Winged Guard (1990)

The sun above the clouds.

The sea surface (above).

The paratroopers leave the helicopter.

An interview with the veteran of the Airborne Forces (VDV) Mikhailova-Gagarina N.I. about the airborne forces and her combat service (synchronously).

A photograph of Mikhailova-Gagarina in a book about the VDV. Newsreel: the collapse of buildings as a result of German air raids.

German bombers drop bombs.

People who have lost their homes.

A burning village house.

A woman on the ashes of her home.

Soviet troops conduct combat operations.

Failure to cross the river, the movement of troops along the crossing.

An interview with Mikhailova-Gagarina about the actions of the landing force during the Great Patriotic War, about the problems of creating the VDV museum (synchronously), fragments of a painting depicting paratroopers.

A memorial plaque on one of the houses in Sverdlovsk, where a military hospital was located during the war.

Faces of children and veterans.

Construction of the Airborne Forces Museum building, construction work.

A team of masons laying bricks.

View of the building under construction (top).

Information stand about the construction of the museum.

Newsreel: a man, putting on homemade wings, tries to take off.

The pilot falls out of the glider while trying to do a "loop-a-loop".

Tailor Franz Reichelt demonstrates a homemade parachute suit before jumping from the Eiffel Tower on February 4, 1912. View of the Eiffel Tower (bottom up).

Reichelt in an unfolded parachute suit stands on the railing of the first tier of the Eiffel Tower before the jump.

Reichelt's fall with an unopened parachute.

The shadow on the ground from a flying airplane.

Airborne Forces veterans and cadets of the Ryazan Airborne Forces School in Ryazan during a visit to the museum.

The face of one of the veterans, awards on his jacket.

Cadets standing in formation singing a song.

Hand-to-hand combat and physical training lesson on the school parade ground.

Drill training lesson.

Parachute training lesson on simulators on the school sports campus.

Cadets' faces during a meeting with veterans.

A veteran tells the cadets about the actions of the Airborne Forces during the Great Patriotic War (synchronously and off-screen).

Portrait of N.I. Mikhailova-Gagarina in 1944. Sea surf.

Paratroopers in the air form a circle in free fall.

Letters addressed to N.I. Mikhailova-Gagarina.

Photos of Mikhailova-Gagarina during meetings with former fellow soldiers.

Interior of a room in N.I. Mikhailova-Gagarina's apartment, Mikhailova-Gagarina plays with a dog while sitting on the couch.

The dog howls to the accompaniment of an accordion.

Interview with Mikhailova-Gagarina about her life and social work (synchronously).

Photos of Mikhailova-Gagarina from different years.

Poster with a portrait of Mikhailova-Gagarina.

Airborne landing in the Dnieper area (fragment of a feature film).

Research associate of the Airborne Troops Museum in Ryazan A.K. Bas tells cadets about the combat operations of the Dnieper landing (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Faces of cadets and Mikhailova-Gagarina.

Poster from the times of the Great Patriotic War.

Group photo of the landing participants.

Stands and exhibits for the Airborne Forces Museum, collected by Mikhailova-Gagarina and dumped in a random room.

A parachute training session at the training grounds of the Ryazan Airborne Command School.

School officers talk to Mikhailova-Gagarina on the school grounds.

A view of the Airborne Forces Museum under construction, a truck with bricks in the back drives through the gates in reverse.

Mikhailova-Gagarina by the phone in the foreman's booth.

A team of concrete workers at work.

Unloading bricks.

Builders spray each other with water from a hose.

A bricklayer lays bricks.

Bricklayers on one of the floors of the museum under construction (panorama).

Mikhailova-Gagarina's interview about the problems of museum construction (synchronously).

Views of the Airborne Forces Museum building under construction.

Interview with the chairman of the Sverdlovsk City Executive Committee Yu.V. Novikov at the construction site (synchronously), Mikhailova-Gagarina is standing nearby.

Bricklayers lay bricks.

Mikhailova-Gagarina at the construction site discusses the design of the future museum, construction work at the site.

Models of the premises of the future museum.

Interview with a Komsomol worker (synchronously and off-screen).

Schoolchildren carry bricks on stretchers (above).

Veterans work at the construction site, among them Mikhailova-Gagarina, veterans' faces.

Masons at the construction site of the Airborne Forces Museum.

An interview with an official about the participation of young people in the construction of the museum (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Members of the Blue Berets ensemble exit a minibus.

The ensemble performs a song with a guitar in front of the builders and veterans.

Mikhailova-Gagarina meets the members of the ensemble and hugs them.

The members of the ensemble look at photographs and talk to the veterans.

An interview with members of the Blue Berets ensemble about the need to create the Airborne Forces Museum (synchronously).

A view of the Airborne Forces Museum building under construction.

Mikhailova-Gagarina walks with schoolchildren through the park.

Children's faces.

The surface of the water.

Paratroopers form a circle during a long jump.

Mikhailova-Gagarina during the wreath-laying ceremony at the memorial to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War. M.S. Gorbachev greets the veterans and N.G. Mikhailov-Gagarin during his visit to Sverdlovsk, talks with them.