The issue is dedicated to the hero city of Novorossiysk, various aspects of life and combat training of military aviators of one of the fighter-aviation regiments of the Moscow Air Defense District and the Sevastopol Sailors' Club of the Red Banner Black Sea Fleet.




The city of Novorossiysk.
Views of Novorossiysk streets, people on the streets.
Children playing on the embankment, sitting on a ship's anchor installed on the parapet.
People walking along the sidewalks.
View of a part of a building under construction.
The face of a builder.
Installation of concrete panels during the construction of an apartment building.
View of a cement plant.
Production processes at the Oktyabr cement plant.
Rotary kiln operator V. Kalmykov and his assistant V. Abyzov walking through the shop.
The face of Kalmykov, who is regulating the operation of the kiln.
View of a part of the rotary kiln.
A polished ship's bell.
View of a part of the Novorossiysk cargo port.
Cargo on the port berths.
Port cranes on the berth.
A docker at work.
Transportation of cargo using a crane.
The face of one of the dockers.
View of the bow of a foreign dry cargo ship.
Panorama of the bay and part of the coastal quarter (above).
Young people with red flags in their hands greet the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee L.I. Brezhnev.
Brezhnev responds to greetings from city residents from his car.
A panorama of one of the stadium stands during a ceremonial rally to mark Novorossiysk being awarded the title of "Hero City".
Carrying out the city banner to the central stand.
Brezhnev and his entourage during the rally.
The military salute the banner.
Brezhnev attaches the Order of Lenin to the Novorossiysk banner.
Veterans applaud on the stand.
The Novorossiysk banner with orders attached to it.
One of the monuments in honor of the defenders of Novorossiysk.
Brezhnev, his entourage, and veterans on the Alley of Heroes during a minute of silence.
Memorial plaque in honor of Ts.L. Kunikov.
Veterans' faces.
The Eternal Flame is burning.
Brezhnev and his entourage are meeting on Malaya Zemlya, and Brezhnev is presented with flowers.
The face of a pioneer.
Brezhnev meeting his comrades in arms.
Newsreel from 1943: views and panorama of Malaya Zemlya during military actions in February-September 1943. Artillery fires at the enemy.
A Maxim machine gun crew at a firing position.
Officers and political workers leave a dugout, among them is the head of the political department of the 18th Army, Colonel Brezhnev.
Faces of Red Army soldiers.
Brezhnev during a party meeting in one of the units.
Red Navy men and women during a meeting.
A group of soldiers passes by, a photo of Brezhnev presenting a Red Army soldier with a party card.
Military actions on Malaya Zemlya.
Troops of the 18th Army fight in the streets of Novorossiysk in September 1943. The infantry attacks the enemy through the port.
Planting a red flag on the gates of the Proletary cement plant.
Red Army men and sailors salute the banner.
The USSR naval flag over the bay of liberated Novorossiysk.
Bomb and shell fragments in the ground (panorama).
Monuments to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War in Novorossiysk.
Panorama of a vineyard.
Bunches of ripe grapes.
Memorial stele on the embankment.
Faces of passers-by.
Rotary kilns at a cement plant, part of the production process.
Installation of concrete panels during the construction of an apartment building, faces of builders.
Loading a ship in the port.
Ships in the Novorossiysk cargo port (top).
Dockers walk along the pier.
Faces of passers-by on the city streets.
People walk along the sidewalk.
View of a part of the coastal park (top).
Coastal seascape.
Combat duty.
Countryside landscape at sunrise.
The antenna of an air defense radar (PVO) rotates.
A fighter jet of one of the regiments of the Moscow Air Defense District before takeoff.
Officers at the command post.
A fighter jet taking off.
A fighter jet on the runway.
Officer-pilots walking along the airfield.
Aircraft at the airfield during refueling (panorama).
Aircraft maintenance and preparation for flight, technicians' faces.
Aircraft systems check.
The pilot accepts the combat vehicle, asks the technician questions while sitting in the cockpit.
Senior Lieutenant Terekhov checks the chassis and armament during the acceptance of the combat vehicle.
