Faithful sons of the people (1967)

Text of the Decree on the Creation of the Red Army, signature of V.I. Lenin under the decree.

Photographs of Red Army soldiers and commanders of the Red Army during the Civil War, photographs of military operations.

Photographs of the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War and the Victory Parade.

A helicopter flies over the treetops.

The helicopter lands on the site.

Officers of the missile troops duty shift exit the helicopter.

The officers approach the gate.

They press the code, the gate opens automatically.

The officers walk along the path.

The sentry demands the password, says the response, and lets the officers into the facility.

The armored door opens.

The officers go down into the bunker, hand over the passes to the duty officer.

The officers go down in the elevator.

Acceptance and handover of combat posts at the command post, the officers take up duty.

The shift begins to carry out the combat mission.

The officers report on the readiness of the combat systems.

The missile silo opens.

Strategic missile inside a silo, face of duty officer.

Mobile medium-range missile systems move along a forest road to a firing position.

View of a moving column (from above).

Bringing a missile launcher to combat position.

Missiles before launch.

Panorama of the terrain, air defense locator rotating.

Air defense locators on combat duty in the desert.

Air detection duty shift in front of radar screens.

The locator antenna rotates.

The duty shift at one of the air defense points in the Far North makes its way through a blizzard to duty.

The locator rotates.

A tracked snowmobile travels along the foothills.

Soldiers meet the snowmobile at a high-mountain air defense point.

Distribution of letters and newspapers to servicemen.

Unloading boxes of food.

Ice on a rotating locator.

The duty shift in front of radar screens.

Signalers transmit data from a telegraph communications center.

Work of the air defense headquarters located underground.

Aircraft in flight.

Target on air defense radar screen.

Duty officer reporting target detected.

Computers at work.

Reporting to command.

Duty fighter pilots preparing for takeoff.

Pilots drive up to aircraft in car.

Aircraft crew takes its places in cockpit.

Anti-aircraft missile system crews rise on alert.

Numbers of one of the crews take their places, prepare missile for launch.

Missile launchers turn towards target.

Air defense commander receives report on nature of target.

Fighter-interceptor taxis to runway.

Interceptor takes off.

Tracking intruder aircraft.

Interceptor approaches target.

Pilot's face.

Pilot's hand pushes back launch button bracket.

Air-to-air missiles launched.

Air target hit.

Interceptor in flight.

Shot down aircraft hits ground, burns.

Report on the destruction of the intruder aircraft, announcement of gratitude to the participants of the control exercise.

The anti-aircraft missile system turns to the target.

The interceptor takes off.

The target acquisition locator rotates.

The duty shift during service, the faces of soldiers and officers.

Farewell to conscripts at one of the Moscow train stations.

The face of conscript A. Korotkov.

Parents see off Vasily Tsumanov.

Conscripts wave goodbye from the doors and windows of the carriages.

The train departs.

A brass band plays on the platform.

Farewell to conscript A. Kovalchuk in the village of Strizhanovka.

An old man in a Georgian village drinks wine from a horn during the farewell to conscript I. Mageladze.

Girls present flowers to the conscript.

Mageladze's face.

Mageladze rides to the military registration and enlistment office.

Winter landscape outside the train window.

The faces of conscripts Korotkov and Perelygin, riding in a train to the Pacific Ocean.

Faces of conscripts, winter landscapes outside the window.

Conscripts sing songs accompanied by a button accordion.

Winter landscape outside the train window.

Faces of V. Tsumanov and his fellow travelers.

Meeting reinforcements at a military unit, conscripts enter the unit's territory in formation.

Conscripts line up on the parade ground.

Carrying out the regiment's banner to the parade ground.

Faces of conscripts.

Newsreel: farewell to the banner by demobilized soldiers after the end of the Great Patriotic War.

Ceremony of handing over weapons to young soldiers.

The regiment's banner is carried along the parade ground.

Issuance of uniforms to young soldiers.

Teaching how to wrap foot wraps around their feet.

Sergeant Major Khorev adjusts the uniform of a young soldier.

Old-timers explain to young soldiers the rules for wearing uniforms and talk about the internal regulations.

Sergeant Major Khorev adjusts the recruits' coats hanging on the coat rack.

