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

Exhibition of airborne military equipment and weapons at the training ground.

Information stand with an image of the BMD-4. Soldiers prepare the BMD-4 for the exhibition.

Self-propelled anti-tank gun 2S25 "Sprut-SD".

Officers at the information boards with images of self-propelled vehicles.

Kolmakov Alexander Petrovich on the armor of the armored personnel carrier communicates with the crew.

Officers and soldiers near the armored vehicles.

BMD-2 vehicle.

BMD-2 airborne combat vehicle with a set of parachutes.

BTR-D with a 30-mm automatic grenade launcher AGS-30. Anti-tank missile system "Kornet-E" based on the BTR-D. BTR-D with a 12.7-mm machine gun "Kord".

BTR-D with a twin anti-aircraft mount ZU-23-2. 12.7-mm large-caliber machine gun "Kord". 30-mm automatic grenade launcher AGS-30. Launcher 9P163 "Kornet".

Tables with samples of small arms. 9-mm pistol "Yarygina" PYa.

Kalashnikov assault rifle with under-barrel grenade launcher GP-34. Kolmakov A.P. and officers inspect equipment and weapons.

Kolmakov A.P. greets paratroopers, talks to officers on the platform in front of the tribune.

Cadets from India in paratrooper gear.

A cadet from the Ryazan Airborne Forces School talks to an Indian military man.

Deputy Regiment Commander, Chief of the Airborne Service, Airborne Forces Lieutenant Colonel Grigory Aleksandrovich Kuznetsov checks the equipment of the Indian military and talks about the training of paratroopers.

Russian and Indian paratroopers.

Cadet Roman Nesterenko recounts the essence of a conversation with an Indian military man about service in the armies of Russia and India.

Nesterenko R. helps the Indians land on the ground.

Indian paratroopers sit on the ground and rest.

The Indian paratrooper highly appreciates the work of the Russian military, talks about the harsh weather in Russia, readiness for a parachute jump, the differences in training of paratroopers from different countries, admires Russian simulators for training paratroopers, an obstacle course, and an An-2 aircraft.

The cadet instructs the Indian paratroopers and checks the parachutes.

A lieutenant colonel of the medical service talks about the composition of the complex.

An officer in the operating room talks about the technical characteristics, equipping the complex with medical equipment and technical tests.

An officer in the intensive care unit talks about the development of a prototype of the complex at a research institute based in the Moscow Military District.

IV drip.

Lung ventilation device.

A video camera on a stand near a metal fence.

An electrical panel on the wall.

A patrolman with a machine gun.

View of the building windows, an electrical panel, and a video camera.

A patrolman walks along a metal mesh fence.

Views of the territory behind the fence.

A patrolman walks along the fence, a sentry on a tower.

A camera on a pole.

Views of the facility from above.

A sentry looks at the territory from the tower window.

A patrol crew enters the facility.

Report, change of sentries.

Sentry Dmitry Davydov talks about service in the guard tower, the technical equipment of the premises, and his duties.

Guard tower with floodlights.

Metal fence.

Checkpoint, turnstile, document check.

A soldier takes a photo of a man to obtain a pass.

A stand with official documentation.

Inspection of bags at the checkpoint.

Fence with barbed wire, designation of a restricted area, a patrolman.

View of the territory of the educational campus and sentry crews.

A video camera behind the fence bars.

The sentries pass the standards for putting on the body armor.

The soldier runs to the duty phone, reports the violation.

Fulfillment of the standard for extinguishing fires.

The commander of the training company of the VGO, Captain Nikitsky Mikhail Aleksandrovich, talks about fulfilling the standards, the training program for sentries, guards, assistants to the chiefs of the guard, about the training equipment, the contingent of cadets.

Deputy platoon commander Sergeant Mozhayko Dmitry Vladimirovich talks about the training process for recruits, personal communication with servicemen, contract service.

Cadet Konkin Yuri Vasilyevich talks about training at the center of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, about his higher education, the rhythm of military life, fulfillment of standards.

The Pear UAV in the sky.

Camera operators at a snowy training ground.

A soldier in a white camouflage suit carries a drone in his hand.

An assistant closes a panel on the aircraft body, and the drone operator is next to a laptop.

The assistant launches the drone into the sky.

The colonel talks about the technical characteristics of the Pear UAV, shows the locations of the video cameras and antennas on the wing.

The drone operator looks at the computer monitor.

Russian and Airborne Forces flags flutter in the wind.

Officers in the command post look at maps of the area, take notes, and negotiate on the radio.

The interior of a military field Orthodox church.

Iconostasis, burning candles in cartridge cases.

Father Mikhail and the military in the church.

