From 21 to 28 June, on the basis of the 2nd Engineer Regiment of the Armed Forces of Belarus, which is deployed in Minsk, a joint gathering of units of the engineering troops of the armed forces of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan was held.
Initiative
No, it is not for nothing that the engineering troops are called pioneer, that is, the first. Always go in the forefront at some distance from the rest, pave the way for yourself and those following behind, take the first step where no one dared to step before you - this is the mission of the engineering troops. And there is nothing surprising in the fact that it was among the sappers of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus that the idea of holding a joint gathering of engineering units was born and brought to life.
Six years ago, at a meeting with colleagues from Ukraine and Belarus, the head of the engineering troops of the Armed Forces Russian Federation Colonel-General Nikolai Serdtsev proposed to radically change the format of such meetings. His idea was to reinforce the business communication of the three Slavic officers with the opportunity to communicate with soldiers, sergeants, young officers of the three armies who did not serve in the Soviet Army and therefore have almost no idea about each other. Moreover, to provide the personnel of the units of the fraternal countries with the opportunity not only to talk about life over a cup of evening tea, but also to exchange practical experience, show your skills in sapper business and see what heights of professional skill colleagues have reached. The idea of Colonel-General Serdtsev was approved by the chiefs of the armed forces of Ukraine and Belarus.
At first, Russia hosted the guests - the first gathering of engineering units took place in Nakhabino near Moscow. The following year, the collection was held in the Belarusian Grodno, the year before last - in the Ukrainian city of Brovary. In 2006, a fourth participant appeared in the gathering, which took place in the ancient Russian city of Murom, a unit from Kazakhstan (a report from last year's gathering was published in Krasnaya Zvezda on August 10, 2006). This year, Belarus was the hospitable host of the gathering - representatives from Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan were hosted by the 2nd Engineer Regiment stationed on the outskirts of Minsk.
Dear guests
Traditionally, the event was competitive in nature. Since the leadership of the engineering troops of the participating countries agreed on this in advance, naturally, some of the best specialists arrived in Minsk as part of the teams. 
For example, privates and sergeants of the Ukrainian team are serving in the 91st engineer regiment in Akhtyrka, Sumy region. In Soviet times, an engineer brigade was deployed in its place, the personnel of which happened to solve many serious tasks not only during major exercises and testing of new equipment, but also in the combat situation of Afghanistan, during the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster, during a peacekeeping mission in Angola ... At the current level of training of the personnel of the 91st Engineer Regiment, the glorious traditions of the predecessor brigade, apparently, have a strong effect: according to the results of 2006 school year the regiment took first place among the engineering units of the ground forces of Ukraine. Of course, leadership is also explained by the fact that the regiment is 90% staffed by military personnel under the contract.
The team from Russia consisted almost entirely of military personnel serving in two engineering units stationed in Nakhabino: a separate engineering and sapper brigade under the command of Guards Colonel Valery Kiper and a training center for the training of junior specialists in engineering troops, where Colonel Mikhail Cherny is the head of the guards. The team was led by Colonel Vitaly Kushnir, senior officer of the department of the head of the engineering troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. 
Naturally, there were no inexperienced youth in the Kazakh team either. It was headed by a senior officer of the Department of Engineering Troops of Kazakhstan, Lieutenant Colonel Rakhmet Artekov. And all the other officers and sergeants - there were no privates - serve in the engineering brigade, which is stationed in Kopchegai.
Each of the teams had 14 people, including three officers. Privates and sergeants of the Belarusian team were conscripts, only contract soldiers arrived as part of the guests.
The main thing is participation
In sports, everyone needs first of all a victory. At the gathering of engineering units of the armed forces of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan, the exchange of experience was much more important.
In the sport of great achievement, rivals usually know each other very well. Participants of the gathering from four countries at the level of soldiers, sergeants and military officers knew nothing about each other before it began. Therefore, one of the objectives of the event for each team was to get acquainted with colleagues from other countries - both in the course of performing professional tasks, and during leisure hours on sports grounds, during an amateur art show, and on excursions around the Belarusian capital. After all, only by getting to know each other closely, in the future, with personal participation, it is possible to strengthen the combat fraternity of the engineering troops of the Armed Forces of friendly states.
In the course of competitions in special training, everyone had to fulfill four standards.
In the installation of an anti-tank minefield, the calculation of the GMZ-3 caterpillar mine layer was not equal to the sappers from Belarus. The second place was taken by the Ukrainians, the third result was shown by our team, the fourth by the Kazakh team. 
The reconnaissance of the minefield in front of the front line of the enemy's defense was most successfully carried out by the squad of our sappers. The second place in the implementation of this standard was taken by the Kazakhs, the third and fourth - by Belarusians and Ukrainians, respectively.
The passage in the anti-tank minefield with the help of the UR-77 demining installation was more successful than the others by sappers from Kazakhstan. The Ukrainian team lost only a little to them, the Russians were third, the hosts took the fourth place.
The last standard was the preparation of a foundation pit for shelter using the PZM-2. The driver-mechanic PZM-2 from the training center stationed in Nakhabino, Guards Private Vladimir Mokhnashchekov ensured the victory of the team from Russia. The second place was taken by the team of Kazakhstan, the third - by Belarus, the fourth - by Ukraine. 
If the Ukrainian sergeants failed to become leaders in special training, then the officers, on the contrary, were lucky. Ukrainian officers took first place in the field training competition. Not much, but still the Russians lost to them, as a result they ended up in second position.
Like last time, the gathering was full of purely sports competitions. The teams competed in several sports: volleyball, football, kettlebell lifting and tug of war.
Belarusians excelled in volleyball, Ukrainians - in football. There were no equal weightlifters from Russia, and in the individual competition, all three prizes were won by the Russians. Guards Major Dmitry Titov (pictured below) won first place, Guards Sergeants Roman Chernega and Alexander Rogachev won second and third respectively. With the help of a rope, the Ukrainian team pulled everyone over to its side, it was also the best in amateur performances. 
“All the participants demonstrated high professionalism, and it can be said with confidence that, by and large, there were no losers in the competition, that friendship really won,” said Lieutenant-General Stepan Matus, Deputy Chief of the Engineering Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, who led the Russian delegation at the gathering. – In these summer days, thanks to the excellent organization of the event by the Belarusian side, its cordiality and hospitality on the outskirts of Minsk, the armies of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan have come closer together. On the engineering, or on the sapper, so to speak, direction ...
Next year, a gathering of engineering units is planned to be held in Ukraine. It is possible that the number of participating countries will increase.
The photographs were provided by the Office of the Chief of Engineering Troops of the Russian Armed Forces.
(I) K: Educational institutions founded in 1932
Military Institute (Engineering Troops) of the Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation- a structural subdivision of the OVA of the Russian Armed Forces. AT Soviet time Military Engineering Order of Lenin, Red Banner Academy named after V. V. Kuibyshev. Currently, it is the main educational and methodological center of the engineering troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
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Engineering Academy in St. Petersburg
Both the Military Engineering and Technical University in St. Petersburg and the Military Institute of Engineering Troops in Moscow (the former Kuibyshev Academy) claim succession to the Nikolaev Academy of Engineering. Petersburgers refer to the fact that on June 10, 1939, a resolution of the Defense Committee under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR was signed, and an order was issued by the People's Commissar of the Navy on the formation in Leningrad of the Higher Naval Engineering and Construction School of the RKKVMF, where the Marine Engineering Faculty of the Academy was returned and a separated part was attached - Leningrad Institute of Industrial Construction Engineers.
Kuibyshev Academy
The Military Engineering Academy was established by order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR on March 21, 1932 on the basis of the Faculty of Engineering academy and using the base of the higher engineering construction school. Three years later, the academy was named after V. V. Kuibyshev.
