Memories of Courage (1972)

Leningrad, views of the city - the spit of Vasilievsky Island, the Neva, the Winter Palace, the Peter and Paul Fortress, Nevsky Prospect, etc.

Panorama of the Neva, bridges, boats on the water, the Peter and Paul Fortress.

Various shots with views of the city.

Photos - soldiers in camouflage suits, in trenches, going on the attack.

Chronicle 1941-1945 - a wounded soldier has his arm bandaged.

Panorama of veterans watching a chronicle in a hall.

View of a screen where footage from the chronicle is shown, veterans are looking at the screen.

Close-up - the veterans' faces, a war chronicle is shown on the screen.

Panorama of shelves with books, a hand takes a book.

On the table are boxes with cards from the archive catalog, hands are sorting through the cards.

Close-up - a hand is drawing arrows with a black marker on a military map.

Panorama of war photographs, a woman is holding a stack of photographs in her hands.

Panorama of boxes of film, hands are taking out film.

Close-up - a hand leafs through a photo album dedicated to the siege of Leningrad.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - German tanks with soldiers on their armor are driving, German infantry is walking, a view of a rural road, tanks, German soldiers, fire, burning military equipment, etc.

General of the Army S. M. Shtemenko is speaking.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - German planes in the air, bombs are dropped, explosions are heard on the ground, tanks are driving across a field, traces of explosions are all around, fire, footage of German planes, tracer shells are exploding on the ground, a burning plane, tanks, etc. are in the frame.

Photograph of German Field Marshal von Leeb.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - Hitler and von Leeb at a map.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - Leningrad, panorama of trenches, anti-aircraft and artillery guns in shelters within the city, anti-aircraft guns pointed upwards, hand drawing a line on the map, camera zooms in on Leningrad on the map, hand drawing lines on the map at the city limits.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - Leningraders working on the construction of defensive lines (digging ditches, trenches, reinforcing with logs, etc.).

Chronicle 1941-1943 - Hitler and military leaders at a meeting, in the frame - Franz Halder, Chief of the General Staff of the Ground Forces.

Close-up - a book in German (Halder's published diary).

The pages of the book are turned.

Halder in a group photo with the military.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - German tanks and motorcycles are driving across the field, infantry is walking, etc.

Large - a hand draws arrows on the map, draws lines, etc.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - battle, explosions, trenches, Soviet soldiers running to attack.

Photo by Marshal K. E. Voroshilov.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - battle, artillery guns firing, explosions, Soviet tanks driving, infantry charging, machine guns firing, various shots of Soviet soldiers, officers, etc., battle going on, Soviet soldiers knocking out a German tank, close-up - a burning tank, dead German soldiers lying around, various shots of knocked out and burning tanks (a cemetery of German military equipment near Smolensk), German infantry standing on the road, etc.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - Leningrad, the Narva Gate triumphal arch, a militia column (men and women with rifles) walking, city residents building barriers and defensive fortifications on the streets.

Close-up - documents in German (Hitler's directive of July 30, 1941).

Chronicle - a map with arrows showing Hitler's plans to capture Leningrad.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - Soviet soldiers are issued rifles, the newspaper "

Pravda"

from 21.08.1941 with an appeal to the Leningraders, soldiers receive weapons, say goodbye to their families, march in formation along the streets of the city, propaganda posters and leaflets are pasted on the walls, tanks drive along the streets, triangular barriers are visible on the road, various shots with defensive and fortification structures, military equipment, anti-aircraft guns, marching soldiers, hedgehog barriers, etc.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - German soldiers near the front line, infantry is marching, tanks are driving, etc.

Close up - a hand draws arrows on the map (it shows how the blockade ring closed on September 8).

In the photo - Field Marshal von Leeb.

Leningrad, St.

Isaac's Cathedral, panorama of the square, the hotel building "Astoria" (the video shows an image of a German pass for entering the city and other documents).

View of the street near the Astoria Hotel.

Marshal G.K. Zhukov is speaking.

Chronicle of 1941-1943 - government vehicles enter the Smolny territory, the military and the leadership are in the corridors of Smolny, in the frame - city leaders A.A. Zhdanov and A.A. Kuznetsov at a meeting, standing near a map.

Chronicle of 1941-1943 - there are battles, shelling, Germans in trenches, shooting from various artillery pieces, explosions are visible near the city borders, German officers are watching the shelling, in the frame - a destroyed building, soldiers in trenches and fortifications, etc.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - soldiers and sailors with rifles march along the streets of Leningrad, tanks drive by, tanks on Palace Square, Soviet soldiers in trenches, shelters, near guns, shooting at the enemy, explosions are heard, etc.

General of the Army I. I. Fedyuninsky speaks.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - Red Navy sailors, seeing them off to the land front.

Admiral V. F. Tributs speaks.

Tributs watches a chronicle with military sailors.

