Serve my Homeland 06.02.2005 (2005)

Boris Galkin is in the studio.

The presenter says that exactly forty-five years ago, not far from the Plesetskaya railway station in the Arkhangelsk region, a unique military facility, the Combat Launch Station for special R-7 missiles, began combat duty in the strictest secrecy.

A few years later, these missiles began launching special military satellites into orbit.

Today, this place is officially called the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.

Video clip: Plesetsk Cosmodrome, the Bolshoe Usovo launch complex, January 2005. An alarm sounds.

The hangar door opens.

A serviceman climbs the stairs to the locomotive cabin, takes a seat in the cabin, and switches the handles on the train control panel.

The locomotive leaves the hangar and moves along the rails toward the video camera, the wheel pairs and the bottom of the car are above the camera.

A view of the missile complex and a moving train with a rocket.

Medium shot, the rocket body with the inscription "Cyclone" on the platform moves along the rails.

Military personnel with machine guns walk next to the railway platform transporting the rocket.

View of the locomotive and the nose of the rocket.

Artemyev Alexey, a correspondent, talks about the railway track along which the combat train with the rocket moves.

Transportation of a space rocket to the launch site.

The rocket engines are covered with covers.

Military personnel and a railway worker with a flag.

Officers on the platform next to the rocket.

Wheels of the railway platform on which the rocket is transported.

Petrov Sergey, the driver of the rocket train, talks about observing the speed limits when moving the train.

View of the rocket lying on the gun carriage and rising to the launch site.

Military personnel transport hoses for refueling the rocket.

The rocket stands vertically on the launch pad.

The mast holding the body moves away from the rocket ready for launch.

Starting the engines.

Flame from the engines.

The rocket begins to move into the sky.

Gates, view of the launch pad, emblem of the Russian flag and the inscription Armed Forces.

Technicians transport reinforcement on wheels across the workshop territory.

A railway platform with a rocket lying on a gun carriage moves along the rails.

View from the highest point of the launch pad onto the cosmodrome territory and the nose of the rocket.

Rocket takeoff from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, the rocket goes into the sky.

Panorama of the cosmodrome territory in winter.

The launch vehicle rises upward.

Rocket launch, the rocket goes into the sky.

Chronicle: Footage of the explosion of the Kosmos 3M rocket.

A monument to the conquerors of space who died during the testing of space technology at the cosmodrome.

Footage of the chronicle: an operator in the launch complex looks at a monitor.

The Vostok-2 launch vehicle is on the launch pad in the launch facility.

Operators watch the launch preparations in the machine room.

The monitor shows an image of the launch pad.

A powerful explosion at the site of the launch pad.

Military personnel of the combat crew in the missile launch control center.

A military serviceman near the punched tape reader.

The missile is lifted to the launch pad using a gun carriage.

An unsuccessful missile launch, the missile rises very slowly from the launch pad.

The gun carriage with the missile approaches the launch pad.

The missile takes a vertical position.

A technician covers the retractable structures with covers.

Evgeny Pronin, deputy head of the missile preparation group, talks about the cosmodrome personnel and mechanics.

In the hangar, where the rocket is on the gun carriage, there is a combat crew, commanders are reporting.

View of the launch complex territory, the launch pad with the rocket and lighting masts.

Servicemen are looking up.

Evgeny Pronin, deputy head of the rocket preparation group, talks about the signs and traditions that have developed at the cosmodrome.

A trace of a rocket taking off in the evening sky.

The wheels of a railway platform go along the rails.

The instrument panel with the inscription "Readiness".

A serviceman carries out the "Launch" command, presses a button on the panel.

The rocket takes off into the night sky.

The presenter says: In 1995, the heads of ten CIS member states signed a document in Kazakhstan that united several nations in the fight for their own Security.

This is an agreement on the creation of a unified air defense system, according to which the former republics of the Soviet Union are obliged to inform each other and warn of any threat in the airspace and carry out combat duty together.

Video clip: Republic of Kazakhstan, January 2005. Kazakh servicemen raise the flags of Kazakhstan on the territory of a military unit.

A Kazakh serviceman salutes while raising the flag, the anthem of Kazakhstan plays.

A platoon of servicemen on the parade ground listens to the commander's order.

Servicemen run across the parade ground and take their places at the control point of the S-300 missile system.

Servicemen switch buttons on the control panels of the system.

Vehicles with rotating locators.

The S-300 missile systems are brought to combat readiness.

The missile system commander speaks on the radio.

Servicemen look at the monitors on the control panels of the system.

The locator swings.

The S-300 missile system is in combat readiness.

The launcher of the S-300 system on the vehicle is lowered to a horizontal position.

Kopen Akhmadiev, Commander-in-Chief of the Air Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan, speaks about the unified air defense system of the CIS. The flag of Kazakhstan.

