"SERVING THE FATHERLAND" SOURCE MATERIALS (2000)

Cadets of the youth military-patriotic club "Desantnik" at a competition in a military unit.

A shooting range.

Two young men and a girl listen to instructions before firing a machine gun.

The cadets lie down on a tarpaulin and shoot at targets under the supervision of instructors.

After shooting, the guys put their weapons on safety, stand up, and run to the targets.

The cadets throw training grenades.

Training on an obstacle course, young men and women participate; after completing the obstacle course, the cadets rest, sitting and lying on the ground.

The guys sit on the ground and encourage their comrades, a T-80 tank stands nearby.

The cadets march along the range, an instructor walks next to them.

Young men on an obstacle course.

The guys sit on the ground.

The instructor records the finish of the running guy with a stopwatch.

The head of the military-patriotic club "Desantnik" Vladimir Vladimirovich Mishukov films the guys on video, encourages them.

The cadets march along the road in formation, stop on command, turn left, and walk toward the field tents.

A sign reading "Soldiers' Canteen".

The boys enter the canteen with army mess tins in their hands.

A line, cooks serving food, the cadets receiving their lunch.

The cadets are having lunch at the table, answering a reporter's question.

General views of the canteen: long tables, groups of cadets having lunch.

The head of the canteen of the military unit, Senior Warrant Officer Donskikh, talks about the soldiers' diet, general military rations, medical inspection of food, and registration in the report book.

Panorama of the canteen hall.

Faces of the cadets having lunch.

A sign reading "Messenger's Mess Washing Area".

The boys march out of the canteen in formation.

The cadets are washing their mess tins and mugs, clean dishes are on the table.

The commander explains the rules of formation and calculation to the cadets.

Briefing on passing the obstacle course.

The boys are climbing down the pole.

The sentry is on the tower.

Cadets take turns going through an obstacle course; gunshots, explosions of pyrotechnics, smoke above the area.

A soldier in a trench fires single shots from a machine gun.

A line of guys awaits the final of the competition, teenagers' faces.

A cadet goes through an obstacle course, at the end he falls off the rope and falls to the ground.

View from the turret of a BMD of cadets running towards it.

Cadets lie down on the ground, crawl under the BMD, get up, and run further.

Cadets crawl on their bellies under barbed wire.

A tank creates a smoke screen.

Cadets run across the field, climb onto the armor of the BMP, take their places inside the vehicle.

A T-80 tank drives across the field, cadets climb into the back of the truck.

Future paratroopers run with the Airborne Forces flag, filmed from below.

Cadets with the Airborne Forces flag shout the motto "Paratroopers are power!" The head of the military-patriotic club "Desantnik" Vladimir Vladimirovich Mishukov talks about the participation of the club's cadets in military training competitions, training, physical fitness of the guys for military service, the interest of young people in the club, many years of work of teachers with young people.

The club's cadets talk about participation in competitions, preparation for competitions, work with a coach, difficult Spartakiad competitions and the desire to win.

The cadets take their places in the BMP, wave their hands, the car door closes.

The BMP is on a country road, Mishukov V.V. sits on the edge of the hatch, films the movement on a video camera.

The BMP turns around and drives away.

View of the checkpoint and the "Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Instrument-Making Plant" banner above the road, cars are driving.

Three fire trucks and a UAZ minibus are passing the checkpoint.

A traffic controller is at his post, cars are driving by.

A training ground for service dogs.

Instructors are training dogs, the animals are walking on a boom, climbing up and down stairs, overcoming a suspension bridge and a log, jumping over barriers.

Training in pursuing and detaining a criminal, practicing the commands "attack", "no", "guard" with the participation of a person involved in a special protective suit.

Acting commander of the canine platoon of military unit 3442, Senior Warrant Officer Anton Vladimirovich Teplov talks about dog breeds, how they are selected for the unit and what service they perform.

Teplov A.V. talks about people who come to the unit with their dogs and serve under a contract.

Teplov A.V. talks about the arrival of dogs from the Russian canine center in Tyumen, tells about the stages of a two-month dog training course at the unit's training center.

The dog follows commands: sit, stand, lie down, bark, crawl.

The dog handler calls out and shows commands on camera with his voice and gestures.

A radar tower with a dome on the unit's territory.

