A hundred years old forge paratroopers. RVVDKU celebrates the centenary anniversary
Its centenary is celebrated by the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School (RVDKU) - one of the most famous and prestigious military schools in Russia and the Soviet Union. History The military school started 100 years ago, November 13, 1918, when classes began in Ryazan on the newly created Ryazan infantry courses of the Red Army commanding officers. And now the 100 years Ryazan School remains a forge of command personnel for our army.
For a whole century of existence in this school, tens of thousands of Soviet and Russian officers and military personnel from other states received military education. Very many graduates of the school became Heroes of the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation, were awarded orders and medals, reached real heights in military and state careers.
The history of the Ryazan school is inextricably linked with the history of the Red Army, the armed forces of the USSR and Russia. Almost immediately after the creation of the Red Army, it became clear that the new army needed qualified command personnel. Red Army youth, with all the fighting spirit and zeal, did not have the proper knowledge. Therefore, in a number of cities in the country, courses were opened to train the commanders of the Red Army.
Ryazan was one of these cities. Near Ryazan, in the village of Starozhilovo, 1-e Ryazan cavalry command courses of the Red Army were created, where future Marshal Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov studied. In August, 1918 was decided to open infantry courses, and in November 1918, classes began at the Ryazan infantry courses of the command personnel of the Red Army.
The first graduation of the red commanders went to the front of the Civic from the Ryazan 15 courses in March 1919. Training, as we see, was short-term and as concise as possible. During the Civil War, 7 graduate courses were issued by accelerated red commanders, and the total number of graduates exceeded 500 people. After the war, the courses were transformed into the Ryazan infantry school with a three-year training, and then into the Ryazan infantry school of the Red Army named after Kliment Voroshilov.
When the Great Patriotic War began, the school was again forced to move to an accelerated training of command personnel. The cadets did not study 8 hours a day, but 10-12 hours a day, many classes were held at night. At the same time, the number of cadets was increased - instead of 2 battalions, they created the 3 battalion. Graduates were given the military rank of "lieutenant", after which they were sent to the infantry units of the army. All the war years the school was led by Colonel (later Major General) Mikhail Petrovich Garussky (1894-1962) - a participant in the Civil War, combat commander, who held the post of head of the Ryazan Infantry School in 1940-1946. In 1943, the school was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
2 August 1941, already in the first year of the war, in Kuibyshev (Samara), on the basis of the Ryazan infantry school, a special military parachute school was created in an atmosphere of strict secrecy, in which command personnel were trained for the Red Army airborne units that had appeared not so long ago. After the war, from 1946 to 1947, the military parachute school was located in Frunze, and then transferred to Alma-Ata.
In 1958, the USSR Council of Ministers transformed the Ryazan Red Banner Infantry School into the Higher All-Arms Command School. If before the school was considered secondary and had a three-year course of study, now it has become higher and had to learn new sets of cadets for four years. In the Alma-Ata military parachute school the training period remained the same. However, General Vasily Filippovich Margelov, in 1954-1959. who served as commander of the USSR Airborne Forces, proposed combining both schools into one, especially since the growing importance of the Airborne Forces required the development of a military education system for this branch of the military.
The military department heeded the arguments of Margelov, and already on May 1 of May 1959 from Alma-Ata, the paratrooper commanders under the command of Colonel AS had left for Ryazan. Leontyev, appointed commander of the Ryazan Higher All-Arms Command Red Banner School. Since that time, the Alma-Ata military parachute school became part of Ryazan, and in the latter they began to train command cadres not only for infantry, but also for paratroopers.
But for another five years, until all the graduates of cadets who studied under the program of infantry (motorized rifle) divisions were completed, the school was called the Ryazan Higher Combined-Arms Command Red Banner School. Only 4 on April 1964 of the year, RVOKU, was renamed RVVDKU - Ryazan Higher Airborne Command Red Banner School. So the Airborne Forces of the USSR had its own higher educational institution. 22 February The 1968 school was re-awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the second time, it was given the honorary title "Lenin Komsomol".
