ORDZHONIKIDZEVSKOYE
Higher combined arms command twice Red Banner School
named after Marshal of the Soviet Union A.I. Eremenko
R was born in the fire of civil war and foreign military intervention.
November 16, 1918By order of the All-Russian Main Headquarters L 212, the 36th Tula Infantry Courses for Red Commanders were created in the city of Tula, which marked the beginning of the OVOKU.
On October 2, 1919, the Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, M.I., attended the graduation of the Red Commanders Course. Kalinin.
On December 31, 1920, by order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic, the 36th Tula Infantry Course, which had extensive combat experience and good practice in training command personnel for the Red Army, was transformed into the 17th Tula Infantry School of Command Staff of the Red Army.
In May 1924, by order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR, the 17th Tula Infantry School was relocated to Vladikavkaz and became known as the 17th Vladikavkaz Infantry School.
In August 1925, the next graduation of commanders was already in Vladikavkaz.
In August 1928, school cadets met with the outstanding Soviet writer A.M. Gorky.
From 1919 to 1930, cadets of the school participated in the civil war and the suppression of counter-revolutionary uprisings in the Don and the North Caucasus.
September 15, 1930 17th Vladikavkaz Infantry School for active participation in the civil war, the elimination of counter-revolutionary gangs in the mountains of the North Caucasus and good preparation command staff for the Red Army was awarded the Revolutionary Red Banner by the Central Executive Committee of the USSR. The school began to be called Red Banner.
In 1931, by Resolution of the Central Committee of the USSR, the 17th Vladikavkaz Red Banner Infantry Scale was awarded the Honorary Revolutionary Banner of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the USSR for military and revolutionary services to the socialist Motherland.
By directive of the GUVUZ RKKA dated January 1, 1932, the Vladikavkaz Red Banner Infantry School was renamed the Ordzhonikidze Red Banner Infantry School.
According to the order of the North Caucasus Military District troops dated October 16, 1935, the Ordzhonikidze Red Banner Infantry School was transformed into the Ordzhonikidze United Red Banner Military School. Infantry and artillery commanders were trained there.
By order of the NGO dated March 16, 1937, the Ordzhonikidze United Red Banner Military School was renamed the Ordzhonikidze Red Banner Military School military school. It began to train commanders of rifle, machine gun and mortar platoons.
In September 1938, the school switched to a 2-year training program.
By order of the Commander of the North Caucasus Military District dated January 10, 1940, the Ordzhonikidze Red Banner Military School was renamed the 1st Ordzhonikidze Red Banner Infantry School.
In May 1941, the school took 1st place in the North Caucasian Military District and 3rd place in the Red Army in combat and political training.
During the Great Patriotic War, in July 1942, the school, by order of the Supreme High Command, left for the Stalingrad Front, where the school cadet regiment as part of the 64th Army heroically fought with German fascist invaders.
After the school's personnel left for the front, it did not cease to exist. By order of the Commander of the North Caucasus Military District on the basis of the remaining part officers, the school was again restored and formed under the old name and the same staff. By the end of January, new cadets were recruited, and the school began training commanders for the active army.
In August 1942, the school was relocated to Georgia in Lagodekhi. Here, at the beginning of September, 2 anti-tank destroyer battalions were created from two cadet battalions and sent to the front, in areas of Tuapse, Gelendzhik and Novorossiysk.
At the end of September, the 1st cadet battalion, together with its commanders and political workers, was sent to defend the Zagatala passes. Later he became part of the 103rd separate cadet brigade, which in January 1943 fought heavy battles against German troops near Novorossiysk.
In October 1942, one cadet battalion of the school was merged into the 164th cadet brigade. This brigade, consisting of the 10th Rifle Corps, 4th Army, at the end of October and November 1942, heroically fought against the Nazi invaders in North Ossetia.
In October 1943, the school again sent a cadet battalion to the front, which took part in fierce battles west of Kyiv and in the Korsun-Shevchenko battle as part of the 38th Infantry Division.
To commemorate the 25th anniversary of its founding, the 1st Ordzhonikidze Red Banner Infantry School was awarded the Military Order of the Red Banner on November 18, 1943 for outstanding success in officer training and direct participation in battles for the Motherland.
