Catalog of TV Programs

Participation of athletes of the Soviet Union at the Olympics in Helsinki in 1952.

The theme of the program is "Moon race in space.

USSR-USA. 1969 "

Newsreel - The first man to go into space March 18, 1965.

Leonov Alexey speaks about the landing of American astronauts on the Moon, July 21, 1969.

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The storming of the Palace of Amin, 1979.

December 27, 1979 began the longest war of the XX century.

In distant Kabul KGB special forces took the palace of Dar-ul-Aman (Amin's palace).

Since that day, 20 years have passed.

The release of the program is a per-minute reconstruction of the assault, based on the memories of the immediate participants - the veterans of the Alpha group.

The conversation is attended by the commander of the group "Thunder" Mikhail Romanov, a member of the Muslim battalion Rustam Tursunkulov, commander of the supernumerary combat group Zenit Yakov Semenov, veterans of "Alpha" Boris Pleshkunov, Oleg Balashov, Sergei Golov, Viktor Karpukhin, Nikolai Berlev, military surgeon Igor Kovalenko.

There are footage of the chronicle: the shelling of Amin's palace, the Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan, the return of the wounded to Moscow.

The theme of the program is the crisis of August 17, 1998.

Video - President Boris Yeltsin's appeal to his fellow citizens on May 23, 1998 on the resignation of the government.

Kiriyenko Sergey speaks about the resignation of the government, his appointment to the post of chairman of the government, problems in the economy.

Seleznev Gennady talks about the candidacy of the chairman of the government in the person of Sergei Kirienko.

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Meetings of Nikita Khrushchev with the intelligentsia, 1962-1963.

As is known from history, Nikita Khrushchev was not a great admirer of the arts.

In the chronicle of those years we will not find him in the box of the Bolshoi Theater or at the Moscow Art Theater premiere.

The more incredible was the event that occurred on December 1, 1962: the head of state took part in the opening of the jubilee exhibition of the Moscow organization of the Union of Artists.

The process of acquaintance with the exhibits of the exhibition ended with a grandiose scandal, initiated by NS Khrushchev.

Using the most "refined" expressions, Khrushchev arranged a spacing for abstractionists.

After the scandal in the Manezh of the majority of the Soviet intelligentsia, it became clear that just so it will not end: first, the abstractionists-participants of the exhibition They lost state orders, then the intention was to abolish the Union of Cinematographers, and the unions of writers, artists and composers to merge.

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Newsreel of March 1953: views of Moscow streets and parts of Red Square.

People at the Column Hall of the House of Unions in the days of farewell to Stalin.

Types of the Kremlin and part of the Kremlin wall.

People on the streets of Moscow on the day of Stalin's funeral.

Son of the writer Sun.

Ivanov Mikhail Ivanov talks about the meeting of NS. Khrushchev with representatives of the creative intelligentsia in May 1963 and an art exhibition dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Moscow Union of Artists.

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Diamond business, 1981.

In the late 1970s, among the "golden youth" (children of high-ranking Kremlin functionaries), it became incredibly prestigious to drive acquaintance with "thieves-in-law".

Since the main hobby of "children" was the speculation in jewelry, then such acquaintances allowed the sale of gold and diamonds through criminal channels.

Quite quickly, this business came into view of the KGB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The culmination of the investigation was the "Diamond Affair", in which Shchelokov, Andropov, and Galina Brezhneva, and the leadership of the "Soyuzhsotsirka", and "Mosyveliltorg" were embroiled.

The program is not so much the memories of a particular criminal case, but rather an investigation of the "slice of the era", an analysis of the mores of late stagnation against the backdrop of a fierce struggle for the "Kremlin throne."

The legend of criminal investigation Vladimir Chvanov tells about the investigation of the robbery of the apartment of the ballerina Sulamith Messerer.

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Race of arms: Star Wars, 1959.

The opening of the memorial "Tomb of the Unknown Soldier" in 1966.

Head of Staff 9 of the KGB Department of the USSR in 1990 Valery Velichko talks about the structure of the protection of the top officials of the state, the attempt on Gorbachev on November 7 1990, on the actions of security officers during the assassination attempt on the life of the protected person, on their feelings after the report on the attempt, on the attitude of Gorbachev To the likelihood of an assassination attempt on his life, about Gorbachev's disrespect for security officers, about the channels for receiving information about the upcoming assassinations on the first persons of the state, about the impossibility for an shooter to get into Gorbachev.

Former USSR President M.S. Gorbachev gives an interview about the events of November 7, 1990, expresses his opinion about the attempt.

Former police sergeant Andrei Mylnikov talks about his actions during the attempt on Gorbachev, the arrest of the KGB officers who shot and received the award.

Alexander Shmonov, who shot at Gorbachev, speaks about the motives of the assassination, about the absence of accomplices, about his political convictions, about the acquisition of weapons, On his actions on November 7, 1990, about interrogations after detention, the results of psychiatric examination, his impressions of today's Russia.

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