Over three years Vasily Ilyinsky built a many-sided portrait of the 76th Guards Air Assault Division, one of the oldest units of the Russian airborne forces, known from its base near Pskov. Training exercises, the division's own holiday, the start of family life and reunions with friends alternate with further exercises in a book about men described as brave, skilled and always ready for war - not the easiest or safest profession. Formed in 1939 as a rifle division and converted to an airborne role in the late 1940s, the division was then relocated to Pskov; the photographer, a biology graduate who completed his own military service in 2006-2007, has worked since 2014 with the German agency Focus after earlier assignments for Grinberg and the Russian Ministry of Defence's information service.