Serve my Homeland №1 19.04.2006 (2006)

Communication session with the International Space Station, cosmonaut Valery Tokarev and American astronaut William MacArthur on the line.

The station's orbit on the monitor screen.

Newsreel from 1961: the launch of the Vostok-1 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 12, 1961. Gagarin Yu. A. in the spacecraft cabin during the launch.

Tereshkova V. V. recalls her impressions of the first manned space flight, interspersed with newsreel footage: newspaper reports on Gagarin's flight into space.

Demonstration in Moscow on the occasion of Gagarin's flight.

Khrushchev N. S. and Gagarin Yu. A. respond to greetings from a car while driving through Moscow.

Launch of the launch vehicle.

The first Soviet artificial satellite in flight.

View of the first stage of the spacecraft at the launch site.

Views of Moscow streets in the late 1950s.

Candidates selected for the cosmonaut corps walk through the grounds of the Air Force Academy.

Gagarin and members of the first cosmonaut corps during a class.

Leonov A. A. talks about the first members of the cosmonaut corps, about Gagarin and Korolev S. P.'s opinion about the first cosmonauts (synchronously and off-screen), Gagarin makes a report at a meeting (newsreel).

Korolev hugs Gagarin before the launch.

Gagarin responds to greetings from the car while driving through the streets of a Japanese city.

The launch of the spacecraft.

Tereshkova V. V. during the flight.

Khrushchev N. S. talks on the phone with Tereshkova, Mikoyan A. I. and Brezhnev L. I. are sitting nearby.

American astronauts after landing on the Moon.

Gorbachev M. S. during a meeting with workers.

Yeltsin B. N. speaks from the podium.

US President B. Clinton answers journalists' questions.

Assembling a spacecraft at a Russian enterprise.

Buran at the launch site, preparations for the launch.

The launch of the spacecraft.

Putin V.V. speaks from the rostrum about the importance of space activities for the country (synchronously).

Head of the Federal Space Agency A. Perminov speaks about the priority of the space industry, about Russia's leading place in manned cosmonautics (synchronously).

Reusable engine "Baikal" in the assembly shop.

Cosmonauts are taking off.

American rockets with Russian engines.

Launch vehicle in the hangar.

Rails leading to the launch pad at Baikonur.

The launch of the spacecraft.

Head of the "Baiterek" project T. Musayev speaks about the continuation of joint space research by Russia and Kazakhstan (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Photo of Putin and Musayev.

Use of space programs for defense purposes, panorama of the radar.

Commander of the Russian Space Forces V. Polovinkin speaks about the impossibility of the existence and creation of control systems and their integration with weapons without the help of space developments (synchronously).

A story about the missile attack warning system.

Video chronicle: the launch of a ballistic missile from a submarine in the Eastern Atlantic.

The duty officer reports on the telephone about the launch of a missile during a training alert.

The personnel of the Volga radar at work on target detection.

Equipment of the Volga radar, the process of performing service at the station.

Radar commander B. Brachkovsky speaks about the tasks performed by the radar, its daily work on target tracking, the functions of the radar and the further prospects for the development of the warning system (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Types of console and telephones.

The process of target detection.

Target detection scheme (computer animation).

An officer checks the serviceability of the equipment.

View and panorama of the radar.

Demonstration of a protective suit for being in a risk zone.

People in the military town adjacent to the radar station.

Views of the military town.

Psychologist O. Korshuk talks about the availability of social infrastructure in the military town (synchronously).

The Korshuk family at the tea table.

Officer D. Korshuk talks about providing military families with everything they need (synchronously).

State flags of the Russian Federation and Belarus over the parade ground.

Views of the radar station territory.

Chairman of the district executive committee V. Stolyar talks about providing the local population with work, thanks to the presence of the radar station in the district (synchronously).

A story about the UN peacekeeping forces.

Video footage: actions of peacekeepers in South Ossetia in February 2006, a clash between Russian peacekeepers and Georgian police officers as a result of a traffic accident.

Head of the UN military observer training course I. Zaruba talks about the tasks of military observers (synchronously).

Graduates of the military observer courses during emergency response training.

Passing a test in proficiency in communications equipment.

Officers during another training session.

Practicing another problematic situation on freeing hostages.

Views of the Kodori Gorge in Abkhazia.

Russian peacekeepers serve in Abkhazia.

Foreign servicemen during training courses.

Faces of officers.

Practicing peacekeepers’ actions in a problematic situation.

Swedish observer T. Dahlqvist speaks about the high level of training of Russian peacekeeping officers (synchronously).

Course participants during field training.

Senior instructor I. Pigin speaks about achieving the goal of the past lesson and the students’ performance of their tasks (synchronously).

A story about the airborne troops championships in boxing and sambo.

Video footage: sambo competitions involving servicemen of the 76th Pskov Airborne Division, faces of spectators and judges.

Training of personnel of one of the sports companies in sambo.

Parachute training session.

Personnel boarding an airplane.

Parachute domes in the sky.

Landing of paratroopers.

Private A. Kutchiyev talks about his service as a paratrooper (synchronously and off-camera), paratroopers after the jump.

Paratroopers march in formation singing a song.

The barrel of a machine gun during firing.

Landing of paratroopers.

Field tactical training at the training ground.

Paratroopers do weightlifting in the gym, Kutchiyev talks about his sports activities before the army and during his service (synchronously and off-camera).

The return of a contract soldier home and a meeting with his fiancée Elena Efimova.

Efimova talks about the importance of sports in strengthening the body (synchronously).

Elena irons her uniform.

Artem polishes her boots.

Presentation of awards to the winners of the championship.

The closing ceremony of the championship.

A fragment of a communication session with the International Space Station.