21 January - Day of Engineers

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History Russian engineering troops begin with the opening of the first military school, whose task was to train officers of artillery and engineering troops, the Pushkarsky Prikaz school. The decree on the opening of this educational institution was issued by Peter the Great on 21 on January 1701, and it was in memory of this event that the Day of the Engineer Forces was instituted.



Engineering troops, as their name implies, solve the problems of combat engineering. This concept, according to the Ground Forces Combat Regulations, includes engineering reconnaissance of enemy facilities and the surrounding area, creation of fortifications, equipping positions, lines and areas, as well as command and control points, erecting engineering barriers, installing land mines, disabling enemy landfills, and building aisles in the barriers. and blockages, the organization of passes through obstacles, demining, the organization and maintenance of crossings for forcing water obstacles, masking, engineering measures for liquidation of the consequences of nuclear strikes, extraction of drinking water, its purification and maintenance of water supply facilities. Thus, the range of tasks facing the troops is very wide and is not limited to the traditional ideas of the "construction battalion" that exist in a civilian environment.

In peacetime, engineering troops were repeatedly involved in solving various economic and environmental tasks, as well as tasks related to ensuring the safety of the civilian population: they participated in demining the territories, eliminating the consequences of the Chernobyl accident, eliminating the effects of natural disasters, and guarding bridges and hydraulic structures during floods .

21 January - Day of Engineers


Today, the range of tasks facing the engineering troops is expanding the need to counter the increased threat of mine-disruptive terror. Solving this task requires equipping troops with special equipment, new approaches to targeted training of specialists, which is currently being successfully implemented in educational institutions that train specialists for engineering troops, as well as through close cooperation with other security agencies.



According to the head of the engineering troops of the Armed Forces of Russia, Major-General Yuri StavitskyIn the coming year, special attention will be paid to equipping troops with engineering weapons in order to increase their combat capabilities in the performance of support tasks. The Major General notes that in the course of the implementation of the State Armaments Program until 2020, the engineering troops continue their targeted work on the development of the entire system of engineering weapons. The troops received new cranes, excavators, masking tools and water storage facilities. The chief promises that before 2020, the troops will receive the latest automated engineering and reconnaissance and universal armored engineering and engineering road machines and other new equipment, superior in their characteristics to foreign counterparts, which will ensure the implementation of the entire complex of tasks facing the troops today. In short, the prospects for the engineering troops, as with the entire Russian Army, are very promising. Let's hope for the best and congratulate the engineering troops on their professional holiday!
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    1. +15
      21 January 2013 09: 57
      HOLIDAY YOU ARE MEN! drinks
      1. armorboy1
        +5
        21 January 2013 11: 49
        the emblem in the army among conscripts was deciphered as "cut the ends, it's time to go home" smile
    2. +11
      21 January 2013 10: 02
      Happy engineers! Everybody really needs your service.
      1. 0
        21 January 2013 15: 28
        [img]http://im5-tub-ru.yandex.net/i?id=17037079-07-72&n=21[/img]
    3. +6
      21 January 2013 10: 05
      Congratulations to the military laborers, without whom many tasks would simply be impossible to solve .. Happy men and ladies!
    4. botur2013
      +7
      21 January 2013 10: 08
      HAPPY ENGINEERING TROOPS DAY! All the best, good luck, good health to all!
    5. +8
      21 January 2013 10: 10
      My congratulations and best wishes to veterans and military personnel of the engineering troops of Russia !!!
    6. +9
      21 January 2013 10: 16
      I congratulate you today on the Day of Engineering Troops. Although there is no place for wars, you are always held in high esteem! And heaven bless you on this day, And may it fulfill all your dreams! For your homeland, you are fully prepared to go against the obstacles of fate! Strategies you know the basics of cunning, Patriotism, bonfires always burn in you! drinks soldier
    7. +10
      21 January 2013 10: 42
      Congratulations to all those who have devoted themselves to service in the engineer troops on a holiday! Health, strong bridges and reliable rear!

    8. +6
      21 January 2013 10: 48
      With a professional holiday, and do not make mistakes
    9. +4
      21 January 2013 10: 59
      Happy Holidays!
      Engineering troops are often underestimated in peacetime, considering them not military, but as soon as a real military conflict begins, everyone immediately recognizes their importance and importance. So it was in the Second World War, so it was in Avgan ...

