The film tells about the training of future officers of the USSR at the Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School named after the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Head of the Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School, Lieutenant General of Tank Forces Ivan Afanasyevich Magonov asks questions to applicants. Cadets of the school in practical training in combat training: a self-propelled artillery unit moves in the water, overcoming an obstacle; military infantrymen are running to the attack. Cadets in the ranks; among them: Kostin, Kaminsky, Semyonov, Eremin.