Soviet Army №17-1972 (1972)

March in the desert.

The face of an officer walking along a position.

Desert landscape.

Camels walking in the desert.

A monitor lizard on the sand.

The battalion commander at a camouflaged command post assigns tasks to his subordinates in connection with the upcoming exercises.

Faces of the motorized rifle and tank company commanders.

The face of company commander Zolotukhin.

Zolotukhin walks along the company positions, inspects the dug shelters for personnel and equipment.

A soldier digs a trench.

Zolotukhin supervises the construction of shelters.

Soldiers camouflage equipment with saxaul branches.

Zolotukhin conducts a parade inspection, checks the soldiers' equipment.

Faces of soldiers standing in formation.

Sand dunes in the desert.

A tank column moving through the desert during exercises (above), faces of tankers.

A column of infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) and armored personnel carriers during a march.

Faces of the battalion commander and one of the driver-mechanics.

BMPs overcome hilly terrain.

Airplanes fly over.

Bombs dropped by the simulated enemy aircraft.

Armored vehicles maneuver, trying to get out from under attack.

Firing from an anti-aircraft tank machine gun.

Tanks move to the attack line.

The tank commander conducts observation through the devices in the turret.

A tank with an anti-mine trawl enters a minefield.

Motorized riflemen leave the BMP, deploy in battle formation and begin moving forward.

The infantry goes on the attack, supported by tanks.

Machine gunners and a machine gun crew of the simulated enemy fire.

View of the position of a motorized rifle company in defense.

Attack on the positions of the simulated enemy.

Tanks and infantry break through the position of the simulated enemy.

Panorama of the terrain during the exercise.

Zolotukhin's face.

A soldier takes off his helmet, wipes off sweat.

Uniform wet with sweat on the back of one of the soldiers.

Soldiers drink water from canteens.

Residents of the village greet soldiers returning from training, present them with flatbreads and watermelons.

Faces of soldiers and local residents.

A boy tries on a tank helmet.

The face of a local resident.

A local resident shakes hands with a soldier sitting on an armored vehicle.

Pontoners.

Panorama of a wooded area (top).

Tanks moving along a forest clearing (top).

A tank column on the march.

View of a section of a river on the path of advancing troops.

The commander of the engineering regiment sets his subordinates the task of establishing a crossing.

Artillery suppresses the positions of the simulated enemy on the opposite bank.

Scouts disembark from boats onto the bank.

Searching for mines with a mine detector, conducting engineering reconnaissance of the area.

Movement of a pontoon bridge park column, drivers in the cabin of one of the vehicles.

Column of the pontoon bridge park on the bank.

Launching of boats.

Launching and opening of pontoon links.

An officer supervises the construction of a pontoon bridge.

Sappers, chest-deep in water, connect pontoon links.

Aircraft of the simulated enemy fly by.

Dropping bombs on the ferry.

Connecting pontoon links, sappers at work, the face of the battalion commander.

Engineer boats approach the deployed pontoons.

The assembled bridge is brought into the crossing location using boats.

Ramps are thrown back for the military equipment to come down.

Columns of armored vehicles on the march (above).

Aircraft of the imaginary enemy carry out bombing strikes.

Armored vehicles are moving along the bridge, a soldier with a flag.

Crossing under bombs of the imaginary enemy.

Armored vehicles are coming down from the pontoon bridge.

Elimination of the consequences of the use of chemical weapons by the imaginary enemy.

The pontooners work in gas masks and combined arms protective suits.

The soldiers take off their gas masks.

The soldiers pour water out of their boots.

The battalion commander among his soldiers.

The faces of the soldiers.

The soldiers are singing.

Artists of the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Moscow Military District on the territory of the Moscow Kremlin.

Artists of the ensemble during a meeting with servicemen of one of the military units.

Faces of the ensemble musicians during a rehearsal, practicing the next number of the program.

Rehearsal of the ensemble's dance group.

Faces of the artists.

Composer Anatoly Novikov at the piano during a meeting with the artists and the leadership of the ensemble, next to Novikov sits the head of the ensemble, Colonel Suren Babloev.

Babloev's face.

Panorama of the building of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses in the evening.

Views and panorama of the hall.

Performance of the ensemble's choir on the stage of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses.

Babloev conducts the choir.

A soloist marches onto the stage and begins to sing (synchronously), the rest of the soloists enter with their parts.

The audience applauds at the end of the performance.

Performance of the ensemble's artists during one of the folk holidays, performing a group dance number on stage, faces of the audience.

The audience applauds (panorama).

Posters of the ensemble's foreign tours.

Photos of the ensemble's performances during foreign tours.

The choir and orchestra of the ensemble perform "Farewell of Slavyanka" from the stage of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, the faces of the audience.