Soviet Army №48-1980 On guard of the Fatherland's sky (1980)

Aircraft of one of the air defense regiments at the airfield.

The duty officer at the radar screen.

View of part of the sea coast and a port in the distance.

Seagulls over the water.

Cultivation of land on a collective farm.

Production process in a foundry.

Newlyweds walking surrounded by friends.

A boy playing in a sandbox.

Flocks of birds flying.

Landing of a passenger plane.

Passengers climbing the steps of the plane.

The takeoff and run of a passenger airliner.

Newsreel from 1941: barrage balloons in the skies over Moscow.

A balloon over the monument to A.S. Pushkin.

Transportation of balloons along Gorky Street.

Shop windows on Gorky Street covered with sandbags.

An anti-aircraft gun crew and an airborne detection, observation and communication (VNOS) post on the roof of a Moscow building.

An air defense sound detector crew on duty.

Fighters flying.

The barrel of an anti-aircraft gun rises.

The VNOS crew during the sound detection of air targets.

The bombing of Moscow by the German air force.

The wall of a house falls.

Residents of Leningrad run along Nevsky Prospekt to bomb shelters.

Anti-aircraft gun crews fire at enemy aircraft.

Horns of the sound-detecting installation.

The locator of the air defense radar rotates.

The duty officer at the radar screen.

Soldiers at a drill training session, an officer giving commands.

The face of the platoon commander.

Boots of soldiers marching on the parade ground.

Physical training session on the sports town, performing exercises on various sports equipment.

Overcoming the assault strip.

The missile launcher moves out to the firing position.

Bringing the air defense missile launcher to the combat position in accordance with current regulations.

The platoon commander with a stopwatch in his hand.

The work of the crew numbers.

Soldiers sort through the mail they brought.

Corporal Polyakov reads a letter from home.

Distribution of letters to the soldiers.

Soldiers read letters from home to each other.

Captain M. Tsyplenkov conducts a lesson in the classroom, Tsyplenkov's face.

Soldiers complete the proposed tests, soldiers' faces.

Tsyplenkov conducts a practical lesson on working with target guidance equipment.

Faces of Corporal Polyakov and Private Suchkov during a lesson in the classroom.

Soldiers during a practical lesson on target tracking.

Polyakov teaches Private Suchkov his specialty.

Pilot training on a simulator.

Lieutenant Colonel Vlasov leads the lesson.

Interceptor pilot during a lesson on the simulator.

Vlasov puts on a high-altitude helmet in front of a mirror.

Interceptor fighters at the airfield, pilots walk along the airfield.

A fighter taking off on a training mission.

The flight director behind the tower glass.

The pilot in the fighter cockpit.

An interceptor fighter on a training flight, Vlasov's face.

Newsreel: air battles during the Great Patriotic War.

A German plane in the spotlights.

A German plane hit.

A plane crashing with a torn off wing.

A German plane burning on the ground.

Air defense radar locators.

Missilemen rise to the alarm.

Soldiers disassemble their weapons.

Missilemen run out of the barracks to their combat posts.

The crew members descend into the bunker.

Report on readiness for battle.

Combat work of the air defense missile and anti-aircraft division commander and crew members.

Guiding the missile to the target, faces of the officers of the guidance and target tracking services.

The officer gives commands to launch the missiles, the radar screen.

The officer works on the electronic computer equipment to simulate the combat training mission.

The division commander announces gratitude to the crew members in front of the formation, who distinguished themselves during the combat training mission.

A ceremonial march of veterans through the streets of the city during the celebration of Victory Day, presentation of flowers to veterans.

Soldiers listen to the story of one of the veterans during an excursion to the battle sites on Malaya Zemlya.

Newsreel from 1943: combat operations on Malaya Zemlya, view of the combat zone (from above).

View of the destroyed blocks of Novorossiysk, artillery and air defense crews firing at the enemy.

Air battle over Kuban.

Landing of marines on the shore.

Soviet artillery fires at the enemy.

Officers emerge from a dugout, including the head of the political department of the 18th Army, Colonel L. I. Brezhnev, interspersed with war photographs of Brezhnev.

Marines rise to the attack during the battles for the liberation of Novorossiysk.

Planting a red flag over the entrance to the territory of the Proletary cement plant.

Soldiers walk to the monument to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War in Novorossiysk.

Panorama of a part of the memorial complex in Novorossiysk.

Missile soldiers listen to the story of the political officer Captain Golub during an excursion to Malaya Zemlya.

Schoolchildren at the pedestal of the monument.

Air Defense Forces veteran, retired Colonel M. R. Voronov, whose missile division shot down an American U-2 aircraft piloted by Powers in 1960, shares his memories with missile soldiers.

Voronov's story about the destruction of an American spy plane (synchronously), faces of soldiers.

Soldier Ivan Suchkov writes a letter home during a break.

Corporal Polyakov plays chess with a comrade.

The commander of an anti-aircraft missile battalion gives the order to march and gets into the truck.

The division column moves to a designated area.

The driver is in the cab of one of the trucks.

Soldiers are in the back of the truck under the awning.

The division column moves.

Signal flares are in the sky.

The battalion commander puts on a gas mask.

Signaling the use of chemical weapons by the enemy.

Soldiers in the back of the truck put on gas masks.

The column moves through a conditionally contaminated area.

Simulating an attack on the column.

Soldiers leave the back of the truck.

Drivers leave the cabs and take cover in a roadside ditch.

Automatic installation of signs indicating a contaminated area.

Soldiers in gas masks and protective suits decontaminate equipment.

The driver is driving the lead truck.

The division commander gives commands to continue the march and reports a difficult section of the road (synchronously).

The column moves along a steep descent washed out by the rains.

Soldiers help pull out a truck stuck in the mud.

Towing one of the trucks.

Officers at the command post.

Fighter-interceptors before takeoff.

Flight director at the command post.

Fighters take off to perform a training and combat mission.

Officers at the radar complex.

Interceptors fly to the distant line.

One of the division crews brings the missile to combat position.

Hitting an aerial target.

The guidance officer reports the target's approach to the launch zone.

The face of Corporal Polyakov.

Guiding the missile to the target.

The face of Private Suchkov.

Missile launches, hitting aerial targets.

Grass in the meadow.

Corporal Polyakov stands by the window of a train carriage.

Polyakov's parents meet him after he returns from military service.

Fellow villagers greet Polyakov with bread and salt.

Rural landscape.

View of Red Square.