The academy occupied the old house of the Durasovs on Pokrovsky Boulevard. In 1932, a new building was built for the Military Engineering Academy on the site of the right wing of the estate at the corner of Vorontsovo Pole Street (architect A. Kruglov). From November 1941 to December 1943 the academy was evacuated to Frunze.
For many years, the chairman of the state commission for the defense of graduation projects Military Engineering Academy named after V. V. Kuibyshev was a graduate of the Nikolaev School D. M. Karbyshev. Prominent scientists taught at the academy: Hero Socialist Labor I. M. Rabinovich, professors M. M. Filonenko-Borodich, V. K. Dmokhovsky, V. M. Keldysh, A. F. Loleyt.
After joining the Combined Arms Academy of the Russian Armed Forces Military Institute (Engineering Troops) remained the main educational and methodological center of the engineering troops. He trains officers for the Armed Forces, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Border Guard Service of the FSB, as well as for a number of foreign armies.
AT institute faculties function: command engineering, command Internal Troops, command of the Border Service, geodetic, retraining and advanced training, Civil Defense. There is a branch distance learning. There are 17 departments, including tactics of engineering troops, management of engineering troops, fortification and camouflage, engineering barriers, road vehicles and crossings, etc.
AT institute there is a research center whose main areas of research are combat engineering, tactics of engineering troops, fortification equipment of the terrain, the use and overcoming of obstacles, the preparation and maintenance of troop movement routes and crossings, troop camouflage, etc.
Since 1998, in accordance with the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation Military Engineering Academy named after V. V. Kuibyshev(Moscow) was transformed into Military Engineering University with three branches: St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Tyumen.
chief Institute was appointed Deputy Head of the Combined Arms Academy of the Russian Armed Forces, Major General (2004, since 2008 Lieutenant General) Yu. Fired from military service November 24, 2009 in connection with a major fire at the 31st arsenal of the RF Ministry of Defense in Ulyanovsk on November 13, 2009.
Notable teachers
- D. M. Karbyshev, Hero Soviet Union
- I. M. Rabinovich, Hero of Socialist Labor
- M. M. Filonenko-Borodich, Professor, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the RSFSR
- V. K. Dmokhovsky, professor
- V. M. Keldysh, Professor
- G. G. Carlsen, professor
- A. F. Loleit, professor
- A. A. Zubkov, Senior Lecturer
- A. S. Fisenko, professor, head of the department of industrial facilities
- B.F. Zarako-Zarakovskiy, Soviet and Polish military leader, lieutenant general of the Soviet Army and division general of the Polish Army
Graduates
Prominent military commanders of the engineering troops were pupils of the St. Petersburg and Moscow academies:
- chief of the engineering troops of the Red Army in 1941-1942, Major General of the engineering troops L. Z. Kotlyar;
- head of the engineering troops of the Red Army since 1942, first marshal of the engineering troops MP Vorobyov;
- Head of the Engineering Department of the People's Commissariat Navy during the war, Lieutenant General of the Engineering Troops P. I. Sudbin;
- Chief of Staff of the Engineering Troops of the Soviet Army B.V. Blagoslavov
- Chief of Staff of the Engineering Troops of the Red Army, Colonel-General of the Engineering Troops K. S. Nazarov;
- Marshal of the Soviet Union N. V. Ogarkov.
The chiefs of the engineering troops of the fronts during the war years were graduates of the academy N.P. Baranov, B.V. Blagoslavov, Yu. V. Bordzilovsky, B. V. Bychevsky, I. P. Galitsky, V. F. Zotov, N. F. Kirchevsky, Z. I. Kolesnikov, V. V. Kosarev, G. G. Nevsky, I. A. Petrov, N. M. Pilipets, A. I. Proshlyakov, A. I. Smirnov-Nesvitsky, A. F. Khrenov, A. D. Tsirlin, V. F. Shestakov
Among the graduates of the academy are outstanding military engineers and scientists E. V. Aleksandrov, G. G. Azgaldov, M. G. Barkhin, S. A. Ilyasevich, N. S. Kasperovich, N. L. Kirpichev, A. R. Shulyachenko , G. M. Salamahin, B. G. Skramtaev, Art. teacher V. M. Zaitsev (candidate of technical sciences) and others.
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Literature
- Under the general editorship of A. D. Tsirlin, V. V. Kuibyshev Red Banner Military Engineering Academy, Brief historical essay. - Moscow (M.), VIA, 1966.
- Military Engineering Academy. Kuibyshev is 150 years old, M .: Military Publishing House, 1969.
- 150 years of the Military Engineering Order of Lenin of the Red Banner Academy named after V. V. Kuibyshev., M., Factory im. Dunaeva, 1969.
- Tsirlin A.D., Biryukov P.I., Istomin V.P., Fedoseev E.N. Engineer troops in the battles for the Soviet Motherland. - M.: Military publishing house, 1970.
- Shevchuk A.B. and others. The Military Engineering University is 180 years old. - M.: VIU, 1999.
- Military encyclopedic dictionary of engineering troops. - M.: VIA, 2004.
- Zelensky V. E. Monuments of military engineering art: historical memory modern society and new objects of cultural heritage of Russia
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The totality of the causes of phenomena is inaccessible to the human mind. But the need to find causes is embedded in the human soul. And the human mind, not delving into the innumerability and complexity of the conditions of phenomena, each of which separately can be represented as a cause, grabs at the first, most understandable approximation and says: here is the cause. In historical events (where the subject of observation is the actions of people), the most primitive rapprochement is the will of the gods, then the will of those people who stand in the most prominent historical place - historical heroes. But one has only to delve into the essence of each historical event, that is, in the activity of the entire mass of people who participated in the event, in order to make sure that the will of the historical hero not only does not direct the actions of the masses, but is itself constantly guided. It would seem that it is all the same to understand the meaning of a historical event one way or another. But between the man who says that the peoples of the West went to the East because Napoleon wanted it, and the man who says that it happened because it had to happen, there is the same difference that existed between people who said that the land stands firmly and the planets move around it, and those who said that they did not know what the earth was based on, but they knew that there were laws governing the movement of both her and other planets. There are no and cannot be causes of a historical event, except for the single cause of all causes. But there are laws that govern events, partly unknown, partly groping for us. The discovery of these laws is possible only when we completely renounce the search for causes in the will of one person, just as the discovery of the laws of the motion of the planets became possible only when people renounced the notion of the affirmation of the earth.After the battle of Borodino, the occupation of Moscow by the enemy and its burning, the most important episode of the war of 1812, historians recognize the movement of the Russian army from the Ryazan to the Kaluga road and to the Tarutinsky camp - the so-called flank march behind Krasnaya Pakhra. Historians attribute the glory of this brilliant feat to various persons and argue about who, in fact, it belongs to. Even foreign, even French, historians recognize the genius of the Russian generals when they speak of this flank march. But why military writers, and after them all, believe that this flank march is a very thoughtful invention of some one person that saved Russia and ruined Napoleon is very difficult to understand. In the first place, it is difficult to understand what is the profoundness and genius of this movement; for in order to guess that the best position of the army (when it is not attacked) is where there is more food, no great mental effort is needed. And everyone, even a stupid thirteen-year-old boy, could easily guess that in 1812 the most advantageous position of the army, after retreating from Moscow, was on the Kaluga road. So, it is impossible to understand, firstly, by what conclusions historians reach the point of seeing something profound in this maneuver. Secondly, it is even more difficult to understand in what exactly historians see this maneuver as saving for the Russians and harmful for the French; for this flank march, under other, preceding, accompanying and subsequent circumstances, could be detrimental to the Russian and saving for the French army. If from the time this movement was made, the position of the Russian army began to improve, then it does not follow from this that this movement was the cause.
