Serve my Homeland 01.08.2003 (2003)

In the studio Boris Galkin.

Chechnya, Vedensky district, September 2003. A soldier in camouflage uniform checks equipment, gear, reloads a pistol, attaches a machine gun magazine, hangs a machine gun on his neck.

The commander and a squad of soldiers in camouflage uniform with weapons are lined up near an APC. On command, the soldiers mount the APC. The APC drives along the road.

Soldiers with weapons on the armor of the APC. Soldiers in camouflage gear with weapons walk across rough terrain.

A soldier in camouflage gear takes aim with a machine gun.

The soldier talks about the ammunition, equipment of soldiers and demonstrates: a Kalashnikov assault rifle, a round magazine with cartridges, a magazine fastened to the assault rifle.

Two soldiers in camouflage gear are sitting in the grass, one is aiming with a machine gun.

Soldiers with backpacks are quickly moving across the field.

A soldier puts on a backpack.

A special forces soldier in a mask and full gear with a Kalashnikov assault rifle.

The soldier demonstrates the paratrooper's ammunition: a drum magazine, a Stechkin submachine gun, an underbarrel grenade launcher, a hand-held disposable grenade launcher, a general view of all the ammunition lying on the ground.

The soldier talks about the ammunition, the soldiers' equipment and demonstrates: a hand-held disposable grenade launcher.

A soldier in camouflage gear walks through the forest.

A soldier in camouflage gear prepares a shelter for himself in the forest, takes aim with a machine gun.

The soldier talks about the ammunition, the soldiers' equipment and demonstrates: membrane footwear - special forces boots on a rubber base.

A mine explosion in the bushes.

A torn off boot sole.

The soldier demonstrates the paratrooper's ammunition: shows the knee pads and fastens them to his legs.

A soldier in camouflage gear walks through the forest.

The soldier demonstrates the paratrooper's ammunition kit: shows the strength attached to the belt.

The soldier opens the plastic packaging of dry rations.

Dry rations: stewed meat, nuts, chocolate, biscuits, candies.

Soldiers in camouflage gear are lying in the forest.

A soldier catches a frog with his hand in the grass.

The soldier says that they can eat any living creature living in the forest and eats the frog.

A soldier collects water from a puddle in a flask.

The soldier filters the water through a carbon filter and gauze.

Drops of clean water flow into a mug.

The soldier drinks water.

A soldier lying in the bushes aims a machine gun.

A soldier in the bushes with a machine gun and a magazine of cartridges.

The soldier fires a machine gun from the bushes.

Bullets hit rocks and trees.

Sierra Leone is a country in West Africa, on the Atlantic coast.

September 2003. A brass band plays a march at the airfield.

Rotation underway The Russian aviation group, which had been in Sierra Leone for seven months, has received a replacement.

Servicemen greet each other and hug at the airfield.

A signpost at the airfield with the names of cities in Russia.

Russian military personnel on the airfield territory.

The helicopter cabin on the platform, a transport plane is taxiing.

View from the helicopter cabin of the forest and the river.

Africans are driving in a yellow car along the road, one is sitting right on the hood and greeting the cameraman.

A woman on the porch of a house, laundry is hanging nearby.

A dark-skinned boy is looking at the camera.

The inscription on the billboard "Welcome to Sierra Leone".

A police checkpoint, children nearby.

Small children are looking at the camera.

African women with basins on their heads are walking along the sand, carrion birds are nearby.

A man is mending a fishing net.

African women with basins on their heads walk down the street.

An African woman with a child on her back works in the garden.

Kirisenko Andrey - a correspondent against the background of UN mission helicopters talks about MI-24 helicopters.

Makarov Ivan - commander of the Russian Aviation Group in Sierra Leone in his office talks to his colleagues about the MI-24 helicopter and the goals of the Russian peacekeepers' mission.

Makarov Ivan - commander of the Russian Aviation Group shows the overflight zones of the territory with a pointer on the map.

The pilot is in the helicopter cockpit.

The white MI-24 helicopter is taxiing.

Gorodetsky Anatoly - colonel, navigator of the Mi-24 helicopter.

Gorodetsky Anatoly - colonel, navigator of the Mi-24 helicopter, talks about the traditions that have developed in the aviation group.

The helicopter hovers over the airfield platform, makes a slight tilt of the cabin and flies away, technicians look at the helicopter in the air.

The helicopter flies over the border strip.

View from a helicopter of forested mountains and clouds.

The helicopter is preparing to land.

A white MI-24 helicopter of the UN mission in the air above the airfield.

A civilian MI-8 helicopter in the parking lot of the airfield.

The US flag on board the helicopter.

A white MI-8 helicopter of the UN mission in the air.

A UN representative in military uniform communicates.

Makarov Ivan, commander of the Russian Aviation Group, speaks about the complex tasks of border protection, troop escort, and words of gratitude from the government of Sierra Leone.

