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

A group of scouts is walking through the forest.

The commander is working with a map and a compass, dictating coordinates to the signalman.

Soldiers with machine guns are walking across the field, squatting, taking aim.

Barbed wire.

Soldiers are climbing over a barbed wire fence.

Scouts with machine guns are lying in the grass.

A soldier throws a grappling hook on a rope and pulls it toward himself.

The scouts are crawling in the grass, looking for mines, marking them with flags.

A cloud of smoke over the field.

A tripwire in the grass.

Two soldiers continue to look for mines.

Red smoke from a grenade rises above the clearing.

A metal flag with the letter "M".

Soldiers are lying in the grass.

Signal grenades, red smoke.

A signalman with a machine gun in his hands.

Soldiers are cutting the barbed wire, crawling under it.

The soldiers undress, pack their ammunition into bags, inflate various objects to make the bags buoyant (a rubber glove, a boot from the NBC protection kit).

The lookout takes up a post on the shore.

The soldiers enter the water, swim across the river, come out on the shore, and pull out the bags.

The soldiers line up and count off in numerical order.

The remaining soldiers leave the water and climb out onto the shore.

The soldiers on the shore turn on the radio and unfold the antenna.

The soldiers come out of the water and take out bags of ammunition and weapons.

A firing range on the seashore.

Self-propelled artillery mounts MAK A-222 fire at targets in the sea.

View of targets in the sea and columns of water from explosions.

Four guns of the MAK A-222 fire in turn.

Explosions in the water near the targets.

Shots from the rapid-fire gun of the armored personnel carrier.

A column of water from the explosion.

The combat crew stands near the artillery mount.

On command, the soldiers take their places in the cabins of the MAK A-222 and close the doors.

The gunner turns the guidance handle.

The commander negotiates with the crew by radio.

The soldiers load the gun.

MAK "Bereg" vehicles under a camouflage net.

Views of the Verkhniy Baksan outpost.

Elevator with a cargo platform.

View of the mountains, outpost and road.

Watchtower and brick fence.

Two-story building.

Tower with satellite dishes, watchtower nearby.

Panoramas of the outpost.

Russian flag on the flagpole.

Panoramas of the mountains.

Water tower near the outpost building.

Satellite dishes.

Border pillar and monument.

Watchtower against the backdrop of a mountain.

Colonel Boris Viktorovich Knyazev speaks about the tasks of the FSB Border Directorate of Russia for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, living conditions of border guards, and equipment of personnel with modern weapons. B.V. Knyazev congratulates servicemen on Border Guard Day.

The guide in the museum talks about the exhibits and the history of the school, shows a missile of the Soviet anti-tank complex 3M6 "Shmel", talks about the use of the missile in combat.

On the stand is a 3M6 "Shmel" missile.

Photos of officers who graduated from the school.

In the hall there is an 82-mm battalion mortar, a 120-mm regimental mortar, mine and shell casings on the stand.

Photos and portraits of military leaders.

Stands with photos "Russo-Japanese War", "Remember us, Russia".

On the gun carriage is a small cannon from the time of Peter I. An old wooden crossbow.

An old cannon on wheels and a naval cannon.

Cannons in the courtyard of the school.

The territory and buildings of the school.

The Church of the Nativity of Christ.

View of the church building and the checkpoint.

The main entrance.

A truck leaves the checkpoint gates.

Soldiers' winter hats lie on a bench.

Memorial plaques.

In the church, the priest talks to the cadets.

Cadet Domnu Rodion Mikhailovich talks about conversations with the priest.

In the training hall, the cadets inspect military equipment (MLRS "Grad", armored personnel carriers, etc.).

Under the supervision of an officer, the cadets load the MLRS "Grad" and the anti-tank complex "Konkurs" based on the BRDM-2. The cadets prepare the portable anti-tank missile system 9K111 "Fagot" for firing.

The teacher tells the cadets about the technical characteristics of the unguided rocket projectile 9M27K "Uragan".

