In the film, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union, retired colonel Akhtyamov Sabir Akhtyamovich answers the questions of a journalist, recalls the war. 1 part. The story of Sabir Akhtyamovich about the beginning of the war, the death of his father, about being drafted into the army in 1943, about the offensive in Belarus, the liberation of Soviet cities and villages. Part 2. In the second part S.A. Akhtyamov answers a journalist's question why he received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Part 3. The correspondent asks to tell the veteran S.A. Akhtyamov about how he managed to knock out powerful German tanks "Panthers" near the village of Auloven in East Prussia (modern village Kalinovka, Chernyakhovsky district). For the battle where S.A. Akhtyamov knocked out two German tanks, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner in February 1945. Part 4. Hero of the Soviet Union S.A. Akhtyamov talks about his participation in the Victory Parade on Red Square in Moscow in 1945. The nineteen-year-old hero, like all the participants in the celebration, was invited to the Kremlin for a reception with I.V. Stalin.