Gold Star of the Hero (1980)

Meeting of war veterans – Heroes of the Soviet Union.

One of the first Heroes of the Soviet Union N. P. Kamanin, mowing hay in a village, working in his office, near the Gagarin monument.

Newsreel from 1934: Unloading the steamship Chelyuskin, an airplane flying, N. Kamanin among the polar explorers; rescuing the Chelyuskinites; meeting the Chelyuskinites.

Photos of pilots – the first Heroes of the Soviet Union.

Newsreel from 1941-1945: Battle in the Brest Fortress; capture of Berlin; sailors fighting; a nurse bandaging a soldier.

Brest Fortress Memorial.

Participant in the liberation of Brest, Hero of the Soviet Union Yu. M. Vinnik, riding a train, walking through Brest, laying flowers at the monument, talking to young people.

Participant in the capture of Berlin V. M. Shatilov in the Armed Forces Museum in Moscow.

The Victory Banner in the museum.

Former nurse, concentration camp prisoner, participant in the European Resistance, Hero of the Soviet Union M.K. Baida and other veterans in Sevastopol, at the sites of former battles.

War photography by Maria Baida.

Sevastopol.

Ceremony in the Wedding Palace, M. Baida congratulates the newlyweds; walks with his granddaughter; among his family, among veterans.

Veterans lay wreaths at the Glory Obelisk; walk along the street on Victory Day.

Streets, herds and vineyards of the Kuban state farm "Azovsky".

The director of the state farm - a former tankman, Hero of the Soviet Union and Socialist Labor V. I. Golovchenko at a board meeting, in the fields and vineyard, talking with his fellow soldiers.

Harvesting grain.

Kindergarten of the state farm, V. I. Golovchenko in the kindergarten.

Moscow.

Hero of the Soviet Union, polar explorer E. I. Tolstikov among his family and friends.

Newsreel of 1954: The head of the "North Pole-4" station raises the flag on an ice floe, rescue operations.

Return of E. Tolstikov from the expedition.

Doctor of Geographical Sciences, laureate of the USSR State Prize, deputy chairman of the USSR State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control E. I. Tolstikov at work in his office, at the airfield, on the plane, meets with polar explorers.

Newsreel 1961: Awarding of Yu.

Gagarin.

Yu.

Gagarin in different countries.

Rocket takeoff.

Space center.

Head of the Yu.

Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Lieutenant General of Aviation, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, pilot-cosmonaut G. T. Beregovoy supervises cosmonaut training.

Flights of international space crews. G. T. Beregovoy talks about heroism (synchronously).

Newsreel: Shots from different years in the life of three times Hero of the Soviet Union L. I. Brezhnev.

War veterans pass and talk.