The film tells about the life and work of the Russian Soviet submarine engineer Boris Mikhailovich Malinin, and about the development of the Soviet submarine fleet.












Exhibits in the halls of the Naval Museum in Leningrad, models of sailing ships (panorama).
Screening of a film about the USSR Navy in one of the halls of the museum.
A submarine of the Northern Fleet leaves for a training and combat mission.
Officers of the navigation group determine the coordinates.
The submarine is sailing along the Kola Bay in the surface position.
Journalist V. Pilipenko talks about modern submarines and their combat capabilities (synchronously).
Newsreel: Warships on a mission in the early 20th century.
A submarine during a dive.
View of the front of the submarine (from above).
Photo by B.M. Malinin.
Pilipenko opens a container with archival documents.
Sheets of design documentation for submarines from 1918-1921, drawings of submarines for various purposes.
Fragments of a drawing of a submarine cruiser.
Malinin's signature under the drawing.
A monument to Peter the Great in one of the museum halls, Pilipenko tells about the history of the Russian submarine fleet (synchronously and behind the scenes).
Engravings depicting ships on the Neva in the era of Peter the Great.
Drawings and sketches of submarine projects of various designs.
A model of a submarine on display at the museum.
A submarine designed by Dzhevetsky in one of the museum halls.
Pilipenko and museum staff inspect the boat.
Pilipenko turns the submarine's propeller.
Pilipenko climbs inside the boat, a museum staff member battens the hatch.
The interior of Dzhevetsky's submarine.
Photographs of the first submarines, a portrait of the founder of submarine shipbuilding I.G. Bubnov.
Models of submarines designed by Bubnov on display at the Naval Museum.
A model of the submarine "Wolf" built by Malinin.
Newsreel from 1912-1913: review of the German navy.
Warships firing during naval operations in 1914-1915. View of part of the deck and conning tower of a German submarine.
Torpedo launch.
Explosion of a warship.
Naval artillery firing, naval operations.
Panorama of a British battleship (top).
View of the stern of a submarine.
A submariner in one of the compartments during an attack.
A warship hit by a torpedo turns upside down.
Pilipenko continues his story about the development of the domestic submarine fleet in the 1920s-1930s (synchronously).
Newsreel: factory chimneys.
Builders removing soil in hand wheelbarrows.
Women passing watermelons along a chain.
View of a wooden oil derrick.
Voroshilov K.E., Andreev A.A., Zhdanov A.A., Ordzhonikidze G.K. during a meeting in the Kremlin in 1936. Stalin I.V. rises to speak.
An article in Soviet newspapers on March 6, 1927. Ships at the berth.
Kirov S.M. during a visit to one of the factories.
Photos by Malinin's colleague, Professor S.A. Bazilevsky.
Bazilevsky talks about the creation of the first Soviet submarines and the work of Malinin's design bureau, about solving emerging problems (synchronously and behind the scenes).
Photos of Malinin and his assistants - Krueger E.E. and Shcheglov A.N. Photo portrait of Bazilevsky in his youth.
Photo of the submarine "Dekabrist".
Newsreel: the submarine "Dekabrist" during sea trials.
One of the commanders in the torpedo compartment of the submarine.
Surfacing and diving of the submarine, the submarine's power plant.
Photos of Soviet submarines of the new series, created in Malinin's design bureau.
Bazilevsky among scientists and Navy veterans during a film screening in one of the halls of the Naval Museum.
Newsreel: warships and submarines of the USSR Navy during a naval parade in 1941. Sailors and commanders dance and applaud on the deck of a submarine during a rest period.
View of the Shch-215 submarine, crew members dancing on the deck.
A squadron of German bombers in the sky.
Crew members of a warship run to their combat posts (top).
Ships of the Soviet Navy during combat operations at sea in 1941. Naval artillery fires.
Loading a torpedo into one of the submarines.
The submarine leaves for a combat mission.
A crew member of the submarine at his combat post.
Submerging the submarine, the commander at the periscope.
Crew actions during the launch of a torpedo.
The trail of a torpedo after the launch.
Explosion of a German transport ship.
The commander at the periscope, the view of the ship through the periscope.
The actions of the crews during torpedo attacks.
Combat operations at sea.
The faces of the submariners.
The commander and sailors in the torpedo compartment.
The submarine is on the surface.
Loading the deck gun and firing at the target.
The submarine returns to base.
The submarine fires artillery shots according to the number of ships sunk during the campaign.
The submarine crew is on the deck in parade formation.
Awarding of distinguished submariners.
The submariners receive letters and newspapers.
A sailor paints the number "7" on the submarine's conning tower, denoting the number of victories.
The sailors read letters from home.
Submarine commanders during a banquet on the occasion of their return from the campaign.
Pilipenko tells the biography of Malinin (synchronously and behind the scenes).
Photographs of Malinin's parents.
Photographs in Pilipenko's hands.
Childhood and youth photographs of Malinin.
A copy of Malinin's high school diploma.
Malinin's student ID card.
Text of Malinin's petition for admission to the institute.
Malinin's diploma.
Malinin's archival documents: personal file from the institute's archive, birth certificate in the church register.
Sheets of the archival file, photograph of Malinin.
Telegram from Malinin's father giving his son permission to marry.
Photograph of Malinin's wife Tatyana Vladimirovna.
Photograph of Malinin with his wife during a vacation at a resort.
Seascape on the wall in Malinin's former apartment.
Newsreel: submarine on the surface.
Soviet submarines during training cruises and returning to base in the 1930s and 1940s.
Pilipenko looks at photographs of Malinin.
Malinin's son Kirill Borisovich talks about his father and his work (synchronously and behind the scenes).
Photographs of Malinin working on submarine projects.
Photographs of Malinin with his family.
Pilipenko looks at Malinin's portrait while standing by the mirror.
Cadets of the submarine training unit lay wreaths at the monument to submariners.
Veterans, sailors of the D-2 submarine, lay flowers at the monument.
A brass band plays, the personnel of the training unit march in parade formation in front of the monument.
The Narodovolets D-2 submarine is in the dock undergoing restoration.
Welders at work.
Interior views of the submarine's compartments during repairs.
A Northern Fleet submarine leaves the bay, views of the submarine from different angles.
Veterans of the Malinin design bureau watch a film in the hall of the Naval Museum.
Faces of design engineers talking to each other.
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1987
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