Serve my Homeland №1 23.08.2009 (2009)

A story about special units of the Internal Troops monitoring compliance with the special regime in closed cities.

Video footage: a patrol goes on duty to protect the perimeter of the closed city of Trekhgorny in the Chelyabinsk region.

An observer in a tower.

A patrol with a dog walks the perimeter.

Entrance to the territory of the instrument-making plant.

A story about the fenced paths equipped along the perimeter of the guarded facilities.

A panorama of the city of Trekhgorny.

Newsreel: part of the process of producing nuclear weapons.

Applauding delegates at a meeting in the Kremlin.

Felling trees for road construction in the early 1950s.

The process of creating a nuclear weapon.

Felling trees.

Earthworks during the construction of a railway embankment.

Vehicles leaving the city of "Zlatoust-36".

A photograph of one of the city blocks.

View of part of the city block in Trekhgorny.

Adults and children at the fountain.

Views of the workshops of the instrument-making plant.

Views of residential buildings.

Girls' faces.

City street views.

Lieutenant Colonel Lysenko drinking tea.

Home life and interiors of the Lysenko family apartment.

The Lysenko couple drinking tea.

Issuing weapons to guards.

Training in the guard town before taking up guard duty, practicing actions in various situations.

Private Sergei Egorov talks about his service (synchronously).

Firearms training at the shooting range.

Squad commander Sergei Volkov talks about his service and the benefits of contract service (synchronously).

Female servicemen serving at checkpoints.

Female servicemen during test firing.

Commandant of the First Commandant's Office Vladimir Valkovich talks about a case of using weapons to detain an offender in 2005 (synchronously).

The duty officer reports the alarm going off, the alarm group goes to the area.

Perimeter surveillance and monitoring systems.

The personnel of the duty unit get into the back of a truck.

A special forces company advances to the area of the perimeter breach.

Capture of simulated terrorists.

Hand-to-hand combat training in a special forces company.

Deputy unit commander Vladislav Volokov talks about the Atom-Defense-2007 exercises (synchronously).

A story about the FSB special forces unit Alpha.

Video footage: the capture of terrorists (FSB operational footage).

Exercises to capture facilities occupied by terrorists.

Physical training in the gym.

Alpha fighters training, the detention of terrorists.

Newsreel from 1979-1980: the introduction of Soviet troops into Afghanistan, Soviet armored vehicles in Kabul.

View of Amin's palace.

Alpha fighters during the storming of Amin's palace.

Former Alpha group commander Mikhail Golovatov talks about the methods first used during the storming of Amin's palace.

Video chronicle: the actions of the Alpha Group fighters in various hot spots (FSB operational footage).

Alpha Group fighters during training.

Training in storming a building, scuba diving and aerial training.

The release of hostages from the Dubrovka Theater Center by Alpha fighters.

The release of hostages from a school in Beslan in 2004. President of the Alpha Group Veterans Association Sergei Goncharov delivers a speech at an event dedicated to the 35th anniversary of the unit (synchronously).

Competitors in the competition dedicated to the 35th anniversary of the Alpha Group performing qualification exercises.

An officer instructor speaks about the principles and forms of training Alpha Group fighters (synchronously).

Competitors from different cities in formation.

The judge explains the conditions for performing one of the exercises.

Sniper pairs during the relay race.

Overcoming an obstacle course during the relay race.

Competition in performing an exercise to protect an individual.

A story about the Presidential Regiment.

Video chronicle: the ceremony of taking the military oath by servicemen of the Presidential Regiment.

Faces of young soldiers standing in formation.

Soldiers taking the oath.

A unit of the regiment in formation on the parade ground on the territory of the Kremlin.

Private Igor Reizvikh speaks about his impressions of the oath-taking ceremony (synchronously).

Carrying out the regimental banner onto the parade ground.

Faces of soldiers.

Faces of Barnaul conscripts.

Private A. Belousov speaks in Barnaul to conscripts (synchronously).

Conscripts undergo a medical examination at one of the district military registration and enlistment offices.

Military Commissar of the Altai Territory Alexander Generalov speaks about the tests used to select candidates for service in the Presidential Regiment (synchronously).

Meeting of new recruits from Altai with their parents.

Svetlana Polulyak speaks about changes in her son’s character for the better (synchronously).

Private Reizvikh during a meeting with his father.

Sentries at post #1 near the Eternal Flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

A drill training session in full dress uniform.

Soldiers sign the oath.

Deputy company commander Yegor Kovtunenko speaks positively of the Roma soldiers from Altai (synchronously).

Newsreel: soldiers in white camouflage suits pass through a populated area during the counteroffensive near Moscow.

A ceremonial formation of members of clubs for military-patriotic education of youth in the Altai Territory.

The head of the "Volunteer" club E. Kozub speaks about the need for patriotic education from childhood (synchronously).

Club members run with weapons and gas masks.

A lesson in marksmanship, disassembling and assembling a machine gun.

Kozub teaches club members how to operate a radio station.

Club member Evgeny Krutov reports on the tactical and technical characteristics of the R-143 radio station (synchronously).

Kozub conducts a lesson in hand-to-hand combat.

A lesson in sapper work.

Club member Kristina Pashchenko talks about the reasons for joining the "Volunteer" club (synchronously).

General Director of the Altai Territory Administration Aleksandr Karlin talks about the large number of conscripts in the region and their high moral and physical health (synchronously).

A story about small arms of the Russian army.

Video chronicle: the use of the Kalashnikov assault rifle in units of the Russian army.

A photo of Mikhail Kalashnikov at a drawing board.

Kalashnikov gives a speech at one of the ceremonial events.

Photos of Kalashnikov and German gunsmith Hugo Schmeisser with weapons of their own design.

Small arms expert Mikhail Degtyarev talks about the differences in the design of the Kalashnikov assault rifle and the German assault rifle "Sturmgewehr", about the similarity of the layouts, demonstrates the mechanisms and parts, talks about the fundamental differences in the mechanisms of the Soviet and German models of this weapon, about the type of cartridge used (synchronously).

Photographs of Hitler at a demonstration of the Schmeisser assault rifle in 1944. Images of the Sturmgewehr with a night vision scope alternate with newsreel footage of the Sturmgewehr in action.