the equipment was dropped onto cargo parachutes from p1 aircraft, designed by nikolai polikarpov, andd at a given location. 26 july. in 1971 , the film officers, which became a legend, was released on soviet screens. the action of the picture is a period of wars of upheaval, from the early twenties to the end of the sixties. the whole life of the main characters is a battle, from the beginning of the civil war, then the great patriotic war, but they are officers and have a duty to protect their homeland is most important to them. by the way, the phrase about this, which became a catchphrase, belonged to the ussr minister of defense, andrei grechko, who initiated the creation of the film. there is such a profession, the film was shot by front-line soldiers, screenwriters boris vasiliev and kirill raport, based on the play by vasiliev himself, tank crews, and director vladimir rogovoy, starring georgy yumatov, who also went through the war, and vasily lonovoy, although he did not agree immediately, it seemed to him that his character’s unrequited love for his friend’s wife looks unnatur