Serve my Homeland №1 28.06.2009 (2009)

A story about the special forces units of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN).

Video footage: training of one of the FSIN special forces units.

An operative of the assault squad, Alexey, talks about his service (synchronously).

Shooting training at a shooting range.

Practicing high-altitude training techniques in the FSIN special forces unit "Fakel".

Special forces officer Sergei talks about storming a building seized by prisoners in 2006 and freeing hostages, a view of the prison building.

Training with shields.

Physical training session with a hundred-meter run and a set of strength exercises.

Candidates for joining the unit during sparring.

An operative of the assault squad, Dmitry, talks about the "run-in" of newcomers, about service in the unit and friendly mutual assistance (synchronously).

Fighters of the Fakel unit overcome obstacles on the assault strip.

TV newsreel of 1991: view of a rally in August 1991. Members of the State Emergency Committee during a press conference.

Fighters of the combined detachment before flying to Chechnya.

Fragments of street fighting in Grozny in January 1995 with the participation of FSIN fighters.

Photos of fighters of the Fakel detachment during missions in the North Caucasus in 1999. Detachment commander Vladimir Bogoslovsky talks about the number of fighters awarded and the absence of losses in the detachment (synchronously).

Training in freeing a hostage and detaining a simulated terrorist.

A story about an American armored vehicle for transporting especially dangerous criminals.

The interior of the vehicle.

A domestic armored personnel carrier that has entered service.

The driver behind the wheel of the armored personnel carrier.

Driver-instructor Igor talks about the driving characteristics of the new armored personnel carrier (synchronously).

The interior of the troop compartment.

Squad members during high-altitude assault training.

Examples of small arms used by the squad.

Weapons instructor Anatoly talks about the performance characteristics and advantages of the new Vityaz submachine gun (synchronously).

Bogoslovsky talks about the squad’s full equipment with weapons and personal protective equipment (synchronously).

A story about the 125th anniversary graduation of the Military Institute of Physical Culture.

Video footage: institute graduate Lieutenant Mikhail Malsagov dances the lezginka on the parade ground.

One of the graduates tidies up his dress uniform in front of a mirror.

Faces of graduates.

Change in the graduates’ palms.

Graduates throw change and hats into the air during a ceremonial march across the institute’s parade ground.

Malsagov talks about studying at the institute (synchronously).

Cadets during classes in the gym on various sports equipment.

Sambo and hand-to-hand combat training.

Sports massage lesson.

Anatomy lesson.

Head of the Institute Aleksandr Obvintsev speaks about graduates and their future service (synchronously).

Cadets go through an obstacle course with elements of hand-to-hand combat.

Graduate Roman Kazakov speaks about his studies at the Institute (synchronously).

Cadets of the Institute during a lesson on tactics at the training ground, overcoming a water obstacle.

Graduate Timofey Botvinkin speaks about his future service and his sporting achievements (synchronously).

Lesson on the obstacle course.

Lesson on water sabotage training.

Lesson on providing first aid on a training dummy.

Classes in various types of martial arts and boxing.

Head of the Physical Training Department of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Aleksandr Shchepelev speaks about the high quality of training of the Institute graduates (synchronously).

A story about the 300th anniversary of the Battle of Poltava.

A fragment of a painting depicting the Battle of Poltava.

Map of the disposition of the Swedish and Russian troops.

Portraits of Charles XII and Peter I. Fragments of the feature film "Peter the Great", a map of the movement and clashes of Swedish and Russian troops during the Battle of Poltava.

Guest in the studio, historian Kirill Aleksandrov, talks about the causes of the Battle of Poltava, about the transfer of the theater of military operations to Little Russia after the defeat of the Swedes in the Baltics, about the strategy of Charles XII, about the betrayal of Hetman Mazepa, about the treacherous policy of Little Russian hetmans, about Mazepa's deception of the Swedish king and its consequences, about the defeat of the Swedes at Lesnaya, about the siege of Poltava by the Swedes, about the superiority of the Russian army over the Swedish in the field of artillery, about the significance of the victory at Poltava for the further course of the war and the subsequent development of Russia (synchronously).