New Year's issue of the newsreel tells about the most important events of 1978. The newsreel includes the following filming: snowfall on the streets of one of the cities of the North Caucasus, people are walking along the streets; specialists from the GDR working at the Grozny oil refinery celebrate one of their national holidays at home with their family members; types of mountain landscapes; smelting metal in a foundry of one of the enterprises of the North Caucasus; the holiday of the first furrow in the Dagestan aul of Kubakhrumi: residents of the aul in national costumes dance, play national instruments; the beginning of the sowing campaign - a tractor with a seeder drives across the field; children play ball, kindergarten pupils for a walk; type of residential buildings in the village; harvesting wheat in one of the farms: harvesters are working in the field, trucks with grain are passing by, working on electricity; machine operators during lunch at the field camp; construction of a transcaucasian highway in North Ossetia: machinery, builders are working; type of construction of the Zaramagskaya HPP in the mountains; type of power plant under construction, mountain river; General view of the Chirkeyskaya hydroelectric power station, dam, power plant, main control panel of the station; General view of the Baksan neutrino observatory in the mountains of Kabardino-Balkaria; observatory staff at work, conduct observations through a telescope; installation of the unit at the Grozny oil refinery together with specialists from the GDR; production of Christmas tree decorations in the shops of the Grozny Association of Artistic Crafts.