Tributs speaks.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - Baltic sailors march in formation along the streets of Leningrad.

Zhukov speaks.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - Baltic sailors participate in land battles, shoot, go on the attack, explosions are in the frame, the dead and wounded fall, etc.

Fedyuninsky speaks.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - a wounded soldier, fighters in a trench, Soviet soldiers run through the streets of the village under fire, fighters shoot machine guns, sappers work, artillerymen are in the frame, guns shoot, explosions are heard.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - the Nazis dig trenches, foxholes, observe the positions of the Soviet side through binoculars, etc.

Shtemenko speaks.

Close-up - a fragment of a secret directive of the German headquarters on the fate of Leningrad after the supposed capture of the city.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - a huge German cannon is transported on rails on a special platform, the frame shows shells for the cannon, soldiers are shown loading the cannon, footage of guns, cannons, etc.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - fascist aircraft in the sky, people are running through the streets of Leningrad, the frame shows German planes, residents of Leningrad are running to a bomb shelter, a view of empty streets, German pilots in planes are preparing to drop bombs, falling bombs, explosions, destroyed houses are shown, Soviet anti-aircraft guns are shooting at planes, a girl is running under fire, footage of explosions, destruction, dropping bombs, German pilots in the cabin of an airplane, a dead girl on the street, etc.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - loudspeakers on the streets, an address to the people of Leningrad is broadcast, the frame shows houses destroyed by explosions, fires, people near rubble, a dead girl on the stairs, people crying, sorting through rubble, the frame shows things that survived the explosion, etc.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - footage of Leningraders gathered on the street after the bombing, views of destroyed buildings, explosions, sorting through rubble in the city, the wounded and dead being pulled out from under the rubble, children being evacuated from a destroyed building.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - the Germans loading guns, preparing for an artillery bombardment of Leningrad, observing positions, firing guns, etc.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - Soviet military, counter-battery group preparing to shell German artillery positions, commanders at a map, soldier writing "For the family" on a shell, soldiers loading guns, firing at Germans, etc.

Colonel General M. S. Mikhalkin speaking.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - Germans firing artillery guns.

Mikhalkin speaking.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - Leningrad residents clearing rubble, putting out fires, firefighters working, panorama of a destroyed building, people on the streets, firefighters, residents pulling a tram, cleaning up trash, a pile of things from a destroyed house in the frame.

Shtemenko speaking.

Close-up - Shtemenko showing on the map the Soviet command's plan to unblock Leningrad from land with counter strikes.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - forcing the Neva under fire, soldiers running along the bank, soldiers dragging a machine gun, Germans firing guns, various shots of explosions, soldiers killed on the ground, Soviet soldiers digging in, firing at the Germans, various shots of battles shown, soldiers walking along the road, etc.

Shtemenko speaking.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - German soldiers laughing, putting on warm clothes, rubbing themselves with snow, camouflaging themselves, making a homemade stove, scooping water out of trenches, warming themselves by a fire, eating, etc.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - soldiers in camouflage suits walking, German infantry, tanks in the frame, guns firing, a column of tanks visible in the distance on a snowy field.

Shtemenko speaking.

Shtemenko shows on the map how the Germans launched a rapid offensive from Chudovo to Tikhvin.

Shtemenko speaks.

In large size - the map shows the railway that passed through Tikhvin to Lake Ladoga (this road was cut - this is marked with a cross on the map).

Chronicle of 1941-1943 - winter, snow on the streets of Leningrad, anti-aircraft guns, people walking along the streets, residents at the market looking at and buying books, a smoking chimney of a potbelly stove hanging out of a window, people walking with sleds and things along the streets of the city, in the frame - abandoned trucks, a sign at a gas station "No Gasoline", Red Army soldiers leading a group of captured Germans, various shots with frozen German soldiers, etc.

Footage from the 1940s - a parade, the German army marching, Hitler and other military leaders greeting the troops, residents raising their hands in a fascist salute, soldiers walking, etc.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - Girls in factories working on the production of grenades, shells and other ammunition.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - a military plant, a panorama of the workshop, showing the production of ammunition, shells, workers, etc. in the frame, anti-aircraft guns firing into the air against the backdrop of St.

Isaac's Cathedral, an enemy plane is visible in the sky in the rays of searchlights, in the frame - empty abandoned trams at the depot, a guard with a rifle on a city street, a view of the frozen Neva, ships, tanks on the streets, soldiers lying in the snow, preparing to attack, an antique stone sculpture, soldiers with machine guns marching in formation through the Triumphal Arch, etc.

Large - the map shows how Soviet troops prevented the unification of the German and Finnish armies and prevented the creation of a second blockade ring.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - A Hitlerite convoy is traveling along the road, soldiers are walking, military equipment is traveling, etc.

