1 story "Group" Acceleration "Kemerovo region. Miners are testing a hydraulic drill in the face of the Polosukhinskaya mine. The drill was invented and manufactured by the "Acceleration" group, created on the basis of self-financing in the Novokuznetsk production association "Gidrougol". The designer of the new high-performance drill, Andrei Andreevich Loktionov, is monitoring the test of the unit. 2 plot "Responses to the plenum" Tomsk. Tomsk Rubber Shoes Plant (TZRO). The workers of several brigades have united into one - they work on a self-sustaining basis. They themselves chose a foreman. The members of the brigade tell (sinhr.) Why they chose exactly Comrade Goncharov. Plant director Ivan Dmitrievich Startsev says (sinhr.) About the great responsibility for such a reorganization. There are machines in the shops, workers make sneakers, designers draw sketches of new models of rubber shoes. 3 plot "Joy is known in work" Omsk. The working dynasty of railway workers Danchenko works in the depot of Omsk. The machinist Vasily Ivanovich Danchenko with 35 years of experience operates an electric locomotive. His son Vladimir, an assistant driver, also drives an electric locomotive. The nephew of V.I. Danchenko Sergey climbs into the cabin of the electric locomotive. 4 plot "Being a master in the taiga" Tomsk region. Harvesting of cedar wood. A feller buncher is in operation (it cuts and processes trunks from branches) and a skidder (loads sawn trunks). Nikolai Sadikov, a research associate of the cedar forest department of the All-Union Research Institute of Forestry and Logging, former chief technologist of the Beloyarsk timber industry enterprise, proposes a new cedar felling technology for the fastest reforestation. Foresters use a compass to determine the direction of the felling site from west to east, measure the width of the felling 15 meters with a tape measure. 5 story "Environmental protection" Novosibirsk. City transport travels along the streets of the city. The snowblower is working. Mountains of dirty snow from the streets of the city on the banks of the river. Ob. A dump truck throws snow into the river. There is dirty water in the flask from melted snow, a laboratory assistant makes an analysis of the melted water. A car is driving with NDP: "MICROLABORATORY FOR CONTROL OF WATER QUALITY". [Environmentalists] climb a mountain of snow.