A cross-section of the projectile.

The head of the department of design, engineering and operation of MLRS, Colonel Vitaly Grigorievich Onishchenko, talks about studying the design and operation of missile systems.

Female cadets at the shooting range.

Machine gun target practice.

Inna Panteleeva from Bashkiria talks about her decision to study at the Strategic Missile Forces Academy, passing exams, her attitude to military discipline, the academy's teachers, and her future prospects.

Rifle target practice.

Inna Panteleeva answers a correspondent's questions after the shooting.

Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Vladimirovich Golovachev, a teacher at the Department of Daily Troops Activity Management, talks about the classes that have been held, about meeting the standards, and reads out the grades. A.V. Golovachev talks about the class schedule and how the cadets are completing their assigned tasks.

Classes at the range, simulating combat operations.

At the end of the class, the colonel sums up the results.

According to the regulations, the cadets say goodbye to the colonel and leave in two lines.

Deputy platoon commander for girls, cadet Yury Alekseevich Nikiforov, talks about the girls' attitude to their studies.

Deputy commander of the first platoon of the second special forces group Maksim Marlik talks about joining the unit, sports training, and military service under contract.

Soldiers marching on the territory of the unit.

Banner "Shooting range".

A training ground for service dogs.

Practicing detaining an offender in conditions close to combat (staged filming with takes at various stages of training).

Warrant officer of the "Skif" unit, dog handler-instructor Aleksey Latynkin talks about the unit's canine service and the criteria for selecting dogs.

A conscript from Pyatigorsk Pavel Dudkin talks about joining the unit, school preparation for the army, higher education, and service in the special forces unit.

Squad commander Junior Sergeant Makhmudov Ramazan Isayevich talks about service in the special forces unit, helping new recruits, and the daily routine.

The sergeant demonstrates samples of special forces weapons: the special assault rifle "Val" 6P30, the submachine gun PP-93, the sniper rifle VSK-94, and lists the technical characteristics.

Explosions in the forest, smoke.

Officers at the command post.

View of the forest and columns of smoke from the explosions.

An officer listens to the radio, writes down the target coordinates.

The crew near the 2S4 Tyulpan mortar.

The barrel ramrod lies on the ground.

An artillery mine in a box.

Loading the mortar.

The Tyulpan fires.

Reloading the mortar.

An officer looks through the sight.

A Tyulpan mortar fires.

The crew prepares another shot.

The mechanism loads the mine into the barrel.

General view of the field and two Tyulpan mortars.

A flock of birds in the sky.

The mortar barrel rises up.

An operator at the computer console.

A monitor with numbers (system check).

The face of the computer operator.

Hands switching the toggle switches on the control panel.

Devices and modules with indicators.

The inscription on the monitor "enter date".

The operator enters data.

General view of the room.

An apparatus vehicle with a locator.

A weather observer checks the readiness of meteorological instruments and equipment.

Soldiers prepare the equipment.

The commander negotiates on the radio.

A tent for filling the shells with hydrogen.

A soldier pumps the probe with gas.

A probe filled with gas in a tent.

Hydrogen cylinders.

The meteorological platoon commander, Senior Warrant Officer Andrey Aleksandrovich Shmayev, talks about the machines, equipment, and conducting comprehensive atmospheric sounding for artillery.

A trailer with hydrogen cylinders and a tent for filling the shells.

An apparatus vehicle.

The meteorological platoon commander launches the probe.

The probe rises into the sky.

RIA Novosti, journalists are preparing for a press conference.

The host talks about events for the 125th anniversary of the founder of the ensemble, Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, and about the 80th anniversary of the ensemble.

