The planes are singing (1979)

Hang gliders soaring in the sky.

Summer rural landscape at sunset.

Riders on horseback.

Photograph of Ilyushin in a general's uniform on the threshold of his home in the village of Dilyalevo, Vologda Oblast.

Rural landscape.

Photograph of Ilyushin in the open window of the house.

Birds flying under the clouds.

Newsreel: farewell to those mobilized for World War I in August 1914. Faces of the mobilized and those seeing them off.

Passenger train at the platform.

Solemn procession of members of the Imperial Family, officials of His Majesty's Retinue and the military.

Panorama of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and the adjacent square.

Preparing the hippodrome for the races.

Photo portrait of S.V. Ilyushin in his youth.

Horse racing at the hippodrome.

Cars passing in the direction of the hippodrome.

Panorama of the car park on the edge of the airfield in the 1910s (top).

Spectators watch the events on the field.

An airplane taxiing to the start.

A pilot at the controls of the airplane.

The airplane's takeoff run and takeoff.

The first airplanes in flight.

An airplane flies over horsemen riding across a field.

An airplane crashes, people run to the crash site, among them a cameraman with a camera.

A photograph of pilots and mechanics near an airplane.

A photograph of Ilyushin S.V. with the rank of lieutenant general.

Newsreel: an airplane flies over horsemen.

Infantry on the road scatter from an enemy airplane flying at low altitude.

Presentation of awards to Russian soldiers and sailors.

Starting the airplane's engine.

People near a carriage of an agitational train during the civil war sorting out newspapers and propaganda literature.

Pilots of the Red Army Air Forces gather near an airplane at the Khodynka airfield in the first half of the 1920s.

The faces of the pilots.

A cameraman turns the crank of a movie camera while filming one of the first aviation festivals.

Propaganda trucks drive along the street.

A model of an airplane in a demonstration column.

View of the Travel Palace building, where the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy was located.

Students climb the stairs.

Students during a class on the material part and structure of aircraft engines.

A working engine.

Ilyushin walks past the working employees of his design bureau in the 1940s, approaches one of the designers.

The face of a design engineer talking to Ilyushin.

Ilyushin discusses a technical issue with an engineer while standing at a drawing board.

Photographs of Ilyushin among Red Army soldiers during his service in the Red Army Air Forces.

Portrait of Ilyushin during his work at the Air Force Research Institute.

Newsreel: students of the Air Force Academy during another class.

One of the students answers at the board.

Students with drawings.

Making a test model of an aircraft plane.

Gliders on the airfield in Koktebel during gliding competitions in the 1920s.

Photo of a glider designed by Ilyushin.

Test pilot Artseulov K.K. talks about flights on an Ilyushin glider (synchronously).

Photo of Artseulov piloting a glider.

Newsreel: a glider being pulled to the start using ropes during gliding competitions in Koktebel.

The Air Force commander gives the command to take off.

The glider takes off.

The glider in flight.

A man attempts to take off using a homemade ornithopter.

Artseulov continues his story about Ilyushin gliders (synchronously).

Photo of the pilots.

Newsreel, alternating with photographs: another glider taking off.

Photo of Ilyushin with pilots near a glider at the airfield.

Photographs of Artseulov in his youth.

View of the Protestant church on the mountain (from above).

A freight cart passes along the street.

A chimney sweep walks along the ridge of a tiled roof.

A chimney sweep approaches a pipe.

Participants in gliding competitions drag a glider across the sand.

Photos by Artseulov with participants in the Rennes gliding competitions in Germany in August 1925. Assistants help the pilot get the glider to the start.

The crash of one of the gliders at the Rennes competitions.

Glider takeoffs.

One of the gliders in flight.

Judges at the airfield with rangefinders, a photo portrait of Ilyushin.

The takeoff of one of the heavy gliders.

Newsreel interspersed with photographs: acceleration and takeoff of a glider during the Rennes Gliding Competitions in Germany in 1925. Soviet passenger plane ANT-9 after landing at the airfield in Berlin in the early 1930s.

Pilot Gromov M.M. gets out of the plane.

Grom drinks a glass of champagne.

Residents of Berlin dance a Russian dance in honor of the Soviet pilot.

Women's competition for the best legs, contestants insert their feet into holes in plywood panels.

The face of one of the contestants.

Trying on a shoe on the feet of contestants.

Measuring the legs and figure of one of the contestants.

Competition for the best male figure.