This flank march not only could not bring any benefits, but could ruin the Russian army, if other conditions did not coincide. What would have happened if Moscow had not burned down? If Murat had not lost sight of the Russians? If Napoleon had not been inactive? What if, on the advice of Bennigsen and Barclay, the Russian army had fought near Krasnaya Pakhra? What would happen if the French attacked the Russians when they were following Pakhra? What would happen if later Napoleon, approaching Tarutin, attacked the Russians with at least one tenth of the energy with which he attacked in Smolensk? What would happen if the French went to St. Petersburg?.. With all these assumptions, the salvation of the flank march could turn into pernicious.
Thirdly, and most incomprehensibly, is that people who study history deliberately do not want to see that the flank march cannot be attributed to any one person, that no one ever foresaw it, that this maneuver, just like the retreat in Filiakh, in the present, has never been presented to anyone in its integrity, but step by step, event after event, moment by moment it followed from an innumerable number of the most diverse conditions, and only then presented itself in all its integrity when it took place and became past.
At the council at Fili, the dominant thought of the Russian authorities was the self-evident retreat in a direct direction back, that is, along the Nizhny Novgorod road. Evidence of this is the fact that the majority of votes at the council were cast in this sense, and, most importantly, the well-known conversation after the council of the commander-in-chief with Lansky, who was in charge of the provisions department. Lanskoy reported to the commander-in-chief that food for the army was collected mainly along the Oka, in the Tula and Kaluga provinces, and that in the event of a retreat to Nizhny, the provisions would be separated from the army by the large river Oka, through which transportation in the first winter is impossible. This was the first sign of the need to deviate from the direct direction to the Lower, which had previously seemed the most natural. The army kept to the south, along the Ryazan road, and closer to the reserves. Subsequently, the inaction of the French, who even lost sight of the Russian army, concerns about the protection of the Tula plant and, most importantly, the benefits of approaching their reserves, forced the army to deviate even further south, to the Tula road. Having crossed in a desperate movement beyond Pakhra to the Tula road, the commanders of the Russian army thought to remain at Podolsk, and there was no thought of the Tarutino position; but countless circumstances and the reappearance of French troops, who had previously lost sight of the Russians, and the plans for the battle, and, most importantly, the abundance of provisions in Kaluga, forced our army to deviate even more to the south and move into the middle of their food routes, from the Tulskaya to the Kaluga road, to Tarutino. Just as it is impossible to answer the question when Moscow was abandoned, it is also impossible to answer when exactly and by whom it was decided to go over to Tarutin. Only when the troops had already arrived at Tarutino as a result of innumerable differential forces, only then did people begin to assure themselves that they wanted this and had long foreseen it.
The famous flank march consisted only in the fact that Russian army, retreating straight back in the opposite direction of the offensive, after the French offensive stopped, deviated from the direct direction taken at first and, not seeing persecution behind him, naturally leaned in the direction where the abundance of food attracted him.
If we imagined not brilliant commanders at the head of the Russian army, but simply one army without commanders, then this army could not do anything other than move back to Moscow, describing an arc from the side from which there was more food and the land was more abundant.
This movement from the Nizhny Novgorod to the Ryazan, Tula and Kaluga roads was so natural that the marauders of the Russian army ran off in this very direction and that in this very direction it was required from Petersburg that Kutuzov transfer his army. In Tarutino, Kutuzov almost received a reprimand from the sovereign for having withdrawn the army to the Ryazan road, and he was pointed out the very position against Kaluga in which he was already at the time he received the sovereign's letter.
Rolling back in the direction of the push given to it during the entire campaign and in the battle of Borodino, the ball of the Russian army, when the force of the push was destroyed and not receiving new shocks, took the position that was natural to it.
Kutuzov's merit did not lie in some sort of ingenious, as they call it, strategic maneuver, but in the fact that he alone understood the significance of the event taking place. He alone understood even then the significance of the inactivity of the French army, he alone continued to assert that battle of Borodino there was a victory; he alone - the one who, it would seem, by his position as commander-in-chief, should have been called to the offensive - he alone used all his strength to keep the Russian army from useless battles.
The slain beast near Borodino lay somewhere where the runaway hunter had left it; but whether he was alive, whether he was strong, or whether he was only hiding, the hunter did not know this. Suddenly, the groan of this beast was heard.
The groan of this wounded beast, the French army, denouncing her death, was the sending of Loriston to Kutuzov's camp with a request for peace.
Napoleon, with his confidence that it is not good that is good, but that it is good that came to his mind, wrote to Kutuzov the words that first came to his mind and did not make any sense. He wrote:
“Monsieur le prince Koutouzov,” he wrote, “j" envoie pres de vous un de mes aides de camps generaux pour vous entretenir de plusieurs objets interessants. Je desire que Votre Altesse ajoute foi a ce qu "il lui dira, surtout lorsqu" il exprimera les sentiments d "estime et de particuliere consideration que j" ai depuis longtemps pour sa personne… Cette lettre n "etant a autre fin, je prie Dieu, Monsieur le prince Koutouzov, qu" il vous ait en sa sainte et digne garde ,
Moscou, le 3 Octobre, 1812. Signe:
Napoleon.
[Prince Kutuzov, I am sending you one of my adjutant generals to negotiate with you on many important subjects. I ask Your Grace to believe everything he tells you, especially when he begins to express to you the feelings of respect and special respect that I have had for you for a long time. I pray to God to keep you under my sacred roof.
Moscow, October 3, 1812.
Napoleon. ]
"Je serais maudit par la posterite si l" on me regardait comme le premier moteur d "un accommodement quelconque. Tel est l "esprit actuel de ma nation", [I would be damned if they looked at me as the first instigator of any deal; this is the will of our people.] - answered Kutuzov and continued to use all his strength for that to keep troops from advancing.
In the month of the robbery of the French army in Moscow and the calm stationing of the Russian army near Tarutino, a change took place in relation to the strength of both troops (spirit and number), as a result of which the advantage of strength turned out to be on the side of the Russians. Despite the fact that the position of the French army and its numbers were unknown to the Russians, as soon as attitudes changed, the need for an offensive was immediately expressed in countless signs. These signs were: the sending of Loriston, and the abundance of provisions in Tarutino, and the information that came from all sides about the inactivity and disorder of the French, and the recruitment of our regiments, and good weather, and the long rest of Russian soldiers, and usually arising in the troops as a result of rest impatience to do the work for which everyone is gathered, and curiosity about what was being done in the French army, so long lost sight of, and the courage with which Russian outposts were now snooping around the French stationed in Tarutino, and news of easy victories over the French peasants and the partisans, and the envy aroused by this, and the feeling of revenge that lay in the soul of every person as long as the French were in Moscow, and the (most important) vague, but arising in the soul of every soldier, the consciousness that the ratio of strength has now changed and the advantage is on our side. The essential balance of forces changed and an offensive became necessary. And immediately, just as surely as the chimes begin to beat and play in the clock, when the hand has made a full circle, in the higher spheres, in accordance with a significant change in forces, an increased movement, hissing and playing of the chimes was reflected.
The Russian army was controlled by Kutuzov with his headquarters and the sovereign from St. Petersburg. In St. Petersburg, even before the news of the abandonment of Moscow was received, a detailed plan for the entire war was drawn up and sent to Kutuzov for guidance. Despite the fact that this plan was drawn up on the assumption that Moscow was still in our hands, this plan was approved by the headquarters and accepted for execution. Kutuzov wrote only that long-range sabotage is always difficult to carry out. And to resolve the difficulties encountered, new instructions and persons were sent who were supposed to monitor his actions and report on them.