Priests and soldiers at a rifle range near a 2B14-1 Podnos mortar.

A mine in the snow.

The colonel explains to the priests how to handle the mortar.

The crew aims the mortar at the target.

Father Mikhail lowers the mine into the mortar barrel, crouches; a shot.

Father Mikhail looks at the range.

The colonel hands out mines to the priests, talks about methodical fire with intervals between shots.

The priests, correspondent Andrei Kirisenko and his assistant take turns loading the mortar and firing.

Mine explosions at the range.

A priest in the BTR-80 cabin fires a machine gun.

View from the armor of the BTR-80 turret and the firing barrel of the machine gun.

A soldier in the BTR-80 cabin loads a machine gun.

Father Mikhail on the armor of the BTR-80. Firing machine gun.

View of the training ground and targets.

Father Mikhail prepares for a sermon.

Paratroopers in white camouflage suits near tents at the training ground.

A priest conducts a prayer service.

The priest walks along the line of soldiers, sprinkles them with holy water, blesses them.

In the field barracks, the priest gives an introductory speech and introduces the singer Mikhail to the soldiers.

The singer performs Russian folk songs and romances.

Kosovo, Pristina, panoramas of residential buildings, national library.

The girl talks about the terrorist attack at the Vuk Karadzic monument near the university, about the injured students, about the explosion of the university rector's car.

At the entrance to the university, the girl talks about the consequences of the bomb explosion.

Scout platoons descend from a hill on ropes.

Soldiers and officers communicate with the jury.

Scouts climb up the mountain with ice axes.

Soldiers lie on the ground.

Sergey Chubko talks about practicing elements of mountain training.

The chief judge of the competition, Colonel Vladimir Ivanovich, talks about the peculiarities of competitions in mountainous terrain, difficult climatic conditions, and lists the names of the participating regiments.

Medals, pennants, prize cups with commemorative engravings.

View of the ranks of paratroopers and the tribune with the Russian flag.

The colonel makes a speech.

The awards ceremony and the presentation of commemorative gifts; a military orchestra plays; the Airborne Forces flag flutters in the wind.

A medal on a paratrooper's chest.

A priest.

A line of soldiers with medals.

A cup with the inscription "For the Will to Win" in the hands of a soldier.

The colonel presents cups and certificates to privates.

Lowering the Airborne Forces and Russian Federation flags to the Russian anthem.

The officers on the platform salute.

The scouts march on the parade ground, the orchestra plays.

Photos from the war years.

WWII veteran, former Belarusian partisan Maksim Naumovich talks about the method of blowing up railway tracks during the war.

The veteran talks about the partisans' fight against the Nazi occupiers, the rail war, Belarusian swamps, and the meeting of the partisans of the Smolensk Special Purpose Regiment with the Red Army.

Archpriest Mikhail talks to the airborne troops.

Father Peter conducts a demonstration karate training on stage.

The paratroopers go to the church under construction.

View of the church under construction.

The soldiers cross themselves and enter the church.

The priest reads a sermon, prays with the soldiers.

The choir sings, the soldiers hold candles and cross themselves.

A bowl of holy water, candles and a cross.

Military history festival, reconstruction of the Battle of Borodino.

People get off the bus, walk along the road.

A drummer in a uniform from the Patriotic War of 1812. A soldier beats the drum.

On the counter are models of battles with mini-figures of soldiers, the seller talks to customers.

A boy holds a soldier in his hands.

Tourists sit on benches, walk around the site.

A boy in a trench.

The main monument to the heroes of Borodino.

Tourists talk to reenactors in the uniform of the Patriotic War of 1812. Inscriptions on the monument, soldiers, changing of the guard.

A slab on the grave of General Bagration.

The black-yellow-white flag of the Russian Empire.

Sentries at the monument.

Tourists on the field and at Bagration's grave.

French officers laying flowers at the monument.

French Lieutenant Colonel Denis Morel talks to tourists and answers a correspondent's questions about the Battle of Borodino.

Children run along the grassy ramparts.

The orchestra of the military-historical club "Musketeer" plays, directed by Nikolai Anatolyevich Trukhin.

Denis Morel and Nikolai Trukhin shake hands.

The orchestra marches, the drums beat.

Cannons of 1812. The main monument to the heroes of Borodino.

People walk along the road past the sign to the Koloch River.

A crowd of spectators on the field.

Soldiers of the Russian army, the regimental banner flutters.

Dragoons and lancers.

Regiments are lined up on the field, a march is playing.

Lancers in officer's uniform, cuirassiers in white uniforms, hussars, lancers, and Cossacks ride by on horses.

