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Aurora
Ooh! Wow!
What's that written on your hat?
Hat?!
You must be kidding!
This isn't a hat,
it's a sailor's cap.
- Sailor's cap? - Yeah
It says:
Aurora.
- Got it? - Got it.
- And these are streamers. - Streamers...
Yeah. When there's a storm at sea, sailors tie them together.
- Tie them together? - Look.
Here. Like this.
Got it?
Got it.
...and you're only 20.
Sailor, love me with all your soul...
What will you answer me?
On the seas, on the waves.
Here today, there tomorrow.
On the seas, the seas, the seas, the...
What are you writing?
"Hero". What about it?
There was no such cruiser! That's what.
If there wasn't, now there will be.
- Give me the chalk! - No!
Give me the chalk, I say!
I will write: "Aurora".
There IS such a cruiser.
It was she who signalled the attack on the Winter Palace.
From her forecastle gun.
- Now give me the chalk! - No, I won't!
Tell us about the cruiser.
Tell us everything about it.
He... She...
I don't know anything more.
- You don't know?! - I don't.
And you were going to write her name...
All aboard!
On the seas, on the waves.
Here today, there tomorrow.
On the seas, the seas, the seas, the seas.
Hey, listen, are there songs about the Aurora?
Songs?
I don't know.
Com - po - ser.
- Hello. - Hello-o-o.
Please tell...
Please tell me...
are there songs about the Aurora?
- The cruiser Aurora? - Yes.
You know, little one,
there is no song about the Aurora.
But do you know anything about the cruiser Aurora?
Sure. Of course I do.
She signalled the start of the assault on the Winter Palace.
Didn't you know that?
I did know that.
But... what else do you know about it?
What else?
Nothing.
Really. I know nothing else, little one.
You see, I need to know everything about the Aurora.
And also... I really need a song about her.
I see, my friend.
Oh! I remember. I remember!
There's a museum on the cruiser.
The museum is not yet open.
But we really need to go there.
Wait, wait... "Aurora."
Well, that's quite another matter.
You may pass, sailor!
You, comrade, wait here.
- He's with me. - I'm with him.
- Together, then? - Yes. - I see.
You may also pass. Together.
Armed revolt in Petrograd, 24-25 October, 1917.
To cruiser Aurora, from the Central Executive Committee of the USSR.
More than 100 years ago, during the Crimean War,
the sailing frigate Aurora fought gloriously in battle.
In 1903, a powerful cruiser was built.
In the memory of an old heroic frigate, it was named Aurora.
In 1905, during the Russo-Japanese war
Aurora took part in the Battle of Tsushima.
The battle was hard for the Russian squadron.
The Aurora heroically defended
and together with the cruisers "Oleg" and "Zhemchug" was able to escape the pursuit.
But one of the enemy shells pierced its armor,
and killed the cruiser's commander, Captain 1st rank Yegoryev.
From that piece of armor and burnt deck planks
sailors made a frame for the portrait of their beloved commander.
In 1914, the First World War began.
The Aurora also took part in it.
Defending Petrograd, she reliably guarded the approaches to the Gulf of Finland.
The harsh years of war did not spare the Aurora.
Major repairs were required. Therefore,
In November 1916 the Aurora was sent to one of the Petrograd shipyards.
Many of the shipyard workers were Bolsheviks.
And Aurora's sailors also became Bolsheviks.
So when in February 1917 the people dethroned the tsar,
Aurora's sailors were the first on the Baltic fleet who raised the red flag.
But the reigns of power were taken by a bourgeois temporary government.
The Bolsheviks led by Lenin were preparing a revolt.
On the morning of October 25, Aurora's radio-station
transmitted Lenin's appeal "To the Citizens of Russia".
On the evening of October 25, Aurora's forecastle gun fired a blank shot.
This was the signal to attack the Winter Palace.
After the Revolution, the Aurora became a training ship.
In 1941, our homeland was attacked by the fascists.
Sailors removed the legendary cruiser's guns,
and placed them on the periphery of the besieged Leningrad.
Here on Voronya mountain, near Leningrad,
Aurora's sailors undertook their final battle.
Comrade, stay and read!
At this place, in 1941,
stood the gun from the legendary cruiser Aurora.
A group of sailors led by Lt. Smagliy
firmly fought here against the fascist masses
and died the death of heroes.
Good song.
Let's go.
Come on, let's go!
I'm all wound up.
Never mind. Let's go!
Hey... "Hero"!
Hey, all of you! Listen to the song about the Aurora.
The northern town sleeps quietly.
Low sky over your head.
What are you dreaming of, cruiser Aurora
When morning rises over the Neva?
Maybe again, in the shaggy clouds
You see gunfire in the distance?
Or as before, in black jackets
Your patrols pace sternly?
High waves, grey storms -
this is the destiny of all ships.
Their fates are somewhat similar,
Somewhat similar to the fates of people.
Open spaces breathe in the salty wind,
Lightning crosses the stormy gloom.
What are you dreaming of, cruiser Aurora
When morning raises over the Neva?
Here, take the chalk.
Write.
Written by Rudolf Turin, Roman Kachanov Song lyrics: Michael Matusovsky
Directed by Roman Kachanov
Art Director: Leonid Shvartsman
Camera: Teodor Bunimovich
Music: Vladimir Shainskiy Sound: Georgiy Martynyuk
Animators: Yelena Livanova, Olga Panokina, Yuriy Norshteyn
Script Editor: Natalia Abramova Cutter: Nadezhda Treshcheva
Consultant: 2nd Rank Captain V.Burkovsky
Voice Artists: Sergey Filippov, Klara Rumyanova,
Maria Vinogradova, Aleksey Konsovskiy, Vyacheslav Tihonov
Puppets and Decor: P. Lessin, G. Filippova, V. Alisov, L. Lutinskaya,
O. Massainov, S. Etlis, A. Bart Under direction of: Roman Gurov
Executive Producer: Nathan Bitman
The End
Translation/Subtitles: ID-Boris @ Karagarga, ed. Niffiwan 2022