The newsreel has three plots. Plot 1. Nature has presented an unexpected "surprise" - on May 1, snow fell in the town of Ordzhonikidze. The last time such a "surprise" happened was 30 years ago. North Ossetia, Ordzhonikidze. Blooming cherry. Tulips in the snow. On the roof of a high-rise building there is a banner with the inscription: "May 1". A festive demonstration of workers in the city square. Snow-covered trees in the alley of the city boulevard. People walk under umbrellas. Blooming apple tree. Plot 2. Tuff deposits were discovered in Kabardino-Balkaria, but its extraction is accompanied by barbaric destruction of the forest. Kabardino-Balkaria. Rural houses built from tuff. Nalchik tuff quarry of the Kabardino-Balkarian production association of building materials. Workers sawed and polished tuff slabs. View of an abandoned quarry. Dead trees. Tree roots ripped out of the ground. Dead trees littered with waste. The director of the building materials association V.M. Nagoev gives an interview in his office, in which he speaks about the planning of work on forest clearing in the area of the Nalchik tuff quarry (synchronously). The Minister of Forestry of the Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic G.S. Kushkhov gives an interview in his office, in which he says that the ministry will take strict measures against those involved in the destruction of the forest (synchronously). Plot 3 In the Assinsky Gorge of the Chicheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, the training of the control and rescue service took place. Chechen-Ingushetia, Assinskoe gorge. Types of the Caucasus Mountains. Clouds over the tops of the mountains. A group of tourists is walking along the bridge into the gorge. Ruins of ancient buildings and burials. Tourists cross the mountain river over the bridge. Water stream of a mountain river. The wind blows off the tents of tourists. Mountain rescuers participate in a rock-climbing training session, provide the necessary assistance to the "injured" during the exercise to rescue people in the mountains.