The First Baltic. Chronicle and Memories (1981)

Newsreel: view of Red Square during the Victory Parade on June 24, 1945. An artillery battery fires a salute on the territory of the Moscow Kremlin.

Faces of generals standing in parade formation.

Parade formation of troops (top).

Command of the Karelian Front in parade formation near the front standard.

Artillery salute, command of the Leningrad Front in parade formation near the front standard.

Standard of the 1st Baltic Front in parade formation.

Front Commander General of the Army I.Kh.

Bagramyan in formation.

Faces of soldiers and officers.

Crew of the Captured Banners Battalion in parade formation (panorama).

Combined regiment of the 1st Baltic Front marches across Red Square.

Marshal of the Soviet Union I.Kh.

Bagramyan Recalls and talks about the Victory Parade and the participation of servicemen of the 1st Baltic Front (synchronously).

Newsreel from 1943: troops of the Kalinin Front move along the road to Nevel.

Panorama of Nevel (top).

Soldiers of the 21st Guards Division install the division's banner on the roof of a building.

Installation of a banner with a slogan on a telegraph pole.

Soviet troops on a march.

German artillerymen at a gun.

Wehrmacht officers at an observation post.

German infantry launches a counterattack supported by tanks.

View of the battlefield and a burning village.

Views of Moscow in the fall of 1943. Transportation of air defense balloons along the streets of Moscow, Bagramyan's recollections of his appointment as front commander are heard in the background.

Views of Moscow streets and Red Square, interspersed with footage of Bagramyan walking in the park.

A signalwoman at a telegraph machine.

Arrival of I.Kh.

Baghramyan at the front communications center, Baghramyan accepts the report of the front communications chief.

Baghramyan with a telegraph tape in his hands.

Chief of Staff of the Front, Lieutenant General V.V. Kurasov, member of the Military Council, Lieutenant General D.S. Leonov and Front Commander, Colonel General I.Kh.

Baghramyan during the development of a front operation.

Explosions of artillery shells.

Front command at an observation post in December 1943. Soviet tank crews conduct combat operations south of Nevel.

Destroyed German armored vehicles.

German soldiers captured during the Nevel offensive operation.

View of a part of the town of Gorodok, Vitebsk region, a memorial plaque in honor of the liberation of the town.

Newsreel from 1943: ruins of houses on the streets of occupied Gorodok.

Movement of columns of German troops.

German soldiers walk in a chain along the street.

A train passes.

Partisans mine a bridge and rails.

Explosions under the carriages of a German military echelon.

The carriages are flying off the slope.

Burning tanks and carriages thrown off the slope.

Faces of partisans standing in formation.

The commander of the partisan unit Lobanok V.E. makes a speech at the banner.

Lobanok holds a meeting at the headquarters of the partisan movement of Belarus.

German punitive forces are sent on an anti-partisan operation.

German artillery shelling partisan territory.

Partisans counterattack the enemy.

A frontline cameraman is filming while lying in the snow.

German punitive forces are engaged in combat operations.

A meeting of a partisan detachment led out of encirclement under the cover of troops of the 1st Baltic Front.

The partisans unite with the frontline troops, the partisans and Red Army soldiers embrace each other.

The crew of a Soviet bomber clarifies the details of the combat sortie.

The bomber begins to taxi to the runway.

Girls wave flowers at the passing echelon, throw flowers to the Red Army soldiers.

Mechanized and motorized rifle units of the 1st Baltic Front march to the front line in the summer of 1944. A column of guards mortars passes, Bagramyan's memories are heard off-screen.

A echelon with heavy tanks passes.

Artillery guns with crews on platforms.

Tanks crossing a wooden bridge.

Bagramyan talks about the operation to encircle the enemy by front troops in Belarus in the summer of 1944 (synchronously and off-screen).

Newsreel from 1944: heavy artillery of the front reserve takes up firing positions to conduct artillery preparation for the offensive.

