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

A retired military man talks about the Zarnitsa game and competitions in military-applied sports.

Children in camouflage uniforms and black berets.

At the stadium, boys take part in a relay race: running with machine guns and boxes.

Judges in military uniforms record the results and give instructions.

A boy prepares to run with a machine gun, starts on command, and runs across the field.

Children cheer on the competition participants.

A young man waves a flag.

The boys finish.

View of the field and participants.

Boys running with boxes and machine guns.

View of the competition from the stadium stands.

Spectators in the stands.

The barrel of a machine gun.

Judges sign certificates.

Medals on the table.

An officer makes a speech.

Competition participants in formation.

The awards ceremony.

A paratrooper officer in front of a BTR-D talks about the technical characteristics of the 9M113 ATGM missile, shows the technical parts of the barrel, the wire, and the cover.

The barrel of the ATGM installation with the cover open.

The mechanism and parts of the ATGM cover.

On the command "To battle!" the airborne artillerymen prepare the guns for firing.

The commanders report their readiness.

The gunners practice aiming the guns at the target coordinates.

The firing range, the crews at the guns.

Practicing the standards of firing from a closed firing position (the soldiers load the guns with dummy shells, fire, report, and reload).

A cadet (Yuri Alekseevich) tells why he decided to become an artilleryman, about the airborne artillery landing, the artillery platoon exercises, and the distribution of cadets from the Tyumen Training Center to the airborne units.

The artilleryman turns the flywheel and turns the gun.

The camera looks into the gun barrel (several shots).

The gun's optical sight, the flywheel, the barrel rises and falls.

The gunner looks into the sight, adjusts the position of the gun.

Mechanical sight D726-45 with aiming angle scales.

Artilleryman talks about technical characteristics of the D-30 gun, shows sighting devices, turns the flywheel, raises the barrel.

Priest Petr Lysenko enters the gym, takes off his cassock and shoes, and walks barefoot onto the tatami.

The paratroopers line up.

Lysenko P. talks about the karate training plan, reads a prayer.

Warm-up (running around the gym, side steps, squatting jumps, various physical exercises).

Family photos of Lysenko P.

Radar station command post.

Duty force commander Lieutenant Colonel Terentyev reports by phone on target detection (two takes).

Lieutenant reports by radio on target detection, gives coordinates and parameters.

Major reports by radio on equipment control and serviceability. "NBR-100" badge.

Command post of the radar station.

Lieutenant Colonel Terentyev is talking on the phone.

Combat post #11, monitor, control panel, telephones.

Terentyev is talking on the phone.

Large monitor on the wall, duty officers at computers.

An officer is talking on the phone, on the radio.

Computers, monitors, control panels.

Two officers at the panels.

Combat post #13. Officers at the computers.

Information on the monitors.

Lieutenant Colonel Terentyev is talking on the radio about the start of training.

The officer is talking about the purpose and operation of the Volga radar, about the work and tasks of the combat crew of the station's command post (several takes).

General views of the command post.

An icon on the wall.

Soldiers at the panels.

In the technical room, an engineer talks about the purpose of the Volga stationary radar station, its uniqueness and construction.

The engineer studies the documentation, looks at the oscilloscope monitor.

A technician mounts a module in the instrument rack.

A hand switches knobs on the oscilloscope dashboard.

A technician and a junior lieutenant at the computer monitor.

A soldier writes in a journal.

Engineers examine a printed circuit board.

The junior lieutenant carries away a stack of boards.

The junior lieutenant at the rack with modules presses buttons on the panel.

The chief designer of the Volga radar station, against the background of the building, talks about the technical parameters, features of the facility, its modernization, strategic importance, safety for the population, water supply to the station, and service life.

Cooling towers.

The radar station building.

A sticker on the door: "Rocket and Space Defense, Tracking Center".

Horseback riding training, soldiers trotting and galloping.

Stable, horses in stalls.

Soldiers pet horses.

Soldier inspects horse hoof.

Soldiers lead horses out of stalls, lead to water trough; horses drink water.

Soldiers lead horses outside, hitch them, inspect.

Soldier answers questions about horse inspection, cleans hoof with hook.

Soldiers clean stalls and feeders, bring animals to stable, put bowls of oats in feeders.

Horses eat oats.

Officer talks about keeping and caring for horses in military units, about veterinarian’s work, horse patrolling and feeding standards.

Forge, red-hot rod on an anvil, hammer blows.

Blacksmith forges horseshoe; red-hot coals, finished horseshoes.

Blacksmiths at the anvil.

Blacksmith at the furnace.

Finishing a red-hot horseshoe.

Finished horseshoes.

Private Umar Sarbash talks about his father, the profession of a blacksmith, and different types of horseshoes.

Deputy Commander of the 121st Operational Designation Regiment, Major Oleg Pavlovich Nesterenko, talks about the name of the regiment "Mountain", training of fighters at a training outpost, multi-day field trips, joint exercises with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB Border Directorate for Kabardino-Balkaria, and the regiment's combat training to carry out missions.

Soldiers having breakfast in the canteen.

A canteen employee pours the remains of the dough from the cooking tank into a container, washes the tank and whisk.

The woman talks about the menu for military personnel, about cooks who do not serve in the army, about the calorie content of food.

A Swedish CV90 infantry fighting vehicle and an armored vehicle, the equipment maneuvers near the garages (morning footage, dark).

Swedish soldiers in white camouflage suits, with Ak-5 carbines.

The Swedish platoon commander reports to the officer about the formation.

The officer inspects the soldiers' equipment and weapons.

Swedish soldiers inside the landing vehicle.

The soldier closes the door.

The landing vehicles are driving along the road, headlights and lanterns are on.

Soldiers at the training ground near the armored vehicles.

Russian soldiers in white camouflage suits.

The colonel inspects the soldiers' equipment.

The female commander of the CV90 infantry fighting vehicle climbs onto the armor of the vehicle.

Soldiers fill magazines with cartridges.

Russian military prepare to shoot.

Targets.

On command, soldiers lie down on the tarpaulin, shooting from a prone position.

Winter landscape: snow-covered field, road, dawn.

Russian lieutenant colonel among soldiers.

Soldiers run to the targets.

Winter landscapes.

Soldiers return to the firing line.

The lieutenant colonel aims an Ak-5 carbine.

Soldiers prepare to shoot.

Shooting from a prone position.

Soldiers at a firing position, shooting from a prone position.

The soldiers run to the targets, inspect them, and discuss the results.

The colonel marks the hits with chalk and gives recommendations.

The commander of the first squad, Junior Sergeant Bashirov, talks about communication with Swedish soldiers, military equipment, Kalashnikov assault rifles and an Ak-5 carbine, and the results of the shooting.

Deputy Platoon Commander Sergeant Sokolov talks about communication with Swedish soldiers, the variety of food in the Swedish canteen, the international situation, and the daily routine.

Swedish soldiers run to the targets and return.

The soldiers walk along the road.

Platoon Commander Sofia Fagerström gives the command to open fire.

The soldiers shoot at the targets.

Swedish soldiers run to the targets, inspect them, and discuss the results.

The commander points out the shooters’ mistakes.

The soldiers leave the targets and return to their positions.

Soldiers reload, shoot, run to targets.

Targets on the beach.

Second lieutenant of the Swedish Armed Forces Sofia Fogerström talks about her decision to serve in the army and her desire to be a leader.