Veterans' Reunion: 1980

Crimea, Sevastopol, 1980. In the video: a rally on the station square to welcome veterans of the German-Soviet War who had arrived to participate in the All-Union Meeting of Veterans of the Soviet Navy; speaking are B. Chernichkin, First Secretary of the Sevastopol City Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, and Admiral M. Khovrin, the head of the Black Sea Fleet’s coastal defense in 1941–1942, retired Lieutenant General P. Morgunov, and others; laying of flowers at the Obelisk of Glory on Sapun Hill.

We are publishing this video as part of the “Crimea Archives” initiative: a joint project of Public Broadcasting and the Central State Audiovisual and Electronic Archive.