Nazi events in Berlin in the early 1930s.

Flags with swastikas on the streets of the city.

Hitler responds to greetings while standing in an open car.

Germans handing over metal items and objects for the needs of the military industry.

Finished products of military factories, cartridges and artillery shells.

Manufacturing of various types of weapons in military factories in Germany, production processes, finished artillery guns.

A pilot of a glider taking off.

A glider taking off during one of the glider competitions in Nazi Germany.

The legs of a member of the Hitler Youth standing near a glider.

Boots of Nazi stormtroopers, stormtroopers in formation.

Goering G. delivers a speech, looking at the text.

Luftwaffe planes in the sky.

German schoolchildren rotate the globe.

A column of Soviet athletes with slogans of protest against German fascism and the militarization of Germany during the May Day demonstration.

Participants in the May Day demonstration and pioneers on the streets of Moscow.

A column of armed workers passes through Red Square during one of the parades on November 7. Workers pass by with banners.

An air defense searchlight unit at a parade on Red Square.

Voroshilov K.E., Stalin I.V., Molotov V.M., Kalinin M.I. On the mausoleum tribune.

Red Army soldiers wearing helmets and carrying rifles walk across Red Square.

A T-35 heavy tank during a parade on Red Square.

Airplanes over Red Square.

Voroshilov watches aircraft flights during one of the Tushino air shows in 1936. A TB-3 heavy bomber with a tankette attached under the fuselage.

Airborne troops being dropped from a heavy bomber.

Troops sliding down the wing.

Parachutes in the sky.

A light tank delivered by plane rushes to its starting point during maneuvers in 1936. Cavalry attacking a simulated enemy.

Heavy bombers with troops on board flying to the landing point.

Aircraft being prepared for testing at the airfield of the Air Force Research Institute.

Photographs of Ilyushin among design engineers vacationing at one of the sanatoriums.

Newsreel: cameraman turning camera handle.

Testing aircraft model in TsAGI wind tunnel.

Filming of wind tunnel tests.

Air Force Research Institute mechanics preparing aircraft for test flight.

Face of test pilot V.K. Kokkinaki before flight, Kokkinaki heading to aircraft. V.K. Kokkinaki gives interview, talks about testing aircraft designed by Ilyushin (synchronously).

Newsreel from 1930s: Kokkinaki gets into cockpit of DB-3 bomber designed by Ilyushin.

Spectators at airfield.

DB-3 aircraft under control of Kokkinaki performs "Nesterov loop" during aviation festival on April 20, 1936 in Leningrad.

Spectators applaud.

Kokkinaki gets out of cockpit after flight.

Flowers being presented to Kokkinaki, the pilot accepts congratulations from A.A. Zhdanov.

The Leningrad District Air Force Command congratulates Kokkinaki.

Telegraph equipment in operation.

Preparing the DB-3 for a flight to North America.

Ilyushin discusses the details of the upcoming flight with engineers and pilots near the plane, Kokkinaki talks about flights on Ilyushin-designed planes (synchronously).

Newsreel: Ilyushin and pilots’ faces during a route discussion.

Preparing the plane for a flight to North America via Iceland on April 28, 1939. Propellers turning.

Telegraph operators and radio operators at work.

Clouds floating by (top).

Flight map (animation).

Kokkinaki talks about the flight (synchronously).

Photograph of the DB-3 plane crash.

Newsreel: communications center in operation, photograph of Ilyushin.

Faces of girls buying flowers.

Residents of Moscow with banners in their hands greet the participants of the flight.

Kokkinaki rides in a car with S. M. Budyonny.

The motorcade drives along the streets of Moscow.

Landing at the airfield of the Falangist Air Force plane during the Spanish Civil War in 1936-1939. The pilot reports to the commander.

Falangist planes at the airfield.

Movement of military equipment, Falangist planes taking off.

The command of the Air Force of the Republican Spain inspects the formation of volunteer pilots.

Faces of volunteer pilots standing in formation (panorama).

A link of I-16 fighters of the Republican Air Force flies by.

Republican planes in air battles, a damaged plane falls.

Republican fighter attacks a Falangist bomber.

A burning plane falls.

Air battles in the skies of Spain.

Soldiers advance along a trench.

A German bomber in flight.

Fighting on the ground, infantry and tanks go on the attack.

Photograph of Ilyushin reading a letter.

Newsreel from the 1930s: traffic on the streets of Moscow in the evening.

