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The film tells about the twice Hero of the Soviet Union aircraft designer Alexander Sergeevich Yakovlev and the development of aircraft construction in the USSR. Part I Pilots from different countries tell (sync.) That they began their flying careers with the aircraft of the designer A.S. Yakovleva. Petr Fedorovich Tumasiev learned to fly on the UT-2 (training aircraft). The pilot from Guinea Keita Mohammed Moro - on the Yak-18. In the OKB A.S. Yakovlev, the deputy general designer Sergey Gavrilovich Kulagin, the deputy for VTOL aircraft (vertical takeoff and landing aircraft) Stanislav Grigorievich Mordovin, the head of the prototype shop Oleg Konstantinovich Gaevsky, the leading designer Roman Semenovich Petrov, the chief engineer Leonid Ivanovich Masha are working. The film shows the stages of creating an airplane, from a scaled-down model to a plywood model. All equipment is tested in laboratories. Newsreel footage, 1966: Twice Hero of Socialist Labor, Colonel-General of the Engineering and Technical Service, General Designer of the Design Bureau (experimental design bureau), Alexander Sergeevich Yakovlev, accepts congratulations from the delegates of the XXIII Congress of the CPSU on his 60th anniversary and receiving the eighth Order of Lenin (there will be 10 ), among those congratulating twice Hero of Socialist Labor, aircraft designer Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan. Part II. Experimental plane Yak-40 takes off into the air. Newsreel footage: - 1900-1917 .: Demonstration flights are taking place throughout the Russian Empire. Some of the first Russian pilots - the military pilot, Staff Captain Pyotr Nikolaevich Nesterov and the pilot-aviator Boris Iliodorovich Rossinsky - fly the planes. June 1, 1924: at the Moscow Central Aerodrome. L. D. Trotsky (after 1926 named after MV Frunze), the transfer of the squadron "Lenin" by the Society of Friends of the Air Fleet (ODVF) of the USSR to the XIIIth Congress of the RCP (b) took place. Speakers at the rally are Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin and member of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) Grigory Yevseevich Zinoviev and chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council, People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs of the USSR Lev Davidovich Trotsky. - 1927: The first plane A.S. Yakovleva AIR-1. Test pilot Yulian Ivanovich Piontkovsky lifts the car into the air. - 1929: Takeoff of an aircraft designed by A.S. Yakovlev AIR-3, built with the money of the pioneers and handed over to the pilots at the 1st All-Union Meeting of Pioneers. Part III Heroes of the Soviet Union Lieutenant General P.A. Pokryshev, Sultan Amet-Khan, D.B. Glinka talk (sinhr.) About how they fought on aircraft designed by A.S. Yakovleva. Newsreel footage: - 1935: Air parade at the Tushino airfield. People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR Kliment Efremovich Voroshilov, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin, Secretary of the Central Committee, head of the industrial department of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Andrei Andreevich Andreev and test pilot Yu.I. Piontkovsky watching the air parade on the podium. - 1934: In the sky the plane "Maxim Gorky" A.N. Tupolev. - 1930s.: The plane "Moscow" N.N. Polikarpov. The Il plane of the aircraft designer S.V. Ilyushin is taxiing to the runway. Test pilots Vladimir Konstantinovich Kokkinaki, Hero of the Soviet Union Mikhail Mikhailovich Gromov, pilot of the Gorky propaganda squadron Valentina Stepanovna Grizodubova. - 1937: Solemn meeting of the crew of the ANT-25 aircraft, which made a non-stop flight Moscow - North Pole - Vancouver (USA), in Moscow; the crew commander, pilot Valery Pavlovich Chkalov, his wife Olga Erazmovna and their son Igor are driving in the car. - 1939: Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin presents the Order of Lenin to test pilot Yu.I. Piontkovsky, aircraft designer A.S. Yakovlev. - 1934-1941: Soviet aircraft designers are working on the creation of combat vehicles. A.S. Yakovlev discusses with N.N. Polikarpov bomber BB-22 and fighter Yak-1 - 1935-1941: Designers A.I. Mikoyan, Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich and others are working on