Roads of War

A film about the heroic deeds of Siberian warriors during the Great Patriotic War. Part 1 Novosibirsk region. The building of the railway station "Moshkovo". A clock on the front of the building showing the time 16:45. Road construction. The excavator is working. Children by a reservoir in a rural village. A woman postman with a letter in her hands approaches the house of Vladimir Evdokimovich Chugaev; hands the letter to the addressee. At home, Vladimir Chugaev opens an envelope with a letter from his father's brother-soldier, Evdokim Chugaev, who heroically died in the battles for the liberation of the village of Gnezdilovo in the Smolensk region from the German invaders, Galina Evgenievna Vostrikova. Veterans of the Great Patriotic War, participants in the defense of the Stalingrad Tractor Plant Alexei Yakovlevich Ochkin, Nikolai Ilyich Smorodin, Antonina Moiseevna Davydova are walking down the street. Tomsk city. Participant of the war, medical instructor Antonina Moiseevna Davydova with her daughter Raisa at home. Moscow region, the village of Nelidovo. Commemorative plaque at the common grave of the Panfilov heroes with the NDP: "THE PANFIL GUARDS DIVIDED IN DEATH HERE ARE FUNERAL HERE." Kemerovo region. A fellow soldier of the Hero of the Soviet Union Valentin Afanasyevich Podnevich, who died in the battles for the Cherkasy region, at a lesson in courage at the school where V.A. Podnevich. Portrait of V.A. Podnevich. Certificate of the Hero of the Soviet Union. Daria Lukyanovna Podnevich is the mother of the hero. Photographs depicting the Hill of Glory in Cherkassy, where Valentin Podnevich is buried. The city of Kemerovo. Veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union Illarion Romanovich Vasiliev, one of the surviving heroes - Panfilov's men, walks down the street, holding the boy's hand; meets pioneers at school. The city of Volgograd. Museum of the Defense of Stalingrad. A portrait and a Komsomol ticket with traces of a bullet by Alexei Yakovlevich Ochkin, a lieutenant of the 112th Infantry Division, under whose leadership the defense of the Stalingrad Tractor Plant, where Soviet tanks were being repaired, was conducted. Portraits of the medical officer Antonina Moiseevna Davydova, foreman Nikolai Ilyich Smorodin. Fragments of the battle for Moscow and a portrait of Major General, Hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Vasilyevich Panfilov. Newsreel footage: 1941-1942 Fighting for Moscow. Moscow city. A poster with the NDP: "LEFT MOSCOW." Armed sentry at the wall of the Moscow Kremlin. Barricades on the streets of Moscow. A tram is going by. Young people in line at the military registration and enlistment office to enroll in volunteers. Medical commission before being sent to the front. Seeing off the volunteers. Workers at the machines at the ammunition factory. The ski battalion goes into a blizzard. 1942-1943. Fighting for Stalingrad. The soldiers are loading the gun. Burning building. Explosions. Anti-aircraft gun fire. Soldiers, tanks go into battle. Tank landing on the highway. Anti-aircraft guns are fighting. Broken German technology. Construction of a pontoon bridge under German bombardment. Forcing the river. Part 2 City of Novosibirsk. External and internal view of school number 3, where Boris Andreevich Bogatkov studied - a young poet, senior sergeant, commander of a submachine gun squad, who died in the battles for the liberation of the village of Gnezdilovo, Smolensk region. A stand dedicated to the Great Patriotic War. Portrait of B.A. Bogatkov. Painting depicting Vladimir Ilyich Lenin at school. Germany, the city of Berlin. Monument to the Soldier-Liberator in Treptower Park. Kemerovo region, Tyazhinsky settlement. Veteran of the Great Patriotic War, infantryman, sergeant, Honorary Citizen of the city of Berlin Nikolai Ivanovich Masalov, who saved a German girl in Berlin, and became the prototype for the monument to the Liberator Soldier in Trepotov Park, on a walk with the pupils of the kindergarten in which he works as a supply manager. Newsreel footage: 1942 - 1943, Smolensk region. Military with a map by the tree. Signpost-shield with NDP: "GNEZDILOVO" "GNEZDILOVO". Soviet soldiers break the sign with the NDP: "GNEZDILOVO", after the liberation of the village from the German invaders. Interrogation of a German prisoner with the help of a female translator. Soldiers in the dugout. The gunners are loading their guns. Anti-aircraft gun fire. Observation post. Burning German tank. Scout with binoculars in ambush. A soldier, hit by an enemy bullet, falls. Fellow soldiers bent over the body of a deceased comrade. The corpses of the Germans from the broken equipment. The battle for the settlement. Airplanes in the sky. Moscow city, July, 1944. Nikolai Mikhailovich Shvernik, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, presents the third Gold Star to Aviation Colonel, ace pilot Alexander Ivanovich Pokryshkin. Pilot, Twice Hero of the Soviet Union Grigory Andreevich Rechkalov helps A. Pokryshkin to attach the third Gold Star, Novosibirsk, July, 1944. Alexander Ivanovich Pokryshkin during a short vacation with family and friends. The plane "Yak-9" with the NDP: "ALEXANDER Pokryshkin from the workers of Novosibirsk". Germany, the city of Berlin, 1945. White flags on city buildings. A poster with the NDP: “GLORY TO THE SOVIET BOGATYR. CAPTAIN ISAEV B. NOVOSIBIRSK REGION. SIBERIA-BERLIN 16.V. 45 g. " Soldiers with the Red Flag run to the Reichstag.

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author of the text G. Poderina, sound engineer K. Volkov, military consultant Colonel N.S. Grishenkov