North Ossetia, Sadon village. Former miner, pensioner N. Kh. Bessolov talking with the pioneers. Extraction, loading, transportation of ore at the Sadonsky mine. Livestock farm of the Lenin collective farm in the village of Zmeyskaya in North Ossetia. Milkmaids pour milk into cans. Collective farm poultry farm; mechanized distribution of feed to chickens. Ordzhonikidze city; streets, residential buildings; the Vaziyanov family in a new apartment. Members of the Ordzhonikidze club DOSAAF at the radios. V. I. Ponomarev, a radio operator, who received a radio signal from an artificial earth satellite. Dagestan. Shooting of the feature film "This is how a song is born". On the set - directors Takhmasib and Mikaelov, actors Slanov and Tkhapsaev. A rehearsal of artists of the Song and Dance Ensemble of North Ossetia before a trip to the GDR. Seeing the artists of the ensemble in Berlin on the platform of the railway station in Ordzhonikidze.