Cows are lying on the lawn in front of the house, a car and a girl on roller skates drive by.

The city of Trekhgorny, new buildings.

City streets.

A girl with a stroller walks past a two-story wooden house.

The Church of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God, bell ringing.

An icon on the facade above the entrance to the church, a belfry.

The stele "Icarus and the Sun", views from different angles.

Pedestrians on a park alley.

Two girls are looking at the camera and waving to the cameraman.

Three women are walking along the alley, a boy on roller skates overtakes them.

A man with a small child, fountain jets.

Adults and children at the fountain, girls are walking on water, parents with children are around.

Views of houses and a radar tower.

The camera pulls back.

Various panoramas of the city and its environs.

A view from a hill of a ski lift, a track, a small house, trees (with the camera pulling back).

A column of female soldiers marches across the parade ground.

A platoon of soldiers marches in place, stops.

A report from the regiment's chief of staff, Lieutenant Colonel Penigin: The 546th regiment is formed up for a regimental roll call.

The colonel greets the soldiers.

The Russian flag is raised, the Russian anthem is played.

The officers leave the line.

Columns of soldiers march in front of the tribune.

The regimental orchestra marches.

The colonel answers the correspondent's questions about the goals and objectives of military unit 3442, its readiness to protect facilities, its participation in exercises, and the specifics of the service.

Applicants to the Ryazan Institute of Airborne Troops picking berries.

A column of applicants is walking along a forest road.

Two young men are carrying a field kitchen tank.

The columns are marching along the road, the commanders are counting the marching step.

The command "stay put", the boys stop.

The ensign gives a briefing on safety measures in the forest, gives an assignment to the applicants, commands them to start picking berries.

The boys disperse through the forest.

Picking blueberries.

Applicants are picking berries, answering the reporter's questions.

Sergey from the Smolensk region (the city of Gagarin) talks about his desire to get a military education and become an officer.

The teenagers are picking and eating berries, talking, joking.

The young man talks about the tasks of a paratrooper in the army, successfully passed exams, the decision to become an officer.

A field kitchen food tank with the inscription "14th company, water" and a bucket.

A young man comes out of the forest with a jar of picked berries, approaches the tank, opens the lid, and pours out the berries.

Two officers and cadets stand at the edge of the forest.

Three cadets with field radios and machine guns.

The cadets stand in trenches, receiving instructions from the commander.

The commander explains the plan of the exercise.

Soldiers in a trench with machine guns.

The commander gives the target coordinates over the radio.

A soldier with a radio and a machine gun runs across the field, shots are heard.

The soldiers in the trench aim their machine guns and fire.

The command "Platoon, take cover!" The soldiers hide under a concrete slab.

The cadet reports to the commander that the enemy has been spotted.

The command "To your positions!" The soldiers crawl out of cover and take positions on the parapet of the trench.

The commander gives the target coordinates, the cadets fire their machine guns.

At the command "To cover!" the soldiers hide under a concrete slab in the trench.

A cadet fires into the air from a machine gun.

At the command "To your positions!" the soldiers crawl out of cover and take positions.

A column of applicants marches along the road, the commander counts the marching steps.

On the airfield, applicants are preparing to jump, checking and fastening the straps of their backpacks.

The duty officer checks the parachute backpacks.

Applicants put on their backpacks.

Young men sit on a bench, inflating life jackets.

Applicants with parachute backpacks walk along the airfield, line up in two rows.

The duty officer in front of the line of parachutists.

At the inspection line, a serviceman inspects the parachute backpacks.

An-2 aircraft is landing.

Observation deck.

A line of parachutists.

An-2 aircraft on the airfield.

A parachutist signs the documents before the jump.

The officer fills out the timesheet.

Parachutists walk to the plane.

A line of parachutists.

A low-angle view of the wing of a biplane and parachutists.

A technician wipes the side landing gear struts with a rag.

A propeller.

A column of parachutists walks along the airfield.

Applicants board the plane and sit on benches.

The duty officer gives instructions.

An-2 plane with an open door.

Three lines of parachutists on the airfield.

Applicants board the plane and close the door.

The An-2 takes off.

View of airfield, forest and parachute domes.

Man running along track, shot through net, from courts.

Single-engine plane maneuvers on field, takes off.

Plane in sky, parachutists jumping.