From the beginning of its existence until the end of the Great Patriotic War, the school graduated thousands of well-trained, dedicated Communist Party, commanders for the Red Army. And when the situation at the front became particularly difficult, the school sent over 5 thousand cadets and over 2000 political officers to the front. fighters.
Graduates of the school skillfully, steadfastly and heroically fought against the Nazi invaders, defending the honor, freedom and independence of their beloved socialist Motherland. Many students of the school in harsh years wars became the largest military leaders.
Among them are Hero of the Soviet Union, Marshal of Armored Forces P.P. POLUBOYAROV, Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel General S.N. PEREVERTKIN, Colonel General V.D. SOZINOV, Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel General I.M. CHISTYAKOV, Hero of the Soviet Union Lieutenant General of Tank Forces V.I. BARANOV, Hero of the Soviet Union, Lieutenant General P.L. RAMANENKO, Hero of the Soviet Union, Lieutenant General D.I. SMIRNOV, Hero of the Soviet Union, Lieutenant General of Tank Forces N.M. FILIPENKO, Major General B.N.ABASHKIN, Major General V.T.ARSHINTSEV, Major General B.I.VASILENKO, twice Hero of the Soviet Union K.K.FESIN, Major General P.N.CHEKMAZOV and others.
In September 1945, the first post-war graduation of young officers took place.
On September 4, 1947, by order of the Minister of the Armed Forces of the USSR, the 1st Ordzhonikidze Red Banner Infantry School was renamed the North Caucasus Red Banner Infantry School.
In September 1948, by order of the Minister of the Armed Forces of the USSR, the North Caucasian Red Banner Infantry School was reorganized into the Caucasian Red Banner Suvorov Officer School. Suvorovites trained there and officers were trained at the same time.
In August 1958, the Caucasian Red Banner Suvorov Officer School was reorganized into the Caucasian Red Banner Suvorov Military School. This year the school was visited by Marshals of the Soviet Union R.Ya.
In 1967, on the basis of the Suvorov Military School, the Ordzhonikidze Higher Combined Arms Command Twice Red Banner School named after Marshal of the Soviet Union A. I. Eremenko was opened.
The school began training highly qualified officers with secondary military and higher specialized education.
On October 20, 1967, for services to the defense of the Soviet Motherland and high performance in combat and political training in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, the school was awarded the Honorary Banner of the CPSU Central Committee, Presidium Supreme Council USSR and the Council of Ministers of the USSR.
In June 1968, the 21st (and last) graduation of Suvorov soldiers was made.
July 23, 1970 produced first graduation of officers with higher educationOrdzhonikidze Higher Combined Arms Command Twice Red Banner School.
On January 13, 1971, by resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, the school was given the honorary name Marshal of the Soviet Union A.I.
Eremenko.
On December 13, 1972, for high performance in combat and political training, successes achieved in socialist competition, and in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the USSR, the school was awarded the Anniversary Honorary Badge of the CPSU Central Committee by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the Council of Ministers of the USSR. On September 17, 1974, the school, as one of the oldest schools on the territory of North Ossetia, for its great military-patriotic work was awarded the Anniversary Commemorative Red Banner of the regional committee of the CPSU, the Presidium of the Supreme Council and the SO ASSR Ministers of the SO ASSR in honor of the accession of Ossetia to
Russia.
On September 24, 1976, in connection with the transformation of the school into a higher school and the change in the name of the school, a Battle Banner with the name “Ordzhonikidze Higher Combined Arms Command Twice Red Banner School named after Marshal of the Soviet Union A.I. Eremenko” was awarded.
From 1977 to 1978, the school was awarded the challenge banner of the regional committee of the Komsomol of the SO ASSR for its great military-patriotic work.
In 1978 and 1983, the Military Council of the District awarded the school the Challenge Prize of the Military Council of the North Caucasus Military District for the “Best Military School of the District” and a commemorative diploma. On November 16, 1978, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the school, awarded Certificate of honor
Presidium of the Supreme Council of the SO ASSR.
On July 4, 1985, by order of the Minister of Defense of the USSR, he was forever included in the lists of the first company of the school Hero of the Soviet Union Lieutenant G.A. Demchenko .
On November 16, 1988, the school for the last time, before disbanding, solemnly celebrated the 70th anniversary of its creation.
