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

Head of the Methodology Department, Major Viktor Sergeevich Dokin, talks about the operating principles of homemade anti-personnel and anti-tank mines at a stand with samples.

Homemade explosive devices: a can, a box, a glass jar with screws and nails. V.S. Dokin about the operating principles of explosive devices in postal items (two takes).

Mock-ups of a letter and parcels. V.S. Dokin about the operating principle of a hydromechanical retarder.

Bottles with liquid, wires, anti-aircraft cartridges. V.S. Dokin about the operating principles of anti-personnel booby traps.

Mines OZM-72, POMZ-2M, MON-50 are on the stand. V.S. Dokin about booby traps installed in household items.

Samples: a pack of cigarettes, a DVD case, a flashlight, a book, a children's doll. V.S. Dokin about the operating principle of a hydromechanical retarder.

Dokin V.S. and a platoon of cadets on the parade ground near the stands with mine samples.

Soldiers' faces.

Fenced off area of the detonation of a pyrotechnic charge, explosion pop in the snow.

Stand "Mine-detecting contactors".

The probe pierces the material on the stand, a pyrotechnic pop is heard in the snow on the area fenced off with tape (two takes).

Sign on the wire "Caution: Mines", pops of pyrotechnic charges in the snow.

Tape with the inscription "Mines", sign "Railway section", wagon wheels on rails.

Two pairs of railway wheels with a booth, simulating a locomotive.

A dummy homemade mine on a rail with wires and a contact closeer.

The contact closeer wire above the rail and a TNT block.

View of the railroad track and a homemade mine.

A zinc sheet contactor, wires, and TNT blocks are secured to a rail.

Tape with the words "Mines" written on it, rails with a mine.

A "Combat Demining" stand, wattle fences.

A platoon of cadets near a railroad track, an officer is talking about homemade explosive devices for detonating rails.

An officer with a pointer is pointing to the installed dummy mines and talking about the mechanisms for detonating charges.

A dummy homemade mine on a rail with wires and a contactor.

View of the contactor secured to the rail and a line of cadets.

Soldiers' faces.

The "locomotive" is slowly moving along the rails, the wheels are running over the contactors, and pyrotechnic pops are heard.

A platoon of cadets near a railroad track is listening to an officer.

Soldiers with mine detectors and probes are walking through the snow.

A sapper with a hand-held mine detector NR-900 EK "Korshun", followed by two soldiers with metal detectors and probes.

Senior handler of service dogs, Sergeant Dorepaev Dmitry Anatolyevich, talks about his dog named Marta, her upbringing and training, and talks about the dog's character.

A sign saying "Martha, German Shepherd." The dog's face behind bars, close-up.

Dog handlers with dogs walk along the kennel's territory, exit the gates, approach the enclosures, and begin to comb the dogs.

A bin with the inscription "Wool box." Tied dogs bark.

A soldier sweeps the enclosure.

A dog handler in the enclosure winds up the leash, with the dog nearby.

The handler, Corporal Netkachev Sergey Nikolaevich, talks about his work as a dog handler, about his dog, her upbringing, and the animal's character.

A sign saying "Irbiz, Labrador." The dog's face behind bars.

Deputy Head of the Center, Head of the Training Department Lieutenant Colonel Anatoly Stanislavovich Malanchuk speaks about the date of establishment, goals and objectives of the training center, training of specialists of various categories, breeding and training dogs and handlers of the mine detection service, exchange of experience with foreign armed forces.

Malanchuk A.S. about cooperation with enterprises and research institutes for the development and production of electronic and standard equipment for detecting and defusing explosive devices, about testing devices.

Malanchuk A.S. about the annual graduation of specialists of the mine detection service and commanders of demining groups, an information database on explosive objects and explosive materials, about the teaching staff.

The inscription on the building "66th Interdepartmental Educational and Methodological Center".

Examples of household booby traps: a child's doll, a book, a flashlight, a DVD box, a pack of cigarettes.

Anti-personnel mines MON-50, OZM-72. A model of a tripwire using an F-1 grenade.

Anti-tank mine mockup.

Postal IEDs: letter and parcel mockups.

Small arms IEDs: cartridge with barrel on stand.

Sapper and "Caution: Mines" sign.

