Celebration in Yelnya of the 40th anniversary of the Guards and presentation of the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree by the Minister of Defense of the USSR D.F. Ustinov to the city. The chronicle of the Great Patriotic War is used. Military exercises on the territory of the Belarusian, Baltic military districts and in the Baltic Sea. Among those present - Marshal N.V. Ogarkov. Spartakiad of the internal troops of the socialist countries in Kiev.