In addition, now the entire headquarters has been transformed in the Russian army. The places of the murdered Bagration and the offended, retired Barclay were replaced. They considered very seriously what would be better: to put A. in the place of B., and B. in the place of D., or, on the contrary, D. in the place of A., etc., as if something other than the pleasure of A. and B., could depend on it.
At the army headquarters, on the occasion of Kutuzov's hostility with his chief of staff, Benigsen, and the presence of the sovereign's confidants and these movements, there was a more than usual complex game of parties: A. undermined B., D. under S., etc. ., in all possible displacements and combinations. With all these underminings, the subject of intrigues was for the most part the military business that all these people thought to direct; but this warfare proceeded independently of them, exactly as it was supposed to proceed, that is, never coinciding with what people thought up, but proceeding from the essence of mass relations. All these inventions, intercrossing, entangled, represented in the higher spheres only a true reflection of what was to be accomplished.
“Prince Mikhail Ilarionovich! - the sovereign wrote on October 2 in a letter received after the Battle of Tarutino. - Since September 2, Moscow has been in the hands of the enemy. Your last reports are from the 20th; and during all this time, not only has nothing been done to act against the enemy and liberate the capital, but even, according to your latest reports, you have still retreated. Serpukhov is already occupied by an enemy detachment, and Tula, with its famous and so necessary for the army factory, is in danger. According to reports from General Wintzingerode, I see that the enemy's 10,000th Corps is moving along the Petersburg road. Another, several thousand, is also served to Dmitrov. The third moved forward along the Vladimir road. The fourth, quite significant, stands between Ruza and Mozhaisk. Napoleon himself was in Moscow until the 25th. According to all this information, when the enemy divided his forces with strong detachments, when Napoleon himself was still in Moscow, with his guards, is it possible that the enemy forces in front of you were significant and did not allow you to act offensively? With probability, on the contrary, it should be assumed that he is pursuing you with detachments, or at least with a corps, much weaker than the army entrusted to you. It seemed that, taking advantage of these circumstances, you could profitably attack an enemy weaker than you and exterminate him, or at least by forcing him to retreat, keep in our hands a notable part of the provinces now occupied by the enemy, and thereby avert the danger from Tula and our other inner cities. It will remain on your responsibility if the enemy is able to send a significant corps to Petersburg to threaten this capital, in which many troops could not remain, because with the army entrusted to you, acting with determination and activity, you have every means to avert this new misfortune. Remember that you still owe an answer to the offended fatherland in the loss of Moscow. You have experienced my willingness to reward you. This readiness will not weaken in me, but I and Russia have the right to expect from you all the zeal, firmness and success that your mind, your military talents and the courage of the troops you lead, portend us.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION and additions:
1. The period of 1937-41 was the saddest in the history of Russian Engineering. During these years, about 1,000 military engineers were repressed: generals and officers of engineering and other branches of the armed forces, naval engineers, quartermaster technicians of ammunition depots, explosives and chemical products, engineering parks and warehouses of special equipment. It should be noted that the concept of the formation of the Red Army in the period 1921-41 assigned one of the secondary roles to the engineering troops and engineering personnel. Massive repressions continued in educational institutions, and in army units and subunits, including in the border units of the NKVD. Many commanders and specialists were subjected to unreasonable pressure from the punitive organs of the regime: they were regularly called in for interrogations, subjected to deliberate slander among commanders and colleagues, suspended from work, and were under investigation. In February 1939, the Extraordinary Commission of the People's Commissariat of Defense, sent to investigate the wrecking activities of Mikhail Petrovich Vorobyov, Military Engineer of the 1st rank (Colonel) and Head of the Military Engineering School (the future First Marshal of the Engineering Troops in history) noted that "... the school for the last three years has dramatically raised the quality of the educational process ... ". Although the commission had the task of exposing the activities of M.P. Vorobyov, but progress made were so obvious that the conclusion turned out to be the exact opposite of what was supposed. By a strange coincidence, the Military Engineering School was given special attention by the then First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks and the Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks Zhdanov. His intercession saved at that time both the Head of the School and the School itself from being disbanded. By order of the People's Commissar of Defense No. 56 of April 2, 1939, the School was named after A.A. Zhdanov. A similar and sadder situation of defeat affected the Military Engineering Academy - starting with its withdrawal from St. Petersburg to Moscow and repeated reorganizations and splitting of faculties and departments - in the period 1924-41. The Finnish campaign, which began in the autumn of 1939, showed the complete inconsistency of the concept of the structure of the Red Army, the absolute lack of engineering units and subunits, poor training to fulfill the tasks of engineering support for combat operations. The mediocrity of the command, and first of all the People's Commissar of Defense Voroshilov, led to the fact that the cadets, most of the command and teaching staff, the head of the school, were sent to the front in December 1939 to break through the well-organized engineering defense system of the Mannerheim Line. Educational processes at the School were disrupted, the graduation of lieutenants in 1940 was disrupted almost completely, the graduation of 1941 was reduced by more than half: in the Finnish war, the School suffered heavy losses both among the teaching staff and among the cadets. As a result, the army did not receive about 400 lieutenants of engineering troops. With the beginning of a new war in 1941, the cadets remaining in the School were thrown into the defense of the Luga Frontier and the construction of defensive structures of St. Petersburg (Leningrad), several dozen Red Army soldiers and teachers carried out an urgent order of the command to organize operational camouflage of the city, and then to save works of art Hermitage. In fact, in the summer of 1941, the training of engineering specialists was curtailed, and the School, as an educational center, was rapidly disintegrating. The results of the battles of June-July 1941 once again showed the leadership of the Red Army the lack of engineering units and the impossibility of forming new ones due to the lack of trained command and engineering personnel. It was the current state of affairs on the fronts that changed the attitude towards military engineers and forced State Committee Defense to issue an order for the urgent evacuation of the School with the task of the speedy full restoration of its activities. It turned out that the School is the only military educational institution in the country that trained officers in a number of unique specialties and specializations, as a result of which it fell under the personal control of the Supreme Commander (the leader with an iron nickname) with a daily report on the state of affairs. Among the unique specialties were: fortifiers, miners and sappers, pontooners, builders of bridges and special structures, electrical engineering - without the latter, as it suddenly turned out, it was impossible to operate the Katyusha multiple launch rocket artillery combat vehicles, mechanics, specialists in fuels and lubricants, divers land profile, topographers and cartographers, and a number of others. Some of the above information is based on military historical resources Alma Mater Engineering Troops, Anatomy of the Army Yu.G. Veremeeva, Sapper-Museum. Repressions against military and civilian engineers began in 1917, the situation was especially aggravated in the 20s and 30s, in the period after the Victory in 1945 - until the joyful March 1953
2. According to unofficial recollections of war veterans - senior officers and generals - during the Finnish campaign and the Second World War, there were cases of execution by the Red Army commanders of commissars, political officers, party workers and other overseers who interfered with the fight and take adequate operational actions corresponding to the current situation. There are also memories of the negative role of those who look at the course of hostilities in a number of large front-line operations. By this issue there is a written source - a direct indication in the book of a religious historian, Ushinsky's great-grandson - Dmitry Pospelovsky "Totalitarianism and Religion", Chapter 18 "USSR - a totalitarian state" (a link to the book and chapter is given at the end of the album and on other pages of the site)
3. NOTICE 1: for A.M. Zelensky, the period of 1938-40 was a difficult period, and only a favorable combination of circumstances made it possible to avoid unjustified repressions in the period of late 1938 - early 1939 and in 1940. Over the years, from 1937 to 1985, members of our family experienced periodic illegal (without the sanction of judicial or prosecutorial bodies) interference in official activities, as well as illegal invasion of privacy and social activities- from the criminal bodies of the Kpss and the Red Gestapo (NKVD-MGB-KGB), which were engaged in official and unofficial repressions, corporate intrigues and illegal political services for intra-party groups of the criminal Kpss, incl. during the Romanov period 1971-83.