      By the way, an interesting fact from Yu. Veremeyev:
      http://army.armor.kiev.ua/engenear/stalingrad-mina.php

      And by the way. The fact that the Red Army had engineering troops and was the head of the Main Engineering Directorate at the beginning of the war, Stalin and the members of the government did not even suspect, was too small and small a figure (the Chief Marshal of Artillery Voronov mentioned in his memoirs). But already at the beginning of 1942 the chief of the engineering troops of the Red Army was in the rank of deputy commissar of defense, i.e. I.V. Stalin. You can’t say better about the significance of the engineering troops.
      1. 0
        21 January 2013 16: 16
        Correctly engineering parts and cities took by storm!
      2. dima_talib
        +1
        22 January 2013 02: 08
        Perhaps I do not agree. ..
        In the Soviet Army, engineering units belonged to special units. Those. performed a combat mission in peacetime.
        This, and mine. For which the officers received military awards. And Chernobyl, in the very heat of which my fellow soldiers left healthy. And somehow it’s not customary to recall that the Sons of the WHOLE Soviet Union were the liquidators there!
        I want to name these guys.
        Muscovites - Makeev and Pakshubin. Sons of the Caucasus - Suleymanov, Ramazanov, Almaskhanov. At their IMRs, these Soldiers raked radioactive shit near the reactor itself.
        I remember with my good memory and warmth my 33rd Dvinsky Engineer Engineer Regiment (Kotly settlement)
        His friends are fellow soldiers. And many officers - Parkhomenko, Molchanov, Manushkin, commander of the regiment Levashko, commander of the battalion Gorbunov
        Thanks a lot, everyone!
        Happy Engineer's Day!
        1. +1
          22 January 2013 10: 52
          Levashko’s regiment, political commissar Pindas, it seems, we had Rysev company, Vinnik, I still remember the demolition man, we called him Winnie the Pooh for his eyes. In the title, the Red Banner forgot to add.
          1. +1
            22 January 2013 11: 17
            Regiment, it seems under the 62nd number was listed?
            1. dima_talib
              0
              22 January 2013 15: 23
              Happy Holidays to you! drinks I served in 86-88 years. The regiment was the 33rd, during the war it was the Assault Engineering Mining Brigade. Today, he (based on the information in net) several times changed the name, again became a brigade and number. Changed the location.
              Alexander Levashko, Afghanistan was a real officer - a father to the soldiers. I ran crosses with the whole regiment. Laconic and fair.
              Zampolit Pindas, the wisest soulful man. I also remember him with warmth.
              Seryoga Rysev, together with Seryoga Zanger, were in a constant state of distaste from Mr. Gorbunov wassat
    10. anchonsha
      +3
      21 January 2013 11: 08
      GUYS, YOU ARE ALWAYS ADVANCED WHERE THE TROOPS WERE NOT GO !!!! WITH HOLIDAY YOU, HEALTH AND SUCCESS IN YOUR HEAVY SERVICE! !!!
    11. MG42
      +7
      21 January 2013 11: 12
      Engineering troops are front-line troops. In wartime, it is the engineering forces that start the attack. They provide motorized riflemen and tankers with advancement.

      Military engineers make passages in the minefields and obstacles of the enemy, clear the rubble and destruction to ensure the movement of their troops, mine the terrain, buildings, roads, airfields, stations, streets.

      Engineering intelligence is studying the terrain on which the fighting is coming, it is obliged to find out what the enemy is preparing to complicate the advancement of troops. Engineering troops are involved in fortification equipment positions: fragments of trenches and trenches, the construction of shelters for equipment and personnel, communications, equipment observation and command posts.
      One of the main tasks of the engineering troops is the installation and maintenance of minefields and non-explosive barriers. Engineer troops prepare, maintain, and camouflage paths to advance troops. They arrange crossings over water barriers, camouflage troops and objects, provide troops with water.
      Happy Holidays!
    12. +4
      21 January 2013 11: 22
      Happy holiday !!!!!
    13. +3
      21 January 2013 11: 29
      Congratulations to the true hard workers of the Army.
    14. +4
      21 January 2013 11: 43
      Happy holiday men! Nowhere without you ...
    15. sergskak
      +4
      21 January 2013 11: 56
      Congratulations to the guys !!! It is possible and on the scale! drinks
    16. +4
      21 January 2013 12: 32
      Thank you very much for your congratulations and a happy holiday!
    17. +4
      21 January 2013 14: 03
      Congratulations to all the military personnel, civilian personnel of the ENGINEERING TROOPS, who served and are in service on a professional holiday! Health to you, your family, wish success and well-being from your kindred troops - ARTILLERS.
    18. +6
      21 January 2013 14: 22
      Happy holiday, men! drinks

      When I hear the name "Engineering Troops", I always remember the desperate fighters from the assault engineer-engineer brigade.


