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

Recruits line up in the barracks.

Soldiers in the classroom write letters home.

Privates Nikolai Romanov and Zhamil Ganiev talk about their first weeks of service in the army.

Recruits are taught to hem their collars.

Recruits Ivan Timokhov and Mikhail Kazyakin say that there are no difficulties.

The duty officer speaks on the phone, the command "Duty officer of the group, out." The junior sergeant picks up the phone and listens.

Private Evgeny Andreevich Alekseyev shares his impressions of his first duty assignment.

In the barracks, the junior sergeant reports to the senior lieutenant about the lineup.

Soldiers line up in the canteen.

On command, the recruits line up, receive food from the distribution point, and have lunch.

The head of the canteen, Senior Lieutenant Denis Valerievich Zhukov, talks about the menu, diet, and calorie content.

Soldiers at the tables.

In the kitchen, cook Private Daniil Valerievich Gandyrin talks about the dinner for recruits and the variety of the weekly menu.

The soldiers hand in the dishes to the sink, line up in the dining hall.

The duty officer washes the table.

The soldiers stand at attention, turn left, and leave the dining room.

A board with information about food products.

Moscow, recruits marching along the platform of the Yaroslavsky railway station.

Recruits lining up on the square.

A soldier talking about his sports ranks.

Recruits lining up.

Columns of recruits on the square.

Recruits from the Irkutsk region talking about their trip.

A senior lieutenant talking about recruits from Irkutsk.

Recruits sharing their impressions of the capital.

Eduard Yevseyev talking about the officers.

Ruslan Telepovich talking about the trip.

Ivan Dimokhov talking about meeting his fellow soldiers.

Soldiers with army thermoses for food, teapots and boxes walk along the platform to the trucks.

A senior lieutenant briefing the recruits.

Senior lieutenant Andrey Aleksandrovich Serlev, a psychologist for the personnel work group, talking about the selection of Irkutsk recruits for service in the Airborne Forces, the selection criteria and the road to Moscow.

Recruits walk to the truck and get into the back.

Soldiers in the back.

View from the back of a truck onto the Three Stations Square.

An officer in a maroon beret.

The Airborne Forces chevron.

A Ural-4320 truck drives down the street and enters the checkpoint gates.

The Ural-4320 vehicles stop on the parade ground of the military unit.

Recruits disembark and line up.

Roll call.

The senior lieutenant reports to the major about the team’s arrival at the unit.

The recruits enter the building’s doors in formation and climb the stairs to the barracks.

In the barracks, the senior lieutenant talks about the Airborne Forces unit and the fight against terrorism in the North Caucasus region.

On command, the recruits check the contents of their kit bags and put them away in the room.

The soldiers place their personal belongings on the bedside tables.

Making the beds.

Alexy II talks about the Great Patriotic War, his childhood, entering the Leningrad Theological Academy, the spiritual revival of Russia, the reconstruction of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, and congratulates Russians on Victory Day.

At the press conference, Sergei Ivanov delivers a speech, talks about international military cooperation within the framework of joint exercises of Russia and Tajikistan.

Ivanov S.B. about the preparation of the training ground and the "legend" of the exercises, which is dedicated to repelling the conditional penetration of gangs into the territory of the CSTO countries.

Khairulloev Sh.

Kh. invites journalists to the training ground.

Ivanov S.B. about the possible evacuation of Russians from Kyrgyzstan by transport planes.

Ivanov S.B. and Khairulloev Sh.

Kh. in the negotiation room.

Military equipment moves across the steppe along the horizon.

Military tent camp.

Ural-4320 trucks drive along the road along posts with barbed wire.

The inscription on the hill "Hard in training - easy in battle, MVD-RT, "Rubezh-2005".

Military personnel on the territory of the tent camp, in the sky a Mi-8 helicopter.

Mi-8 lands on the field.

Paratroopers run along the training ground.

Helicopter against the backdrop of mountains.

Military trucks.

A platoon of soldiers walks along the road.

A soldier next to a guard mushroom, flags of the participating countries on flagpoles.

Scarves and the Airborne Forces flag.

Two Mi-8 helicopters fly against the backdrop of mountains.

Military personnel at a stand with photographs.

A model of the training ground.

Officers walk along the carpet past tents with the inscription "MARZ-2005".

Journalists and foreign military guests.

Ivanov S.B. and Khairulloev Sh.

Kh. get off the bus, accept the officer's report, walk along the carpet, greet the military.

Officers in the command post negotiate on radios, watch maps of the area.

Guests in the observer positions.

Camera operators with video cameras.

Soldiers in the trenches.

