Border Guard

Exhibits of the Museum of Border Troops in Moscow: photographs, paintings, things, items intended for smuggling across the border; crossing the control and trail strip; equipment of saboteurs. Newsreel of the Great Patriotic War: border guards are checking documents, searching a detained spy. The border of the USSR with the socialist countries. Combat military training of border guards: wrestling, fencing; study of means of communication; shooting at targets in the evening. Training of service dogs. The border guards' outfit goes to guard the border. The sentries walk along the control strip, find the trail, and call on the phone. Combat alert at the border outpost. Border guards block all transport routes: highway, bridge, river, road to the mountains. The dog leads the border guards on the trail. To help the border guards, a helicopter rises into the air. The saboteur was detained. Flight map of the American military aircraft U-2 on May 1, 1960. Suit, helmet, documents, photographic film of the pilot F. Powers; the remains of an American reconnaissance aircraft shot down over the city of Sverdlovsk. Border guards serve in the sea, desert, polar snowy expanses. Border guards of the outpost named after Hero of the Soviet Union corporal Semyon Pustelnikov during leisure hours: write letters to relatives, meet with parents who have arrived; watching TV; help collective farmers in agricultural work.

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Screenplay V. Kukushkin