Serve my Homeland №1 09.11.2014 (2014)

Video chronicle: participants in the competition of special forces units of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation overcome obstacles on the fire-assault strip at a training center in the Smolensk region.

View of part of the fire-assault strip.

Overcoming various obstacles by competition participants.

Special forces soldiers help their comrades in overcoming a tunnel made of car tires.

Boarding a truck at the finish line.

A soldier of the special forces unit "Vityaz" talks about the qualities necessary for a special forces soldier (synchronously).

Passing physical fitness tests, performing a somersault, long jump.

The officer records the results.

Walking on hands over a distance of 30 meters.

Special forces soldiers push an armored personnel carrier.

Cadet A. Tatarenko talks about the connection between the degree of unit training and individual training.

Competition in high-altitude training, judges evaluate the actions of the participants in the competition.

Climbing the wall of a multi-story building without special equipment, using the "human ladder" method.

Competition in hitting a target from an awkward position for holding a weapon, the judge monitors the time of completing the standard.

Passing a "killhouse" and hitting targets.

The commander sets a combat training task for subordinates.

Soldiers on the armor of a moving armored personnel carrier.

The judges record the results of the participants' actions.

Competition in penetrating a building and inspecting it.

Searching for weapons caches and hiding places and lurking imaginary terrorists.

A soldier of the special forces unit "Vityaz" talks about defusing a grenade on a tripwire (synchronously).

Loading personnel into a helicopter.

Helicopters in flight.

One of the detachments on the route.

The intermediary officer talks about the difficulties that arose during the march, about the location of ambushes.

The movement of a special forces group through the forest.

Imaginary terrorists - fighters of the designation group fire at the special forces group.

A fighter of the designation group talks about the developed methods of counteracting the enemy (synchronously).

Interior view of underground cache of simulated terrorists.

Special forces group soldiers conduct mine reconnaissance on the approaches to the simulated terrorists' camp.

Defusing explosive devices.

Awarding of competition winners.

Story about training tank driver mechanics.

Tank unit commander sets subordinates training and combat mission, tank crews' faces.

Crews take their places in combat vehicles.

Tank platoon commander Potekhin tells subordinates about actions of tank crew members when boarding a combat vehicle (synchronously) during a theoretical lesson.

Tank crews during a lesson in a classroom.

Soldiers watch test firing on a tank directrix from a TV screen installed in the classroom.

Image on the screen broadcast from a camera on the observation tower.

Gunner-operator Denis Maltsev talks about the process of firing from a tank gun, about the role of the gunner-operator in a tank battle (synchronously).

Loading ammunition into a tank.

A tank fires on the move.

The platoon commander talks about the peculiarities of firing a tank gun (synchronously).

Tanks maneuver on the training ground.

Tanks on the march.

Tanks overcoming a water obstacle.

A diving training session in a pool, wearing an isolating gas mask.

Training in exiting a flooded tank on a special simulator.

A session on the use of an isolating gas mask, the structure of the gas mask.

Using an isolating gas mask during a session in a pool.

Preparing a tank to overcome a water obstacle along the bottom.

Tank sealing.

The structure and purpose of the air intake pipe.

Tanks overcoming a water obstacle along the river bottom.

The tanks reach the opposite bank.

The tank hatches are finally sealed at the checkpoint (KTP).

KTP Chief Ivan Tarakanov talks about the sealing of the tank and how to check it (synchronously).

Tank crews take their places before the start of the underwater driving lesson.

The rescue team approaches the stopped tank in a boat.

The guest in the studio, historian Kirill Aleksandrov, talks about the causes of World War I, the reasons for interstate conflicts and the inevitability of war, the national upsurge at the beginning of the war, the degree of readiness for war of the Russian Imperial Army and its opponents, German plans at the beginning of the war, the failure of German plans due to the beginning of active hostilities by the Russian army, the battle of Gumbinnen on August 20, 1914, the rescue of France in the summer of 1914, talks about the stereotype of the unpreparedness of the Russian army, about the silence of Soviet historians about the role of Russian generals in the victories of 1914, the death of General Samsonov's army, the main result of the 1914 campaign - the disruption of the German initial war plan due to the activity of Russian troops, about the contradictions between the decisions of the Russian command and the national interests of the country during the war (synchronously).