According to the new law on universal military service 19-year residents Smolensk preparing to become the Soviet Army.
City of Smolensk. Bridge. Square. Monument Glinka. Guys go to the factory, the machines: milling AN Kireev and Yu Trebinje, garbage S. Golovin and V. Gavryusev. Meeting in DOSAAF with the military heroes of the Great Patriotic War. Training drill, the study arms in a special training center created at the factory for the training of young recruits. Shooting on the range. Classes radio operators. The boys are introduced to seamanship, study automotor cars at the airport, the gliders. Farewell to the army at the factory. Recruits given presents, signs "Ready to defend the homeland," mandate. Farewell to the native Smolensk, family and friends. Mourners at the car of the train. Brass band. The train departs from the station. The first letter ordinary Gavryuseva arriving on the service in Kantemirovskaya division. Military training in the division. The soldiers in the ranks, get in tanks.