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

Shooting range.

The captain instructs the young men before shooting from machine guns.

The machine guns are on the floor.

The captain talks about aiming from a machine gun.

On command, the cadets turn around, take apart the cartridges and machine gun magazines under signature, report on readiness to shoot.

Shooting from a prone position.

After shooting, the officer inspects the weapon, the cadets stand up, go to the targets.

A young man and a girl at the target discuss the results of shooting.

The instructor gives advice to the cadet on how to hold the machine gun during shooting, shows the aiming point on the target.

General view of the indoor shooting range.

The captain shows the target and explains where and how to aim.

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

Orthodox priest Father Dimitry talks about classes with children, hazing in the army, the main tasks of the Peresvet club and military-patriotic education of youth, preparing young men for the army.

Father Dimitriy talks about cadets' combat training, shooting, church attendance, Sunday school classes, the spring draft, and his children.

The boys run to the targets at the shooting range.

The cadets assemble and disassemble Kalashnikov assault rifles.

A cadet disassembles an assault rifle for a while.

Shooting from a prone position.

The officers look at the targets, talk about the shooting results, and note the hits.

Officer Oleg Nikolaevich talks about club classes, shooting range training, summer camps, church attendance, the spring draft, and cadets' preparation for the army.

Zimin Evgeny Aleksandrovich talks about the structure of the club, his service in the army, advises young people to join the army, and talks about mandatory physical training.

Monument to Russian peacekeepers in Abkhazia.

Two peacekeepers in helmets with a blue stripe take up a position on a ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft mount, raise the barrels, turn around and look through the sight (several takes).

View of the barrels of the ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft mount from the gunner's position.

A soldier's face.

A barrier with a blue NP 106 sign, an armored personnel carrier nearby.

A checkpoint, a peacekeeper looks at the road.

Fighters run out of a brick house, kneel down, aim their machine guns.

An embrasure in a brick wall.

A man with his hands raised comes out of a house.

Fighters run out of a brick house, kneel down, aim their machine guns, and move in dashes across the territory and trenches.

A fighter runs along a trench, stops at an embrasure, aims his machine gun.

An alarm sounds, peacekeepers with machine guns take up positions at embrasures in the corridor of the building, run up the stairs.

View over a soldier's shoulder at an embrasure.

The face of a soldier looking through an embrasure.

A platoon of peacekeepers marches in a column of two through the gate.

Soldiers on formation.

The captain reports on the formation of soldiers of the 106th observation post.

The captain tells the soldiers about the past training exercise, evaluates the completion of tasks.

A platoon of peacekeepers marches in a column of two.

A truck with firewood.

Junior Sergeant Strelkov Aleksey Ivanovich talks about contract service in Abkhazia.

The head of the 106th post, Captain Dolyubinets Yevgeny Viktorovich, talks about the post's area of responsibility in the Kodori Gorge, patrolling, engineering reconnaissance, demining of the area by sappers, the number of personnel at the post and the living conditions of contract soldiers.

An armored personnel carrier in the parking lot.

A two-story building and a road.

Wooden fences and barbed wire.

A bear cub in a cage.

A road sign with the letters "MS" and a two-story building.

A road sign "STOP" against a mountain.

Filming from a helicopter: a two-story building, mountains.

Pilots in the helicopter cockpit, view from the cockpit of the mountains and destroyed buildings in the valley.

View from a helicopter window of a helicopter flying in the sky, mountains, buildings and a river.

Pilot in the helicopter cockpit.

Snow-capped mountain peaks, road and tunnel.

Sun and clouds over the mountains.

Two-story building in a gorge.

Two-story building and the shadow of a helicopter on a landing pad.

Mi-8AMTSh helicopter on the pad, next to a two-story building.

BTR-80, turret rotating, gun barrel rising.

Destroyed building against the backdrop of mountains.

Peacekeeper in a helmet with a blue stripe at the barrier.

GAZ-66 truck at the checkpoint.

Helicopters in the sky over the mountains.

Soldiers walking toward a two-story building.

Peacekeeper at the barrier.

Bullet holes on the wall of the building.

Bricked-up window of a house and an embrasure.

Bricked-up windows and plastic film instead of glass.

A fighter with a machine gun walking along a barbed wire fence.

Shelter made of logs at the checkpoint.

Barrier "hedgehogs" made of logs and barbed wire at the road.

View of the road, checkpoint and mountains.

River in the gorge.

GAZ-66 truck on the road, river nearby.

Soldiers in the back of the truck talking about service.

An army tent with a stovepipe in a gorge against the backdrop of mountains, a dog on the road.

Flags of Russia and the CIS. The UN flag on a watchtower.

A sign reading "Where we are, there is peace!" The checkpoint area, a soldier entering the building.

A view of the area through an embrasure and a machine gun sight.

A view of the river through an embrasure.

A soldier with a Kalashnikov machine gun looks through an embrasure.

A shelter made of bricks and stones at the checkpoint.

