STORIES "I SERVE THE FATHERLAND" SOURCE MATERIALS (2000-2009)

Military Clinical Hospital named after Academician N.N. Burdenko, conference hall.

Bykov Igor Yuryevich talks about the hospital, tells about departments, laboratories, scientific centers, doctors and employees.

Klyuzhev Vyacheslav Mikhailovich talks about unique specialists working in the hospital, about Colonel General Romanov A.A. who is undergoing treatment, new medical equipment, names the number of operations performed during the year.

Bykov I.Yu. about the scientific and personnel potential of the hospital, about testing new medications and devices.

Klyuzhev V.M. about the scientific and methodological center and new medical technologies.

Bykov I.Yu. talks about the condition of private Sychev, who suffered from hazing during his military service in the Chelyabinsk garrison.

Klyuzhev V.M. and Bykov I.Yu. about medical equipment and devices at the disposal of doctors.

Professor Vladimir Kuzmich Nikolenko talks about a wounded pilot who is being treated in a hospital.

A demonstration of slides with X-rays and photographs of the patient. V. M. Klyuzhev and I. Yu.

Bykov talk about the pilot's injuries. V. K. Nikolenko talks about a patient with a hip joint disease who was successfully operated on and put back on her feet.

A demonstration of pictures and slides of the patient with Ilizarov devices on her legs. V. M. Klyuzhev invites correspondents to visit the operating rooms.

The outskirts of Tskhinvali.

Russian military investigators inspect the site of the shelling of the Russian peacekeeping battalion from the Georgian side, study fragments of biological origin, military equipment and various equipment, damage from bullets, shells and armored vehicles, take photographs, make measurements and records.

An officer talks about the facts established during the investigation, about the actions of the Georgian military, describes the site of the shelling.

Major of Justice Malbakhov Akhmed Karalbievich describes the remains of a serviceman of the peacekeeping forces, Private Kononov, a bulletproof vest, a stripe, talks about the shelling from the Georgian side (several takes).

Panoramic view of the area.

Deputy Head of the Control and Methodology Department of the Military Investigative Directorate for the Moscow District Lieutenant Golubtsov Konstantin Leonidovich talks about the shelling from the Georgian side, shows the direction from which the fire was coming.

Destroyed buildings, damaged power lines.

Colonel Sklyarov Igor Alekseevich talks about investigative actions regarding the shelling of the barracks of the Russian peacekeeping battalion, talks about the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict, the actions of Russian peacekeepers and Russian military investigators.

The senior lieutenant talks about the shelling of Tskhinvali by Georgian artillery.

Destruction as a result of the shelling.

Investigator for especially important cases of the military investigative department of the North Caucasus Military District Major Dmitry Viktorovich Kelm points to a hole from a shell fragment in the wall, describes the damage to the building.

Officers take measurements, record data, pack evidence.

Captain of Justice Eduard Arkadyevich Chikin talks about an investigative kit based on a vest, equipped with a tape measure, a camera, a set of batteries, a metal detector, a set of tools for removing traces and a tablet for notes, demonstrates a metal detector, packing bags, talks about the irregular working hours of investigators, the date of arrival at the scene.

In the gym, the participants go out onto the tatami, spar, and the judges watch the participants in the fights.

The spectators in the gym support the athletes.

The judges shake hands with the fighters after the fights.

Cups and medals.

Awarding the winners.

Osipov Sergey Aleksandrovich compares different styles of hand-to-hand combat, talks about the finger injury he received during the fight.

Osipov Sergey's diploma, the winner's cup.

Savelyev Dmitry Sergeevich talks about his sporting achievements and victories in karate, his coach Peplov I.A. and following the rules during the fight.

Savelyev D.S.'s gold medal.

Yuryev-Georgievsky Monastery.

Clergymen participating in the V All-Russian Gathering of Military Clergy walk through the monastery grounds.

A ceremonial firearms salute, wreath-laying at the Eternal Flame and the monument to fallen soldiers.

A service in the church, the clergymen pray.

An airfield, ceremonial events in honor of the new strategic bomber Tu-95MS "Veliky Novgorod".

Priests and military personnel next to the plane.

The military greets the commander of the Russian long-range aviation according to the regulations.

Pilots in dress uniform, an honor guard.

