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

On the parade ground, servicemen of the Abkhazian army practice commands for demonstration performances with a carbine, march.

Chevron "Abkhazia, armed forces".

Soldiers communicate during a moment of rest.

Formation of soldiers of the Abkhazian army.

Two T-62 tanks on the training ground, crews nearby.

Soldiers take shells from boxes.

Crews take places in the tanks.

The tanks start up, begin to move, drive along the road, overcome a water obstacle, stop.

The crew gets out of the tank.

The instructor gives instructions to the tankers.

Soldiers wipe the shells with a rag.

Formation of cadets.

The T-62 tank raises the barrel, the turret rotates.

Tankers transfer shells to the tank.

The tanks start up, begin to move.

Tanks fire at targets on the seashore, shells explode on the shore and in the water.

Bridge over the river.

The tank overcomes the water obstacle.

Tankers on the armor of the vehicle.

Rifle range, Russian peacekeepers in a trench, firing an AGS-30 grenade launcher from different positions.

A peacekeeper in a helmet with a blue stripe aims an assault rifle.

A soldier with a red flag in his raised hand.

A soldier turns the handle to change the firing angle of the grenade launcher.

The red flag flutters in the wind.

A soldier fires a grenade launcher.

The gunner looks through binoculars.

Grenade explosions at the range.

Snow-capped mountains and a red flag.

A soldier aims an assault rifle.

The barrel of a firing Kalashnikov assault rifle.

A peacekeeper fires a Tigr carbine with an optical sight.

Targets at the range.

A soldier fires bursts from a Kalashnikov machine gun.

The barrel of a firing machine gun.

A flagpole at the site of a destroyed house.

Two men walking across a vacant lot.

Masons building a wall next to the ruins.

Men among the ruins of a house.

A five-story building with broken windows.

Ruins at the site of the explosion.

Panorama of the place where the house stood.

Ruins and a garage.

A flag at the site of a destroyed house.

A mason at a construction site, with a flagpole nearby.

Fragments of concrete slabs on a vacant lot.

Panorama of a five-story building with broken windows.

People looking out of a new window at the street.

Panorama of new wooden window frames.

Broken windows of a five-story building.

An officer and a woman in black mourning clothes at the site of a blown-up house, with a flag on a flagpole nearby.

A large puddle in a vacant lot next to the place where the house stood.

Glazed and broken windows of a five-story building.

Panorama of a house with broken windows.

Flights of stairs and a landing in a destroyed house.

Cracking plaster and torn wallpaper in a destroyed apartment.

View of the Ferris wheel through a broken window.

A destroyed bathroom in an apartment.

Broken balcony doors and fragments of a destroyed wall.

Panorama of Buinaksk and blossoming tree branches.

A woman cries, holding on to a lattice fence.

Emergencies Ministry employees with a stretcher.

The site of a destroyed house and barrier tape.

People at the entrance to the house and a car covered in mud.

Emergencies Ministry employees in helmets.

Officers walk past the ruins of a house.

Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu at the site of the house collapse.

A worker saws through a metal structure.

A crane approaches the disaster site.

The windows of the house blown out by the explosion.

Rescuers at the ruins of the collapsed house.

Residents of the house look at the ruins.

Cars covered in mud.

Rescuers clear the rubble.

An excavator at the site of the collapse.

Chronicle: people at the site of the house collapse, 09/04/1999. Crying women.

A destroyed house.

Rescuers clear the rubble.

A crane lifts a concrete slab.

People clear the rubble.

The skeleton of a destroyed house.

A man in a destroyed apartment.

Natural landscapes (flowers, grasses, bushes), road, views of Mount Ararat.

Cadets stand up from their desks in a classroom.

A sergeant reports to a lieutenant that the platoon is ready for explosives training.

The cadets greet the lieutenant according to regulations.

The teacher announces the topic of the lesson at the blackboard: "Anti-personnel mine OZM-72".

A cadet holds a mock-up of a mine in his hand and talks about its structure.

A section of the mine body.

The faces of the cadets.

A general view of the classroom.

An educational animated film about the OZM-72 mine on a computer monitor.

A cadet describes the principle of installing a mine and shows the components for installing it on the ground, a detonator, a peg, and a tripwire (several takes).

The teacher points to the image of the mine's complete set on the monitor.

A cadet types on the keyboard.

The soldiers look at the mine's body.

Mine dummies and parts of the kit are on the table.

A cadet looks at a mock-up of a mine and makes notes in a notebook.

Private Ivanov Vsevolod talks about a training computer program, says that he was drafted from Karelia, got to the training center in December, talks about visual teaching in the classroom.

Cadets in headphones.

A hand makes notes in a notebook.

Soldiers at a desk take wires out of a mine casing.

The teacher talks about the "Dublon" sapper's protective suit for demining work, shows with a pointer the equipment of the suit (several takes).

The "Dublon" sapper suit from different angles.

Cadets at their desks.

Soldiers' faces.

General view of the classroom.

Cadets study the IMP-S mine detector model, connect the power supply, control panel and headphones.

The mine detector is on the table.

A soldier with a pointer at the IMP-S mine detector diagram.

The mine detector control unit is working, numbers on the display board.

Showcases with mine detector models.

Cadets prepare the mine detector for work.

At the stand, a junior sergeant shows soldiers models of remote mines and detonators (several takes).

A soldier installs a detonator in a mine and attaches a trip wire to the ring.

A junior sergeant shows how an anti-personnel mine is prepared for use.

Stands with diagrams of anti-tank mines.

Lieutenant Timur talks about choosing the specialty of a military sapper, his father, an officer, studying at the Academy of Engineering Troops, the level of teachers, receiving a gold medal, working as a teacher at a training center.

Cadets in a metalworking shop work on drilling machines.

A drill makes a hole in a board.

A soldier processes a part clamped in a vice with a file.

Cadets saw parts with hacksaws.

Pliers in the hands of a soldier.

A cadet works on an angle grinder.

Soldiers make parts.

Private Yuri Stanislavovich Kruchkovsky says that he was called up in December 2007 from Urengoy, talks about learning the profession of an excavator operator during his service and his desire to work as a builder after the army.

Mikhail Yuryevich Teplinsky talks about the qualities that a serviceman of the Airborne Forces should have, discusses the survivability of a paratrooper, which is achieved through intensive training. M.Yu.

Teplinsky openly talks about his love for his profession, why he serves, despite the hard and routine work.

Video: on the jacket there is a gold star of the Hero of Russia, orders, medals, badges, a colonel's shoulder strap.