Views of enterprise building with flat roof.

Parachutists in the sky.

Three policemen land on the roof of the building, look around, go down the fire escape.

Policemen in black gear and helmets talk to assistant.

Three armed policemen run along the roof of the building, go down the fire escape, cover each other.

Policeman hands parachutes to assistant below.

Policemen go down the fire escape.

Buildings on the territory of the enterprise, lawn, trees.

Two cars drive along the road, at the crossroad they are blocked by white car with armed men, cars back up and drive away (shot several times from different angles).

Conditional criminals with weapons hide behind white car.

Police light flashing.

The driver's hands on the steering wheel of an Audi.

Blocking the road, filming from the cabin, driving along the road, stopping next to a helicopter.

A masked driver behind the wheel.

Armed criminals hide behind a white car.

The criminals' car drives away.

The car is on the road, people are walking around, a helicopter takes off in the background.

A police officer from the Cobra unit talks about practicing an attempt to seize a car with a protected person and about the tasks of the security, about the work of the unit in general.

Armed police officers near the car.

A man walks towards the helicopter, which starts the engine, the propellers turn.

The cars turn around and drive away.

The helicopter takes off, circles above the road; there is an armed police officer on board.

Practicing the detention of criminals with aerial support (filming from different points, including from a car and from a helicopter).

A room with a target and a dummy for practicing hostage rescue situations.

The Cobra unit in protective gear, assault ladders, and a pre-training briefing.

The police climb the assault ladders to the second floor, use the explosives on the shield to knock out a window on the third floor, and enter the building.

A policeman with a dummy on his shoulder descends the ladder.

The police carry the dummy away.

Two fighters remain near the ladders.

A policeman in a helmet with armored glass holds a pistol with a flashlight in his hand.

The men remove the ladders.

A policeman climbs a rope ladder from a window to a balcony on the top floor.

106th Guards Tula Airborne Division, demonstration performances of paratroopers, paratrooper training.

Soldiers practice commands for demonstration performances with a carbine.

A sergeant talks about traditions and demonstration performances in the airborne troops.

Two paratroopers in blue berets with carbines.

Faces of the soldiers.

A sergeant communicates with the paratroopers.

A platoon of paratroopers marches on the parade ground.

The paratroopers march in place, a brass band plays.

Soldiers practice demonstration performances with carbines.

The paratroopers run out onto the parade ground and line up.

The soldiers demonstrate hand-to-hand combat techniques in sync.

The soldiers line up and drop to one knee.

The paratroopers demonstrate elements of hand-to-hand combat (sparring).

Exercises with nunchucks.

Three soldiers practice hand-to-hand combat.

The paratroopers demonstrate hand-to-hand combat techniques, line up, and leave the parade ground at a run.

Guard of honour fighters with carbines.

Paratroopers line up on the parade ground.

The Russian flag, and colourful holiday flags nearby.

The paratroopers carry out the commander's orders, practicing the synchronicity of their movements.

The training complex on the territory of the military unit.

The parachute tower.

The combat vehicle commander, Junior Sergeant Dmitry Sergeyevich Kharlamov, shows the bedroom in the barracks, the sports "town" with exercise machines, talks about living conditions and leisure, about sports activities, and about the utility room.

General view of the barracks.

The Russian flag and unit flags, including those with the inscription "Reconnaissance Company of the 51st Guards PDP".

The paratroopers practice the landing element after a parachute jump on the simulator, comments Lieutenant Sergei Alekseevich Borisenko.

Dmitry Kharlamov talks about the exercises and completing tasks.

Paratroopers with parachute packs on their backs walk along the territory of the complex.

The reconnaissance operator of the control platoon, Evgeny Ivanovich Bochkov, talks about his unit, its traditions and combat past.

The gunner-operator of the BMD-3, deputy commander of the combat vehicle, Ilya Aleksandrovich Khukharev, talks about his contract service and his desire to connect his life with the army.

Paratroopers check their parachute packs.

Lieutenant Borisenko commands to begin fulfilling the standard.

Paratroopers help each other put on their parachute packs and fasten their belts.

The soldiers report on fulfilling the standard.

Paratroopers unfasten their belts, take off and pack their parachute packs.

An exercise at the training ground of the 77th Separate Guards Marine Brigade of the Russian Navy, practicing capturing a bridgehead by a platoon.

