Here are links to a few Soyuz landing videos
Lots of people ask if the the Soyuz lands in the water like the American Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft did. It does not. It lands on land.
That big puff of smoke just as it hits the group is a set of small rocket engines that slow the capsule down a bit more just before it hits the ground. A NASA astronaut who has flown in the Soyuz told me that the landing is "a bunch of loud explosions, followed immediately by a car crash".
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