Video clip: Karaganda, 610th Air Base of the Air Defense Forces, January 2005. The warning lights are on.

The pilots take their helmets and leave the room.

A MiG-31 aircraft is taxiing along the runway.

The airfield controller is negotiating with the pilot on the radio.

General plan of the radar control and procedural control room.

A MiG-31 aircraft in the air.

Alsay Zhumanov, commander of the 610th Air Base of the Air Defense Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, speaks about carrying out combat duty to protect the airspace of the CIS. MiG-31 aircraft undergo repairs and modernization in the hangar.

Technicians service the aircraft engine in the hangar.

General view of the MiG-31 aircraft standing in the hangar.

The radar station is rotating.

The vehicle with the S-300 launcher is driving across the field.

Launch of a missile from the S-300 complex, the missile goes into the sky.

Aitech Bizhev, Deputy Commander of the Russian Air Force, stands at a topographic map and talks about protecting the CIS airspace.

CIS Joint Air Defense System chest badge.

Kazakh servicemen march in formation along the parade ground of the air defense military unit.

Launch of a missile from the S-300 complex, the missile goes into the sky, speaks about Aitech Bizhev, Deputy Commander of the Russian Air Force, stands at a topographic map and talks about the CIS Joint Air Defense System.

The presenter talks about the second training and methodological camp of military chaplains, which opened at the Military Academy of the General Staff.

Video clip: A priest rings the bell.

The commander orders the servicemen to march.

The priest blesses the servicemen and sprinkles them with holy water.

The priest sprinkles the soldiers' weapons with holy water.

The priest blesses the paratroopers standing in formation and sprinkles them with holy water.

The priest looks out the window in the helicopter cockpit.

Father Nazariy says a prayer.

Priests at a gathering of military clergy at the Airborne Forces School in Ryazan.

Father Dmitry, Chairman of the Synodal Department of the Moscow Patriarchate for Cooperation with the Armed Forces, speaks about the gathering of military priests.

Priests and servicemen pray in the church.

Priests get off the buses and go to the church.

Alexy II, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', speaks about the Synodal Department of the Moscow Patriarchate for Cooperation with the Armed Forces and Law Enforcement Agencies.

Priests walk along the territory of the military garrison.

Priests in the barracks: wash, eat in the dining room, pray before going to bed.

Father Dmitry, head of the Military Department of the Stavropol Diocese, speaks about the gathering of military priests.

Priests listen to a lecture in the assembly hall.

Servicemen march to the church in formation.

A priest on a ship blesses with holy water.

Nikolay Solovtsov, Commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, talks about churches and chapels built in garrisons.

A priest puts a cross on a serviceman.

A priest blesses servicemen.

Priests in a church.

Andrey Vyacheslavovich Kuraev, a Russian religious and public figure, gives a lecture at a meeting of military priests.

Servicemen kiss the cross in a church.

Father Nazariy looks at the Caucasus Mountains and crosses himself.

Alexy II, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', talks about priests in the Russian army.

In the studio, Alexander Vladimirovich Cherkasov, Major General, PhD in Military Sciences, talks about the methodological meetings of military priests that took place at the Military Academy of the General Staff.

The host talks about the Budapest Operation, a strategic offensive operation of the southern wing of the Soviet troops during World War II in 1944-1945. B/W Chronicle: Howitzer battery firing, explosions and fires, tank column, view of Budapest, Soviet officers at negotiations, funeral of parliamentarian Captain Ostapenko Ilya.

Computer animation of the Budapest Operation map.

B/W Chronicle: Katyusha mortar salvos, howitzer battery firing, T-34 tanks racing across the field, Soviet armored vehicles on the city streets, German self-propelled gun firing, German tanks firing, a dead soldier and a horse lying near a broken gun, Marshal Malinovsky looking at a topographic map, Marshal Tolbukhin greeting Soviet officers.

Computer animation of the Budapest Operation map.

Chronicle b/w: Street fighting in Budapest, soldiers firing cannons, soldiers firing in the streets of the city, a machine gun firing from a window of a house, soldiers running down the street, explosions in the streets, a horse-drawn carriage and a wounded horse under fire, a burning building, German soldiers, a German soldier looking through binoculars, German planes in the sky, Soviet planes in the sky, soldiers with weapons running down the street to the bridge, a tank on a pontoon crossing, cars driving along a pontoon bridge, Soviet soldiers landing on the shore, Admiral Gorshkov, street fighting, a cannon shot, a machine gun firing from a window, shelling of a multi-story building, Soviet soldiers and a tank on the street, howitzer shots, an explosion of a shell that hit the wall of a house, a general view of the fires of Budapest, mangled German cannons, captured German soldiers and officers, corpses of German soldiers, a soldier writes Russian letters word.

The presenter says goodbye to the audience.