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

Assembly point.

Conscripts are standing in line to receive ammunition and a military uniform.

A soldier is buttoning up his tunic.

Conscript Erofey says that he voluntarily wrote an application and joined the army, passed the professional selection for the presidential regiment, and plans to continue his studies after the army.

The young man carries the uniform he received, puts it on the table, and gets dressed.

The conscripts check that their clothes are complete and get dressed.

The soldier puts on his boots and foot wraps.

Duffel bags are on the table, as well as a belt and a winter hat.

The soldier puts his things in a bag.

Private Dmitry says that he joined the presidential regiment of his own free will, taking an academic leave of absence for a year and a half.

Women are filling out documents.

Conscripts in pea coats, winter hats, and with duffel bags are in the hallway.

Private Mikhail says that he got into the presidential regiment thanks to his horse riding (dressage) lessons.

A stack of military IDs is on the table.

The soldier is buttoning up his belt.

The conscripts button up their pea coats, straighten their uniforms, and line up in the corridor.

The conscript's mother, Nadezhda Vasilyevna, says that she is proud of her son's decision to join the army.

The woman talks about her son, who independently decided to serve in the presidential regiment after graduating from a technology college.

The girl sees her boyfriend off and wishes the boys successful service.

Mothers, relatives, and friends say goodbye to the soldiers and take souvenir photos.

A colonel in front of a line of recruits.

The soldiers' faces.

Lieutenant Irina Aleksandrovna talks about the health of the conscripts, the presence of diseases of the musculoskeletal and digestive systems, and attributes this to the sedentary lifestyle of young people.

A lieutenant colonel congratulates the conscripts in front of the line on their enlistment in the presidential regiment.

The chairperson of the parents' committee, Galina Ilyinichna, wishes the conscripts happy service.

A representative of the Moscow mayor's office makes a speech.

The priest reads a prayer and blesses the soldiers.

The march "Farewell of Slavyanka" plays, and the conscripts board the bus.

Crying mothers and other relatives near a bus.

A soldier waves goodbye to a girl.

The bus drives off, the relatives follow.

A French officer shows the battle flag of the Normandie-Niemen regiment, received after World War II, and a standard with Soviet and French awards.

The officer talks about carrying the flag at parades.

A French officer shows the pilot's army underwear, puts on a flight suit, shows a scarf with the Normandie-Niemen emblem, puts on flight boots, shows the chevrons and stripes of the regiment, talks about their meaning.

The consultant talks about the fabric of the pilot's military uniform, the traditional pilot's scarf, chevrons, stripes, emblems, the Normandie-Niemen coat of arms on the suit, and the colonel's badge.

Military awards of the Normandie-Niemen squadron: the Order of Alexander Nevsky, the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of the Legion of Honor, the Order of Liberation, and military Crosses.

French pilots study a map of the area before the flight, a consultant-interpreter explains the flight plan of the aircraft in pairs.

The pilot puts on additional ammunition and a vest, takes a helmet and leaves the room.

A Mirage F1CT fighter is taxiing.

The pilots leave the building with the sign "Normandie-Niemen".

A Mirage F1CT aircraft is parked.

The pilot and technician inspect the fighter, the consultant comments in Russian on the technician's actions.

The pilot climbs the stairs and gets into the cockpit.

The technician helps the pilot fasten his seat belts.

The pilot in the cockpit talks about participating in combat operations in the republics of Chad and Kosovo, compares the French Mirage with the Russian MiG-23, about the age of the aircraft (30 years), its modernization and future service life, annual flight hours, about his family and girlfriends.

Irlina Anzhelika Borisovna talks about finishing school and studying at the flying club, her passion for aviation in 1940, recalls meeting the pilot Valentina Stepanovna Grizodubova, entering the aviation institute, and the first days of the war with Germany.

Irlina A.B. talks about her father, who died in the war, evacuation with the institute to Alma-Ata, her decision to go to the front, studying at the aviation technical school in Volsk, being sent to the 2nd Belorussian Front, working as a mechanic at a front-line airfield, the relationship between men and women at the front, and night guarding of aircraft in winter.

Irlina A.B. talks about the technical characteristics and advantages of the Soviet multipurpose biplane U-2, the deaths of U-2 crews from shelling by German fighters, hatred of the enemy, women at the front, and regiment commander Evdokia Davydovna Bershanskaya.

Irlina A.B. talks about entering a pedagogical university after the war, working as a teacher of Russian language and literature, meeting her future husband, about her daughter, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Irlina A.B. talks about the modern Russian army, hazing, compulsory service, overcoming difficulties, the women's cadet corps, discipline.

Irlina A.B. is proud of her service in the 46th Guards Women's Assault Regiment of Night Bombers.

A Vietnamese soldier makes his bed in the barracks.

The barracks building, path and entrance to a room with bunk beds.