Artillerymen prepare firing data.

Bringing ammunition to a finally loaded state.

Map of combat operations of Soviet troops during the Vitebsk offensive operation (animation).

Commander of the 43rd Army, Lieutenant General Beloborodov with staff officers.

Beloborodov talks about the progress of his army's combat operations during the Vitebsk Offensive Operation (synchronously).

Newsreel from 1944: artillery of the 1st Baltic Front fires at the enemy.

Shells exploding on German positions.

Anti-tank rifle crew in position.

Soviet soldiers and officers in trenches before the offensive.

A salvo of guards rocket mortars.

The pilots' faces.

Falling bombs.

Bombing of territory occupied by the Germans.

Front Commander Bagramyan and Front Chief of Staff Kurasov over a map of combat operations.

Soldiers in trenches before the attack.

A signalman maintains telephone contact.

Infantry rises to attack from trenches.

Tanks and infantry on the offensive.

An assault aircraft attacks German positions.

Views of Moscow in the summer of 1944. Colonel General Baghramyan on the phone.

Soviet troops fording the Western Dvina and using rafts.

German bombers flying overhead.

Soviet troops crossing the river under enemy fire.

View of a part of Vitebsk.

Sappers clearing a bridge.

Residents of Vitebsk greeting the liberating soldiers.

Presentation of flowers to officers.

Red Army soldier Platonov hugs his surviving wife and daughters.

Planting a red flag over the village council building.

Platonov with his wife and daughters.

A German warning sign at the entrance to a concentration camp.

Distribution of food to liberated prisoners of the concentration camp.

A Russian soldier treats a girl to sugar.

Captured German soldiers are escorted through the streets of Vitebsk, while residents give them kicks and punches.

Torn portraits of Hitler on the pavement.

Captured German soldiers walk past a toilet.

Panorama of a German convoy captured by frontline troops.

A German general surrenders. A.P. Beloborodov recalls the capture of a Wehrmacht division commander (synchronously and off-screen).

Newsreel from 1944: the face of a captured German general answering questions, the newsreel alternates with Beloborodov’s recollections.

Front troops conduct combat operations during the Belarusian offensive operation.

View of a burning city block.

Bagramyan talks about the actions of the front troops to liberate the Baltics (synchronously).

Newsreel from 1944: German officers at a field communications post.

A meeting at the German headquarters.

German armored vehicles on the march.

Panorama of the field (from above).

Soviet artillerymen remove camouflage from their guns and bring them into combat readiness.

A salvo of guards rocket mortars, the newsreel alternates with Bagramyan’s recollections.

German tanks fire, Soviet anti-tank gun crews in battle.

A medical orderly bandages the head of a wounded soldier.

An artillery crew loads a gun.

Commander of the 2nd Guards Army Chanchibadze P.G. at a command and observation post.

German tanks and Soviet artillery are engaged in combat.

Plan for the defeat of German troops in the Baltics (animation).

Commander of the Leningrad Front Govorov L.A. over a map of combat operations.

Commander of the 3rd Baltic Front, General of the Army Maslennikov I.I. with a map in his hands.

Commander of the 2nd Baltic Front, General of the Army Eremenko A.I. at an observation post.

Commander of the 2nd Baltic Front, General of the Army Bagramyan plots the situation on a map.

Troops of the 1st Baltic Front are fighting on the approaches to Riga.

Residents of Tallinn talk with Soviet tank crews.

Red flag on the Thomas Tower.

Map of the liberation of the Moonsund Islands (animation).

Armored vehicles of the 1st Baltic Front march to Klaipeda.

Map of military operations during the Memel Operation (animation).

Baghramyan and Kurasov develop the next operation, Baghramyan’s recollections of the Memel Operation are heard in the background.

Front troops being transferred to other positions.

A tank unit marches.

Soviet troops reach the shore of the Baltic Sea.

Remnants of a barbed wire fence.

A soldier washes himself with sea water.

