Commanders of the eighties (1981)

A tank passes by (song playing in the background).

Tanker Lieutenant Colonel V.A. Dudinov and Major V.P. Zinoviev, a military pilot who has arrived to visit V. Dudinov’s unit from another military district, climb out of the tank’s hatch.

Soldiers are standing in formation.

Lieutenant Colonel V. Dudinov introduces pilot V. Zinoviev to the soldiers; the soldiers are applauding; V. Dudinov and V. Zinoviev are walking along the line of soldiers; Major V. Zinoviev is among the soldiers. V. Zinoviev is speaking to the soldiers standing by their tanks; the soldiers are listening.

Delegates to the 26th Congress of the CPSU V. Dudinov and V. Zinoviev are walking along Red Square.

Festive Moscow during the 26th Congress of the CPSU. V. Dudinov and V. Zinoviev are walking along the Kremlin grounds. V. Dudinov is speaking to the soldiers – he is talking about the 26th Congress of the CPSU; the soldiers are listening.

The hall of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses during the 26th Congress of the CPSU. The Presidium of the Congress; L. I. Brezhnev is delivering a report; the delegates of the Congress are listening. V. Dudinov and V. Zinoviev are among the delegates in the meeting hall; the delegates of the Congress are applauding; V. Dudinov and V. Zinoviev are applauding.

Officers at the command post during tank exercises of soldiers.

Combat training; tanks drive across the field, soldiers run. V. Dudinov at the instrument, then at the map.

Military aircraft at the airfield.

Pilots are training in the audience, V. Zinoviev is among the audience; a teacher, a diagram. V. Zinoviev is practicing aircraft landing elements on a simulator.

The head of training is giving assignments at the control panel; the simulator screen.

Pilots training in a sports town; pilots on rotating wheels; a pilot is training on a horizontal bar.

Pilot A. Furseyev performs exercises on the parallel bars.

Instructor V. Zinovyev with A. Furseyev. V. Zinovyev trains on sports equipment.

A group of pilots walks along the airfield. V. Zinovyev gets into the cockpit of the plane. V. Zinovyev's plane taxis, then takes off and flies in the air.

Two other planes take off; planes in the air; clouds from the plane; the pilot's face in a mask during the flight; the pilot's hand at the plane's control panel.

The plane in the sky.

The command post at the airfield; Lieutenant Colonel V.G. Alkin at the flight control panel.

Planes in the air.

Planes making turns in the air.

The radar is rotating.

Military planes are landing at the airfield. V. Zinoviev is speaking at a meeting of the party bureau.

Soldiers are in the audience; V. Zinoviev is speaking; soldiers are listening. V. Dudinov and V. Zinoviev on the sidelines of the 26th Congress of the CPSU; V. Zinoviev. V. Zinoviev on the sidelines of the congress among the cosmonauts.

Meeting of the Minister of Defense, Marshal of the Soviet Union D. F. Ustinov with the soldier-delegates of the 26th Congress of the CPSU; D. F. Ustinov is speaking; soldiers are applauding. D. F. Ustinov presents a gift to V. Dudinov (a watch with his name on it). V. Dudinov conducts classes with company officers. V. Zinoviev is shown the barracks where the soldiers live.

Political classes for soldiers in the Lenin Room of the regiment. V. Dudinov and V. Zinoviev enter the Lenin Room, the soldiers stand up. V. Zinoviev looks at a notebook.

The soldiers are cleaning their firearms; V. Zinoviev takes a rifle and examines it.

An officers' shooting range; the officers take aim and shoot; V. Zinoviev shoots.

A target.

The officers at the target congratulate the young officer on his victory. V. Zinoviev with V. Dudinov's family over a cup of tea; V. Dudinov's wife. V. Dudinov and V. Zinoviev play chess. V. Zinoviev among V. Dudinov's children. V. Zinoviev draws. V. Dudinov and V. Zinoviev inspect the repair and technical block.

Soldiers repairing tanks.

Soldiers from V. Dudinov's unit at the sponsored Mayak state farm repair agricultural machinery. V. Dudinov speaks to the collective farmers; the collective farmers listen.

Soldiers enter the hall of the Palace of Congresses with banners during the 26th Congress of the CPSU. The hall and the presidium applaud.

Soldiers stand with banners.

Hall of the Palace of Congresses (the speaker’s voice in the background).

Applauding audience.

A pilot puts on his helmet.

An airplane takes off (night shot).

Tankers board their tanks.

Sailors on watch at the ship’s instruments. V. Dudinov hands binoculars to V. Zinoviev while observing combat training of tankers.

Soldiers run after the tanks.

A group of pilots walks along the airfield.

The control room of the command post at the airfield.

An airplane takes off.

A pilot in the airplane.

The ground (from the airplane).

Military airplanes in the sky.

A soldier and a collective farmer walk among agricultural machinery.

Combine harvesters in a field.

Grain spilling.

A girl at work in a laboratory.

A teacher with children in a classroom.

A landscape – sunflowers against a background of birches.

People at a festive table. V. Dudinov and V. Zinoviev are walking along the bank of the pond.

A kindergarten teacher with children. V. Zinoviev is drawing. V. Zinoviev's drawings.

A boy's face.

A line of pilots is passing, V. Zinoviev is in front.

The Kremlin Palace of Congresses (song in the background).