Maize harvesting in the field of the Lenin agricultural cartel in Kabardino-Balkaria; loading corn cobs onto trucks; cars with corn on the way; entrance gates of the Dokshukinsky elevator. Building, milking parlor of the dairy farm "Soviet Russia", Stavropol Territory; mechanical milking of cows. Harvesting sugar beets in the field of the Ligeida collective farm in North Ossetia; harvesters are working; 70-year-old collective farmer D. S. Romanenko cuts the tops; a truck with beets is driving along the road in the field; unloading beets using a special platform that raises and tilts the truck. Electricians at work in the workshop of the X-ray equipment plant in the village of Mayskiy in Kabardino-Balkaria; the worker installs the device on the x-ray machine. Construction of the second Grozny reservoir; laying concrete at the spillway. Researcher of the Dagestan Institute of Language and Literature Sh. I. Mikailov in the aul talks with elderly residents of the Avar nationality; Sh. I. Mikailov types on a typewriter; books by Sh. I. Mikailov. A kitchen factory for workers of the Nitrogen Fertilizer Plant in the town of Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Territory; workers sit at tables; a cook near the stove in the kitchen; a potato peeler, a dough mixer, a bread slicer and a dishwasher are in operation; the cook puts a baking sheet of pies in the oven. Making vases and figurines at the Ordzhonikidze glass-container insulator plant: a worker pours clay solution into a mold; ready-made figurines; artists paint vases; sketch for painting a vase; samples of Ossetian porcelain.