A tribune for observers and guests.

Airplanes in the sky.

Panorama of the training ground.

The Ka-50 "Black Shark" helicopter turns left and right over the airfield.

The Rockwell B-1 Lancer aircraft is on the runway, accelerating, taking off, and circling over the airfield.

The Rockwell B-1 Lancer is moving along the runway.

The Russian Yak-130 combat training aircraft accelerates and takes off, and performs aerobatic maneuvers.

A group flight of Mi-38, Mi-28, and Mi-35 helicopters.

The Mi-28 helicopter performs aerobatic maneuvers.

Spectators on the airfield watch the flights.

The Czechoslovak Aero L-29 Delfin training aircraft is in the sky.

The MiG-29 aircraft accelerates, takes off, performs aerobatic maneuvers, leaves a white trail in the sky, lands, and travels along the runway with a brake parachute.

The Su-47 and two Su-35 aircraft accelerate and take off.

The Su-29 sports aircraft accelerates, takes off, performs aerobatic maneuvers, leaves a white trail in the sky.

The Su-47 and Su-35 perform aerobatic maneuvers, release heat flares.

The Su-35 performs a low-level flight, gains altitude, performs aerobatic maneuvers.

Two Mi-8 helicopters in the air.

A soldier with a radio.

The Mi-8 lands.

A group of paratroopers board the helicopter.

Pilots in the helicopter cockpit.

The Mi-8 takes off.

Two Mi-8 helicopters fly over the mountains.

Soldiers with weapons walk along the training ground, stop, take off their gear, and rest.

A soldier negotiates on the radio.

The Mi-8 lands on the site.

Paratroopers board the helicopter.

View from the pilot's cockpit of the mountains and a helicopter flying ahead.

Soldiers in the helicopter cabin.

Soldiers look at the ground through the window.

View from the window of the forest and fields.

Pilots in the helicopter cockpit.

Soldiers' faces.

Soldiers parachute from the helicopter.

The helicopter flies over the paratroopers walking across the field.

Pilots in the helicopter cockpit.

View from the helicopter during landing on the territory of a military unit.

Soldiers board the helicopter.

The Mi-8 in the air.

Soldiers are walking along the territory of the unit.

The commander gives instructions to the soldiers.

Binoculars and a radio are on the soldier's chest.

A group of soldiers in gear, with weapons.

A hand holds the barrel of a machine gun.

Machine guns in the hands of the soldiers.

The soldiers froze, kneeling, machine guns in their hands, the helicopter lands.

On command, the soldiers run to the helicopter, go inside.

The helicopter takes off, flies over the mountains.

A line of soldiers at the training ground.

Briefing the soldiers on passing the mountain assault zone.

On command, the soldiers run to the mountain assault zone.

Overcoming the zone: the soldiers run on car tires, on poles driven into the ground, kneel, climb ladders to a metal trapeze.

Overcoming the mountain assault zone: soldiers descend on ropes from a trapeze, move along a suspension bridge, along a beam on chains, along cables.

The next two groups of soldiers run to the mountain assault zone, pass the route.

Two soldiers help the soldiers overcome a high metal block.

The soldiers run across rough terrain, suspension bridges, in the forest and field.

View of the forest, chalk mountain, running soldiers.

The priest says that relatives of Israeli army soldiers come to the church many times to pray for their children who serve on the border with Lebanon.

The priest talks about the spiritual support of soldiers and the prayer service at the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission with the participation of numerous pilgrims.

Bust of Archimandrite Antonin Kapustin.

Two MDT David vehicles parked near a building.

An SUV parks in the parking lot.

A Merkava tank and a jeep are on the site.

Soldiers near an MDT David.

A Merkava tank near a tree.

View of houses in the valley.

MDT David vehicles parked near a building.

Panorama of the area and the side of the tank.

Soldiers in the canteen, a cook serving food.

Soldiers eating.

A carbine on the floor.

General view of the canteen.

The cook serving food talks to a soldier.

A Gilboa DMR 18 carbine is leaning against the wall.

Two soldiers with carbines are sitting outside.

A poster stand at the entrance to the building.

Soldiers on the unit's territory.

The flag of Israel on a flagpole.

Soldiers pray in a synagogue.

Carbines are on a shelf.

A bookcase.

Faces of praying soldiers.

A Merkava tank near a tree, panorama of the area.

The barrel of a Merkava tank.

A rabbi talks to soldiers.

Soldiers getting off the bus.

Soldiers give an interview (without translation).

Soldiers check vehicles at a checkpoint.

A carbine in the hands of a soldier.

Two soldiers inspect a cargo van.