The road to heaven (1991)

Air defense radar locators rotate.

Cadets of the Kharkiv Higher Military Aviation School sleeping in the barracks.

The dress uniforms of Air Force lieutenants hanging in the closet.

The orchestra of the school goes to the parade ground to the music before the presentation of graduation diplomas to graduates.

Relatives of graduates before the start of the solemn event, the Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Air Force, Colonel-General Shaposhnikov E.I. among the officers.

The face of a first-year cadet.

Presentation of graduation diplomas to graduates.

Farewell to the banner of the school.

The teachers of the school salute the passing formation of graduates.

The banner of the school is carried on the parade ground.

The officers of the school are in the ranks.

The girls' faces.

Graduates pass through the parade ground in a solemn march.

The teaching officers greet the passing graduates with a salute.

Graduates try on their first officer's uniform in front of the mirror.

Combat training aircraft at the airfield, a panorama of a part of the airfield.

Air Marshal Kozhedub I.N., accompanied by officers, walks along the airfield along the standing planes, greets one of the pilots.

Kozhedub sits down in the cockpit of a fighter.

Models of aircraft from the Great Patriotic War, Kozhedub and veterans of Soviet aviation inspect the exposition of the school museum.

Photos of pilots of the Great Patriotic War period in the museum's exposition, a portrait of Kozhedub on the stand.

A cadet during a class on a flight simulator.

The aircraft performs aerobatics.

Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Air Force Shaposhnikov E.I. talks to cadets at the airfield, answers questions about responsibility at his post, talks about his flight service (synchronously and behind the scenes), combat training aircraft at the airfield.

The fighter is in flight.

A unit of cadets is marching through the territory of the school.

Cadets during a class in radio electronics.

Physical training session on the simulators of the sports town.

A cadet in class demonstrates the flight path using a model airplane.

Training on a catapult simulator.

Cadets land on parachutes during parachute training classes.

Cadets solve practical tasks in the classroom for the study of aircraft control devices.

Panorama of the class during the lesson.

An instructor at the airfield conducts a debriefing, holding a model aircraft in his hands.

Cadets talk about the army as a derivative of society, about the relationship of problems in the army and society (synchronously).

Instructor pilots and those responsible for ensuring flights during the preflight meeting.

The instructor pilot goes to the plane, climbs into the cockpit.

The plane before takeoff (from above), the plane begins to take off.

Cadets are watching the flight of their comrade, a training aircraft in flight.

Cadets during a practical lesson in the classroom.

Shaposhnikov E.I. talks about examples in the education of military pilots, about the peculiarities of the pilot's profession (synchronously).

A group of cadets before a training flight.

The faces of the cadets.

The plane is taxiing to the runway.

Towing an airplane around the airfield, a panorama of a part of the airfield.

One of the cadets of the school tells about his passion for aviation during his school years, about his desire to become a pilot (synchronously).

Officers at the mission control station.

Panorama of runways, a plane taking off.

Pilot-cosmonaut A.A. Lenov talks about the 60th anniversary of the school, about the contribution of graduates of the school to the construction of Soviet aviation, about cosmonauts who graduated from the Kharkov Military Aviation School, recalls graduates of the school who came to the first cosmonaut squad (synchronously and off-screen).

Portraits of cosmonauts-graduates of the school.

Members of the cosmonaut squad at the Star City Museum.

Exhibits in the halls of the museum.

Georgy Dobrovolsky's report with a request to enroll him in the cosmonaut squad is on display at the museum.

Combat training aircraft in flight, performing aerobatics.

The pilots are walking along the airfield.