Russian servicemen climb the steps of an airplane flying to Russia.

Comrades help a serviceman who has had malaria; he slowly walks to the steps.

Glass strips with blood samples and tables on the wall.

Melnik Leonid, lieutenant colonel of the medical service, speaks about mosquitoes that carry malaria.

Containers of the UN mission with air conditioners in which Russian servicemen live, two servicemen nearby.

A Russian bathhouse with a veranda built by the Russian servicemen on the territory.

Servicemen in the canteen, the cook puts mashed potatoes on a plate.

Kirisenko Andrey - the correspondent talks about the water disinfection unit, the tanks on the concrete structure, the block with filters, ionizers and antibacterial lamps, the barrel with the inscription "Drinking water", the correspondent opens the tap and washes.

Panorama, tents on the airfield, the white plane of the UN mission, flags.

The IL-62 "Aeroflot" plane on the airfield, next to it a row of Russian servicemen.

Fragment of the video of the singer Dzhigurda Nikita Borisovich with the participation of Ochirov Valery Nikolaevich.

Photos of Ochirov Valery Nikolaevich.

In the studio Ochirov Valery Nikolaevich he has been in military service since 1969. He served in military aviation in various command positions up to the first deputy commander of the aviation of the ground forces of Russia, mastered 10 types of aircraft.

He took part in military operations in Afghanistan, and flew 867 combat sorties.

On February 21, 1985, he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

Valery Nikolaevich Ochirov speaks about Russia's peacekeeping missions in the UN and maintaining a stable situation in the world.

A Su-27 fighter jet performs a Nesterov loop in the sky.

Black and white chronicle: a biplane falls and crashes at an airfield, aircraft wreckage, a photograph of Petr Nesterov, Petr Nesterov near an aircraft, a biplane performs a Nesterov loop, Petr Nesterov sits on a bench, a biplane flies over an airfield, the public watches the biplane fly, a view of the ground from an aircraft, a pilot in the cockpit.

Alexander Shpigovsky speaks about performing a Nesterov loop while piloting, with a Yak-18T aircraft nearby.

Black and white chronicle: Petr Nesterov, a photograph of Professor Zhukovsky, a biplane accelerates at an airfield, a diagram of the Nesterov loop.

Video information with text about Nesterov performing a loop.

Computer animation: an airplane performing a Nesterov loop.

The instrument panel of the Yak-18T airplane and the control column.

Natalya Laktronaova in the airplane cockpit talks about performing a Nesterov loop.

The Yak-18T airplane in the sky performs a Nesterov loop.

Natalya Laktronaova in the airplane cockpit while performing a Nesterov loop. comments on her actions.

B/W chronicle: the airplane accelerates at the airfield, a large howitzer fires a shot and rolls back, an explosion on the ground, soldiers on the battlefield, a shot from a howitzer, an explosion on the ground, several biplanes flying over the battlefield, explosions on the ground, a biplane flying low over a crowd of people, a pilot in the biplane cockpit, an air battle between two biplanes, a biplane falling to the ground.

Alexander Shpigovsky talks about Pyotr Nikolaevich Nesterov and Russian pilots.

Ochirov Valery Nikolaevich talks about the difficult piloting of a helicopter in the mountains during the Afghan war.

Counteraction to sabotage groups.

Siberian Military District Guards Glukhovskaya Division of the Strategic Missile Forces, Launch Site "B".

A tractor with a Topol missile leaves the hangar, the signalman raises the flag.

Tractor wheels.

A tractor with a Topol missile moves along the road.

The driver in the tractor cabin.

Zotov Mikhail - a correspondent with a group of simulated terrorists are preparing to attack the Topol missile complex.

Security at the checkpoint of the nuclear base removes concrete anti-ram blocks from the road to let a KamAZ truck pass.

The car passes the checkpoint.

Concrete blocks are destroyed on the road.

Simulated terrorists are preparing to attack.

The duty officer transmits information on the base border violation by radio, the monitor is working.

The command "Help to arms".

The soldiers stand at the embrasures with machine guns.

The imaginary terrorists are at the metal fence.

The imaginary terrorist touches the cord with his foot, the signal mine explodes.

The duty officer looks at the monitor and reports the terrorists.

A platoon of soldiers with machine guns runs across the base.

The duty officer makes a phone call.

The security company drives up in an infantry fighting vehicle and disembarks.

The security company fires at the terrorists.

The terrorists fire back and retreat.

Armored vehicles are on the road.

The division's anti-sabotage group begins to comb the area.

Soldiers with machine guns run across the field.

The imaginary terrorists make their way across the forest clearing.

Shots are fired from the bushes at the terrorists, the terrorists fall and try to fire back.

The terrorists are arrested.

Nikolai Pustovalov, the division's chief of staff, talks about preventing and suppressing possible terrorist acts.

The presenter says goodbye to the audience.