Solovetsky cabin boys (2016)

Sailors tie a wreath of flowers with ribbons.

Sailors lower a wreath into the water.

Sailors lower a wreath into the water.

Sailors in the honor guard.

Flowers in the water.

SOLOVETSKY YUNGAI, a panorama of the People's Republic of China.

Monastery in scaffolding.

River.

A boat moves through the water toward the pier.

People on a boat.

Water.

A man looks out of the boat's window.

Walkway to people on the boat's deck.

A man secures a rope.

Opens the exit to the gangway.

People descend the gangway from the boat's deck.

An open door to the building onto the street.

Women in headscarves, men without headdresses.

A female tour guide with a group of people.

Boys on the street.

Cows.

A man.

A panorama of nature, a river.

A female tour guide gives a tour to a group of people.

A group of women and a nun listen to the tour guide's story.

A male tour guide with a group of people on the monastery grounds.

A female tour guide with a group of people.

Construction workers lie down to rest on the grass against the backdrop of the monastery.

A panorama of the monastery's walls and structures.

Gate.

A group of people on a tour.

Monument.

Stones, a ship's anchor, a plaque depicting a ship.

A stone monument to the cabin boys who died during the Great Patriotic War.

Children holding red flags.

A group of people at the monastery gates.

People pass through the gates.

Water gushes from under stone slabs, a wooden gangway.

Black and white footage of oars, young sailors in a boat with oars.

Boats with young sailors/Cabin boys with signal flags.

Color.

Outside, children with red flags are learning the basic letters of signals.

Outside, children with red flags are learning the basic letters of signals.

Children approach and hand over their flags.

A bus is driving.

A private sector and a two-story residential building.

The sun, people.

A temple.

The sun sets behind the horizon.

A motorboat is sailing along the river.

Part of a stone structure.

Water.

Shore.

Stones.

The monastery walls are illuminated by the sun.

A black-and-white chronicle of a young cabin boy in a naval uniform.

A bugler on the deck of a ship.

A black-and-white photo of a young man in a naval uniform.

An elderly man in a naval uniform.

His chest is covered in orders and medals in a museum hall.

A black-and-white photo of a young man in a naval uniform against a black background.

An elderly man in a naval uniform.

His chest is covered in orders and medals in a museum hall.

A sailor's cap.

An elderly man in a naval uniform.

His chest is covered in orders and medals in a museum hall.

An elderly man in a gray sweater sits on a chair in a room with a window in the background.

CAPTION: Igor Titov, Solovetsky Cabin Boy.

An elderly man in a gray sweater sits on a chair in a room with a window in the background.

Cabin boys at formation.

A senior officer checks the condition of the cabin boys' uniforms.

Boys adjust each other's collars.

He checks the condition of the belt buckle.

Transition to cabin boys in formation.

There are girls among the boys.

A gray-haired officer in naval uniform against the backdrop of a building, a black-and-white chronicle of sailors marching in formation.

Cabin boys march in formation.

An elderly man in military naval uniform.

His chest is covered in orders and medals in the museum hall.

CAPTION: Boris Davydov, Solovetsky cabin boy.

An elderly man in a gray sweater sits on a chair in a room against the backdrop of a window.

Stones lie in a semicircle.

CAPTION: The voice of Solovetsky cabin boy Valentin Pikul is heard.

Transition to buildings.

Slate on the roof of a house.

It is raining.

A log in the water.

A destroyed bridge.

Water, a black-and-white chronicle.

They raise the flag on the flagpole, the tops of the trees.

A black-and-white photo of cabin boys marching in formation.

A black-and-white photo of boys in radio operators' headphones.

A black-and-white photo of two cabin boys in naval uniform.

An elderly man in military naval uniform.

His chest is covered in orders and medals in the museum hall.

A black-and-white chronicle of cabin boys at their desks studying outside.

Cabin boys at their desks.

Cabin boys with balls of rope.

The hands of boys and girls tie knots on a ship's rope.

A naval officer in uniform.

Young cabin boys tie knots with their hands.

A girl cabin boy demonstrates a knot tying pattern.

Cabin boys tie knots on a rope.

A naval officer in uniform watches the boys.

He checks the knots.

A mast-laden ship is sailing along the river.

At home, a black-and-white chronicle of sailboats sailing along the river.

Color.

A gray-haired man in a gray sweater sits on a chair in a room against a window.

A black-and-white chronicle of a cavalcade of rowboats with sailors.

Color.

A gray-haired man in a gray sweater sits on a chair in a room against a window.

Panorama of orders and medals.

A gray-haired man in a gray sweater sits on a chair in a room against a window.

A black-and-white chronicle of musicians in naval uniform.

A black-and-white chronicle of a boat with people rowing.

A black-and-white photo of sailors marching in formation.

An elderly man in a military naval uniform.

A chest covered in orders and medals in a museum hall.

Black and white drawing.

Monastery wall and structures.

Color.

An elderly man in a naval uniform.

A chest covered in orders and medals in a museum hall.

Black and white photo.

Sailors sitting at their desks.

Teacher.

An elderly man in a naval uniform.

A chest covered in orders and medals in a museum hall.

A wooden door is open.

A plaque is on the wall.

A cabin boy comes out and walks along a path.

On the playground, boys in naval uniforms take a test on signals with flags.

B/W chronicle.

A boy signals with flags.

Color.