More seventy graduates of our school became generals, 31 students of the school were awarded for military feats in the fight against the Nazi invaders during the harsh years of the Great Patriotic War and other military services to the Motherland high rank Hero of the Soviet Union.
Nowadays, graduates of the famous Ordzhonikidze Higher Combined Arms Command Twice Red Banner School named after Marshal of the Soviet Union A.I. Eremenko. with their services to the Fatherland, they continue to glorify their native school, covered in glory.
The North Caucasus Suvorov Military School, opened in 2000 in the capital of North Ossetia-Alania, the city of military glory Vladikavkaz, is designed to continue the glorious traditions of its predecessors.
More than 100 years ago, by a personal decree of Emperor Nicholas II dated September 26, 1901, the Vladikavkaz Cadet Corps was created for the sons of military personnel serving or serving in the Caucasus, local nobles and children “by election of the commander of the troops.”
September 1, 1902 took place Grand opening corps, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the annexation of Georgia to Russia. Classes for students of the first intake began in temporary premises, hastily converted barracks of the 81st Absheron Regiment. By the 1903/4 academic year, classes were held in a building specially built for cadets of the Vladikavkaz Cadet Corps (now the headquarters of the 58th Army is located here).
VlKK held nine issues. Graduates of the cadet corps carried the title of Vladikavkaz cadet with honor. During the First World War, a graduate of the corps, I. Gusakov (1912), was awarded the St. George Arms and the St. George Cross of the 4th degree. The students of the corps, Second Lieutenant K. Vakulovsky and Cornet V. Skorobogatiy, were awarded the Cross of St. George.
During the Civil War, the number of students in the Vladikavkaz Cadet Corps increased from 500 to 900 people: in November 1919, cadets from the Petrovsko-Poltava Cadet Corps were added to the corps. In the spring of 1920, a decision was made to evacuate the cadet corps from Vladikavkaz to Crimea, and in October, on the initiative of General Wrangel, the Crimean Cadet Corps was created from the cadets of the Vladikavkaz and Poltava corps.
The KKK settled in Slovenia, in the city of Bila Tserkva. The Serbian War Ministry provided the corps with two three-story stone buildings. The Crimean Cadet Corps existed for 10 years. From his midst came great engineers, technicians, architects, doctors, teachers, professors, writers, journalists and other figures in all fields of culture.
During the Great Patriotic War, the idea arose to revive the tradition of educating youth in military affairs. The author of the idea of creating Suvorov schools is the famous Russian, Soviet military leader, General Alexey Alekseevich Ignatiev.
On August 21, 1943, the Council of People's Commissars and the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks adopted a resolution “On urgent measures to restore the economy in areas liberated from German occupation,” which provided a detailed program of priority measures to eliminate the severe consequences of the occupation. The resolution emphasized that Suvorov schools were being created according to the type of old cadet corps, and indicated the need to create a wide network of special institutions for children disadvantaged by the war.
In 1943, nine schools were opened, including the Krasnodar Suvorov Military School. From 3.5 thousand applicants, 540 young men aged 8 to 13 years were selected. Most of the students were children of fallen soldiers and front-line soldiers, including three - sons of Heroes of the Soviet Union. 58 of them are sons of regiments and young partisans, 11 were awarded orders and medals.
The location of the school was to be Krasnodar. But at that time there was no suitable building in the regional center, and the Suvorov School was located temporarily in the city of Maikop, the center of the Adygea Autonomous Region.
Major General Alexey Ivanovich Nerchenko, a participant in the Civil and Great Patriotic Wars, was appointed head of the school. He graduated from the Military-Political Academy, was a military commissar of a special cavalry brigade, and the head of the Oryol Military Infantry School. From September 1943 to January 1949 - head of the Krasnodar, later Caucasian Red Banner Suvorov Officer School.
On December 19, 1943, a big celebration took place in all nine schools, including the Krasnodar Suvorov Military School, which went down in history as the opening day of the country's Suvorov schools.
In January 1944, the Krasnodar Suvorov Military School was presented with a banner, in front of which the Suvorov students swore an oath of allegiance to the Motherland. In August 1947, the school was relocated by three railway trains to the capital of North Ossetia, the city of Dzaudzhikau (since 1954 - Ordzhonikidze, since 1990 - Vladikavkaz). The school was located in the building of the former Vladikavkaz Cadet Corps, which by that time housed the 1st Ordzhonikidze Red Banner Infantry School.
