Serve my Homeland 12.08.2007 (2007)

Our report: celebration of the birthday of the Airborne Forces in Voronezh.

On August 2, 1930, near Voronezh, during the pilot exercises of the air force of the Moscow Military District, a historic event occurred: for the first time in Russian history, a specially trained combat group was landed, this training operation opened up wide prospects for a new, unique kind of troops, which is why August 2 is considered the birthday of the Airborne Forces.

At the site of the first jump of the paratroopers, a stone was laid in the foundation of the future memorial complex.

In July, in the Pskov region, at the training ground of the 76th Airborne Division, competitions were held for the championship of the best reconnaissance platoon.

The plot starred: Chairman of the Union of Heroes of the Russian Federation Alexander Pegishev, former commander of the group "Alpha" Gennady Zaitsev, Hero of the Russian Federation Anatoly Lebed, chief of intelligence of the Airborne Forces Valery Yakhnovets, commander of the reconnaissance platoon of the Airborne Forces Sergey Shkolnikov, judge of hand-to-hand combat competitions Gennady Bondarev.

Our report: in 2006, the main military prosecutor's office sent a bill to the Ministry of Defense, according to which the Russian army plans to introduce the institution of chaplains (regimental and ship priests).

While officials are discussing the prospects of legalizing the clergy, the army already employs more than 3,000 clergy on a voluntary basis, and for the fifth year in a row they are meeting together to discuss issues of interaction between the army and the church.

Filming took place at the Air Force Museum in Monino, at the long-range aviation garrison in the Novgorod Region, at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, and at the Baikonur cosmodrome.

The plot starred the commander of long-range aviation Pavel Androsov, cosmonaut Valery Tokarev, as well as priests serving in military units.

The plot of the work of the Public Council under the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Director of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, member of the Council Ruslan Pukhov, comments on the story.

On November 21, 1910, the world's first military flight school was founded in the village of Kacha near Sevastopol, and Emperor Nicholas II took part in the solemn laying of the foundation of aviation hangars.

Sevastopol Aviation School became the cradle of both the military and civil domestic air fleet; the story is dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the Russian Air Force and the history of the development of Russian aviation.