Submariners, which almost no one knows
The article that you are reading right now would have been recently “nullified” repeatedly by the relevant authorities and hidden from the eyes of readers with seven seals. Even today, almost everything related to the materials of the article is classified as secret.In order to appease the “seekers of other people's secrets” and “seekers of these same seekers,” I will say straight away that you will not read anything here that has already been somewhere and once published or voiced. The author just wants to talk about people who even receive awards under the "closed" decrees of the government.
I recently read a short note. I will give only a part, so that it becomes clear what it is about.
"In Severodvinsk, preparations began for the withdrawal of the BS-64 Moscow Region submarine carrier from the carrier station. The portal“ Protect Russia ”informs. with nuclear deep-water stations and uninhabited underwater vehicles. "
Well, retooled and retooled. What's in this news so unusual? Moreover, this "long-term construction" lasted not just for a long time, but very long. Already with 1999 year. 16 years even by our standards term. So what did they do there that required such deadlines?
Nothing special. Just, as often happens, there was not enough money. Then the projects changed and ... everything was in Russian. "BS-64 can interact with deep-sea nuclear power plants of the Kashalot, Halibut and Losharik projects designed to carry out work at great depths and carry out special operations. Currently, the BS-136 Orenburg nuclear submarine is used as a carrier for these devices. ", From 1996-2002 converted from a Project 667BDR rocket carrier. Both the carrier itself and the deep-sea nuclear power plants are organizationally part of the 29th separate submarine brigade of the North fleet. The team performs tasks in the interests of the Main Directorate of Deep-Water Research of the Ministry of Defense (GUGI) and other structures. During the conversion, the missile compartments were cut out from the submarine and a compartment with residential (scientific) premises and equipment for docking deep-sea nuclear stations was put in their place. By inserting a new compartment, the length of the submarine has increased. "
In principle, it is clear that the “old woman” (the time of laying the Moscow Region - 1982 a year) is no longer needed as a rocket carrier, but as a serious and high-speed “carrier”.
And now about the people for whom this submarine was created.
There is a military unit numbered 40056 in the Russian Navy. Information about it you will not find in open sources. Just eat and that's it. Performs tasks to ensure the country's defense. Even the commander can be found. Vice Admiral Builevich. This number belongs to the Main Directorate of Deep-Sea Research of the Russian Navy. What does the GUGI do? Training specialists in the field of deep-sea activities. Conducting medical studies of the physiology of scuba diving and other scientific research. Monitoring the oceans. Search and rescue of sunken objects. Tests of rescue equipment, means of monitoring the oceans.
And yet this management performs the tasks of "other departments." The same "special" as it is. And above all, it is the GRU GSH MO.
In 1976, by order of the USSR Navy GC, a unique military unit was created, a part that reports directly to the GUGI ... Part, where membership in the CPSU was one of the prerequisites. The part in which the number of Heroes of the Soviet Union, probably, exceeded all imaginable and inconceivable limits. A part that only a submariner with at least 5 years of service could get into and that is suitable for admission to the cosmonaut corps due to health reasons. Moreover, I did not write about cosmonauts for eulogy. Indeed, the military underwent a "space" medical examination.
For two years, personnel were recruited in Leningrad and in the Northern Fleet, and in 1978, the first two crews of the AU-13 were formed. Simply put, nuclear deep-water stations. Interesting story occurred with the designation of the new profession of submariners. The fact is that the new service was significantly different from the service of submariners in boats. Similarly, it differed from the work of divers, for example. It helped, as often happens, fiction. More precisely, the science fiction novel of one of the Soviet writers. So a new profession appeared - the hydronaut.
The stations of the 1910 project were designed to perform special tasks in the depths of the oceans. Hydronauts participate in testing and are engaged in the operation of deep-sea underwater technical means, trained specialists in the maintenance of this technology. Research work is also conducted to study the functioning of the human body in various conditions of deep-sea diving. All information about the activities of hydronauts is secret. According to unofficial data, the hydronauts are engaged in reconnaissance activities — they listen to communication cables, install motion sensors, and collect wrecks of ships, airplanes, and satellites from the seabed. According to the former naval officer, hydronaut Vladimir Ashik, "his colleagues' task was to collect intelligence information about the enemy’s equipment, guard and maintain Soviet deep-sea communication lines, and lift from the bottom of the secret equipment left after tests or accidents."
Hydronauts spoiled a lot of blood to our "probable opponents." So much of the newest developments of underwater "wiretaps" and spies were removed from the communication lines, that you just wonder. And how much raised from the depths of the latest ammunition and even aircraft! Virtually any AGS descent meant a solid "catch" for our intelligence, a new job for engineers and designers, and a "headache" for the enemy. Naturally, it did not do without losses.
Where only our hydronauts are not lit up. And in the North Atlantic, and in the Sea of Japan, and in the Arctic. But the main base as it was, and remains in the city of Peterhof. It is there that live these heroic people. It is there that many officers of the fleet can meet with the Golden Stars of Heroes on their chests. Today in open sources you can learn about 16 Heroes. And how many more are waiting for their turn?
There are professions that only courageous people choose. These include almost all military specialties, law enforcement agencies, and many others. There are no cowardly paratroopers or submariners. There are no cowardly miners or tiger tamers.
But even the people of these professions are particularly respected by those for whom the risk is a profession. Risk is life. Hydronaut is such a profession. Profession for real, without drawing and lust for glory, people. For people who risk their lives for others to live. Unfamiliar, young, reckless.
Honor and glory!
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