The city of Novgorod. Novgorod Kremlin, St. Sophia Cathedral, Yuriev Monastery, Nikolo-Vyazhischinsky Monastery. Archaeologists are excavating at the walls of the Novgorod Kremlin. The destroyed buildings of the Nilova Pustyn monastery. The territory of the Simonov Monastery. Irkutsk city: city center with historic wooden houses. Houses of the Decembrists. Writer V. Rasputin speaks (behind the scenes) about the need to preserve the historical center of the city. ID Samoilov - initiator and participant of the restoration of the wooden church, the creation of the Museum of Wooden Architecture in the village of Nizhnyaya Sinyachikha, Sverdlovsk Region. Museum exhibits. Members of the rural folk ensemble sing and dance on the territory of the museum. Restoration of the Transfiguration wooden church on the territory of the architectural ensemble in Kizhi (Karelia). Monuments of wooden architecture: Scheleiskaya and Gimoretskaya churches at the sources of the Svir River. Says (synchronously, behind the scenes) the chairman of the Podporozhye branch of the Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments A. I. Batulin. Museums, memorial monuments in Penza: the estate "Tarkhany", a monument to M. Yu. Lermontov, the Museum of one painting by I. Repin "Vechornitsa", a war memorial in the village of Nikolskoye, near Penza and others. Exhibits of the Museum of Old Technology in Sverdlovsk. Repair of a water conduit in Pushkin Park, built under Catherine II. Volunteers work. Meetings of members of the Central Council of the All-Russian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments on the restoration of monuments. The film features music by A. Schnittke, JS Bach, V. Sokolov.