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

At the Synodal Patriarchal Residence in the St.

Daniel Monastery, Alexy II presented the Order of St.

Dmitry Donskoy to prominent military leaders of the Russian Army and veterans of the Great Patriotic War.

The award ceremony was attended by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov.

Kristina Shchegoleva assembles a Kalashnikov assault rifle and talks about classes at the club.

Kristina Pashchenko talks about classes at the club, self-defense lessons, and her desire to serve in the army.

Aleksandr Sokolov talks about classes at the club, working as a search engine, and his interest in the history of the Great Patriotic War.

Evgeny Kozub, head of the military-patriotic club "Volunteer" in the Biysk district, talks about leading the club and conducting classes with young people. E. Kozub conducts a self-defense lesson.

The guys run around the stadium in gas masks.

A young man with a mine detector during a practical lesson in the forest. E. Kozub instructs cadets on demining.

Senior assistant of the conscription department for preparing citizens for military service, reserve lieutenant colonel Sergey Nikolaevich Korenichenko, talks about the work of the military registration and enlistment office with the "Volunteer" club.

Gennady Evgenievich Ruzanov talks about the work of the center for patriotic education of youth, interaction with patriotic clubs of the Altai Territory, holding Spartakiads.

Panorama of the area, forest, village, river.

A row of BMD-4s on the territory of the unit.

The BMD-4 next to the hangar is lowered and raised using a hydropneumatic suspension, the turret with the gun rotates.

The BMD-4 maneuvers on the parade ground, raises the barrel.

View of the BMD-4 from different angles.

BMD-4 tracks.

The BMD-4 crew takes places in the vehicle.

A soldier installs an antenna.

A paratrooper in the BMD-4 turret.

The major shows the 8th parachute company's storage hangar for BMD-4 vehicles, talks about the technical characteristics of the room, ventilation, battery charging system, equipment for servicing vehicles and fire alarms.

The major talks about the technical characteristics and armament of the BMD-4.

The parade ground of the Khatsavita Mountain Training Center.

The ceremonial raising of the Russian flag.

The military brass band plays the Russian Anthem.

Valery Vladimirovich Lipinsky talks about the competitions of the detachments of the Interior Ministry troops on the territory of the Khatsavita Center, the exchange of experience, the level of training of servicemen and commanders, and names the numbers of the best platoons.

Three men in camouflage uniforms walk through the forest.

A young man says he has dropped out of the race.

Special forces soldiers run along a forest road.

Fighters in full gear with machine guns crawl on their bellies.

A view from a moving car of the running fighters.

Competitors run along the road.

Special forces running along the road.

Fighters crawling under barbed wire.

Soldiers running across the field, shooting from machine guns.

Burning car tires.

A soldier in a maroon beret talking about the cross-country stage and physical training.

Special forces soldier Dmitry talking about a forced march.

The participant says that he is trying to pass the standards for the 8th time.

The stage of review of skills for storming high-rise buildings using special rappelling equipment.

People at a five-story training building.

Fighters preparing to storm the building, running up the stairs, descending on ropes from the 5th floor, shooting from machine guns, throwing grenades.

Performing acrobatic exercises.

The jury records the results of the participants.

Performing 4 hand-to-hand combat complexes.

A fighter in a maroon beret with a machine gun.

A maroon beret with a badge.

Faces of spectators and special forces at the competition, cameramen with video cameras.

Participants prepare for training fights in boxing gloves.

Fighters fight in the ring.

The sergeant talks about the Ural 4320-19 vehicle on a combined track, capable of moving on regular roads and on railway tracks, its technical characteristics, the time it takes to install on the rails, and the movement of the vehicle during engineering reconnaissance.

The soldiers run down the corridor to the weapons room, take machine guns and magazines with cartridges from the pyramid for storing weapons.

The soldiers run out of the barracks.

In the barracks, the sergeant receives information about the alarm on the phone, orders the orderly to give the signal "rise".

The orderly salutes, shouts "Rise!

Alarm!" The "assembly" and "combat alert" board lights up, the bell rings.

A shooting range at a Russian military base in Armenia.

Junior Sergeant Yevgeny Yuryevich Kornev from the Samara Region talks about his service at the military base and his impressions of Armenia.

A platoon of soldiers marches in formation to practice shooting.

Junior Sergeant E.Yu.

Kornev and Private Gorbunov report to the Senior Lieutenant on the tasks they completed during a training battle.

The Senior Lieutenant commands to begin shooting, raises the red flag, and gives the command "Fire!" Firing a machine gun at targets.

The Russian flag is on the flagpole, and the soldiers are heading to the tents at the shooting range.

A junior sergeant in an army tent talks about the living conditions during the exercises, showing a stove, beds, a firewood box, racks for pots, a tank for drinking water, a rack for washing accessories, a household corner with threads and needles, and boxes of sand.

General view of a tent with beds; pots, washbasins, stove.

The squad leader, Junior Sergeant Nazaryan Genrik, says that he was called up from Tbilisi, has Russian citizenship, went to serve in the Russian army himself, wants to sign a contract and continue serving, talks about his correspondence with his father.

Military base training ground.

Tank commander Senior Sergeant Garik Slavikovich Galastyan talks about the equipment of the training motorized rifle group. G.S. Galastyan talks about Russian citizenship, the Armenian army, and service at the military base. G.S. Galastyan on the armor of a T-72B tank.

The crew inspects the tank.

A number of BMP-1s, an R-140M radio station based on a ZIL-131 vehicle, and T-72B tanks.

An aircraft technician opens the cockpit of a MiG-29 aircraft.

Technicians open parts of the skin of the aircraft's nose fuselage, remove the radar antenna fairing, and open the radar antenna casing.

A mechanic with a screwdriver near the radar antenna block.

A mechanic works in the aircraft cockpit.

The chief of technicians of the military unit, Major Valery Ivanovich Shikula, talks about the timing of work on restoring the sighting system of the MiG-29 aircraft, the supply of components, the professionalism of the personnel, the efficiency of aircraft repair work, and cites a case from practice.

A view of the MiG-29 aircraft being repaired.

Technicians close parts of the skin of the aircraft's nose fuselage.

Aircraft in a hangar.

Technicians work on the wing of the aircraft.

A view of the aircraft fuselage.