I swear, Leningrad (1980)

Monument to partisans of the Leningrad region during a ceremonial event.

Veterans of the Great Patriotic War, former partisans, walk to the monument with tulips in their hands.

View of part of Nevsky Prospect.

Veterans walking along the sidewalk and talking as they go.

View of part of the Stock Exchange building on Vasilievsky Island.

A veteran among passers-by on Nevsky Prospect.

Traffic along the spit of Vasilievsky Island.

Veterans - former partisans during another meeting, veterans' faces.

Faces of former partisans Vasily Plokhoy, Ivan Vinogradov, Vladimir Vanevsky, Grigory Bumagin during a tour of the exhibition, alternate with photographs from the exhibition.

Text of the decision of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) on the creation of partisan detachments in the Leningrad Region.

Photographs of Leningrad volunteers leaving to fight in the enemy rear are interspersed with newsreels.

Photographs of partisans taking an oath, with the oath being read off-screen.

Newsreel: 1941-1943: panorama of a forest edge.

Partisan commanders finishing a meeting to coordinate actions in the enemy rear.

Partisans leaving on a combat mission.

Partisans in ambush.

Blowing up a German military facility.

Destruction of a communication line.

Blowing up one of the bridges on German military communications.

Partisans fighting in the enemy rear, corpses of German occupiers.

Partisans attacking a village, fighting among burning houses.

Former editor of the newspaper of the Leningrad headquarters of the partisan movement Vinogradov I.V., standing at the monument to the partisans, speaks about the creation of the Leningrad partisan region, about the size of the territory controlled by the partisans (synchronously).

Newsreel: everyday life and daily routine in partisan detachments.

Veterans A. Porutsenko and E. Petrova during a meeting.

Photographs of the everyday life and daily routine of the partisans.

Petrova talks about the attempts of German agitation among the partisans in April 1942, alternating with newsreel footage.

Partisans read a German leaflet, tear it into hand-rolled cigarettes.

Plowing with cows in the partisan region.

Harrowing the land.

The location of the partisans in the forest.

Planning the next joint combat operation by the commanders of the partisan detachments.

Brigade Commander Vasiliev over a map during a meeting.

The faces of the partisan commanders.

The advance of the partisans on their next mission.

An observer in a tree.

Partisans mining a road.

Blowing up German equipment.

The body of a German soldier.

Partisans carrying out sabotage at a German airfield.

An airplane set on fire by partisans.

Faces of veterans during a conversation at an exhibition dedicated to the partisan movement, one of the veterans recalls an incident from partisan life (synchronously and off-screen).

Newsreel: views of a partisan camp, the life and rest of partisans in the summer of 1942-1943. A watch on a tree trunk.

The face of a young partisan.

A partisan on patrol.

The movement of partisan skiers, interspersed with photographs of killed German occupiers.

Trees in a winter forest.

Winter rural landscapes.

The mother of partisan scout Yu.M. Ivanov, who was captured by the Germans in the village of Dedovichi, talks about her son's behavior in captivity and the feat he accomplished (synchronously and off-screen).

Views of the outskirts of the village of Dedovichi.

Birds flying off the roofs of houses.

Snow-covered trees (below).

Monument to partisan Yuri Ivanov.

Photographs of farewells and registration in partisan detachments.

Faces of veterans.

Newsreel from 1941-1943: partisans walking along a path in a winter forest.

Photograph of one of the partisan detachments on the march.

Pilot Sirotin during a meeting of veterans.

Photograph of Sirotin near the plane during another combat mission in the partisan region.

Faces of Sirotin's comrades during a meeting of veterans.

Newsreel: PO-2 planes landing at partisan airfields.

Partisans meeting a pilot.

Unloading small arms for partisans from the plane.

Unloading bundles of newspapers, distributing newspapers to partisans.

Figures of Atlanteans damaged during one of the artillery shelling of Leningrad.

Putting out a fire in the city.

Women washing clothes in a hot tub near a broken water pipe.

Kolkhoz woman M.G. Petrova talks about the collection of food products for the residents of Leningrad by collective farmers and partisans of the Leningrad region (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Photograph of the execution carried out by German soldiers on civilians.

A village set on fire by the Germans.

Photographs of food products collected by collective farmers and partisans of the Leningrad region for the starving residents of Leningrad.

Photograph of partisan Semyon Zasorin.

Views of the wooden house from which Zasorin shot back at the fascists, saving an important letter.

Zasorin's face during a meeting with his comrades in arms.

The face of former partisan doctor L.S. Radevich during a conversation with Zasorin.

Newsreel: partisans send a convoy with food for the residents of Leningrad in February 1942, photograph of the commissar of the 13th Leningrad Partisan Brigade A.G. Porutsenko.

The movement of the convoy, with Porutsenko’s memories heard off-screen.

Porutsenko recalls the movement of the convoy with food supplies to Leningrad (synchronously and off-screen).

The commander gives orders to the convoy drivers.

A woman exhausted from hunger is raised to her feet on one of the streets of Leningrad.

The movement of the convoy in the forest.

The partisans provide combat security for the convoy.

The movement of the convoy through the village.

An article in the Leningradskaya Pravda newspaper about the partisans.

