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Moscow city. Gala evening in honor of the third anniversary of the Cuban Revolution at the House of Friendship with the Peoples of Foreign Countries. Speakers: V. I. Krestyaninov, M. P. Georgadze, Faure Chemon. Open-hearth shop of the Kuznetsk Metallurgical Plant. Steelworkers at the oven. Interview with EK Fedorov, Chief Scientific Secretary of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Uzbekistan. A corn field at the "Politotdel" collective farm. Classes at the School of Excellence are taught by Luba Li. Construction of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station. The village of builders. Sketches of houses for the future city of Divnogorsk. Lumberjacks clean the base of a tree using a snow plow designed by the Northern Forestry Research Institute. A lumberjack saws a tree. The village of reindeer breeders of the Polyarnik collective farm. A herd of deer. Reindeer breeders. Filming at the Mosfilm studio. Operator A. Koltsaty at work. Director G. Gybai gives instructions to the artists. Among them: V. Shibankov, V. Pivnenko, G. Krasheninnikov, V. Buyanovsky. Rehearsal of young violinists before a festive concert at the music school in the village of Chkalovsky. Moscow city. Children lead round dances, ride down hills, sleigh rides in the Kremlin's Taynitsky Garden. Christmas tree in the Grand Kremlin Palace. New Year's performance. Children at the Christmas tree.

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