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

A lieutenant-guide at the museum talks about people who served time in the Vladimir Central prison.

Photos of clergy and a destroyed church. "The Decree on the Red Terror".

A sign "Foreign bodies removed surgically in cases of self-mutilation", metal objects of various shapes on a stand.

A drawing "Stomach with a foreign body".

Pictures, figurines and crafts made by prisoners.

A psychologist talks to prisoners in a group work room.

The head of the psychological laboratory, Lieutenant Colonel of the Internal Service Elena Anatolyevna Kiseleva talks about the group work room with convicts, programs for stabilizing the mental state of prisoners, video programs for relaxation, the work of the psychological laboratory with prison staff and convicts, and the use of art therapy.

Furnishings in the room: sofas, a TV, a stereo system, flowers, paintings.

A baker weighs pieces of dough and places them in baking tins.

General view of the bakery.

The baker opens and closes the oven doors.

Dough pans on the table.

The baker takes the dough out of the vat.

The cook takes the dough pans out of the proofing cabinet, moves them into the ovens, takes the finished bread pans out of the ovens.

The prison building (shot from the bottom up), bars on the windows.

A sign on the fence saying "Restricted area, no entry", barbed wire.

The prison task and yard.

A church dome with a cross.

The sign "Federal Budgetary Institution Prison No. 2".

The gates open and a bus drives out.

The guard closes the gates.

A panorama from the prison gates to the porch.

Acting prison warden Colonel Stepan Petrovich Boginich talks about the Vladimir Central prison, the special regime for keeping prisoners, the professionalism and experience of the staff, the provision of supervision and security, educational activities, the engineering and technical staff of the staff, and the technical means of security.

Vladimir Law Institute.

Bust of Prince Vladimir at the institute building.

Flags of Russia, the city of Vladimir and friendly countries on the porch of the institute.

A brass band plays on the stage of the institute club.

A rehearsal of the KVN team.

The inscription on the stage "Serving the law of the state, we serve the people and the Fatherland." A trio of students sings.

Young men and women dance modern ballroom dances.

The chief of the guard orders the sentries to begin guarding the facility.

The guards are changing at their post, the chief of the guard instructs the sentries.

Captain Mikhail Vladimirovich Sorokin, a lecturer at the Department of Criminal Executive Law of the Vladimir Law Institute, talks about practical classes on organizing a security regime in the penal system, organizing a guard service to protect a correctional institution, and changing sentries at observation towers.

Captain M.V. Sorokin talks about training officers for service in correctional institutions.

Colonel Vitaly Dmitrievich Krachun talks at the practical training site about the boundaries and restricted areas on the prison grounds, the operation of video cameras, and escape barriers.

Krachun V.D. talks about a free guard post with a dog kennel, the main fence in the form of a fence made of boards, corrugated iron or a brick wall with barbed wire.

A colonel talks about the work and actions of a sentry when observing a guarded area from a tower.

Barbed wire, a sign "Zero detection line", a video camera in a casing, a wooden fence, a sign "Screen fence of the detection line", a sign "Anti-escape fence", a chain-link fence on posts, barbed wire "razor wire", a sign "Free guard post", a dog kennel, a sign "Main fence", a general view of the training ground.

In the utility room, a cadet is cutting his comrade's hair with a clipper.

A soldier is ironing a tunic.

A cadet is straightening a blanket on a made bed using planks.

A panorama of a barracks with made beds.

Cadets in the office at their desks.

Students are writing in notebooks.

In the dormitory there are bunk beds, a cadet with a textbook at the table.

A young man reads a book at the computer monitor.

A student with a textbook and a notebook.

In the sewing shop, the head of correctional colony #6, Dmitry Viktorovich Okunev, talks about the sewing section, lists the range of products, production volumes, prices for products, talks about financing options, the level of professionalism of the personnel, and the living conditions of prisoners.

A prisoner works on an overlock machine.

In the garage, an electric welder repairs a car.

Installing a bumper on a car.

Cars in the repair shop.

A mechanic installs a lock in a car door.

The decoration of the prison church, iconostasis, candles, Orthodox religious literature, "A Prayer Book for Prisoners".

Prisoners light candles, pray, and cross themselves.

Church warden Aleksandr Nikolaevich Kazakov talks about the Orthodox faith, talks about the prison church, and parishioners from among the prisoners.

