Hours of our memory (1983)

The Flame of the Eternal Flame.

Willow branches over the river during the rain.

The face of a Young Army member standing at a monument post in the rain.

The rain pours down on the granite slab and the flowers on it.

A schoolgirl, a Young Army member, at a post under a tree during the rain.

Sculptural groups of monuments to the heroes of the Civil and Great Patriotic Wars, the faces of Young Army members standing at posts near the monuments.

Newsreel in black and red: the red cavalry gallops into the attack.

The Eternal Flame burns.

The Motherland sculpture on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd.

Museum visitors at the aviation equipment site.

Panorama of the museum site and the destroyed mill building in Volgograd.

Newsreel of 1942-1943: street fighting in Stalingrad.

Red Army soldiers take up positions in the ruins of houses, advance under enemy fire.

An observer with binoculars in the ruins of a building.

A damaged sculpture group of dancing children on the station square.

Views of the destroyed city blocks of Stalingrad (above), a cameraman films from an airplane.

The Eternal Flame in front of one of the monuments in Volgograd.

A pioneer, head of the honor guard shift, reports on his readiness to take up his post.

The ceremony of taking up his post during the next change of the honor guard.

A map of the USSR with photographs of military glory monuments appearing on it (combined filming).

Veterans L.I. Korotenko, N.P. Krasyukov, A.V. Rykunov talk to young army members in the "Frontline Dugout" in Volgograd, faces of young army members and veterans.

Korotenko talks about the importance of the Komsomol-pioneer posts at the military glory monuments and at the Eternal Flame (synchronously and off-screen).

Young Army members at Post No. 1. Faces of Young Army members during rest.

Faces of people standing by the Eternal Flame.

Rykunov talks about the importance of Post No. 1 for the military-patriotic education of youth.

Another shift of sentries leaves for Post No. 1. Krasyukov talks about the content of school reports on search work (synchronously and off-camera).

Faces of search squad members.

Faces of Young Army members.

People walk along the Volgograd embankment, a pleasure boat goes along the Volga.

View of the fountain at the exit to the embankment.

Faces of Young Army members.

One of the Young Army members talks about serving at Post No. 1 (synchronously and off-camera), faces of Young Army members and veterans.

Young Army members sit on a bench in the park.

Faces of Young Army members.

Changing of the guard of honor at a post near one of the monuments.

Young Army cadets in the guard of honor at one of the war memorials in Novosibirsk, view of the memorial.

The Eternal Flame is burning.

View of the upper part of the monument.

Balcony of the house from which drunk teenagers fired at the monument in November 1973. Flame of the Eternal Flame.

Newspaper articles about Young Army cadet Misha Marshukov, who was wounded but did not leave his post.

Flame of the Eternal Flame.

Faces of Young Army cadets standing in formation.

Doctor Mikhail Marshukov among Young Army cadets during a meeting with veterans, Marshukov's face.

A veteran talks to Young Army cadets at the memorial, guard of honor at the Eternal Flame.

Faces of Young Army cadet sentries, view of the memorial.

Clock on an old tower.

People on the streets of Riga.

Monument to the Latvian Riflemen.

The changing of the guard of the Young Army members takes up their post at the monument.

The face of one of the Young Army members.

Children play on artillery guns from the Civil War.

A view of the monument to the Latvian Riflemen.

The faces of the Young Army members standing guard.

View of a part of Sevastopol Bay.

Changing of the honor guard of Young Army cadets in naval uniform takes up their post, faces of spectators.

A naval officer takes photos.

Changing of sentries at their post, faces of Young Army cadets.

Changing of the honor guard of Young Army cadets at one of the monuments to military glory in Sevastopol.

Faces of Young Army cadets during the changing of the honor guard, faces of Black Sea veterans.

Faces of young sentries at their post near the monument, the face of a veteran.

A young Young Army cadet girl at the phone.

Veteran, Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel P.I. Olenin speaks on the phone.

Olenin receives a report on the readiness of the guard shift to take up its post.

Faces of the Young Army cadets of the shift standing in formation.

Changing of the sentries of the Young Army guard marches to their post in Pyatigorsk.

The face of a young sentry.

Young Army cadets at their post.

The names of the fallen participants in the civil and Great Patriotic wars on a granite slab.

First Secretary of the Pyatigorsk City Committee of the CPSU Raspopov A.P. speaks about the tasks of the City Committee of the CPSU to educate young people in the traditions of the older generation, about the establishment of the post at the Eternal Flame in Pyatigorsk in 1973, about the number of Young Army members who stood at the Memory Post at the Eternal Flame, about instilling a sense of patriotism in children, about the large-scale military-patriotic work carried out in Pyatigorsk, about the visit of the Memory Post by the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Yu.V. Andropov (synchronously and off-screen).

The Eternal Flame burns.

Changing of the guard of honor at the Memory Post.

Another shift returns from the post, the sentry at the banner.

The duty officer at the telephone.

Issuing a combat leaflet.

Faces of Young Army members during a meeting.

Young Army members playing chess.

Competition between young army cadets in disassembling and assembling a machine gun.

Faces of young army cadets.

Young army cadets looking at the exhibits of the Memorial Post Museum.

Young army cadets during a drill training session.

Young army cadets at the entrance to the military-patriotic center and on the center's territory.

A sentry on duty.

The face of a pioneer girl saluting in the honor guard.

The face of a young army cadet standing on duty.

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow.

Faces of Pyatigorsk young army cadets standing on duty at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

An elderly woman at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

The changing of the honor guard of Pyatigorsk young army cadets marching along the monuments to hero cities.

Pyatigorsk Young Army members during a meeting with the Chairman of the Central Headquarters of the All-Union Campaign to Places of Revolutionary, Military and Labor Glory, Air Marshal S. I. Rudenko thanks the Young Army members for their contribution to the military-patriotic movement, about paying more attention to this movement by leaders of various levels and party organizations (synchronously and off-screen), faces of the Young Army members.

Changing of guards at the mausoleum on Red Square, Young Army members watch the ceremony, faces of children watching the changing of guards.

The clock on the Spasskaya Tower.

The oath-taking ceremony for new members of the Pioneer-Komsomol honor guard of the city of Pyatigorsk, the general reads the text of the oath (synchronously and off-screen).

Portraits of Lenya Golikov, Alexander Chekalin, Oleg Koshevoy.

Faces of young army members taking the oath, panorama of part of the young army members' formation.