The film is dedicated to one of the decisive periods of the Great Patriotic War - the Battle for the Caucasus.
The city of Moscow in the winter of 1942. The Khudozhestvenny cinema. Soldiers. Hitler. Oil refinery. A man in the Caucasus Mountains. A train with fascists. Tanks. Conference of the command of the southwestern direction. S. Timoshenko. L. Brezhnev. Hitler on the plane. Von Bock. The city of Sevastopol in the smoke of fires. Airplanes. Tselisskaya Bay of Novorossiysk. Port. Lighthouse. The Tashkent leader at the pier. Sailors. The burning city of Rostov. The Caucasus Mountains. Aul. People's militia. Highlanders on horses. Oshima and German generals. Germans on motorcycles. Soldiers listening to orders. Military operations, a burnt village. A fascist on a camel. Oil tanks are burning. Trains. Fascist equipment in the mountains. German planes. Malaya Zemlya. Air battle. The city of Novorossiysk is burning. Sailors. Port. Caucasus Mountains. Volga River. Rally in Baku. Fascists crossing the Kerch Strait. Tanks. Battle. Ships in the burning port. Partisans. The "Red Proletarian" cement plant. Bay. Sailors. Highlanders. Girls giving flowers. Printing house in the forest. Newspapers. Presentation of a party card to a soldier. A train with fascists. Prisoners. Trophies. Anti-aircraft gunners. Volunteers. Front Commander I. V. Tyulenev. Battle. Monument to Minin and Pozharsky in Moscow. The Kremlin. Report by I. Stalin. Fascist equipment. Traffic controller on the street of Ordzhonikidze. "Katyushas". Airplanes. Tanks. Cavalry. A soldier playing the piano. Partisans. Paulus. Landing party on a ship. Sailors. Coast of Yuzhnaya Ozereyka. Ships in port. Crying women. Soldiers taking an oath. Climbers on the summit of Elbrus. USSR flag. Gramophone. Baking bread. Tractors. Tanks. Destroyed station. General A. A. Grechko. Airplanes. Malaya Zemlya. Fascist ambush. Fascists in the Berlin Philharmonic. Air battle. L. I. Brezhnev among military leaders. Soviet tanks advancing. Soldiers at rest. The city of Gelendzhik. Fishing boats. Port. Malaya Zemlya. Military operations. Dugouts. Sailors. Vice-admirals. Generals. Tsemesskaya Bay. Night battle. The city of Novorossiysk. Destroyed houses. The city of Novorossiysk. Cement plant "Proletariy". Residents returning to the city. Sailors. Soldiers. Soviet tanks. Airplanes. Crossing. The city of Anapa. S.K. Timoshenko, Colony, L.I. Brezhnev. The Dnieper River. Residents greet soldiers.




Newsreel 1941-1945: Winter war Moscow, soldiers entering the Khudozhestvenny movie theater.
Hitler at the map, trains with fascists passing by, German equipment.
Hitler is seen off by members of von Bock's staff.
Hitler looks out the airplane window.
Oil pipeline.
Sentries at their post in the Caucasus Mountains.
The command of the southwestern direction holds a meeting before the summer campaign: Marshal S.K. Timoshenko speaks in the hall of the Southern Front headquarters, commanders and political workers listen, among them is Brigade Commissar L. Brezhnev. L. Brezhnev and others are sitting at the table, soldiers and sailors are listening.
Sevastopol is burning, naval guns dug into the ground.
Novorossiysk port, the leader "Tashkent" at the port berth with evacuees and wounded.
The sunken "Tashkent" in the port of Novorossiysk.
Fascist units are moving along the road, Rostov is burning.
Landscapes of the Caucasus Mountains.
The militias of the peoples of the Caucasus are gathering, saying goodbye to the fighters at the train cars.
The highlanders are leaving the village on horseback.
Fascist troops are crossing the Don.
Japanese Ambassador Oshima during a visit to the Eastern Front with fascist generals at a map.
The fascists are riding in cars, motorcycles, armored vehicles.




Newsreel 1941-1945: commander reads an order in front of a line of soldiers.
Artillerymen firing, battle, tank attack.
Retreat of the fascists.
Burnt village.
Fascists at rest, writing letters.
Maikop: oil tanks are burning.
Fascist guns are firing.
Soviet soldiers go on the offensive, the city of Krasnodar is burning.
Fascists go out onto the road, German equipment drives through the mountains.
Soviet units climb the mountains, battle in the Caucasus Mountains.
German bombers in the air.
Anti-aircraft gunners shoot down a German plane.
Air battle.
The city of Novorossiysk is burning.
Battle, the village is burning, explosions.
Marine detachments are being formed on the ships of the Novorossiysk naval base.
Fascist flag on the top of Elbrus, mountains.
Fascists stand on the bank of the Volga, destroyed railway station.
People pass by - filmed from above.
Baku workers' rally in Kirov Park: a soldier speaks, people listen.




