The film covers the problems of ecological farming in Russia. Events at ''Tselina'' (virgin land) in the first years of its opening-up became the material for the film.
The girl runs along the path through the field.
The dump truck pours out the earth.
A girl in the arms of a man.
A young man is walking along a path through a field.
A tractor is plowing a field.
A herd of horses is going to drink.
Tractor on a pedestal.
The field, the pipes of the plant are visible in the distance.
Terraced land.
A field dusted with snow.
Strong wind, rolling rolling balls across the field.
A.I.Baraev-Director of the Grain Institute is standing in the field.
Shooting from a helicopter, there is a tent city below.
Large:flatcutter.
Shortandy is a village in Kazakhstan.
Branches covered with snow.
A.I. Baraev in the office.
Chronicle: plowing the land.
Dust storm.
Dead seedlings.
Fallen wooden poles of power lines.
Cracked earth.
Boarded up windows of the house.
A.I.Baraev (synchronously).
Design bureau.
Baraev and his colleagues in an experimental greenhouse.
Personnel:
Barayev Manchenko Baturin
Calendar: 1960
Locations: Tselina (virgin land)
Seasons: Winter [823]
Chronicle of the development of virgin lands: plowing the field.
Tractors in the field.
A.Baraev with colleagues in an experimental greenhouse.
A.I.Baraev (synchronously).
Burning stubble.
Birds' nests in trees.
A plowed field, it's raining heavily.
Ravine-beam relief.
Tank on a pedestal.
V.I.Manchenko (synchronously).
Personnel:
Manchenko V.I. -glavnij agronom Matveevo-Kurganskogo rajona, uchenik N.Vavilova
Calendar: 1961
Locations: Kazakhstan [114] Rostov region [798]
Seasons: Summer [824]
V. Manchenko walks through the meadow.
The excavator digs the ground.
The dried-up river Mius.
Plowing the field with a plow.
A grassy river.
Bulldozers are driving along the road.
Vineyards.
Water retention works.
V.Manchenko in the field.
Large: ears of wheat.
A man leads a horse on a leash through the grass steppe.
The quarry of the Kursk magnetic anomaly.
The dumps of the quarry.
V.Pavlenko walks along the hydraulic dump.
Personnel:
V.Pavlenko-gidrogeolog Lebedinskogo gorno-obogatiteljnogo kombinata
Locations: Rostov region [798] Belgorod region [770]
Bulldozers on the hydraulic dump.
V. Pavlenko (synchronously).
Land reclamation.
V. Pavlenko in the field.
The dump is made of chernozem.
The wall of the Spaso-Evfimievsky Monastery (Suzdal)
Central Russian landscapes.
Mowers.
N.A.Baturin smokes.
Reclamation works.
N.A.Baturin (synchronously).
Personnel:
Pavlenko V.-gidrogeolog Lebedinskogo gorno-obogatiteljnogo kombinata Baturin N.A.-predsedatelj kolhoza "Kushalino" Tverskoj oblasti
Locations: Belgorod region [770] Tver region [806]
Reclamation works.
N. Baturin (synchronously).
N. Baturin in the office.
Wheat field.
Pond near the house.
A girl gets water from a well with a crane.
Central Russian landscapes.
Mowers.
A herd of cows in a pasture.
Locations: Tver region [806]