Biographies of several outstanding Prize winners living across the Soviet Union: Borys Paton, Ukrainian scientist in the field of welding, metallurgy and technology of materials, Tursunoi Akhunova, brigade forewoman on a cotton farm in the region of Chinaz, Latvian artist Indulis Zariņš, Georgian surgeon Otar Gudushauri and ballerina Maia Plisetskaia.