Newsreel 1941-1945: Fascist troops crossing the Kerch Strait, the fascists march along the shore.
Tanks firing.
Sailors firing from a boat, Novorossiysk in smoke.
Photo: Rear Admiral S.G. Gorshkov, Colonel Maltsev.
Firing from the workshop of the Krasny Proletariy cement plant.
Soldiers at an observation post, firing from a camouflaged gun.
Highlanders greet the Red Army soldiers, give them flowers.
A highlander dances with a girl fighter.
A printing house in the forest, a fighter works at a printing press.
Presentation of party cards.
Photo: Brezhnev presents a party card to a fighter.
Fascists are riding in railway cars.
Battle near Novorossiysk, artillery firing.
Soldiers take fascists prisoner, captured weapons.
The destroyed cement plant "October". "Saraichik" - rifle platoon of junior lieutenant Tursunbekov.
Shelling of Tuapse by fascists.
Residents and fighters dig trenches.
Destroyed Tuapse.
Residents go to the mountains.
People's militia receives weapons.
Fighters shoot.




Newsreel 1941-1945: Front Commander Tyulenev and others at a map.
Soldiers are fighting.
Moscow, the Kremlin, 1942: Chairman of the State Defense Committee I. Stalin approaches the rostrum to deliver a report on the 25th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War.
Stalin on the rostrum, applauding in the hall.
Broken fascist equipment, a traffic controller on Ordzhonikidze Street.
Soldiers repair watches.
Artillery fires.
Cavalry goes on the offensive.
Residents and partisans (the Trukhanov family from the village of Saratovskaya) return to the liberated city.
Stavropol: partisans return to their factory (destroyed).
Paulus passes by and sits down at the table.
Captured fascists, an observation post, landing forces being loaded onto ships (above), officers stand, sailors smoke.
Soviet artillery fire, naval guns, fascists firing cannons, explosions at sea.
The shore of Yuzhnaya Ozereyka - Soviet military equipment is burning, fascists are inspecting Soviet equipment.
Battle: paratroopers in the village of Starnichka.
A destroyed city - filmed from an airplane.
The people of the liberated city greet the soldiers, a soldier kisses his family members.




Newsreel 1941-1945: prison building, women crying over the dead.
Soldiers listening to the commander reading them a newspaper, soldiers taking an oath.
Guns firing.
Mountaineers hoisting the Soviet flag on Elbrus, saluting with gunfire.
In a liberated city, a man hangs a flag, residents and soldiers listen to a gramophone.
A woman takes bread out of the oven of a destroyed house.
A tractor is working in a field, with broken military equipment nearby, men are sowing grain, a boy is driving horses in the field.
Women from Kuban villages bring shells to the soldiers.
A destroyed village.
General, commander of the 56th Army A.A. Grechko receives a battle sword as a gift from the peoples of the Caucasus.
Soldiers go on the offensive, fight.
Airplanes at the airfield, bombing, explosions on the ground.
Malaya Zemlya in the smoke of fires.
The fascists are firing from a cannon, a machine gun.
Fascists at the Berlin Philharmonic celebrating Hitler's birthday.
Soviet planes take off, air battle.
Soviet military leaders march, including L. Brezhnev.
Soviet tanks advance, a tanker fires.
Residents of liberated villages emerge from cellars, greet soldiers.
Fascists at the pier, loading tanks onto a ferry, a train with fascists and equipment rides.




Newsreel 1941-1945: soldiers at rest.
A soldier plays the accordion.
Welders repair a boat in the port.
Soldiers are transported on fishing boats.
Bombing, the city is on fire.
Commanders emerge from the dugout, including L. Brezhnev.
Photo: Brezhnev as Colonel.
Soldiers are fighting, unloading and carrying ammunition.
Soldiers drink water from a crater, build a dugout, female fighters run along a trench.
Photo: soldiers during a break between battles: having lunch, sewing, threshing grain.
Soldiers hand over documents and awards before a battle (reconnaissance).
Sailors on a boat, in lifeboats. 1944: Moscow, an exhibition of captured weapons.
Soviet commanders are standing - General Petrov (North Caucasian Front), Admiral Vladimirsky (Black Sea Fleet), General Leselidze, L. Brezhnev and others are passing by.
Tsemesskaya Bay.
Rear Admiral Kholostyakov is talking.
The building of Hitler's Reich Chancellery.
Night plans of artillery shelling, landing of troops, explosions over Novorossiysk, boats at sea.




Newsreel 1941-1945: the battle for Novorossiysk.
Soldiers hoist a flag over a cement plant.
A naval flag against the backdrop of Novorossiysk.
The fascists surrender.
Fascist fortifications on a city street, destroyed German equipment.
Soviet troops enter ruined Novorossiysk.
An elderly woman in a destroyed house.
Residents return to the city with their belongings.
Sailors meet soldiers on a Novorossiysk street.
Novorossiysk lighthouse.
Colonel General Petrov among military leaders.
Soviet tanks go on the offensive, a traffic controller lets vehicles through near the signs.
General K. A. Vershinin is standing among the pilots.
The fascists are evacuated from Taman, loading at the crossing.
Soviet planes bomb the crossings, German equipment burns.
Soviet tanks enter Anapa, Taman.
Headquarters Chairman Marshal S.K. Timoshenko receives reports from unit commanders, Marshal S. Timoshenko, Generals Lesemidze, Kolonin, Colonel L. Brezhnev are standing.
Fascist helmets are floating in the water near the shore.
Soviet soldiers are crossing the Dnieper, residents are greeting the passing soldiers.
Various photos of soldiers, commanders, Brezhnev among the soldiers.