On September 4, 1947, by order of the Minister of the Armed Forces of the USSR, the 1st Ordzhonikidze Red Banner Infantry School was renamed the North Caucasus Red Banner Infantry School, and in the same year the Krasnodar Suvorov Military School was renamed the North Caucasus Suvorov Military School.
In 1948, the first graduation of Suvorov students took place; 41 students graduated from the school. In the same year, the Suvorov School merged with the North Caucasus Red Banner Infantry School. It was reorganized into the Caucasian Red Banner Suvorov Officer School, which was headed by Lieutenant General I.F. Barinov. After graduating from the Suvorov Military School, the student automatically became a cadet of his own school and after two years (later - after three) graduated with the rank of lieutenant.
In 1958, the school was reorganized again and became only Suvorov, accordingly the name changed to the Caucasian Red Banner Suvorov Military School (KK SVU), and in 1966 it was renamed the Ordzhonikidze Suvorov Red Banner Military School. In 1968, the last graduation of Suvorov students took place.
Heads of KKSVU:
1. Major General Nerchenko Alexey Ivanovich (September 1943 - January 1949)
2. Lieutenant General Iosif Fedorovich Barinov (February 1949 - February 1955)
3. Major General Busarov Mikhail Mikhailovich (March 1955 - December 1955)
4. Major General Filippov Mikhail Mikhailovich (December 1955 - November 1957)
5. Major General Rakov Stepan Semenovich (January 1958 - October 1966)
6. Major General Nikolai Adamovich Sarapin (October 1966 - August 1967)
The Caucasian Red Banner Suvorov Military School existed for a quarter of a century. There were 20 issues. The number of graduates was 1,862 people, of which 204 graduated with a gold medal, 179 with a silver medal.
On the basis of the Suvorov Military School, the Ordzhonikidze Higher Combined Arms Command Twice Red Banner School named after Marshal of the Soviet Union A.I. was opened. Eremenko. For the successful completion of the task of providing international assistance in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the courage and heroism shown in this case, the title of Hero of the Soviet Union was awarded to the graduate of the SVU CC, Major General V.V. Kolesnik. By order No. 494 of November 17, 2005 of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Hero of the Soviet Union, Major General V.V. Kolesnik is forever included in the lists of the North Caucasus Suvorov Military School.
For the courage and heroism shown during the hostilities in the Chechen Republic, the title of Hero of Russia was awarded to graduates of the Caucasian Red Banner Suvorov Military School: the head of the coastal forces of the Northern Fleet, Major General A.I. Otrakovsky (posthumously), deputy commander of the North Caucasus Military District, Colonel General V.V. Bulgakov.
The North Caucasus Suvorov Military School was recreated by order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated March 2, 2000. No. 522-R. on the basis of order of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation dated April 11, 2000 No. 165.
The school was located in Vladikavkaz on the corner of V. Chkalov and International streets in a building built at the beginning of the twentieth century. Before the revolution, it housed the Military Women's Gymnasium. Colonel Yuri Georgievich Managarov was appointed head of the SVU Investigative Committee. He commanded the school from 2000 to 2004. Born on December 5, 1949 in Novokuznetsk, in 1968 he graduated from the Caucasian Red Banner Suvorov Military School and entered the Leningrad Higher Command Combined Arms School. Graduated from the Military Academy named after M. V. Frunze.
In 2001, 349 young men aged 10-17 years, representatives of 19 nationalities from North Ossetia, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Adygea, Stavropol and Krasnodar territories, Volgograd and Rostov region. More than 30 Suvorov students were left without fathers who died as a result of local wars in the Caucasus. The same number of Suvorov students were orphans.
In order to increase the efficiency of training and education of future officers, timely resolution of educational and economic problems, a board of trustees was created headed by the President of the Russian North Ossetia - Alania A. Dzasokhov, who did a great job of organizing and comprehensively providing the educational process.
In 2003, the first graduation of Suvorov students from the SK SVU took place. 54 Suvorov graduates graduated from the school. The leadership of the Suvorov Military School pays great attention to the education of future officers in the traditions of previous generations of military intelligentsia. For this purpose, a well-equipped museum was designed, which reflects the history of the educational institution from the beginning of the last century.