4. NOTICE 2: in our family there are no and never were any military and civilian trophies from the period of World War II, including Finnish war 1939-40, as well as the periods of pre-war and post-war occupation of Eastern Europe, New Independent States and Territories - previously part of the Russian Empire. Our family has nothing to do with the crimes of the Soviet regime, as well as the crimes of the punitive organs of the USSR - the NKVD, the MGB, the KGB and others. The only negative fact is the episode of unconscious and forced complicity in the Finnish campaign of 1939-40, for which the USSR was declared a military aggressor and expelled from the League of Nations in December 1939
5. NOTICE 3: the regime of the so-called leader, with an iron nickname, and his commissar-Chekist accomplices was also condemned by the world community in the framework of the resolution "Unification of divided Europe: protection of human rights and civil liberties in the 21st century." By decisions of the European Parliament (2008) and the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (2009), the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Totalitarian Regimes of Fascism and Sovietism was established (celebrated on August 23). The adopted documents emphasize that both Nazism and Stalinism were characterized by the genocide of peoples, political assassinations, violation of human rights and freedoms, war crimes and crimes against humanity. The facts of the conspiracy of the Soviet Union with the Nazi regime in the form of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the economic support of fascism in the periods preceding and beginning of World War II are indisputable. By the resolution of the Parliament of the European Union of October 23, 2008 and others - the Holodomor in Ukraine in 1932-33 was recognized as a crime against humanity, the leaders of the Soviet regime were recognized as criminals who committed an act of genocide of the peoples of the USSR, these decisions were supported and recognized by the UN, International public organizations and all Christian denominations. On April 16, 2012, by the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, the Soviet regime was recognized as a war criminal in part of the Katyn episode of 1940. According to regulations International Law, the statute of limitations does not apply to war crimes and crimes against humanity
6. NOTICE 4: A.M. Zelensky in 1985 decided to REJECT the government award - the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class, jubilee. In accordance with the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the Order of the USSR Ministry of Defense, as part of the 40th anniversary of the celebration of the Victory of the Great Patriotic War, it was supposed to be submitted to the 1st degree jubilee general education. According to the data of the public data bank Rodvignaroda.ru - there is a submission to the general education of the 2nd degree, anniversary, the mark of the award is missing
7. NOTICE 5: our family supports lustration and a complete ban on fascist and Soviet ideology, symbols and especially the Soviet swastika (hammer and sickle), a ban on the performance of Nazi and Soviet anthems. We support the closure and prohibition of the criminal punitive bodies of the USSR, incl. kpss and their successors. We approve the state dismantling of Soviet statues. We support the holding of a tribunal against the Soviet regime and, in particular, against a foreign agent, a fugitive criminal and usurper Ulyanov nicknamed Lenin, as well as his last son, a Tiflis bandit and non-military impostor, a banal political officer and a bloody ghoul with an iron nickname. We support lustration and the institution of non-citizens in the territories of Eastern Europe liberated from the occupation of the lumpen-Bolshevik regime. Our family understands and approves the transfer of the Bronze Soldier monument in Tallinn, a unique city in North-Eastern Europe. The significance of Reval-Tallinn is infinitely great and had a strong influence on the history of Russia. Suffice it to recall the special attitude towards the city of Emperor Peter the Great. It was here that Count Christopher Antonovich von Minich, an associate of Peter and the Builder of the Russian Statehood, an outstanding statesman and military figure, one of the founders of Russian military engineering, worked and improved his skills. Abram [Ibragim] Petrovich Gannibal (1688 - 1781), Engineer General-in-Chief, First Russian Fortification Engineer, professionally took place here. Aleksey Fedorovich Lvov (1798 - 1870) was born in Revel - a military engineer, musician and composer, creator of the music for the Russian Anthem "God Save the Tsar!" (1833). We do not consider the Russian Federation as the successor of Russia (1721 - 1917, 1991 - 1999)
8. NOTICE 6: The revelation of January 2012 for our family was the demining and preservation of A.M. Zelensky in 1944 of the unique building of the Government of Estonia (Riigikogu, Eesti Vabariik) - a monument of history, culture and architecture of the 18th (baroque) and 20th (expressionism) centuries
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Conducting hostilities, both local and large-scale in modern conditions necessarily implies their full-fledged engineering support and support. It is in this perspective that the engineering units and subunits of the Southern Military District are now preparing to carry out their assigned tasks. The head of the engineering troops of the Southern Military District, Major General Konstantin SMESHKO, told the readers of the Orientir magazine about the course of combat training, the development of new equipment and weapons.
Comrade Major General, what forms of training personnel in the art of war are priority in subordinate units and subunits, and what methods of work are preferable?
Now we have to solve a number of tasks, the most important of which is to maintain high combat readiness of formations and units. Combat training is organized within the framework of the combat training system of the troops of the Southern Military District and includes the consistent acquisition by soldiers and sergeants of theoretical knowledge and practical skills in the specialty, their consolidation during regular field trips, camp training and exercises at various levels. The entire personnel of the district's engineering brigade, engineer-sapper battalions takes part in such events. motorized rifle brigades and other special units. For example, at the mountain training complex "Tsabal" a field exit of the engineering unit of the Russian military base stationed in the Republic of Abkhazia.
In the conditions of a mountainous and wooded area, military personnel learned to manage minefields, to detonate explosive
items of fire and by electrical means, conduct engineering reconnaissance of the area, erect fortifications, and also performed exercises in driving special and automotive equipment.
Particular attention during the field exercises was given to the development of a modern station for the extraction and purification of water SKO10 "Hygiene" and the latest non-contact mine detector "Korshun". The capabilities of the latter make it possible to detect explosive devices at a distance of up to 30 m both in the ground and snow, and in various structures and behind obstacles.
Further, more than 200 servicemen of the engineering units of the combined arms formations stationed on the territory of the Chechen Republic, with the involvement of about 50 units of military and special equipment, carried out training of tasks for their intended purpose as part of field exits at the Alpiysky, Gvardeisky and Kalinovsky training complexes.
During the training, the servicemen worked out the standards for engineering support for the actions of motorized rifle, tank and artillery units.
At the end of the field exits, they completed the tasks of making passages in mine explosive barriers with the help of a special charge of the demining installation.
Field exercises were carried out on specially equipped training places and engineering fields of educational complexes of connections.
But a kind of apogee of the course of combat training over the past time was the participation of military personnel in the strategic command and staff exercise "Caucasus 2012", during which a wide range of tasks had to be performed. Let me remind you that on the eve of the active phase of the exercise, a special rear exercise was conducted. Here were shown the types of crossings over large water barriers. In particular, a pontoon bridge 452 meters long was built across the Don River. Ferry and landing crossings, tank crossings under water were also organized.
In preparation for the exercise, we also solved the tasks of fortifying equipment of lines, positions and areas, demining terrain and objects. We were engaged in the preparation and maintenance of movement and maneuver routes, concealment and imitation of important areas and objects using engineering weapons, local means and materials, and field power supply to the troops. And already in the course of practical actions, an important place was given to engineering reconnaissance of the enemy, terrain and objects. Moreover, such reconnaissance was carried out both by ground and air means. In addition, we were ordered to deal with the arrangement and maintenance of engineering barriers, making and maintaining passages in engineering barriers and destruction.
At the same time, I can notice that the command rated our actions as “good” and “excellent”. What has become for the personnel not only a source of pride, but also an incentive to maintain professional training at high level and its improvement. A number of military personnel were awarded medals from the Ministry of Defense.
Konstantin Evgenievich, the specifics of the service of your subordinates is such that they, like, perhaps, no one else, must “keep the gunpowder dry”, be ready at any moment and in any situation to carry out a real combat mission. Is it possible, and to what extent, to cope with it?
