A film about the scientific heritage of K.E. Tsiolkovsky, made by order of the Museum of the History of Cosmonautics. K.E. Tsiolkovsky. The film includes newsreels, photographs, drawings, mathematical calculations, texts of technical descriptions, diary entries, animation illustrating scientific ideas and intentions of the scientist. 1 PART Repository of the archive of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. The text of the autobiography of K.E. Tsiolkovsky. Moscow city. The building and reading rooms of the State Lenin Library. The city of Kaluga. The building and premises of the Museum of Cosmonautics. Museum expositions. Visitors in the halls inspect the exhibits. Monument to Tsiolkovsky. Chronicle footage. The audience enters the Illusion cinema. The audience in the auditorium is watching what is happening on stage. [1908-1914], Moscow. Horse-drawn carriages and a shopping area filled with people are passing through Red Square. 2 PART Repository of the archive of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Recharging a solar-powered electric vehicle on a city street. The movement of an electric car along the street. A scientist is working on a solar battery device. Research apparatus for underwater research in deep diving mode. Crew members at the instruments, leaving the apparatus for the study of the seabed. Traveling a hovercraft over land and water. Airfield airfield in lights. Airplane in the air. The pilot is in the cockpit, the autopilot is working. The city of Kaluga. The building, premises and expositions of the K.E. Tsiolkovsky House-Museum. City street in winter. Chronicle footage. [1910s]. Flywheel tests in one of the foreign countries. USA, [New York], 1937. Accident of the airship "Graf Zeppelin": the takeoff of the airship, a burning airship on the ground. 3 PART Repository of the archive of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. View of the Earth from space. Chronicle footage. Booster at the start. President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR M.V. Keldysh and S.P. Korolyov on the site in front of the entrance to the spacecraft. S.P. Korolev rises on a lift.