Soviet warrior №10-1983 Field training school (1983)

View of part of the training ground in the Odessa Military District.

Panorama of part of the training ground (top).

Panorama of a military tent camp (top).

Tankers uncover a gun barrel.

Closing the hatches of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles.

The barrels of tank guns are raised.

Columns of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles advance along the roads to the assembly area during the scheduled Dniester exercises (top).

Fragment of a staff map.

Staff officers plot the situation on the maps before the start of the exercise.

Attack helicopters make a turn.

The face of an officer giving a command over the radio.

Tanks open fire.

Tanks attack a simulated enemy.

Panorama of the training ground with tanks advancing to the attack (top).

Officers at the command post.

The commander of the district troops, Colonel General A.S. Elagin, receives reports from unit commanders at the command post.

View of the platform for foreign observers (top).

Faces of the observer officers.

Panorama of part of the training ground with armored vehicles moving forward (top).

Senior Lieutenant Stepanov at the sight in the turret of the BMP. Stepanov climbs out of the hatch.

Motorized riflemen leave the troop compartment of the combat vehicle.

The motorized riflemen deploy in a chain.

Stepanov's face.

The motorized riflemen attack a simulated enemy.

The commander of one of the BMPs conducts observation through triplexes.

The driver and gunner-operator are in their places inside the combat vehicle.

Panorama of part of the training ground during exercises.

A communications officer at the radio station.

The simulated enemy counterattacks, the combat equipment takes up a defensive position.

Repelling a counterattack by a simulated enemy from a stationary position.

An artillery battery takes up a firing position from the march.

The work of 112-mm howitzer crews.

A battery of M-30 howitzers fires at a simulated enemy.

Conducting a defensive and offensive battle, repelling an attack by a simulated enemy.

The combat equipment of the second echelon advances to break through the defensive line of the simulated enemy, views of the training ground during the exercises.

Motorized riflemen and armored vehicles go on the attack.

Tank commander Senior Sergeant Petrov conducts observation through the triplexes of the turret.

Petrov's face.

Faces of gunner Nurmatov, driver-mechanic Simakov.

Loader Atayev loads ammunition.

Attacking armored vehicles, views of the training ground.

Officers and soldiers during rest, washing from a mug.

Soldiers issue a combat leaflet and count books.

Political worker Major Ryndin conducts a conversation with agitators.

Issue of combat leaflets.

A political officer near an armored personnel carrier conducts a conversation with personnel.

Faces of soldiers and officers.

The face of Senior Lieutenant Stepanov, summing up the results of the past training battle.

Faces of soldiers.

Panorama of the Southern Bug unit (from above).

Scouts make their way through the reeds to the rear of the mock enemy during exercises.

Scouts run across a suspension bridge.

Demining with mine detectors.

A sapper defuses a detected mine.

Removing a defused mine, the sapper continues to survey the area with a mine detector.

Armored vehicles of the advance detachment crossing a water obstacle.

Floating infantry fighting vehicles.

Airplanes fly by.

Transportation of equipment and personnel on self-propelled tracked pontoons.

Parachuting armored vehicles of the airborne assault force.

Foreign military personnel observe the actions of the airborne assault force.

Dropping of the airborne assault force, landing of the armored vehicles.

The paratroopers extinguish the canopies and fold the parachutes after landing.

Dropping and landing of the airborne assault force, the paratroopers engage in a mock battle.

Engineering units construct a pontoon bridge for the main forces to cross, connecting the opened pontoons.

Tanks are crossing on the pontoon bridge.

Local residents present soldiers with bread and salt.

Veterans' faces.

A girl's face.

Soldiers and officers begin to communicate with local residents.

Pioneers present soldiers with bouquets of flowers.

Soldiers and officers among veterans and local residents (panorama).

Panorama of a tent camp, units leaving the camp in formation.