A film about the history of the development of Soviet sports. Newsreels: sports parades; V.I. Lenin at the parade of the Vsevobuch troops (General military training of citizens of the USSR); jumps of parachutists; brothers Znamensky at a distance; boxer N. Korolev in the ring; fragments of football matches; military operations of the Soviet troops during the Second World War; 1945 Victory parade; fragments of performances of athletes in national sports: Uzbek wrestling, Nanai wrestling; camel racing, archery in Buryatia, playing in small towns; M. Isakova's performance at the World Championship in Tampere; N. Ponomareva-Romashkova pushes the shot; parade of participants of the World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow in 1957; The first Spartakiad of the peoples of the USSR (1928), mass cross-country races, bicycle races; speech by Y. Vlasov, L. Skoblikova, G. Prozumenschikova, Y. Lusis, L. Zhabotinsky; stadiums, palaces of sports, swimming pools, tennis courts, water stadiums, sports grounds of industrial enterprises, collective farms, state farms, cities; trainers at work; competitions of children's football teams; meeting of the world team and the British national football team (at the gate of L. Yashin); speeches by V. Popenchenko, V. Mamatov, N. Ozolin, V. Brumel. 1970 World Ski Championships in Czechoslovakia. Slalom. Ski race. Speakers G. Napalkov, V. Vedenin. A fragment of a hockey match at the World Championship in Stockholm in 1970. Speeches V. Alekseev (barbell), gymnasts: V. Voronin, L. Latynina, N. Kuchinskaya, figure skaters: L. Belousova and O. Protopopov, I. Rodnina, L. Ulanov. Opening of the All-Union Spartakiad. Athletes parade.