Leningrad hero city (1975)

View of the Smolny building and the entrance to Smolny (from above).

View of the Field of Mars (from above).

View of the Alexander Column through the arch of the General Staff.

View of the part of the palace square (from above).

Cruiser "Aurora" on the Neva.

A midday shot from a cannon in the Peter and Paul Fortress.

The clock on the Peter and Paul Cathedral shows 12.00.

Newsreel of 1944: a Soviet artillery officer looks at his watch.

The officer gives the command to open fire.

Soviet artillery and ships of the Baltic Fleet are firing at the front edge of the enemy.

A battery of Guards mortars fires at the enemy during the operation to lift the siege of Leningrad.

Tanks with troops on the armor are going on the attack.

Soviet infantry rises from the trenches.

Medal "For the Defense of Leningrad".

Newsreel of 1965: General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Central Committee of the CPSU Brezhnev L. I. on May 8, 1965, makes a speech from the rostrum about the merits of Leningrad and its inhabitants in the Great Patriotic War, about the contribution of Leningraders to the victory over the enemy (synchronously and behind the scenes), the faces of the participants of the solemn meeting, the view of the presidium of the meeting.

The Gold Star medal on the banner of Leningrad.

Newsreel of 1941: soldiers of the divisions of the People's militia of Leningrad receive weapons.

Farewell of the Red Army soldiers to their relatives.

The Red Army soldiers are in the ranks with rifles on their shoulders.

The regiments of the People's militia of Leningrad are sent to the front line.

The sailors of the Baltic Fleet go from ships to the shore and go to the front line.

Reflection of the raids of the German-fascist aviation.

View of one of the city blocks during the bombing.

A burning building.

Removal of the wounded from the shelling zone.

Extinguishing fires.

View of the central part of the city during an air raid.

Air battles in the sky of Leningrad.

Planes at the building of the Leningrad airport.

Passengers descend the plane's ramp.

Planes at the airport.

Dispatchers at the radar screens.

Former fighter pilot Kharitonov V. N. monitors the work of subordinates.

Landing of a Finnish passenger plane.

A Tu-104 passenger plane is taxiing to the runway, Kharitonov's story about participating in air battles in the Leningrad sky sounds behind the scenes.

Types of new and historical quarters and streets of Leningrad.

The windows of one of the residential buildings.

Veteran of the Kirov plant F. T. Dyachenko comes out of the entrance.

Dyachenko goes to the factory.

A pillbox left over from the defensive line where Dyachenko fought.

Heavy tractors "Kirovets" pass by a tank mounted on a pedestal at the gate of the plant.

A memorial plaque on the pedestal.

Veterans stand in line at the banner.

The faces of the soldiers of the honor guard company.

Faces of elementary school students listening to a tape recording of the song "Holy War".

The face of the teacher D. Benimova, who survived the siege of Leningrad.

Children's photo of Benimova.

Photos of Leningrad schoolchildren during the blockade.

Photos of the destroyed buildings of Leningrad as a result of air raids and shelling.

Photos of wounded children, behind the scenes there is a recording of the speech of D. Benimova's mother about the injury of her daughter.

Children in the classroom during the "Lesson of Courage".

Cherry blossom, transport goes over the bridge.

Ship construction.

Internal view of the factory floor.

Newsreel of 1941-1943: production of small arms and artillery ammunition for the front by women, children and teenagers in the shop, behind the scenes there is an interview with Zhenya Nikitina about working at the factory during the days of the blockade.

The inscription on the tank's tower about its assembly by a female team, newsreels alternate with modern filming of production processes.

Repair of tanks at the Kirov plant during the days of the blockade, an interview of a Kirov worker N. Varlamov sounds behind the scenes.

Assembly on the conveyor of tractors "Kirovets".

View of the building under construction.

Views of Nevsky Prospekt (from above).

Newsreel of 1941-1942: the streets of Leningrad in the first blockade winter of 1941-1942.

Photos of besieged Leningrad.

Photos of a pedestal covered with theater posters.

Photo of a reader in a sheepskin coat in the library hall.

Photos of the composer Shostakovich at the piano, composing music.

Photo of Academician Orbeli in one of the halls of the Hermitage.

Newsreel of 1942: a sentry passes under the bridge.

Monument to Peter I in Leningrad.

View of the Kazan Cathedral.

People are walking along Nevsky Prospekt.

Buses on the streets of the city.

Views of Leningrad streets, behind the scenes there is a recording of the writer V. Vishnevsky's address to the residents of Moscow.

Newsreel of 1942: people and military equipment on the streets of Leningrad.

People collect water from an ice hole in the Neva River, newsreels alternate with modern shots.

People on the streets of besieged Leningrad.

Monument at the Piskarevsky Memorial Cemetery.

Laying wreaths at the monument's pedestal.

View of the memorial at the Piskarevskoye cemetery.

Newsreel of 1942: "the road of life" on the ice of Lake Ladoga.

Trucks are carrying food to the besieged Leningrad.

The calculation of the anti-aircraft gun is firing at German planes.

Trucks with food are passing by.

The movement of the convoy at night, there is a traffic controller with a lantern at the edge of the road.

Memorial at the Ladoga highway.

Newsreel: Red Army soldiers plant a red banner on the balcony of one of the houses.

the meeting of the soldiers of the Volkhov and Leningrad fronts after the blockade was broken in January 1943.

Memorial "Torn Ring" in memory of the breakthrough of the siege of Leningrad.

Newsreel of 1943: Soviet infantry attacks the enemy.

The fighting of the Soviet troops on the Leningrad front.

The sculptural group of the monument dedicated to the heroism of Leningrad during the siege alternates with newsreels.

The meeting of the Soviet victorious soldiers in Leningrad in May 1945.

The troops are walking through the streets of the city, Leningrad residents throw flowers to them.

Leningrad residents welcome the victorious soldiers.

The troops pass through the triumphal arch, erected in honor of the Victory.

Veterans climb the stairs of the palace before the start of the meeting of front-line soldiers.

Veteran V. I. Rakov talks about meetings with Leningraders during the war, about the feat of the workers of Leningrad (synchronously).

The production process in the foundry.

Faces of veterans-heroes of labor.

Leningrad workers in the workshops at the machine tools.

Launching the vessel into the water.

Production processes in the workshops of Leningrad enterprises.

Panorama of the rally in one of the workshops of the Kirov plant (from above).

The 100000th tractor "Kirovets" comes off the assembly line.

The face of a builder, a panorama of a new city block.

View of the Smolny building (from above).