The ceremonial meeting of the USSR Ministry of Defense and members of the public, dedicated to the 44th anniversary of the Soviet Army and Navy: USSR Defense Minister Marshal R. Ya. Malinovsky speaks at the meeting (synchronously), the meeting participants speak from the rostrum. Guard Sergeant Major of the 30th Guards Irkutsk-Pinsk Motorized Rifle Division S. S. Mulov tells the soldiers the story of the division. Documentary footage of the 30s (c / t plans): the first chief of the division V.K.Blyukher speaks to the tankers. Various moments of military exercises of soldiers of the 30th division. Aviation Lieutenant General AI Pokryshkin delivers a lecture in the class of fighter pilots in one of the military units. Moments of the exercises of the Black Sea Fleet sailors: officers look through binoculars on the deck of a torpedo boat; sailors signal the approach of a conventional enemy; explosions on the water. Boats at sea. Portrait of the hero of the Civil War V. I. Chapaev. View of the village of Budaiki, where V.I.Chapaev was born; photographs of V. I. Chapaev's relatives, portraits of his colleagues. The hero's son Major General A. V. Chapaev, other officers speak at a meeting on the birthday of V. I. Chapaev; among those present at the meeting - actor B. A. Babochkin. Stills from the movie "Chapaev": V. I. Chapaev (actor B. A. Babochkin) talking with soldiers, racing on horseback (c / t plans 1934). Soldiers of the Soviet Army watching the performance-opera by composer II Dzerzhinsky "The Fate of a Man" at the Bolshoi Theater of the USSR. The aria of the main character, A. Sokolov, is performed by Honored Artist V. T. Nechipailo (synchronously).