Testing a machine for high-speed metal processing in the mechanical engineering laboratory of the Kalinin Leningrad Polytechnic Institute and in the workshop of the Sverdlov Leningrad Machine-Building Plant. Institute professor A.P. Sokolovsky oversees the tests. Spring sowing of grain in the fields of the Pobeda collective farm, Gatchinsky District, Leningrad Region. A rally at the collective farm "Friendly Labor" of the Gatchina region in connection with the awarding of collective farmers I. N. Pavlov, P. S. Fedorov and V. D. Dmitriev the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. Secretary of the Gatchina regional committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks Nilov speaking. Collective farmers are applauding. The first All-Union conference at the Institute of Russian Literature of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Pushkin House) dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Russian poet A.S. Pushkin. Speakers: Director of the Institute, Professor Belchikov (synchronously), literary scholars Asatiani, Piksanov. Students of the Crafts School at the Kirov Machine-Building Plant in theoretical classes in the classroom; at work on machines, on a walk along the streets of Leningrad.