A long-range aviation pilot makes a speech, reads out the order of the military council to assign the name "Veliky Novgorod" to the Tu-95MS aircraft.

A line of soldiers and an honor guard with the unit's banner, the Russian anthem plays.

A brass band.

People next to the plane.

Orthodox priests, a rabbi, a Buddhist monk and an imam.

The veil is removed from the fuselage of the plane.

City residents take pictures of the plane.

An Orthodox priest makes a speech.

The crew of the plane.

The rite of consecration of the plane.

The pilot presents a memorable gift to the priest.

A parade of military pilots.

Metropolitan Lev speaks about prayer in the air and a flyover of the Novgorod region on an Air Force plane.

Pavel Vasilyevich Androsov speaks about the interaction of the army and the Orthodox Church.

Androsov P.V., priests and pilots walk along the airfield.

Community Center.

Priests and officers take souvenir photos near the Community Center.

Prusak Mikhail Mikhailovich speaks about the military clergy gatherings in the Novgorod Region.

Archpriest Vasiliev Mikhail Vladimirovich speaks about the military clergy gatherings in the Novgorod Region, and society's attitudes toward regimental priests.

Cars parked near the chapel.

Wooden chapel (several views). "Red Banner Aviation Regiment" stand.

Airfield checkpoint, a car drives through the gate.

In the church, Metropolitan Lev hands over the Ark with the relics of saints and the icon frame to Androsov P.V.

Priest Vladimir Mishchenko and the pilot in the cockpit of the Yak-52. The aircraft mechanics roll the plane to the parking lot.

Father Vladimir gets out of the cockpit.

Father Vladimir walks along the airfield, talks about his love for flying, greets the pilot, and gets into the plane.

Father Vladimir and the pilot leave the cockpit of the Yak-52. Father Vladimir talks about flying in reality and in dreams.

Pilot Nikolai talks about Father Vladimir.

Father Vladimir walks along the airfield, talks to the pilot.

The priest with a flight helmet against the background of planes.

The Yak-130 taxis onto the runway, accelerates, takes off, makes a turn in the sky, lands, releases braking parachutes (several repetitions).

The pilot talks about the Church of the Holy Martyr John the Warrior on the territory of the Krasnodar Flight School, its rector Father Vladimir, shows the icon that he always takes on flights, talks about prayer before flights.

Technicians near a Yak-130. The Yak-130 taxis to the parking lot.

A technician inspects a door on board the plane.

The helmet is in the hands of Father Vladimir.

Father Vladimir's face.

The Yak-130 on the parking lot.

Planes fly over the airfield.

Technicians near the Yak-130. Refueling the plane.

Father Vladimir takes off his cassock, puts on a pilot's suit and helmet.

A technician washes the aircraft's landing gear.

The pilot and priest climb the ladder into the plane's cockpit.

Father Vladimir fastens his seatbelt and connects the oxygen mask.

The pilot connects the helmet to the system.

The technician lowers the cockpit canopy, removes the ladder, and disconnects the power cables from the plane.

The technician raises his hand, the Yak-130 starts moving and taxis to the runway.

The technician inspects the aircraft's landing gear and fuselage, and raises his hand.

The Yak-130 accelerates, taxis after landing, and comes to a stop.

Old brick walls, a church dome with a cross.

A priest next to a Zhiguli car.

Nina Aleksandrovna Tuchina talks about the destruction of the main church in the city of Sapozhok by the Soviet authorities, her many years of work at the school, faith in God, and raising children. N.A. Tuchina talks about her son, Alexey Ivanovich Tuchin, a major in the GRU special forces, a participant in the First and Second Chechen Wars, and a Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously). N.A. Tuchina talks about her work in a Sunday church school, and about the help of the military and the city administration.

People on the streets of the workers' settlement Sapozhok.

Trees and old wooden houses.

Photos of the restoration of the church from the family album of Archpriest Oleg Vasilyevich Kuzmin.

Archpriest Oleg with his wife and children at home.

A boy doing pull-ups on a horizontal bar.

A black cat on a fence.

Street, old wooden houses.

People on the streets, a cyclist.

A two-story old stone house.

A tractor with a trailer.

Passers-by.

School building.

Schoolchildren on the porch.

Sign "School No. 1 named after Hero of Russia Alexey Ivanovich Tuchin".

Memorial plaque.

Children playing snowballs.

Wooden houses.

