The film, dedicated to the 125th anniversary of Makhachkala, tells about the life of the city. Panoramas of the city. The movement of vehicles along the streets of the city. Loading and unloading operations in the port. Makhachkala lighthouse (built in 1966). Construction of a panel house. The workers are working at the enterprises of the city. A group of foreign students at the Republican Museum of Local Lore. Monument to V.I.Lenin (sculptor Z.I.Azgur, architect G.A. Zakharov, 1960), the building of the Council of Ministers (architect A.M. Alkhazov, 1967), the building of the Republican Museum of Local Lore on Square B I. Lenin. Monument to S.M. Kirov (sculptor B.A.Tanaev, B.P.Totiev, D.A. Tsoraev, F.E. Makhmudov, 1975) on S.M. Kirov Avenue. Monument to Makhach Dakhadayev (sculptor H.N. Askar-Sarydzha, architect G. Ganiev, 1971) at the Railway Station Square. Monument to the fighters for Soviet power (sculptor G. Geibatov, 1980) in the park. Monument to surgeon N.I. Pirogov on the territory of the Central Hospital. Monument to the memory of soldiers who died in the Great Patriotic War (group led by artist A. Emirbekov, 1976), installed in the park named after the Lenin Komsomol; People's poet of Dagestan Rasul Gamzatovich Gamzatov, his wife Patimat Saidovna and granddaughter lay flowers at the monument. The building of the Dagestan branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences; Head of the Dagestan branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Academician Khabibula Ibragimovich Amirkhanov talks with colleagues in one of the laboratories. Corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, Professor Rashid Pashayevich Askerkhanov discusses the results of X-ray studies with colleagues. 5-time world champion in freestyle wrestling, chief physician of the city hospital Ali Zurkarnaevich Aliyev trains children on the beach. Members of the Happy Childhood amateur choreographic ensemble perform on the slope of the mountain. Visitors in the halls of the Museum of Fine Arts. The Shamov brothers - Vice-Rector of the Dagestan Medical Institute Ibragim Akhmedkhanovich and the head of the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Dagestan Medical Institute Yusup Akhmedkhanovich - masters of the Kubachi craft for artistic metal processing - discuss patterns in their works.