Serve my Homeland 01.08.2006 (2006)

Boris Galkin in the studio.

Preview of the stories: Russian military in Lebanon, foreign citizens serving in the Russian Army, sixty-five years since the Battle of Moscow.

Antonina Kozhemyako, a veteran, reads poetry at the monument to the fallen soldiers of the Moscow Higher Military Command School during the war.

Antonina Kozhemyako walks through the forest near the village of Yeropolets, where there were battles in which cadets of the Moscow Higher Military Command School fought during the war.

B/W chronicle: Soldiers in helmets on parade, parade on Red Square, view of the Moscow Kremlin, Soviet soldiers marching along the road, a column of Soviet troops marching across rough terrain.

Antonina Kozhemyako, a veteran, talks about the preparation of cadets for the defense of Moscow, digging dugouts, trenches.

Chronicle b/w: German soldiers marching through the forest, a German soldier in a helmet, a village house exploding, German troops on parade, German soldiers firing a mortar, a line of German soldiers and an officer, a German sniper camouflaged takes up a position near a bush, a Soviet sniper fires, a German sniper is killed, Soviet soldiers cross a stream with a Maxim machine gun on wheels, Soviet soldiers march along a river, Soviet soldiers fire a Maxim machine gun, Soviet soldiers go on the attack, burning houses, Soviet soldiers fire a Maxim machine gun, a platoon of soldiers on a Moscow street, a burning German tank, the face of a German soldier in a helmet, a German soldier in a helmet eating.

Kozhemyako Antonina, a veteran, talks about German soldiers who sealed off the village and the Goncharov estate.

Chronicle b/w: German soldiers firing a howitzer, explosion in a field, German self-propelled gun, German soldiers smoking in a trench, German soldiers with weapons walking along the road.

Farmhand's grave of the Kremlin cadets, monument to soldiers with machine guns, wreath at the monument, slabs with the names of the fallen cadets.

Kozhemyako Antonina - veteran, speaks about the fallen Kremlin cadets.

The presenter speaks about the service of foreign citizens in the Russian army.

Leningrad region, training ground of the 138th rifle brigade, October 2006. Battalion reconnaissance practices actions in an ambush.

The soldiers disarm the truck driver and get into the back of the car, the car drives away.

Titov Vasily - platoon commander, speaks about foreign citizens serving in the Russian army.

A serviceman from Tajikistan assembles a Kalashnikov assault rifle next to an instructor.

A watch with a stopwatch on his hand.

The instructor speaks about a good result.

Ponomarev Dmitry - the shooting range supervisor talks about a serviceman from Tajikistan.

A soldier takes up a shooting position in a trench, inserts a magazine into a machine gun.

Shots from a Kalashnikov machine gun.

A soldier in a helmet in a trench.

A soldier fires a grenade launcher, an explosion in a field.

A soldier with a machine gun lies in the grass.

A soldier with a machine gun, aiming, stands in the grass.

Soldiers run across the territory of the training ground.

Klenov Yuri - assistant to the commander of the Leningrad Military District, talks about foreign citizens serving in the Russian army.

Akhmadov Mirali, a contract corporal, talks about obtaining Russian citizenship.

Akhmadov Mirali assembles a Kalashnikov machine gun.

Akhmadov Mirali, a contract corporal, at home at the table, with his wife and child nearby.

Akhmadov Mirali, a contract corporal, talks about living conditions.

Akhmadov Mirali, contract corporal, buys ingredients for plov at the market.

A sentry at the observation post.

Klenov Yuri, assistant to the commander of the Leningrad Military District, talks about Akhmadov Mirali.

Akhmadov Mirali, contract corporal, shows a medal for guarding the state border.

Servicemen take up positions in trenches at a rifle range.

The barrel of a Kalashnikov assault rifle, shots.

A soldier in a helmet takes aim and fires a Kalashnikov assault rifle.

Targets fall into the grass.

Ponomarev Dmitry, the shooting supervisor, talks about the absence of interethnic conflicts in the unit.

Akhmadov Mirali, contract corporal, talks about the attitude towards him in the military unit.

A group of servicemen at the shooting range.

A unit of the Russian Army in Lebanon.

Republic of Lebanon, the city of Beirut, the international airport, October 2006. An IL-76 transport aircraft taxis at the airfield.

A KAMAZ truck approaches the cargo hold of an IL-76 airplane.

KAMAZ trucks are parked at the airport.

A soldier places a Russian flag on a windshield.

Russian servicemen are led into the back of a truck.

Fyodor Yuryevich Aleksakov, Head of the Central Road Administration of the Russian Defense Ministry, speaks about Russian servicemen who arrived in Lebanon.

Cars and a motorcyclist on a street in Beirut.

A column of Russian trucks on the road.

A destroyed bridge over a river.

A destroyed power transmission line support.

People on the support of a destroyed bridge.

An arched bridge over a river.

An explosion on an arched bridge over a river.

Structures of destroyed bridges over rivers in Yugoslavia.

Serbia, Belgrade, April 1999. People standing on a bridge with flags at night.

B/W chronicle, explosions in the field, German tanks on the road, planes in the sky, a plane shot down in an air battle, an American bomber dropping bombs, explosions on the ground, Vietnamese soldiers in helmets at the control post in front of radar screens.

Republic of Lebanon, the city of Saida, October 2006. A column of Russian trucks on the road.

Soldiers are sawing a board with a two-handed saw.

A warehouse of prefabricated bridge structures in the open air.

Zotov Aleksandr, acting brigade commander, talks about the technical characteristics of prefabricated bridges.

A crane mounted on a truck lifts the bridge structure.

A serviceman assembles the metal structure of the bridge.

Zotov Aleksandr, acting brigade commander, talks about the technical characteristics of prefabricated bridges.

Zotov Aleksandr, acting brigade commander, raises his hands with two red flags.

Kashira, Field Camp, 17th Bridge Brigade of the Central Air Defense Command of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, October 2006. Servicemen demonstrate the work of a pile-driving machine.

A fire engine waters the asphalt.

Servicemen clear rubble.

Russian servicemen and a Lebanese officer.

A boat sails on the sea.

A tent city of Russian bridge builders on the shore.

A Russian sentry on duty.

Fighters of the Chechen East-West Battalion.

Bridge builders at work.

Vladimir Isakov, Chief of Logistics of the Russian Armed Forces, talks about the salaries of bridge builders and the assistance provided by personnel to the people of Lebanon.

Relatives of Vladimir Kalugin, Chief of the Bridge Battalion, at home.

Olga Kalugina talks about her husband's work in Lebanon.

In the studio is Georgy Nikolaevich Mitrofanov, a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Georgy Mitrofanov talks about the biblical commandment "Thou shalt not kill" in combat conditions.

Mitrofanov Georgy talks about priests in the Russian army.

Mitrofanov Georgy talks about pacifism and the Christian worldview.

Mitrofanov Georgy talks about the role of the priest in the modern Russian army.