In 2004, Major General Boris Khabbasovich Khavzhokov was appointed head of the school. Commanded the North Caucasus Suvorov Military School from 2004 to 2006. Born on August 6, 1956 in the city of Nartkala, Kabardino-Balkarian Republic. In 1978 he graduated from the Ordzhonikidze Higher Combined Arms Command Twice Red Banner School named after Marshal of the Soviet Union A.I. Eremenko. In 1988 he graduated from the Military Academy named after M.V. Frunze.
Since 2006, Colonel Ruslan Sergeevich Tavitov was appointed head of the SVU Investigative Committee. Born on September 12, 1955. In 1977 he graduated from the Ordzhonikidze Higher Combined Arms Command School, the Military Academy named after. M.V. Frunze in 1991
Based on the results of 2006/2007 school year The North Caucasus Suvorov Military School took third place among 18 Suvorov schools and cadet corps in Russia.
Based on the order of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation dated September 21, 2011, the SVU IC was transferred from the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation to the jurisdiction of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania with renaming to the State government educational institution “Cadet boarding school: “Vladikavkaz Cadet Corps”. After two years, full of cadet successes in studies, sports, and creative life, the school is again going through a stage of reorganization.
In 2014, on the initiative of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation and the government of North Ossetia-Alania, the Cadet Boarding School: Vladikavkaz Cadet Corps was renamed the North Caucasus Suvorov Military School and accepted under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
On September 1, 2014, a ceremonial event was held to mark the opening of the school and the beginning of the school year. The restored school accepted 220 pupils in grades 6-11. The event was attended by representatives of the command of the Southern Military District, the 58th Army, the government and parliament of the Republic of North Ossetia - Alania, the administration of Vladikavkaz, public and veteran organizations.
Veteran graduates of the SVU CC - representatives of the Rostov regional organization "Suvorov-Nakhimov-Cadet Union" handed over to the school a copy of the Battle Banner of the Krasnodar Suvorov Military School. A copy of the banner was presented to the head of the Suvorov military school R. Tavitov, Hero of Russia Colonel General Vladimir Bulgakov.
On May 31, 2015, as part of the All-Russian action “Watch of Heroes”, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the title of Hero of the Soviet Union and the 23rd anniversary of the title of Hero of Russia, the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory, a large star force landed at the SVU SK. Heroes of the Soviet Union, Heroes of Russia, including the famous pilot-cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev, who was awarded both titles, and the world record holder for being in space, twice Hero of the Soviet Union Alexander Ivanchenkov, came to visit the Suvorov students. The delegation was headed by Hero of the Russian Federation, Commander of the Russian Airborne Forces, Colonel General Vladimir Shamanov.
On December 18, 2015, on the eve of the Day of the formation of Suvorov schools, the commander of the troops of the Southern Military District, Colonel General A.V. Galkin solemnly presented the banner to the North Caucasus Suvorov Military School. In his response, the head of the school, R. Tavitov, on behalf of the entire staff of the SVU SC, assured the command of the Southern Military District that the Suvorovites will always be faithful to Suvorov’s honor, duty and oath, and will honor and preserve the shrine as a symbol of the trust of our country.
Twice in 2016 and 2017, Suvorov School students became laureates of the All-Russian public-state initiative “Warm Heart” and were included in the Book of Honor “Warm Heart”.
Three times, September 1, 2016, 2017, 2018, on the Day of Knowledge, the students of the SK SVU were congratulated by the Hero of the Russian Federation, commander of the Southern Military District, Colonel General A.V. Dvornikov, himself a graduate of the Ussuri Suvorov Military School. While visiting the school, the commander of the Southern Military District repeatedly awarded high awards to the work of the teachers and administration of the school.
In September 2017, Colonel General A.V. Dvornikov presented it to the officer-educators: Major V.V. Kashenko, Lieutenant Colonel V.A. Oleynikov, Major E.Kh. Tavasiev. badges"For service in the Caucasus."
In September 2018, from the hands of the commander, educational officers Maliev A.I., Fedorchenko N.N. and Gritsenko S.E. received the insignia “For Merit”.