the creation of the MiG fighter, Semyon Alekseevich Lavochkin is developing the LaGG-3 fighter. In KB S.V. Ilyushin, an attack aircraft is being designed. - 1941: People's militia. Defense factories are starting to operate in the East of the country. - 1944: The initiator of the national patriotic movement to raise funds for the Red Army fund during the Great Patriotic War, Ferapont Petrovich Golovatyy hands over the Yak-3 aircraft, collected with his own money, to the commander of the 31st Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 8th Air Guard Army, Guards Major Boris Nikolaevich Eremin. - 1943: Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from the Rtischevsky electoral district (Saratov region), Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences Vladimir Nikolaevich Obraztsov hands over the Yak-1 to the assistant commander of the 291st fighter aviation regiment for airborne service, fighter pilot Lieutenant Alexander Filippovich Lavrenov. 1943-1945: Hero of the Soviet Union, adjutant of the squadron of the 45th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 216th Mixed Aviation Division of the 4th Air Army of the North Caucasus Front, Lieutenant Pilot Boris Borisovich Glinka talks with his brother, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Captain Dmitry Borisovich Glinka. Stills from the documentary film 1943-1945: Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, the commander of the 159th Fighter Aviation Regiment, pilot Major P.A. Pokryshev is conducting an air battle on a Yak-9 aircraft. Part IV Newsreel footage: - 1942-1943 .: Flight tests of the first Soviet aircraft with jet engines by test pilots Grigory Yakovlevich Bakhchivandzhi and Mikhail Ivanovich Ivanov. - August 5, 1943: volleys of the first fireworks of the year in Moscow. - 1943-1945: In the sky, Yak-3 fighters, on which the pilots of the Normandie-Niemen fighter air regiment fought. Commander Major Pierre Pouillade speaks on the radio. - March 25, 1945: French officers Georges Lemar, Roger Sauvage, Jacques André, Louis Delfino and others are congratulated by the commander of the 1st Air Army, Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel-General of Aviation T.T. Khryukin, commander of the 303rd Fighter Aviation Division, which included the Normandie-Niemen Regiment, Major General G.N. Zakharov, chief of staff of the regiment, Major I.Ya. Vdovin. -1945-1947: Reconstruction of the national economy after the end of the war. - September 6, 1945 rewarding of Soviet aircraft designers A.S. Yakovleva, S.V. Ilyushin, A.N. Tupolev, A. I. Putilova, S. A. Lavochkin in the Kremlin. - 1945-1960: Soviet aircraft designers are working on the creation of jet technology. - 1966: Youth group in the OKB A.S. Yakovleva - Sergei Aleksandrovich Yakovlev (son of the general designer), Yuri Ivanovich Yankevich, Vadim P. Prishkolnikov, Sergei V. Neunylov are preparing a new aircraft model for the IV World Aerobatics Championship. The Yak-18PM aircraft, piloted by the pilot V.D. Martemyanov, performs aerobatics at the World Championships. The absolute champions are: Vladimir Davydovich Martemyanov and Galina Gavrilovna Korchuganova. Part V OKB A.S. Yakovleva continue to work on supersonic combat aircraft: Deputy General Designer Mikhail Grigorievich Bendersky, Head of the Research Department Klavdia Sergeevna Kildisheva, Test Pilot Hero of the Soviet Union Colonel Valentin Grigorievich Mukhin. Leading aircraft designers of the country S.V. Ilyushin and A.S. Yakovlev are resting together, walking in the garden. Newsreel footage, 1966: After the end of the IV World Aerobatics Championship, the winning aircraft Yak-18PM was examined by Marcel Charollet (France), Thomas Castagno (Spain). A.S. Yakovlev communicates with General L. Kyuffo, with whom they have been friends since the Great Patriotic War. A former officer of the Normandie-Niemen air regiment climbs into the cockpit of the new Yak-32 sports aircraft, assisted by Sergei Yakovlev. The Yak-32 aircraft, piloted by Arkady Pavlovich Bogorodsky, performs aerobatics.

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scriptwriter A. Markush, editor E. Kozyrev, announcer L. Khmara, artist V. Koltsov, composer M. Marutaev, assistant director G. Burasheva, sound engineer I. Voskresenskaya, film director E. Kaspiy