Soviet Army Guardsmen of the 70s (1974)

Flags of the Union Republics flutter in the wind.

A line of soldiers of the Guards Taman Division.

Veteran Guardsmen approach young soldiers.

Veterans accept the banners and stand in line.

Faces of soldiers.

The commander's speech.

A ceremonial initiation ceremony for Guardsmen is underway.

Chronicle of the Great Patriotic War: The Banner of the USSR. Soldiers with the banner in front of the line.

Soldiers go on the attack.

Tanks on the field.

Explosion.

Combined attack of tank and infantry troops.

A young soldier's oath-speech.

Veterans of the Taman Division.

A line of Guardsmen.

The commander leads the Guardsmen.

A military orchestra plays.

Detachments march.

A view of the square from behind the trees.

Soldiers of the motorized rifle company of Guards Senior Lieutenant G.Andreev in the Museum of Military Glory.

Photographs. G.Andreev with his subordinates.

A meeting of young Guardsmen with veterans of the Taman Division Kazaev and Paritsky.

A tour of the museum, museum exhibits.

Guards barracks.

Soldiers during theoretical and practical classes.

A column of armored personnel carriers on the highway.

Firing tracer bullets at the firing range at dusk.

A snowdrift in front of the barracks.

The crew gets into the armored personnel carrier.

Tree branches.

Senior Lieutenant G. Andreyev supervises night exercises.

Stopwatch board.

Alternation: crew members, movement of military equipment at the firing range, firing and explosions.

Winter dawn, the all-clear signal sounds.

Soldiers reading newspapers.

Soldiers having lunch.

Tea at a round table.

Soldiers hurry to meet their relatives at the checkpoint.

A soldier and his mother on a walk.

Soldiers talking with their parents.

An elderly woman reading the menu of the army canteen.

People in the meeting room.

A family greets soldiers who have arrived on leave.

Family dinner, veterans talk with their sons.

Veterans of the Taman Division.

Young guardsmen on the shore of the Kerch Strait.

Chronicle of the Great Patriotic War: Forcing the Kerch Strait.

Ships approach the shore.

Soldiers disembark, explosions.

A soldier pulls a dead comrade ashore.

The attackers climb the hill.

A war memorial in the central park of the city of Krymsk, a mass grave.

The Eternal Flame burns, soldiers lay flowers on the grave.

A monument with the names of the heroes.

The corner of the Hero of the Soviet Union I.I. Laar.

Soldiers prepare for the upcoming exercises, Major Krylov leads the classes.

Winter dawn.

A sentry on duty.

A sentry guards weapons laid out in the snow.

Soldiers wipe themselves with snow.

The cook distributes food.

The soldiers have breakfast.

Briefing before the start of the exercises.

The crews run to their vehicles.

A soldier looks out of a hatch.

A column of APCs on the road.

A tank unit.

Commanders observe the exercise.

Planes in the sky.

Explosions thunder.

Tanks pass through a forest belt.

Alternation: crews of combat vehicles, tanks fire at the training ground.

Infantry in camouflage suits.

A tanker looks through a loophole and fires.

Firing from tank guns, explosions.

A tank moves across a field.

Gunner.

A column of APCs breaks through the forest and reaches the training ground.

Alternation: fighter jets in the sky, explosions on the training ground.

Soldiers on skis, towing an APC. Fighters in the clouds.

The skiers disperse and drop the tow.

Tanks on the training ground.

Alternation: crew members, tanks pass through fire.

Guardsmen on a fiery obstacle course.

A soldier with a burning sleeve.

Soldiers ford a reservoir.

Commanders watching the exercise.

Infantry attack.

Explosion, all clear.

Tree trunks.

Soldier lights a cigarette.

Soldiers laugh.

Fire burns.

Mechanic cleans car.

Soldiers resting in forest.

People sit by fire, smoke, take pictures, sing songs.