Sentinels of the Land (1985)

Ballistic missile launch.

A unit of the Strategic Missile Forces (SMF) on an early morning march.

Installing a strategic missile in a launch silo for combat duty.

An officer's face.

Actions of the unit's personnel during the installation of a strategic missile in a launch silo.

View of the missile body (bottom up).

Installing the warhead of a strategic missile with a nuclear charge.

An officer's face.

View of a nuclear warhead.

View of a strategic missile installed in a launch silo (top).

The duty shift of missilemen walks along the corridor.

The missilemen pass through hermetic doors.

Closing one of the doors.

Descending in an elevator.

Changing combat posts of the crews, handing over and accepting the shift.

Crew numbers report the acceptance and handing over of their posts, the changed numbers leave.

The crew commander orders his subordinates to take up their shift, the crew commander's face.

Russian landscapes, autumn nature.

The face of the duty crew commander giving commands to his subordinates and receiving their reports while on combat duty.

View of the hall where art workers met with missilemen on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Strategic Missile Forces.

Faces of the meeting participants.

Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic Missile Forces, Chief Marshal of Artillery V.F. Tolubko, delivers a speech to the guests (synchronously).

Writer V. Karpov during the meeting. V. Karpov’s speech during the meeting (synchronously).

Meeting of missile forces veterans.

Faces of the veterans.

Young Pioneers present flowers to veterans from Captain Flerov’s battery.

Newsreel: a salvo from a battery of missile launchers.

Frame rocket launchers fire at the enemy.

Attacking tanks.

Young Pioneers congratulate veterans, faces of veterans and their awards.

Veterans hug each other.

The Eternal Flame is burning.

Sentries on duty at the Eternal Flame, fallen leaves on the grass.

Monument to the Liberator Soldier in Treptower Park in Berlin.

Cadets on the combat equipment site during an excursion, the first ballistic missile on the museum site.

Transporting the missile using a truck tractor (top).

Photo of Academician S.P. Korolev with Yu.A. Gagarin.

Newsreel from 1947: panorama of the R-1 rocket launch pad before the test launch.

Launch of a ballistic missile at the Kapustin Yar test site.

Newsreel of the R-1 rocket test launch in 1947. The names of the participants in the first launch on the obelisk.

Interview with the head of the 1st test site, Colonel General V.I. Voznyuk (synchronously).

Photograph of S.P. Korolev and D.F. Ustinov among the members of the State Commission during the tests of the R-1 rocket in 1947. Newsreel: a meeting of rocket designers.

Interior view of one of the design bureaus.

Design engineers at work.

Photographs by I.V. Kurchatov, M.V. Keldysh and S.P. Korolev.

The process of connecting a nuclear warhead to a launch vehicle.

Interior view of the rocket engine shop.

Newsreel: a nuclear bomb explosion.

An American bomber taking off.

An atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima.

The face of a Japanese girl who suffered from the atomic bombing.

An atomic bomb explosion.

The face of US President H. Truman.

Truman holds a meeting in the White House.

A nuclear mushroom cloud.

Morning dawn.

Forest landscape (panoramas, from above).

The face of a missile officer.

Colonel Shumsky on combat duty.

Summer rural landscapes.

Shumsky's brothers and sister at their home.

The Shumsky family at the table in the gazebo.

Shumsky's mother and relatives talking about him among themselves, faces of adults and children.

Colonel Shumsky at the control panel during his duty.

Shumsky's brothers Viktor and Aleksandr walk along the village street. A. Shumsky inspects ripening wheat ears in the field.

The chairman of the collective farm A. Shumsky behind the wheel of a car during a tour of the collective farm lands.

Wheat ears bend in the wind.

A rocket in a hangar (panorama).

Servicing rocket units in a hangar.

Female fitters assemble electronic microcircuits for the control unit.

Employees of the computing center at work.

Major N. Mamonov makes technical calculations.

Mamonov's interview (synchronously and off-screen).

Assembling rockets in the factory shop, assembling blocks and units.

Students of the Missile Forces Academy during classes in the laboratories.

Students of the Missile Forces Academy during a lesson in the aerodynamics lab, the teacher explains the subject and sets a learning task, the students answer questions.

Students of the academy during a lesson in the computer lab.

Major Khutortsev during a practical lesson on the computer.

Khutortsev takes the final exam.

The chairman of the examination committee comments on Khutortsev's answer.

Panorama of the academy parade ground during the graduation ceremony of missile officers.

Officers in parade formation.

Presentation of diplomas for graduation from the academy to officers.

Faces of relatives of graduates.

Relatives congratulate graduating officers on graduation from the academy.

Graduates of military academies climb the stairs of the Grand Kremlin Palace before the start of the ceremonial reception.

Views of the St.

George Hall during the ceremonial reception in honor of the graduates.

Applauding officers.

USSR Defense Minister Marshal of the Soviet Union D.F. Ustinov congratulates graduates of military academies.

Faces of Soviet officers and officers of the armies of the Warsaw Pact countries.

