Soviet Army №39-1978 "Berezina-78" (1978)

Winter landscapes (panorama).

Views of a winter forest.

Soldiers rub themselves with snow during morning physical exercises.

View of a forest clearing.

Buglers give the signal to begin the scheduled exercises of the Belarusian Military District "Berezina-78".

A tank column moves through a forest over rough terrain.

Infantry fighting vehicles (IFV) on the march.

Forest landscapes.

Views of one of the military memorials.

The Victory Monument on the square of the same name in Minsk, the Eternal Flame is burning.

Soldiers lay a wreath at the Eternal Flame.

Views of the memorial in Khatyn.

Tankers lay a funeral wreath at the monument.

Tankers fire a machine gun salute.

Views of the stele monument on the Mound of Glory in Minsk.

View of the ceremonial rally on the occasion of the opening of the memorial complex in honor of the soldiers of the Rogachev Motorized Rifle Division.

Tank on a pedestal.

The division commander makes a speech.

Soldiers in the guard of honor.

Commander of the troops of the Belarusian Military District, Colonel General M. M. Zaitsev gives a speech, Zaitsev's face.

Faces of generals and officers.

Soldiers lay flowers on the pedestal of the monument.

Wreaths and an honor guard at the Eternal Flame.

The Eternal Flame is burning.

Newsreel from 1944: the offensive of Soviet troops in Belarus during the Rogachev-Zhlobin offensive operation in February 1944, artillery fires at the enemy.

The infantry advances with the support of tanks.

A column of German prisoners of war goes to the rear under escort.

Cavalry and tanks go on the attack.

A meeting of soldiers of the Red Army units that closed the encirclement of the enemy.

Residents of a liberated village greet Red Army soldiers and partisans passing through the village.

Panorama of a ceremonial rally on the occasion of the meeting of military units of the Belarusian Military District taking part in exercises.

A tank column being met.

A brass band playing.

Presentation of bread and salt to exercise participants.

Tankers applauding.

Girls presenting bouquets of flowers to soldiers.

A tanker placing a child on his armor.

Faces of rally participants.

A soldier climbing into the hatch of an armored personnel carrier with a loaf of bread in his hands.

Local residents waving goodbye.

A column of BM-21 rocket launchers begins moving to the assembly area.

Self-propelled artillery, motorized rifle and tank units take up their starting positions.

A battery of D-30 howitzers on the march.

Mobile air defense missile launchers moving to a firing position.

Flying helicopters.

View of one of the tank columns before the start of the march (from above).

Engineering equipment laying roads in deep snow.

Actions of military engineering unit personnel.

Deployment of a pontoon crossing.

Digging a trench using earthmoving equipment.

Infantry fighting vehicles drive out onto the road.

Zaitsev and the exercise commanders greet foreign military observers.

Faces of foreign military personnel.

Polish military personnel with binoculars.

View of the two-tiered observation deck at the training ground.

Arrival of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus P.M. Masherov to the exercises, Zaitsev reports to Masherov.

Panorama of the observation deck and part of the training ground.

Model of the area where the exercises are being held, panorama of part of the training ground.

Commanders of the branches of the armed forces at observation posts.

Zaitsev's face.

Masherov observes the progress of the exercises from the glass room of the command post.

Attack of armored vehicles and the air force of the "Northern".

Pilot in the cockpit of a helicopter.

An airplane flies by.

Tanks and aircraft of the "Northern" conduct an offensive.

Firing with Grad rocket systems.

Explosions of shells on the forward edge of the imaginary enemy.

Actions of an artillery gun crew at a firing position.

Attacking tanks.

An officer at a stereoscopic telescope.

Machine gunners firing from a trench.

Tanks during exercises.

Aiming anti-aircraft missile launchers at a target.

Actions of various branches of the armed forces during exercises.

Loading an armored personnel carrier onto a helicopter.

A tank column stopping to refuel equipment, work of support services.