A man dressed as M.I. Kutuzov on a horse.

Denis Morel and French officers on the spectator stand.

Artillerymen loading a cannon on wheels.

Wooden models of houses.

Kyrgyz soldiers walking across a field.

The cavalry unit of the Presidential Regiment.

Cotillion (group horse riding).

Riders salute the spectators with sabres.

Demonstration performance of the modern OMON. Spectators in the stands.

Border outpost.

Soldiers go to the training ground.

Targets.

Border guards take up positions, shoot at targets with machine guns.

Machine gunner fires in bursts.

Commander looks through binoculars.

Soldiers lie on the ground, smoke screen.

Shooting with machine guns, throwing training grenades.

Commander sums up the shooting.

Soldiers leave the training ground in formation.

Training ground for service dogs.

Border guard with a German shepherd on a leash.

Practicing detaining an offender.

The outpost commander talks about the service, the Ushtulu gorge where the border department is located, the proximity of the borders with Georgia and Ossetia, the ethnic composition of the department, Warrant Officer Arsen Mameyev, the border guards' daily routine and living conditions.

A ZIL truck drives through the village.

Warrant Officer Arsen Mameyev returns home.

Women cook in the kitchen.

Arsen talks about his family and service at the outpost.

Border guards at the outpost play volleyball.

Watchtower.

Divisional self-propelled howitzer DSG 2S3 "Akatsiya", firing training at the firing range.

Cadet of the 7th training artillery battery Alexander Stepanov talks about assignment to artillery troops, daily routine in the training unit, training cadets, and performing fire missions.

View of the firing range.

The commander of the firing platoon talks about the firing procedure of the howitzer crew.

Soldiers in the howitzer turret prepare to fire.

Cadet in headphones in front of computer monitors, image of the 2S3 self-propelled howitzer on the screen.

Training center, training in the self-propelled howitzer simulator.

Cadet in headphones with a headset in front of monitors.

Interior Ministry fighters get into an armored personnel carrier.

Two armored personnel carriers on a hill.

Explosions at a training ground.

Yuri Iosifovich Tomchak talks about the creation of a special motorized police unit in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic and its work.

Interior Ministry fighters in the reading room.

Servicemen watch a film in the cinema.

The projectionist changes the disc in the video player.

During morning exercises, the fighters do various exercises (parallel bars, press, pull-ups).

The commander of the second section of the security platoon, Sergeant Aleksandr Yuryevich Butenko, talks about fulfilling the standards for sports training.

The fighters do pull-ups on the horizontal bar, push-ups on the parallel bars, and run on a balance beam.

Training of soldiers on the sports ground (log, ladders).

A soldier tells his comrades that he has received letters.

A police car in a hangar.

Mechanics are repairing it, connecting sensors for diagnostics to the devices.

A computer monitor.

A serviceman is looking at the monitor.

A mechanic is inspecting the bottom of the car.

A soldier is going down into the inspection pit in the garage.

Private Aleksey Aleksandrovich Noskov is talking about a computer complex for diagnosing a car engine, demonstrating and commenting on the process of checking the GAZ-3307 engine.

The driver is starting the engine in the cabin. A. A. Noskov is commenting on the graph on the monitor.

A running engine and a hand with a measuring device. A. A. Noskov is printing out the readings from the devices and giving them to the driver.

The head of the canteen, a senior warrant officer, talks about the caloric content of food for soldiers.

Private Narayan Rafael Artemovich in the barracks talks about living conditions, shows the contents of the nightstand, talks about serving in the army and studying at the institute.

Uniforms and shoes in the closet.

The door to the dryer.

In the barracks, a sergeant reports to the senior lieutenant.

The orderly is on duty.

On the parade ground, the MVD soldiers greet the general according to regulations.

The Russian anthem plays, the soldiers stand at attention.

Flags are raised on flagpoles.

The MVD soldiers march in columns across the parade ground.

Boarding trucks and buses.

Soldiers in the back of a vehicle.

The soldiers get into an armored personnel carrier.

The column leaves the gate.

MVD vehicles and armored personnel carriers drive along the road.

A rifle range, the commander conducts a briefing before shooting.

Target practice with machine guns.

An instructor conducts a lesson with women on assembling a Kalashnikov assault rifle.

Soldiers at a shooting range.

Briefing of a female detachment.

Ammunition point.

Briefing on the procedure for inspecting weapons.

Soldiers receive ammunition, load machine gun magazines with cartridges.

A commander with a red flag.

An observation tower.

An instructor talks about safety measures during shooting.

Soldiers leave for the line.

On command, soldiers run up to their commanders, lie down, and fire their assault rifles.

The target falls.