The film tells about the activities of military units and non-militarized civil defense formations in the event of an enemy attack, and about the civil defense exercises that are conducted.
View of a part of the Moscow Kremlin.
Views of bridges on the Moscow River (from above).
Seascape.
Arctic landscape.
Arrival of a passenger train at the station in Vladivostok.
Views of the cargo port, loading a car onto a ship with a crane.
Laying the railway track during the construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline.
Production processes in the open-hearth and rolling shops of industrial enterprises, workers' faces.
Loading coal into cars.
A train with coal is moving.
Harvesting with a combine.
A worker winnows grain at a grain threshing floor.
Cotton harvesters at harvest.
The process of drilling an oil well, view of the drilling rig.
An icebreaker goes through the ice.
The nuclear-powered icebreaker "Arktika" goes through the ice.
View of a part of the fishing port.
Fishermen pour the catch out of the net.
The process of sorting fish.
A giant telescope pointing to the sky.
Observatory employees at work.
Launch of a spaceship.
A machine operator tests the soil by touch.
Installation of a reinforcement frame during the construction of a building.
Construction of apartment buildings.
View of part of the Moscow Kremlin.
The national flag of the USSR over the Kremlin.
View of the Ostankino TV tower (bottom up).
People on the streets of Moscow.
Views of city blocks.
Newsreel: panorama of part of the destroyed Stalingrad in 1943. A soldier returning home looks out of the train window.
General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee L.I. Brezhnev signs an international agreement on disarmament during a meeting in Helsinki in 1975. Photojournalists are filming.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR A.A. Gromyko speaks from the rostrum.
Members of the delegations in their seats.
Brezhnev after signing one of the disarmament agreements.
Brezhnev and US President Carter exchange signed copies of the SALT-2 agreement.
First-graders with flowers during a ceremonial school assembly.
The face of a baby.
Newsreel: Cruise missile launches and ground targets hit during NATO exercises.
NATO Chiefs of Staff meeting.
Faces of the military.
Clashes between troops and police and demonstrators.
Troops on the streets of colonial administrative centers.
Troops and police disperse demonstrators.
Faces of protesters.
US Marines during exercises and training.
Ballistic missile launch.
NATO military exercises, armored vehicles landing on the shore.
Ballistic missile launch.
Map of US military bases around the USSR (animation).
Newsreel: US planes bomb North Vietnam in the second half of the 1960s.
A machine gunner fires from a helicopter.
Civilians affected by air raids.
A man caught in a flamethrower stream.
American soldiers clearing the area.
The face of an American soldier holding a tin can.
Crying women and children.
Massacre of civilians.
Payment of salaries to American soldiers on the front lines.
Trading on the stock exchange, a mother and child are carried on a stretcher, armored vehicles emerge from the hold of a landing ship, combat operations of various types of weapons of the US Army.
Distribution of neo-Nazi leaflets in Germany.
Faces of participants in a Nazi rally.
Shop windows with books dedicated to Goebbels and Hitler.
Representatives of China at a banquet in one of the capitals of Western Europe, training of Chinese soldiers in hand-to-hand combat.
Chinese troops during the aggression in Vietnam in 1979. Newspaper production in a printing house.
The text of a statement by the Soviet government, published in the newspaper.
Vietnamese artillerymen fire at the Chinese aggressors.
Combat operations on the Vietnamese-Chinese border.
Chinese soldiers at an observation post.
A Soviet border patrol with a dog patrols the sea coast.
Brezhnev Leonid Ilyich - statesman and political figure Gromyko Andrei Andreevich - statesman and political figure
diplomat Carter James Earl -- American statesman and political figure
1979
Moscow USSR Western Europe Vietnam
Summer Winter
L.I. Brezhnev speaks from the rostrum in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses.
Mobile missile systems of the Soviet Army march to a firing position.
Bringing a missile launcher into combat readiness.
Launching air defense missiles.
Multiple launch rocket systems fire at training targets.
Panorama of part of a tank range (above).
Tankers during exercises.
An attack helicopter flies by.
Tanks on the move fire anti-aircraft machine guns at an air target.
Exercises of the Soviet Air Force, aircraft taking off.
Exercises of various branches of the Soviet Armed Forces.
Hitting training ground and air targets.
Marines and armored vehicles landing on the shore, hovercraft approach the shore.
A unit of marines landing on the shore.
Carrier-based aviation aircraft before takeoff, pilots take their places in the cockpits.
Aircraft take off vertically from the deck.
Bringing the missile and artillery systems of the warship to combat readiness.
Submarine officers at the central post.
Missiles launched from warships, hitting a training target.
A column of equipment moves to clear rubble.
Clearing rubble using special equipment.
A welder at work.
Soldiers of the paramilitary civil defense units in formation.
Panorama of the site with the civil defense units’ equipment placed on it (above).
Newsreel from 1941: German bombers flying.
People with gas masks leave their homes and public transport, go to the nearest bomb shelter when the air raid signal sounds.
The results of fascist air raids.
People go down the escalator to the metro station.
Women and children are placed in bomb shelters.
Firefighters put out the fire.
