Gathering of high school students of the Stalingrad region, dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917; speakers: the old Bolshevik G. P. Gurko, the sailor of the cruiser "Aurora" I. Ya. Kulikov, the secretary of the regional committee of the Komsomol M. Chulkova; Komsomol members visit places associated with the revolutionary events in Stalingrad; monument to the first chairman of the executive committee of the city council J. German; costume ball at the Christmas tree. Signboard "Saratov Motion Picture Plant"; workers at machine tools in the shop on the first day of work when switching to a 7-hour working day; meeting of plant managers; street clock with hands showing 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Milkmaids milking cows at the farm of the "Udarnik" state farm, Saratov region; production of straw concentrates in a special workshop; milkmaids lay out the feed for the cows. Construction of a barge by a new method at the Stalingrad shipyard; welders connect and weld individual parts of the barge; locksmiths at work; a barge on a slipway; launching the barge into the water. Trade in books of writers and poets of Stalingrad during the days of the month of literature of Soviet writers; books on the stand; writers and salespeople behind the counter. Stepanov, the inventor of one of the factories in Tambov, shows a template plate for simultaneous drilling of several holes. Pupils of the 1st Balashov kindergarten are sledding from a hill, playing in a group, watching a performance of their puppet theater; artists - kindergarten teachers put dolls in a box.