Dropping of the Northern airborne assault force, landing of combat equipment.

Personnel and equipment of the assault force enter battle.

Combat vehicles of the assault force advance to the attack line.

The assault force advances with the support of armored vehicles.

Military journalists at work covering the exercise.

Newspaper headlines.

Newspaper reports on the exercise.

Lieutenant V. Dudko and Corporal S. Kuvychkin talk about their midair descent during parachute landing and their safe landing on one parachute (synchronously), faces of the paratroopers.

Views of a field camp of one of the military units.

Issuing a Combat Sheet in the field.

Maintenance and repair of armored vehicles.

A tank anti-aircraft machine gunner checks the condition of the equipment.

Soldiers read letters from home, a fire in the stove.

A snowdrift is blowing.

Tactical airborne assault personnel boarding helicopters.

An officer gives his subordinates a combat order.

Faces of soldiers standing in formation.

The crews of infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) take their places on command.

A column of IFVs is on a march.

Gunners in the troop compartment of an IFV during a march.

The commander of one of the infantry fighting vehicles I. Ryazanov, the gunner-operator V. Kupid and the driver-mechanic V. Liker during the march.

The infantry fighting vehicle reaches the attack line.

The riflemen leave the troop compartment and deploy into a chain on the move.

The motorized infantry attacks the simulated enemy.

Officers at the command and observation post.

The tanks of the "Southern" counterattack.

The infantry of the "Northern" attacks the position of the "Southern".

The infantry engages in hand-to-hand combat, using hand-to-hand combat techniques.

The commander of the exercises, guests and foreign military observers at the command and observation post.

A Komsomol meeting in one of the tank units.

One of the tank crews is presented with a Komsomol card.

A combat aircraft after landing.

The pilots at the airfield receive a combat training mission.

Refueling the aircraft.

Equipping the onboard weapons with ammunition.

The face of the flight director giving a command over the radio.

The faces of the pilots.

The canopy of the aircraft's cockpit is closing.

The air regiment command at the checkpoint.

The fighters are taxiing to the runway.

A pair of fighters takes off.

The Northern aircraft carry out an air strike.

The tanks move forward under fire.

The faces of foreign military personnel.

The tanks attack the imaginary enemy.

Air strikes are carried out on targets.

Colonel General Zaitsev and officers at the command and observation post.

Zaitsev observes the actions of the troops.

Practicing the actions of motorized infantry in a meeting battle.

Foreign observers at the command post.

TV cameramen are filming an interview with one of the foreign military personnel.

The faces of Soviet and foreign military personnel.

Foreign officers inspect the materiel of an artillery piece.

Soldiers of one of the units stand in formation.

A political officer speaks to the personnel.

The faces of soldiers and sergeants.

A stand with the text of a newspaper publication of L.I. Brezhnev's book "Small Land" and his portrait.

Soldiers listen to an excerpt from Brezhnev's book read aloud.

Soldiers' faces.

Presentation of the Order of Victory to L.I. Brezhnev in the Kremlin. M.A. Suslov pins the order to Brezhnev's dress jacket and congratulates him.

View of a part of the Moscow Kremlin.

Views of the ceremonial meeting hall in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the USSR Armed Forces.

Brezhnev delivers a speech from the rostrum on the essence of Soviet military policy (synchronously).

Units of the troops of the Belarusian Military District, participating in the exercises, march along the streets of Minsk, residents of Minsk greet the passing troops.

Infantry fighting vehicles drive out to Victory Square.

View of the Victory Monument.

Armored personnel carriers with the battle flags of the units drive along the streets of Minsk.

People's faces greeting the passing troops.

Children on the tank's armor.

A girl next to a tanker.

Children give the soldiers bouquets of flowers.

BMPs with the battle flags of military units move along the central streets of Minsk.

Residents of Minsk greet the passing troops.

View of the avenue during the passage of armored vehicles (from above).