Clearing rubble after an air raid.
Red Army soldiers carry the wounded out of the rubble on stretchers.
Dropping incendiary bombs from the roofs of houses.
Fire crews put out burning buildings.
Loading industrial equipment onto railway platforms during the evacuation to the East.
A train with equipment passes.
Production processes in the workshops of evacuated factories.
Manufacture of ammunition and weapons.
Explosions of shells, photographs of Soviet soldiers during military operations on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War.
The return and meeting of victorious soldiers in 1945. An elderly woman cries, bending over the Eternal Flame, a veteran wipes away tears.
Newsreel: a lesson on protection against weapons of mass destruction in one of the units of the Chinese army.
Soldiers put on gas masks.
Putting gas masks on the muzzles of horses in one of the cavalry units of the Chinese army.
Nuclear tests in China.
Chinese army exercises on actions in radioactive areas after a nuclear strike.
Cavalry in gas masks attacks a simulated enemy.
Chinese tanks and infantry go on the attack.
A Harrier fighter jet takes off.
Members of a Chinese military delegation watch a Harrier flyby ahead of a deal with Britain to supply China with fighter jets.
The Chinese talk to British pilots. "Harrier" in flight.
View of the American aircraft carrier (from above).
Lifting the aircraft onto the deck using the elevator.
Loading ammunition into the aircraft.
Aircraft take off from the flight deck.
Bringing deck missile launchers to combat readiness.
Launching a missile from a submarine.
Map of the locations of American military bases.
Building of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. The head of the territorial civil defense headquarters enters the office of the chairman of the executive committee.
The chairman of the executive committee signs a document.
Conducting command and staff exercises in civil defense.
Classes for management and command staff on civil defense courses, studying a terrain model.
Class on radio communications.
Members of civil defense formations at a theoretical lesson.
Class on medical training.
Schoolchildren put on gas masks during a class on personal protective equipment.
Explosions of nuclear weapons at a test site.
Brezhnev Leonid Ilyich - statesman and political figure
1979
Moscow USSR
Summer
Interior views of modern shelters for protection against all types of weapons, doors between rooms.
Pipes and mechanisms of the shelter's filter and ventilation devices.
Panorama of autonomous power sources.
Water storage tanks.
Interior view of the medical center.
Emergency exit from the shelter.
Interior view of part of the shelter under construction.
Assembly of the concrete reinforcement frame.
Welders at work.
The shelter door opens.
Panorama of the shelter rooms.
Sleeping bunks with protective equipment in one of the rooms.
Panorama of the civil defense class in one of the shelters.
A car drives into an underground parking lot.
Automatic doors close.
An anti-radiation door closes at a metro station.
Comparison of the area of the USSR with other countries (animation).
View of a populated area in the foothills.
Construction of an anti-radiation shelter.
Clearing the premises of a protective structure of stored property in the event of an attack.
Creation of food, water, and medicine reserves in the shelter.
Installation of ceilings on buried structures intended for sheltering people.
A box of a filter gas mask.
A man putting on a gas mask.
Training in using a gas mask.
A turner in a gas mask at a machine.
Creating a stockpile of personal protective equipment at one of the warehouses.
People boarding buses during the evacuation.
The population boarding water transport.
Boarding a passenger plane.
Buses with evacuated citizens are heading outside the city limits.
An electric train is coming.
People are leaving the danger zone on foot.
Views of city blocks with a layout and development that allows for timely and rapid implementation of measures to protect and evacuate the population (above).
Motor transport on the highway (above).
Panoramas and views of city blocks.
Panorama of a model of urban development.
Adults and children on a playground in a suburban area.
View of the building of a suburban boarding house.
Panorama of a workshop of an industrial enterprise.
Faces of workers.
The production process on the assembly line of a car plant.
Views of a model of an industrial enterprise intended for studying actions in case of a threat.
Stockpiles of raw materials and components in a warehouse.
Replacing potent substances with neutral ones.
Checking the reliability of power supply systems, pulling electric cables.
Installing nets and protective covers on production equipment.
Installing shock absorbers under cabinets with equipment.
A welder at work.
Interior view of the control room during an emergency.
Measures to ensure the protection of equipment and technical documentation of the computing center.
Checking the fire-fighting equipment of the facility.
Trucks with equipment enter a bunker built in a mine working.
Water tanks installed in a former mine working.
Transporting products in a forklift.
An incubator of a poultry complex located in a former mine working.
Freshly hatched chickens.
The fan blades are rotating.
Chickens in an underground poultry complex.
1979
USSR
Summer
View of part of the livestock complex territory (from above).
Cows eating from a trough.
Sealing windows and entrances of livestock farms.
Distributing feed to cows.
Closing the gates of the hay hangar.
Covering vegetable piles, forage and feed with protective film.
Veterinarians immunize animals.
Making protective masks for breeding cattle.
A herd of bulls in protective masks.
Activities to seal mine wells and artesian wells.
Calculations of fire and rescue equipment before the start of the exercise.
Work to clear rubble.
Evacuation of a simulated casualty from the contamination zone during civil defense exercises.
First aid workers provide first aid to a simulated casualty.
