Pioneer Number 8

Newsreel. Preflight training of cosmonauts on simulators, in a pressure chamber, on a rotating centrifuge. Meeting on Red Square, USSR pilot-cosmonaut GS Titov after the successful completion of a space flight on the Vostok-2 spacecraft. On the podium of the mausoleum of V. I. Lenin N. S. Khrushchev, Yu. A. Gagarin, G. S. Titov. Latvia. A school experimental plot of the Neretsk secondary school, sown with corn. Cultivation of Neretskiy corn hybrid by schoolchildren. Weeding corn, collecting pollen. Training sessions on board members of the pioneer flotilla of Primorye, off the shores of the Amur Bay. The boys are scrubbing the deck, giving signals with flags, listening to the navigator V. N. Tsypurdei. The patrol ships "Shtil", "Wind" and the motor ship "Chukotka", donated by the Pacific Fleet to the pioneer flotilla. The motor ship "Chukotka" goes out to sea. At the helm, at the instruments - members of the pioneer flotilla. Pioneers listen to the story of the geologist VP Mincherov about the production of mercury; watching the work of the excavator in the mine, the processing of the rock in a special furnace. Mercury is pouring. Pioneers, vacationing in the pioneer camp "Artek" on the Black Sea coast, swim, ride a boat, draw, take pictures, sing.

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1961