Smolensk region, Spas-Demensk area, August 1943. A group of commanders of the 33rd Army is standing in a clearing: Army Commander Lieutenant General Vasily Nikolayevich Gordov, member of the Army Military Council Major General Roman Pavlovich Babiychuk, Army Chief of Staff Major General Stepan Ilyich Kinosyan. Major General V.N. Gordov gets into the car and drives off.