Soviet Army №22-1973 (1973)

The First Battle.

View of a mountain lake, mountain landscape.

An eagle soaring in the sky.

The detection station locator is spinning.

Airplanes are flying.

The unit commander, Lieutenant Colonel Kadinets, and his chief of staff are developing a plan for completing a combat training mission on a map in a command vehicle.

The officers’ faces.

Officers in the command vehicle above the map.

Combat vehicles are marching.

The driver and motorized rifle soldiers are inside an armored personnel carrier.

The soldiers’ faces.

Armored vehicles and artillery are moving to the attack lines and firing positions in the initial area.

The faces of soldiers standing in formation.

The platoon commander assigns a task to his subordinates.

Preparing field shelters, digging trenches and foxholes.

The machine gunner installs a light machine gun in a dug nest.

The squad commander assigns a task to his subordinate.

Infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) are driving into dug caponiers.

A command post covered with a camouflage net.

Officers at the command post clarify intelligence data.

Officers and soldiers in their positions before the start of a mock battle.

Technicians preparing aircraft.

Loading ammunition.

Firing various types of small arms at night.

Illumination flares in the sky.

Soldiers firing while repelling a night attack by a mock enemy.

Airplanes in flight.

Pilot in the cockpit of a fighter-bomber.

Tanks and infantry of the mock enemy go on the attack.

Lieutenant Colonel Kadinets and staff officers at the command post.

Counteroffensive against troops of the mock enemy with the interaction of motorized riflemen with tanks and aircraft.

Dropping airborne troops with combat equipment in the rear of the mock enemy.

Landing of paratroopers.

Paratroopers enter the battle.

Motorized rifle units attack the mock enemy.

Motorized riflemen and tank crews after the end of the mock battle.

A tanker covers the gun barrel.

The faces of the tank crews, the company commander sums up the results of the exercise.

Motorized riflemen taking a rest.

Sports, skill, friendship.

Emblem of the Sports Committee of Friendly Armies (SKDA).

Regular meeting of representatives of the armies of the socialist countries - members of SKDA. Faces of the meeting participants discussing current issues.

View of the stadium in Kyiv during the International Army Spartakiad of 1969. Flags of the participating countries on flagpoles.

View of Khreshchatyk.

View of the stadium during the opening of the Spartakiad.

Military and sports delegations of the participating countries walk along the stadium track, spectators applaud.

Short-distance running and track and field competitions.

View of the outdoor swimming pool (from above).

Fans and representatives of foreign delegations watch the shooting competition.

Participants in the competition fire at targets.

Grenade throwing competition.

Participants in the Spartakiad overcome the obstacle course.

A finishing participant in the competition.

Landscape in Zakopane.

Participants in the 1971 Winter Sports Spartakiad start in the downhill and slalom competitions.

Participants run the course, view of the descent (above).

The ceremonial lighting of the flame at the Victory Monument on the Dukla Pass in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.

The torchbearer runs up to the bowl and lights the flame.

View of the stadium in Prague during the ceremonial opening of the 1973 Summer Spartakiad of Friendly Armies.

Spectators in the stands applauding, the faces of spectators, a formation of flying planes depicting a five-pointed star.

Military equipment drives along the stadium tracks.

Buglers in the back of a truck.

The leaders of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic applaud from the stands, among them is the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Gustav Husak.

Motorcyclists with flags on the stadium track.

Motocross competitions during the 1973 Summer Spartakiad of Friendly Armies.

Motocross competitors run the course.

Motocross finish.

Buglers standing on the stage give the signal for the start of the 1973 Friendly Armies Fencing Championship in Moscow.

Athletes from Hungary, Poland, Romania, the USSR and other countries during the ceremonial opening of the championship.

Jury members at the table.

Presentation of flowers to athletes.

Championship participants preparing for a duel.

Women's fencing duels.

The duel participants lower their masks over their faces.

Duels during the men's competition, applauding fans.

Championship participants during the ceremonial reception (panorama).

Cadets from one of the USSR flight schools enter the stadium during a demonstration sports performance in front of representatives of friendly armies.

Foreign military personnel in the stands of the school stadium.

Cadets demonstrate exercises on exercise machines.

Jumping from a diving board into a pool.

Fans in the stands.

The plane flies over the airfield.

Representatives of friendly armies watch the flight.

The conveyor of the Moscow Automobile Plant of small cars.

Interior trim of the car.

Athletes from the National People's Army of the GDR talk to the workers during a visit to the plant.

One of the German athletes with a memorable gift in his hands, faces of the German guests.

Another meeting of the SKDA bureau, faces of the meeting participants.

The song remains for the sea.

Warships of the Black Sea Fleet at anchor.

Sailors, being discharged into the reserve, tidy themselves up in the utility room.

Breaking of glasses, panorama of the warship.

Stones near the shore.

Sailors, being discharged into the reserve, in formation in the hall of the sailors' club during the farewell ceremony.

Presentation of certificates to participants of the sailors' amateur art group, being discharged into the reserve.

Sailors among the female artists of the ensemble.

Faces of sailors and girls during the last rehearsal.

Performance of a Caucasian dance during a rehearsal.

Participants in the amateur performance applaud.

Petty Officer 1st Class Mikhail Tetradov plays the melody of his song on the piano, next to him is sailor A. Belokudrenko.

Belokudrenko performs a song to Tetradov's lyrics and music during a rehearsal (synchronously).

Sailors climb the stairs of the club.

Faces of the spectators, performance of a sailor dance on stage.

Applauding spectators (panorama).

View of part of the auditorium.

Belokudrenko performs a song to Tetradov's lyrics and music (synchronously and off-screen), faces of the spectators.

Ships of the Black Sea Fleet on a combat training mission, a radar locator rotates, the USSR naval flag flutters.