Department of emergency microsurgery at the 51st Moscow hospital: patients in the corridors and wards, examination of patients by doctors, dressing, training on simulators. Professor, Laureate of the USSR State Prize GA Stepanov speaks on the phone in his office, performs operations on replantation of extremities under a microscope, talks about his work, the need to create a replantation center, shows the model of the center. The hospital's microsurgeon R.O.Datiashvili talks about microsurgery, gets into the car, performs the operation, rests after the operation, walks in the park with his mother. The girl Rasa from the Lithuanian SSR, whom R.O.Datiashvili operated on both legs, is walking with the surgeon along the corridor. Microsurgeon of the Institute in Kiev, USSR State Prize Laureate NF Dryuk comes to the institute, examines the patients, talks about the creation of a microsurgery center, conducts an operation. Young woman with severed hands. She also peels the apple after the operation. Ambulance travel through the evening city.