News of the Day No 12

The movie includes plots: 1 plot. "FROM STALINGRAD TO BERLIN" (operator - EV Mukhin, VS 405) The artillery crew of the howitzer-gun No. 4852 (1st Belorussian Front) says goodbye to its gun that passed from Stalingrad to Berlin. The order of the Military Council of the Front is read out by Guard Major Likhankin. The last shot at Berlin makes the calculation of senior sergeant Vasily Ivanovich Plekhanov: private loader Lazovoy Ivan Ivanovich; Vasily Kotlyar; Rasputny Sergey Konstantinovich; Sergeant Miroshnikov Leonid Konstantinovich; gunner Raskulov Kenan. The gun will be sent to the Leningrad Artillery Historical Museum of the Red Army. 2 plot. "MEETING ON ELBE" (operators - A.L. Bogorov, K.P. Brovin, VS 635, VS 636) On April 26, 1945 at 17:00 in the area of the city of Torgau, standing on the Elbe River, the first official meeting of the Allied troops took place with Soviet troops. On the American side, the 69th division commander, Major General Emil F. Reinhardt, was present with his staff. The guests were greeted by Major General of the 58th Guards Rifle Division of the 5th Guards Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front, Vladimir Vasilyevich Rusakov, with representatives of the headquarters. On April 27, 1945, Major General Clarence Huebner met with Major General Gleb Vladimirovich Baklanov. Representatives of the Red Army gave breakfast in honor of the generals and officers of the 1st American Army, among those invited was the war correspondent K. Simonov. 3 plot. "GDANSK RETURNED TO POLAND" (operators - V.S.Citron, G.N. Zakharova, 8316) In April 1945, President of the Home Rada Narodova Boleslav Bierut, Prime Minister Edward Osubka-Moravsky, representative of the command of the Polish army, Brigade General Boleslav Frantsevich Zaraka -Zarakovsky, accompanied by a representative of the command of the Red Army, Lieutenant-General Sergei Savelievich Shatilov, visited the cities of Gdynia and Gdansk that were returned to the Polish people. In Gdansk, the guests talked with local residents, examined the city and the surviving shipyards in the port. 4 plot. "IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA" (operators - A.G. Krichevsky, V.V.Dobronitsky, VS 459, VS 460) On April 5, 1945, at the temporary residence of the President of the Czechoslovak Republic Eduard Benes in Kosice, Soviet Ambassador Valerian Aleksandrovich Zorin presented credentials. The honor guard is commanded by the Hero of the Soviet Union, Captain Tesarzhik. Among the representatives of Czechoslovakia: Prime Minister of the Government of Czechoslovakia Zdenek Fierlinger, Chief of the Chancellery Troubled, Chief of the Military Chancellery General Spannel, Chief of the Political Chancellery Drtina. V.A. Zorin is accompanied by: adviser - Nikolai Yakovlevich Demyanov, 1st secretary - Georgy Evgenievich Chebotarev, 3rd secretary - Grigory Ivanovich Alyabyev. 5 plot "RELEASED BY THE RED ARMY" (operators - V.S.Eshurin, F.G. Korotkevich, S.S.Shkolnikov, B.I.Sher, BC 417, BC 418, BC 419) Belgrade residents meet the train with the liberated Red Army Yugoslavian prisoners of war.

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ed. Yu. Karavkin, music. office G. Hamburg, sound V. Kotov