The porch and the sign "Medical Unit of FBU IK-6".

A doctor palpates a man's stomach, asks about his health.

Deputy Head of the Medical and Sanitary Unit of FBU IK-6 Captain Zhenin Mikhail Vladimirovich talks about equipping the unit with medical equipment, providing outpatient medical care to prisoners, the presence of a hospital, and hospitalizing prisoners in city hospitals in difficult cases.

Patients lie on beds in a hospital ward.

An empty assembly hall, the coat of arms and flag of Russia on the stage, rows of chairs.

Photos with the inscriptions "Bathhouse before renovation", "Toilet before renovation".

A soldier in the snow near an anemometer attached to a pole.

Smoke from a shell explosion in the forest.

Military trucks enter the unit's territory.

Soldiers disembark from a truck.

A white flag with the letter "R".

Soldiers in white camouflage suits walk through the snow.

A red flag on a flagpole.

A BMD-3 goes along a snowy road.

A platoon of soldiers in white camouflage suits walks along the road behind the BMD-3. Soldiers and BMD-3s are shooting.

General view of the training ground.

A soldier on the armor of a BMD-3. Two BMD-3s are walking across a snowy field.

A soldier in a white camouflage suit with an RPG and a machine gun stands waist-deep in snow.

Two soldiers with radios in their backpacks and a commander.

View of the training ground, sounds of gunfire.

In the field, BMD-3s are firing, soldiers are nearby.

Officers are watching the troops.

BMD-3 in the field, officers are nearby.

Paratroopers in white camouflage suits walk through the snow.

BMD-3s deploy near a red flag.

A BMD-3 moves in reverse through the snow.

Two soldiers carry a log in front of several BMD-3s in a snowy field.

A BMD-3 moves along a snowy road.

BMD-3s move along a snowy road.

Officers in white camouflage suits walk through the snow.

Two officers study a map.

The regiment's chief of staff, Lieutenant Colonel Aleksandr Vladimirovich Garanin, talks about the regiment's tasks during command and staff exercises, practicing battalion tactical exercises in difficult weather conditions, conducting live fire exercises, increasing the combat readiness of airborne personnel, lists the number of armored vehicles, evaluates the battalion's actions during the exercises and the morale of the rank and file.

A column of soldiers in white camouflage suits with weapons walks through the snow.

Formation on the platform.

Squad commanders report to the officer about the formation.

Soldiers in formation adjust their ammunition and hoods of camouflage suits.

The barrel of a Kalashnikov assault rifle.

Faces of soldiers in white hoods.

An infantry fighting vehicle stands in the snow.

An infantry fighting vehicle mechanic.

Soldiers in white camouflage suits.

The barrel of a Kalashnikov assault rifle clogged with snow.

Faces of soldiers in white hoods.

A soldier with an RPG-22L "Thunder" grenade launcher.

The barrel of an RPG-22L grenade launcher.

Radio operator Denisov Andrey from the Kaluga Region talks about exercises and overcoming difficulties.

Zelenchuksky District, Storozhevaya-2 village.

Children playing football.

School building.

Two-story kindergarten buildings and a five-story building.

Children on a swing.

Assistant Chief of the Combat Training Department of the 34th Separate Motorized Rifle Mountain Brigade Captain Roman Zhigaylo introduces his wife Elena Vladimirovna, eldest son Anatoly, and relative Alexandra to correspondents.

Zhigaylo R. talks about his service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, his studies at the Chelyabinsk Tank School, his service in the Far East, his arrival at the 34th Brigade, and receiving an apartment in Storozhevaya-2 village.

Roman and his family talk about their life in their new place, their living conditions, and their son Anatoly talks about his new school.

Zhigaylo R. talks about his service in the 34th Separate Motorized Rifle Mountain Brigade.

Tea cups, a piece of cake on a saucer, candies.

Panoramas from a helicopter: fields, forest plantations, a river, mountains.

The cameraman shoots from the open door of the helicopter.

Mi-24 over the mountains and valleys.

View from the cockpit of the sea and the coast.

Filming from a helicopter: natural landscapes, a helipad.

View from the ground of the helicopter above the trees.

The Mi-8 approaches the pad and lands.

Cabin of a GAZ-66 truck.

The Mi-8 is on the pad, the propeller is spinning.

A checkpoint and a barrier.

A soldier raises the barrier, a car drives by.

A peacekeeper with a machine gun at his post.