Equipment clearing rubble.
Newsreel from 1966: the aftermath of the earthquake in Tashkent.
Faces of crying women.
Providing assistance to a teenager pulled from under the rubble.
Rescuing people from the basements of destroyed buildings.
Navigator in the helicopter cockpit.
View of the source of the forest fire (top).
Burning forest.
Landing of a firefighting parachute.
One of the firefighters after landing.
Arrival of firefighting equipment at the site of the fire.
Unrolling the fire hose.
Flames of the fire.
Explosions limiting the area of the fire.
Flooding in one of the districts, flooded streets and residential buildings.
Evacuation of livestock by road.
Unloading humanitarian aid from a helicopter and distributing it to flood victims.
People boarding a truck for evacuation from the flood zone.
Panorama of part of the flooded territory of the livestock complex.
Fighters of paramilitary formations and civil defense units carry out measures to protect against flooding.
Panorama of the flooded territory (top).
Newsreel from 1945: a nuclear explosion.
Panorama of Hiroshima neighborhoods on August 6, 1945, after the atomic bombing by the USA (top).
Aftermath of the atomic bombing.
Face of a Japanese girl.
Monument to victims of the atomic bombing.
Flora and fauna of Russia.
Various landscapes.
Rotating radar locator.
Face of an American pilot.
Launch of an air-to-ground cruise missile.
Loudspeaker sounding an alarm during civil defense exercises.
Workers stop machines, leave the workshop when the alarm sounds, and go to shelters.
City residents enter shelters and protective structures.
Villagers take cover in protective structures.
People enter an underground shelter during a comprehensive facility exercise.
Closing a hermetic door.
Stopping a metro station escalator, closing anti-radiation doors.
People with gas masks over their shoulders walk along the corridor.
The facility's management and civil defense headquarters take their places at the control point.
Signalmen maintain contact with control posts and the district civil defense headquarters.
Deserted city streets.
Panorama of an empty factory workshop.
Adults and children in shelters and cover.
Fire as a result of an attack by a simulated enemy.
A reconnaissance helicopter flies to the affected area.
Radiation reconnaissance units are sent to the affected areas.
Scouts are riding on a motor railcar.
Aerial reconnaissance reports by radio about the destruction in the affected area.
Smoke billows over the affected area.
Naval reconnaissance reports major destruction in the port.
Panorama of the simulated destroyed port, smoke billows over the port.
Scouts on a motor railcar survey the area.
People in a shelter.
Panorama of the destroyed buildings of the enterprise, smoke.
1979
Moscow USSR
Summer
The head of civil defense gives an order by radio to move units to the affected area.
Soldiers in gas masks disembark from their vehicles.
View of part of the damaged bridge.
Vehicles of the traffic support detachment move toward the damaged bridge.
Vehicles restoring the bridge.
Restoring the bridge by forces of the military engineering unit.
Movement of columns of special equipment along the roads.
A column of equipment moves across the bridge.
View of the area with rubble and fires.
Movement of one of the columns of equipment.
Burning motor vehicles.
Bulldozers and barrier engineering equipment clear rubble to allow the passage of a special column.
Fires on the sides of the road.
Vehicles move to the affected area.
The dispatcher receives a report from the fire brigade.
Actions of the fire brigade during fire extinguishing.
Fire extinguishing with firefighting foam.
Special equipment enters the territory of the affected facility.
Clearing one of the rubble.
A unit of medics moves forward to rescue the simulated victims.
A firefighter in a gas mask climbs an extension ladder.
Actions of firefighters during fire extinguishing.
Excavator clearing rubble.
The dispatcher receives a signal about a fire at a fuel depot.
A fire train is moving.
Actions of the fire train crew during fire extinguishing at a fuel depot.
Extinguishing the fire with firefighting foam.
Helicopters are flying.
Earthmoving equipment is working.
Members of the medical team extract the hypothetical victims from the rubble and provide them with assistance.
Evacuation of the hypothetical victims on stretchers.
Excavator clearing rubble.
Clearing rubble using a pneumatic jackhammer and gas cutter.
Evacuation of the hypothetical victims from the rubble.
Firefighters extinguish a burning railway car.
Extinguishing a burning vessel using a fire boat.
Rescuers are heading to the burning vessel to evacuate the hypothetical victims.
Extinguishing the fire in the interior of the vessel.
Evacuation of the hypothetical victims on hands and stretchers from the interior of the vessel.
Extinguishing a fire on a vessel from a fire tugboat.
Evacuation of simulated victims from the fire zone.
Loading the wounded onto an ambulance boat.
Providing assistance to simulated victims.
Loading stretchers with simulated victims onto ambulance buses.
An ambulance bus leaves the affected area.
Providing assistance to the wounded in a medical facility.
Firefighters and rescuers during civil defense exercises.
A traffic controller indicates the directions for the movement of various types of equipment.
Panorama and views of the exercise zone, actions of civil defense units.
Workers at one of the enterprises leave the shelter.
The production process in a car plant workshop.
Panorama of a city block (from above).
People on the streets of the city.
Children's faces.
Children playing on the playground.
1979
Moscow USSR
Summer