Serve my Homeland 21.08.2005 (2005)

Boris Galkin in the studio.

Announcements of the program stories.

The presenter talks about the unique competitions that took place near Novorossiysk, where in thirty-degree heat and high altitude, at the limit of their physical strength, paratrooper units fought for the honorary title of being called the best reconnaissance unit of the Airborne Forces.

Video story: Novorossiysk, Airborne Forces training ground, August 2005. A Ural military truck drives through the forest.

A soldier with a sniper rifle gives a signal to the soldiers.

The soldier fires a sniper rifle at the truck.

The paratroopers neutralize the truck driver.

Vladimir Sirota, the chief judge of the competition, talks about the soldiers' actions.

A paratrooper fires a sniper rifle from the thickets.

A soldier in camouflage with a Kalashnikov assault rifle in his hands.

The soldiers jump out of the bushes by the road and seize the truck.

The paratroopers neutralize the truck driver and carry him into the forest.

Reconnaissance platoons walk through the forest.

The soldiers walk across the field with machine guns in their hands and squat in front of the barbed wire fence.

A platoon of paratroopers with weapons and ammunition walks along the road.

Vladimir Sirota, the chief judge of the competition, talks about the need for constant training of military intelligence officers.

A paratrooper speaks on the radio.

The paratroopers adjust their equipment before a forced march.

A platoon of paratroopers is preparing for a military operation, ammunition, weapons, and flasks of water are lying on the ground.

A priest sprinkles holy water on a paratrooper with a parachute before the jump.

Sunrise over the field, a cobweb on a bush.

Gleb Yakubovsky, a correspondent, talks about the paratroopers adjusting their equipment and putting on parachutes.

View of the field from an airplane.

An-2 biplane in the sky, paratroopers are parachuting from the plane.

Paratroopers land in a field.

A paratrooper holding onto the lines lands.

A paratrooper assembles a parachute.

Paratroopers with parachutes bundled into bales walk across a field.

Paratroopers with machine guns run a cross-country race.

Nikolai Yatsykov, Chief of Intelligence of the 7th Airborne Division, talks about the paratrooper teams that completed a 10-kilometer forced march.

The paratroopers perform a forced march along the road.

Vladimir Sirota, the chief judge of the competition, talks about Nikolai Yatsykov, Chief of Intelligence of the 7th Airborne Division.

Nikolai Yatsykov, Chief of Intelligence of the 7th Airborne Division, talks about the requirements for paratroopers and their performance of assigned tasks.

A paratrooper descends a hill on a rope.

Paratroopers with weapons on the terrain climb up a mountain.

The soldiers climb the slope in a serpentine pattern.

A soldier climbs a rock-hazardous area of the slope.

Igor, a mountain training instructor, talks about the technique of passing through mountainous terrain.

The military at the table discuss the progress of the competition.

Closing of the competition, an officer presents a diploma and a cup to a paratrooper.

A paratrooper with a sign "Reconnaissance Platoon of the 7th Airborne Division".

A paratrooper with a medal on his chest.

On the flagpole is the Airborne Forces flag.

Yatsykov Nikolay, head of intelligence of the 7th Airborne Division, talks about the tasks completed at the competition and the spirit of the Russian soldier.

The presenter talks about the Max 2005 aerospace salon and the MiG-29OVT aircraft.

Video report Zhukovsky, airfield of the M. M. Gromov Flight Research Institute, August 2005. The MiG-29OVT aircraft takes off.

The MiG-29OVT performs aerobatics.

Vladimir Barkovsky, director of the engineering center of the OKB RSK "MIG", says that the MiG-29OVT aircraft can operate at speeds below one hundred kilometers per hour and even at speeds of minus fifty kilometers per hour, these capabilities are given to it by deflectable nozzles, the nozzle deflects in any direction, at an angle of about twenty degrees.

Video and voice of the announcer: The MiG-29OVT hovers and then begins to freely fall, while it is completely controllable, this is an exceptional advantage in close combat.

The MiG-29OVT performs aerobatics.

Pavel Nikolaevich Vlasov, a test pilot, says that there are no speed limits for the MiG-29OVT aircraft, at any speed the aircraft can be given a spatial position, or turn the axis of the weapon on the enemy, or get away from the enemy with some unconventional maneuver.

The MiG-29OVT performs nozzle movements on the airfield.

The MiG-29OVT in the air, the aircraft maneuvers with high angular speeds and sharp braking.

Vatyagin Alexander - General Director of the Klimov Plant RSK "MIG", says MiG-29OVT, is an example of high technology and we show that we have it and no one in the world has created anything like it.

The host says: At the Potsdam Peace Conference of the Victors, Stalin promised to declare war on Japan.

Three months after Germany's capitulation, the promise was fulfilled, on August 8, 1945, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, on August 9, the Manchurian Offensive Operation began and on September 2, 1945, the act of surrender of Japan was signed.

