Chronicle: Construction of a settlement on the site of the future city of Magadan. Construction of a port in the Nagaevo Bay in 1932. Prospectors working at the first gold mines in the early 30s. View of the monument at Cape Dezhnev, the obelisk at the landing site of the 1st Kolyma expedition of the Geokom of the USSR Supreme Council of National Economy under the leadership of Yu. A. Balibin and V. A. Tsaregradsky. Remembers V. and. Tsaregradskiy. Work in the Kolyma gold mines. The director of one of the mines in the Kolyma V. A. Kubatyan, the chief director of the association "North-East Gold" A. V. Pogrebnoy tells about the work of the mines. Laying a road from the Nagaevo Bay deep into the taiga region - the Kalym highway. Cars pass along the highway. Magadan. Streets. Residents of Magadan in the library, schoolchildren in the classroom, in the classroom. Training in the pool, residents during sports - playing volleyball, swimming in the pool, boxing. The demolition of old barracks. View of new houses. RV Silaev, director of Grazhdanproekt, talks about the prospects for the construction and development of northern cities. Type of models, drawings of future settlements. The building of the North-Eastern Complex Research Institute, the Geological Museum of the Institute. Museum visitors view minerals, museum gold bars. Director of the Institute, Hero of Socialist Labor N. a. Shilo talks about the richness of minerals in the North-East of the country. Institute staff conduct observations of computers. Geologists on all-terrain vehicles during the expedition. Head of the exploration expedition Yu. V. Pruss, State Prize laureate geologist V. Ye. Natalenko during the expedition. VE Natalenko at the meeting speaks about the discovered deposits of non-ferrous metals and the prospects of this region, the need for a large amount of electricity for the organization of mining enterprises. View of the open-pit mine "Dukat". View of the Kolyma power plant under construction. View of the village of Sinegorye-settlements of hydro-builders. Overlapping of the Kolyma river. Harvesting potatoes, cabbage. Poultry workers laying eggs. Fish factory workers for packing caviar. Fishing in the sea. A cameraman filming the performance of the Evenk ensemble in a television studio. View of the Talay sanatorium, built on hot siliceous springs, vacationers in the pool, dining room. Type of greenhouses. Greenhouse workers harvesting onions. Customers at the grocery store shopping. Meeting at the airport of passengers of the first non-stop flight "IL-62" from Moscow. The head of the regional department of Civil Aviation I.S.Mazin talks about the first steps of the aviation of the Magadan region, about its present. Parking of aircraft of local aviation. 1st Secretary of the Magadan Regional Committee of the CPSU A. I. Malkov speaks about the tasks facing the region. View of the Chukotka village of Bilibino, the building of the Bilibino nuclear power plant. Nuclear plant workers at the consoles. View of the Chukotka village of Egvekinot, the country's eastern road running along the 179th meridian. Columns of cars on the road, a snowplow is working. View of the village and the Kunatin mining and processing plant. View of the village. Cape Schmidt, located on the shores of the Arctic Ocean. View of the Northern Lights gas turbine power plant delivered to the village along the Northern Sea Route. view of the monument to the first revolutionary committee of Chukotka. Noble people of Chukotka - Candidate of Science, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the District Council of People's Deputies Nadezhda Otke in the office, director of the Chukotka Regional Museum of Local Lore Natalya Otke speaks about the Chukchi writer Y. Rytkheu. Photo of Rytkheu, the founder of the Chukchi ensemble Ergyron Nuteteine. Photo of Nutetein. Photo of V. Kosygin, chief physician of the Chukotka District Sanitary and Epidemiological Station, photo of Vukvutagin, founder of the Tselen bone carving workshop. Tselensky bone carver products, bone products from the Northern Souvenirs factory. Delegate of the 26th Congress of the CPSU reindeer breeder I. Arento during a meeting at the airport after the completion of the congress, in the radio studio in Anadyr, with reindeer in the camp. Performance of the Chukchi ensemble "Ergyron". Hunters with guns go hunting in boats. Reindeer herders. View of the icebreaker "Admiral Makarov" breaks through the ice. Icebreaker captain on the bridge. Blizzard in the street. Skiers on a walk, fishermen fish on the ice of the bay, people bathing in the ice-hole. View of the autumn, winter landscape of the Magadan region, view of the hills.