Soviet Warrior Number 1

Moscow city. April 1961. Solemn welcome to Yuri Gagarin at the Vnukovo airfield. Yuri Gagarin reports to NS Khrushchev (synchronously). Yuri Gagarin and V. Gagarin. The passage of the motorcade along the streets of Moscow. Reception at the Kremlin. NS Khrushchev, R. Ya. Malinovsky congratulate Yuri Gagarin on being awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Military School named after the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR. Cadets in theoretical and practical classes, physical exercises. Northern Fleet. Submarine at sea. Captain of the boat V. Zhuravel, crew members at the instruments, guns. Torpedoists. Hydroacoustics. Aviation unit of Colonel Grechishko. Pilots at the airfield, training in the pressure chamber, the cockpit. The plane under the control of the pilot Moiseikin is performing a maneuver, the pilot Maksunov is at the helm. Sports in the military unit of Colonel Kabakin. Soldiers on a ski trip, in class in the sections of the barbell, boxing. Soldiers play chess, visit the library, play musical instruments, dance at an evening meeting with the chiefs in the regimental club. V. Kosolapov, a chef in the canteen of a military unit, at work. Soldiers at lunch. Speech by the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Soviet Army named after A. Alexandrov in the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow (synchronously). The artists of the ensemble, the head of the ensemble B. A. Aleksandrov talk with the composer.

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1961