Soyuzkinozhurnal Number 44

1 plot. Combat operations of Soviet troops and aviation in the Belgorod direction. Voronezh Front, July 8-10, 1943 IL-2 aircraft of the 291st Assault Aviation Division under the command of Colonel Andrei Nikiforovich Vitruk (2nd Air Army of Lieutenant General S.A. Krasovsky) take off from the airfield on a combat mission. Among them is the personalized aircraft "Alexander Nevsky". A shooter of one of the IL-2 crews is firing from a machine gun. The plane is dropping bombs. Explosions from bombs on the ground. A panorama of the territory raided by the Soviet assault aircraft. Fighter "Yak" covers attack aircraft in the sky. General view of the enemy echelon, bombarded by Soviet aircraft, blown up railway bridge (removed from the plane). The guard sergeant of the artillery unit sends the order of the commander by phone. The commander of the artillery regiment of the guard, Major Alexander Ignatievich Ulasovets, speaks on the phone, gives orders to the batteries. An artillery crew of a 45 mm anti-tank gun, firing at the enemy. Explosions from shells at enemy positions. The anti-tank gun of the guard of senior sergeant Sergei Ilyich Smorodin is firing at the enemy (gunner N.N. Aleksandrov). Artillery crew [of the guard foreman M.P. Berkutov] at the 76 mm gun; artillerymen are firing at the enemy. The calculation of the anti-tank gun [guard senior sergeant V.M. Shchukin] fires at the enemy. A mortar fighter is walking along the trench, carrying a box with shells for a 122 mm mortar from the battery of senior lieutenant V.K. Lunegova. The mortarmen are loading the gun. A 122 mm mortar fires from cover. Mortar crew of 82 mm guns of the company of the guard of senior lieutenant D.M. Nechipurenko is firing from cover. Explosions from shells at enemy positions. The corpses of the killed Nazis on the battlefield. 2 plot. Oryol-Kursk direction. Central Front, July 8, 1943. A group of scouts from the 24th separate reconnaissance battalion of Captain Dmitry Andreyevich Zakrevsky, who captured the German T-4 headquarters tank with important operational documents on the night of July 8-9, on the armor of a tank that was being towed by a Soviet tank. The scouts jump off the tank. There is a group of scouts in headsets and with machine guns; among them: military assistant Ilya Vladimirovich Bystritsky, senior sergeant Efim Emelyanovich Seminets, senior sergeant commander of an armored personnel carrier Nikolai Davidovich Pleshkevich, Red Army soldier Vladimir Nikolaevich Novikov, Senior Sergeant Ivan Mikhailovich Kalinin, Red Army soldier Pyotr Vladimirovich Dobroerzhedovich Ivanovich Ivannikov. 3 plot. Fighting of the Soviet troops in the Novorossiysk area. View of Novorossiysk, the destroyed building of the cement plant "Red October". Machine gunners shoot from the windows of the plant. A worker carries bowlers with food. Senior Lieutenant G. Ya. Gerenschikov makes sketches. 4 plot. North Africa. Arrival of General de Gaulle. General Giraud greets de Gaulle. The troops are greeting the generals. 5 plot. Students of vocational schools at restoration work in Stalingrad. 6 plot. Academician Burdenko bypasses the wards of the wounded in the hospital, prepares for the operation, operates on the wounded. Physiotherapy wounded. 7 plot. Commander of three Orders of Glory K. Kumyzbayev at home: he visits the construction of a hydroelectric power station, talks with fellow countrymen.

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