Soviet Army №20-1973 (1973)

An orchestra on the parade ground of a military unit.

Railway soldiers who have taken the military oath and the unit's personnel march across the parade ground.

Training young soldiers to use carpentry power tools when processing wooden structures, view of the training ground (from above).

Training to operate an excavator on a simulator using scale models.

Training excavators at the training ground.

Training a young soldier to operate a real excavator.

Training earthmoving equipment at the training ground.

Conducting training blasting and excavation works at the training ground of a railway military unit.

Practical training in laying sections of railway track using special equipment, an officer's face.

Preparing a railway embankment, tamping sleepers with crushed stone, the control panel in the operator's hands.

The process of laying links of the railway track, the face of a sergeant.

Soldiers wash in the shower, the soldiers' faces under streams of water.

Cleaning shoes before leaving for the city.

Soldiers work in a greenhouse of a subsidiary farm.

A cucumber grown in a greenhouse.

Issuing combat leaflets.

Making photo stands on the history of a military unit.

Deputy unit commander Lieutenant Colonel Razumovsky tells young soldiers about the service of railway soldiers during the Great Patriotic War.

Newsreel from 1941-1945: a machine-gun crew takes up a position.

Restoring a destroyed railway bridge.

Driving spikes into sleepers, view of the supports remaining from the destroyed bridge (above).

Twisted metal structures on the river bank, panorama of a temporary railway bridge.

Railway bed.

Roadside landscapes.

Erecting a pontoon railway bridge during military exercises.

A train passes over the erected pontoon bridge.

Officers of the railway troops during an advanced training session.

The process of installing a railway bridge span during practical training with personnel, erecting a large bridge.

Panorama and views of the bridge.

Officers and soldiers walk along a bridge span.

Ural mountain landscapes.

Views of streets and squares in Sverdlovsk.

Tank on a pedestal.

Cadets of the Sverdlovsk Higher Military-Political School during a tactical firing training session.

Firing from machine guns.

Cleaning weapons after shooting.

People on a street in Sverdlovsk.

View of a part of the building of the District Officers' Club.

Interior view of the foyer.

Servicemen and their wives in the reading room of the Officers' Club library.

Private V. Alekseyev plays the piano.

Paintings by amateur army artists, presented at an exhibition in the Officers' Club.

A collection of minerals, assembled by the employees of the Officers' Club.

Captain V. Melnikov at home, cutting the gems he has found.

Army tourists during a hike in the mountainous and wooded terrain of the Urals.

Melnikov with a fellow soldier during a hike.

The tourists set up camp on the river bank.

Melnikov demonstrates the gems and minerals he found to his friends and talks about them.

View of a cliff.

The head of a fairy-tale character carved from a tree stump.

Products made from Ural gems and minerals by amateur craftsmen.

Officer N.P. Rumynin works on another wooden sculpture of a victorious soldier, Rumynin's face.

Cadets of the Sverdlovsk Higher Military-Political School examine the sculptor's works during a visit to his workshop.

Rumynin, standing by a figure carved from a tree stump, tells the cadets about his hobby.

View of part of a city block (from above).

A tank on a pedestal on one of the streets of Sverdlovsk.

Faces of cadets standing in formation with machine guns over their shoulders.

Ural landscapes.

Seascape.

Warship on a voyage.

One of the officers gives commands by radio.

The locators on the masts are rotating.

Lookout with binoculars.

Signals from a guard.

View of the bow of the ship's deck (from above).

The face of a cadet of the Leningrad Frunze Higher Naval School.

Raising the flag during a training voyage.

Cadets at combat posts during a voyage.

Cadets mastering various specialties under the guidance of officer-teachers.

Plotting a course using a map.

The ship's stem cuts through the wave.

Seascape.

View of the Alexander Column through the General Staff Arch in Leningrad.

Views of Alexander Park and the Admiralty building.

School building.

A line of cadets passes by the school building.

A sentry at post No. 1 near the school banner, orders on the school banner.

Memorial plaque in honor of V.I. Lenin.

Painting depicting Lenin.

View of the assembly hall of the school.

Exhibits and photographs on stands in the school museum.

View of one of the museum halls.

A monument on the territory of the school.

The cruiser "Aurora" at the Neva embankment (top).

The face of Lenin scholarship holder cadet Vorobyov.

First-year cadets during rowing training.

Vorobyov's face.

Boats with cadets sailing along the Neva (top).

Cadets during self-study.

Vorobyov listening to the teacher during a consultation before the state exam in scientific communism.

Practical lesson on studying navigational instruments, the teacher giving explanations to the cadet.

Cadets during a lecture on the history of naval art, the head of the school, Vice-Admiral Khrenov V.A. gives a lecture.

Training boats during a voyage.

Faces of cadets undergoing naval practice.

Cadets plotting a course on maps.

The face of the teacher monitoring the plotting of the course.

Cadets during a practical lesson on patching a hole and fighting for the survivability of a ship.

A practical lesson in diving operations.

Practicing exiting through a torpedo tube.

A cadet in diving gear surfaces in a training pool.

Cadets training to repel a submarine attack in a classroom.

Cadets during practical lessons on various simulators.

Vorobyov receives advice from his supervisor while preparing to defend his diploma.

Vorobyov during a party meeting.

Presentation of party cards to cadets who have joined the ranks of the CPSU. Vorobyov receives a party card, the head of the political department congratulates him.

Party card in Vorobyov's hands.

Monument to Lenin in front of the Smolny building.

Monument to Peter I. Cruiser "Aurora" on the Neva.

Graduates of the school in officer uniforms walk along the Neva embankment.

Seascape.

Warship on a campaign.