A film about the life and work of V. I. Lenin, assembled from photographs and documentaries taken during his lifetime, newsreels of memorable places. Where Lenin lived and worked, filming of the Lenin Mausoleum and the storage of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism. The film includes stories about V.I.Lenin by the French engineer O. Abot, the Hungarian historian K. Bodo, the Vietnamese teacher Thi Zui Lien, the sergeant of the Soviet Army V. Maslov (synchronously), numerous photographs of comrades-in-arms, whose memories are given in the announcer's text and newsreels stay of the English writer B. Shaw in the USSR.