Serve my Homeland №1 06.06.2010 (2010)

A story about the 22nd Guards Special Purpose Brigade of the GRU. Video footage: one of the brigade's units conducts a special operation in the Kadar District of Dagestan in September 1999. Views of a village occupied by militants, shelling of houses.

Underground passages of a fortified area created by militants.

An artillery and bomb strike on the village.

Participants in the special operation talk about the militants' tactics and the need to use MLRS (synchronously).

View of part of the village and the street along which a special forces unit is moving (above).

Actions of the special forces to capture the outskirts of the village (above).

A unit of the 22nd brigade moves in formation across the territory of a military unit.

Newsreel: combat operations in Afghanistan.

Faces of fighters from the brigade's 73rd detachment.

The detachment's personnel prepare for a special operation, put on protective gear.

Combat operations in Chechnya.

Actions of the brigade's special forces in Chechnya.

Special Forces Group Commander Nikolai Ivanov talks about the functions and tasks of special forces units (synchronously).

Special forces unit personnel during tactical training.

Building assault training.

Clearing the building.

Retreat under the cover of a smoke screen.

Scout-sniper Marat Sultanov talks about the specifics of serving in a special forces unit (synchronously).

Practicing ambush actions, capturing documents.

Retreat of the reconnaissance group under the cover of the rearguard.

Ivanov talks about the special forces group’s readiness to complete any task (synchronously).

Parachute training session on simulators.

Personnel landing on the shore from a landing craft on an air cushion.

Jumping from a parachute tower.

Deputy Company Commander Dmitry Plotnikov talks about the importance of ground and mountain training for special forces soldiers (synchronously).

Grenade throwing session.

Session on the airborne assault strip.

Brigade commander Vladimir Zakharov speaks about the difficulties of combat training due to the reduction of the term of service (synchronously).

A story about an experiment in the 5th Taman Guards Brigade.

Video chronicle: Inspector of the Physical Training Department of the Russian Ministry of Defense Viktor Buryan speaks about the introduction of a new model of physical training (synchronously).

An instructor supervises physical exercise.

Types of parade ground during morning physical exercise.

Sports and drill training.

A lesson in fire training, firing a machine gun from a firing line.

A lesson in the tactics of motorized rifle units at a training ground.

Machine gunners, grenade launchers, and machine gunners take up positions.

Personnel boarding the amphibious compartment of an infantry fighting vehicle.

An infantry fighting vehicle moving along a training ground.

Troops disembarking from an infantry fighting vehicle.

The deputy brigade commander speaks about the introduction of a new model of physical training, its goals and importance, and improving the quality of training (synchronously).

Exercises on strength training machines in a gym.

Hand-to-hand combat training.

Doctors test the brigade's servicemen.

Training in the gym, weight lifting.

Military-applied sports training.

Training in the gym.

Instructor Petr Avtaikin talks about the servicemen's achievements in physical training (synchronously).

Briefing before a training session in army hand-to-hand combat.

Servicemen during a training session in hand-to-hand combat.

Instructor Kochergin talks about shifting the emphasis of physical training to hand-to-hand combat, and about the methods of conducting training (synchronously).

Newsreel from the 1920s: Red Army soldiers leave their tents and line up.

Fragments of the movie "Admiral Nakhimov".

Newsreel: gymnastics classes in the Red Army, fencing, and bayonet fighting.

Red Army soldiers conduct military operations in the winter of 1941. Red Army units go on the attack in 1943. Military foot and horse training in the Red Army, physical training classes.

Boxing matches.

Brigade unit personnel during obstacle course and hand-to-hand combat training.

A story about new automotive equipment.

Video footage: demonstration of the capabilities of the mobile missile system chassis at a testing ground.

Deputy Head of the Defense Research Institute Vadim Demin talks about new developments in automotive equipment and its new models, about multi-purpose vehicles (synchronously).

Testing of automotive units and assemblies at Research Institute-21. Checking the driver's workplace on the habitability laboratory stands.

Practicing the standard for disembarking and boarding a combat vehicle crew.

Testing the stealth and thermal visibility systems of equipment.

Testing the starting qualities of the engine at the lowest possible temperatures in a special chamber.

Combat equipment during running tests.

Testing the chassis and steering of the vehicle on a large-cobblestone section of the Research Institute's test track.

Checking the transmission on a bumpy section.

Testing springs and shock absorbers on a checkerboard section of the track.

Testing a multi-purpose vehicle.

Testing automotive equipment in extreme conditions, climbing a steep slope.

Testing a vehicle in a special outdoor pool.

Testing the Vystrel armored vehicle.

Igor, a driver-mechanic of the special forces detachment, talks about the advantages of the new armored vehicle (synchronously and off-camera), vehicle controls.

Inside view of the landing compartment.

Testing the capabilities of tracked vehicles for engineering pontoon units.

Head of the Testing Department D. Vinnikov talks about the advantages and uniqueness of the new all-terrain vehicle (synchronously).

The DT-10PM floating articulated tracked tractor overcomes a water obstacle and drives ashore.

A story about the advantages of the DT-10PM. Landing combat equipment from an airplane.

Testing combat equipment for structural strength using a mine explosion.

Guests in the studio – the quartet “Liriki” perform the song “Betonka” by M. Mikhailov.