A banner in Vietnamese above the entrance.

Two Vietnamese officers walk across the unit's territory and enter the building.

A blooming lotus in a pond.

A major general of the Vietnamese army, against the background of an S-75 air defense missile, talks about the use of Soviet missiles against US aircraft, training of Vietnamese military personnel to operate the S-75 air defense missile system by specialists from the USSR, the number of US aircraft shot down, and tells of an incident that happened during the war (no translation).

An S-75 air defense missile system launcher with a missile.

A badge with the image of Ho Chi Minh on a tunic, a shoulder strap of a major general of the Vietnamese army.

An S-75 air defense missile system and a Cot Co turret with a flag.

Photographs from the Vietnam War.

Lists of war veterans and their photographs.

Soloists of the concert brigade of the Alexandrov ensemble are chatting in the library before the concert.

Singer Dmitry Bykov, ballet soloists Ekaterina and Oleg Korzanov, balalaika player Denis Vodnev, accordion player Denis Grigoriev, singer Andrei Romanov, singer Larisa Vorobyova are performing on the club stage.

The servicemen in the hall are applauding.

The soldiers' faces.

The sound engineer at the console.

The chevrons on the sleeves are "MS", "Russia, Armed Forces".

Deputy battalion commander for educational work, Major Bubnov, is talking about the concert that has just taken place.

Stands of small arms manufacturers.

Visitors to the exhibition are interested in weapons, looking at a pump-action shotgun, pistols.

A rifle with a telescopic sight on a stand.

Machine guns on a stand, including a self-loading pistol Uzi-Pistol.

A Smith & Wesson Sigma SW40F pistol.

A man examines a powerful pistol and a machine gun.

A stand with telescopic rifles.

Men examine different models of pistols, take aim, and exchange opinions.

A visitor at a stand with classic hunting rifles.

Double-barreled hunting rifles with inlay.

Variants of gun inlays.

A representative of JSC NPO Izhmash says that the economic crisis has not affected the plant, talks about the development of civilian weapons based on military Kalashnikov assault rifles, the production of various modifications of the self-loading carbines "Saiga" (several doubles).

A representative of JSC NPO Izhmash shows new weapons, the Saiga-12 and Saiga-22 sporting self-loading carbines, and the Junker-4 air rifle.

Close-ups of the Saiga-12 and Saiga 22 carbines, the Junker-4 rifle, and a magazine for cartridges.

Assembling a carbine on a stand.

A crew of the Russian peacekeepers' engineering and sapper company searches for mines on a forest road with a BRDM-2 nearby.

The sapper finds a mine and places a red flag nearby.

The soldiers leave the road behind the BRDM-2. A soldier approaches the mine, lies down on the ground, digs around the mine, hooks the edge with an anchor hook with a rope, moves away, unwinds the rope, pulls, the mine is turned over.

A soldier in a blue helmet with the letters "MS".

A soldier with a mine detector walks along the road, a dog handler with a dog is nearby.

The dog finds a mine, lies down on the ground, the dog handler squats nearby.

The commander of a separate engineering and sapper company, Captain Yakovlev Evgeny Sergeevich, lists the types of work of sappers in Abkhazia, names the number of defused explosive objects, talks about the defused mines, sapper equipment, safety precautions, and types of explosive devices.

The dog handler, deputy commander of the sapper platoon, Sergeant Dmitry Klimov, talks about the number of mine-detection dogs in the platoon, training methods, mental state, and lack of aggression in animals.

Klimov D. talks about his shepherd dog named Dina, who found more than 30 mines during her service, lists the breeds of mine-detection dogs, talks about the relationship with the dog, and about the PMN-2 mine found during the war.

The soldier's face, the dog's muzzle (close-ups).

Spectators and military personnel in the cinema hall at a creative meeting with the creators of the film.

Private of the 45th Guards Reconnaissance Regiment Makarov Sergei Vladimirovich talks about the first time he watched the film "In the Zone of Special Attention" as a child and about his impressions.

On stage, director Malyukov Andrei Igorevich talks about the film and introduces the actors, creative team and military personnel.

On stage are Andrei Malyukov, Stanislav Borisov, Anatoly Meshcheryakov, Valery Kiselev, Alexander Pyatkov, Igor Bogdanov.

General Borisov Stanislav Nikolaevich talks about the filming of the film, its role in the education of youth, and the awarding of Boris Sergeyevich Galkin with the "For Merit to the Airborne Forces" badge.

Borisov S.N. presents the Airborne Forces badge to Galkin B.S. Galkin B.S. talks about the film, reads poetry, sings a march.

Kiselev V.Yu. makes a speech.

Demonstration of working moments of the filming of the film.

Pyatkov Aleksandr talks about filming, sings a song.

The audience applauds.

