Serve my Homeland 05/03/2009 (2009)

Our report: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at a meeting of the State Council in Ryazan and at the gathering point of the Ryazan military registration and enlistment office, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief is concerned problems of the spring draft, the main emphasis was placed on the problems of pre-conscription physical training.

Changes in the army: parental committees, rules for the issuance of military uniforms, new shoes, dietary norms, psychological tests.

On a visit to the program the head of the Department of Physical Training of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Alexander Schepelev, talk about physical training in the army and about what changes wait for conscripts and soldiers in the framework of the army reform.

From the history of the development of army physical training; in the plot included video materials of the press service of the Department of Physical Training of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the footage of the feature film "Admiral Nakhimov" (1946, director V.Pudovkin).

Interview: veteran of the Great Patriotic War Sergei Kudryavtsev, head of physical training brigade of motorized rifle Vadim Maznikov.

Our report: in 2004, Vladimir Putin decided to create mountain units.

Now it is the mountain brigades of the Ministry of Defense that make up the core of the permanent readiness units.

Shooting at the range of the 34th motorized rifle mountain brigade: the work of reconnaissance teams on the border of Russia and Georgia, theoretical and practical training of recruits in the training center of the brigade.

Interview: brigade commander Artur Shemaitis, reconnaissance platoon commander Vitaly Rozhnov, deputy head of the combat training department captain Roman Zhigailo, junior sergeant Yevgeny Smarkovsky.

In the preparation of the plot, amateur footage of the brigade fighters was used.