Khorev makes the rounds of the barracks after lights out.

A sleeping soldier.

Pacific Fleet warships at anchor.

The ship's crew is getting up.

Korotkov puts on a striped shirt and a sailor's uniform.

Young soldiers are training in marching on the parade ground.

Anti-aircraft gun crews are training to bring the equipment into combat readiness.

Signalmen are training in Morse code and working with a key.

View of the parade ground of a military unit during the oath-taking ceremony.

Faces of young soldiers standing in formation.

Soldiers and sailors from various units and ships read the oath (synchronously).

A parade of personnel of one of the military units after taking the military oath.

A tank column on the march.

Views and panorama of the tank unit's exercises (from above).

Mobile anti-aircraft missile systems and tanks on the march.

Faces of soldiers.

A column of armored personnel carriers on a march.

A command post vehicle passes by.

Division Commander Major General Aleksandrov at a mobile command post.

Staff officers plot the combat situation on a map.

Crossing a water line.

Airplanes fly by.

Armored vehicles fire on the move during a water line crossing.

A tank crossing on a self-propelled pontoon (top).

Soldiers fire small arms from an armored personnel carrier during the formation of a water obstacle.

Rocket artillery fires.

An infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) drives ashore.

Airplanes fly by.

Infantry disembarks from the IFV. An attack on a simulated enemy with the support of armored vehicles.

Panorama of part of the training ground (top).

Helicopters with tactical troops on board are sent to the near rear of the simulated enemy.

Pilots in the helicopter cockpit.

Lieutenant General Skomorokhov gives the landing force commands by radio from the command post.

Helicopters with tactical landing force are flying.

The pilot is in the helicopter cockpit.

The landing force is disembarking from the helicopters.

Armored vehicles are unloading from the helicopters.

The trucks with the landing force begin to move.

Airborne units are boarding the planes.

The tanks begin to force a water obstacle along the river bottom.

An artillery piece is towed by a tank forcing a water obstacle.

The tanks are moving along the river bottom, the crew is inside one of the tanks.

The tanks drive out onto the bank, drop their exhaust pipes.

The tanks begin to fire on the move.

Generals Kuznetsov and Govorov over the exercise map.

Military transport aircraft with troops on board flying above the clouds, propellers turning.

Pilots in the cockpit.

Troops putting on oxygen masks.

The command to drop troops lights up.

Dropping airborne troops from aircraft.

Parachute canopies in the sky, performing a long jump.

Dropping armored vehicles and cargo by parachute.

Armored vehicles landing.

Troops after landing.

Tanks attack a simulated enemy, planes fly by.

Aviation conducts training bombing.

Dropping pontoon bridge parks into the water, automatic unfolding of pontoons in the water.

An officer looks at his stopwatch.

Sappers will connect parts of the pontoons to erect a pontoon bridge, officers give signals with flags.

View of the erected pontoon bridge.

Armored vehicles drive along the pontoon bridge to the other bank.

The motorized rifle unit returning in formation to the field camp.

Conducting political information in the field camp, the soldiers' faces.

Conducting physical training classes, jumping over a horse, doing exercises on the parallel bars.

Panorama of the sports town during physical training classes.

Ground training of paratroopers.

Training on a ground catapult.

Ejection from an airplane in the air.

Landing of an ejected pilot.

Comrades congratulate the pilot on his first ejection.

Preparing a missile for launch.

Private A. Kovalchuk acting as part of a crew.

Operators at the missile control panel.

A self-propelled anti-aircraft gun fires at air targets.

Bringing an anti-tank guided projectile into combat position.

Launching an anti-tank projectile, the gunner controls the flight of the projectile.

Destruction of a simulated enemy tank.

Giving the command to destroy an air target.

Launching missiles and destroying air targets.

Military school cadets during a math class, one of the cadets answers at the board.

Taking an exam at the Naval Academy using an electronic computer.

The officer being examined answers questions (synchronously).

Students of the General Staff Academy work with maps during a tactics class.

Students during a regular lecture.

USSR Defense Minister Grechko speaks at a meeting of the high command.

Faces of generals and admirals, including I.Kh.

Bagramyan.

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