The strengthening of the school, the development of its training base, training camps received a lot of attention. Pretty soon, the school became one of the most prestigious in the Soviet Army. The interest of young people in the Airborne Forces and the Ryazan School increased particularly in the late 1970-x - early 1980-s.
The real test for officers - "Ryazan" was the war in Afghanistan. The airborne troops played one of the key roles in the fighting “beyond the river”, suffered heavy losses in personnel. But for the soldiers, the war in Afghanistan has become a school of military experience unprecedented before. In Afghanistan, many graduates of the Ryazan school managed to make war. Some of them subsequently made a dizzying career - not only military, but also political.
Thus, in 1969, the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School graduated with honors from Pavel Sergeevich Grachev. In 1981-1983 and 1985-1988 He took part in the hostilities in Afghanistan, received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. In 1992-1996 Pavel Grachev served as Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation. These were very difficult years that dramatic events in the history of the country and the army fell on - the economic crisis, the reduction of armed forces, the shooting of the House of Soviets in October 1993, the First Chechen War.
The Ryazan school was also finished by the opponent Pavel Grachev and his “patron” Boris Yeltsin, Lieutenant-General Alexander Ivanovich Lebed. He was two years younger than Grachev and graduated from college in 1973, and the school commander was just Grachev, then a young officer who commanded a sequential platoon and company of Ryazan cadets.
Grachev and Lebed are political figures. But among the famous graduates of the school there are still more soldiers who did not plunge into the chaos and filth of post-Soviet politics. For Afghanistan he received the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union Valery Aleksandrovich Vostrotin, who was "beyond the river" from the very beginning of the hostilities - he commanded the parachute company that stormed the palace of Hafizullah Amin in Kabul, then served in various positions, was seriously wounded. From September 1986 to May 1989 Valery Vostrotin commanded the legendary 345 separate guards parachute regiment. After the withdrawal of troops from the DRA, he commanded the airborne division, was deputy minister of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, resigned to the guard colonel-general.
Forever entered the modern history of Russia the name of Colonel-General Georgy Ivanovich Shpak, in 1996-2003. Commander of the Russian Airborne Forces. He also graduated with honors from the Ryazan Higher Airborne School, went from platoon commander to division commander, commanded a combined-arms army, was deputy commander of a military district, and fought in Afghanistan and Chechnya. The son of Georgy Shpak, Oleg Shpak, who also became a paratrooper officer, died in Chechnya in 1995 year.
In independent Russia, paratroopers waited for no less trials. Airborne units participated in almost all armed conflicts that have occurred in the post-Soviet space since the 1991 year. Transnistria, Tajikistan, Chechnya, counter-terrorism operations in the North Caucasus, South Ossetia and Abkhazia - where graduates of the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School did not fight.
Throughout the history of the school, its leaders, teachers, cadets were very sensitive to the history of the school, the Airborne Forces and their “founding father” Vasily Filippovich Margelov. 3 November 1995 was a monument to army general Margelov opened on the school’s territory, and 12 November 1996 President Boris Yeltsin at the numerous requests of the paratroopers assigned the school a new name. Now it became known as the “Ryazan Higher Airborne Command Command, twice the Red Banner School named after Army General Margelov V.F.”
However, this military educational institution did not escape a series of reforms and renames. In August, the Ryazan Higher Airborne School named after Army General Margelov V.F. 1998 was for some reason renamed the Ryazan Institute of the Airborne Forces. It took four years for 11 in November 2002, the government returned the name of Army General Vasily Margelov to the school, and in 2004, again by numerous requests from the personnel, veterans of the Airborne Forces and the school, the Ryazan Institute of Airborne Forces was renamed again - Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School (Military Institute) named after Army General VF Margelov.