      The assault on Koenigsberg.

      Smoke bombs were dropped into the moat surrounding the fort, the smoke of which filled the moat and blinded the embrasures of the fort's fire structures. At the same time, mortar shelling of the fort facilities was opened, and flamethrowers began to carry out flamethrowing at the embrasures of the head caponier. The sappers hung the assault rope ladders. Under cover of smoke and machine-gun fire, rifle units and a team of assault group bombers descended the stairs into the moat. Sapper attack aircraft made two openings in the ceilings of the headings of the warehouses, through which machine gunners burst into the underground premises. The garrison of the fort surrendered ...
      The artillery escorting the infantry could not penetrate the walls of the shelters with its fire, and the artillery of greater power could not fire due to the likelihood of the defeat of their troops. Under the cover of fire of all types of weapons, attack aircraft crawled to shelters with explosive charges and made explosions. So, to undermine a reinforced concrete shelter in the Parshau region, a charge of 800 kg of explosives was required. The garrison in the amount of 120 people surrendered after the explosion.
    19. +3
      21 January 2013 14: 22
      Happy holiday, Guys !!! I consider it my kind of troops too, my dad took all his service in the engineering troops as a kid in mine in the early 60s near Voronezh. GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!!

    20. toguns
      +5
      21 January 2013 14: 56
      drinks Greetings to the engineering forces of the Strategic Missile Forces, in particular the sappers.
    21. borisst64
      +4
      21 January 2013 15: 03
      In the 90s, the engineer sapper battalion of the Pskov Division erected a wooden bridge at the Strugi training ground, with a payload of 20 tons, and now the local population uses it. Ordinary soldiers built under the guidance of an officer. I am proud of our sappers. Happy holiday!
    22. +3
      21 January 2013 15: 44
      Happy Engineers Day !!! Happy holiday !!! : drinks fellow drinks
    23. Nechai
      +2
      21 January 2013 16: 04
      With the holiday our hope and support! It’s impossible to create, not destroy without you! Do not pave, do not obstruct!
      "... The chief promises that by 2020 the troops will receive the latest automated engineering and reconnaissance and universal armored engineering and road engineering vehicles and other new equipment that surpasses foreign counterparts in their characteristics, which will ensure the fulfillment of the entire range of tasks facing the troops today . "
      Armored vehicle "Highlander-K" with increased mine protection (MRAP - Mine Resistant Ambush Protected) and 4x4 wheel arrangement.
    24. +3
      21 January 2013 16: 17
      Thought alone gradually melts
      From dawn, my brain:
      So, do not forget to congratulate
      Happy Engineering Troops Day
      Everyone who was involved in them,
      Everyone who is still in them ...
      Not about love and happiness
      There will be my conversation:
      Even after retiring
      Brave losing gloss
      Know: everyone will see in you
      The power of engineering troops;
      This is in you and valuable!
      To hell with dictate manners:
      Happy holiday to you, military man!
      Happy holiday, engineer!
      My congratulations!!! drinks
    25. +3
      21 January 2013 16: 20
      Well? Happy holiday to all of ours! drinks
    26. Nechai
      +3
      21 January 2013 17: 32
      In the 70s, divisional exercises were held at the Totsk training ground. Stage - attack of the Tank Regiment with live fire. The deputy commander of the PriVO, the head of the exercise, after examining the prepared target field, returns with the commander of the sapper battalion, then still a major, Vasily Danilovich Lukashev. Eternal memory to him! And driving past the lined up column of TP, the general "forged" the battalion commander
      : "Well, the sapper, you hell can, without your own mines, stop such an avalanche!"
      Answer: "Well, why, I will stop."
      General: "Well, well ... It's interesting to see HOW? Go for it!"
      The UAZ had a connection, and the battalion commander immediately gave the necessary orders. And by the time the tankers reached the line of attack, in front of the leading edge of the "enemy", the MWP had already been installed in several lanes ...
      A beautiful, exemplary attack from the tank crews WAS ... While they were not hooking up these damned "Bruno spirals". Everyone got up ... Trending teachings, the TORTURE began!
      The general yells at the sapper battalion commander: "What have you done, such a rogue !!!"
      "Answer:" I fulfilled your order - to stop the TP without using mine-explosive obstacles. "
      The deputy commander lowered his tone and asked: "What do you think, when they will be able to move by nodding in the direction of the frozen and stalled tanks?"
      "Well, if you collect passengers from spare parts and equipment, from the entire division, then in three days ... And if you adjust the SAC, then tomorrow evening, maybe ..." drinks
    27. moroz2200
      0
      21 January 2013 19: 24
      All soldiers of engineers, and especially graduates of the Kaliningrad Higher Military Engineering School of Engineering Troops on a holiday !!!
    28. 0
      21 January 2013 19: 31
      Sappers! Happy Engineering Troops Day!
    29. +1
      21 January 2013 19: 33
      Happy holiday, colleagues!
    30. Pripyatchanin
      0
      21 January 2013 22: 01
      Happy holiday to my father and everyone involved !! Good luck in 2013!
    31. +1
      22 January 2013 01: 57
      Happy Holidays!
    32. dima_talib
      -2
      22 January 2013 02: 29
      Here, dear "na76" writes, excuse some kind of fable ...