Photograph of Ilyushin at his desk.

Photograph of the Moscow Kremlin at night.

Glowing window.

Newsreel: opening hangar gates.

Luftwaffe mechanics roll various aircraft out of hangars by hand.

Mechanics raise their right hands in a Nazi salute.

German bombers in flight.

Explosions of dropped bombs at a firing range.

Training a German air gunner on a mechanical simulator.

German design engineers at their drawing boards in an aircraft design bureau.

Testing an aircraft model in a wind tunnel.

Photograph of Ilyushin at his desk.

Photograph of Stalin during a meeting in the Kremlin.

Glowing window.

Newsreel from the late 1930s: Ilyushin discussing a new aircraft project with his design bureau staff, the faces of the design engineers.

Ilyushin's hand drawing the outline of the Il-2 attack aircraft.

Ilyushin's face.

View of Okhotny Ryad Street in Moscow in the mid-1930s.

A bricklayer lays bricks at the construction site of the Moskva Hotel.

A policeman explains the route to an elderly woman.

Selling flowers and drinks on the streets of Moscow.

People riding carousels and other rides.

View of the area (top).

Photo of Ilyushin in the cockpit at the controls.

Photographs of Ilyushin.

Newsreel: an Il-2 attack aircraft taxis onto the runway during testing in 1939, begins its takeoff run.

Ilyushin watches the flight.

The attack aircraft flies over the airfield, begins its climb.

Testing the Il-2 model in a wind tunnel.

The Il-2 is rolled out to the hangar gates.

Transportation of a part of the Il-2 plane.

Sale of dairy products, sausages and wine in one of the Moscow stores.

The hostess sets the festive table.

People at the banquet table stand up during a toast.

People drink wine from glasses.

A concert of children's amateur art groups.

Children's faces.

View of the central part of Berlin (from above).

Passengers after disembarking from the plane.

A Luftwaffe officer salutes.

German bombers at the hangars (panorama).

Faces of the crew members and mechanics of the bombers (panorama).

Assembly of aircraft in a workshop of one of the aircraft factories in Germany.

Panorama of the conveyor of one of the factory workshops.

German bombers with running engines at the airfields.

Hitler in a train carriage listens to the explanations of the military, looks at a map.

Hitler at the OKH headquarters studies a map of future military operations.

German troops before dawn on the border before the invasion of the USSR, June 22, 1941. German aviation and ground forces move to the borders of the USSR. German bombers approach targets.

Diving towards targets.

View of a Soviet airfield during an attack from the air.

Soviet aircraft destroyed on the ground (top).

A German cameraman films from the navigator's cabin.

Burning wreckage of Soviet aircraft.

German pilots at the airfield discuss the results of another combat sortie.

Faces of German aces.

The crew of a Soviet bomber boards the plane.

Suspending bombs from the plane.

Giving a signal with a flare gun.

Night bombers in flight.

The pilot at the controls.

A photograph of the pilot's son on the dashboard.

Bombers in flight.

The navigator checks the route on the map.

Dropping bombs on Berlin in August-September 1941 from DB-3 bombers designed by Ilyushin.

German anti-aircraft gunners firing.

Goering and his entourage inspect the results of the bombing of Berlin by Soviet aviation.

Combat actions on the Soviet-German front in the summer and autumn of 1941. Panorama of burning equipment.

View of a ground target during an attack from an airplane (from above).

Evacuation of factory equipment to the east by rail.

Machine tools on platforms.

Unloading machine tools and equipment from platforms.

Cleaning the equipment.

Evacuated women and children on the platform.

Surveyors take measurements of the area for the construction of a new plant in the rear.

View of a tent camp for workers and employees of an evacuated enterprise.

Earthworks during the construction of buildings of an evacuated plant.

Construction of factory buildings.

Assembling aircraft in a workshop of an evacuated plant.

Checking the operation of the chassis.

Ilyushin, sitting at a table, makes a speech (synchronously).

Aircraft factory workers at machine tools, production processes.

Manufacturing of propellers.

Episodes of air battles, air gunners firing.

The damaged plane leaves behind a plume of smoke.

The horizon flips.

A wounded Soviet pilot is pulled out of the cockpit after landing.

The wounded pilot's head is bandaged and he is given water.

Holes in the planes and hull of the Il-2 attack aircraft.

Photograph of S.V. Ilyushin in a general's uniform at a table.

