The film tells about the first vocational schools in Russia. Engravings and photographs with views of the buildings and workshops of the first vocational schools. The first school textbooks. Engravings depicting artisans. Mining College building. Crimean landscape. Vineyards. The building of the school on the territory of the botanical garden. The building and pottery workshop of the Stroganov School of Industrial Art. Portrait of Count S. G. Stroganov - the founder of the school. The building of the V. Mukhina Art School; students in a lesson in art forging. Photos of the teacher of the Moscow Technical School DK Adviser, who developed a methodology for teaching locksmithing skills, and the workshops of the school. Old vocational education magazines. View of the cast-iron pavilion, made by Ural craftsmen for the World Exhibition in Paris, and awarded the Great Gold Medal.