This is in the sense that even in peacetime, servicemen of engineering and combat units have to directly deal with the real demining of the area, the neutralization of certain ammunition. Thus, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief and the Government of the Russian Federation have set before us the task of demining the territories of the Chechen Republic and the Republic of Ingushetia.
There is a very large amount of work here, in total it is necessary to clear 15,000 hectares. The demining battalion of about 500 people is engaged in this. As a rule, all lands cleared of explosive objects are then used as farmland. And in Ingushetia, in addition, it is planned to create a tourist cluster. Indeed, these places are very beautiful and attractive for domestic and foreign tourists. Take, for example, the Dzheyrakh Gorge, the area of the medieval castle village of Vovnushki. So our work is directly related to the strengthening of peaceful life in the North Caucasus region, we help to make it prosperous and safe.
Works are carried out in Shelkovsky, Groznensky, UrusMartanovsky, Shali and Kurchaloisky districts of the Chechen Republic, as well as in the Sunzha and Dzheyrakhsky districts of the Republic of Ingushetia.
When demining, sappers use BMRM armored demining vehicles based on the T-72 tank with a tracked mine trawl, IMR3 engineering clearing vehicles, as well as Korshun mine detectors that arrived in the Southern Military District in 2012 and protective suits for the Doublon sapper. In addition, experts from the mine detection service with specially trained dogs take part in the search for explosive objects.
In total, in 2013, sappers of the engineering troops of the Southern Military District will clear more than 600 hectares of agricultural land, as well as a number of important objects of the economic complex of the republics, from explosive objects.
Last year, the forces of the engineering troops of the military district inspected about 1350 hectares, neutralized about 3.5 thousand various ammunition and explosive objects.
Planned annual indicators were fulfilled by 150%. Demining activities are planned until 2015. By this time, about 15,000 thousand hectares of agricultural land will be completely cleared of explosive objects by the forces of engineering units of the Southern Military District.
I must say that the fulfillment of such tasks requires great professionalism and high responsibility from the personnel. Here, sappers operate, one might say, in a real combat situation, and the well-known proverb about a sapper who has no right to make a mistake is more relevant here than anywhere else. Here is a recent example. Our servicemen found minefields in the demining area, set by unknown units; no documentation on them could be found in the archives. Ammunition was mixed type, both anti-tank and anti-personnel, also set to non-removability. And only the highest training of the personnel, correctly and efficiently organized work made it possible to ensure demining without losses and incidents. This is a great merit of the head of the operational group of the Southern Military District, Colonel Alexander Nesterenko and the commander of the demining battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Sergei Matorin.
It is easy to assume that professional training military personnel of the demining battalion implies the presence of special qualities, knowledge and experience. How and where are people prepared for such a difficult job? Where do you draw, so to speak, personnel?
First of all, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the demining battalion serves exclusively under contract. That is, they are already mature, experienced fighters, who understand well what responsible step they have taken. Each of them in without fail completed a course of study at the training centers of the Russian Ministry of Defense in the Volgograd and Moscow regions. They are licensed to work with explosives. In addition, there is a well-established system for additional training of such servicemen. This allows us to exclude cases of death or injury of personnel, which we manage to avoid today.
It can be added that a similar scenario for the training of personnel is also being implemented when performing the tasks of clearing our military ranges from explosive objects, as well as the disposal of ammunition during the Great Patriotic War.
I will add a few words about what is commonly called the echo of the past war. As you know, one of the greatest battles of the Great Patriotic War unfolded near Stalingrad, and this is the territory of the current Southern Military District. And we still very often have to cleanse the earth from the sinister messengers of those terrible years. In 2013, more than 1.5 thousand explosive items and various ammunition from the Great Patriotic War, weighing more than 2 tons, were removed, transported to the disposal site and defused by engineering units of the Southern Military District. During this time, demining teams completed more than 170 applications from the departments of the regional military commissariat with a trip to the place of detection in 6 cities and 33 districts of the Volgograd region.
A little more about the training of junior specialists for our units and divisions. Most of them are trained in interspecies training center Southern Military District, stationed in the Volgograd region. Not so long ago, more than 1,000 junior specialists of the engineering troops graduated, who were trained in more than 20 military specialties that are in demand by us.
Upon completion of the 3.5-month course and successful completion of the final exams, military personnel are sent to pass further service to military units and formations of the Southern, Central and Western military districts.
The center provides training for excavator operators, crane operators, bulldozer drivers, tractor drivers, bridge layers, drivers of caterpillar floating transporters and engineering reconnaissance vehicles.
Military divers are also trained here, who learn to conduct engineering, special, rescue and evacuation and engineering reconnaissance diving operations with immersion to a depth of 60 meters.
They must be able to find explosive devices at depth and extract them to the surface, work on metal, clear the riverbed. During the training period, divers spend up to 60 training hours underwater.
As for the officers, the vast majority of them now come to us after graduating from the branch of the Military Academy of the RCB Protection Troops and Engineering Troops (Tyumen). For us, this is now the main forge of personnel.
And do all of them get the opportunity to serve in the specialty chosen at the military university, are there any who are disappointed? Are there opportunities for improvement in the profession?
Fortunately, this problem is not relevant for us now. Of the young officers who came to us last year, all received appropriate official appointments. Moreover, we observed a small shortage officers, which we replenished with officers of the 2013 graduates.
There are several factors influencing this situation. It is important, of course, that the country's leadership has shown real concern for the level of social security and security of military personnel. Under conditions of good service, people now receive quite a decent monetary reward, enjoy a number of benefits and advantages established by the current legislation. Further, we have almost completely solved the housing problem. All eligible servicemen are provided with official housing. Now literally a few people are waiting for their turn to receive apartments, and that is because they are waiting for them in the chosen region.
And that is not all. Over the past 23 years, about 20 officers who had previously been dismissed due to organizational measures have returned to us. Many people are still applying to recruiting offices with a request to re-conclude a contract with the Ministry of Defense, there has even been some competition, we have a choice.
I think that it is also important that serving in our district is prestigious and interesting from a professional point of view, there are incentives. It is in our units and subdivisions that samples of the latest equipment and weapons are received: armored suits of the new type "Dublon", the latest development of suits "Sable" and so on. The newly deployed engineering brigade of the Southern Military District also received the most modern models of equipment. Even 2 Western European bulldozers from Liebherr were purchased for us under a defense order. They have already entered service and took part in the camp gathering, having proven themselves well in performing real tasks.
The latest domestic equipment and weapons are being tested with us, we identify possible shortcomings and prospects for modernization. Indeed, sometimes we have difficult conditions for combat use: high mountains, high humidity, significant temperature changes. Then this equipment is supplied to other units and divisions of the Russian Armed Forces in an improved form.
I can add that we pay serious attention to improving the skills of specialists and their professional growth. I happened to serve in various regions and military districts of our country. And I can state with confidence that nowhere is the study and promotion of best practices so thoroughly and systematically as it is done in the engineering unit and engineering units of the Southern Military District. Perhaps, because until recently it was the most "belligerent" district, the achievements of colleagues are highly valued here. Indeed, experience is often sprinkled with blood. In each period of training, we develop, approve with the commander of the troops and send to the units guidelines and teaching aids for military specialties. We are now paying special attention to methods and techniques for disarming improvised explosive devices, alas, this is still relevant today.
This year, we were given a new task to discover and bury the remains of Soviet soldiers who died in the Elbrus region during the battle for the Caucasus. The case is unusual for us, but very responsible and honorable. We have trained the personnel involved in this operation with the necessary skills. In the difficult conditions of the highlands, the task assigned to us was completed.
So our servicemen, as always, are at the forefront both in mastering new equipment and in real combat work. And this inspires pride in their profession and the desire to do the assigned work as best as possible.
