Newsreel. The city of Petrograd. 1919 year. Smolny building. Students of agitator courses are walking. GK Ordzhonikidze, IV Stalin, MV Frunze, SM Kirov, VV Kuibyshev, MI Kalinin are passing by. Moscow city. The year is 1938. The building of the Military-Political Academy. Lenin. Students of the academy in the classroom. Political workers on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, among them A. A. Zhdanov, N. S. Khrushchev and others. Parade of troops on Red Square. The building of the Military-Political Academy. V.I. Lenin. Types of halls. Academy teachers are engaged in the reading room of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism under the Central Committee of the CPSU. Students of the academy in the reading room, at lectures, practical exercises, tactical exercises; undergo training in military units: infantry, aviation, submarine. Meeting of the party committee of the academy. Students of the academy are visiting collective farmers, workers of the Moscow plant. Vladimir Ilyich, are engaged in the gym, swimming pool. Meeting students of the Academy with cultural and art workers, including People's Artists of the USSR E. N. Gogoleva, S. V. Giatsintova, composers I. Dzerzhinsky and B. Mokrousov. Fragment from the feature film "Chapaev". Meeting of the Academic Council of the Academy. Presidium of the scientific conference, among those present are military leaders, including Army General F. M. Golikov. The teachers of the academy are speaking. Academy graduates at a reception in the St. George Hall of the Kremlin. Among the speakers: Minister of Defense of the USSR Marshal of the Soviet Union R. Ya. Malinovsky, NS Khrushchev (synchronously).