Newsreel from 1941-1942: Ilyushin, accompanied by engineers and military personnel, inspects finished Il-2 attack aircraft in a factory workshop.

Ilyushin talks to one of the workers.

Production processes in the forge shop of the aircraft factory in Kuibyshev, manufacturing propeller blades.

Ilyushin climbs out of the Il-2 cockpit and descends to the ground.

New modification of Il-2 attack aircraft in the factory workshop at the final stage of assembly.

Il-2 attack aircraft at the airfield (panorama).

The pilot and gunner board the aircraft.

The pilot putting on a parachute.

The pilot settles into his seat in the cockpit.

The Il-2 begins its takeoff run, the newsreel alternates with the recollections and story of Air Marshal A.N. Efimov.

On the combat use of the Il-2 (synchronously).

The Il-2 begins its takeoff run.

The commander of one of the air regiments at headquarters assigns a combat mission to his subordinates.

Pilots during a meeting.

The face of one of the pilots.

Pilots exit the dugout.

The pilot climbs into the cockpit.

The face of the pilot.

Landing of an attack aircraft that has returned from a mission.

Inspection of damage to the plane's surfaces and vertical stabilizer.

Il-2 attack aircraft at the airfield with their engines running.

Pilots stand in formation.

The face of a political officer giving a speech.

Presentation of awards to pilots.

Il-2 formations taking off.

A fighter in flight.

The face of the chief of staff of an air regiment observing the departing aircraft.

The advance of Soviet tanks with air support.

An Il-2 attack aircraft fires at a ground target.

A German airfield during an air assault.

German aircraft shot down and burning on the ground.

A destroyed German bomber.

Il-2 in flight.

The Il-2 attack aircraft shot down in 1943 in a swamp in the Murmansk region (top).

Photos of the process of preparing the wreckage of the aircraft for transportation to the plant in Kuibyshev for restoration in 1970. Photos of the aircraft being transported by the Mi-10 helicopter.

Photo of the ceremonial meeting on the occasion of the opening of the monument to the Il-2 attack aircraft in Kuibyshev in 1975. 360-degree panorama of the monument.

Newsreel: Kalinin M.I. presents Ilyushin S.V. with the Order of Lenin in the Kremlin in July 1945. Presentation of aircraft designer Lavochkin S.A. with a government award.

Presentation of awards to aircraft designers Tupolev A.N., Yakovlev A.S. Aircraft designers Yakovlev, Ilyushin, Tupolev in the Kremlin after the presentation of awards.

View of one of the intersections of Moscow in the late 1940s (top).

Faces of girls.

Passengers boarding a train carriage.

People buying tickets to Tushino at the box office.

View of part of the airfield in Tushino during the 1946 aviation festival.

A dance ensemble performing on stage.

Faces of spectators.

View of the central stand.

Airplanes flying.

Faces of children watching the planes.

Applauding spectators.

Yak-12 planes carrying banners.

Ilyushin's face.

The Ilyushin Il-14 passenger aircraft taking off.

Ilyushin's face.

The Il-14 in flight.

Photo of Ilyushin.

Ilyushin in his design bureau talking to one of the design engineers about a drawing.

Photo of Ilyushin among the engineers of the design bureau.

The prototype of the Il-18 passenger aircraft.

Interior view of the aircraft cabin.

The Il-18 begins its takeoff run along the runway before a test flight, the test pilot at the controls.

Ilyushin during a test flight.

Storks in the nest.

Photos of Ilyushin during visits to his home village of Dilyalevo and during vacations.

Summer river landscape.

Multiple launch rocket systems firing during exercises (top).

Aircraft landing on the deck of an aircraft carrier.

American bomber taking off.

American sailors watching nuclear bomb tests.

Bomb release.

Nuclear explosion (top).

Ilyushin in the design bureau discussing the design of a new aircraft with engineers.

Ilyushin's face.

Design bureau employees at their work desks and drawing boards (panorama).

Photo of Ilyushin.

Detail of the drawing.

Manufacturing the fuselage frame of a new jet aircraft.

Takeoff of the Il-28 multipurpose jet bomber capable of carrying nuclear weapons.

Falling bombs, explosions at the testing ground (top).

Il-28 squadrons in flight.

People watch planes flying by from their house windows.

A flight of Il-28s flies over Red Square on May 1, 1950. Foreign military attachés watch planes flying by.

Jet planes flying over Red Square, faces of spectators.

Dancing participants in the May Day demonstration.

