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A film about Soviet periodicals. Front pages and fragments of articles of the newspapers "Soviet Russia", "Literature and Life"; magazines "Theater Life", "Siberian Lights", "Ural", "Don", "Neva", "Moscow", "Our Contemporary", "Agriculture of the Volga Region", "Architecture and Construction of Moscow", "Fashion Magazine", "Sports Life", "Family and School". Sale of newspapers and magazines in kiosks "Soyuzpechat". Subscription to newspapers in one of the Soyuzpechat branches. Subscription point at the Krasny Oktyabr factory. Distribution processes of periodicals. Postmen deliver magazines and newspapers, including by helicopter, reindeer team. Construction of a nuclear power plant. KE Voroshilov presents the order to V. Gaganova. Nikita Khrushchev speaks at a press conference. Production processes in industrial enterprises, in a mine. Fragments of the play "The Third Pathetic", the ballet "Samio". Construction of the Irkutsk hydroelectric power station. Combines in the field. Maize harvesting. Milking cows on the farm. Street of the city of Angarsk. Fishing seiners at sea. Reading room of the State Library of the USSR. V.I. Lenin in Moscow. Space rocket launch with dogs Belka and Strelka. Furniture exhibition. Demonstration of clothing models. Physical culture parade and performances of athletes at the stadium. Schoolchildren in the classroom.

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1959