Serve my Homeland №1 20.03.2005 (2005)

A story about the combat routine of the 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division stationed in Chechnya.

Video footage: exercises at the training ground of the 70th Guards Regiment in the Shali area.

Contract servicemen from the reconnaissance company during exercises.

A platoon walks along the road, soldiers' faces.

Soldiers wash their shoes with a hose after returning from patrol, share their impressions.

Soldiers enter the barracks.

Handing over weapons to the company duty officer.

Everyday soldier life.

Senior Sergeant Vladimir Kynyyev washes himself and talks about the peculiarities of contract service in Chechnya (synchronously).

An infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) at the Tarskoye training ground in North Ossetia.

The crew takes its places in the tank during a gathering of regimental commanders of the North Caucasus Military District.

The tank fires on the move.

Commander of the 58th Army Viktor Sobolev speaks about the objectives of the training session and the need for officers to master all the skills of a common soldier (synchronously).

The platoon commander reports to the head of the training session.

Regiment Commander Mikhail Nosulev speaks about the sensations after completing the exercise (synchronously).

Attack aviation during exercises at the Daryal training ground.

Conducting the mountain training stage during the exercise.

Advancing a patrol group with pack animals.

A scout talks about the combat service of a donkey named Kazbek.

Colonel Nosulev before the start of an exercise in driving an infantry fighting vehicle.

Nosulev closes the driver's hatch.

The infantry fighting vehicle starts moving.

Commander of the 42nd Division Sergei Surovikin speaks about the main principle of a commander's behavior in a combat situation and the role of personal example for subordinates (synchronously).

The missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov on a campaign.

The team sits down at the dinner table.

A warship at sea during a storm.

Senior cook instructor Viktor Serbenchuk talks about the peculiarities of cooking on a ship during a combat mission, during heavy seas (synchronously).

The galley crew during the preparation of dinner, a view of part of the set table.

Pouring soup into barrels.

Special devices in the galley for cooking during heavy seas.

Checking the quality of the prepared food.

Classes at the Northern Fleet cook school, samples of dishes included in the military menu.

Senior cook instructor Olga Nekrasova conducts a class on the preparation of semi-finished products and other food.

Nekrasova talks about the high level of qualification of cooks, in contrast to civilian cooks (synchronously).

Sailors in the mess hall during dinner, distribution of navy-style macaroni.

Newsreel: combat operations of Soviet troops in March 1945 during the Balaton defensive operation.

The crew brings the gun to combat position.

German troops on the march.

Burning German tanks.

An artillery crew fires at the enemy.

Corpses of German soldiers.

Soviet infantry and tanks go on the attack.

Hitler at headquarters, looking at a map, getting acquainted with the situation at the front.

A Soviet tank column on the march.

Soviet tanks on the outskirts of Vienna.

View of central Vienna (top).

Marshal of the Soviet Union Tolbukhin over a map of military operations.

Text of Tolbukhin’s address to the residents of Vienna.

Diagram of the Vienna Operation (computer graphics).

Newsreel: street fighting in Vienna.

Soviet artillery fires at pockets of Nazi resistance in Vienna.

Assault units advance under fire through the streets of Vienna.

Tanks of the 2nd Ukrainian Front attack.

German soldiers and officers surrender.

View of a square with German prisoners gathered on it (top).

Faces of Viennese residents greeting Soviet soldiers.

Soviet sappers restore one of the bridges across the Danube.

Panorama of the ceremonial restoration of Austrian statehood.

Marshal Tolbukhin during the ceremony.

Residents of Vienna greet Tolbukhin.

A story about the feat of the 6th company of the Pskov Airborne Division in the Argun Gorge in 2000. Funeral salute from machine guns in honor of the heroes of the 6th company on the parade ground of the 76th Pskov Airborne Division.

Wreath-laying ceremony at the monument to the fallen paratroopers.

Faces of relatives and combat friends of the fallen.

A priest holds a memorial service for the fallen.

An honor guard at the monument.

View of the Argun Gorge.

Militants around fires in the camp.

The advance of the militants through the forest.

The layout of the positions of the 6th company and a map of military operations.

A map-scheme of the battle of the 6th company with Khattab's militants (computer graphics).

A participant in the battle talks about the course of the battle and the arrival of help, the brutal nature of the battle (synchronously).

Paratroopers collect weapons after the battle.

A photograph found on one of the fallen paratroopers.

Portraits of the fallen paratroopers on the wall, next to them is the mother of the fallen paratrooper, Vera Travina.

Monuments on the graves of Mikhail Travin and his commanders.

Relatives lay flowers on the graves of the fallen.

The names of the fallen paratroopers on the monument to the 6th company.

The guest in the studio is the rector of the Patriarchal Metochions at the Airborne Forces and Strategic Missile Forces headquarters, the chief priest of the Airborne Forces, Father Mikhail (Vasiliev), speaks about the feat of the paratroopers of the 6th company as the highest service to the Fatherland, about communication with the parents and children of the fallen soldiers, about the fortitude of the paratroopers, worthy of the title of Hero of Russia, discusses the topic of where heroes come from, the strong spirit of Russian heroism in the Airborne Forces, the ideological and spiritual training of the paratroopers as Orthodox warriors (synchronously).

The Airborne Forces special forces company celebrates Maslenitsa.