January 21 - Day of the Engineering Troops of Russia

By the decree of the President of the Russian Federation of September 18, 1996, the Day of Engineering Troops was established in our country, which has been celebrated annually on January 21 since then.

And although the art of military engineering began to develop almost simultaneously with the appearance of regular troops, special engineering units appeared in Russia thanks to the reforms of Peter I. The date of the founding of these troops is January 10 (21), 1701, when the Russian emperor issued a decree on the creation of the Artillery and Engineering School , which began to train artillery and engineering officers for the army.

Exactly 320 years have passed since then. Today, the original of this Decree of Peter the Great can be seen in the Military-Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps in St. Petersburg, at an exhibition that began its work yesterday, on the eve of the holiday.

Modern engineering troops are able to overcome any obstacle. They are among the most technologically advanced units in the Russian army. In wartime, army engineers provide defense and facilitate the advance of troop units. And after the end of hostilities, sapper warriors clean the area from mines and unexploded ordnance. In a peaceful environment, engineering troops help in eliminating the consequences of natural and man-made disasters, and participate in rescue operations.

The editorial board of Voenniy Obozreniye sincerely congratulates everyone involved in the professional holiday of the engineering troops of Russia. We wish the military engineers the best in their difficult service.

Comments

[aybolyt678]

Happy holiday, dear comrades! Hurrah!!

[Reserve buildbat]

Happy Holidays !!!! Let's slap a hundred and change the landscape!

[voronin]

As they used to jokingly say - The most terrible troops. They don't even give them weapons!
Happy holiday

[Alexey Sommer]

Quote: voronin

As they used to jokingly say - The most terrible troops. They don't even give them weapons!

This was not about the engineering troops, but about the construction battalion.

[voronin]

Quote: Alexey Sommer

It was not the engineering troops who were talking about the construction battalion

Stroybat- (construction battalion) colloquial name of engineering units engaged in military construction

[Sergey269]

[Sergey269]

Complete nonsense! Judging by your comments, you have the same attitude to the Engineering Troops as a veterinarian to the power supply. Engineering troops DO NOT BUILD, they EQUIPMENT, CONSTRUCTION, EQUIPMENT, PROVIDE ... Remember the tasks of engineering support of the battle, unless, of course, you have ever learned the Combat Manual of Engineering Troops. Congratulations, MILITARY ENGINEERS!

[voronin]

Quote: Sergey269

You have the same attitude to the Engineering Troops as a veterinarian to power supply

I have nothing to do with the Corps of Engineers. Just brought up a humorous expression from the past.
Happy holiday

[Alexey Sommer]

Mutually colleague!

[Sergey269]

For 23 calendars and 29 in preferential terms, neither me nor my subordinates were called construction battalions, nor anyone else! Moles, yes it was!

[Crowe]

For the valiant construction battalion "we will bang, we will definitely bang! But then." ©
On August 8 this year we will celebrate the day of the military builder.
An American instructor at a Marine Corps training center explains to recruits:
The Russians have such an airborne assault force; one of their airborne troops with you three can cope without weapons.
But that's not all. The Russians also have a naval landing. These are scumbags. One of their naval paratroopers without weapons will make you five like babies.
But this is not the worst thing; they have such a construction battalion.
These are such beasts that they are generally afraid to give them weapons.

[Crowe]

Happy Holidays, men!

Your service is not easy
But today is your holiday
Listen to this order:
Level, theodolite
Let him sleep peacefully in the warehouse
A military truck crane
Let replace you a glass.
Pour it to the brim
Drink, do not spare vodka,
With feeling, really, with arrangement,
Yes, with military skill.
Your first toast to service
For the glory of the engineering troops!

[Crowe]

Good luck in the difficult, but so necessary service!

[Flooding]

Congratulations to everyone involved.

[Zoldat_A]

Happy Holidays! Cognac today - for sappers! And you should NEVER be mistaken! We can be wrong. Nakosyachim - fix it. You are not allowed.

[Sergey269]

Minesweeper is wrong twice. The first time - when he chooses a profession, and the second - you yourself understand ... This is what our teacher on mine explosives Colonel Osovitsky told us at KVIOLKUIV them. A.A. Zhdanov.

[Zoldat_A]

Well, four out of five make the first mistake in our country, regardless of military or civilian specialty. And here is the second one - to NEVER!
Once again, happy holiday!

[Sergey269]

May God give everyone not to be mistaken! Happy Holidays!

[faiver]

All involved in the holiday

[kolmakov79]

Happy Holidays!

[iouris]

Engineering troops are wrong. Fortification, engineer, military construction troops.
Often Latin words (scientific concepts and terms) in the Russian language receive meanings that do not correspond to their true meaning.
Engineer (fr. Ingénieur ← from lat. Ingenium - ability, ingenuity.
The main content of an engineer is the development of new and / or optimization of existing engineering solutions
Engineers are involved, as a rule, in all processes of the life cycle of technical devices, including applied research, planning, design, construction, development of manufacturing technology, preparation of technical documentation, production, commissioning, testing, operation, maintenance, repair, disposal of the device, quality management ...

[Sergey269]

Address all claims to Peter 1, he did not consult with you when he wrote the decree on the creation of the "Pushkar and Engineering School".

[Sergey269]

You have listed some of the components of the Engineering Troops, with some mistakes ... And to solve the tasks you have listed and many other tasks, you need competent, well-trained commanders-military engineers capable of solving suddenly arising tasks! It was not for nothing that Pyotr Alekseevich put one rank above the officers-engineers! And you dig into the translation ...

[Konstantin Gogolev]

Happy Holidays!
"Disposable" - that's what sappers are often called. "A sapper is wrong once ... It's not true, the first time a sapper is wrong when he chooses his specialty." So we joked about ourselves.
Special congratulations to our specialists who are now working in Nagorno-Karabakh. Besides, there were already losses.

[gurzuf]

Happy Holidays to all who served and is serving in these troops !!!

[Nikxnumx]

Happy Engineering Troops Day, comrades!

[Vadim_888]

In the US Army, a sergeant tells his unit:
- The Russians have such troops - the Airborne Forces - there for one of theirs
we need two of us! But that's nothing. They have marines
- there for one of theirs three of ours you need! But the worst thing is that they have troops, the construction battalion is called - so for those animals in general
weapons are not given!


Happy holiday to you guys!

[lubesky]

Happy holiday guys! The 214th Red Banner Separate Engineer Brigade!

[koramax81]

Happy colleagues!

[Nikon O'Conor]

From the construction battalion of the USSR to the Military Engineers of the RF Armed Forces. But in fact, the history of the troops goes deep into the past. Few people know now that the usual military term "mine" has initially a different meaning. Mina comes from the English. mine - mine, i.e. a miner is a miner. Why? During large and small wars, it was practiced to dig under the walls of enemy fortresses, in the Middle Ages, strong fire (heat) was used to destroy the walls, to destroy the base of the walls, after the appearance of gunpowder, charges (barrels of gunpowder) were laid under the foundation. And those same underground passages were dug by the same people who mined minerals in the mines, because for this you cannot collect from people, you need to know a lot about this matter. From there, the definition of miner appeared - Man laying a charge underground (medieval engineers).
Congratulations to my colleagues (I happened to serve in an engineer-sapper company of the Strategic Missile Forces), by the way, glanders are a moat covered from the front (those who dug such fortifications are sappers).
Stroybat, of course, distorted the meaning of the troops, but now everything is back to normal. Engineering troops are one of the most important components of our Armed Forces.
Happy Holidays Comrades !!!