In 2009, the school was joined by the disbanded Ryazan Higher Military Command School of Communications, on the basis of which the Faculty of Communications was established, which trains specialists for communication units of the Airborne Forces. In 2013, a special reconnaissance battalion was returned to Novosibirsk from the Ryazan school, after which the training of commanders for special forces units was resumed in Ryazan.
What is the Ryazan school today? To begin with, this is an extremely prestigious military institution. The competition in RVVDKU is very high, which is associated with the overall prestige of the Airborne Forces in Russian society. For many young people, admission to the CIDC is a cherished dream. And this is dictated not only by romantic notions about the service, but also by the fact that the school really gives high-quality military education, and its graduates are in demand not only in the Airborne Forces, but also in the marine infantry, military intelligence, in the bodies of the Federal Security Service, the Federal Security Service etc.
Today the school trains officers in military specialties - “Use of airborne units”, “Use of troop intelligence units”, “Use of airborne communications divisions”, “Use of airborne units (mountain)”, “Use of marines”, “Use of landing support units” . The term of study at the school is five years.
Speaking about the Ryazan school, we should not forget that since 1962, foreign military personnel have been trained there. There is a whole special department dedicated to the training of foreign personnel. The first foreigners admitted to the school were Vietnamese soldiers. The warriors with the knowledge gained in the school at that time, in the 1960-ies, were very much needed by North Vietnam, which led an unequal war with South Vietnam, by the United States and its allies.
Then the school began to accept students from other countries. Many of them subsequently sought high posts in their countries. For example, General Amadou Toumani Toure studied at RVVDKU, in 1991-1992 and 2002-2012. former president of Mali. The interest of foreign armies in the Ryazan School is another evidence of the high quality of military education in this school, the fame of which has long gone beyond the borders of our country.
In honor of the 100 anniversary of the establishment of the school, the Order of the Government of the Russian Federation of February 17 2018 No. 245-p Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School was given the honorary title of "Guards".
"Military Review" congratulates the whole staff of the Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School, its veterans, soldiers, paratroopers and their families with a wonderful anniversary. Airborne is really the pride and strength of Russia, and the Ryazan school is the elite and pride of the airborne.
For a whole century of existence in this school, tens of thousands of Soviet and Russian officers and military personnel from other states received military education. Very many graduates of the school became Heroes of the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation, were awarded orders and medals, reached real heights in military and state careers.
The history of the Ryazan school is inextricably linked with the history of the Red Army, the armed forces of the USSR and Russia. Almost immediately after the creation of the Red Army, it became clear that the new army needed qualified command personnel. Red Army youth, with all the fighting spirit and zeal, did not have the proper knowledge. Therefore, in a number of cities in the country, courses were opened to train the commanders of the Red Army.
Ryazan was one of these cities. Near Ryazan, in the village of Starozhilovo, 1-e Ryazan cavalry command courses of the Red Army were created, where future Marshal Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov studied. In August, 1918 was decided to open infantry courses, and in November 1918, classes began at the Ryazan infantry courses of the command personnel of the Red Army.
The first graduation of the red commanders went to the front of the Civic from the Ryazan 15 courses in March 1919. Training, as we see, was short-term and as concise as possible. During the Civil War, 7 graduate courses were issued by accelerated red commanders, and the total number of graduates exceeded 500 people. After the war, the courses were transformed into the Ryazan infantry school with a three-year training, and then into the Ryazan infantry school of the Red Army named after Kliment Voroshilov.