Improvised explosive device mockups: plastic bottle with wires and pager, plastic box and mobile phone with wires, can, box, glass jar with screws and nails.

Time delay devices: charges with connected clock and alarm clock.

Radio-controlled land mine: mine and telephone.

Wire-controlled land mine: land mine with wire.

Unloading action short-circuiter: projectile with detonation mechanism.

Anti-helicopter, anti-mine-detecting, anti-vehicle short-circuiters (diagrams and samples).

Head of the Methodology Department, Major Viktor Sergeevich Dokin, talks about the operating principle of the anti-mine-detecting short-circuiter, demonstrates the component parts of the device (two takes). V.S. Dokin on the principles of operation of homemade anti-personnel and anti-tank mines.

Homemade explosive devices: can, box, glass jar with screws and nails.

The head of the training cycle for mine detection service specialists, Lieutenant Colonel Aleksandr Ivanovich Sukhoveyev, speaks to cadets in the computer lab about studying the "Encyclopedia of the Sapper" program.

The soldiers watch a thematic animation about the operation of the TM-62M mine and look at photographs of the mine body. A.I. Sukhoveyev holds a PFM-1 "Lepestok" antipersonnel mine in his hand, shows a photograph on the computer screen, and talks about its technical characteristics.

The teacher shows the cadets an ML-7 mine, finds a picture in the "Encyclopedia of the Sapper", and reads the characteristics.

A photograph of the ML-7 mine on the monitor screen.

The commander of the training platoon, Private Anatoly Valerievich Belokonov, talks about the clarity of the classes, training programs, and noticeable progress in training.

Cynologists with dogs at a training ground.

The dogs take hurdles, run along a board suspended on chains, along a beam, climb stairs, run into a tunnel, jump through a tire.

Senior instructor of the mine detection service training cycle, Captain Denis Nikolaevich Yarlykov, talks about the dog training ground, simulators, training cynologists and dogs for work in combat conditions, and the duration of the training course.

A Labrador dog lies on the ground.

Practicing the commands "sit" and "lie down".

A soldier lays out dummy anti-tank mines on the site.

The cynologist approaches each mine, calls the dog, and puts a treat in the mine.

The soldier and the dog walk along the site, the dog finds the mines, sits down, and the soldier rewards the animal with food.

The warrant officer says that he has been working as a soloist in the A.V. Alexandrov ensemble since 2003, after graduating from the Moscow State Institute of Music named after A.G. Schnittke; he recalls concerts in hot spots, meetings with soldiers and officers.

A stele in memory of fallen soldiers.

The audience in the assembly hall applauds the artists on stage.

Peacekeeping forces sergeant Dakhir Batashev shares his impressions of the performance of the concert brigade of the A.V. Alexandrov ensemble.

The lieutenant talks about his impressions of the performance of the concert brigade, which gave several concerts for peacekeepers in Abkhazia.

Warrant officer Andrey Romanov says that he has been working as a soloist in the A.V. Alexandrov ensemble since 1996, after graduating from music school; he recalls concerts in hot spots, meetings with soldiers and officers in concert halls and at checkpoints.

Ekaterina Korzanova says that she has been working in the Alexandrov Ensemble since 2001, graduated from the Pyatnitsky Choreographic School and Dance Studio, the Institute of Culture, and recalls concerts in hot spots and meetings with soldiers and officers.

Queue to Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum.

View of mausoleum building, red flags, queue, square.

People's faces in queue.

Policeman controls queue.

People enter mausoleum doors.

Changing of guard of honor.

People walk past sentry into mausoleum.

Incense sticks smoldering.

Wreaths at mausoleum entrance.

People walk up steps, enter mausoleum.

Vietnamese flags on flagpoles.

General view of mausoleum building.

Policemen help wheelchair user to walk up steps.

Lampposts decorated with flags.

Government building with flag.

View of mausoleum and trees.

Exhibits in Museum of Vietnam Revolution: guillotine, wicker box, toothbrush, shaving brush, razor, porcelain teapot, pilot suit, flight helmet, boots, bed with mat, photos of American prisoners, photo of B-52 airplane.

War memorial in Hanoi.

View of the mausoleum and trees.

People with incense sticks at the memorial.

Pedestrians and vehicles on the road, people on scooters and bicycles.

