The special issue "ON A SOLDIER STAFF" about Novosibirsk youths doing military service in the Armed Forces of the USSR in the Arctic. Novosibirsk city. Children play at the fountain in Pervomaisky square. On the square near the building of the Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, relatives and friends of the soldiers who serve in the Arctic have gathered. Mothers and fathers, wives and children, sisters and brothers send (sync.) Greetings, talk about their life today, wish success to the servicemen. Spring in the Arctic. Flowers grow on the stones. All-terrain vehicles pass along the seashore, swamp, tundra. Novosibirsk Komsomol members flew to the sponsored military unit; a military band is playing. Soldiers unload parcels from the plane; watching a movie in the club where they see their loved ones; together with the Komsomol members visit a historical monument; sing songs with a guitar; talk (sinhr.) about the nature of the northern edge, about the service, promise to defend the Motherland well.