The paratroopers run up the gangway into the Dzheyran landing ship.

The paratroopers leave the ship on command.

The lieutenant gives the command.

The paratroopers run up the gangway onto the ship.

The paratroopers are sitting in the ship's hold.

The gangway rises and closes the entrance.

The duty lamp is on.

The paratroopers are in the hold.

The paratroopers are standing near the tank.

The signalman gives the signal.

The paratroopers run to the ship, run inside along the gangway.

A BMP-2 and a T-72 tank drive up the gangway into the hold.

The gangway rises and closes the entrance.

The gangway lowers.

The T-72 tank drives out of the hold and fires.

The BMP-2 emerges from the hold, paratroopers are running alongside, firing machine guns.

The BMP-2 fires a machine gun.

Paratroopers fire machine guns.

The soldiers unload their weapons, put them on safety.

Soldiers run along a concrete training ground, kneel down, fire machine guns.

The machine gunner takes a prone position, fires.

A soldier fires a sniper rifle.

The machine gunner takes aim.

Paratroopers stand in pairs.

Platoon commander Lieutenant Ivan Viktorovich Osipov talks about his decision to become a marine, career growth, prospects for housing, commands during exercises, paratrooper equipment, and working with a field radio station.

Paratrooper equipment: body armor, unloading vest, gas mask, tablet, radio station, weapons.

The side and blades of the propellers of a small landing craft on an air cushion.

Dormitory for contract servicemen and families of officers of the 77th Separate Guards Marine Brigade of the Russian Navy.

Driver-mechanic Mikhail Sergeyevich Bychkovich from Novosibirsk shows a room in a dormitory for contract servicemen, talks about living conditions, daily routine, battalion exercises, leisure, the advantages of contract service, service in the Marine Corps.

The room furnishings, shoes in the hallway, sinks, shower.

Lieutenant Ivan Osipov with his wife Tatyana in their room in the dormitory.

Tatyana talks about waiting for service housing, living conditions, daily routine and leisure.

Ivan talks about the lack of work for his wife.

The lieutenant's wife Yulia Slepenkova talks about family life in a dormitory for military personnel.

Soft toys on the couch.

An iron, scissors, keys and a telephone on the table.

Deputy Commander of the Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment Lieutenant Colonel Aleksey Yuryevich Platonov talks about the goals and objectives of the regiment, located on the territory of the 102nd Russian military base.

Platonov A. Yu. talks about the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system and the 2K12 "Kub" missile system, which are on combat duty, and talks about interaction with the Armenian military to protect the border.

General view of the 2K12 "Kub" anti-aircraft missile system.

Self-propelled reconnaissance and guidance unit 1S91 with radar.

The flags of Russia and Armenia flutter in the wind.

Information board "Powers of the Air Defense Forces".

Principal of School No. 19 of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in Gyumri, Semyon Akopovich Shiroyan, talks about his work at the school since 1994, the educational process, the educational activities of teachers, constant communication with the parents of students, and the sports training of schoolchildren.

Students in class.

Biology lesson.

Students' faces.

Girls in a home economics lesson (knitting, embroidery, applique).

A boy at the blackboard, a Russian language lesson.

Children answer the teacher's questions, raise their hands.

Schoolchildren during recess in the hallway.

A model of the fortress.

Portraits of Russian military leaders (children's drawings).

Primary schoolchildren in dress uniform.

Classes in the computer lab.

Children's drawings in the chess lab.

A panel on the wall.

Drawn portraits of Tolstoy and Gogol.

A row of aquariums with fish.

View of the school from the main entrance.

A military town, houses and a playground, parents with children.

Smoke from a shell explosion rises above the firing range.

Soldiers near a self-propelled howitzer.

Soldiers near stands with indicators.

View of the firing range.

Gunfire, explosions in the field, smoke.

A crew next to a howitzer.

Various views of the firing range.

Soldiers stack boxes of ammunition next to the howitzer, a truck drives up.

Soldiers run to the truck.

A crew next to the howitzer listens to the commander.

Soldiers climb into the howitzer turret.

General view of the firing range, trucks and a tent.

Gunfire, explosions on the firing range, smoke.

The crew leaves the howitzer and lines up.

Soldiers load the gun.