      "And by the way. The fact that there are engineering troops in the Red Army and there is the head of the Main Engineering Directorate at the beginning of the war, Stalin and the members of the government did not even suspect, it was too insignificant and petty figure (this is mentioned in his memoirs by Chief Marshal of Artillery Voronov But already at the beginning of 1942 the chief of the engineering troops of the Red Army is in the rank of deputy people's commissar of defense, that is, IV Stalin. You cannot say better about the importance of the engineering troops. "

      It turns out when in the Finnish - engineering troops gnawed through the "mannerheim line" then Joseph Vissarionovich did not know about it and believed that it was independently dismantled and disarmed by the Finns ???
      When before the war, fortifications were built on the line of the new border, then Stalin did not even suspect the existence of the Red Army Engineering Directorate ???
    33. +1
      22 January 2013 08: 59
      At all times, beginning with King Hamurappi, maybe even earlier, the letters have not survived, the sappers were the most numerous kind of land forces. The most popular weapon of the armies of all times and peoples in the pre-gun era was what? That's right - the ax, the most reliable and versatile weapon. Swords were only the commanders and warriors. Sappers serviced siege equipment and constructions, built and destroyed roads, bridges, crossings, dams, fortresses, redoubts, fortifications, abutments, etc. etc. and always honestly worked out their front rations. And in the old days they were also treated with a wagon train and military supplies. And they are not going to resign in the current war and in the service they have enough work.
      Good Siberian health, Caucasian longevity and all the best.
    34. 0
      22 January 2013 09: 46
      Quote: dima_talib

      Here, dear "na76" writes, excuse some kind of fable ...

      "And by the way. The fact that there are engineering troops in the Red Army and there is the head of the Main Engineering Directorate at the beginning of the war, Stalin and the members of the government did not even suspect, it was too insignificant and petty figure (this is mentioned in his memoirs by Chief Marshal of Artillery Voronov But already at the beginning of 1942 the chief of the engineering troops of the Red Army is in the rank of deputy people's commissar of defense, that is, IV Stalin. You cannot say better about the importance of the engineering troops. "


      Firstly, I’m not writing it, it’s written by Yu. Veremeev, and I indicated a link to it, he himself refers to the book of memoirs of the chief artillery marshal N.N. Voronova, by the way, absolutely precisely refers, there is such a moment, if you are too lazy to look again, I can give a reference:

      http://militera.lib.ru/memo/russian/voronov/05.html

      No matter how important and responsible the work of protecting the country from the air was, I was still constantly torn from direct duties. Strategic defense issues of Ukraine were discussed at Headquarters. They decided to begin there great work on the construction of defensive lines. And suddenly, to my surprise, Stalin proposed to appoint me as the chief manager of this construction. His proposal was supported by Molotov. I had to prove that I was not at all a specialist in this matter. He advised to entrust the work on the construction of lines to the head of the Main Engineering Department, because it is directly included in his responsibilities. Both were surprised:
      “Do we have one?”
      - But what about. The head of the engineering department is General Kotlyar.
      They agreed with my proposal.


      If this is not true, then it is already on the conscience of the Chief Marshal of Artillery and Hero of the Soviet Union N.N. Voronova ...

      Something like that
      1. dima_talib
        0
        22 January 2013 23: 09
        They wrote their memoirs during the "Khrushchev thaw", so it is not surprising that they are trying to make Stalin an idiot. It is on their conscience.
        Joseph Vissarionovich, just distinguished by the fact that he delved into all the subtleties.
        Probably wrong, like all people. But he was not ignorant.
        Personally, you have no complaints.
        He simply pointed out the absurdity and inconsistency of the fact.
    35. Alexred
      +1
      22 January 2013 10: 19
      Happy holiday, colleagues!

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