Special issue of the newsreel "Gorky Region. Chronicle of the Non-Black Earth Region". The farm "Zhdanovsky" state farm, Kstovsky district. Irrigated fields, pastures; the "Fregat" sprinkler machine is working. Harvesting cucumbers at the state farm greenhouse complex. Interview (synchronously) senior state farm meliorator B. A. Lemudkin. A. Shagin, a machine operator at the Meliovodstroy Association in Gorky, works on draining a swamp in the Uren-Severny District. Uprooting stumps, shrubs with a bulldozer; the tractor covers the swamp with earth. Architects of the Institute "Giproselkhozstroy" at work on projects for the development of regional centers of the region. Interview of the chief architect of the institute B. F. Kholuev (synchronously).