Interview took
Yuri SELEZNEV
THE FIRST SOVIET ENGINEERING TROOPS GENERALS
COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSIONERS OF THE USSR
RESOLUTION
dated June 4, 1940 No. 945
ON ASSIGNMENT OF MILITARY RANKS TO THE HIGHEST COMMANDING STRUCTURE OF THE RED ARMY
The Council of People's Commissars of the USSR decides:
Approve the proposals of the Government Commission on the assignment to persons of the highest commanding staff of the Red Army military ranks established by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 7, 1940.
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X. Assign a rank LIEUTENANT GENERAL OF ENGINEERING TROOPS
Gundorov Alexander Semenovich ,
Karbyshev Dmitry Mikhailovich,
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XVIII. Assign a title MAJOR GENERAL OF ENGINEERING TROOPS
Baranov Nikolai Parfenievich ,
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR
V. Molotov
Executive Director of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR
M. Khlomov
Moscow, Kremlin June 4, 1940 No. 945
NOVIKOV (20.11.1893 – 4.6.1970)
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Awards: medals: "20 years of the Red Army", "For the defense of Moscow", "For the defense of the Caucasus", "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
Russian.
A native of the village of Derkina (Pochinkovsky district of the Smolensk region).
1907 - graduated from the 2-class TsPSh.
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Served for over 2 years tsarist army. Private 6zap.sapb.
In the ranks of the Red Army on April 1, 1918, he voluntarily joined the Ust-Izhora engineering detachment. Red Army soldier. Telephonist-supervisor. Member of the RCP(b) since 1918
Participant civil war
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He fought against the White Poles on the Western Front (1919-20) and Bulak-Balakhovich's gangs (1920-21).
1.1920 - secretary of the military commissar 17inzhb 16A of the Western Front.
Awarded with the Order Red Banner
RSFSR (1920).
6.1922-9.1925 - military commissar 17inzhb 17sd, military commissar 3SK Moscow Military District, military commissar 5ponb Voronezh Military District, military commissar 4sapb 4SK.
1930 - graduated from the VTA them. F.E. Dzerzhinsky. Military engineer.
| 10.1930 - divisional engineer of the 80sd of the Ural Military District. 2.1932 - assistant inspector in the Inspectorate of the Engineering Troops of the Red Army. 9.1933 - assistant to the head of the department of the UNI RKKA. Graduated (1936) Separate military engineering management courses under the Red Army. Military engineer of the 1st rank (11/26/1936). 12/12/1937 - chief of engineers of the military unit 1459 of the Kyiv Military District. 5.1938 - district engineer of the reception apparatus of the Engineering Directorate of the Red Army. Head of the 1st Office of the UPU. Brigade commander (11/29/1939). 8.1940 - Head of the Department of Engineering Troops of the Kharkov Military District. |
He headed the commission of the NIV KA (8.1943) to check Leningrad KVIU them. A.A. Zhdanov .
He did a great job of checking the readiness of spare, reserve and active units, on the spot seeking to eliminate deficiencies and increase combat readiness. Repeatedly organized the demining of territories liberated from the enemy. Deputy NSh IV KA Major General of Engineering Troops G.N. Yakovlev presented (15.4.1944) and awarded the order Patriotic War 1 Art. (Decree of the Presidium of the USSR Armed Forces of May 17, 1944).
Specialist in the field of pontoon railway bridges.
For assistance to the 3rd Ukrainian Front in the creation of railway bridges (1943-44) NIV Front by Colonel General L.Z. Kotlyar presented (17.5.1944) and awarded the order Red Banner (Decree of the Presidium of the USSR Armed Forces of September 19, 1944).
For his years of service in the spacecraft, he was awarded the Order Red Banner
Awarded with the medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." (certificate of delivery dated 15.8.1945 IV KA).
April 2, 1946 - transferred to the reserve due to illness.
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Wife Olga Ilyinichna. Children: Vladimir (1922 -?); Ludwig (1924 -?).
Died (4.6.1970) in Moscow.
Sources of information
1. Edited by V.V. Zhigailo. School of military engineers. - M .: Military Publishing, 1980.
2. Award documents.
3. Belozerov V.A. Brief essay history of military missions of engineering troops (2nd ed.) - M .: Senat-Press, 2013.
Bryukhovetsky R.I.
Russian.
A native of Rostov-on-Don.
There is a spelling of the surname - POZDNEEV.
Staff officer of the engineering troops.
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Participant World War I
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In 1915 - served in 5sapb. Staff captain.
For differences in cases against the enemy, he was awarded the Order of St. Anna 4 tbsp. with the inscription "For courage" (VP 11.6.1915).
Remained in Soviet Russia. He joined the ranks of the Red Army.
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Head of the faculty VIA them. V.V. Kuibyshev. Kombrig (26.4.1940).
Major General of Engineering Troops(Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR No. 945 of 4.6.1940).
The Academy participated in the preparation of the defense of Moscow.
Together with VIA them. V.V. Kuibyshev was evacuated (10-11.1941) to the capital of Soviet Kyrgyzstan - the city of Frunze (until 12.5.1926 - Pishpek), classes at the new place began on 11.14.1941.
Head of the department VIA them. V.V. Kuibyshev.
Lived at the address: Frunze, st. Dzerzhinsky, d. 50.
I fell seriously ill. Sent to evacuation hospital No. 1081.
Diagnosis at admission (13.8.1943): influenza-like inflammation of the right lung, sciatica, left-sided inflammation of the sciatic nerve, meningitis.
He died (16.8.1943) in an evacuation hospital, was buried in a separate grave at the Fraternal Cemetery in the Pervomaisky district of Frunze (since 1991 - Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan).
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Sources of information
Bryukhovetsky R.I., Poblaguev V.A.
SUDDIN
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Russian. Orthodox.
Born in the village of Zubovo, Galich district, Kostroma province. From peasants.
Graduated from the Kostroma Lower Chemical-Technical School. F.V. Chekhov.
He entered the service (19.5.1915). Appointed (10/17/1915) as a sapper in 5zap.sapb.
12/23/1915 - graduated from the course of the sapper class. Corporal (7.9.1916).
10/10/1916 - sent to study at the Moscow school for the training of infantry ensigns. Junior non-commissioned officer (12/5/1916).
February 11, 1917 - graduated from the School in the 1st category. Released as an ensign of the army infantry in 88zap.pp.
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In the ranks of the Red Army since September 17, 1918.
Participant civil war
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September 17, 1918 - head of the sapper team of the Galich Soviet regiment.
10.1918 - company commander of the Voronezh reserve regiment.
6.1919 - commander of the 40sd.
10.1920 - temporary divisional engineer, divisional engineer of the 2nd Donskoy sd.
4.1922 - commander of the CAD, temporary divisional engineer of the 37th division of the North Caucasian Military District.
9.1924 - divisional engineer of the 33rd division.
8.1925 - student of the VTA. Member of the CPSU(b) since 1927
3.1930 - adjunct at the BTA.
4.1932 - head of the department of the VIA of the Red Army.
10.1934 - student KUNS VVA RKKA them. Mozhaisky.
5.1935 - Head of the Air Force Department of the Command Faculty of the VIA. V.V. Kuibyshev.
11.1936 - Head of the Engineering and Command Faculty of the All-Russian Aviation Institute named after. V.V. Kuibyshev.
2.1937 - senior instructor VIA them. V.V. Kuibyshev.
1.1938 - Head of the Engineering Department of the Navy. Brigade commander (27.7.1938).
He was awarded the Jubilee Medal "20 Years of the Red Army" (22.2.1938).
Major General of Engineering Troops(Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR No. 945 of 4.6.1940).
Participant Great Patriotic War
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Awarded with the Order Red Star(1942).