Shots, explosions, smoke over the firing range.

Gunners near the DMK-01 weather instrument in a metal case, take readings from the sensors, make calculations.

Anemometer (vane-type wind sensor).

Compass, pencil, calculator.

The spotter looks at a table in a book.

Commanders are consulting.

A gun is fired.

Soldiers are carrying boxes of ammunition on their shoulders.

A colonel at the firing range is talking about missile troops and artillery, a training center for junior specialists and commanders of guns of various classifications, stages of training and exams.

Soldiers are unloading ammunition; a stack of boxes.

Three self-propelled howitzers are standing in the trenches.

A soldier in a helmet is at a stand.

A soldier opens a box, shows a shell to the operator.

The commander of the 2S19 gun, Sergeant Fetlugin Evgeny Aleksandrovich, talks about the correct handling of ammunition, safety precautions, and checking before firing.

Soldiers are unpacking boxes of shells.

The turret and barrel of the 2S19 gun.

A front view of the self-propelled howitzer.

On command, the crew takes its places in the howitzer.

The lieutenant looks through binoculars, reports target landmarks.

The soldier takes a shell from the box, carries it to the howitzer, and inserts it into the conveyor opening.

The lieutenant waves a red flag, commands "Fire!" The howitzer fires.

Front view of the howitzer, soldiers climb inside.

Medium shot: soldiers take their places in the howitzer.

The howitzer turret rotates, the gun barrel rises and falls.

In the outpost museum, a lieutenant talks about Chinese poachers crossing the border to collect ginseng and fern roots and hunt rare animals, shows confiscated sticks, scales, traps, weapons, etc.

Natural landscapes.

A border patrol with a dog walks along the river bank.

An officer looks through binoculars.

A shepherd dog and a handler.

A view from below of a handler with a dog and an officer with binoculars.

The border guards squat or kneel, freeze under the trees, and head for the water one by one (shot from different angles).

The patrol walks along the bank, the dog searches for a trail.

The handler stops, gives a signal, the officer looks through binoculars.

The border guards squat with machine guns at the ready.

The shepherd dog walks through the water, swims, and climbs out onto the bank.

Member of the voluntary people's militia Chursin Viktor Aleksandrovich talks about helping border guards, the activities of Chinese poachers in Russia, the experience of identifying poachers, and encounters with wild animals in the forest.

A wagtail runs by the water.

A river, hills, smoke over the trees, a rocky bank, a current.

Chursin V.A. advises the border guards on a bypass route.

A two-story building on the outpost territory.

The border guards run out of the building, get into a UAZ car, and drive away.

The head of the outpost, Captain Bondarov Viktor Nikolaevich, talks about detaining violators, the number of those detained recently, and the experience gained in detaining criminals; all border guards serve at the outpost under contract.

Female cadets at the Academy Museum during a lecture on the history of rocket science in the USSR. Rocket samples.

The colonel-lecturer talks to the cadets, talks about rockets, about famous Soviet scientists.

View of the hall from above.

Rockets and rocket engines (parts).

Female cadets.

The group leaves after the lecture.

Classes on the parade ground, the cadets sort out their equipment.

A line of girls, machine guns and equipment lie on the ground.

On command, the cadets equip themselves, arm themselves, march in formation to the bus, and go inside.

After getting off the bus, the cadets line up in a column.

The column marches along the road to the rifle range singing a song.

The squad greets the lieutenant according to regulations.

The cadets are preparing to fire in combat positions.

A girl prepares a place for firing, answers a correspondent's questions about training and the young soldier's course.

The cadets approach the observation tower.

A soldier on the tower.

Deputy Head of the Faculty for Educational Work at the Strategic Missile Forces Academy, Colonel Vladimir Alekseevich Guryanov, talks about the resumption of recruitment of girls to the Academy, the admissions competition, service of female graduates in the missile forces, women's desire to study at the Academy, and assignment to military units after graduation.

Girls go to shooting range.

A soldier on the tower.

Cadets load machine gun magazines.

A Kalashnikov assault rifle on a tarpaulin.

A line of cadets, a briefing before shooting.

Girls take positions on the shooting range, load and unload their assault rifles on command, report readiness, and shoot in a prone position.

Cadets report the end of shooting, put their assault rifles on safety, remove magazines, and collect cartridges.

