The film is dedicated to the 25th anniversary of vocational education in the USSR. Moscow city. Students are passing by with flags and banners. The ceremonial meeting at the Palace of Congresses. Among those present - the actress of the Moscow Theater. Lenin Komsomol, one of the first graduates of the vocational school Margarita Ulyanovna Lifanova. The pioneers enter the hall. Performing. Classrooms of vocational schools in the cities of Moscow, Lyubertsy, Kutaisi, Minsk. Production processes at the "Hammer and Sickle" plant (Moscow). Newsreel: assembling rifles, aircraft, making bombs for the front; M.U. Lifanova at the airport during the transfer of new fighters to the pilots. Moscow region. Craft school № 10, where the first cosmonaut of the USSR YA Gagarin studied. Photos of Yuri Gagarin in childhood. Meeting of Yu. A. Gagarin with students and teachers of the school.