Lieutenant General of the Engineering Troops (22.1.1944).
He was awarded the medal "For the Defense of Moscow" (certificate of delivery dated 10/11/1944, the IU of the Navy).
For long service in spacecraft and the Navy, Deputy People's Commissar of the Navy of the USSR Admiral G.I. Levchenko presented (September 29, 1944) to the Order of Lenin, awarded the Order Red Banner
(Decree of the Presidium of the USSR Armed Forces of November 3, 1944).
| During the war years, he skillfully led the Engineering Department and directed construction to improve the defense of the naval base. Widely introduced experience in the use of floating piers, equipping berths for relocated ships. He was on all operating fleets, supervised the most important works. Deputy People's Commissar of the Navy of the USSR Admiral G.I. Levchenko presented and awarded Red Banner
(Decree of the Presidium of the USSR Armed Forces of November 5, 1944). For long service in the spacecraft and the Navy, Deputy People's Commissar of the USSR Navy, Admiral G.I. Levchenko reintroduced (8.1.1945) and awarded the order Lenin For exemplary performance of command assignments, he was awarded the Order Nakhimov 1 st.(Decree of the Presidium of the USSR Armed Forces dated June 28, 1945). Awarded with the medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." (certificate of delivery dated 28.2.1946 NKVMF). 2.1949 - head of the engineering section of the Technical Research Committee. 7.1951 - Inspector General of the Engineering and Construction Service of the Navy. 4.1952 - Deputy Minister of the Navy. 9.1952 - Head of the State Inspectorate of the Navy. 5.1953 - Head of the Engineering Department of the Navy. |
From 8.1954 - retired.
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On the anniversary of the Victory he was awarded the Order Patriotic War 1 Art.
(6.4.1985).
Wife Maria Ivanovna (? - 20.4.1971). Son Paul (27.6.1930 - 12.11.1999).
Died (31.3.1990) in Moscow, buried at the Vvedensky cemetery.
Sources of information
Bryukhovetsky R.I.
Awards: orders: royal: St. Stanislav 3 tbsp. (16.3.1907), St. Anna 2 st. (19.3.1915), St. Vladimir 4 tbsp. (6.12.1916); Soviet: Lenin (1945), Red Banner (1944), Red Banner of Labor (1943); medals: "20 years of the Red Army" (1938), "For the defense of Leningrad", others.
Russian.
From nobles.
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Entered (1899) into service in School of Engineering
in St. Petersburg. Harness Junker.
- Graduated from the Nikolaev Institute. Released as second lieutenant (art. 9.8.1900) in 21sapb.
lieutenant 21sapb(for 1907). For excellent, diligent service and labors incurred during the hostilities, he was awarded the Order of St. Stanislav 3 tbsp. (16.3.1907).
On January 1, 1909, he served in 2 East Siberian Sapb
. Staff captain.
1911 - graduated from the Nikolaev IA. military engineer. Captain.
On 1.1.1913 - senior foreman. Commandant Fr. Nargen. Lieutenant colonel.
August 24, 1917 - assistant to the builder of the fortress on the Primorsky Front. Colonel(1917).
In the ranks of the RKKF since 2.1918 Non-partisan.
2.1918 - member-rapporteur of the liquidation meeting of the Interdepartmental Conference on the Affairs of the Naval Commissariat.
9.1919 - senior foreman and head of the GMTU.
11.1921 - Head of the Technical Department of the Inspection of Construction Works at the State Moscow Technical University.
6.1922 - teacher and chief leader of the International Military School.
12.1922 - adjunct, teacher of the VIA RKKA.
9.1925 - Lecturer, senior head of the Red Army Military Aviation Administration.
7.1932 - Senior Lecturer, Head of the Department of the VIA RKKA (since 9.1935 - named after V.V. Kuibyshev). Brigadier (17.2.1936).
Doctor of Technical Sciences.
He was awarded the Jubilee Medal "20 Years of the Red Army" (22.2.1938).
 | Affairs Committee high school awarded an academic title professors (1938). Major General of Engineering Troops(Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR No. 945 of 4.6.1940). |
Lieutenant General of the Engineering Troops of the Navy (25.9.1944).
Conducted active research and literary work, took part in solving practical problems. For long service in the spacecraft and the Navy (as of 11.1944 - 26 years 8 months) as the head of the VITU of the Navy, Major General of the Engineering Troops F.Ya. Bugrov presented (11.9.1944) to the Order of Lenin, awarded the Order Red Banner
(Decree of the Presidium of the USSR Armed Forces of November 3, 1944).
He was constantly involved in solving practical problems of engineering training maritime borders USSR. For long service in the spacecraft and the Navy (as of 11.1944 - 26 years 8 months) as the head of the VITU of the Navy, Major General of the Engineering Troops F.Ya. Bugrov presented (12/22/1944) and awarded the order Lenin(Decree of the Presidium of the USSR Armed Forces dated February 21, 1945).
Awarded with the medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." (certificate of delivery dated August 9, 1945 to the VITU of the Navy).
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In 1950 he was the head of the department of coastal fortification at VITKU.
Second lieutenant (on 10/14/1914).
Transferred (4.11.1914) to 265 Vyshnevolotsky subdivision 67pd.
The division carried (until 11.1914) the protection of the Baltic coast, and then, as part of 35AK, participated in the retreat (1915) from Poland, in the Naroch offensive (1916) and in the offensive Skrobovsky battles (7.1916) near Baranovichi.
Staff Captain(for 1916).
Awarded the Order of St. Stanislav 2 tbsp. with swords (VP 2.11.1916).
1.1918 - 265 Vyshnevolotsky pp voluntarily transferred to the new 2nd division of the People's Socialist Guard.
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In the ranks of the Red Army since March 24, 1919 Non-partisan.
Participant civil war .
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brigade commander
He was awarded the jubilee medal "20 years of the Red Army" (22.2.1938).
Major General of Engineering Troops(Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR No. 945 of 4.6.1940).
9.1941 - chief engineering service Kharkov garrison (Kharkov IN).
On September 16, 1941, according to the plan approved by the State Defense Committee of the USSR, the evacuation of enterprises and the population of Kharkov and the Kharkov region began.
At the end of 9.1941, the State Defense Committee of the USSR decided to carry out, in the event of a retreat in Kharkov and the region, a number of special measures to disable industrial and food enterprises, railway junctions and communication centers, bridges, communication lines, power plants and other important objects of the urban economy by undermining, arson and mining. In addition to Kharkov, such measures for the entire period of the Great Patriotic War were applied only to Moscow, Leningrad and Kyiv.
Participant Great Patriotic War .
Fought on the Southwestern Front.
Skillfully organized the preparation of fortifications in the city of Kharkov. At the height of the fighting (10/24/1941) he was at the command post, having learned that one of the bridges had not been destroyed, he immediately went to the front line to establish the causes and take action. Came under fire from submachine gunners, the car was smashed, but achieved the task. Returned to the CP and continued to work. Awarded with the Order Red Banner (pr. No. 4 / n dated November 9, 1941 of the South-Western Front). The award sheet was signed (11/4/1941) by the commander of 6A Major General R.Ya. Malinovsky and member of the Military Council Brigadier Commissar I.I. Larin.
From 11.1941 - was in teaching at the Military Economic Academy (Tashkent), transferred (1942) to Kalinin on the basis of the former Kalinin Military Chemical School and renamed the Military Academy of Logistics and Supply (pr. People's Commissar defense dated 11.9.1942).
Senior Lecturer at the Department of General Tactics and Military Logistics.
The complexity and intensity of the service of the war years, which the 57-year-old general faced, could have a negative impact on his health.
He died in January 1944.
Sources of information
Bryukhovetsky R.I., Nastenko S.S.
