchev speaks to the participants in the competition at a banquet in the Kremlin, talks with the participants in the competition. AI Mikoyan talks with the participants of the competition. The building of the Moscow Research Institute of Experimental Surgical Equipment and Instruments. Workers of the institute's design bureau are working on drawings of various instruments for medical operations. The director of the institute, surgeon M. Ananiev, demonstrates to the students of the medical institute an apparatus for suturing the lung root. Type of surgical instruments. Surgeons with instruments in their hands operate on the patient. The plot is dedicated to the workers of the fishing industry in the USSR: a view of fishing vessels at sea, fishermen on a ship pull out flounder from their nets in the region of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Various moments of crab catching off the Kuril Islands, the processes of fishing on the Don River at the mouth of the Sea of Azov. Former prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp - L. Bocharova and her mother meet in Moscow after 17 years of separation. Adoptive parents L. Bocharova, residents of Poland, spouses Radzikovski talk with relatives L. Bocharova. Mother and daughter demonstrate concentration camp numbers, burned out on their hands. Demonstration of a new method of building residential buildings in Moscow: a finished apartment is installed on a house under construction. Fragments of the play "Spartacus" (composer A. Khachaturyan) at the Bolshoi Theater of the USSR. The participants in the performance, ballet dancers V. Vasiliev, M. Plisetskaya, N. Ryzhenko, D. Begak perform various ballet parts (synchronously).

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