Drops.

Women walking down the street.

Children on a wooden slide.

Children and adults on the street.

Police car.

Restaurant, delicatessen, men on the porch.

A cart with a horse on the street.

The territory of the Russian embassy in Kabul.

Monument to internationalist soldiers.

The facade of the Russian embassy building.

Panorama of the territory.

The bell of the monument to internationalist soldiers.

In his office, Avetisyan Andrey Levonovich talks about the development of relations between Russia and Afghanistan at the present time, the fight against drug trafficking, the restoration of infrastructure facilities, the reconstruction of the Russian cultural center, assistance in housing construction, and the establishment of trade relations.

Tennis court, courtyard, apartment buildings for employees on the embassy territory.

At night, a television crew and former internationalist soldiers get into cars on the territory of the Russian embassy in Kabul.

A guard with a machine gun raises the barrier, opens the gates of the checkpoint.

The car drives out onto the street.

Filming the area during a trip along a mountain road in Afghanistan.

Mountains in the fog, harvested fields in the valley, a river.

A shepherd with two cows.

Women and children walking along the road.

Trucks with sacks in the back.

Panorama of the river and snow-capped mountains.

The side of the truck and the road.

Snow-capped mountain slopes and a view of the road.

View from the car window of the river in the gorge and a narrow road along the cliff.

Drivers at the cars in the parking lot, snow-capped mountains.

Cars driving along a rocky road.

Passage through a village, one-story buildings by the road.

The cars stop on a mountain plateau, the passengers get out of the cars.

The former internationalist soldiers inspect the area, point to the mountain range, remember the past, look at an old photograph, compare the landscape with the photo.

Against the backdrop of the mountains, the correspondent talks about the Gurbant gorge, the crash site of the Il-76 aircraft with paratroopers (several takes).

The film crew and the former internationalist soldiers walk along the plateau in the direction of the mountain range.

Mountain slope with sparse grass.

Folds of mountain terrain and peaks in snow.

Former Afghan soldiers and a film crew climb the snowy slope.

Men climb a snowy slope.

Former Afghan soldiers drill into the rock at the top and install memorial plaques with the names of the paratroopers who died on December 25, 1979, in the crash of the Il-76 plane.

A man lights a candle on a rock.

Plaques on the rock "12/25/79", "Eternal Memory to the Heroes", a burning candle.

Panorama of the mountain range and gorge.

View of the summit with plaques.

The crash site of the Il-76 on December 25, 1979. On the top of the cliff, former Afghan soldiers installed memorial plaques with the names of the fallen paratroopers.

Veterans stand on the cliff, holding the flags of the Airborne Forces.

Jeeps drive along a mountain road.

Mountains and a river.

Peaks in the fog.

Mountain peaks and ruins of an old fortress on the ridge of a cliff.

Mohammed Rafi answers the correspondent's questions about why he decided to become a military man, about his military career, communication with Soviet military leaders, his attitude towards the USA and NATO, and recalls the chief Soviet military adviser to the Republic of Afghanistan, Army General G.I. Salmanov.

Mohammed Rafi sends greetings to former military advisers and General Gromov B.V. Photos of Mohammed Rafi.

Mohammed Rafi talks to his comrades, drinks tea.

Building with a sign "Peace Movement of Afghanistan Central Office".

In the gym, a coach instructs a sportswoman before a fight.

Osipov Sergey Aleksandrovich warms up before sparring.

Dark-skinned sportsmen.

A team of sportsmen in red jackets.

Girls sparring, a referee nearby.

Spectators in the stands.

Osipov S.A. comes out onto the tatami, sparring with an opponent.

The coach talks to Osipov S.A. after the fight.

Osipov S.A. in a red jacket.

Demchenko Natalya Sergeevna talks about the beginning of her sports career, women's karate competitions, coaching, Kyokushin wrestling rules, the lifestyle of karate sportsmen, and the psychological preparation of the participants.

Demchenko N.S. talks about a competition in breaking hard objects, shows a wooden board, talks about the technique of striking, the rules for breaking boards for men and women.

The board in the hands of Demchenko N.S., options for striking with the edge of the palm, fist, elbow.

Slipenchuk Mikhail Viktorovich talks about the karate-do federation, the ongoing karate tournament, the rules of fights, and the preparation of Russian athletes (two takes).