A chronicle documentary film about the history of Russia in the 20th century. The film is based on film and photo materials stored in RGAKFD. Part I. A village house on the banks of a picturesque reservoir. Busy street in Moscow. Chronicle footage: 1908 - flooding in Moscow; 1910-14. - horse-drawn vehicles pass through the streets of Moscow; 1917 - Personnel from the period of the February Revolution, incl. - the funeral of the victims of the revolution; 1920s - cars on the streets of Moscow, a peasant family in a hut; [1926] - street children on the street, in a shoemaker at work, in a cafeteria for street children; [1929-30] - members of different sects, victims of the eunuchs sect; [1930-32] - coal mining in mines; late 1920s - early 1930s - peasants meet the first tractor. Part II. Exhibition of cars of foreign brands on Sparrow Hills in Moscow. Persons without a fixed abode ("homeless people") on the streets of Moscow. Chronicle footage: 1936-37. - start of the women's motor rally "Moscow-Petropavlovsk-Moscow"; 1930s - ID Papanin in a group of polar explorers, shepherds drive a herd of horses; 1936-37. - pilots V.P. Chkalov, G.F.Baidukov, Ya.V. Belyakov near the plane before departure; 1941-45 - footage of the chronicles of the Second World War (including street battles, helping the wounded on the battlefield and in hospitals, female pilots preparing for flights, members of the Extraordinary State Commission for the Establishment and Investigation of the Atrocities of the Nazi invaders and their accomplices listen the story of an eyewitness of the extermination of civilians near the village of Trostyanets of the Byelorussian SSR, corpses laid with logs, the boy Vitya tells the wounded in the hospital a poem (synchronously); 1948 - a festive concert in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, dedicated to the 500th anniversary of the autocephaly of the Russian Orthodox Church, soloist of the State Academic Bolshoi Theater IS Kozlovsky, accompanied by the choir, performs a prayer (synchronously), among those present - Patriarch Alexy I. Part III. The city of Moscow. Streets and squares. Performance of a rock band on the stage of one of the houses of culture. The girl talks about her life (synchronously) . In the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, a symphony orchestra and a pianist are performing (synchronously). The head of the Center for rehabilitation of patients with spinal cord injury and the consequences of infantile cerebral palsy V. I. Dikul treats a man (synchronously). The destroyed Church of the Assumption in the village of Morozovo, Moscow Region.