The issue is dedicated to the meeting of the leadership of the USSR Ministry of Defense with veterans of the Soviet Armed Forces in the Red Banner Hall of the CDSA.












Generals and officers walk up the main staircase of the CDSA. A meeting of veterans and leaders of the USSR Ministry of Defense in the corridors, veterans greeting each other, veterans' faces.
Veterans at a stand with books and photographs.
Defense Minister D.F. Ustinov talks to veterans.
Veterans look through literature displayed on stands in the foyer.
One of the veterans talks to conscripts.
A painting dedicated to the capture of the Reichstag.
The meeting participants take their seats in the hall and presidium.
Ustinov opens the meeting, standing in the presidium (synchronously and off-screen), views of the hall, faces of the veterans participating in the meeting.
Panorama of the hall, meeting participants making notes and marks.
Commander of the Far Eastern Military District I.M. Tretyak speaks from the rostrum (synchronously).
Faces of the meeting participants sitting in the presidium and in the hall.
Veteran, director of the state farm V.I. Golovchenko speaks from the rostrum (synchronously).
Faces of the meeting participants.
Panorama of the presidium.
Chief of the Political Directorate of the Missile Forces, member of the Military Council Gorchakov P.A. speaks from the rostrum in front of the meeting participants (synchronously and behind the scenes), views of the hall.
The strength of soldiers standing in formation.
View of the presidium during Gorchakov’s speech, Gorchakov speaks from the rostrum (synchronously).
Views of the hall and faces of the meeting participants.
Chairman of the Soviet Committee of War Veterans Zheltov A.S. speaks from the rostrum (synchronously).
Panorama of the hall (from above).
Chairman of the Central Committee of DOSAAF Egorov N.M. speaks from the rostrum (synchronously).
Egorov during a meeting with servicemen.
Front-line pilot Popova N. speaks from the rostrum in front of the meeting participants (synchronously), faces of veterans.
Ustinov in the presidium during Popova’s speech.
Meeting participants in the hall and presidium.
Veteran and former political instructor Shafer Yu.G. speaks. (synchronously).
Veteran Redzhepov delivers a speech from the podium (synchronously).
Meeting participants listen to Redzhepov.
Views and panorama of the hall.
Meeting participants deliver speeches, views of the hall.
Major Kozlov addresses veterans from the podium on behalf of young soldiers (synchronously and off-screen), veterans’ faces, Ustinov in the presidium.
Panorama of the hall.
Meeting participants’ faces, Ustinov D.F. delivers the closing remarks (synchronously and off-screen).
Panorama of the hall during the meeting with veterans of the party, labor, and the Armed Forces in the CPSU Central Committee.
Meeting participants’ faces in the CDSA. Ustinov continues his speech, talks about the confrontation with the United States and the deployment of Soviet weapons at sea and in the air in response to American missiles in Europe (synchronously), veterans listen to the Minister of Defense.
Veterans’ faces and views of the hall during Ustinov’s speech.
Tanks in the field before the start of the exercises.
Airborne troops in formation in a field, the paratroopers' faces (panorama).
The faces of naval sailors standing in formation.
A panorama of a tank unit lined up on a field with equipment and personnel.
Ustinov speaks from the podium about the importance of military-patriotic education of young people (synchronously and off-screen).
The meeting participants are taking notes on the text of Ustinov's speech.
Views and a panorama of the meeting hall in the CDSA. The Chief of the Main Political Directorate, General of the Army A.A. Epishev, is on the presidium.
The meeting participants are applauding.
Photojournalists are filming.
The meeting participants, together with Ustinov, are posing for a commemorative photograph on the stage of the hall.
Pokryshkin A.I. is talking to young people.
Kozhedub I.N. is giving an interview to radio journalists.
Interview of Kozhedub I.N. and Pokryshkin A.I. (synchronously).
The faces of young people.
Former commander of the partisan unit Fyodorov A.F. During a meeting with schoolchildren at the museum.
Fedorov speaks to schoolchildren (synchronously).
Photos and awards in the museum exhibition.
Veterans give autographs to conscripts.
One of the veterans in the museum near his machine gun talks to the servicemen.
Veterans during a meeting with cadets of one of the military schools.
Veterans walk around the formation during a visit to one of the military units.
Ustinov Dmitry Fedorovich - statesman, military and political figure
Tretyak Ivan Moiseevich - military leader
Epishev Aleksey Alekseevich - military-political figure, diplomat
Gorchakov Petr Andreevich - military and political figure
Zheltov Aleksey Sergeevich - military leader, public figure
Pokryshkin Alexander Ivanovich - fighter pilot, military leader
Kozhedub Ivan Nikitovich - fighter pilot, military leader
Fedorov Alexey Fedorovich - statesman and political figure
1984
Moscow, USSR
Winter