Entrance to the park.

Multi-level pagoda, Buddha sculptures in niches.

Buddha statue.

Incense sticks in the niches of the pagoda.

Hieroglyphs on the pagoda building.

Buddha statues in the temple.

View of the bay and people in boats.

Heavy traffic on the street, vehicles on the road, people with children on scooters and bicycles.

Administrative building with Vietnamese flags at the entrance.

Marble lions and flowerpots with trees.

Colonel General of the Vietnamese Army gives an interview (without translation).

Sculptural group: Vietnamese soldier, woman and child.

Bas-relief "Rider on a horse".

Sculptural group: man, child and woman with a rifle over her shoulder.

View of the ancient pagoda "Turtle Tower".

People on the embankment.

Hanoi main post office near Hoan Kiem Lake.

Lenin monument by the road.

MiG-21 fighter aircraft on a pedestal next to the Victory Museum.

Missile of the Soviet S-75 air defense system and RSN-75V tracking and guidance radar station.

Rusty fragments of fuselages of American aircraft and equipment.

Vietnamese children play on the wreckage of American aircraft.

A green sprout sticks out of the wing of the aircraft.

The tail and fuselage of an airplane shot down by a missile, rusty engine parts.

Anti-aircraft guns S-60 on the museum grounds and anti-aircraft mount ZPU-4. The barrel of a machine gun looks at the camera.

Barrels of machine guns and guns from different angles.

Unexploded shells of the US Army on the stand.

The tail and fuselage of an airplane shot down by a missile.

Kolesnik Nikolay Nikolaevich talks about the war in Vietnam, about his participation in combat operations as part of a group of Soviet military specialists, about the successes of anti-aircraft missile divisions.

Kolesnik N.N. tells how Soviet specialists trained Vietnamese missilemen in combat conditions, about refueling S-75 SAM missiles in extreme conditions, about a meeting with Ho Chi Minh, about the destruction of four US aircraft by three Soviet missiles.

Kolesnik N.N. about participating in the compilation of the book of veterans' memoirs "The Vietnam War: A Look Through the Years..." Model of the S-75 SAM missile.

Cover of the book "The Vietnam War: A Look Through the Years..."

Israeli army soldiers on the territory of a military unit.

A poster with a carbine and a rifle.

Palm trees and the flag of Israel.

A military jeep in the yard of the unit.

A soldier in the back of the jeep.

The soldiers are talking.

The carbine is attached to the door of the jeep, the driver is behind the wheel.

The soldiers get into the back of the jeep, the car drives away.

An armored military vehicle on the street.

Soldiers in a room with maps of the area on the walls, weapons lying on the table.

An officer is drawing a plan of the area on the board.

A soldier is lacing up his boot.

Soldiers are listening to the commander.

Carbines are on the table.

On the playground, soldiers are throwing a ball into a basketball hoop.

Soldiers are praying in the synagogue.

Soldiers with ammunition and weapons on the territory of the base.

The soldiers are putting on equipment, holding carbines in their hands, listening to the commander's instructions.

Soldiers are walking down the street.

The commander is giving instructions.

Soldiers patrol the territory, kneel down, look around.

View from below of the road and the patrol.

Soldiers walk past palm trees, view of the mountains.

Evening formation near the barracks.

Night patrol: soldiers with flashlights walk through the unit's territory, kneel down, look around, talk on the radio.

An Israeli army soldier conducts a tour of the unit's territory, shows the barracks and the life of the soldiers, speaks Hebrew (without translation).

A dog handler makes a dog lie down near an anti-tank mine.

Dmitry Viktorovich Churikov, a teacher of the mine detection service training course, talks about a special course for training dogs to search for explosives, and describes the step-by-step training process. D.V. Churikov talks about the maximum time when a dog can be used to search for mines, and the dog's sense of smell, which cannot be replaced by technical means.

A soldier and a dog are walking along the asphalt.

A dog handler sergeant ties the shepherd to a fence, examines its paws, eyes, ears, begins to brush it, unties it, and leads it into the enclosure.

The dog looks out of the enclosure door.

The sergeant places bowls of food and water in front of the dog and sweeps the enclosure.

Different types of leashes and a muzzle are on a stand in the enclosure.

The dog eats and drinks.