A barrier and the inscription "107th NP" on a stone.

A view of the river, mountains, sandbags and barbed wire.

A wooden dugout.

A view of the mountains through an embrasure.

On the site are two GAZ-66 vehicles with blue stripes on the radiators.

In the tent, a soldier sings a song with a guitar.

Private Dmitry Aleksandrovich Istomin from Ukhta talks about contract service, living conditions, shows a stove, firewood.

Made beds and a peacekeeper's helmet.

Clouds over the mountains.

Panorama of a mountain river.

GAZ-66 vehicle, soldiers nearby.

View of a seething river and mountain peaks.

Soldiers with machine guns walking along the road.

Panorama of a river and mountains.

GAZ-66 vehicle on a mountain road.

A peacekeeper with a machine gun in a helmet with a blue stripe walking along the road, looking at the slope.

Soldiers in the back of a truck.

A lieutenant colonel reports on the formation of participants in the 13th Spartakiad of military sports clubs.

The colonel greets the cadets of the clubs, the participants greet the colonel according to the regulations.

A line of participants with flags.

The ceremonial bringing in of the Russian flag.

The colonel delivers a speech from the rostrum.

Cups, certificates, medals and prizes are on the tables.

An armored personnel carrier with a banner drives along the parade ground.

A brass band plays.

A soldier with a red flag on an armored personnel carrier.

The Russian anthem plays, the camera moves along the line of cadets.

The colonel and the judges of the competitions are on the rostrum.

The award ceremony.

The colonel talks about youth military-patriotic clubs, the organization of Spartakiads and the education of youth.

School museum, a teacher tells the cadets of the military-patriotic club about the Great Patriotic War.

Museum exhibits.

Stands with photographs of WWII participants.

The head of the club tells the children about radio stations from the Great Patriotic War, shows samples of cables and a modern military radio station.

Models of field radio stations on the tables.

The scheme "Working on a radio station".

General view of the tables with radio equipment.

A girl and a boy act out a scene from a school play, negotiate on walkie-talkies.

The girl speaks into the telephone receiver, the boy in headphones with a microphone.

Two schoolchildren show a scene from a play about the fallen heroes of the Great Patriotic War.

The boys aim small-caliber rifles at targets.

The teacher shows the girl how to aim a rifle correctly.

The young men disassemble and assemble Kalashnikov assault rifles.

The cadets of the club learn to work with field radio stations at the training ground, set them up, negotiate, and take notes.

Young man Evgeny in military uniform talks about a shortwave radio station, its technical characteristics, points to antennas standing nearby, talks about the need to know the theory of radio engineering, and his passion for radio.

Radio station and antenna.

Cadets set up a field radio station.

The teacher monitors the cadets' preparation for work, gives advice.

The boy prepares the station for work, connects the wires, antenna, and unwinds the wire.

Head of the administration of the village council of the Biysk district of the Altai Territory Molchanova Natalya Viktorovna talks about the head of the "Volunteer" club Kozuba Evgeny Dmitrievich and the participation of cadets in the public life of the district.

Cadets assemble and disassemble Kalashnikov assault rifles, shoot from pneumatic guns.

The senior instructor of the military-patriotic club "Peresvet" reports to the lieutenant colonel on the formation of the club members.

The lieutenant colonel reads out the objectives of the test.

The formation of the club cadets.

The priest reads a prayer in front of the formation.

The priest in front of the icons, reads a prayer.

The faces of the club cadets.

View of the site in front of the club and the cadets.

Deputy head of the combat training department of the special forces detachment "Rossy" Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Nikolaevich Shmatchenko talks about working with young people in the club, spiritual education, physical training, the test for the right to wear the uniform and emblem of the club.

Cockade on the headdress, army badges on the tunic.

Shmatchenko V.N. shows the emblem of the club with the image of a lion, talks about the symbols.

The cadets take the exam, tell the captain about the technical characteristics of the Kalashnikov assault rifle and the Makarov pistol.

Assembly and disassembly of the assault rifle and pistol.

Pull-ups on the horizontal bar.

Short-distance running.

The face of the priest.

Cadets doing push-ups, crunches, jumping, squatting.

Boxing sparring in the gym.

Guys with dummy machine guns running along the road, kneeling.

Legs of running people in sneakers.

A cadet with a machine gun in the bushes.

Guys with machine guns running along the fence.

A cadet firing a machine gun.

Moving under cover of a smoke screen.

Cadets practicing carrying a wounded soldier on their backs.

A soldier in a camouflage suit lies behind a rock.

The barrel of a machine gun.

A soldier in a camouflage suit talking on the radio.

Guys running along a forest path.

A soldier firing a machine gun.

The cadets lie down in the grass, hiding behind trees.

Smoke bomb, smoke.

A cadet with a dummy machine gun.

The guys doing push-ups on the road, the instructor counting.

Soldiers with Kalashnikov assault rifles.

Cadets with machine guns crawl on their bellies along the road.

Young men with machine guns run along the road along the fence, a training grenade explodes.

