Map indicating Southern Siberia. Haystacks in fields. Boys working on window repair and two boys, wearing skull caps, reading books. A man removing Russian Orthodox Cross from the top of a church. The former church building with a Soviet Star prominently displayed and large signs in Russian posted on its wall. Group of men and a woman inside a room lined with framed paintings on the walls.
A short story about the harnessing of lightning. Lightning bolt in skies. Bolt of lightning hits tree and tree topples over. Bolt of lightning hits and demolishes chimney. Write up in Russian language on piece of paper. Painting of Lomonosoff, famous Russian writer and scientist. A reenactor works as Lomonosoff in laboratory. Lightning strikes the lightning rod on a house. A woman demonstrates static energy by friction on ebonite. Woman demonstrates positive and negative electricity. Clouds over snow-capped mountains. Lightening strikes electrical wire and sets fire on house. High-tension electrical machinery. Subway runs by electricity. Trolley cars, buses, baby in hospital, street lights, all powered by electricity. (World War II period).
Crowds surging through Red Square during Bolshevik revolution. View from behind the bronze monument to Minin and Pozharsky, on which someone placed a flag. Kremlin battlements visible in background. Russian Imperial troops seated on the ground. Soldiers laying down their arms on a pile of weapons. Mounted officers leading a long column of unarmed troops along a street in Moscow. Citizens walking along the streets. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Soviet military prepardness documentary film from June 1941, in World War II. Newspaper article, dateline: 12 June 1941, names military leaders recognized by the Soviet Central Committee. Next, Soviet Marshals, Kliment Voroshilov, and Semyon Timoshenko, stand in a grain field. Timoshenko greets new recruits to the Red Army, who come forward. Glimpse of some Russian T-26, model 1933 tanks charging down a hillside. Marshal Timoshenko seated at a Russian M1910 Maxim machine gun, conversing with three soldiers. The legs of another Marshal are seen in background. A Russian BT-7 tank passing the camera at high speed. Marshal Timoshenko walking ahead of staff officers as they visit troops in the field. He is seen in a trench with soldiers, where he personally moves some camouflage branches in position. Timoshenko and Marshal Semyon Budyonny (aka Budyenny) coversing with a tank commander and other officers in the field.
Soviet spokesmen and soldiers speak at military recruitment event during World War 2. Young men in the audience applaud. A soviet soldier leads the new recruits are led off, carrying their belongings. Next, they are seen marching along a city street, swinging their arms in a cadence. A small group of Russian recruits is introduced to the manual of arms and drill by a soldier. The group marches toward the camera, led by several regular army soldiers.
Opening scene shows Soviet coal miners underground moving chunks of coal by means of a conveyor system during World War 2. Some of the coal chunks are extremely large. They are moved upward in the mine shaft on a conveyor and then loaded into open coal cars seen linked together as a train on a rail in the mine.