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

The pilot descends the stairs from the Yak-130 aircraft cabin.

The technician is on the wing of the aircraft.

Father Vladimir descends from the aircraft cabin, takes off his gear and helmet, and talks about his love of flying.

The Yak-130 aircraft lands.

The Yak-130 taxis, accelerates, and takes off.

The Yak-130 flies over the airfield.

The Yak-130 lands with a brake parachute.

The Yak-130 taxis from the parking lot, moves along the runway, and stops.

The technician climbs onto the wing of the aircraft, opens the cockpit.

The pilot descends the stairs from the aircraft cabin, signs the documents.

The pilot signs the flight log.

The aircraft technician inserts the fuel hose nozzle into the aircraft wing.

Technicians attach a dummy aerial bomb to the wing suspension.

The pilot tightens his harness, puts on his helmet, and climbs into the Yak-130 cockpit.

View from the cockpit of the airfield and the aircraft.

The aircraft technician closes the cockpit, descends the stairs, checks the operation of the turbines, disconnects the power cables from the aircraft body, and installs plugs.

The technician attaches the cables to the APA-5D truss, the airfield power source on the chassis of the Ural-4320 vehicle.

The aircraft technician walks around the aircraft, signals the pilot to taxi.

The Yak-130 aircraft moves along the runway.

A row of Yak-130s on the parking lot.

The pilot talks about his attitude to religion, membership in the CPSU, his Komsomol youth, wearing a cross, critical situations, visiting a church before flying to a hot spot, and prayers.

Archpriest Vladimir Mishchenko gives instructions to cadets of the flight school, says what Orthodox pilots should do before a flight, makes the sign of the cross over the plane, checks the air intake, blesses the fighters (two takes).

A drawing of a dog on the side of the plane.

The chevron "Air Force, Russia".

Near the plane, Archpriest Vladimir tells the cadets about his badge from the Cossack ataman Gromov for the spiritual education of youth, the duty of a military priest.

Cadets walk along the airfield.

A technician prepares the plane for towing on a rigid coupling, attaches the towbar to the aircraft chassis.

The mobile unit APA-5D Ural-4320 drives along the runway.

An aircraft technician attaches the towbar of the rigid coupling to a truck, removes the wheel chock of the aircraft wheel.

The driver in the cabin of the Ural-4320. The Ural-4320 tows a Yak-130 along a concrete runway.

Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Ivanovich talks about Archpriest Vladimir, about his studies at the flight school, and his work as a pilot.

Archpriest Vladimir Mishchenko gives instructions to cadets of the flight school, talks about the martyr John the Warrior and the temple.

The cadets march out of the school gates and go to the temple, pass through the gates, and go inside.

The archpriest takes crosses from the soldiers for the consecration ceremony.

The cadets light candles. V. Mishchenko reads a prayer, conducts the consecration ceremony, sprinkles holy water on the soldiers, returns the crosses, and blesses them.

The cadets kiss the icon and the cross. V. Mishchenko gives instructions to the cadets.

Foreign Orthodox cadets talk about visiting the temple.

A soldier puts on a cross.

The cadets work out on exercise machines, do pull-ups, flip over on the horizontal bar, spin on the gymnastic wheel, the lopping swing, and exercise on the parallel bars.

The cadets put on their uniforms after classes.

Service dogs in enclosures.

Gates with the inscription "Mine-detection dog town".

Working with a German shepherd on a training ground: the dog jumps over barriers, runs along a boom, up stairs, the handler runs alongside.

Private Alexey Stepanov talks about a dog named Alma and joint training.

Lieutenant Colonel of the training center Viktor Petrovich Doroshenko talks about a training point for practicing demining improvised explosive devices on the railway, shows dummies of the devices.

Wheel pairs move along the rails, the dummies explode. V.P. Doroshenko talks about the use of a sapper probe and types of mine traps.

Soldiers with machine guns walk along the training ground.

Soldiers prepare a trap, install a mine.

Soldiers with mine detectors at the training ground.

The face of a soldier in a helmet.

A soldier finds a mine, unwinds the wire, connects the wires to the dynamo, turns the handle, and the dummy mine explodes.

Deputy Commander of the Engineering and Road Company of the Directorate Platoon, Junior Sergeant Evgeny Butsykin, talks about his military service, training, living conditions, the brigade's combat path, and the specialties he received as a sapper and electrician.

Soldiers work with chainsaws.

Soldiers water a pile of scrap metal with fire hoses.

Soldiers stand next to the ASM 48-03 emergency rescue vehicle, sorting out the tools.

An amphibious transport vehicle based on a T-80 tank moves through the snow.

Rescue tools and devices are on the tables.

Commander of the special works company, Senior Lieutenant Aleksey Olegovich Savin, talks about the ASM 48-03 vehicle for eliminating the consequences of emergency situations, talks about the types of tools and equipment, the vehicle crew, the speed of deployment, and the types of tasks performed.

Deputy Brigade Commander Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Yuryevich Shakhov talks about the technical features of the ASM 48-03 vehicle based on KAMAZ, equipment and tools.

