Serve my Homeland №1 26.08.2007 (2007)

A story about the MAKS-2007 air show.

Video footage: demonstration flights of aircraft presented at the MAKS-2007 air show in Zhukovsky.

Various types of helicopters on the exhibition site.

A biplane next to a supersonic bomber.

Flights of MIG-29 aircraft during the air show.

Performing aerobatics.

A MIG-35 taxiing to the start.

A MIG-29 with the Channel One logo.

Armament expert Dmitry Izvekov talks about the importance of creating human resources and training new leaders in aerospace production, and about the program for training the younger generation, organized by the Space Forces (synchronously).

Visitors examine the Space Forces stands presented at the air show in one of the pavilions.

Commander of the Space Forces Vladimir Polovkin speaks about military-technical cooperation, achievements of the military-space industry, and attracting young people to educational institutions of the Space Forces to train qualified officers (synchronously).

Exhibits in the Space Forces pavilion.

A lesson in one of the classrooms of the Mozhaisky Military Space Academy.

A story about the military exercises "Peace Mission 2007" held in the Chelyabinsk Region.

Video footage: the seizure of city facilities and buildings by simulated terrorists. "Execution" of captured servicemen by terrorists.

A special forces group lands on the roof of a building from a helicopter.

A special forces group advances under the cover of an armored personnel carrier.

Officers from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) countries coordinate interaction using a map.

Self-propelled artillery units fire from caponiers.

Special forces land from a helicopter.

A machine gunner fires.

The landing force climbs inside an infantry fighting vehicle (IFV).

Episodes of the exercise, officers of the SCO countries at the command and observation post.

Helicopters over the city.

Launch of a reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle.

Special forces attack and destroy a simulated enemy.

Helicopters before takeoff.

Tank column on the march.

Views of a field camp, everyday life of military personnel.

Formation of Russian paratroopers on the parade ground.

Airborne Forces company commander Alexander Shipov talks about the placement of his subordinates (synchronously), demonstrates their living conditions in a tent, a field bathhouse.

The bugler gives a signal.

A cook in a field kitchen pours first and second courses into thermoses.

View of a field kitchen.

Chef Alena Samedova talks about the daily ration of Russian military personnel (synchronously).

The kitchen outfit carries thermoses with food.

A field kitchen based on an army truck.

A refrigeration unit for storing meat and fish.

A sign indicating a trailer bread van.

Earthmoving equipment during preparation of the training field for the exercise.

Sappers demining the area.

Explosions near the houses of the built settlement.

A sapper presses the buttons of the control panel for conducting imitation explosions.

Combat helicopters fire at ground targets.

Officer of the engineering troops Andrey Vinogradov demonstrates devices for conducting imitation explosions, talks about their action (synchronously).

Helicopters in the air.

The face of the BMP commander.

Airborne landing.

A salvo of a tank company.

The guest in the studio is the head of the Airborne Forces sector of the Synodal Department of the Russian Orthodox Church for Interaction with the Armed Forces, Father Mikhail (Vasiliev) speaks about restoring health after a spinal fracture during an unsuccessful jump, about military priests worthy of an award, about the lack of a legislative basis for the work of military priests in the troops, about the lack of pensions and social guarantees for the families of deceased military priests, about the destruction of churches on the territory of some military units, about the need for legislative regulation of the activities of military priests of various faiths, about religious persecution of military personnel and theomachy in units of the Russian army, about the need for religious and moral education of military personnel (synchronously).

Video chronicle: Father Mikhail sprinkling the soldiers' formation with holy water.

Father Mikhail conducting a service on the parade ground.

Father Mikhail during his stay in Kosovo and Chechnya.

Father Mikhail with a parachute among the paratroopers before boarding the plane.

Airborne assault landing during exercises near Vyazma.

Father Mikhail's hard landing.

The bells ring in the church tower in the village of Zaborovo in the Ryazan region.

People enter the church.

Laying flowers at Skobelev's grave.

Archbishop Pavel of Ryazan and Kasimov speaks about the events dedicated to the 125th anniversary of General M.D. Skobelev's death and his contribution to military science (synchronously).

Fragments of paintings by V.V. Vereshchagin.

Photo portrait of Skobelev.

Photographs of Skobelev among officers and soldiers.

Head of the Military Memorial Center A. Kirillin speaks about Skobelev as a Russian man and his resemblance to Suvorov (synchronously).

Skobelev on his deathbed (drawing).

Newsreel: Moscow in the early 20th century.

Military review on the parade ground.

Skobelev Committee member Anatoly Skobelev talks about the reasons for Skobelev’s persecution in high circles, their fear of Skobelev as a potential national leader, and the preservation of Skobelev’s memory in Bulgaria (synchronously).

Newsreel: religious procession on the streets of Moscow.

Drawing depicting a funeral train with Skobelev’s body.

Tombstone with Skobelev’s name.

Photographs of monuments to Skobelev in the Russian Empire.

Newsreel from 1912: unveiling of the monument to Skobelev in Moscow.

View of the monument.

Demolition of the monument to Skobelev in 1918. View of the monument to Yuri Dolgoruky on Tverskaya Square in Moscow.

Fragments of the monument.

People on the streets of Sofia.

Sign for Skobelev Boulevard in Sofia.

Monument to Skobelev in Bulgaria.

Sign at the entrance to the village of Skobelevo.

The mayor of the village of Skobelevo, Mehmed Murad, shows a school memorial dedicated to Skobelev.

Fragments of the film "Heroes of Shipka".