The film tells about the reduction of the USSR Armed Forces, about the involvement of individual units and formations in providing assistance in the national economy of the country.








Ceremony of transferring the battle flag of one of the guards motorized rifle units to the Central Museum of the Armed Forces of the USSR for safekeeping, the standard-bearer carries the flag up the stairs.
Soldiers in dress uniform with banners stand at the edges of the stairs.
Battle flags of units and formations in the storage facility of the museum fund (panorama).
The face of a soldier.
Soldiers with banners stand at the edges of the marble staircase of the Central Museum of the Armed Forces of the USSR. Destruction of missiles at a test site.
Foreign observers at a Soviet missile test site during the destruction of ammunition as part of arms reduction, transportation of another missile for destruction.
Faces of foreign observers (panorama).
Movement of a column of missile launchers to the test site to detonate ammunition.
Officers of the National Center for Nuclear Risk Reduction at work, the emblem of the center on the wall.
Interview with the head of the Soviet center, Major General Medvedev, about the mutual reduction of nuclear weapons (synchronously).
Employees of the center at work.
People walk along Arbat.
Interview with cadets of the Leningrad Higher Military School and demobilized servicemen about the prospects of reducing the army (synchronously).
Interview with the rector of the Trinity Cathedral on Lenin Hills in Moscow, Archpriest Sergiy Suzdaltsev (synchronously).
People listen to speakers in the park at a rally dedicated to the reduction of the army.
Faces of participants in rallies and meetings.
Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Major Zolotukhin, speaks from the stage of the summer stage in the park during a meeting with voters dedicated to the issues of reducing the army (synchronously).
Landscapes of the Vologda Region.
Broken roads in the Totemsky District of the Vologda Region.
Log structure of an abandoned village house.
Interior views of an abandoned house.
Panorama of a part of the road being reconstructed during excavation work.
A machine operator at the controls of an earthmoving machine.
Equipment at road excavation work.
Officers of one of the military road units discuss the work plan.
An abandoned wooden house.
Crowns of logs.
A column of dump trucks moves to road works in the Totminsky district.
The driver at the wheel of one of the dump trucks.
Unloading soil from the back of a dump truck.
Interview with Lieutenant Colonel V. Chaika about the pace of road construction (synchronously and behind the scenes).
Laying asphalt pavement.
Soldiers and local road workers at the road construction site.
A tugboat goes along the river.
Laying asphalt pavement, equipment at road works.
Lieutenant Colonel V. Chaika and Chairman of the Totminsky District Executive Committee S. Gromov discuss issues of further road construction.
Cows cross a hole with water on the side of the road.
Cows in the pasture.
Plowing the land with a K-700 tractor.
View of a street in one of the district's populated areas.
Carved decorations on one of the houses.
A column of trucks moves along a new road.
Interview with S. Gromov about road construction in the district (synchronously and behind the scenes).
A truck drives along an asphalt road.
A fragment of a carved decoration on one of the houses.
Children playing near the house.
A soldier driving an asphalt roller.
Laying and compacting asphalt road surface.
Vologda landscape.
A soldier walking along the road.
Road landscape.
Trucks driving along a new asphalt road.
Landing of an Il-76 military transport aircraft.
Radar screen.
A military transport aircraft at the airfield.
An officer-pilot performs a song with a guitar (synchronously and off-screen), military transport aircraft at the airfield (panorama).
An aircraft on the runway.
A technician checks the aircraft engine.
The regiment commander issues the crew a flight assignment for the transportation of civilian equipment for a fee, the pilots' faces.
The face of the crew commander, Captain Kirillov, in the aircraft cockpit before takeoff.
Loading equipment onto the aircraft, Kirillov supervises the loading, giving signs to the driver.
An Il-76 at the airfield during loading.
Interior view of the control tower.
Takeoff of a military transport aircraft.
View through the porthole.
Kirillov at the controls of the plane.
Interview with the commander of the air regiment, Colonel G. I. Alekseenko, about the army's participation in solving national economic problems (synchronously and behind the scenes).
Loading airborne troops onto planes.
The plane taxis to the runway.
Takeoff of a military transport plane.
Panorama of a populated area damaged by the earthquake (from above).
Views of destroyed streets from a car window.
A child in the yard of a destroyed house.
Equipment and military personnel clearing rubble after the earthquake in Armenia.
Airplane at the airfield.
Unloading equipment and other cargo from the plane.
A truck near the plane being loaded.
Road equipment in one of the destroyed settlements.
Panorama of the yard of a destroyed house, a child in the yard.
Children's faces.
View from the navigator's cabin of an airplane taking off.
A military transport plane in flight.
1989
Moscow, Vologda region, Armenia, USSR
Autumn