Serve my Homeland №1 02.09.2012 (2012)

A story about the 7th Russian military base in Abkhazia.

Video footage: an officer on the seashore briefs the personnel before swimming lessons.

The instructor counts the soldiers before entering the water.

An ambulance is on duty on the shore.

The soldiers enter the water.

Platoon commander Alexander Maksimov talks about the peculiarities of swimming in sea water, the goals and objectives of conducting applied swimming lessons (synchronously).

Soldiers swim in a race, the instructor's face.

Soldiers of the communications battalion do push-ups during a physical training lesson.

Hand-to-hand combat lesson.

Kettlebell lifting lesson, the instructor demonstrates the next exercise.

Instructor Yaroslav Khapilin talks about the schedule and intensity of physical training lessons (synchronously).

Personnel of the communications battalion during tactical and special training.

Bringing special communications vehicles to combat readiness.

Company Commander Yevgeny Litvishko talks about the special conditions of service in Abkhazia and a large number of tactical and special training sessions.

The latest hardware systems during testing at the base's training ground.

Signalman Petr Valovsky at work establishing communications using the new hardware system.

Transmission of data and conditions of a combat training mission via radio.

Scouts during exercises.

Demonstration of the individual communications system "Strelets", reconnaissance platoon commander Anton Shabis explains the purpose of each element of the system, provides tactical and technical data for the 1K119 reconnaissance system (synchronously).

Deployment of the 1K119 reconnaissance and signaling system.

A lesson in a computer class on tank and armored personnel carrier driving simulators.

T-90 tank commanders and gunners during a lesson on computer simulators.

Gunner-operator Andrei Smirnov talks about the advantages of training on computer simulators (synchronously).

Grenade launchers during training at a virtual training ground.

View of the new tank simulator.

Head of the training complex Yuriy Grishchenko talks about the advantages of the new virtual tank simulator (synchronously).

Interiors of one of the barracks for personnel.

Serviceman A. Paraskun talks about the favorable living conditions in the barracks (synchronously).

Interiors of the recreation area, utility room.

View of the washroom.

Story about the youth military-patriotic club (VPK) "Rus".

Video chronicle: the opening ceremony of the cultural and historical base "Rus" in the village of Zaraysk.

A wooden boat is floating.

Participants in the ceremony in historical costumes on the river bank.

Organizer Igor Volokitin talks about the search for a place for the center's base, about communication between children - members of the club with actor Vladislav Galkin (synchronously).

Teenagers in a tent camp set up on the site of the future base.

The ceremony of consecrating the foundation stone with the name of Vladislav Galkin – “Vlad’s stone”.

The squads line up in front of the tents.

Signs with the squads’ designations.

Children walk past the tent.

View of a part of the river.

Icon of the Miracle Worker Nikolai Zaraysky.

Portraits of Evpatiy Kolovrat, Dmitry Donskoy and Dmitry Pozharsky.

Paintings – illustrations to “The Tale of the Destruction of Ryazan by Batu”.

The club members walk in full dress uniform.

The priest sprinkles the participants of the event with holy water.

Hand-to-hand combat training.

Swimming competitions.

The club members shoot a bow and throw knives.

Play gorodki.

Young men and women dance in a circle.

The head of the club, Alexander Medvedev, speaks about the military-applied specialties studied in the club (synchronously).

Riders knock down cabbage heads with spears.

The leader of the Knyazhiy Styazh detachment, Andrey Khudoley, talks about attempts to instill in children the beauty of Russian history, about ways to get modern children interested in something (synchronously).

Historical reconstruction of an episode of a sword fight.

Horseback riding.

Working in an old forge.

Studying pottery.

Studying combat techniques in a mounted formation.

A member of the detachment, Marina Khudoley, talks about horseback riding and historical fencing lessons (synchronously).

A performance by a folklore ensemble for club members.

Newsreel: young people and teenagers take drugs.

The head of the department of the Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation for the Moscow Region, Yevgeny Shevchenko, talks about drug prevention with the help of such youth clubs (synchronously).

The guest in the studio is Dmitry Semizorov, Acting Director General of the FSUE TsNII Tochmash, who talks about the upcoming changes in the industry, the history and new projects of the Institute to create new types of weapons, the areas of work of the Institute, talks about the elements of the new equipment of military personnel and their individual weapons, about solving the problems of improving the effectiveness of ammunition, about new developments in the field of mass weapons, the beginning of preliminary tests of new models, the development of a new series of individual means of protection for military personnel, about lightening the equipment of a soldier, about the development of a new type of bayonet-knife, about the prospects for fulfilling the tasks set to create new types of protection and equipment by 2020 using nano and biotechnology, about developments in the field of improving sighting devices for small arms, about the lag in the field of thermal imaging optics (synchronously).