Chronicle b/w: The Japanese Kwantung Army marches in a parade in China, Japanese tanks move across the field, Japanese soldiers at the parade, Japanese soldiers with flags waving their hands, Japanese troops climbing a hill, General Zhukov looking at a map, howitzer shots, Japanese soldiers carrying stretchers with the wounded.

Japanese soldiers loading stretchers with wounded onto a truck, Hitler taking a parade, German soldiers marching, Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka Yosuke in Moscow, Stalin and Molotov at a meeting, Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka Yosuke signing a document, Stalin with a glass of wine in his hand, the crosshairs of a Japanese submarine periscope, a shot from a torpedo launcher, a torpedo goes out to sea, an explosion at sea, a ship sinks, a Japanese sailor smiles, Japanese planes bomb an area, a burning ship at sea, Japanese troops landing on the shore, Chinese workers in Manchuria dragging trolleys, Japanese powerful fortifications, Manchuria Japanese soldiers drinking wine and raising their hands, the Potsdam Conference of the victors Churchill, Stalin, Truman, Soviet soldiers dancing on the square, Soviet soldiers in a train carriage, a train with armored vehicles and weapons going east, an identity card Marshal Vasilevsky, the gun barrels of the battery rise up, Soviet officers above a topographic map, Soviet pilots prepare for battle, Japanese planes at the airfield, Soviet planes in the air, explosions on the ground, a diving plane, the burnt remains of planes at the airfield, a T-34 tank moves straight through the forest, a deer runs out of the forest, a tank breaks trees and moves through the forest, a tractor transports a gun through the forest, explosions on the ground, Japanese trenches, salvo fire from howitzers, explosions on the ground, portrait - Colonel General Purkayev, anti-aircraft missile launchers fire from ships, equipment crossing a river, a Soviet officer speaks on the phone, a panorama of the terrain and giant swamps in Japan, soldiers push a truck stuck in a swamp, tank treads moving through a swamp, Soviet soldiers on board a boat, Soviet soldiers cross a river, a soldier pours water out of his boot, soldiers walk over rough terrain, soldiers pulling hand-held equipment over a pass, fighters pulling guns over a pass with ropes, a truck going down a slope with soldiers walking alongside, self-propelled howitzers going over rough terrain, a Japanese soldier firing a machine gun, Japanese soldiers firing a cannon, the Soviet army conducting an offensive operation on Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, a Soviet military squadron at sea, Soviet soldiers crossing a river, Soviet soldiers on board a cruiser, Soviet landing on the shore, Japanese soldiers capitulating, a column of soldiers with a white flag, Japanese soldiers throwing their weapons on the ground.

In the studio, Metelsky Andrey Nikolaevich - Deputy of the Moscow City Duma, speaks about the return of monuments and tombstones of soldiers killed in Afghanistan.

Video about monuments to soldiers killed in Afghanistan: On February 15, 1989, Soviet troops left Afghanistan.

Almost a million Soviet soldiers and officers had been tested by Afghanistan during the ten years of war.

According to official data, about fourteen thousand people were killed.

When the 40th Army returned home, our soldiers took with them the tombstones they had made with their own hands and installed in the places where their comrades had died.

Hundreds of such homemade monuments remained in the Soviet Union on the border with Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

After the former Soviet Republics became independent, the monuments to Afghan soldiers turned out to be unnecessary to the new authorities.

The fate of most of these tombstones is sad.

The forgotten tombstones were remembered only a few years ago.

Afghan war veteran Andrey Metelsky and Alexander Makeyev decided to move the tombstones from Central Asia to Russia.

Thanks to the support of the airborne troops command, they have managed to move only two monuments so far.

One of them was given to the close relatives of the deceased sergeant Mavrin Vitaly, he died heroically in 1982 near Kandahar covering the retreat of a combat group.

Mavrin Vitaly was posthumously awarded the Order of the Red Banner for this feat, today the monument is in the central museum of the armed forces.

In the future, it is planned to transfer other soldiers' tombstones remaining in Central Asia to Russia in the same way.

Video: Chronicle of the Afghan war, a helicopter flies over the mountains, Afghan mujahideen shoot in the mountains, a Soviet soldier lies on the ground, a crying woman, an armored personnel carrier turret with a machine gun, a red star on a tombstone, burnt military equipment on the side of a mountain road, a monument to Soviet soldiers with a red star on the top of a hill, a metal plaque with the inscription "

Oparin Aleksandr Yakovlevich died 1982", a metal plaque with the inscription "

Vladislav Ale died 1983", "

Balanda Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich died 1983", a monument with a red star on a mountainside, a transported monument to a fallen soldier in the Central Museum of the Armed Forces in Moscow, an honor guard, crying relatives of the deceased, photographs of a soldier, a metal plaque with the inscription "

Mavrin Vitaly Viktorovich died 1982".

Metelsky Andrey talks about returning monuments to Soviet soldiers killed in Afghanistan to their homeland and caring for the families of the dead.

The host says goodbye to the audience.