After the show Galkin B.S. talks about his attitude to the Airborne Forces, Russian officers, his own kind of Golenishchev-Kutuzovs, and his passion for sports.

The duty officer reports to the senior lieutenant about a passage on the right flank of the outpost, the soldiers put on helmets, run to the weapons room, take machine guns and magazines with cartridges from the pyramid, run out into the street, kneel down, take aim.

The soldier runs across the territory, lies down on the lawn, reloads the machine gun, takes aim.

Short dashes, shooting from a prone position.

The soldier takes a place in the trench, takes aim with the machine gun.

The soldier runs into the barracks with a machine gun, runs to the window, puts the machine gun on the windowsill, shoots.

Barracks, the machine gunner shoots from the window.

A detachment of border guards with a dog runs across the outpost territory, runs out of the gate.

A sentry is on the observation tower.

People are walking along the village street, a detachment of border guards with a dog runs past.

A detachment of border guards with a dog runs into the checkpoint.

Two extras with machine guns sneak up to the outpost fence, pretending to be "terrorists".

The "criminal" lights a pyrotechnic cartridge, throws it, and there's a bang in the clearing.

The "terrorists" dash up to the outpost fence, firing from machine guns.

Pyrotechnic charges explode in the grass.

The "criminals" try to get past the barbed wire.

The patrol detains one of the bandits.

The dog catches up with and detains the second bandit, the border guard neutralizes the criminal and escorts him.

The crew escorts the "terrorists" through the checkpoint under escort.

Colonel Sergei Aleksandrovich Dzyubin, commander of the 68th regiment of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, talks about his duty to protect the perimeter of the closed zone of the city of Sarov, the frequency of training sessions to detain violators, the number of real detentions, and rewarding border guards with vacations.

The senior lieutenant conducts an external inspection of the soldiers, adjusts their uniforms and ammunition, checks their machine guns, commands the soldiers to take up guard and defense of the city's controlled zone, and conducts a briefing.

The faces of soldiers with machine guns.

Senior Lieutenant Andrey Alekseevich Taraskin talks about the outpost, the contingent of service personnel, the education of soldiers, and the verification of the personal data of conscripts and their parents before leaving for the outpost.

A hand adjusts the belts and uniform of the soldiers (several shots).

The patrol marches through the outpost territory.

Instructor of service dogs, Sergeant Aleksey Vladimirovich Novikov talks about the number of dogs at the outpost, talks about his dog named Kai, about guarding a closed city facility, and about the case of detaining two violators.

Novikov A.V. talks about dog training, trial training detentions, his decision to work as a cynologist after the army, and friendly relations in the soldier's collective.

A soldier communicates with a dog in an enclosure.

A patrol with a dog goes along a track strip and a fence with barbed wire, a soldier finds tracks on the strip, transmits information about the violation by radio, the dog follows the track (several takes).

A boot print in the sand.

View of the patrol with a dog through the rows of barbed wire.

Helicopter landing.

Paratroopers in the sky.

A paratrooper lands, "extinguishes" the parachute canopy.

The general talks about the new parachute to the Airborne Forces Commander Kolmakov A.P. Kolmakov puts on a parachute and helmet.

The officers put on parachute packs, listen to the instructions, the instructors check the parachutes.

The commander and officers enter the Mi-8 helicopter via the ramp.

The Mi-8 takes off.

Helicopter landing.

Paratroopers in the sky.

Kolmakov A.P. lands, takes off his helmet, gets into a UAZ vehicle.

The commander gets out of the UAZ vehicle, approaches the officers, talks, lights a cigarette.

Kolmakov A.P. and the officers watch the paratroopers land, holding parachute fabric in their hands.

A Zenit camera is on the officer's chest.

The soldiers are assembling the parachutes.

Mi-8 landing.

Paratroopers and equipment landing from Il-76. Parachutes in the sky.

Armored vehicles landing on parachutes.

Paratroopers landing.

Military vehicles driving to the landing site.

Military cargo vehicles.

Kolmakov A.P. talks about Vyacheslav Nikolaevich Gazin, whom he met before the parachute jump, the training camp for airborne officers, Airborne General V.F. Margelov, and Airborne Forces actions in Afghanistan.

Lieutenant General's shoulder strap, "Russia, Armed Forces" chevron.

Instructors talking to a parachutist.

The junior lieutenant talks about the shock-absorbing system that ensures a soft landing of the armored vehicle and crew, lists the technical characteristics, talks about the actions of the armored vehicle crew during landing, about packing parachutes, and compares the Russian cargo airdrop system with the US system.

Club of the military unit of Russian peacekeepers.

Deputy battalion commander for educational work Major Bubnov talks about the past concert of the Alexandrov Ensemble Brigade, thanks the artists.

Private Anatoly Ivachev shares his impressions of the concert, says that such concerts should be held in military units on holidays.