Delegates of the World Congress for General Disarmament and Peace talk to each other in the foyer of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses; listen to speakers at a congress meeting. Chairman of the International Committee of the Congress, professor, physicist J. Bernal (Great Britain) speaks at the meeting with a speech (synchronously). First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee NS Khrushchev, other participants in the Congress speak at meetings (synchronously). Delegates vote for the adoption of the "Message to the Nations of the World." Members of the International Commission on Large Dams are on the deck of a steamer sailing along the Volga River, inspecting the machine room of the Volga Hydroelectric Power Station. General view of the Volzhskaya station. The plot is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Lenin State Library: a view of the library building, reading room, book depository. Library readers work with old books and manuscripts in the hall. Workers of the collective farm "Proletarskaya Volya" in the North Caucasus receive a salary, work on tractors in the field. View of the collective farm poultry farm, village streets, collective farm studio, school, kindergarten. A family of collective farmers is engaged in farming, dines at home. View of the collective farm sanatorium. Moments of filming the film "Hussar Ballad" at the Mosfilm studio. Operator L. Krainenkov with a camera prepares for filming. The film's director E. A. Ryazanov, the actors playing the main roles, L. Golubkina and Y. Yakovlev are preparing for the filming.