We Met at Baikal

The festival of friendship between Soviet and Japanese youth near the city of Irkutsk, on the shore of Lake Baikal. Meeting of the festival participants. Delegates' speeches protesting against the American aggression in Vietnam, against the deployment of American bases on the island of Okinawa. Members of the Soviet and Japanese delegations sign an Appeal to the youth of the Soviet Union and Japan on joining efforts in the struggle for peace, for social progress, and against aggression. Members of the Japanese and Soviet delegations at the construction of the Bratsk hydroelectric station. Festival participants play in small towns, volleyball, tug-of-war, learn Russian and Japanese songs, cook fish soup on bonfires, fish. The song "Kalinka" is played in Russian and Japanese. Conversations, walks of Soviet and Japanese youth along the shores of Lake Baikal on boats on the lake. Among the members of the Japanese delegation is Ichiro Kavalyuto, who suffered from an atomic bomb explosion in the city of Hiroshima in 1945. The closing ceremony of the festival at the stadium in Irkutsk. Japanese delegates with portraits of their comrades who were victims of the atomic bombings of Japan in 1945. Different types of Lake Baikal.

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Sound V. Georgievskaya, text by K. Bakshi