Wings 15.03.2005 (2005)

"Sky Commanders" Excerpts from interviews: Efimov Alexandra, Shaposhnikov Evgeniy, Deinekin Petr, Kornukov Anatoly, Mikhailov Vladimir.

Video: A link of Su-27 aircraft in the sky, a single-engine sports plane in the air, a boy looking at the sky.

Chronicle: People on Red Square, the funeral of Yuri Andropov, the destroyed building of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Gorbachev M.S. surrounded by journalists, Soviet helicopters and tanks, Marshal Efimov Alexander in his office, Efimov Alexander talks about his first childhood impression of the R1 aircraft.

Chronicle of the Great Patriotic War: View of flying planes through the crosshairs of a gunsight, bombing, shells exploding on the ground, a flight of IL-2 attack aircraft flies over an airfield, IL-2 planes in the air, inspection of damage to the plane's tail by the military, the military exiting a dugout, a tank attack, planes and tanks, an air battle, an IL-2 firing machine guns, a burning fascist plane on the ground, Efimov Aleksandr in a tunic with an order, landing of an IL-2 plane.

Efimov Aleksandr speaks about his participation in air battles during the Great Patriotic War.

Chronicle: Parade on Red Square, members of the CPSU Central Committee on the tribune.

Efimov Aleksandr speaks about his letter to the Politburo and a conversation with Gorbachev M.S. Chronicle: Gorbachev M.S., Yeltsin B.N., and members of the CPSU at a meeting, Rust Matias's Seisna plane takes off from Red Square, Soviet troops leave Afghanistan, a column of Soviet tanks, Yeltsin Boris on the podium, Yeltsin Boris leaves the CPSU, a view of the river, a view of the bank and the dome of the church, a view from the basket of a hot air balloon to the ground.

Shaposhnikov Evgeny talks about his youth.

Video: Su-27 plane in the sky, standard-bearers and ranks of soldiers marching, Shaposhnikov Evgeny salutes the marching soldiers.

Shaposhnikov Evgeny talks about the military council and his resignation from the ranks of the CPSU, a conversation with Gorbachev M.S. Chronicle: Street demonstrations in Europe, the collapse of the "Berlin Wall", the sign "Belovezhskaya Pushcha", two bison in the forest, Yeltsin at a meeting of the CIS Council.

Deinekin Petr talks about his childhood dream of becoming a tank driver.

Chronicle: A dummy tank at a festive parade in Moscow in the 1930s, tanks rushing through the snow in winter.

Deinekin Petr reads poetry, talks about his father's death in the war and his decision to become a pilot.

Deinekin Petr talks about pilots and the oath.

A link of modern fighters in the sky.

Chronicle: A line of people at a currency exchange office, a sign "Currency Exchange", "Closed", Kornukov Anatoly descends the steps of an airplane and greets the military, Kornukov Anatoly answers journalists' questions.

Kornukov Anatoly talks about the downed Korean passenger Boeing.

Kornukov Anatoly talks about flying different types of airplanes.

A fragment of the film "Valery Chkalov" 1941. Mikhailov Vladimir in the cockpit of a Yak 130 airplane.

The Yak 130 airplane is taxiing.

The Yak 130 airplane accelerates and takes off.

Vladimir Mikhailov talks about his decision to become a pilot in 1961. Yak 130 aircraft on the runway.

Vladimir Mikhailov climbs out of the Yak 130 cockpit.

Vladimir Mikhailov talks to pilots after the flight.

Vladimir Mikhailov talks about a critical situation that occurred during one of the flights and an emergency landing.

Video: Vladimir Mikhailov in the aircraft manufacturing plant workshop, SU-27SM aircraft in the air, three Mi 24 PM military helicopters in the air, Mi-28 "Night Hunter" helicopter takes off, Yak-130 aircraft, Tu-160 aircraft lands, military helicopter on the parking lot.

Petr Deinekin talks about pilots.