Young men are coming of age (1976)

Karelian landscapes.

Tanks moving through forest plantations during the "North" exercises of the Leningrad Military District troops.

Tanks overcoming off-road conditions and water obstacles.

A column of armored vehicles drives along a country forest road.

Battalion political officer Captain Sysoeva conducts political information with the personnel.

Soldiers' faces.

Attack helicopters fly by.

A red flag over the command and observation post.

Generals and officers at the command post.

Commander of the Leningrad Military District troops Colonel General A.I. Gribkov supervises the exercises.

Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR, Commander of the Ground Forces General of the Army I.G. Pavlovsky gives orders, Pavlovsky's face.

Commanders of units and formations before receiving a combat mission.

Signalmen transmit command orders to military units.

Officers on a camouflage net at the forefront.

Pilots take their places in the cockpits of combat aircraft.

Aircraft cockpit lights closing.

Fighter aircraft taxiing to the runway.

Fighter flight taking off.

Panorama of part of the training ground, explosion of a fired missile.

Aircraft during a combat training mission.

Faces of pilots Ivanov, Alipov and Fayzullin, hidden by oxygen masks.

Hitting a ground target.

Panorama of part of the training area during a tank attack.

Observers from the armies of the Warsaw Pact and other countries at the command post observe the actions of the troops, faces of officers from the GDR, Poland, Norway, Finland and Sweden.

Officers at the command post (panorama).

Tanks firing while moving.

The tank commander observes targets through the observation device.

Faces of the gunner and the driver.

Motorized riflemen disembarking from tracked armored personnel carriers.

Motorized riflemen firing machine guns on the move.

Attack aircraft moving towards the target.

Hitting a training target.

The infantry of the "northern" supported by tanks goes on a counterattack.

Battalion Commander Captain Sysoyev marches in the battalion's battle formations next to the radio operator.

The "Northern" infantry attacks the "Southern" lines.

The "Southern" motorized rifle units launch a counter attack.

A signal flare takes off.

The "For the Motherland!" newspaper is released at the printing house.

Soldiers read newspapers.

A political officer conducts political information with the personnel in a forest.

A company agitator reads a newspaper aloud to his comrades.

A supply column arrives at such a unit.

Tanks and trucks are refueled.

The convoy continues its march after refueling.

Bread is baked in a field bakery.

Soldiers have lunch in the field.

Landscapes of the Vuoksa River.

The "Northern" artillery crews fire, having secured their positions on the Vuoksa River line.

The "Southern" self-propelled artillery units return fire.

Helicopters with landing troops fly to the rear of the "Northern".

Landing of troops from helicopters.

Various types of weapons - tanks, aircraft, motorized infantry during exercises.

Amphibious tanks cross the Vuoksa River.

An attack aircraft approaches its target.

An anti-aircraft gun crew fires at an air target.

Foreign officers at an observation post, panorama of a head-on battle on the Vuoksa River line.

Establishing a pontoon crossing across the river.

View of the erected pontoon crossing (from above), combat vehicles are moving along the crossing.

Armored vehicles are moving along the pontoons.

Aircraft are flying over the crossing.

A communications officer is receiving a signal on the radio switchboard about the end of the exercises.

View of a part of the forest.

A motorized rifle company in formation.

Faces of soldiers.

Presentation of certificates to servicemen who distinguished themselves during the exercises in front of the formation.

The face of the battalion commander, thanking his subordinates.

The commander of the district, Colonel General Gribkov, expresses his gratitude and conducts a preliminary analysis of the exercises with officers, Gribkov's face.

Faces of soldiers and officers, Gribkov thanks the tanker.

Local residents greet the Soviet soldiers.

The face of a tank sergeant.

The face of a boy.

The face of an anti-aircraft gunner.

Faces of local residents greeting soldiers.

The face of a tank officer.

Local residents present one of the tankers with a bouquet of flowers.

People greet the tankers.

A tank column moves along the road.

A column of armored vehicles drives through the forest.