Newsreel Soviet Army №56-1982 First salvo. (1982)
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Reel 2
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0:09:33Soviet Army №56-1982 First salvo (1982)
Annotation:
The film tells the heroic story of the first rocket-mortar battery of the legendary "Katyushas", commanded by Captain Flerov, and about the current life and combat training of mortar soldiers of the N-th Guards unit.
Annotation:
Soldiers and officers of rocket-mortar launchers study the aiming device, conduct training in automatic driving. Sending Ural trucks with rocket-mortar launchers by rail to the training site. Training battle with rocket-mortar launchers. Officer commands (synchronously). Soldier loads the rocket launcher, turns the aiming device handle. Grad rocket launchers fire. Explosions on the field, the ground burns. Tanks, infantry fighting vehicles drive, helicopters fly. Soldiers and officers rest after the training. Monuments to Katyusha rocket-mortar launchers at the sites of former battles. Newsreel plot. Belarus. The first salvo of Katyushas at the railway junction of the city of Orsha (July 14, 1941).
Reel №1
Field landscapes.
Katyusha monument.
Birch tree, another Katyusha monument.
Details of the monument.
Newsreel 1941-1945: Katyushas drive over a bridge; Katyushas stand; Katyushas fire; Germans run; smoke, fire, destruction; a tank is burning.
B/W photograph of Captain Flerov, whose battery received an order to strike the Orsha railway junction with the new weapon.
Photographs of Flerov's comrades-in-arms.
Clouds, field.
A group of soldiers resting on the grass.
Soldiers of the Guards Rocket Division at rocket launchers.
Soldiers cleaning and washing the launcher.
Guards insignia on the vehicle cabin.
Young soldiers running in formation.
Soldiers overcoming an obstacle course with fire (the voices of soldiers taking the oath are heard in the background).
Soldiers training at a rocket launcher.
The commander of the firing platoon, Guards Senior Lieutenant Molodkin, conducts a lesson with soldiers on the combat calculations of the launchers.
B/W photographs of the first rocket launchers.
Soldiers are listening (the commander's voice in the background).
The instructor shows the soldiers the mechanical sight of the launcher, gives explanations; soldiers listening.
The division chief of staff, Guards Captain Skvortsov, conducts a driving lesson with soldiers in the classroom.
A soldier drives a Ural vehicle with a rocket launcher, a soldier's hands, a soldier's face.
A Ural vehicle drives across the training ground; a soldier in the vehicle's cabin.
A Ural vehicle drives across the bridge.
An officer with a stopwatch.
Ural vehicles with launchers on railway platforms.
Soldiers load boxes into railway cars.
The battery commander, Guards Captain Sinelnik, supervises the loading.
A Ural vehicle drives onto a railway platform.
A train with Urals passes by.
A landscape with a train in motion.
The duty officer escorts the cargo.
Trains and rails pass by.
A soldier on the platform of a moving train.
Rural landscape with a moving train, in the foreground – people harvesting hay.
Newsreel footage of a train with guns passing by
Reel №2
Newsreel 1941-1945: rails flash by (from a moving train); a train with soldiers and tanks passes, soldiers look out of a carriage of a moving train.
Landscape from a moving train, soldiers look out of a train carriage window; railway station, grain elevator building (from a moving train).
A train with tractors passes.
A train with agricultural machinery (from a moving train).
A soldier looks out of a train window.
Industrial landscape (from a moving train).
A military tent camp; soldiers stand in formation, an officer calls the roll.
Radio installation, tent camp (in the background, a radio announcer reports on the construction of the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline).
A birch tree with a bird's nest, a military camp.
A soldier tightens a wheel on a car, soldiers inspect the engines of the cars.
An officer checks a gas mask on a soldier.
Soldiers at a targeting device.
An officer conducts a political talk with soldiers, reads them a newspaper report.
Soldiers are listening.
Model of rough terrain, officers.
An officer looks through the sight at another officer making calculations; officer.
Soldiers and officers at vehicles before a training battle, the officer gives them an assignment.
A line of soldiers.
Soldiers run to the vehicles and get into them.
Vehicles with rocket launchers drive along the road and in the field.
Soldiers in the vehicle cabins.
Soldiers remove the cover from the launcher.
Soldiers at the aiming device.
Soldiers load the launcher.
Commanders at the observation post.
The commander gives the command.
A soldier looks through the sight.
Rocket launchers fire.
Shells explode in the field.
Helicopters fly.
A tank passes.
Shots from helicopters.
A building is burning.
Tanks pass.
The ground is burning.
Vehicles with headlights on drive by.
Soldiers at the aiming device.
The driver in the cabin.
A rocket launcher fires.
A tank gun fires.
Soldiers run and fire.
Vehicles with rocket launchers drive by with their headlights on.
A field landscape with the setting sun.
Commanders resting.
Soldiers resting on the grass.