Military oath (1981)

The personnel of one of the military units on the parade ground during the oath ceremony by young soldiers.

The officer gives the command.

Soldiers and officers in the ranks.

Ceremonial removal of the banner to the parade ground.

The Znamenny platoon takes its place in the ranks.

The faces of officers and soldiers.

The faces of young soldiers taking the military oath.

The text of the military oath.

Map of Soviet Russia in the ring of the White Guard fronts.

Newsreel of 1919: the parade of Volunteer Army units in Rostov-on-Don.

General Kornilov L.G. in front of the entrance to the Bolshoi Theater during the State Conference in 1917.

The landing of American troops from ships in 1918.

Units of French and British troops are marching.

View of a Japanese warship.

The officer looks through the telescope.

German troops on the streets of Kiev in the summer of 1918.

Training of the first units of the Red Army.

Training of fighters in rifle shooting and drill.

The text of the Formula of the Solemn Promise - the first Soviet military oath.

Red Army soldiers in the ranks.

Retired Major General V.A. Turzhansky recalls V.I. Lenin taking the military oath together with the Red Army men of the 1st Revolutionary Warsaw Regiment in May 1918, about Lenin's speech to the Red Army men. (synchronously and off-screen).

Panorama of the square in the area of the plant.

Vladimir Ilyich, Lenin monument on the territory of the square.

Photo of part of the territory of the Michelson factory in 1918.

Photo of Lenin walking along the line of Red Army soldiers on May 1, 1920.

Photo of Lenin speaking at the Vsevobuch festival on Red Square on May 25, 1919, photos alternate with newsreel footage.

Newsreel: the parade of Vsevolod's troops on Red Square on May 25, 1919.

Lenin V.I. accepts the parade of Vsevolod's troops, the head of Lenin's security, Belenky A.Ya., is standing at the truck cab.

Lenin's face.

Red Army soldiers pass through Red Square.

Lenin watches the passing troops.

Sending a military echelon to one of the fronts of the civil war.

The fighting of the Red cavalry during the Civil War.

Artillery is firing at the enemy.

The landing of the Red Army men on the shore from the landing barge.

The attack of the red cavalry.

Shell bursts.

Earthworks on one of the construction sites of the first five-year plans.

Loading of soil onto railway platforms using an excavator.

Workers seal concrete with their feet.

A student of the labor faculty during the lesson, the student's feet shod in bast shoes.

Meeting of the first tractor in the village.

Issuance of the first melting at one of the industrial enterprises.

Locals are riding behind a steam locomotive going along a new section of the Turksib.

A rally on the occasion of the launch of the Dneproges.

Military buglers give the signal.

Faces of Red Army soldiers and commanders.

The commanders are in the ranks.

Naval commanders in formation on the deck of a warship.

People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR, Marshal of the Soviet Union Voroshilov K.E. in his office, standing, reads out the text of the new military oath in 1939 (synchronously and off-screen).

Budenny S.M. Kulik G.I., Shchadenko E.A., Shaposhnikov B.M. in Voroshilov's office during the adoption of the new military oath.

The faces of the Red Navy and Red Army soldiers standing in the ranks.

The personnel of one of the units of the Red Army is parading on the parade ground.

German-Fascist bombers in flight in June 1941.

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

Falling bombs.

Soviet fighters are flying to intercept German bombers.

Air battles, burning planes.

Poster "Motherland is calling!" with the text of the military oath.

The face of the artillery commander.

Soviet artillery is firing at the enemy during a counteroffensive near Moscow.

Panorama of burning Stalingrad in 1942.

Street fighting in Stalingrad.

The calculation of an anti-tank gun takes a position on the second floor of a destroyed house.

The Red Army soldiers are attacking the enemy through the ruins.

A tank with a red banner walks through the streets of Stalingrad in February 1943.

Infantry attacks the enemy with the support of tanks with troops on armor in the winter of 1944.

Soviet stormtroopers attack a ground target.

An episode of a street fight.

The personnel of one of the units of the Red Army passes with an unfolded banner along the street of the German city.

Newsreel: the meeting of Soviet soldiers-liberators in the cities of Europe in 1945.

Soviet troops are moving through the city, people are greeting Soviet soldiers.

Locals talk to Soviet soldiers and officers.

The text of the organizational order of March 25, 1944 on the capture of Nikolaev.

Photo of the soldiers of the landing party in the ranks.

Portrait of the commander of the detachment, Senior Lieutenant Olshansky.

Map of combat operations of the landing in Nikolaev.

Seagulls fly over the water.

A commemorative buoy at the landing site.

One of the participants N.A. Grebenyuk of the landing tells about the course of the landing and the feat of the sailors-paratroopers (synchronously and behind the scenes).

The landing site in 1944, a panorama of a part of the cargo port of Nikolaev.

Grebenyuk's face.

View of the elevator building.

Overgrown with grass stairs, up which the paratroopers climbed.

Views of the elevator office building, where the paratroopers held the defense.

Pioneers at the office building, a panorama of a lawn with flowers.

View of the solemn pioneer line.

Faces of pioneers.

The pioneer gives Grebenyuk a bouquet of flowers.

The face of a pioneer.

Grebenyuk's face.

Photo of the participants of the landing.

The graves of the fallen participants of the landing.

Grebenyuk at the graves of his comrades, sailors in the honor guard.

The grave of the commander of the landing Olshansky.

The Eternal Flame is burning.

Types of streets of the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv, people on the streets.

Alyosha is a monument to Soviet soldiers who fell in the battles for the liberation of Bulgaria.

Flowers laid at the monument.

Types of streets of Leningrad.

Newsreel: the fighting of US troops during local wars in various parts of the world during the 1960s and 1970s.

An American bomber drops bombs.

Vietnamese civilians are fleeing from an air raid.

Entrance to the American Air Force base.

View of one of the bases of the US Navy (top).

Sailors on board an American submarine.

American planes at the airfield.

Loading bombs into the plane.

Aircraft takeoff from a US military base.

View of the embankment.

People in the park by the fountain.

A young soldier reads out the text of the military oath during a ceremony on the territory of the Brest fortress.

Views of the Brest fortress, fragments of monuments to the defenders of the fortress.

The face of a young soldier taking the military oath in Volgograd.

View of a part of the memorial complex on Mamayev Kurgan during the oath-taking ceremony.

The face of a soldier-signalman.

A battery of self-propelled howitzers fires during exercises.

A volley of rocket artillery.

Motorized rifle units of the Soviet Army during exercises.

Launch of air-to-ground missiles at a training target.

Construction of trenches with the help of an explosive chain.

Air assault ejection.

Missile launch from a warship.

Exercises of the Navy.

The landing of marine units on the shore.

The cruiser Aurora on the Neva.

The sailor reads out the text of the military oath (synchronously).

A young soldier reads out the text of the military oath during a ceremony in Kiev (synchronously), a view of the military memorial.

A parade of the personnel of one of the military units after the end of taking the military oath by young soldiers.

There is a formation of young soldiers who took the oath.