Serve my Homeland №1 03.08.2003 (2003)

Host Boris Galkin performs a song of his own composition, "Greetings from the Airborne Forces!" A story dedicated to the Airborne Forces Day and the creator of the Airborne Forces, General V.F. Margelov.

Film and video footage (alternating with photographs): nuclear weapons tests in the USSR and the USA in the early 1960s.

Airborne landing.

Airborne units during exercises.

Photographs by V.F. Margelov.

Airborne Forces Commander Georgy Shpak speaks about the merits of V.F. Margelov in the creation of the Airborne Forces (synchronously).

Combat operations of Soviet troops during the Great Patriotic War.

Street fighting, infantry and tank attacks.

Portrait of Margelov in 1942. The Red Army ski battalion goes on the attack.

Artillery fires at the enemy.

Portrait of Margelov in a ceremonial general's uniform.

Soviet tanks on the march.

Zhukov G.K. at the command post.

War veteran Semyon Zolotov talks about Margelov's leadership qualities and organizational skills (synchronously).

Portrait of Margelov.

The first airborne combat vehicle (BMD), created by order of Margelov, during exercises.

Airborne combat vehicle landing on water.

Troops climb onto the BMD's armor while moving.

Airborne combat vehicle landing by parachute.

Colonel A. Margelov talks about attempts to create an armored vehicle landing system in the West, about selecting candidates for BMD landing tests, talks about his participation in the landing inside the BMD, and about solving the problems set by V.F. Margelov. (synchronously).

Airborne combat vehicle landing with a crew from an airplane.

Photo of Defense Minister Grechko among the military.

Margelov watches the airborne combat vehicle landing with a crew in January 1973. The BMD descends by parachute.

Major L. G. Zuyev and Lieutenant A. V. Margelov (son of V. F. Margelov) inside the BMD during the landing.

Safe landing of the BMD with the crew on board, parachute release.

The landed BMD attacks the simulated enemy.

Margelov and Zuyev stop the vehicle and sit on the armor.

Lieutenant General A. Slyusar reports on the completion of the parachute system tests (synchronously).

Zuyev and Margelov report to the Airborne Forces Commander V. F. Margelov on the successful landing.

Margelov thanks the officers.

Landing of combat equipment using the Centaur multi-dome parachute system.

Photo of Margelov presenting an award to a paratrooper officer.

Demonstration performances by cadets of the Ryazan Command Airborne School.

Cadets at a tug-of-war competition.

A story about an armored train of railway troops operating in the Chechen Republic.

Video footage: an armored train leaves the station.

A machine-gun crew loads a DShK machine gun.

Machine gunners are on alert.

A driver in the locomotive cabin.

An armored train departs from Mozdok for Grozny.

Destroyed buildings next to the railroad, view of the head platform.

Views of the passing armored train.

Faces of the crew members.

The commander of the armored train Stas Dashkevich talks about the goals and objectives of each crew member, about the survivability of the armored train in combat (synchronously).

A combat helicopter flies by.

The Russian flag is above the armored train.

An observer at the embrasure of the armored car.

Views of platforms with ballast.

A sapper at the train's observation post.

View of the locomotive, the driver in the cabin.

View of the platform with a heavy tank.

Armored cars of the train.

View of the rear armoured car with two anti-aircraft mounts.

The armoured train slows down.

Sappers go out to reconnoiter the railway track.

Sapper Andrei Gryazev talks about different types of mines and explosive devices used by militants, methods of mining the railway (synchronously).

Sappers search for mines.

Sappers discover a mine laying.

A helicopter flies by.

Sappers defuse a mine.

Destruction of the extracted land mine.

The driver gives full speed.

View of part of the moving armoured train.

View of the oncoming armoured train.

Construction equipment on the platform of one of the armoured trains.

The opening ceremony of the railway bridge after repairs.

A bottle of champagne is smashed against the bridge support.

Trains go across the bridge.

Chechen track engineer Tarkho Gerikhanov writes the name of the bridge on the support.

Gerikhanov talks about the restoration of roads and bridges in Chechnya (synchronously).

Workers restore one of the sections of the track.

Tank on the platform of an armored train.

Sappers inspect the bridge.

View of the platform with ballast, a sapper with binoculars.

A moving armored train.

View of the station building in Grozny.

One of the crew members performs a song with a guitar.

A story about the training of engineering troops of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.

Video chronicle: the work of the Zmey Gorynych system - an installation for demining the area.

Sappers make passages among anti-tank mines.

Demining exercises with the participation of search dogs.

Installation and destruction of anti-personnel mines.

Commander of the Engineering Troops Nikolay Serdtsev talks about the features of the work of sappers on demining the area in Chechnya, about the specifics of the work of sappers (synchronously).

Sapper units during the training.

Removing one of the mine caches.

Types of pressure-acting explosive devices, a mined dummy.

Other types of mines used by militants.

Detonating a mine using a portable radio station.

Search for land mines installed on trees and telegraph poles using a special device.

Destruction of a suspended mine using a contactless method.

Guests in the studio – airborne sappers Sergei and Alexey talk about the use of ammunition by terrorists on the streets of peaceful cities, about the types of improvised explosive devices, about actions upon detection of such a device, about camouflaging explosive devices in garbage, about the need to be vigilant (synchronously).

A story about a livestock complex in the Kantemirovskaya division.

Video chronicle: a soldier reports to an officer about a night shift at the livestock complex.

Pigs in a pen.

A soldier takes care of a farrowing sow.

Private Alexey Sheiko talks about the peculiarities of his service at the livestock complex, about taking care of pigs (synchronously).

Soldiers stir hay with pitchforks.

View of part of the barnyard.

Distribution of feed to pigs.

Soldiers in the canteen during lunch.

Chickens at the divisional poultry farm.

Sheiko looks after piglets.

The ensign of the food service explains to the soldiers their main task.

The head of a pig.