When the Great Patriotic War began, the school was again forced to move to an accelerated training of command personnel. The cadets did not study 8 hours a day, but 10-12 hours a day, many classes were held at night. At the same time, the number of cadets was increased - instead of 2 battalions, they created the 3 battalion. Graduates were given the military rank of "lieutenant", after which they were sent to the infantry units of the army. All the war years the school was led by Colonel (later Major General) Mikhail Petrovich Garussky (1894-1962) - a participant in the Civil War, combat commander, who held the post of head of the Ryazan Infantry School in 1940-1946. In 1943, the school was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
2 August 1941, already in the first year of the war, in Kuibyshev (Samara), on the basis of the Ryazan infantry school, a special military parachute school was created in an atmosphere of strict secrecy, in which command personnel were trained for the Red Army airborne units that had appeared not so long ago. After the war, from 1946 to 1947, the military parachute school was located in Frunze, and then transferred to Alma-Ata.
In 1958, the USSR Council of Ministers transformed the Ryazan Red Banner Infantry School into the Higher All-Arms Command School. If before the school was considered secondary and had a three-year course of study, now it has become higher and had to learn new sets of cadets for four years. In the Alma-Ata military parachute school the training period remained the same. However, General Vasily Filippovich Margelov, in 1954-1959. who served as commander of the USSR Airborne Forces, proposed combining both schools into one, especially since the growing importance of the Airborne Forces required the development of a military education system for this branch of the military.
The military department heeded the arguments of Margelov, and already on May 1 of May 1959 from Alma-Ata, the paratrooper commanders under the command of Colonel AS had left for Ryazan. Leontyev, appointed commander of the Ryazan Higher All-Arms Command Red Banner School. Since that time, the Alma-Ata military parachute school became part of Ryazan, and in the latter they began to train command cadres not only for infantry, but also for paratroopers.
But for another five years, until all the graduates of cadets who studied under the program of infantry (motorized rifle) divisions were completed, the school was called the Ryazan Higher Combined-Arms Command Red Banner School. Only 4 on April 1964 of the year, RVOKU, was renamed RVVDKU - Ryazan Higher Airborne Command Red Banner School. So the Airborne Forces of the USSR had its own higher educational institution. 22 February The 1968 school was re-awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the second time, it was given the honorary title "Lenin Komsomol".
The strengthening of the school, the development of its training base, training camps received a lot of attention. Pretty soon, the school became one of the most prestigious in the Soviet Army. The interest of young people in the Airborne Forces and the Ryazan School increased particularly in the late 1970-x - early 1980-s.
The real test for officers - "Ryazan" was the war in Afghanistan. The airborne troops played one of the key roles in the fighting “beyond the river”, suffered heavy losses in personnel. But for the soldiers, the war in Afghanistan has become a school of military experience unprecedented before. In Afghanistan, many graduates of the Ryazan school managed to make war. Some of them subsequently made a dizzying career - not only military, but also political.
Thus, in 1969, the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School graduated with honors from Pavel Sergeevich Grachev. In 1981-1983 and 1985-1988 He took part in the hostilities in Afghanistan, received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. In 1992-1996 Pavel Grachev served as Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation. These were very difficult years that dramatic events in the history of the country and the army fell on - the economic crisis, the reduction of armed forces, the shooting of the House of Soviets in October 1993, the First Chechen War.
The Ryazan school was also finished by the opponent Pavel Grachev and his “patron” Boris Yeltsin, Lieutenant-General Alexander Ivanovich Lebed. He was two years younger than Grachev and graduated from college in 1973, and the school commander was just Grachev, then a young officer who commanded a sequential platoon and company of Ryazan cadets.
Grachev and Lebed are political figures. But among the famous graduates of the school there are still more soldiers who did not plunge into the chaos and filth of post-Soviet politics. For Afghanistan he received the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union Valery Aleksandrovich Vostrotin, who was "beyond the river" from the very beginning of the hostilities - he commanded the parachute company that stormed the palace of Hafizullah Amin in Kabul, then served in various positions, was seriously wounded. From September 1986 to May 1989 Valery Vostrotin commanded the legendary 345 separate guards parachute regiment. After the withdrawal of troops from the DRA, he commanded the airborne division, was deputy minister of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, resigned to the guard colonel-general. Forever entered the modern history of Russia the name of Colonel-General Georgy Ivanovich Shpak, in 1996-2003. Commander of the Russian Airborne Forces. He also graduated with honors from the Ryazan Higher Airborne School, went from platoon commander to division commander, commanded a combined-arms army, was deputy commander of a military district, and fought in Afghanistan and Chechnya. The son of Georgy Shpak, Oleg Shpak, who also became a paratrooper officer, died in Chechnya in 1995 year.
