Along the Sacred Borders

The film tells about the Komsomol youth relay race in honor of the 50th anniversary of the formation of the USSR. Map of the relay route along the state border of the USSR. Border guards patrols in the mountains, on the seashore, in the desert. Rallies dedicated to the start of the relay; handing over of the relay race pennants, the start of the participants in the Posiet village of the Primorsky Territory and in the polar village of Nikel. Relay participants ride horses in the Ussuri taiga, sail on a boat along the Amur River, pass by car. Rallies in honor of the Komsomol youth relay on the cruiser Aurora in Leningrad, at the construction of an aluminum plant in Krasnoyarsk. Relay participants lay wreaths at the monuments to the heroes of the Brest Fortress and border guards who died during the Great Patriotic War. Meeting with Colonel of the Border Troops N. F. Karatsupa. Participants of the relay race at a distance in the city of Alma-Ata, Ashgabat, Baku, at the border outpost in Georgia. Meeting of the participants of the relay race of the western and eastern routes in Baku. Moscow city. The laying of wreaths at the Lenin Mausoleum, the monument to FE Dzerzhinsky in the last days of the relay. Hero of the Soviet Union Senior Lieutenant of the Border Troops Y. Babinsky reports on the completion of the relay race at the Lenin Stadium in Moscow.

B&W

2

1972