The film tells about the activists of the Ulyanovsk secondary school № 1. The city of Ulyanovsk. The building of the secondary school №1. Pupils in the classroom and at recess; working in a school greenhouse. Pioneer activists Olga Papko, Vladimir Maryev, Sergei Uvarov are planning an event at a meeting of the detachment council; conduct a school action called "Live, Book!". Schoolchildren on excursions in the printing house, in the local history museum. View of the monument in honor of the historian, writer, native of the Simbirsk province Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin. The building of the Ulyanovsk Museum of Local Lore. I.A. Goncharova.