Defending the Skies of the Motherland

A film about the exploits of the soldiers of the air defense forces during the Great Patriotic War. Newsreel footage of the Great Patriotic War, 1941-1944: [city of Brest]. Soviet aircraft at the airport. The pilot gets on the plane. Aircraft take off. The bombing of the city by German planes. Soviet anti-aircraft guns are fighting. View of a falling German plane in the city of Moscow. Monument to A.S. Pushkin on the square; barrage balloon. People carry balloons down the street. Air defense girls with binoculars. Takeoff of aircraft from the airfield. View of a German aircraft on fire. Awarding of the honorary title of Hero of the Soviet Union to the deputy squadron commander of the 177th Air Defense Fighter Aviation Regiment Viktor Vasilyevich Talalikhin. The award is presented by the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin. Anti-aircraft artillery under the command of senior lieutenant V.I. Kaplinsky is fighting. The bombing of the city by German planes. People run for cover. Anti-aircraft searchlights. Leningrad. The bombing of the city by German planes. Anti-aircraft gun fire. View of the downed burning German aircraft. The funeral of a soldier. Party card with blood stains. A convoy of trucks is moving along Lake Ladoga, the city of Stalingrad. Sculpture of the Dancing Children fountain in the city center; in the background - a destroyed building after a raid by enemy aircraft. Anti-aircraft artillery mounts are in battle. View of a falling German plane. The following photographs were used in the film: Ryabtsev Petr Sergeevich - flight commander of the 123rd Fighter Aviation Regiment, who made the first ramming strike, shooting down a German plane; died on July 31, 1941 in a battle near Leningrad. Matakov Vasily Nikolaevich - Hero of the Soviet Union, deputy squadron commander of the 27th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 6th Air Defense Fighter Corps, who took part in 25 air battles, personally shot down 2 enemy aircraft. Hero of the Soviet Union, Deputy Squadron Commander of the 27th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 6th Fighter Air Defense Regiment, which committed the world's first high-altitude ram, shooting down an enemy aircraft at an altitude of 8000 m. Talalikhin Viktor Vasilyevich - Hero of the Soviet Union, Deputy Squadron Commander of the 177th Fighter the Air Defense Aviation Regiment of the 6th Air Defense Fighter Air Corps, which carried out the first night ramming of the Great Patriotic War; died on October 27, 1941 in an air battle over Podolsk. Zdorovtsev Stepan Ivanovich - Hero of the Soviet Union, flight commander of the 158th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 39th Fighter Aviation Division, who shot down a German plane with a ram strike, died on July 9, 1941 in an air battle over Pskov. Petr Timofeevich - Hero of the Soviet Union, pilot of the 158th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 39th Fighter Aviation Division, who shot down a German plane in 1941 over Leningrad with an air ram; Mikhail Petrovich Zhukov - Hero of the Soviet Union, pilot of the 158th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 39th Fighter Aviation Division, in an air battle over Pskov with a dive, drove a German plane into the lake; died in an air battle on his last 263rd sortie. Karpova Alexander Terentyevich - Hero of the Soviet Union, squadron commander of the 27th air regiment, in five flights in a row, shot down 7 German planes, who died in 1944. Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozlov - Hero of the Soviet Union, commander of the 910th Fighter Aviation Regiment, who took part in 127 air battles, personally shot down 16 (19) enemy aircraft Bashkirov Vyacheslav Filippovich - Hero of the Soviet Union, pilot of the 788th Fighter Aviation Regiment, who shot down 6 enemy aircraft Gultyaev Grigory Kapitonovich - Hero of the Soviet Union, deputy squadron commander of the 788th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 102nd Air Defense Division, who shot down 10 enemy aircraft in the battles near Stalingrad. [German V.E.] - Colonel, commander of the 1st sector of the Air Defense of Stalingrad, Of the 1077th anti-aircraft artillery regiment; Mikhail Baskakov - lieutenant, commander of the 12th battery of the 1087th anti-aircraft artillery regiment.

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scriptwriter Colonel A. Savenko, chief consultant Colonel V. Bryntsev, consultants Colonel E. Eremeev, N. Kitaev, director V. Kokodeev, editor L. Trofimov, assistant director S. Milikbekov, sound engineer V. Arkharov, editor M. Chayanayakh