The girls stand up, put on their assault rifles, and run to another point on command.

An assault rifle, a mess tin, and a duffel bag near a brick wall.

A line of cadets.

Girls shoot in a prone position.

Ryazan Institute of Airborne Troops, exams, expulsion, tent camp.

Battle canvas on the wall of the auditorium.

Entrance written exam, applicants at their desks.

Battle canvas depicting a parachute landing on the wall of the auditorium.

Cadets at their desks.

A cadet takes an exam on parachute training (parachute structure, purpose of parts), answers the colonel's questions.

Parachutes laid out on the floor.

Equipment parts on the tables.

Cadets at their desks.

Information stands on the wall.

A cadet answers questions on the examination ticket.

Expelled applicants in formation, bags with things nearby.

The officer reads out the names of the expelled, informs about the procedure for leaving the training center and the rules of conduct.

The expelled guys walk in a column to the checkpoint.

The guys leave the gate in formation, walk along the road.

The senior lieutenant conducts instructions on how to get to the bus station.

The young men answer the reporter's questions on the go about the reasons for their expulsion and future plans.

The applicants return from picking berries.

The duty officer opens and closes the gates.

Morning jog.

On command, the applicants run to the tents.

The young men wash, brush their teeth, cut out glasses from plastic bottles, and leave the tents.

The applicants line up, the captain explains the task of picking wild berries.

A lieutenant colonel explains how to pack the BMP parachutes.

Soldiers pack the parachutes in the field.

A paratrooper officer shows how to connect the parachute lines in links, talks about landing the BMP, and about the universal seats for crew members in the cabin.

A soldier gets into the BMP and fastens his seat belt.

The soldier gets into the BMP, fastens himself in the universal seat.

The paratroopers talk about the sensations at the moment of landing of the BMP. The BMP is in the field.

The crew leaves the BMP, lines up next to the vehicle.

The crew walks across the field.

Two BMPs drive across the field.

The crew near the Volga vehicle notes the soft landing, drinks from mugs, has a snack.

Installation of the bust of Peter I on the territory of the main military hospital named after N.N. Burdenko.

Granite slab with the decree of Peter I on the construction of the hospital.

Decoration of the hall in the hospital administration: bronze bust of Peter I, flags of Russia and the Navy.

Sign at the entrance to the building "Main Military Clinical Hospital named after Academician N.N. Burdenko".

View of the hospital building.

Territory of the hospital, the temple.

Cross on the dome of the temple.

Truck with an arrow, packed bust in the back.

Workers lift the bust with the help of an arrow and carry it to the pedestal.

Installation of the bust on the pedestal.

Doctors in white coats.

Workers remove the foam packaging from the bust.

Gilded bust of Peter I.

Training kitchen.

Cadet-baker Gorelov Aleksandr Sergeevich talks about training cadets for the profession of third-category baker-chef and preliminary classes.

Cadets grease baking pans with oil using special brushes.

Gorelov A.S. talks about methods of making bread and working with a dough mixer.

Gorelov A.S. checks the consistency of the dough.

The dough is in the tank, the cadets check the consistency.

The faces of the cadets.

Gorelov A.S. talks about military service, studying at a cook school, the profession of a baker, working as a senior baker at a school.

Cadets at their desks, the theoretical part of the classes.

Lieutenant Mikheev Vladimir Vladimirovich in the bakery talks about the process of making bread, shows two units for sifting flour, an automatic dough divider, a proofing cabinet, a bakery oven.

A unit for sifting flour.

Plates with the names of the equipment and instructions.

The cadets transport a bin with dough to the bakery.

The dough dividing unit is lubricated with oil.

Under the supervision of Gorelov A.S., the cadets load the dough into the unit.

Control weighing of the first portion.

Working with the unit: the cadets load the dough into the bin, then into the bread baking pans.

The baking pans with dough are on the rack.

The chef-teacher conducts a lesson in the cutting shop, the topic is primary fish processing (cleaning, cutting for different dishes, preparing fillets).

Plates with pieces of fish.

Under the supervision of the teacher, the cadets clean the fish, cut off fins and tails, wash and cut the fish.

Senior cooking instructor Rezchikov Nikolai Grigorievich talks about his title of master chef, about working as a chef and a teacher.