Dispatchers at the command post for duty crews.
Radar screen.
Radar antennas.
The combat crew personnel receives the order to take up duty, faces of soldiers, officers and aircraft technicians.
Brezhnev Leonid Ilyich - statesman and political figure
1943 1975
Krasnodar region Moscow region
Summer Autumn




The antenna of the air defense radar is rotating.
The pilots of the duty shift are playing chess in the rest room, the pilots' faces.
Two pilots are discussing the details of the flight.
The duty shift in front of the radar screens.
The appearance of an air target on the radar screen.
The face of the officer giving the command by radio.
Determining the coordinates.
Plotting the target on the tablet.
The regiment commander gives the order for the duty pair of fighters to take off.
The pilots put on high-altitude suits and helmets.
View of the tail section of the fighter.
The pilot takes his place in the cockpit.
The pilots close the canopies.
The regiment commander specifies the combat mission to the duty pair by radio.
Takeoff of the duty pair, the pilot's face.
The flight director maintains contact with the duty pair.
Fighters during a combat training mission, the pilots' faces.
The face of the regiment commander.
The navigator brings the aircraft to a tactically advantageous attack position.
The radar antenna is rotating.
Attack on a combat training target.
Target destruction.
Marking the target impact location on the tablet.
The radar antenna is rotating.
Aircraft of the duty pair in flight.
The face of one of the pilots.
Aircraft landing.
Officers at the command post.
Aircraft at the airfield.
Aircraft on the runway.
Sailors' club.
Faces of Black Sea Fleet sailors during a performance by the dance group of the Sevastopol Sailors' Club on the deck of one of the warships.
Performance of the dance group, sailors applauding.
Views of Sevastopol and Grafskaya Wharf.
Entrance to the sailors' club.
View of the sailors' club building.
Interior view of the club foyer.
Sailors studying the club schedule posted on the wall.
Faces of sailors.
Photographs on visual aid stands.
Sailors in the reading room of the club library.
The librarian gives advice to one of the sailors.
The face of a sailor.
Lenin's works on the table.
One of the sailors is taking notes on Lenin's works.
Sailors looking through illustrated magazines.
A lesson in the studio of amateur artists.
Sailor V. Kopytko making a sketch.
Kopytko acts as a miner on the ship.
Equipment of the mine unit.
The face of radio operator S. Grabchik.
Grabchik is writing an engraving in the studio.
Sailor A. Ivanov is engaged in chasing.
A meeting of the club management, faces of the head of the club, Captain 3rd rank Karo, and the club's propagandist, Captain-Lieutenant Luzhnikov.
Decorating photo stands in the foyer of the club.
Photos of the sailors' training and combat routine on the stands.
The club's librarian helps select books for the ship's mobile library.
Musicians of the "Fleet Guys" ensemble on stage during another rehearsal, the head of the ensemble, sailor Yu.
Novikov at the synthesizer.
Black Sea sailors in the auditorium of the club during the ensemble's performance, faces of sailors and officers.
The ensemble performs "Katyusha".
The audience applauds.
Sailors with girls at the tables of the club cafe.
Fruit and tea on the table.
View of the cafe hall.
Sailing yachts during a regatta.
Carrying out the battle flags during one of the theme evenings in honor of the Black Sea Fleet, a fleet veteran walks ahead of the standard-bearer.
Veterans stand under the flags on the stage of the summer terrace.
Honorary citizen of Sevastopol, war veteran R.P. Pirogov holds a battle flag in his hands.
Veteran of the cruiser "Krasny Kavkaz" K.I. Agarkov with the ship's guards flag in his hands.
Coastal landscapes.
The names of the dead sailors on granite slabs.
Remains of barbed wire on the 35th battery.
The Eternal Flame burns.
Views of Sevastopol neighborhoods.
Monument to the sunken ships in Sevastopol Bay.
The USSR Naval Flag flutters.
One of the warships of the Black Sea Fleet in front of the entrance to Sevastopol Bay.
Sailors' faces, veterans in formation.
Veterans talking to young sailors.
Sailors' faces.
1975
Moscow region Crimea
Summer Autumn