70 years of the Volga Military District (1988)

General view of the main building of the Ulyanovsk Higher Military Command Tank School.

Faces of cadets standing in formation.

Sculpture by M.A. Ulyanova with Volodya Ulyanov.

The face of a cadet reading the text of the military oath, faces of war veterans.

Military parade in Ulyanovsk.

Monument to V.I. Lenin in Ulyanovsk.

Newsreel from 1918-1923: general view of the Moscow Kremlin.

A military orchestra plays on Red Square, faces of the musicians.

Lenin reviews the parade of the Vsevobuch troops on May 25, 1919, a military parade on Red Square in the early 1920s, Lenin's face.

Lenin speaks on Red Square before the start of the Vsevobuch troops parade, Red Army soldiers stand in formation. M.N. Tukhachevsky speaks from the rostrum at the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1934. Monument to Gai G.D. in Ulyanovsk.

Newsreel from 1924-1925: Frunze M.V. speaks to the Red Army soldiers.

Photographs of parades of the Red Army units in the 1920s.

Egorov A.I., Tukhachevsky, Budyonny S.M., Blucher V.K. in the Kremlin during a meeting of district commanders.

Attack of the Red Cavalry in Crimea in 1920. Armored car drawn by a camel, view of an armored train standing on the tracks.

Lenin speaks at a rally on November 7, 1918, during the unveiling of the monument to Marx and Engels in Moscow on Sverdlov Square.

Servicemen of one of the units of the Volga District stand in formation.

Memorial plaque on the wall of the Lenin House-Museum in Ulyanovsk.

Cadets during an excursion to the Lenin House-Museum.

Sculptural bas-relief at the Eternal Flame in Ulyanovsk.

General view of a part of Ulyanovsk (above).

Cadets of one of the military schools in the classrooms during theoretical and practical classes in various military academic disciplines.

General view of part of the classroom during a lecture.

Cadets in the computer room.

Classes on simulators in the aviation school, cadets' faces.

Training on the materiel, a lesson on communications.

Training of tank cadets to practice the standard for the crew to occupy seats in a tank.

A practical lesson on a tank simulator.

Soldiers of motorized rifle units during exercises, performing exercises to destroy enemy tanks.

A lesson in hand-to-hand combat, using a machine gun and a sapper shovel.

Newsreel from 1941: German planes flying, bombs falling.

A folder with the "Barbarossa" plan, marching SS men, Hitler over a map, photographs of the first days of the war against the background of the sheets of the folder.

Newsreel from 1941: Soviet troops are fighting against the fascist aggressors.

Soviet artillery is firing at the enemy.

Tanks and infantry are attacking.

Budyonny S.M. and Stalin I.V. on the Mausoleum tribune on November 7, 1941, a military parade on Red Square, spectators on the guest tribune, infantry, artillery, and tanks are passing in front of the Mausoleum.