Soviet aircraft and missiles in the Soviet Union. Soviet sailors and a captain inside the control room of a submarine off the coast of the Soviet Union. Soviet R-29 ballistic missile also known as Sawfly being launched by a submerged Soviet submarine. The missile takes off and moves upwards with a fiery flare at its tail section. Another R-29 missile being launched from the submarine.
Preparations for launch of Soviet Union Voshkhod-2 spacecraft from Baikonur spaceport, during 1960s "space race" between Soviet Union and the United States. Voshkod 2 of R-7 family of rockets seen on a rail car. The rail car pulls up with spacecraft and rocket is loaded onto gantry. The space craft and the launch vehicle are erected. View of cosmonaut as he ascends stairs, enters an elevator and prepares for flight. A fiery flare emerges as the spacecraft is launched. (Note: Image of spacecraft during initial ascent appears to show a Vostok 3KA launcher, or Vostok-K, like that in which Yuri Gagarin was launched; not the Voskhod variant that carried Alexey Leonov and Pavel Belyayev.) Views of ignition and launch of spacecraft; view of it ascending. Next scene shows Soviet cosmonaut Alexey Leonov conducting the first spacewalk by an astronaut, on March 18, 1965. Final scene shows Soviet cosmonauts at an award and recognition ceremony in Moscow on March 23, 1965. Leonov and Belyayev walk side by side on a red carpet toward a reviewing stand of Russian officials. They ascend stairs of platform and salute the Russian leaders.
Soviet troops pursuing retreating German forces in Russia during World War 2. Soviet infantry and tanks advance through approaches to Russian city abandoned by retreating German forces. They enter the city. Damaged buildings, fires, and destruction caused by the retreating German forces and battles between Soviet and German forces. Russian soldiers advancing across a water body. A few aircraft in flight. Troops ride on tanks racing through the city. Smoke rising from explosions. Women moving with belongings. People collecting their belongings and fleeing. Several German soldiers guarded by an armed Soviet soldier walk past the site of a building with only chimneys still standing. Residents trying to contain fires by pulling burning fences and walls down. They also retrieve whatever they can from their homes and place items in places that might be protected from fire. Soviet soldiers engaged in street fighting in the city, and firing artillery piece at buildings containing German troops. Swastika and German flag dropped from a building.Two women with a soldier on a street beside damaged buildings. . Soviet cinematographer recording events on film. Soldiers and officers around a building. People waving to Red Army soldiers. A large crowd on a street greeting the soldiers. Soldiers and young people wave red Soviet flag.
Soviet civilians on a farm in the Soviet Union during World War II. A wheat farm in the Soviet Union. Threshers being operated on the farm. Wheat being collected in a container. Men pack grain in sacks. A grain bag loaded on a carriage being pulled by a tractor.
German Operation Barbarossa, invasion of the Soviet Union in World War 2. Opening scene of film shows wartime damage near the sand bag protected Opera and Ballet Theater building in Odessa during World War 2. Glimpse of a Soviet armored vehicle, derived from an STZ-3 agricultural tractor, used during the Siege of Odessa. View of Soviet defenders running through a trench, during the two month German siege. View of Sevastopol, Crimea. A statue in the foreground and Legislative Assembly building in the background, with dense white smoke rising from behind it. Soviet soldiers firing a large defense gun in a Gorky fortress; firing a large gun from a seaport wharf and from a railroad car, and Soviet troops firing small arms in fields, including Degtyaryov machine guns. A Soviet soldier firing a Maxim heavy machine gun. View from overlooking hill of the Odessa Black Sea Naval Base. German troops entering the fringes of Sevastopol. One throws a hand grenade. Views of Soviet defenders firing machine guns. In the city, German soldiers fight street by street. Several are seen scurrying along a sidewalk, keeping close to a building for protection. Others rush into damaged buildings trying to flush out Soviet defenders with hand grenades. Camera pans over ruins of the destroyed city of Sevastopol. Dead German soldiers lying in ruins. One lies atop across the front of a Panzer VI tank. His uniform is in flames. Closeup of his hand. More dead German soldier are seen on the ground near a knocked out German tank. View of a large crowd of people. Soviet officers on horseback review a formation of troops. Glimpse of marching armed Soviet soldiers.
German Heinkel He 111 bombers strike Russian positions near Gomel, Soviet Union during World War 2. German bombers in flight. Pilots in the cockpit of the aircraft. Bombs being dropped. The bombs hit Russian positions and billows of smoke rise up. Explosions occur and smoke rises. The bombs are released from the bombers and hit the targets. Pillars of smoke rise up. The bombers in flight.
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