Remember Earth

Film about the celebration of the 55th anniversary of the Battle of Kursk in the Belgorod region. PART 1. Places associated with the Battle of Kursk. Veterans of the Great Patriotic War on the Prokhorovskoye field lay flowers at the mass grave, participate in the anniversary celebrations; among those present - the head of the Belgorod region administration Yevgeny Stepanovich Savchenko, the governor of the Kursk region Alexander Vladimirovich Rutskoy, Archbishop of Kursk and Rylsk Yuvenaly (Tarasov Spiridon Alekseevich). War veteran Elena Sergeevna Hagen talks about her brother, tanker Alexander Nikolaev, who died on July 12, 1943 at the Prokhorovka field (sinhr.). E.S. Savchenko speaks at a rally at the Storozhev farm (sinhr.). Participant of the Battle of Kursk, Nikolai Georgievich Akaulov, talks about the battle (sinhr.) Priests perform a requiem over the coffins of unknown soldiers; coffins are lowered into a mass grave; among those present - Archbishop of Belgorod and Starooskolsk John (Popov Sergei Leonidovich). K / t, b / w plans: August, 1943 - artillery pieces are firing; explosions on the field; moments of tank battles. PART 2. Panorama of the village of Chepukhino. A fellow villager of General Nikolai Fedorovich Vatutin - Evgeny Ilyinichna Vatutin - talks about his childhood (sinhr.). Veterans of the 95th Guards Division in the village of Prelestnoye; Georgy Andreevich Aleinikov talks about fellow soldiers (sinhr.). Veterans at the monument at the site of the feat of the platoon of Pavel Shpetny, who repulsed the blow of the SS Panzer Division "Dead Head" at the cost of his life. Opening of the monument to the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir in Belgorod; the author of the monument is the sculptor Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Klykov (sinhr.); among those present - Archbishop of Belgorod and Starooskolsk Ioann, E.S. Savchenko. Sculptor Anatoly Alexandrovich Shishkov near the memorial complex "Those killed in Afghanistan", built according to his design. Hero of the Soviet Union, participant in the war in Afghanistan, General Alexander Petrovich Soluyanov speaks about spirituality (sinhr.). A participant in the construction of the Stary Oskol-Rzhava railway during the Great Patriotic War, Anna Aleksandrovna Protorchina, at home, speaks of overwork during the war years (sinhr.). K / t, b / w plans: 1942-43 - General N.F. Vatutin at the command post; 1938-41 - conscripts receive tobacco and soap as a gift; say goodbye to relatives on the street of the village; passing on carts; 1941-43 - a horse train is going by; the wounded soldier is carried on a stretcher; 1943-45 - girls with flowers waving to a passing military train. PART 3. Miner Semyon Yakovlevich Nakurda with his wife at home examines a photo of the war years. Monument to the "Soldier's Widow and Mother" in the village of Bobrovy Dvory (Gubkinsky District). Religious procession at the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul on the Prokhorovka field; among those present - Archbishop of Kursk and Rylsk Yuvenaly, E.S. Savchenko. Iron ore quarry. Residents of Belgorod receive keys to new apartments; E.S. Savchenko speaks; the keys are presented by the mayor of the city, Georgy Georgievich Golikov; newcomers give interviews (sinhr.). Newlyweds and guests go up to the observation deck of the city. Festive festivities in honor of the 55th anniversary of the Battle of Kursk; festive fireworks. Building of the diorama "Fire arc"; fragments of the diorama. Participant in the liberation of the city of Belgorod Nikolai Petrovich Kovtun speaks about the destroyed city (sinhr.). K / t, b / w plans: 1943-47 - collective farmers plow the land; broken military equipment is on the field; August 5, 1943 - fireworks in Moscow.

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Sound engineer Yuri Kotov, editor Tatyana Naydenova, photo artist Pavel Krivtsov