The Khalkhin-Gol River. The Year 1939.

The Khalkhin-Gol River. The Year 1939. , 1979 (28:39)

Annotation: About the 40th Victory anniversary of the Soviet and Mongolian soldiers over Japanese invaders.

History: In 1979, celebrated its 40 anniversary of the victory of the Soviet-Mongolian forces over the Japanese aggressors in Khalkhin-Gol. In May, July and August 1939, Japanese troops invaded the territory of Mongolia has an alliance with the USSR, but were routed by the Soviet-Mongolian troops, especially the major fighting took place in August between the 6 th of the Japanese Army and the Soviet 1st Army Group, commanded by Mr. . Zhukov.

Film description: 1 hour - River Khalkhin-Gol. Veterans. Tsedenbal in 1939 (photo). Photos of Japanese and Mongolian soldiers. Personnel battle: soldiers shooting, riding tanks, etc. 2 hours - Says VA Smirnov. The soldiers are digging trenches and repairing tanks. The Soviet and Mongolian warlords. Tsedenbal presents Zhukov Mongolian medal. Air battle. Soviet pilots. 3 hours - Military Cemetery. Monument to Heroes fedyunintsam. Gormobaator among the border guards. Rural landscape. Tractor plowing the earth.

Source description 1: War veterans are meeting and looking through war photographs.
A photograph: veterans.
Mongolian prairie, the Khalkhin-Gol River.
The inscription: “Khalkhin-Gol River. 1939”.
The photograph of the Soviet and Mongolian soldiers.
The Hero of the Soviet Union, retired Major General Boris Smirnov.
A photograph of Smirnov.
The Hero of the Soviet Union, retired Colonel Alexander Kotsov.
Kotsov’s photograph.
The Lieutenant Colonel of the Mongolian frontier troops Tomorbaator.
Tomorbaator’s photograph.
The General Secretary of the Mongolian Communist Party Tsedenbal’s photograph taken during the Khalkhin-Gol events.
Tsedenbal is speaking.
The photograph: signing a document, combat-ready Japanese army.
Newsreel of 1939: battles near the Khalkhin-Gol River – airplanes are flying, tanks are going-by, cannons are firing, shell explosions, bombs are falling down, the view of the ground from the plane, soldiers are running by, a soldier is carrying a wounded one.
Kotsov is speaking.
Newsreel of 1939: tanks and lorries loaded with food-stuffs, munitions and ammunition are going by, Mongolian men and women are working in the support area, boxes on the conveyer, men are fetching bags, a herd of horses is running across the prairie, soldiers are marching, the cavalry.
The prairie, the place of Zhukov’s command post, a horse herd is grazing.

Source description 2: A flying bird.
The thunderstorm clouds.
Boris Smirnov is speaking.
Newsreel of 1939: the Khalkhin-Gol River- aircrafts are flying, an explosion, the aircraft shot down is on fire, soldiers are trenching, they are working, a soldier is swabbing a cannon, a tank is going by.
Alexander Kotsov is speaking.
The Khalkhin-Gol River.
Newsreel of 1939: tanks are crossing the river, the Soviet and Mongolian commanders are standing, there are Marshal Choibalsan and Georgy Zhukov among them.
Georgy Zhukov is looking at the map.
The after-action field, captured weapon, clothes, orders, a Japanese order, Japanese sabers and flags are lying on the ground.
Tsedenbal is awarding Georgy Zhukov with a Mongolian Order for his distinguished service in the Khalkhin-Gol Battle.
A photograph: Georgy Zhukov is among the soldiers, soldiers are having lunch in the field, a tank, the battlefield, tanks are going by, airplanes are flying, the Commander is looking through binoculars, an air fight, an airplane is falling down, the pilot is bailing out and drinking out of his water bottle, the airplane fragments are burning, pilots are sitting.
The photographs of the pilots who have distinguished themselves in the Khalkhin-Gol River battle (Sergey Gritsevets, Grigory Kravchenko).
A photograph of the pilot Yakov Smushkevich and Georgy Zhukov.
The editorial office of the newspaper “Geroicheskaya Krasnoarmeyaskaya” [“Heroic Red Army Newspaper”], the newspaper is being made up, the typesetter is working.
A photograph of writers – war reporters and cameramen: Stavsky, Lapin, Khatsrevin, Slavin, Troshkin, Bernshtein, Temin, Dembrel, Gusev.
A photograph: pilots are reading the newspaper; a soldier is reading the newspaper.
A monument – a tank on the pedestal.
A photograph: Konstantin Simonov in the Khalkhin-Gol Battle.
A broken tank, shell-hole, motionless tank.

Source description 3: A monument to the 24th Motorized Regiment heroes who fell in the battles for freedom and independence of the Soviet and Mongolian peoples.
The.military cemetery, epitaphs on the gravestones.
Tomorbaator among frontier guards, he is showing the order on his chest and speaking.
Tomorbaator’s photograph.
Frontier guards are riding horses, reporting.
Mongolian children.
The monument – a tank on the pedestal.
A state farm on the bank of the Khalkhin-Gol River: tractors, a camel is going by, a horseman is riding, herd of cows is grazing.
Tsedenbal is speaking.
Tractors are plowing the ground; a flight of birds is flushing from the tillage and hovering in the air.
The monument in the cemetery, the Khalkhin-Gol River.
A photograph of Georgy Zhukov, Soviet and Mongolian soldiers, Sergey Gritsevets and Boris Smirnov.
Mongolian prairie and plowed ground.

Directors: Babak M.

Operators: Kolobrodov A.

Script writers: Ortenberg D., Lazarev L., Navaan C.