Cadets take a cross-country run.

A young man with a dummy machine gun in his hands talks about physical training classes at the club, studying at Sunday school, and his decision to enroll in a combined arms school.

Delhi.

An Indian soldier wearing an MP helmet in an open car signals the motorcade to stop.

The motorcade, buses, and a man on a scooter are driving along the highway.

An escort vehicle with a flashing light and siren.

Motor rickshaws and motorcyclists.

The driver is in the car.

Traffic flow on the street.

People near the buses.

An Indian soldier wearing an MP helmet in an open car.

The escort vehicle with a flashing light is entering the stone gates of the Qutb Minar complex.

The Qutb Minar.

Sergei Borisovich Ivanov and his escorts, Indian military personnel, and an interpreter are walking along the territory of the Qutb Minar complex.

The interpreter is talking about the minaret.

The guide is talking about the complex of historical monuments from different eras.

The Qutb Minar and the colonnade.

The Qutb Minar and the column made of meteorite iron. S.B. Ivanov and accompanying persons at the ancient stone arch.

Qutb Minar and the solar disk.

The face of Ivanov S.B. The guide tells the guests about the evergreen Neem tree (Margosa) and its medicinal properties.

Ivanov S.B. asks the guide about the origin of the city of Delhi.

Qutb Minar and the colonnade.

Ivanov S.B. thanks the guide for the story, gives gifts, asks about Russian tourists in Delhi.

Residents of Delhi look at the guests of the city.

Ivanov S.B. and accompanying persons enter the souvenir shop.

Ivanov S.B. talks to the owner of the shop, examines the goods.

Figures of people in the shop window, ivory chess, wooden carved screen and other souvenirs.

Ivanov S.B. talks about the high quality of the products in the shop.

Patterns and embroidery.

Bronze elephant figurine.

Wooden figurine of an elephant with a rider, chess pieces in the form of riders on horses and elephants.

Beaded pictures, gold items with diamonds and sapphires, a bracelet with a ruby.

Ivanov S.B. holds a box decorated with precious stones.

Ivanov S.B. writes a review in the guest book, gives gifts to the store owner, shakes his hand.

Carpet decorated with precious stones.

The store owner gives a gift to Ivanov S.B.

Prvoslav Davinić talks about the war in Yugoslavia, normalization of relations, integration into European security processes, possible accession to NATO and cooperation with Russia in arms procurement.

Coat of arms and flag of Serbia.

Certificate of honor for Prvoslav Davinić.

Prvoslav Davinić at his desk.

View of the building of the Ministry of Defense of Serbia and Montenegro and ruins.

Ruins of the building of the Ministry of Defense after the bombing.

Destroyed office and residential buildings, public transport movement on the streets.

Panorama of the ruins of the Ministry of Defense, broken windows, collapsed ceilings.

Statue with a torch and shield on the dome of the corner tower of the house.

Cars on a city street.

Pedestrians at an intersection.

A policeman near a bus.

People on the street.

The flag of Serbia and Montenegro on the building.

Air show (Dubai Airshow).

Passenger airliner taxiing.

Aero L-39 Albatros combat training aircraft performing aerobatic maneuvers in the sky and landing.

Passenger airliner taking off.

Passenger airliner taxiing.

Aero L-39 Albatros combat training aircraft taxiing.

Pilot Evgeny Ivanovich Frolov talks about his participation in the air show, the flight program, the victory of Russian pilots in the aerobatics championship, and the technical differences of the modernized Su-35 aircraft. E.I. Frolov talks about communicating with foreign pilots. E.I. Frolov stands near the Su-35 aircraft, looks at his watch, walks around the aircraft, inspects the fuselage, chassis, and turbines.

Technicians check the aircraft before the flight. E.I. Frolov puts on a flight suit, looks at the Royal Navy Sea Harrier FRS.1 carrier-based fighter hovering over the airfield.

The Aero L-39 training aircraft is taxiing.

The Royal Navy Sea Harrier FRS.1 fighter is hovering over the field.

Frolov E.I. gets on the plane.

The Sea Harrier FRS.1 is taxiing.

The Grumman F-14 Tomcat carrier-based interceptor jet is taxiing.

The Su-35 aircraft is taxiing, stopping, accelerating, taking off, performing aerobatic maneuvers with white smoke, and is about to land.

A helicopter in the sky.

A French Rafale fighter is parked.

The Su-35 is taxiing.

The French Rafale fighter is taxiing.

The Grumman F-14 Tomcat interceptor fighter is performing aerobatic maneuvers with white smoke.

The Rafale fighter is performing aerobatic maneuvers with white smoke.

A Royal Navy Sea Harrier FRS.1 fighter jet hovers over a field, performs a spin, retracts its landing gear, takes off, descends, and lands.

A Su-35 jet accelerates, takes off, performs aerobatic maneuvers with white smoke, and lands.

A Rafale fighter jet performs aerobatic maneuvers with white smoke.