Serve my Homeland №1 15.08.2004 (2004)

A story dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Alpha Group.

Video footage: terrorist attacks in the early 1970s.

View of a camp for training Islamic terrorists.

Victims and consequences of terrorist attacks in the Middle East and Europe.

Special operations to neutralize air terrorists.

Alpha Group fighters during one of their training sessions.

Training at the shooting range.

Alpha Group fighters during one of the combat operations.

Alpha Group commander in 1991-1992 Mikhail Golovatov talks about the formation of the group, maintaining a special secrecy regime, and taking Amin’s palace (synchronously).

Physical fitness training.

Combat operations in Afghanistan, the introduction of troops into Kabul.

View of Amin’s palace.

Alpha Group fighters seize the palace, a fight inside the palace.

Hostage rescue and fire training.

Various types of training.

A mock assault on various objects.

Faces of hostages in the hospital in Budyonnovsk.

The face of Sh.

Basayev.

Basayev's fighters on a bus.

Storming a railway carriage.

The Alpha group storms the Dubrovka Theatre Center in 2002. The bodies of the destroyed terrorists.

Alpha group veteran Alexander talks about the peculiarities of the storming of the Dubrovka Theatre Center (synchronously).

Alpha fighters board a helicopter.

Participation of Alpha fighters in special operations in Chechnya.

Russian President V.V. Putin delivers a speech on the role of Alpha in the fight against terrorism (synchronously).

An Alpha fighter during special operations.

A story about a military construction unit in Chechnya.

Video chronicle: Deputy Commander of the North Caucasus Military District for Construction Yuri Ivanov talks about a terrorist act on the territory of a hospital in Mozdok, about donations from servicemen for the construction of a chapel (synchronously).

The ruins of the hospital after the explosion on August 1, 2003. Rescuers and soldiers clear the rubble.

The wounded in tents.

Nurse Tatyana Avilova speaks about the explosion in the hospital (synchronously).

Clearing the rubble of the hospital.

View of the Orthodox chapel being built on the site of the explosion.

Panorama of the construction of the new hospital.

An operation being performed in a tent medical center.

The wounded on beds in tents.

View of the new hospital building.

Interior finishing work.

Colonel Sergei Sidoryuk speaks about the structures and materials used in the construction of the new hospital (synchronously).

Views of the settlement of Borzoi.

Military builders at work.

Views of houses for officers and their families.

The officer's wife Sivanzh Gadzhieva talks about the new apartment and living conditions in the military town.

The interior of one of the rooms.

View of the canteen building in the military town in the village of Shali, built by military builders.

Soldiers during lunch.

View of the territory of a military construction unit (above).

Sappers check the road before a column of construction equipment passes.

Houses built by military builders.

Deputy Head of the Construction Department of the Russian Ministry of Defense Mikhail Bikovitsky speaks about the prospects for construction in the North Caucasus Military District (synchronously).

A story about Russian developments in the field of anti-ballistic missile (ABM).

Video chronicle: deployment of US missile defense systems.

Officers in the American command center.

Diagram of the US missile defense system (computer graphics and animation).

Launch of the new Russian intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) "Topol-M".

Diagram of the Topol-M missile, which penetrates the US missile defense system (computer animation).

Guest in the studio - Head of the Combat Training Department of the Strategic Missile Forces V.M. Shcherbovich talks about the effectiveness of the new Topol-M system in penetrating the US missile defense system and ensuring armed parity for years to come, about the emergence of new means of penetrating the US missile defense system, about the consequences of the US withdrawal from the ABM Treaty, about the danger of the START-2 Treaty for Russia, about the destruction of missile systems, about preserving missile systems as a result of Russia's withdrawal from START-2, about maintaining parity with the US in the coming years (synchronously).

Video chronicle: launch of the Topol-M missile. V.V. Putin listens to the explanations of the Strategic Missile Forces commander at the testing ground.

A story about the Normandie-Niemen air squadron.

Video chronicle: a checkpoint at the Normandie-Niemen regiment base in France.

An airplane on the runway.

Newsreel from 1942: a military transport plane after landing.

Faces of French pilots.

Aircraft before a combat sortie.

A fighter jet taking off.

Soviet officers direct the flight at the communications post.

Air battles.

Downed German planes burn.

Video footage: planes of the modern Normandie-Niemen squadron at the airfield.

The squadron commander's plane with the Russian flag and red star.

A technician inspects the plane and carries out pre-flight preparations.

Commander Kristov Offor shows off the traditional squadron scarf and a patch with a call sign in Russian.

Offor clarifies the flight mission on the map and explains the details of the upcoming flight to his subordinate.

Offor's plane takes off.

Squadron planes in flight, pilots in the cockpits.

Destruction of a training target.

Offor speaks with regret about the bombing of Kosovo in 1999 and blames politicians for everything (synchronously).

The plane taxis for takeoff.

Squadron operations officer Eric Fontaine speaks about the brotherhood in arms and modern contacts between Russian and French pilots (synchronously).