Circular view. Sunset on the Volga River; Lake Seliger, forest; motor ships, yachts, boats on the Volga river. Cities on the banks of the Volga River: Kalinin, Tutaev, Rybinsk, Volgograd, Uglich, Yaroslavl, Plyos, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Togliatti, Astrakhan. The source of the Volga River on the Valdai Upland in Volkonsky Bor. Russian cultural and artistic figures: F. I. Shalyapin, I. I. Levitan, A. M. Gorky, L. V. Sobinov, whose life and work were associated with the Volga River. In the film, the voice of FI Chaliapin sounds in the background; fragments from the operas "Boris Godunov" by M. P. Mussorgsky, "Ivan Susanin" by M. I. Glinka. Newsreel of the Battle of Stalingrad. Veterans of the Great Patriotic War at the Mamayev Kurgan.