"SERVING THE FATHERLAND" SOURCE MATERIALS (2000-2009)

A girl pours porridge from a bucket into a feeding trough.

A soldier leads a horse along the corridor.

A girl carries buckets.

A Kharkov-9 gelding is in a stall.

A soldier walks along the corridor, removes a wheelbarrow, takes the horse out of the stall, and puts it on the tie-up.

Cleaning the stall.

After cleaning, the soldier brings clean sawdust into the stall.

The soldier leads the horse into the stall, removes the halter, and leaves.

The horses are eating porridge.

The girls bandage the horses' legs, and soldiers are walking along the corridor.

The horses are eating (feeders, porridge, and close-ups of the horses' faces).

A horse is standing on the tie-up.

Horses in stalls (close-ups).

The girl unties the horse, removes the halter, and the horse enters the stall on its own.

The girl collects empty buckets and equipment.

Stallion Essen Khan-98 (sign on the wall, the horse is eating porridge).

People are walking along the corridor, a soldier is leading a horse.

A man is cleaning a horse.

A saddled horse is at the tie-down.

The man leads the horse away, a girl takes his place.

The girl removes bandages from the horse.

A soldier is leading the horse along the passage.

Soldiers are walking through the stable.

A washroom, a soldier is bathing a horse.

A soldier is carrying a sack on his shoulder.

Oats are poured into the bath.

The head of the veterinary service of the CSKA equestrian squadron, Anatoly Aleksandrovich Fadeichev, is talking about the rules for feeding horses, the orderly is stirring the porridge. A. A. Fadeichev is talking about veterinary work.

A soldier is taking a horse outside. A. A. Fadeichev examines the horse's leg, talks about the cause of lameness and treatment.

A blacksmith (farrier) straightens a red-hot horseshoe and cauterizes the hoof after cleaning.

Kittens.

A blacksmith shoes a horse, processes the hooves with a rasp, adjusts the horseshoes to size.

Horseshoes are on the table.

A blacksmith bends a horse's nail on a hoof.

Kittens play under a camera tripod.

Junior Sergeant Arsen Mameyev talks about his service at the outpost.

Arsen shows the correspondent the subsidiary farm.

Arsen's family is having dinner.

Arsen talks about his relationships with fellow villagers, the outpost team, and his family.

The outpost territory.

Border post.

One-story houses.

Border guards in the yard.

The squad is on parade, reporting, expressing gratitude, distributing service and combat duties.

Arsen Mameyev raises the Russian flag.

Border guard instructor Aslan Endriev talks about his family and service at the outpost.

Deputy squad leader Ponomarenko works with documents and talks on the phone.

At the command "Squad, to arms!" the border guards arm themselves, run out of the building, and get into the car.

The handler and dog jump into the back of the car, and the car drives away.

Chef Sergei Kulik prepares food, talks about his studies at the military school for cooks, about working at the outpost, about different national dishes, and about his family.

Raising the Russian flag.

River, bank, coastal thickets (shot on the water).

Soldiers floating on a rubber raft (view through foliage).

Coastal landscapes, fog.

Frog in the water.

Soldiers swim across the river (ammunition and weapons are packed), go ashore, post lookouts.

Paratroopers hide in the thickets; talk on the radio.

Inspection and counting of weapons.

Soldiers walk through the forest, carrying weapons and bags of ammunition in their hands.

Soldiers swim across a river (ammunition and weapons are packed), go ashore, take up positions in the forest.

The signalman takes out a field radio.

The soldiers get dressed.

Negotiations on the radio.

Natural landscapes (filming on the water).

The soldiers undress, pack ammunition in waterproof bags, approach the water.

Paratroopers with machine guns ford the river.

At a signal from the opposite bank, the soldiers cross or swim across the river.

A frog on a log in the water.

The soldiers undress, pack their things; the group has a service dog.

Senior scout Zakharov Denis Vladimirovich talks about a dog named Schneider.

The paratroopers swim across the river with the dog.

The team leader, Junior Lieutenant Nikolai Nikolaevich, talks about preparation for the competition and the combat experience that soldiers and commanders gain.

The chief judge, Senior Lieutenant Vladimir Ivanovich, talks about the specifics of competitions in mountainous and wooded terrain, increasing experience and comprehensive training of fighters.

Soldiers throw grenades.

Views of a snow-covered training ground.

A signal flare in the sky.

A lieutenant makes calculations using a fire control device.

The captain records readings from the DMK-01 weather instrument.

The captain adjusts the gun sight, looks down the barrel, and gives instructions to the gunner.

The officer takes readings from the weather instrument.

There is an anemometer (vane-type wind sensor) on the pole.

Front view of the 125-mm 2A45M Sprut-B anti-tank gun.

Soldiers align and secure the sight.

Senior officer of the missile troops department of the Airborne Forces headquarters, Lieutenant Colonel Mestoivanchenko Konstantin Evgenievich, member of the competition commission.

Captain Zhukov passes a standard for preparing the fire control device for operation; comments by Mestoivanchenko K.E. Two 2S9 Nona-S self-propelled artillery and mortar mounts, a driver-mechanic climbs out of the hatch; it is snowing.

The self-propelled gun is firing.

The crew gets into the vehicle and closes the hatches.

The turret of the self-propelled gun.

The Nona-S fires.

The correspondent walks knee-deep in snow, talking about self-propelled artillery units.

On command, the crews take their places in the vehicles.

The officers calculate the coordinates of the targets using fire control devices.

The Nona-S fires.

Officers at the observation post.

Colonel Alexander Vasilyevich scolds the senior lieutenant for a mistake, explains the consequences.

Alexander Vasilyevich talks about traditional competitions, training of military personnel, and the specifics of airborne artillery.

An appeal to young people to serve in the artillery.

The lieutenant calculates the coordinates of the target, the radio operator transmits the data to the gun commanders; shell explosions.

Discussion of calculation errors and firing results.

The turret of the self-propelled gun, the operation of the observation devices.

Observation post, officers discuss the progress of the exercise, look through binoculars.

Soldiers make calculations using fire control devices, transmit coordinates by radio.

Sheet with firing diagram.

Officer looking through binoculars.

View of the firing range.

A private reports no incidents.

A colonel enters the barn.

The colonel walks down the aisle, examining the pigs.

Sick piglets are in separate sections.

The colonel holds a piglet in his arms, talks about the subsidiary farm and the position of a farm officer.

Piglets are sleeping in sawdust.

A sow.

The colonel walks down the aisle, strokes the piglets, talks about the animals.

Grown piglets in a pen.

General view of the pigsty, the colonel walks down the aisle.

Chicken coop, a private comes out of the enclosure.

Feeding the birds, hens at the feeders.

The colonel talks about the poultry farm.

The colonel walks down the enclosure.

Pigs.

Soldiers feed the animals.

Pigs in stalls.

Sows with piglets.

Boar Vasya.

A private enters a sow's pen, picks up a piglet, and talks about the specifics of working with animals and about service in a subsidiary farm.

The soldier moves the piglets to a separate pen.

The piglets are in a pen with lamp heating.