Types of Leninogorsk (formerly Ridder, Kazakh SSR): streets, cars, shops, winter landscapes, night shooting. Everyday life of city dwellers: classes in high school, miners and steelworkers at work, classes in a music school, in a children's ballet school. Young people are skiing, playing snowballs. The holiday of Russian winter is Shrovetide: buffoons perform, people eat pancakes, ride three horses. Photos of the city of Ridder from the pre-revolutionary period. The correspondent interviews the chairman of the city council.