



Surgeons perform an operation on a ship.




Baltic Fleet Commander-in-Chief Vice-Admiral Vladimir Tributs sees off the submarines.
Torpedoes are loaded onto the submarines.
The submarine sets out to sea.




A submarine launches a torpedo.
A stricken enemy ship explodes, seen through the periscope.
Sailors look through the periscope.
A Nazi transport at sea.
The submarine's commander looks through the periscope, a torpedo is launched, an explosion.
Two ships sail side by side.
The Germans drop depth charges from the ship.
Sailors on the submarine.
A sonar operator.




A submarine enters the harbor.
The sailors disembark.
They greet each other and hug.
A sailor opens a letter.
On the sides of the submarines, the sailors write numbers—the number of German ships sunk.




Military boats are met at the pier.
Wounded sailors disembark.
People carry coffins of the dead.
Funerals, rifle salvos.