Zhukov is speaking.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - Leningrad during the winter blockade, people on the streets of the city, a "Closed" sign on the doors of public baths, trucks on the road in the city, etc.

Photo - a sign on the street "Water is released from 8 to 18".

Chronicle 1941-1943 - boxes with food and bread are being unloaded, the boxes are being taken to the store, people receive bread with cards, the saleswoman weighs the rations on the scales, cuts off pieces from a loaf.

The plant draftswoman, blockade survivor M. G. Medvedeva, speaks.

In a glass box - there is dried bread (the saved daily bread ration per person).

Medvedeva speaks.

Close-up - a bread ration.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - people on the streets of Leningrad during the winter blockade, walking with sleds, carrying coffins, a view of the buildings, etc.

In the photographs, doctors examine emaciated children.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - Leningrad during the winter siege, people with sleds on the streets of the city, destroyed railings on the embankment, etc.

Speaking is the authorized representative for the supply of Leningrad with food D. V. Pavlov.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - Leningrad during the siege, preparation of bread with various additives, with cellulose and other surrogates, people on the streets of the city in winter, a group of people standing next to a deceased person on the street, weakened people being carried on sleds, a line of empty trolleybuses, a large account book, pages turning, various shots with bodies of people who died of hunger lying on the streets.

Speaking is Medvedeva.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - people bringing corpses on sleds.

Speaking is Medvedeva.

Medvedeva is watching the siege chronicle on the screen.

Pavlov speaking.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - blockade, winter Leningrad, people on the streets, children wrapped in shawls, a woman feeding a child, children sitting on bales of things.

Photos - people in line for food.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - the inscription "

Leningrad"

on a wooden freight car, it contains sacks of food, a locomotive is moving, planes in the sky, sacks of food for Leningrad from all over the country, transportation, a panorama of barrels, a plane is landing, boxes are being unloaded from the plane, a pole with a sign "

Lake Ladoga", a traffic controller is working, a column of trucks with food is moving, various shots with trucks on Lake Ladoga, on the "

road of life", planes in the air, anti-aircraft guns are shooting at enemy planes, explosions, etc.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - soldiers are running to attack, battle, shootout, explosions, soldiers in camouflage suits, etc.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - military men at the map, developing a plan for the Lyuban operation, in the frame - General Fedyuninsky, member of the military council Kholostov and others.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - soldiers in camouflage suits are running, a medical orderly is bandaging a wounded man, a convoy with military equipment and artillery pieces is moving, footage of soldiers in camouflage suits, infantry is attacking, tanks are driving, explosions, fighting, etc.

Veterans and military personnel are watching the chronicle footage on the screen.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - the 70th division before being sent to the front, Fedyuninsky is talking to soldiers in formation.

Fedyuninsky is speaking.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - forest, winter, soldiers in camouflage suits, soldiers at a halt, eating from mess tins, cooking food over a fire, a ski battalion in camouflage suits is moving along the road in the forest.

Veterans and military personnel are watching the chronicle footage on the screen.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - soldiers on skis, formation of fighters in camouflage suits, etc.

Fedyuninsky speaking.

On the screen - frames from the military chronicle.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - in the frame is division commander Afanasy Shcheglov.

Close-up - a photograph in hands, on it - Afanasy Shcheglov and a group of soldiers.

A veteran speaks with a correspondent, holding photographs in his hands.

In the photograph - Afanasy Shcheglov.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - in the frame is division commander Afanasy Shcheglov.

Shcheglov speaking.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - there is a battle, explosions are heard, artillery is firing, soldiers are running to attack, tanks are firing, cavalry is galloping.

Shcheglov speaking.

In the photo: Marshal L. A. Govorov.

Shcheglov is speaking.

Chronicle 1941-1943: Zhdanov, Govorov, Kuznetsov and others are in the frame at a meeting near the map.

Chronicle 1941-1943: streets of winter blockade Leningrad (shot from above), residents clear snow, clean streets, a group of children from a kindergarten walks, concert posters hang, women wash trams, trolleybuses, prepare them for departure, a tram leaves the depot, passengers board the tram, trams on the streets of the city, passers-by, traffic, sailors marching, etc., Zhdanov speaks from the tribune.

Chronicle 1941-1943: Hitler at a meeting with General Manstein and other military men.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - preparation for forcing the Neva (near Nevskaya Dubrovka), soldiers with weapons, battle, explosions, shots, planes in the sky, ships on the river, etc.

Fedyuninsky speaking.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - Nevsky patch, forcing the river, soldiers in boats, shots, explosions, soldiers running out to the shore, Nazis shooting, battle scenes, explosions, machine guns firing, dead in the frame, soldiers running to attack, dead falling, etc.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - captured Germans walking along the streets of Leningrad, residents looking at the prisoners, etc.

Shtemenko speaking.