The host introduces the guests: Leonid Ivanovich Malev, Evgeny Vladimirovich Alexandrov, Viktor Grigorievich Kadinov, Vadim Petrovich Ananyev, Boris Dyakov, Vyacheslav Alekseevich Korobko, Igor Ivanovich Raevsky. E.V. Alexandrov about the life and work of A.V. Alexandrov. V.A. Korobko about the upcoming concert on Red Square. V.G. Kadinov about the phenomenon of the ensemble. I.I. Raevsky about the ensemble's tour and the choir soloists. V.P. Ananyev sings the song "

On a Sunny Meadow". B. Dyakov sings a Neapolitan song. L.I. Malev answers a journalist's question about preparations for a concert for Victory Day in Odessa.

City Clinical Hospital No. 1 named after N.I. Pirogov, food block.

In the kitchen, cooks prepare food, wash dishes.

A priest conducts a ritual of blessing the food block.

A hole in the ceiling, wooden supports-floors.

Wires, sockets, other electrical equipment, holes in the ceiling, garbage.

The hospital administrator Valentina Grigoryevna Chernokhatskaya talks about the work of the food block, the Lenten menu for the clergy undergoing treatment, the lack of full funding, charitable assistance, the number of employees, the lack of necessary equipment and the need for repairs.

Cooks work in the kitchen. V.G. Chernokhatskaya shows the room with a collapsed ceiling.

Lakizo Vladimir Ivanovich talks about poaching activities of Chinese citizens in Russia.

Main topics of the interview: Chinese poachers crossing the border to collect ginseng roots, ferns, and hunt rare animals; cooperation with Chinese border guards in the fight against poachers; poaching with the use of pesticides; confiscation of bear paws from smugglers.

Lakizo V.I. talks about border guards serving under contract, social benefits for military personnel, and improving living conditions at border outposts.

Landline phones, a souvenir globe.

A plaque with a dedication in English.

On the museum stand there is a sign with a list of equipment of the border violator.

Items confiscated from Chinese poachers: nets, flashlight, knife, pesticide, electric fishing rod, mallet, cedar cone, axe, saw, etc.

Traps for large animals, fishing nets on the floor.

Poachers' tents, kitchen utensils, wicker snowmobiles.

Commandant of the border commandant's office Lieutenant Colonel Vyacheslav Tikhonovich Selyutin talks about Chinese poachers crossing the border to collect ginseng roots and hunt rare animals, shows confiscated nets, an electric fishing rod generator, a mallet for cedar, talks about the use of pesticides.

Border outpost.

Sergeant Andrey Nikolaevich Shapovalov talks about contract service and life in the border zone.

Patrolling the border with a dog.

The patrol follows the trail of an intruder.

Detaining an intruder.

Border guards and the defendant walk through the forest, with a dog nearby.

Practicing detaining an intruder in conditions close to combat (staged filming with takes at various stages of training).

Observation tower.

Mountain panoramas.

Junior sergeant, senior driver Sergey Nikolaevich Danilov talks about contract service and family life in the border zone.

Brothers Anton Evgenievich and Egor Evgenievich Aleshin from Ulyanovsk talk about contract service, salaries, and additional benefits.

Watchtower.

Barbed wire, bushes (change of focus).

Barbed wire fence.

Junior sergeant S. Danilov at home, with his wife Evdokia and son Alexander.

Danilova Evdokiya shows the apartment, living conditions.

A line of soldiers in front of the unit building.

Commanders give assignments to the crews.

Two puppies play in the grass.

View of the unit building and the border post.

Border guards go out onto the porch.

Danilova E. with her friend and son walk along the building.

Soldiers with weapons are walking on water.

A special forces soldier is lying on the ground.

Overcoming an obstacle course.

Shooting from a machine gun into a pipe hole.

Soldiers are moving in a trench, crawling under barbed wire.

A soldier with a machine gun is running along a trench, observers are standing on the parapet.

A soldier runs out of a model of a car body, does a somersault over his head.

View of the Nikitsky Monastery.

Sign "Spring of St.

Nikita".

Natural landscape (field, country roads).

View of the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in the village of Gorodishchi.

Panoramas: Nikitsky Monastery, field, lake.

Cross on Alexandrova Hill in memory of the monastery of Prince Alexander Nevsky.