Ustinov D.F. delivers a speech to graduating officers (synchronously and off-screen), the military listen to Ustinov D.F., faces of generals and officers.

The officers applaud after Ustinov's speech.

Ustinov and his entourage pass through St.

George's Hall.

Officers talking with Ustinov.

A passenger train passes.

Lieutenant Colonel Khutortsev stands at the carriage window while traveling to a military unit.

Grain fields outside the carriage window, Khutortsev's face.

Landscapes outside the carriage window, harvesting in the fields.

Khutortsev looks out the carriage window, Khutortsev's story about his father is heard off-screen.

The face of Khutortsev's father.

Khutortsev's father shows his grandson an album with photographs.

Photographs of the elder Khutortsev from the period of the Great Patriotic War.

Photographs in the album.

The boy's face.

Khutortsev reports to the commander about his arrival for service.

A military unit of the Strategic Missile Forces on the parade ground during the introduction of the new commander of the unit.

Soldiers in dress uniform in formation.

The commander introduces Khutortsev to the unit personnel.

Officers and soldiers, standing in formation, introduce themselves to Khutortsev.

Soldiers' faces.

Soldiers crossing an assault strip during exercises.

Khutortsev sums up the results in front of the formation.

Missile unit personnel running a cross-country race.

Cross-country race participants on the course.

One of the cross-country race participants finishes.

Soldiers rest after the cross-country race.

Fire training session at the shooting range.

A hit target.

Khutortsev walks next to his superior.

Young officers in one of the halls of the Museum of Military Glory of the unit.

Faces of lieutenants.

Photos on the history of the Strategic Missile Forces on the museum stands.

Newsreel: soldiers pushing out tractors stuck in the desert sands.

Panorama of the taiga unit (above).

Laying a cable through a swamp.

A tractor moving along a corduroy road through a swamp at night.

Officers in a wet tent.

Young officers looking at the stands and exhibits in one of the museum halls.

Houses and streets in a military town of one of the Strategic Missile Forces garrisons, officers and their wives on the streets of the town.

A woman walking with a stroller.

Schoolchildren walking past a residential building.

A dance evening in the Garrison House of Officers (GDO), dancing couples.

Book sales in the foyer of the House of Officers, faces of officers and their wives.

An evening dedicated to young officers.

Officers and their wives carry cakes given to them.

Children of military personnel play on the playground, children's faces.

Missile officers on combat duty.

Interview with Major N. Mamonov (synchronously and off-screen).

Officers on combat duty at the command post.

Officers' faces.

Continuation of Major Mamonov's interview (synchronously).

Major Ilyashov plays chess with a fellow soldier.

Ilyashov's interview (synchronously).

Missile officers leave the command post bunker after completing their shift.

Officers rest, sitting on the grass in the sun's rays.

Faces of officers resting, including Major Ilyashov.

Rowan berry clusters on the branches.

View of part of central Moscow and the Moscow Kremlin.

Panorama of Red Square.

Changing of the guard at Lenin's Mausoleum.

View of the Spasskaya Tower and St.

Basil's Cathedral.

View of central Moscow (from above).

People walking on the streets of Moscow.

A man counts flowers in a bouquet.

A father carries a child on his shoulders.

A boy's face.

The White House in Washington.

A US military transport plane lands at a base in Western Europe.

Transportation of US missiles delivered to Western Europe.

The directions of the proposed US strikes on the USSR on a map (animation).

Colonel General Gorchakov, Chief of the Political Directorate of the Strategic Missile Forces, during a meeting with missile officers.

Gorchakov speaks from the podium during the meeting.

A unit of one of the missile units of the Soviet Army marches to a firing position.

A military transport plane lands.

Chief Marshal of Artillery V.F. Tolubko greets officers at the airfield after arriving at the location of one of the missile units.

Officers of the duty shift at the command post before a combat training launch.

The shift senior reports to the arriving commander.

Faces of the officers of the combat crew.

Tolubko conducts observation through the periscope of the command post.

Pressing the launch button on the remote control.

The missile silo cover is folded back.

Combat training launch of a ballistic missile.

Tolubko at the periscope.

Contrail from the missile in the sky.

Ground-based measuring equipment in operation when tracking the missile flight.

Tolubko congratulates the officers of the combat crew on the successful launch of the missile.

Combat training launches of various types of missiles.

Summer forest and river landscapes.

A combat missile in a launch silo.

Divorce of the duty shifts of the missile garrison.

Faces of soldiers and officers standing in formation.

Missile unit personnel marching across the parade ground to the music of a brass band.

Combat crew numbers board a truck to proceed to the point.

A command and staff armored personnel carrier fords a water obstacle.

A herd of cows in a field.

Strategic Missile Forces servicemen during exercises.

A helicopter flying to a point above the forest.

Panorama of the taiga, shadow of the helicopter (above).

Officers descend into a missile silo to take up their shift.

Shift handover, officers' faces.

Forest landscape (panorama, from above).

Missile officers taking up their shift walk along the corridor.