The IMR-2 engineering vehicle lifts a concrete block at the training ground.

The ZIL-133 fire engine.

The MDK-3 earthmoving machine.

The commander of the 317th Guards Separate Engineering Brigade Colonel Valery Grigoryevich Kiper talks about the unit's actions during the elimination of emergency situations, the glorious historical path, the life and everyday life of the personnel, and congratulates them on their professional holiday - "Engineering Troops Day".

Two GAZ-3937 Vodnik army vehicles moving along the road and rough terrain.

Soldiers with machine guns in the field, practicing detaining saboteurs.

The colonel talks about the training of fighters of the division's counter-sabotage units, joint exercises with the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The deputy division commander for work with personnel talks about the desire of young officers to serve in the missile forces, the role of educational work in the army and in solving social problems.

Maneuvers of units of the complex during command and staff exercises.

A column of combat duty support vehicles on the MAZ-543 chassis on the road.

The wheels of the car.

The driver in the cabin.

A helicopter in the sky.

Two crew members of the complex march away from the hangar, signaling with white flags.

The RT-2PM Topol missile system leaves the hangar.

The driver in the cabin.

The major general talks about the Topol complex, the level of training of the missile troops, the fighters of the anti-sabotage formations, the social conditions of life of the missilemen.

The Topol missile complex near the hangar.

The Topol missile complex moves along the road.

A signalman in a trench dictates target coordinates over the radio.

A sheet with the title "Zeroing in." Tables, "Artillery Officer's Handbook," "Combat Operations Manual." A cadet in a trench aims an AGS-30 automatic grenade launcher at a target using coordinates and fires.

View of the firing range and a soldier firing.

A signalman in a trench dictates target coordinates and projectile type over the radio.

The cadet makes calculations using fire control devices and transmits target coordinates.

The soldier fires a grenade launcher.

In the classroom, cadets study the operation of the 1RL232 Leopard ground artillery reconnaissance station.

A cadet at the control panel of the simulator.

Briefing cadets before a lesson on the simulator.

A soldier in a helmet climbs into the radar turret.

The locator lowers and rises.

The cadet reports from the turret.

A soldier at the control panel.

Working with autonomous navigation and topographic referencing equipment.

A cadet in the simulator cabin looks at the instruments, switches the toggle switches.

Classroom training, the instructor talks about the Leopard radar.

The instructor talks about the PAB-2M periscopic artillery compass and its characteristics.

The battery commander's goniometer circle on a tripod.

The instructor talks about the instruments of space navigation systems.

Cadets prepare a navigation satellite device for operation.

Students in the driving simulator of the Leopard ground artillery reconnaissance station.

A cadet works on the simulator.

Image of a vehicle on the monitor.

The instructor enters commands into the computer.

Cadets at the monitors, looking through the eyepieces.

Various objects on the monitors.

The guide at the museum talks about the graduates and teachers of the Kolomna Higher Artillery Command School, shows photographs and exhibits.

Warden Alexander talks about the church in Butyrka prison, donations and parishioners.

Religious literature on the shelves.

The decoration of the church, icons.

The building of the church.

The memorial plaque "To the prisoners of repression".

The floors and stairs of Butyrka prison.

The bars and doors of the prison cells.

The passage along the corridor along the doors of the cells.

A fragment of the concert "Russian Marines 302 Years" with the participation of the group "Black Berets", Igor Kornelyuk, Mikhail Zvezdinsky.

In the hall are servicemen and veterans.

The presentation of the "Orthodox Encyclopedia" was held in the club of the Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Federation.

Opening speeches: General Efremov Ivan Ivanovich, Alexy II, Filaret.

Efremov I. I. presents Alexy II with the books "Strategy of the Army's Spirit", "The Army and the Church in Russian History" by O. V. Zolotarev.

Alexy II thanks the Academy for the gift and cooperation with the church.

Alexy II leaves the stage and goes into the hall.

Performance of the choir of the Moscow Sretensky Monastery.

Alexy II and Efremov I. I. communicate in the hall.

Faces of officers, priests.

Alexy II listens to the choir, applauds.

The soloist and choir on the stage perform "I See Wonderful Freedom".

The interior of the House Church of St.

Michael the Archangel at the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

Frescoes, icons, bells, iconostasis, royal doors.

The inscription "Honor and glory to the heroes of the Kulikovo field", images of churches on the walls.

An image of the "Gold Star" medal of the Russian Federation.

Priests in the church.

Archpriest Mikhail Vasiliev walks along the corridor.

A service, Bishop Alexander Dmitrovsky performs a prayer service.

The choir of the Moscow Sretensky Monastery sings.

Alexy II delivers a speech, hands over an icon of the Great Martyr Barbara to the church.

The bell ringer plays the bells.

Alexy II examines the exhibition dedicated to the projects of the Church and Scientific Center "Orthodox Encyclopedia".

Alexy II and his entourage enter the assembly hall and go up to the stage.

Alexy II and the officers applaud in the hall.

The officers in the hall look at a book.

A stand with volumes of the "Orthodox Encyclopedia".