The issue is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Novosibirsk City Telephone Network (NGTS). Novosibirsk city. The head of the city telephone network Vasily Fedorovich Pashkovsky tells (sync. And behind the scenes) about the establishment of telephone communications in Novosibirsk - from Novo-Nikolaevsk (from 1926 Novosibirsk) to the present day. The museum of Novosibirsk city telephone communication contains photographs of communication workers; different phone models; reference books of the Novosibirsk city automatic telephone exchange of different years. There is a dummy of a telephone operator who manually connects subscribers. Today, city dwellers need more and more home telephones. Installation and opening of a new 25th automatic telephone exchange in the Zaeltsovsky district of Novosibirsk. Residents of the city talk on a pay phone. The telephone operator of the city information service with more than forty years of experience, Nina Nikiforovna Dovgush, answers (sinhr.) The questions of the callers. Post office building. In the post office hall, visitors put letters into a mailbox, write envelopes; write letters; talking on the phone. Employees are receiving telegrams.