BRDM-2 with the letters "MS".

A soldier stands at the barrier (several angles).

A cart with an awning, people nearby.

A barrier with the sign "Checkpoint 201".

A cart with an awning drives past the checkpoint.

BRDM-2, the barrel of the gun raised to the sky.

A soldier in a booth at the checkpoint.

Peacekeepers in helmets with a blue stripe walk through the territory.

Fighters in helmets with the letters "MS" (several types).

Changing of guards at the checkpoint.

Mercedes minibus at the checkpoint, document check.

The barrier rises, the car starts moving.

People at the PAZ-672 bus.

Barrier with the sign "Checkpoint 201", soldier in a helmet with a machine gun, BRDM-2 with the letters "MS".

Soldier smokes.

Soldier lowers the barrier.

PAZ-672 with passengers starts moving, drives out onto the bridge on the Abkhazian-Georgian border over the Inguri River.

A girl Nana from a Georgian village talks about crossing the Abkhazian-Georgian border, the bus ride is only 5 minutes.

People walk through the checkpoint onto the bridge.

Anti-tank "hedgehogs".

View of the mountains and barbed wire.

Memorial plaque on the stele "The bridge across the Inguri River was built by road units of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs troops in 1948".

A soldier raises the barrier, lets a car pass.

A man in a cart with an awning talks about crossing the border.

A correspondent talks about the bridge and the memorial plaque.

Views of the bridge and the river.

A pillbox with embrasures.

Information board "You are entering the zone of collective forces".

BRDM-2 and Mi-8 helicopter.

Embrasure.

Twin anti-aircraft mount ZU-23 and BRDM-2 against the background of mountains.

A peacekeeper looks through the embrasure at a BTR-80 with soldiers on the armor.

Soldiers dismount from the BTR-80. BTR-80 driver-mechanic.

A trench and posts with barbed wire.

A BTR-80 with the letters "MS" in the parking lot near the building.

View through the embrasure.

Pillbox with embrasures and a bridge across the Inguri River.

General view of the checkpoint.

View of the bridge through the embrasure.

Dogs are sleeping on the grass.

Grenade launcher operator of the first section of the 3rd company, Junior Sergeant Sergey Lukin, talks about service in Georgia, transfer to the peacekeeper battalion, the peacekeeper mission, first impressions of Abkhazia, talks about the tasks of peacekeeping missions, relations with the local population.

Two peacekeepers.

Russian flag.

BTR-80 and PAZ-672 bus on the road.

View through the barbed wire at the one-story checkpoint building.

Panorama of buildings and posts with barbed wire.

Peacekeepers communicate at the checkpoint, "MS" chevron.

People get on the bus.

BRDM-2 and peacekeepers.

Soldiers in helmets with blue stripes look at people walking through the checkpoint.

BRDM-2 turret with a machine gun.

Filming from a moving APC, view of the road and the machine gun barrel.

Soldier's hand on the machine gun barrel.

Soldiers on the armor of the BTR-80.

At the training ground, a senior warrant officer in a maroon beret talks about training fighters on an obstacle course, talks about overcoming complex simulators, lists the skills and knowledge that a soldier must have.

The commander of the 16th special forces detachment "

Skif"

Colonel Nikolai Vasilyevich Gulidov talks about the creation of a detachment from special forces groups of operational units of the Internal Troops of the North Caucasus District, to which the best fighters were selected;

about the detachment's actions over 10 years in hot spots, maintaining law and order in peacetime, combat and physical training of young fighters in a training group, losses during the performance of combat missions.

Gulidov N.V. about the living conditions and food standards of the personnel, the detachment's constant readiness, and its mobility.

Soldiers run in formation across the unit's territory.

Fighters with numbers on their chests on the sports ground.

The commander shows the soldiers how to properly pull themselves up on the bar.

The privates approach the horizontal bars, call out their names, and do pull-ups.

The privates perform a jump and pull-up on the parallel bars, pump up their abs on the bench, holding each other by the shoulders, jump out of a squat position; the junior sergeant keeps count.

A conscript from the village of Sovetskaya in the Krasnodar Territory, Nikolai Vladimirovich Rachkov, talks about his preparation for service in the special forces, impressions of the first two weeks of service in the army, overcoming difficulties, speaks positively of the team, talks about studying the regulations and the oath of the army oath, his desire to become a real special forces fighter.