Defenders of the Motherland (1936-1939)

The hand of a telegraph operator on a telegraph key.

Performance of the Red Army Song and Dance Ensemble of the USSR in the Far East, in Primorsky Krai, before the Red Army soldiers who fought at Lake Khasan.

Faces of the musicians.

The ensemble artists are riding horseback.

Faces of the Red Army spectators.

The ensemble performs before the Red Army soldiers.

The ensemble artists are riding horseback.

An attacking tank.

Faces of the ensemble musicians playing wind instruments.

The ensemble choir performs before the Red Army soldiers accompanied by an orchestra.

The face of a Red Army soldier.

A Red Army soldier at a post near the red flag on the Zaozernaya heights.

Applauding Red Army soldiers and commanders.

View of one of the streets of Vladivostok.

Panorama of the hills.

View of the beginning of the funeral procession in Vladivostok during the funeral of the hero of the battles at Lake Khasan, P.M. Mironov, who died in the hospital from his wounds.

Sailors with rifles on their shoulders walk next to a truck transporting Mironov's coffin.

People carry funeral wreaths.

View of the beginning of the funeral procession (top).

Navy officers carry funeral wreaths.

Inscription on the ribbon of a funeral wreath.

Inscriptions on funeral ribbons.

Faces of funeral participants carrying funeral wreaths.

Views of Vladivostok streets during the funeral procession.

Pasechnik Mikheyev speaks at a rally dedicated to the farewell of conscripts to the army in 1936. Faces of rally participants.

Mikheyev kisses his son goodbye.

Rally participants hold a banner with a slogan.

Farewell to conscripts at the station near a train carriage.

Winter Far Eastern landscape.

A tank overcomes snowdrifts and a forest during exercises.

The tank crew of the Mikheyev brothers leaves their combat vehicle.

The Mikheyev brothers in formation in front of a tank.

The face of Mikheyev Sr..

Tanks on parade after the end of exercises.

A border patrol boat during a patrol in the Far East.

A border guard on horseback rides along a section of the border.

A border mounted detachment on patrol.

Far Eastern landscapes.

A border guard observes through binoculars.

A squirrel on a branch.

A bear cub in the grass.

Landscapes and fauna of the Far Eastern taiga.

Timber rafting down a river.

Fish in the water.

Presentation of cold arms, small arms, and war horses to young Red Army soldiers who voluntarily joined the Red Army in place of their brothers who died in the battles on Khasan.

One of the Red Army soldiers takes the oath.

The Red Army soldiers lead the horses presented to them into formation.

Red Army soldiers with war horses in formation.

Red Army soldiers and Red Navy sailors, participants in the parade on Red Square, stand in formation.

Tankers in parade formation.

View of Red Square before the parade on November 7, 1939. Voroshilov K.E. delivers a speech from the rostrum of the mausoleum (synchronously), standing next to him are Mikoyan A.I., Kaganovich L.M., Kalinin M.I., Molotov V.M., Andreev A.A.