Open pit coal mining in the Krasnogorsk open-pit mine of the Kemerovo Region. An excavator loads coal into a dump truck. The type of the mined-out section. Young planting of trees, shrubs at the site of the mined-out coal mine. The chief engineer of the open-pit VV Vodopyanov and the chief technologist F. A. Miller are the leaders of the work on the restoration of the "disturbed earth". Discussion of paintings by the architect V.F.Boldyrev, created by him under the impression of the listened musical works. Physicist and composer express their impressions. A scene from the play "The Oath" based on Leonid Brezhnev's book "Small Earth" performed by artists of the Barnaul Theater for Young Spectators.