Aleksandr Cheban

About the labor exploits of gold miners, the old partisan Fedor Potanin and his son, the leader Stepan.

Soviet provincial town on the western border. The air forces of a neighboring state attack the USSR, bombing the town. Soviet aviation is tasked with attacking enemy aircraft at its airfields. Overcoming the enemy's air barrage, three Soviet squadrons are sent to the enemy country: one to its capital, the other two to military-industrial centers. One of our bombers discovers the underground hangars of the enemy. However, the supply of bombs is running out. The commander orders the crew to parachute, and he continues to steer the plane into the opening of the last surviving hangar. Using the success of aviation, Soviet ground forces break through the enemy's front. The enemy is retreating.

In northward far camp NKVD arrives echelon with the group of prisoners. Among them there are an engineer Sadovskiy and inveterate criminal Kostya, that quickly becomes the ringleader of barrack and forbids to all the appearances at work. The officials of cheka begin a persistent and tactful fight for the change of these people.

Only fragments exist of this early version of Mat [Mother] by Aleksandr Razumnyj.