The issue tells about the life and combat training of soldiers serving in the limited contingent of Soviet troops in the Mongolian People's Republic. The hero of the magazine is a conscript from Latvia, Ivors Princes.




View of a part of the embankment in Riga.
Mother and younger brother reading a letter from their son serving in Mongolia.
Family of soldier Ivors Princes.
Parents and younger brother looking at photographs sent by their son.
Face of tanker A. Princes.
Princes writing a letter home in class.
Panorama of the Mongolian steppe (top).
Grazing horses.
Face of a herder.
Space antenna in the steppe.
Driller at work.
View of a thermal power plant.
International Space Station in orbit.
Mongolian cosmonaut Gurragcha Zh. during a flight.
Views of Ulaanbaatar neighborhoods and streets, people on the streets.
Yurt among modern residential buildings.
View of the steppe garrison of the Soviet Army. A. Princes with Mongolian soldiers on the territory of the military unit.
A platoon marching on the parade ground.
Princes meeting with Mongolian tankmen during joint exercises.
Princess and his comrades share their experience with Mongolian tank crews, faces of Mongolian and Soviet tank crews.
Soviet tank crew with a camera.
Tanks of the Mongolian People's Army.
Soviet tank crews visiting a neighboring state farm inspecting agricultural machinery.
Assistance in repairing tractors, Princess repairs an engine.
Soldiers in a classroom during a political lesson, face of a political officer.
Information boards on the wall of a classroom.
View of the old city in Ulaanbaatar.
Soviet soldiers during an excursion through the old city.
The guide tells the soldiers about traditional Mongolian architecture.
Soviet and Mongolian soldiers in a museum during an excursion listen to the guide's story.
Soldiers examine a sculptural composition and paintings depicting the meeting of V.I. Lenin and Sukhe-Bator.
Faces of Soviet and Mongolian soldiers.
Photo of Corps Commander Zhukov G.K. Newsreel from 1939: Zhukov G.K. and members of the headquarters during battles with the Japanese invaders on the Khalkhin-Gol River.
Faces of Marshal Choibalsan and Zhukov.
Red Army soldiers near a truck.
Zhukov, Choibalsan and the commanders accompanying them walk around the battlefields after they were over.
Face of A. Princes listening to the guide and looking at the museum exhibit.
Tank on a pedestal.
Newsreel from 1941-1945: movement of a Mongolian horse convoy with cargo for the Red Army.
Loading food and warm clothing for the Red Army onto a train.
Mongolian delegates hand over gifts to Soviet tank crews.
A Soviet officer tries on a Mongolian hat.
The "Revolutionary Mongolia" tank column, built with funds from Mongolian workers and handed over to the Red Army.
Transfer of aircraft of the Mongolian Arat air squadron to Soviet pilots. A. Princes writes a letter home in class.
A meeting of officers of the military unit.
Mongolian landscape.
A tank column marches during exercises. A. Princes's face in a tank helmet.
The movement of a mechanized column during a forced march to the rear of the imaginary enemy.
Panorama of rocks and lying boulders.
Sappers are clearing a blockage and the territory using mine detectors.
Mongolian machine gunners are ready to open fire.
Clearing a blockage of stones using a barrier vehicle and a bulldozer.
The tanks continue to move.
Self-propelled artillery units on the march.
Batteries of self-propelled and towed guns fire at the imaginary enemy.
Tanks attack the imaginary enemy, the tank platoon commander conducts observation through a triplex.
Tanks and artillery in a training battle.
Issuing a combat leaflet under the supervision of a political officer based on the results of the exercises.
Sorting letters in the post office of the military unit. A. Princes selects books in the library.
A statue of a Mongolian and Russian border guard.
A woman pours tea into a bowl.
Soviet officers visiting a Mongolian family drinking tea.
Young Mongolian archers in national costumes during a competition.
Archery competition.
Horse racing in the steppe.
Mongolian national wrestling competition among teenagers.
Performance of the Mongolian national folklore ensemble in front of Soviet soldiers, faces of soldiers. A. Princes among his comrades and Mongolian soldiers after the end of another exercise.
Exchanging postal addresses.
Princes writes a letter home.
The face of Princes.
Zhukov Georgy Konstantinovich - military leader
Choibalsan Khorloogiin - Mongolian revolutionary, statesman, military and political figure
Gurragcha Jugderdemidiin -- Mongolian astronaut-researcher
1983
Mongolia, Riga
Winter