Serve my Homeland №1 03.04.2011 (2011)

A story about the daily life of a separate salute division.

Video footage: launching a training fireworks display on the territory of the 449th separate salute division.

Personnel of the salute division during an inspection in the early 1970s.

The division fires a salute at the Kremlin wall.

Russian President V.V. Putin during the inauguration.

Gun crews during another training session.

Salute charges used in firing.

Division Commander Vyacheslav Paradnikov talks about the features of salute firing (synchronously).

Salute installations in service with the division.

Preparing the installation for firing.

View of the vehicle for transporting salute installations.

Loading the charge and the procedure for testing salvos.

Deputy platoon commander Yevgeny Doronin demonstrates the procedure for directing fire using a remote control (synchronously).

Firing salute installations, fireworks in the sky.

Fragments of the feature film "Peter the Great".

Newsreel from 1941: people listen to the announcement of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War.

View of Red Square during the parade on November 7, 1941 (top).

Red Army soldiers in parade formation.

Artillery salute in honor of the victory at Kursk on August 5, 1943. Salute in the sky over Red Square.

People's faces during the salute on May 9, 1945. Salutes during festive events.

Training of artillery gun crews of the salute division.

Sights and gun barrels.

Conducting a training session on saluting shooting, practicing the synchronicity of actions.

Private Vladimir Vladimirov talks about the actions of the gun crew during saluting shooting and the features of this type of shooting (synchronously).

A story about the winter field trip of the Peresvet detachment.

Video chronicle: performing the "Battle Moderator" exercise.

Setting a combat training mission for personnel.

The group moves through the forest.

A group of simulated militants moves along the road.

Captain Turshinov talks about the tactics used by the militants and ways to counter them (synchronously).

The assault on the Dagestani village of Karamakhi, the actions of mobile special forces groups.

Deputy Commander for Special Training Andrei Furaev talks about the composition and tactics of assault groups, and the responsibilities of a commander (synchronously).

The group storms an object during exercises.

Capturing a building.

Pursuing a group of simulated militants escaping through the forest.

Squad fighters during training on the fire assault strip.

Squad commander Evgeny Saprin talks about the specifics of serving in the squad, and the difficulties of passing the fire assault strip (synchronously).

Organizing a day's rest in the forest.

Machine gunner Alexander Lisin talks about how to light a fire and set up a day's rest (synchronously).

A duty sniper at his position.

Snipers Alexey and Roman talk about the specifics of equipping a sniper position and observation posts (synchronously).

Detection of a group of simulated militants, report via radio.

Defeat of a group of simulated militants.

A story about command and staff exercises in the 106th Tula Airborne Division.

Video footage: airborne assault landing at a training ground in the Ryazan Region in March 2011, landing of personnel and armored vehicles.

Armored vehicles advancing to targets.

Deputy Head of Exercises Anatoly Khlebnikov talks about the successful completion of the task assigned to the assault force, and coordination of actions with higher management (synchronously).

Preparing equipment for parachuting.

Loading equipment onto an aircraft.

Aircraft at the airfield.

Paratroopers preparing to leave.

Checking parachutes and equipment.

Private Kamil Shakhbanov talks about preparing equipment before the exercise, about the upcoming eighth jump (synchronously).

Checking the presence of personnel before boarding the plane.

Paratroopers near the plane.

Senior officer of the armored service Vitaly Selishchev talks about technicians (synchronously).

Military priests and a deacon check parachutes.

Archpriest Savva checks equipment.

Archpriest Savva Shcherbina talks about the romance of airborne assault (synchronously).

Airborne assault during the exercise, command observes from the command post.

Cleaning the parachutes after landing by the duty detail.

Launch of the reconnaissance drone.

Acting commander of the 106th division Vladimir Kochetkov talks about the role of the drone in reconnaissance (synchronously).

Terrain on the monitor screen.

Views of the mobile Orthodox church.

Military priest Father Mikhail in the church, the interior of the church.

Military priests bless paratroopers.

Actions of the paratrooper battalion in defense.

Shooting with anti-tank guided missiles.

Guest in the studio - Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov talks about the rules of fasting during military service, about the spiritual meaning of fasting and its spiritual observance, about the presence of military priests in the troops, about staffing units with military priests, addresses the servicemen with a blessing (synchronously).