Accordion players playing.

Faces of young people.

Deputy General Designer Ya. A. Kutepov recalls the beginning of work and the creation of jet planes in the Ilyushin Design Bureau (synchronously and off-screen), faces of aircraft designers.

The plane of a passenger plane.

The control wheel in the pilot's hands.

Ilyushin discusses the design of a new plane, faces of the design bureau employees.

Preparing the Il-18 for flight, washing the fuselage with a hose.

Deputy Chief Designer A. V. Shaposhnikov shares his memories of the creation of passenger planes in the Ilyushin Design Bureau (synchronously).

Portrait of Ilyushin in a dress uniform with awards.

Runway receding back and aircraft propeller (top).

Crew in the cockpit of the Il-18. Il-18 on the runway.

Flight attendant in the cabin of the aircraft offers passengers the latest newspapers.

Child in one of the seats.

Rotating locator.

Pilot of one of the African countries at the controls of the aircraft.

Il-18 flies over the sea.

Ilyushin during a meeting with Aeroflot management near the Il-18. Cargo being dropped from the aircraft for the polar station by parachute.

Polar explorers wave at the passing aircraft.

Il-18 flies over the snowy desert in the Arctic.

Polar bear cub at the feet of polar explorers.

The pilot takes the bear cub by the scruff of the neck.

Il-18 at the polar airfield.

Test pilot V.K. Kokkinaki recalls flights across the North Pole, talks about Ilyushin (synchronously).

Ilyushin and his son swinging on a swing at their dacha.

The faces of Ilyushin, his son and wife.

Ilyushin helping his sons repair a bicycle.

The face of Ilyushin's youngest son Alexander.

Ilyushin with his family.

Ilyushin walking in the forest, with S.P. Korolev next to him.

Ilyushin at his dacha, sitting at a table under a tree, reading a book.

Newsreel from the 1920s: advertising the Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod air route.

Refueling a passenger plane.

Passengers buying tickets.

A mechanic wiping the plane's surfaces.

Weighing passengers and their luggage on the scales.

Passengers boarding the plane.

The mechanic spins the propeller.

The officer on duty signals with a flag.

The plane begins taxiing along the airfield.

Passengers in the plane's cabin.

View of a train (from above).

The Il-18 aircraft in flight in the early 1960s.

Ilyushin discusses the design of the new Il-62 aircraft with the designers of his design bureau in 1960. Testing the Il-62 aircraft mock-up in a wind tunnel and on water.

Ilyushin's face, Ilyushin inspects a scale model of the Il-62, makes comments on the design of individual units and parts.

Employees of the Ilyushin design bureau at work.

Photographs of Ilyushin.

The production process in the workshop of the Kazan aircraft plant.

Kutepov and his colleagues talk about their work on the creation of the Il-62 (synchronously).

The Il-62 leaves the hangar.

The Il-62 begins its takeoff run.

The Il-62 during takeoff and climb.

The Il-62 in flight, the pilot at the controls, a panorama of the instrument panel.

A photograph of Ilyushin and the employees of his design bureau near the Il-62 aircraft.

General Designer Novozhilov G.V. gives an interview (synchronously).

Photos of Ilyushin.

Novozhilov and the design bureau employees discuss the new aircraft project.

Photo of Ilyushin.

Novozhilov talks about his work on the Il-76 airbus project (synchronously).

Novozhilov in the aircraft factory shop during the assembly of the airbus.

View of the Il-76 airbus during assembly (top).

The Il-76 is rolled out of the hangar.

The airbus taxis to the runway.

Ilyushin accepts congratulations after successful tests of the Il-76 aircraft.

Ilyushin talks with Novozhilov.

Workers of the Ulyanovsk aircraft factory during a ceremonial meeting.

The Il-76 takes off from the factory airfield.

The face of a military pilot.

Loading military equipment into the cargo compartment of the Il-76 aircraft.

A soldier on the rostrum before a demonstration airborne assault.

Landing of military equipment and paratroopers from Il-76 aircraft, paratroopers leaving the aircraft.

View of the rear of the Il-86 aircraft leaving the hangar.

Il-86 takeoff.

Il-86 Airbus in flight.

Photo of Ilyushin with his granddaughter on his lap.

Photographs of Ilyushin surrounded by his family and colleagues, near aircraft in different years.

Children sitting by a fire on the river bank.

Faces of boys looking at the sky (panorama).

The aircraft leaves a contrail in the sky.