In September 2019, Deputy Commander of the Southern Military District, Lieutenant General Avdeev A.Yu. awarded the Badge of Distinction of the Southern Military District “For Merit” to the deputy head (for academic work) Zmailov I.V., the deputy head of the school (for logistics) Gataev S.Yu., teacher Oleinikov V.A.
The school is rightfully proud of the achievements of its students.
Twice, in 2018 and 2019. Suvorov School students took 1st place in the qualifying stage of the “Cadet Games”, among students of pre-university educational organizations of the Southern Military District; Suvorov School students are multiple winners of the Regional Competition for Young Researchers “Step into Science”, the All-Russian Competition for Young Researchers “Start into Science”, the International Scientific and Technical Conferences “Young Roboticist”, the All-Russian Competition for the Achievements of Talented Youth “National Treasure of Russia”.
During its existence, the school held 17 graduations, graduating 822 Suvorov students. Eleven Suvorov graduates graduated from the SVU SC with a “gold medal”: K. Zatynatsky (2011); V. Shkolnikov (2011); Y. Shkolnikov (2011); O. Tkachenko (2011); Z. Aladzhikov (2016); K. Reu (2016); R. Karsanov (2017), V. Gabaraev (2018); A. Alekseev (2018), A. Dzutsev (2019); B. Kasaev (2019). Three Suvorov graduates graduated from the school with a silver medal.
April 20, 2019 with the participation of Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation T.V. Ivanov. A solemn ceremony took place to unveil a memorial stone at the construction site of a new complex of buildings of the North Caucasus Suvorov Military School.
The Commission of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation on problems of national security and socio-economic living conditions of military personnel, members of their families and veterans held hearings on the topic “On the prospects for the development of Suvorov military schools in the Russian Federation.” We publish excerpts from the speeches given.
The main issue is the reconstruction of the North Caucasus Suvorov Military School (SKSVU) in the Ministry of Defense system on the basis of the current Vladikavkaz Cadet Corps.
In 1918, the 36th Tula Infantry Courses for Red Commanders were created, which laid the foundation for the Ordzhonikidze Higher Combined Arms Command Twice Red Banner School named after Marshal of the Soviet Union A.I. Eremenko (OVOCU). In May 1924, the 17th Tula Infantry School (formerly the 36th course) was relocated to Vladikavkaz and became known as the 17th Vladikavkaz Infantry School. I, a graduate of Ordzhonikidze VOKU, know the history of the city. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Vladikavkaz Cadet Corps was created there, and a unique building was built. All this is evidence of the once correct policy to strengthen the region.
I remember that in our school there were children from all nations of the Soviet Union. We were different. Received four years higher education, but most importantly, they studied the traditions of the North Caucasus and the peoples of the USSR in general. We were taught to be friends, culture, history. Then, after leaving school, leaving abroad, to other republics, territories, regions, we, having such potential, worked with soldiers, the local population, introduced this culture, developed it. We were actually educators and conductors of correct interethnic policies. Ours and other schools in Vladikavkaz played a huge role in instilling tolerance in our people, forming a sense of friendship, respect for peoples of different nationalities, for people in general.
Officer and Russian Empire, and carried state ideas to the USSR and preserved the integrity of the country. Today we are somehow gradually leaving the North Caucasus, including by reducing military schools. OVOCU, the Ordzhonikidze Higher Military Command Red Banner School of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR named after S. M. Kirov (OVVKKU, later the North Caucasus Military Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs), and the Ordzhonikidze Higher Anti-Aircraft Missile Command School of Air Defense (OVZRKU) were destroyed.
This year marked the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad. There is a book about OVOKU. She says: during the most difficult period in November 1942, when Manstein was sent for a breakthrough - to release Paulus, all Vladikavkaz schools were sent to the front. The boys were alerted and unloaded at the Chirskaya station. All three schools died in the snow to prevent Manstein’s tank columns from breaking through. We can imagine what kind of training the cadets had and what kind of training our militias had with two weeks of training. The cadets spent months, and sometimes years, preparing for a real war. They played the most important role in the Battle of Stalingrad. It is not for nothing that our school, OVOKU, was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Battle, and many graduates became Heroes of the Soviet Union.
