



WWII veteran Antonina Kozhemyako reads poetry about the war (synchronously). A. Kozhemyako in the forest at the site of the former positions of the Kremlin cadets who defended the approaches to Moscow in the fall of 1941. Newsreel from the 1930s: Kremlin cadets in formation.
Voroshilov K.E. speaks from the rostrum.
View of part of Red Square during a military parade (top).
View of part of the Moscow Kremlin (top).
Red Army units advance to meet the enemy.
View of an infantry column.
Kozhemyako recalls the arrival of cadets at the front line and their equipping of positions (synchronously).
Newsreel from 1941: a Wehrmacht unit moves through the forest.
Military operations near Moscow in the fall of 1941. Goebbels reviews the parade of Volkssturm units in early 1945. Fragments of a training film for Wehrmacht snipers, released in the fall of 1941, sniper tactics.
Red Army soldiers with a machine gun ford a stream.
Soviet troops conduct military operations.
Attack of a populated area by Red Army units.
A Red Army unit passes along the street of a liberated city.
Burning German tanks.
Faces of Wehrmacht soldiers and officers.
Kozhemyako talks about the occupation of the defense in the city of Yaropolets by Kremlin cadets and the atrocities of the Nazi occupiers (synchronously).
Newsreel of 1941: Wehrmacht heavy artillery fires.
Wehrmacht units conduct military operations.
German soldiers walk along the sides of muddy roads.
Panorama of a concrete pillbox and a mass grave of Kremlin cadets, a monument on the grave.
Panorama of gravestones with the names of the dead, Kozhemyako talks about the feat of the Kremlin cadets and the work of search groups.
Priest Father Vladimir is preparing to hold a memorial service in the Yaropolets church.
A crucifix on the lectern.
Father Vladimir talks about remembering the Kremlin cadets at every service (synchronously).
A story about the selection of candidates for service in the Presidential Regiment.
Video chronicle: a representative of the regiment, Valery Murashev, explains to conscripts at one of the military registration and enlistment offices in the Novosibirsk region how to fill out a questionnaire (synchronously).
Distribution of questionnaires to conscripts.
The road leading to the district center of Karasuk in the Novosibirsk region.
Conscripts enter the military registration and enlistment office building in a column one by one.
Military Commissar of the city of Karasuk Vladimir Kirpichnikov talks about conscripts from the Karasuk district serving in the Presidential Regiment (synchronously).
Murashev asks a conscript questions about his physical fitness, the conscript answers the questions (synchronously).
A military registration and enlistment office doctor reads aloud a conclusion on the fitness of a conscript for service in the Presidential Regiment (synchronously).
Murashev supports the candidacy of one of the conscripts (synchronously).
Conscripts enter the building of the recruiting office.
Conscripts undergo a medical examination.
Murashev talks to conscripts.
The father of a conscript N. Oksanichenko talks about his son's readiness for military service (synchronously).
Murashev talks to three conscripts in the courtyard of the military registration and enlistment office, asks questions about preparation for military service, the conscripts talk about their preparation.
Kirpichnikov talks about the high level of health of conscripts (synchronously).
Sports facilities in the city of Karasuk.
Murashev during an informal conversation with conscripts, faces of conscripts.
Murashev looks through documents from the personal file of one of the conscripts.
Murashev instructs conscripts on reporting to the military registration and enlistment office before being sent to their place of service, faces of conscripts.
A story about the service of foreign contract soldiers in the Russian Army.
Video chronicle: a battalion reconnaissance platoon practicing actions in an ambush during battalion tactical exercises.
Boarding a truck.
Platoon commander V. Titov talks about his subordinates serving under a contract (synchronously).
Corporal M. Akhmadov, who does not have Russian citizenship, disassembles and assembles a machine gun.
The platoon commander monitors the assembly process, Akhmadov's face.
Firing supervisor Dmitry Ponomarev says that Akhmadov has some combat experience (synchronously).
Akhmadov takes up a firing line in a trench, preparing to open fire.
Akhmadov fires at targets.
Scouts during tactical exercises at a training ground.
The training routine of contract servicemen.
Assistant Commander of the Leningrad Military District Yuri Klenov talks about foreigners serving under a contract, about their conscientious attitude to service (synchronously).
Corporal Akhmadov talks about receiving Russian citizenship in three years (synchronously).
Akhmedov disassembles and assembles a machine gun.
Akhmedov talks about the high salary of a contract soldier (synchronously).
Akhmedov and his family members at home.
Akhmedov talks about the good living conditions for his wife and daughter (synchronously).
Akhmedov buys greens and vegetables for plov from a street vendor.
Akhmedov with his wife and daughter during a walk.
Klenov talks about Akhmedov's successes in combat training (synchronously).
Akhmedov shows off his awards.
Servicemen during another tactical exercise.
Firing at the shooting range.
The shooting supervisor and Akhmedov talk about the absence of interethnic conflicts among servicemen (synchronously).
The guest in the studio is Archpriest Georgy Mitrofanov, professor of the St.
Petersburg Theological Academy, who speaks about the duty of a serviceman to destroy enemies in combat, about the sin of failure to fulfill military duty, about the main commandment in war - the readiness to sacrifice oneself for "
one's friends", about spiritual principles of attitude towards the enemy, gives historical examples of the humaneness of the Russian army towards the civilian population and defeated enemies, about the negative consequences of the abolition of the institution of military priests, about the role of priests in the education of the Russian soldier, discusses pacifism and the need to resist evil by force, talks about the concept of a "
Christ-loving army", about the role of military priests in the modern army and their tasks in the Christian education of servicemen, gives historical examples of the adoption of a religious oath by representatives of various faiths, about the right of servicemen to exercise freedom of conscience, about the historical connection of spiritual life and patriotic service to the army with the Orthodox faith (synchronously).
08.10.2006
Moscow
Summer, Autumn