Units of the 5th Guards Tank Army on the shore of the Baltic Sea.

Baghramyan talks about the front’s troops reaching the Baltic Sea (synchronously).

Newsreel from 1944: German sappers blow up a railway track during a retreat.

Troops of the Leningrad Front on the streets of Tallinn.

Map of the retreat of German troops to Courland (animation).

Residents of Riga greet Soviet troops with flowers.

An officer takes a girl in his arms.

An Il-2 attack aircraft attacks a target.

Troops of the 1st Baltic Front enter Klaipeda in January 1945. Faces of Soviet generals and officers.

Soviet soldiers knock down signs with German inscriptions when crossing the border of East Prussia.

Inscriptions on shields about entering German territory.

Soviet troops move along the streets of East Prussian cities.

Panorama of the concentration camp fence, liberated prisoners at the fence.

Soviet soldiers help small children get out of an underground shelter.

Il-2 attack aircraft in flight.

Panorama of a part of Konigsberg (above).

Columns of Soviet troops on the roads of East Prussia.

Faces of soldiers and officers during rest stops.

Soldiers resting on the side of the road.

Commander of the 3rd Belorussian Front I.D. Chernyakhovsky at the command and observation post.

Marshal of the Soviet Union A.M. Vasilevsky and Colonel General Bagramyan during a trip to the front line.

Vasilevsky and Bagramyan over a map at the front headquarters.

Naval artillerymen fire at the enemy from guns on railway transporters in April 1945. Vasilevsky with staff officers at the front line during the storming of Koenigsberg.

Work of the front headquarters.

Combat operations of Soviet troops during the encirclement of the enemy's Koenigsberg grouping and the storming of the city.

Soviet troops force the river, help refugees escape from the combat zone.

Tankers open fire.

A house is hit on a street in Koenigsberg.

Street fighting in Koenigsberg, burning buildings.

Soviet soldiers overcome engineering barriers on the streets of the city.

The red flag over one of the captured forts.

The interior of the bunker where the headquarters of the city commandant Otto Lasch was located.

General Lasch leaves the bunker with a group of officers.

German soldiers pass by with their hands raised.

The faces of Otto Lasch and his chief of staff.

Lasch surrenders to the Soviet general and salutes him.

German prisoners of war are led out of the fortress.

Soviet soldiers, standing on the walls of the fortress, give a rifle salute in honor of the capture of Koenigsberg.

Awarding of Soviet soldiers who distinguished themselves during the storming of Koenigsberg.

Faces of the awarded.

Veterans at the table during the meeting.

Faces of the veterans, including Kuznetsov N.I., three times Hero of the Soviet Union.

Kuznetsov at the table recalls the battles for Koenigsberg (synchronously), faces of the veterans.

General Beloborodov recalls the capture of Koenigsberg (synchronously).

Newsreel from 1945: Soviet soldiers pose for a photographer and cameraman while sitting on the ruins of a building.

Soviet units disembark from boats during fighting in East Prussia.

Senior Lieutenant A. A. Kosmodemyansky observes the battlefield.

A self-propelled artillery unit moves into position.

Kosmodemyansky directs the battle from the conning tower of the self-propelled gun.

The last street battles in May 1945. German soldiers are taken prisoner.

Soviet citizens, driven into exile in Germany, return home.

A column of foreigners, liberated from a concentration camp by the Red Army, passes by.

Russian officers and soldiers drink to the Victory from clay beer mugs.

Soldiers rest and tidy themselves up.

Broken German vehicles (panorama).

Panorama of a broken convoy, ownerless horses grazing.

A cow lies on the ground.

The body of a German soldier at the feet of a horse.

A female medical orderly leads a wounded soldier.

Seagulls in the sky.

The Eternal Flame burns.

Veterans' faces.

Bagramyan on a walk in the park.

Newsreel: the combined regiment of the 1st Baltic Front marches across Red Square during the Victory Parade on June 24, 1945.