The film is dedicated to the 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE KARACHAYOV-CHERKESS AUTONOMOUS REGION 1 part. The guide conducts an excursion for young people in one of the museums of the republic. The girls look at photographs of the life of the peoples of Karachay-Cherkessia at the beginning of the twentieth century. The interiors of the museum. NDP on exhibits demonstrating the traditional way of life of the peoples. A mountain river flows, trees along the banks. Types of Elbrus. Melting snow in the mountains. A mountain stream flows. Mountain river. The boat sails along the Ust-Dzhegutinsky reservoir. Dam. The beginning of the Big Stavropol Canal. Hydroelectric station of the Kuban hydro-cascade, turbines are in operation. Hydroelectric power station halls, control room. Structures of the Urup copper mining and processing plant. Miners at work on the extraction of ore in the mine. Work in the shops of the concentrating plant - the process of obtaining copper. The secretary of the party committee of the plant, delegate to the XXIV Congress of the CPSU A.P. Kizilov tells the story of the creation of the plant in his office (sinhr.). The mining village of Mednourupsk, modern five-storey buildings, children playing in the yard. Young mothers with strollers are walking along the street of the village. Circassian chemical plant, work in the shops. Containers with varnishes and paints move along the conveyor. Tanks with varnishes, cans of paints at the plant's warehouse. Circassian Refrigeration Engineering Plant, assembly of the compressor-condensing unit AK-AUU-901. The yard of the plant, passing by refrigerated trucks, assembled at the plant. Work in the shops of the Cherkess plant of rubber technical products. Brand "Made in the USSR" on electrical appliances manufactured at the Circassian low-voltage equipment plant. Women work at tables in the assembly shop. B / w c / t: North Caucasus, early. XX century, the mountaineers lead the horses up the mountain by the bridle; men in a mountain village work wooden beams, women work at looms; 1918-1920s, hay harvesting; grain carts drive up to the elevator; adults lead a group of children along the street of the village; enrollment of residents of one of the villages in the collective farm, presentation of certificates to collective farmers; adults sit on benches in the garden during the lesson; schoolchildren write at their desks at school; a tractor with a red flag is driving along the street of the village, it is met by residents; red cavalrymen with flags galloping in the mountains; playing a brass band, collective farmers at the rally. Part 2. Work in the shops of the Circassian dairy plant. Cheese production process. Erken-Shahar sugar plant, production processes. Types of Elbrus. The mountain river flows among the glaciers. The mountain river flows into the Kuban River. Landscapes of the Circassian Sea (reservoir of the Big Stavropol Canal). The motor boat sails on the Circassian Sea at sunset. Canal locks, water flows to the collective farm fields. Automatic watering of plants in the fields. Harvesting corn in the fields. Wheat field. Elevator. Shepherds on horseback graze cows in the mountains. Daut pastures of the Karachaevsky region, milkmaids are carrying buckets of milk. Polyethylene milk pipelines, through which milk, milked in the mountains, flows to the village at the foot of the mountain. The milk tanker drives off from the farm, driving along a mountain road. Dobay Uzdenov, foreman of the fattening center of the collective farm named after Red Partisans, measures a cow. The senior shepherd of the state farm "Kholodnorodnikovsky" Magomed Cherkesov grazes sheep in a mountain pasture; - his face. Sheep in a paddock on a high-mountain pasture in Zelenchuksky district. Shepherds weigh the sheep. Livestock breeders determine the quality of wool in a new breed of sheep with high wool and meat productivity. Collective farm "Put Ilyicha", the hen-woman gives food to the birds in the chicken coop. Construction of new houses for collective farmers. Kolkhoz chairman AT Argunov talks with builders at the construction site. Kolkhoz machine park. The dispatcher issues vouchers for drivers. Trucks leave the base. The administrative building of the collective farm board. Fountain. Department store, Poland on the shelves. Children play in the courtyard of the kindergarten. Mother tongue lesson at school. School building. One of the new apartments for collective farmers. A woman washes clothes in the bathroom, a panorama of the situation in the apartment. The family is watching TV. Students of the Circassian School of Music go to classes. School building. Lobby. Part 3. Rehearsal of the symphony orchestra. Musicians perform national music (sinhr.). Cr.pl. - conductor. Mountain river. Types of Elbrus. The building of the hotel "Cherkessk". The movement of vehicles along the street Cherkessk. Passers-by on the streets. Multi-storey residential buildings. City center, children cross the street along the passage. Monument to V.I. Lenin, behind him - a fountain. Workers leave the entrance of one of the factories. Doctor MA Shishkov takes the patient in the office. Honored Doctor of Russia L.Kh.Batgaeva operates at the operating table, CU. - her face. Schoolchildren walk down the street, a poster on the house "LENIN IS ALWAYS ALIVE!" Chemistry teacher E.I. Ponomareva in the classroom explains the topic at the blackboard, goes with the students around the schoolyard. Karachay-Cherkess Pedagogical Institute, classes at the graphic faculty. Graphic artist N.G. Kritsky is working on the design of the book in his workshop. Artist I.G. Akov is working on a painting in his studio, a panorama of his paintings. Book market in one of the squares of Cherkessk. Fountain. Book lovers at tables with books. Nogai writer F.A. Abdulzhalilov signs his books for readers. The writer H.B. Bayramukova signs her book "The Smoke of the Hearth". Circassian writer Kh.Kh. Gashokov and Nogai writer S.I.Kapaev among the readers at the book market. Honored Artist of the RSFSR MA Dzhegutanov and members of the Elbrus pop ensemble perform dances of the peoples of the Caucasus in a meadow in the mountains, the audience applauds. Snow-capped mountain peaks. The tourist base in the mountains. Skiers go to the ski lift, climb the mountain. Skiers in swimming trunks drive down the mountain. An old church in the mountains. Observatory on the mountain. Houses in a mountain village. Cars are driving along a mountain road.