A film about technical progress in the field of heavy engineering. Production buildings and shops of the Ural Heavy Machine Building Plant (Uralmash). Assembly of the installation for continuous casting of steel in the shop of the plant, carried out under the state order for the Azovstal plant. Photos reflecting the history of the Uralmash plant. Production of tanks at the Uralmash plant during the Patriotic War of 1941-45 (archival film documents, countertype). Tank on a pedestal near the factory building. Building of the Azovstal plant Construction of one of the workshops of the plant. Building and production workshop, where the continuous casting plant operates, the Lipetsk metallurgical plant. Coat of arms of Lipetsk. Chief designer of the Uralmash plant V. M. Niskovskikh, director of the Azovstal plant V. V. Liporsky, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences A. I. Tselikov, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, chief designer of the rolling equipment of the Uralmash plant G. L. Khimich, director of the Lipetsk Metallurgical Plant S. V. Kolpakov talk about the design features, the advantages and disadvantages of curved and radial installations for continuous casting of steel (synchronously). VM Niskovskikh and GL Khimich work at the Uralmash design bureau; pilot machine for continuous casting of steel in the workshop (amateur filming of the 60s).