Panorama of Lake Pleshcheyevo.

Transfocator panoramic view from the Nikitsky Monastery to the field and church.

Sign "Kleshchino Settlement".

Paved road.

View of the Nikitsky Monastery from the lake shore.

Views of the lake from different points.

Waves crashing against the shore.

Sign "Blue Stone".

Ribbons on the branches of a bush, tied by tourists.

Blue stone on the shore of the lake.

Panorama: bushes with ribbons, field, stone.

Circular panorama of a field with yellow flowers.

Pine forest.

Graduates of the school in dress uniform marching on the parade ground singing.

Relatives of the graduates watch the parade and take pictures.

A brass band is playing.

Cadets-paratroopers sing and march.

Girls with video cameras.

Paratroopers sing the school anthem and the Russian anthem.

Balloons with a banner "Ryazan - the capital of the Airborne Forces".

A colonel general on the tribune salutes.

A bandmaster.

Faces of singing cadets.

Cadets march on the parade ground.

Brass band musicians.

Graduating lieutenants communicate with relatives and accept congratulations.

Lieutenant Shcherbakov Nikolai Aleksandrovich talks about the upcoming service in the GRU special forces and hot spots.

Shcherbakov Aleksandr Nikolaevich, the father of a graduate, talks about his sons who are military personnel.

The mother of one of the cadets leafs through a photo album.

The director of the school museum talks about a graduate.

Lieutenant Andrey Kudryavtsev talks about being assigned to the 51st Airborne Regiment in Tula, where he dreamed of getting into.

A carnation in the hands of a graduate.

A graduate writes wishes for a cadet on a banknote.

Lieutenant Dmitry Vladimirovich Solovyov talks about the tradition of signing banknotes, assignment to the 76th Guards Airborne Assault Division in Pskov.

Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Nikolayevich Solovyov and his wife talk about their airborne past and their sons.

The lieutenant's fiancée says that she is an officer's daughter, is not afraid of difficulties and is ready to be the wife of a military man. D.V. Solovyov writes wishes for a cadet on a banknote.

Graduates communicate with relatives and accept congratulations.

The head of the communications department, Colonel Vladimir Pavlovich Bazhanov, holds his son Evgeny's diploma in his hands and says that their family is a hereditary military family.

Lieutenant Bazhanov Evgeny Vladimirovich about entering the school, assignment to the 76th Guards Airborne Assault Division of Pskov, and his father's service in Afghanistan.

The lieutenant's father talks about family traditions and defending the Motherland.

Lieutenant Bazhanov E.V. thanks his parents for their support.

A girl in a lieutenant's cap and uniform jacket, holding bouquets.

Three graduates are taking pictures.

The faces of lieutenants.

Relatives look through a book about the school.

A graduate writes wishes for a cadet on a banknote.

The lieutenant talks to a girl in a uniform jacket.

Parents look at a graduate's diploma.

The Shcherbakov family with a book and diploma.

Nikolay Shcherbakov talks about graduating from the school, his classmates, and his years of study.

Parachutists in the sky.

Parachutists land in the courtyard of the school.

A graduate writes wishes for a cadet on a banknote.

Lieutenant Viktor Kirichenko talks about the day he graduated from the military academy, his classmates, his years of study, his assignment to the 7th Guards Airborne Assault Division in Novorossiysk, and his desire to serve in hot spots.

Signalman with flags.

Transport and loading vehicle 9T218 drives into combat position.

Transferring missile to launcher using crane.

Crew covers missile with tarpaulin.

Major General Nikolai Alekseevich Frolov about tactical exercises of missilemen and artillerymen.

Practicing missile preparation for launch.

Launcher crew chief Aleksandr Meshkov gives commands to launch missile.

Missileman looks into optical device, reports missile guidance.

Commander gives command "Launch authorized", hand turns key on panel with "Launch" sign, presses button.

Two girls in a trench, one with a grenade launcher.

A cadet looks into the sight of an RPG-7V anti-tank rocket launcher.