A girl in uniform distributes flags to cabin boys.

Cabin boys signal with red flags.

A boy cabin boy signals with flags.

Cabin boys signal with red flags.

A boy cabin boy signals with flags.

Panorama.

B/W photo of boys in naval uniform.

A gray-haired man in a gray sweater sits on a chair in a room against a window.

B/W photo of a group of men in naval uniform.

A gray-haired man in a gray sweater sits on a chair in a room against a window.

B/W photo of a group of men in naval uniform.

Color.

An elderly man in a military naval uniform.

His entire chest is covered in orders and medals in the museum hall.

A gray-haired man in a gray sweater sits on a chair in a room against a window. (From a window in the building) Outside, boys in naval uniform signal with flags.

Boys in a room in front of tables with disassembled machine guns.

Assembling and disassembling a machine gun.

The sergeant major opens the door.

Two girls in naval uniforms enter.

A black-and-white chronicle of nature in the People's Republic of Poland in a light fog.

A river, islands.

Houses.

A motorboat is moving along the river.

A monastery.

A black-and-white chronicle.

A cabin boy rings a bell.

A black-and-white photo of a young man in a naval uniform.

CAPTION: Valentin Pikul.

Solovetsky cabin boy.

A black-and-white chronicle.

A man walks along slabs, water splashes over them.

Boats cut through the water.

An explosion in the water, a column of water from the explosion.

A cruiser fires.

Warships at sea.

Sailors throw a mine and shells into the water.

Explosions in the water.

Color.

An elderly man in a military naval uniform.

His entire chest is covered in orders and medals.

In a museum hall.

A black-and-white chronicle.

Ships fire.

Explosions in the water.

Warships.

A gray-haired man in a gray sweater sits on a chair in a room against a window.

Black and white footage of sailors firing a cannon on a ship.

A gray-haired man in a gray sweater sits on a chair in a room against a window.

Black and white footage of sailors firing a cannon on a ship.

The color of a sailboat's mast from the shore.

A man plays and sings on the deck of a sailboat.

Water, buildings.

People on the shore listen to a song, transition to a guy with a guitar.

People on the shore listen to a song, transition to a man with a guitar.

Panorama of sailboats near the shore.

The shore is made of slabs.

Water, a wrecked boat near the shore.

Panorama of a monastery, a wooden sailboat in the water, logs.

Scaffolding on the monastery structure.

Panorama of old televisions and a refrigerator under an awning.

Monastery chapels, cabin boys marching in formation with a flag in the distance.

An old television shows cabin boys saluting a warship with raised sailor caps.

A sailors' orchestra.

Old equipment of the monastery chapel, cabin boys marching in formation with a flag in the distance.

Carved window frames in the chapel, a passage to the door, a view of the street.

A stone monument.

An anchor.

A woman tends a memorial.

A black-and-white chronicle of an honor guard at the opening of the memorial.

Sailors carry flowers with ribbons.

Young Pioneers lay flowers.

Children with flowers.

People stand on the stones of the monastery walls.

Tsvet.

Cabin boys march in formation with a flag.

Boats, motorboats on the water near the shore.

A panorama of nature.

Water, reflection of the monastery dome.

Stones, grass.

A panorama of black-and-white photos of boys in naval uniforms.

A black-and-white photo of a boy.

Tsvet.

An elderly man in a military naval uniform.

A chest covered in orders and medals in a museum hall.

A black-and-white photo of a boy in a naval uniform.

A black-and-white photo of a boy in a naval uniform (zoom in).

A black-and-white photo of a boy in a naval uniform.

A black-and-white peakless cap (zoom out).

A black-and-white photo of a boy in a naval uniform.

A black-and-white photo of a cabin boy being awarded an order.

A black-and-white photo of a cabin boy with an order on his chest.

An elderly man in a naval uniform.

His chest covered in orders and medals in a museum hall.

A black-and-white newsreel of a boat sailing on water.

A gray-haired man in a gray sweater sits on a chair in a room with a window in the background.

An elderly man in a naval uniform.

His chest covered in orders and medals in a museum hall films on camera.

Cabin boys carry out the St.

Andrew's flag.

St.

Andrew's flag.

Cabin boys march with an officer.

St.

Andrew's flag on the deck.

Cabin boys march along the wooden deck.

Panorama.

Monastery walls.

Sailors in the honor guard.

Color guard.

Father, cabin boys.

Cabin boys lined up.

Cabin boys in formation.

Sailors tie a wreath of flowers with ribbons.

Sailors lower a wreath into the water.

Water.

Sailors in the honor guard.

Blue ribbon.

Water.

Flowers in the water.

An elderly man in a naval uniform, his chest covered in orders and medals, films in the museum hall.

He closes the camera.

An old TV broadcast: cabin boys salute the ship.

The image suddenly disappears.

Panorama.

Wooden outbuildings.

The road to the monastery.

Monastery, people, water.

CAPTION: The romance "Swirls like a wave" performed by Solovetsky cabin boy Boris Shtokolov.

A boat is sailing on the water.

People are standing on the pier.

CAPTION: The Solovetsky School of Seamen (1942-1945) graduated 4,111 seamen.

One in four died. 159 graduates were awarded the Nakhimov and Ushakov medals.

Forty-five seamen were awarded the Order of the Red Star, the Red Banner, and the Order of the Patriotic War.

Seaman Volodya Moiseenko was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.