Serve my Homeland №1 11.01.2004 (2004)

A story about the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

Video footage: the launch of a spacecraft.

Flight control operators at work.

Colonel of the Space Forces Sergei Egorov talks about the launch of a rocket under the Strela program, shows stars indicating the number of launches (synchronously).

Views of the silo for launching intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Maintenance of rockets converted to launch satellites into low-Earth orbit.

The stele at Baikonur, designed by Major Lopatin.

View of one of the launches.

Rockets at Baikonur.

Maintenance of a launch vehicle for military satellites.

Views of the Proton rocket and space complex.

Lieutenant Colonel Igor Zatula talks about the purpose and tasks of the Proton complex (synchronously).

The GLONASS system in action (computer animation).

Commander of the Space Forces Anatoly Perminov talks about the need to replenish the orbital group to its full strength, the need to preserve the Baikonur Cosmodrome (synchronously).

Views of the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

Launch of a spacecraft from Baikonur.

The commander of the combat crew reports to the commander about the successful launch of the spacecraft.

A story about the Dubai Air Show.

Video footage: an American aircraft demonstrating its flight characteristics, faces of spectators.

Views of the air show venues.

Cars on the trading floor.

A private business class jet armed with missiles and presented at the exhibition.

Demonstration of combat helicopters.

An Apache helicopter on the platform.

French Mirage and Roshal fighters in flight.

An American F-118 aircraft flies over the airfield.

A Harrier vertical takeoff aircraft.

An American F-16 demonstrates its capabilities.

Test pilot Evgeny Frolov speaks about the high level of training of Russian pilots and the quality of aircraft (synchronously).

A Russian aircraft takes off.

Performing aerobatics on a Su-27. Sukhoi Aircraft Corporation CEO Mikhail Pogosyan talks about the advantages, capabilities and benefits of Russian aircraft (synchronously).

Video footage: Russian President V.V. Putin speaks in the Kremlin, General S.E. Popov listens to Putin's speech.

Putin presents Popov with an award, congratulates him on his 100th birthday.

Popov's and Putin's faces, awards on Popov's uniform.

Photos of Popov during his service in the Soviet Army.

Map of Popov's combat path.

Popov recalls combat episodes from the Great Patriotic War, about his transfer to the Far East (synchronously).

Newsreel from 1943: combat operations on the Kursk Bulge.

Artillery fires at the enemy.

Zhukov G.K. at the command post.

Photos of Popov at heavy artillery firing positions in North Korea.

Popov looks at his photo album.

Books written by Popov.

Family friend Yulia Kutkova speaks about Popov (synchronously).

A story about the end of the "Pskov Experiment".

Video footage: Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov speaks about the end of the experiment and the need to conduct it (synchronously).

The division commander reports to the Defense Minister.

Paratroopers during training.

Soldiers of the 104th Regiment patrol the area in Chechnya.

Ivanov presents awards to servicemen who took part in the fighting in Chechnya.

Ivanov speaks from the podium about the results of the experiment (synchronously).

Soldiers go out on alert.

Equipment leaves the boxes.

Paratroopers go to be loaded onto the plane.

Ivanov speaks about the coordination of formations during combat training and paying attention to combat training as part of a unit (synchronously).

Paratroopers during ground training.

Houses built for the division officers.

Division personnel during exercises.

Landing of troops.

Ivanov talks about contract service and the allocation of funds for these purposes (synchronously).

Guest in the studio - Commander of the Russian Airborne Forces, Lieutenant General Kolmakov A.P. talks about the completion of the transfer of the 76th Division to a contract basis, about the actions of the division's units in Chechnya, about the new tasks of the division, about the solution to the problem of raising the professional level of young officers, about the criteria for admission to contract service, about the elitism and traditions of the Airborne Forces (synchronously).

Video chronicle: Kolmakov puts on a helmet and parachute during exercises, gets into a helicopter.

Kolmakov lands after the jump.