In independent Russia, paratroopers waited for no less trials. Airborne units participated in almost all armed conflicts that have occurred in the post-Soviet space since the 1991 year. Transnistria, Tajikistan, Chechnya, counter-terrorism operations in the North Caucasus, South Ossetia and Abkhazia - where graduates of the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School did not fight.
Throughout the history of the school, its leaders, teachers, cadets were very sensitive to the history of the school, the Airborne Forces and their “founding father” Vasily Filippovich Margelov. 3 November 1995 was a monument to army general Margelov opened on the school’s territory, and 12 November 1996 President Boris Yeltsin at the numerous requests of the paratroopers assigned the school a new name. Now it became known as the “Ryazan Higher Airborne Command Command, twice the Red Banner School named after Army General Margelov V.F.”
However, this military educational institution did not escape a series of reforms and renames. In August, the Ryazan Higher Airborne School named after Army General Margelov V.F. 1998 was for some reason renamed the Ryazan Institute of the Airborne Forces. It took four years for 11 in November 2002, the government returned the name of Army General Vasily Margelov to the school, and in 2004, again by numerous requests from the personnel, veterans of the Airborne Forces and the school, the Ryazan Institute of Airborne Forces was renamed again - Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School (Military Institute) named after Army General VF Margelov.
In 2009, the school was joined by the disbanded Ryazan Higher Military Command School of Communications, on the basis of which the Faculty of Communications was established, which trains specialists for communication units of the Airborne Forces. In 2013, a special reconnaissance battalion was returned to Novosibirsk from the Ryazan school, after which the training of commanders for special forces units was resumed in Ryazan.
What is the Ryazan school today? To begin with, this is an extremely prestigious military institution. The competition in RVVDKU is very high, which is associated with the overall prestige of the Airborne Forces in Russian society. For many young people, admission to the CIDC is a cherished dream. And this is dictated not only by romantic notions about the service, but also by the fact that the school really gives high-quality military education, and its graduates are in demand not only in the Airborne Forces, but also in the marine infantry, military intelligence, in the bodies of the Federal Security Service, the Federal Security Service etc.
Today the school trains officers in military specialties - “Use of airborne units”, “Use of troop intelligence units”, “Use of airborne communications divisions”, “Use of airborne units (mountain)”, “Use of marines”, “Use of landing support units” . The term of study at the school is five years.
Speaking about the Ryazan school, we should not forget that since 1962, foreign military personnel have been trained there. There is a whole special department dedicated to the training of foreign personnel. The first foreigners admitted to the school were Vietnamese soldiers. The warriors with the knowledge gained in the school at that time, in the 1960-ies, were very much needed by North Vietnam, which led an unequal war with South Vietnam, by the United States and its allies.
Then the school began to accept students from other countries. Many of them subsequently sought high posts in their countries. For example, General Amadou Toumani Toure studied at RVVDKU, in 1991-1992 and 2002-2012. former president of Mali. The interest of foreign armies in the Ryazan School is another evidence of the high quality of military education in this school, the fame of which has long gone beyond the borders of our country.
In honor of the 100 anniversary of the establishment of the school, the Order of the Government of the Russian Federation of February 17 2018 No. 245-p Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School was given the honorary title of "Guards".
"Military Review" congratulates the whole staff of the Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School, its veterans, soldiers, paratroopers and their families with a wonderful anniversary. Airborne is really the pride and strength of Russia, and the Ryazan school is the elite and pride of the airborne.
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