A special report 16.09.2001 (2001)

The name of the program is "Special Purpose Armored Train".

Volga-Vyatka Department of Internal Affairs OMON fighters built an "armored train" while on a mission in the Chechen Republic.

This one differs from army armored trains in that it was built by OMON fighters from improvised materials: sandbags, a damaged armored personnel carrier, etc.

Nizhny Novgorod soldiers carry out complex combat missions in the fight against terrorists on this armored train.

It is noteworthy that the armored train was named "Kozma Minin" in honor of the legendary armored train from the Civil War, which stands as a monument in Nizhny Novgorod.

Video: Chechnya, summer 2001. The commander in front of the formation gives the order to the combined detachment of Volga-Vyatka Department of Internal Affairs OMON fighters to take up combat duty.

The hatch on the armored train opens, and the barrel of a machine gun is visible.

OMON fighters approach the carriages of the "armored train" Kirisenko Andrey - a correspondent on the railway track next to the locomotive talks about the "armored train" "Kozma Minin".

A carriage with the inscription "Kozma Minin".

Black and white chronicle: The armored train moves along the rails, the carriages of the train pass over the movie camera.

A OMON fighter sticks signs on the wall of the train carriage and explains what they mean.

A fighter at a machine gun mount on the open platform of the carriage Black and white chronicle: The armored train "Kozma Minin" is standing on the street of the city of Gorky.

The armored train "Kozma Minin" is standing on the square of the city of Nizhny Novgorod.

OMON fighters are sitting on the open platform of the carriage of the moving train.

View from the moving carriage of the ruins of the city of Grozny.

The station building damaged by explosions with the inscription Grozny.

A soldier with a machine gun on his knees looks into the camera.

A carriage with the inscription "Kozma Minin".

Black and white chronicle: A veteran speaks at a meeting about the construction of the "Kozma Minin" armored train, the armored train at the station, Soviet soldiers at the "Maxim" machine gun.

OMON fighters put sandbags in an open train carriage.

Soldiers stack boards near the carriage.

Soldiers strengthen the plywood inside the carriage.

View of the open platform of the train freight car with sandbags.

View through the loophole of the armored car.

Men in a bathhouse built in the carriage.

Black and white chronicle: Soviet soldiers pass shells to the armored train, a veteran speaks to the pioneers at a meeting about the "Kozma Minin" armored train team.

In the dining car, the general congratulates the armored train team and makes a toast, the soldiers clink tin mugs.

A general and officers watch the equipment of an armored train on an open platform of a freight car.

A soldier with a machine gun in his hands on an open platform of a freight car.

A soldier shows a dummy target to attract sniper fire.

A soldier with a machine gun looks into the loophole of the car.

View from a moving armored train of the area.

View of a railway bridge from the platform of an armored train.

A locomotive pushes two platforms with sand in front of itself.

Soldiers near an anti-aircraft mount on an open platform of a freight car.

In the compartment, Egorov Aleksandr - the deputy political officer of the armored train talks about serving on the armored train.

A burnt-out freight car and a tank car stand on the rails.

A chevron of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Soldiers sit near the loopholes with weapons.

In the cabin of the locomotive, Atatayev Rizvan - the driver of the armored train talks about an attempt to blow up the armored train.

On the platform, the fighters uncover the ZPU-4 anti-aircraft mount of quadruple machine guns KPV. Mokretsov Sergey, a police major, talks about the ZPU-4 anti-aircraft mount.

Kirisenko Andrey, a correspondent, sits on an open platform, controls the anti-aircraft mount, talks about the technical characteristics of the weapon.

View of the machine gun barrels of the anti-aircraft mount and the landscape.

A riot police officer in a camouflage helmet.

The fighters are having lunch at a table in the train car.

Nikolay and Viktor, the conductors, are sawing wood with a two-handed saw.

Nikolay and Viktor are talking about the work of a conductor on an armored train.

View from the train car onto the railroad tracks.

View of the rails from the joints of the cars.

OMON fighters with machine guns walk along the railroad tracks, "clearing the track" of mines.

An OMON fighter with a machine gun talks about inspecting the railroad tracks.

View of the railroad tracks and the backs of OMON fighters.

A riot police officer with a machine gun talks about technical equipment.

Riot police officers with machine guns search a local resident's belongings.

A riot police officer shows a repaired site of a railway track explosion.

A riot police officer talks about the track explosion and points to a pair of train wheels standing in a field next to cows.

A riot police officer talks on the radio.

Riot police officers in formation receive medals "For Service in the Caucasus" from their commander.

A view from a train car of an armored train.

In a compartment, Aleksandr Yegorov, the armored train's political officer, talks about serving on an armored train.

A view from a moving armored train of a checkpoint and a soldier.