Conquerors of the Universe

A film about the development of Soviet cosmonautics. The film includes interviews with academicians K.D. Bushuev, (part 2), V.P. Glushko (1-2 parts), O.G. Gazenko (2-3 parts), cosmonaut K.P. Feoktistov (2-3 parts), photographs of aircraft designers A.M. Isaeva, A. Ya. Bereznik. Cosmonauts G.S. Titov, V.A.Shatalov, G.T.Beregovoy, A.S. Eliseev, film director N.V. Makarov talk about Y.A. Gagarin (synchronously and behind the scenes), (4-5 parts ). PART ONE City of Leningrad. Buildings gas dynamic laboratory (GDL), USSR Academy of Sciences. The Bronze Horseman monument. Demonstration of the operation of a liquid-fuel rocket launcher in the GDL. Smolensk region. The village of Klushino. House where Yuri Gagarin was born. Chronicle footage. Moscow, 1932. Solemn meeting in the Column Hall of the House of Unions, dedicated to the celebration of the 75th anniversary of K.E. Tsiolkovsky. Tsiolkovsky speaking. 1934 year. Expedition on the icebreaker "Chelyuskin": crew disembarkation on an ice floe, tent camp, O.Yu. Schmidt among the members of the expedition, taking out the Chelyuskinites by air to the mainland, meeting the Chelyuskinites in Moscow. Polar pilot Hero of the Soviet Union N.P. Kamanin, among the members of the Chelyuskin rescue expedition. Winter 1942. Test pilot I. Ya. Bakhchivaji sits in a Bi-1 rocket plane during a test flight. Smolensk region, the city of Gzhatsk, 1943. Fighting Soviet tanks, Soviet troops enter the city, city residents are greeting Soviet soldiers. Germany, Berlin, 1945. Berlin operation: Katyusha mortar fire, gunners load an anti-aircraft gun with a projectile with the inscription "Across the Reichstag". Soviet soldiers are photographed outside the Reichstag building. Moscow, 1945. Meeting of Soviet soldiers at the Belorussky railway station. PART TWO The runway of an airfield of one of the air force units. Airplane in the air. Pilot Major V.I. Shchadilov (friend and fellow soldier of Gagarin) in the cockpit. L.I. Brezhnev goes down the plane, talking with military and civilian specialists at one of the training grounds. The territory of the air force unit, in which Yuri Gagarin served, after graduating from the flight school. The house where Gagarin lived. Pilots meeting in the unit commander's office. Riders riding camels in the desert. Moscow. The building of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Lenin's Mausoleum. 1930s. Laying of railway rails in the steppe. [1940s]. [Construction of a test site for launching space rockets]. November, 1948. Launch of the first ballistic missile. 1956 year. Long-range ballistic missile launch. October 4, 1957. Start of the first artificial Earth satellite, the movement of an artificial satellite in space. 1957 year. Assembling the first artificial Earth satellite. Laika the dog aboard an artificial satellite in space. 1965 year. A.A. Leonov in outer space. PART THREE Military airfield, MiG-21 fighters on the airfield, pilots watching the flight of the fighter, including N.P. Kamanin. Assembly shop of the space enterprise, employees of the enterprise are working. Hero of Socialist Labor V.I. Morozov gives interviews (synchronously). Chronicle footage. 1960s. Cosmonauts Gagarin, Titov, Nikolaev, Bykovsky, Leonov at a reception at the Air Force Commander-in-Chief K.A. Vershinin, during training at the Cosmonaut Training Center. Catapult and spacesuit tests. April 12, 1961. Chronicle footage dedicated to the flight of Yuri Gagarin on the Vostok spacecraft, a solemn meeting of Gagarin on Red Square. PART FOUR Chronicle footage. No shooting date. V.V. Tereshkova talks with S.P. Korolev, Yu.A. Gagarin. Moscow, late 1960s. Cosmonauts Titov, Gagarin, Leonov in the classroom at the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy. August 15, 1961. Solemn welcome of the cosmonauts P.R. Popovich and A.G. Nikolaev on Red Square. August 1961. Solemn welcome of the cosmonaut G.S. Titov on Red Square. 1961 year. Chronicle footage dedicated to Gagarin's stay in foreign countries. 1963 year. Academician S.P. Korolev talks with cosmonauts V.V. Tereshkova, V.M. Komarov, K.P. Feoktistov, B.B. Egorov, examines the device of the Voskhod spacecraft with Academician M.V. Keldysh. 1966-1967. Yu.A. Gagarin says (synchronously and behind the scenes), about the successful space exploration in the USSR. April 23, 1967. Cosmonaut V.M. Komarov, with his wife, in his apartment before leaving for the cosmodrome. 1967 year. Spacecraft "Soyuz-1", in the assembly shop at the space enterprise. Moscow, 1968. Yu.A. Gagarin during the defense of his diploma project and presentation of the diploma at the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy. Vladimir region. V.V. Tereshkova, V.I. Gagarin and members of the cosmonaut corps lay flowers at the site of the death of Yuri Gagarin. PART FIVE Cosmonauts Yu.V. Romanenko and A.T. Mendes (Cuba) at the cosmodrome. Pilot-cosmonaut A.P. Artyukhin in the cockpit at the airport. Cosmonaut A.A. Leonov in the cockpit at the airport, resting on the grass after the flight. L.I. Brezhnev presents a government award to the Vietnamese cosmonaut F. Tuan in the Kremlin. Moscow region, the city of Zvezdny. Mission Control Center (MCC). MCC workers at work. Pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR, the head of space flights A.S. Eliseev gives interviews (synchronously). School buildings, houses of culture. The streets of the town. Chronicle footage. Moscow region, the city of Zvezdny, March 1968. Yu.A. Gagarin, in his apartment with his wife and daughters, is sorting mail, while working in his office. Gagarin's desk.

Color

5

1980