New Year's issue of the newsreel presents events in the life of the country on New Year's Eve 1960. A new tanker is leaving the stocks of the Leningrad Admiralty Plant. The first copper smelting in a new, commissioned furnace at the Mednogorsk Combine in the Orenburg Region. Brigade V. Dooley breaks the tap hole in the furnace; pouring copper. Livestock farm of the Rodina artel in the village of Kalinovka (Kursk region); distribution of feed, milking of cows; the milkmaid gives milk. The miners of the Lebedinsky mine of the Kursk magnetic anomaly, having removed a 100-meter layer of rock, discovered ore deposits. Excavators are working in the mine. A type of electric highway, along which the first current will go from the Stalingrad hydroelectric power station to Moscow. Power supply to one of the power plants in Moscow. Builders of the nuclear-powered icebreaker Lenin say goodbye to the crew. Crew members on board the icebreaker; icebreaker captain P.A.Ponomarev. The village of Sofrino, Moscow region. A Volga car drives up, which was won by a resident of the village, driver A. A. Shikov in the money and clothing lottery. A. A. Shikov's fellow villagers congratulate. Ukrainian village Ksaverovka: House of culture, school, canteen, department store, residential building, the construction of which was completed by the New 1960. The family of collective farmer Panchenko is celebrating a housewarming in a new house. A Japanese girl, a student of the Moscow Textile Institute Hisako Nagato, who was a victim of an atomic explosion, on New Year's Eve is discharged from a Moscow hospital, where she was treated for 17 months. Doctors hug the girl, give a decorated Christmas tree. A boy reads New Year's poems at a children's matinee in kindergarten. Celebrating the New Year in the family of F. U. Kolobushchenkov, a track inspector. Registration of the marriage of the young couple Galina and Yevgeny Fadeevs on New Year's days in the Leningrad Wedding Palace.