Chronicle 1941-1943 - winter blockade of Leningrad, columns of soldiers march, tanks drive, military equipment, a column of tanks drives across a snow field, soldiers in the forest with guns, a column of tanks stands.

Large - on the map, the actions of the army to break the blockade of Leningrad are marked with arrows.

Chronicle of January 12, 1943 - the beginning of the operation to break the blockade of Leningrad, in the frame - large guns, guns on a warship, etc., a massive shelling from artillery guns is shown, in the frame, soldiers are waiting for the attack to begin, anti-aircraft guns are firing, military planes are in the sky, bombs are falling, explosions are heard on the ground, military men in camouflage suits are in the trenches, a signal flare is fired, soldiers go on the attack.

Fedyuninsky speaking.

Chronicle of January 12, 1943 - soldiers go on the attack, explosions are heard, tanks are driving, anti-aircraft guns are firing, etc., in the frame - a command post, Major General N. P. Simonyak is on the phone, soldiers are running to attack, tanks are driving onto the field.

In the frame - veterans are watching the chronicle, Fedyuninsky is speaking.

Chronicle of 1943 - soldiers in camouflage suits rise from the trenches, run to attack, guns are firing, planes are firing in the air, various shots of battles - attacks, guns firing, a medical orderly bandages a wounded man, etc., tanks make a breakthrough, drive along a village street, a soldier hangs out a red flag, a meeting of two fronts takes place, soldiers hug, congratulate each other, etc. (January 18, 1943).

Large - the Pravda newspaper with an article about breaking the blockade.

Shtemenko is speaking.

Chronicle of 1943 - the first train from the mainland to Leningrad leaves, residents greet the train, wave their hands, the train arrives at the station.

The commander of the 106th engineering battalion I. I. Solomakhin speaks.

Close-up - a hand draws lines on a map.

Solomakhin speaks.

Close-up - in the frame is the German magazine "Adler" for 1943, the pages are flipping, Solomakhin shows a photo in the magazine, which shows the territory of the railway not far from the Sinyavinsky Heights, all pockmarked with craters from explosions.

Panorama of the Sinyavinsky Heights in the Leningrad Region.

Solomakhin speaks.

Solomakhin with a correspondent on the Sinyavinsky Heights.

Solomakhin speaks.

Panorama of trenches, ditches, view of the Sinyavinsky Heights.

Solomakhin speaks.

Panorama of the monument to Soviet soldiers on the Sinyavinsky Heights.

Close-up - a soldier's helmet on the ground.

Close-up - Solomakhin's face.

Chronicle 1943-1944 - Soviet tanks are moving, artillerymen are carrying a gun, tanks are on the field during an attack.

Shtemenko is speaking.

Chronicle 1943-1944 - Soviet soldiers are taking a smoke break, between battles.

Shtemenko is speaking.

Chronicle 1943-1944 - a column of German prisoners is moving in Stalingrad, anti-aircraft guns are firing, bombs are falling, tanks are moving, military planes are in the sky, a panorama of bombed-out military equipment, buildings, a captured German soldier.

The map shows the offensives of the armies of the Leningrad and Volkhov Fronts on January 14, 1944, marked with arrows.

Chronicle of 1944 - a printing press is working, newspapers are being printed, large - stacks of newspapers, Leningraders on the streets of the city, reading a newspaper on the wall, in the frame - a loudspeaker on the wall of a house, in the frame - happy faces of Leningraders who learned about the final lifting of the blockade.

Photograph - smiling girls with stacks of newspapers on the street, soldiers nailing up a sign "Krasnogvardeysk, Gatchina", soldiers by the fire, burning German signs, footage of street battles, soldiers firing from machine guns, guns, a group of soldiers hanging out a red flag, soldiers firing from a machine gun, guns, etc.

The photographs show dead Germans.

Chronicle of 1944 - city residents meet columns of soldiers, wave their hands, greet, etc., tanks drive by.

Chronicle July 1945 - military parade in Leningrad, footage of soldiers in formation, city residents greeting the victors, joyful people with flowers, in the frame - the 30th Guards Corps, Major General Sheglov in formation.

Shcheglov speaking.

Chronicle July 1945 - military parade, soldiers hugging city residents, an atmosphere of celebration and joy reigns.

Veterans are looking at the screen, where footage from the chronicle is shown (military parade in Leningrad in July 1945).

Chronicle July 1945 - military parade, Marshal Govorov, Simonyak, Popkov and others on the tribune, view of the parade, troops of the Leningrad Front pass by, soldiers march with flowers, they are greeted by city residents, military equipment, cavalry, artillery, etc. pass by.

Shcheglov speaking.

Chronicle July 1945 - military parade, soldiers and city residents, holiday, military equipment, people rock soldiers, hug, girls give soldiers flowers, festive evening salute.

In the photo - Shcheglov with his son at the parade.

Various photos of soldiers, city residents during the festive parade.