The delegates of the 1st party conference of the partisan region go to the agreed place in the forest.

A banner with a welcoming slogan.

A meeting of the conference delegates in the forest.

Speeches by the conference participants.

The delegates stand up and applaud at the end of the conference.

Partisan radio operators receive radiograms.

The work of the forest partisan printing house.

Texts of partisan leaflets.

Photographs of partisan journalists.

Text of a German leaflet promising a reward for the extradition of partisan journalists.

Newsreel: German aviation bombs the territories of the partisan region.

Attacks by German punitive forces, interspersed with photographs of military operations.

Veteran A. Ingenen talks about the destruction of a fascist tank (synchronously).

The last photograph of machine gunner Alexei Grinchuk.

Photographs of partisans during military operations, interspersed with newsreel of German punitive forces.

Newsreel: German punitive forces lead hostages through the village.

The execution of hostages and partisans by German fascist punitive forces, interspersed with photographs of the execution of underground fighters.

German punitive forces break into one of the villages.

Burning houses.

A woman with children leaving the ashes of a burnt-out house.

Burning houses, people leaving the ashes.

The corpses of women and children killed by German fascist punitive forces.

Panorama of the site of the village of Krasukha destroyed by the Germans, a monument to the villagers.

Photographs of partisans.

Veterans' faces (panorama), words of the partisan oath are heard off-screen.

Newsreel: Commander of the 3rd Leningrad Partisan Brigade A. V. German and the commanders accompanying him walk through a liberated village.

Photographs of partisans during their military operations.

Portrait of German in the Leningrad Partisan newspaper.

German holds a meeting of partisan commanders.

Portrait of German.

Fighters of one of the partisan detachments during a march.

Checking the documents of a teenager who has joined the detachment.

Former chief of the operations department of the partisan headquarters A. Tuzhikov talks about awarding young partisans with government awards (synchronously and off-screen).

Newsreel: awarding a medal to young partisan Petya Gurko.

Tuzhikov and Gurko during a meeting of veterans.

The commissar speaks to the partisans.

Tuzhikov talks with one of the veterans.

Portrait and photographs of partisan scout Klavdiya Nazarova, who headed a Komsomol underground group in Ostrov and was executed by the Nazis.

German ID cards obtained by underground fighters for the partisans.

Monument to Klavdiya Nazarova.

Partisan scouts during a rest stop in a winter forest.

Partisan radio operator Anna Dmitrieva talks about the arrest of underground fighter Mila Filippova in Ostrov (synchronously and behind the scenes).

House in Ostrov where Dmitrieva met with Filippova.

Steps of a staircase.

Panorama of a street in Ostrov.

View of a prison corridor in Ostrov, portrait of Mila Filippova (combined photography).

Daughter of L.I. Filippova with her daughter Mila at home.

Photograph of L.I. Filippova with a farewell inscription on the back.

Photograph of L.I. Filippova.

Veterans talking to each other during a meeting, faces of veterans.

Former commander of the 5th partisan brigade K. Koritsky during a meeting.

Photo of Koritsky among partisan commanders.

Koritsky's face.

Photographs of Koritsky during his command of a partisan brigade.

Newsreel: Koritsky, accompanied by partisan commanders, walks along the street of a liberated village, greets the brigade personnel.

Koritsky talks about the partisans' resistance to the evacuation of the region's population by the fascists (synchronously and off-screen), alternating with newsreel of the evacuation of people by the fascists.

Partisans evacuate civilians to the forest.

Faces of partisans, collective farmers and the commander of the partisan regiment V. Egorov, Egorov talks about the task of saving the population from being evacuated to Germany (synchronously and off-screen).

Mining of a bridge by partisans.

A sabotage group goes into the forest.

Remote detonation of an object.

Partisans begin to open the cars of a stopped echelon.

Photograph of partisans with rescued children.

Egorov next to his portrait.

Issuance of weapons to partisans.

Partisans with rifles on their shoulders march through a village.

Faces of veterans (panorama).

Partisans conducting combat operations.

Partisans in a liberated village.

Partisans in a camp by a fire.

Meeting of partisan commanders with Red Army officers to coordinate actions, among them is the commander of the 1st Special Regiment N. Afanasyev.

A Red Army officer with a map in his hands explains the interaction scheme to partisan commanders, while Afanasyev’s story about the “Rail War” operations is heard in the background.

Partisans blowing up railway tracks as part of the “Rail War” in August 1943, partisans attacking a German echelon.

Photographs of destroyed German echelons.

Soviet artillery fires at the enemy during the lifting of the siege in January 1944. Partisan detachments enter liberated villages and towns, people greet the partisans.

One of the partisan brigades on the march through the liberated territory.

Faces of partisan commanders.

One of the partisan brigades moves along the highway (top).

Opening the barrier.

Partisan cavalrymen on horseback move along the highway.

Faces of people greeting the returning partisans and the Red Army.

Standard-bearers of the partisan brigades pass by.

Faces of partisans marching in formation and returning home.

An Orthodox priest awarded a medal.

Partisans in formation (panorama).

Monuments to fighters of the partisan brigades of the Leningrad Region.