The film tells about the museum-reserve of folk wooden architecture and ethnography of the Karelian ASSR "Kizhi". Kizhi Island. Lake Onega. People descend from the steamer "Ivan Susanin" to the pier, photograph the ensemble of the Kizhi churchyard. Residents of about. Kizhi at home and work. Children in the classroom at school. A resident of Kizhi M. Myshev talks about his life, about the restoration of wooden architecture monuments in Kizhi (sinhr.). Schoolboy V. Prokhorov transports mail on a boat on Lake Onega. Workers are restoring the Transfiguration Church, one of the chapels. A cargo plane takes off from the island of Kizhi.