The film tells about the combat service, training and life of soldiers at one of the border outposts in the Far East.




View of a section of a border river in the Far East.
A border guard walks around a thicket of reeds.
View of a border tower.
A border guard in the canteen during a holiday, women treat them to pies.
The border guards' wives bake pies in the soldiers' canteen.
The faces of the women.
Rolling out the dough.
The hands of a border guard cutting a pie.
Officers and soldiers of the outpost during a holiday dinner.
The face of the outpost commander.
The faces of the soldiers and officers.
The border guards are seeing off a comrade who has been discharged to the reserve.
The faces of the soldiers.
The discharged man says goodbye to his comrades and gets into the car.
The border guards are pushing the car.
The faces of the soldiers waving goodbye.
The soldiers are waving goodbye to their comrade who is leaving.
The border patrol going on duty leaves the outpost building.
The border guards are loading their weapons before setting out on the route.
A patrol at the monument to border guard Pavlenko M.A., who died in 1930. Faces of border guards.
View of a section of the border river.
The patrol is moving along the route.
A border guard is on patrol observing a section of the border.
The face of a border guard.
Fog is spreading.
The wind is swaying the grass.
A path along the route of the border patrol.
Bare trees on the river bank.
Portrait of border guard Pavlenko.
The place where Pavlenko accepted his last battle with border violators.
Border guard at his post.
Ice drift on the river.
Border guard is moving along the path.
Border patrol during a patrol of one of the sections of the border.
The patrol passes rocks, inspects the area.
Panorama of a section of the border river.
Border guards are moving along the control-track strip.
Furrows on the strip.
Border guards are moving along the control-track strip, inspecting the area.
An officer approaches the communication point and starts talking into the telephone receiver.
A car with the outpost commander is driving.
The outpost commander in the front seat.
View of the control and tracking strip from the car windows.
Landscape.
Border patrol during a rest stop.
Soldiers' faces.
Training service dogs at the outpost.
Dogs overcome obstacles.
The outpost commander supervises target practice.
Border guards at the firing line during firing training.
View of a section of the river.
Border guards during obstacle course training.
An officer's face.
Border guards enter the firing line and begin shooting at moving targets.
Border guards at the obstacle course.
Bayonet-knife throwing training at a target.
Border guards at the obstacle course.
Border guards share their impressions after passing the obstacle course test.
The border patrol with a dog boards a helicopter.
An officer in the helicopter sets a task for his subordinates.
A border guard's face.
A flying helicopter.
View of a section of the barracks at the outpost.
Border guards play chess.
Shelves with books, a border guard's face.
A political officer conducts a political lesson with the personnel.
The soldiers listen to the officer.
The officer continues the lesson, standing at a geographical map.
The faces of the soldiers and sergeants listening to the officer.
Border troops




Border guards having lunch in the canteen, the alarm sounds, everyone jumps up.
The alarm sounds.
The border guards, raised by the alarm, run out of the outpost building, take their places in the car.
View of the control-tracking strip from the car window.
Faces of the border guards.
The car drives along the control-tracking strip, stops, the border guards get out, run to the violated area.
Inspection of the control-tracking strip.
Traces on the strip.
Border guards inspect the traces.
View of part of the control-tracking strip.
The car drives along the strip.
Arrival of the duty squad at the outpost.
The border guard pulls the "violator" animal out of the car.
The face of the laughing driver.
The animal is given to the children.
The face of the ensign.
The face of the radio operator soldier.
Children pet the caught animal.
View of the outpost building in the evening.
Evening roll call at the outpost.
View of the border tower.
A memorial plaque in honor of border guard Pavlenko, who died in 1930. A monument to Pavlenko on the outpost territory.
Evening roll call at the outpost.
A border guard with a dog on night patrol.
View of a section of the border river.
The outpost duty officer gives orders to the orderly.
The outpost commander works in his office.
Cleaning weapons at the outpost.
A soldier's face.
General view of the outpost assembly hall, with a border guard playing the button accordion in the hall.
Ice floes floating down the river.
Panorama of a section of the border.
Border guards standing in formation in full dress uniform on November 7, an officer reporting to the outpost commander.
Faces of the officers' wives and children.
General view of the ceremonial formation of personnel.
A soldier's face.
Border detail on the route.
Panorama of a section of the river.
Border detail walking.
Faces of border guards.
On the parade ground, two soldiers step out of formation and walk toward the flagpole with a banner.
Raising the national flag of the USSR at the outpost.
A border guard looks at the flag.
Raising the flag.
Faces of the border guards.
The national flag of the USSR is waving.
The officers salute.
The face of the outpost commander.
The national flag of the USSR is waving.
View of part of Red Square in Moscow at sunrise.
Faces of soldiers and sailors standing in parade formation on Red Square.
Panorama of one of the sections of the border.
A border guard illuminates a section of the border with a searchlight.
View of a border tower.
A border guard on the tower at an observation device.
View of a satellite antenna.
Parade on Red Square on November 7th.
Border guards at the outpost watch the parade on TV. A border guard on the tower inspects the area through binoculars.
Border guards watch the military parade on TV. Suslov M.A., Ustinov D.F., Brezhnev L.I., Gromyko A.A. on the tribune of the mausoleum during the parade.
Border guard cadets marching across Red Square.
Faces of border guards watching TV. An alarm sounds.
Border guards disassemble their weapons.
The outpost duty officer is on the phone.
Empty chairs in front of a working TV. A festive demonstration on Red Square.
Faces of the demonstration participants.
General view of Red Square during the demonstration.
Armed border guards run out in response to the alarm.
The demonstration in Moscow moves past the mausoleum.
General view of Red Square during the demonstration.
Border guards take their places in the back of a truck.
Border guards with a dog get into the car.
An officer in the car.
A soldier illuminates a section of the border with a searchlight.
Border guards run along the river bank.
The crews of the border boats take their places.
Border detachment and ground force officers study the situation on the map.
A helicopter is flying.
A pilot in the helicopter cockpit.
A border patrol with a dog disembarks from the helicopter.
A forest landscape.
The face of a border guard in ambush.
Panorama of the area near the border.
Border guards running with a dog.
View of part of the river (from above).
Border patrol making their way through forest ravines.
The patrol is pursuing a border violator.
View of part of the river.
Border patrol walking along the control and tracking strip.
View of the border tower.
Border guard on patrol.
View of part of the border river.
Border guard examining a section of the river with binoculars.
Panorama of part of the river covered with ice.
Border guard with a dog on patrol.
Far Eastern landscape.
Border patrol walking along the river bank.
Brezhnev Leonid Ilyich - statesman and political figure Suslov Mikhail Andreevich - statesman and political figure Gromyko Andrei Andreevich - statesman and political figure