After the collapse of the USSR, the Vladikavkaz School became the only base for mountain training for officers. Look at our borders. How many mountainous territories do we have, starting from Far East and ending north. Mountain training is required everywhere. The kind of base that was in OVOKU no longer exists. There were schools in Almaty, Tbilisi, but the best was in Vladikavkaz. I say this as a former officer of the General Staff of the Ground Forces, who inspected all the combined arms schools. There were eight of them in the Soviet Union, and the best mountain training was in Vladikavkaz.
Concluding the historical part, I note: if we had achieved the legal status of the Suvorov School, owned by the Ministry of Defense, we would not only have passed on glorious traditions to the current Vladikavkaz Cadet Corps, but also strengthened our state. It is necessary to take into account the political situation and significance of the region, as well as the role of officer training. I propose to revive the history and traditions of OVOKU on the basis of the current cadet corps. Another option: let the corps remain the cadet (Suvorov) school of the Ministry of Education, but at the same time - the legal successor of both the Imperial Cadet Corps and the Higher Combined Arms Command School of the USSR Armed Forces.
Alexander Kanshin,
Chairman of the Public Chamber Commission on National Security Issues and Social and Economic Living Conditions of Military Personnel, Members of Their Families and Veterans
We are very sensitive to what we have. We are talking about pre-university educational institutions of the Suvorov School system, the Nakhimov School, and cadet corps. The same applies to higher military educational institutions. The Ministry of Defense is now reviving traditions and military-patriotic education. It’s no secret that one of the first decisions of the Minister of Defense was the return of Suvorov students and cadets to parades in 2013. Such events were held in all cities where pre-university educational institutions are located.
The next step is that by order of the Minister of Defense, the Suvorov and Nakhimov schools and cadet corps are subordinated to the corresponding commanders-in-chief, that is, the chiefs in whose interests the training will subsequently take place. Basically all IEDs - to the commander in chief Ground forces. Ulyanovsk School - to the commander of the Airborne Forces. St. Petersburg Cadet Corps - Deputy Minister of Defense, Army General Bulgakov. Maritime pre-university educational institutions, primarily St. Petersburg Nakhimovskoe, to the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy.
Next, we made the departmental system of pre-university education more open and understandable. Currently, we are finishing the enrollment of minors in pre-university educational institutions. Over 1,700 people were selected. Competition for pre-university educational institutions this year is significantly higher than last year. This is also facilitated by the fact that the Minister of Defense has expanded the categories of citizens for admission to departmental educational institutions. The privilege to enroll only children of military personnel and civilian personnel, orphans, and children without parental care has been lifted. The current admissions campaign includes all minor citizens.
A decision was made to restore the military component of training. From September 1 we plan to introduce the subject “Fundamentals military service", including drill and fire training. In grades 10-11 - military regional studies. IN summer period at least two weeks, and in some educational institutions even three weeks, trips to specialized military educational institutions are planned for Suvorov, Nakhimov, and cadets. There they will be able to get acquainted with the life of cadets and gain basic knowledge about their chosen military specialties.
This year, about 90 percent of pre-university graduates educational institutions The Ministry of Defense decided to enter universities of the Ministry of Defense. The rest preferred the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
On the merits of the issue.
In 2010–2011, the North Caucasus Suvorov Military School was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania. However, I repeat, each school is unique for us, so we support any such institution even when it is no longer under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defense. We still don't lose touch.
Until 2011, the SKSVU was maintained in accordance with an agreement between the Ministry of Defense and the government of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania. The powers to manage the educational institution were divided. Later, the parliament of the republic adopted a resolution on the transfer of IEDs to the region. Corresponding appeals have been sent to the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation and the head of the republic. Further: the legislation of the Russian Federation did not allow maintaining an institution on co-financing terms. Two articles were introduced into the budget code: new edition(38.1 and 60). In order to solve this problem, the military department reported the situation to the president of the country and proposed either amending the budget code to return to co-financing, or looking for new ways to co-found cadet-type educational institutions.
It is necessary to move from the language of financial to state-political. The basic position is one that is offered to society in many public speaking Supreme Commander-in-Chief. When we set about recreating this historical military educational institution, the situation in the North Caucasus was better. However, money and response government agencies it was not enough.
Now the situation is not ideal, but there is much more understanding at different levels. We are talking about preserving the continuity and military intelligentsia that are characteristic of the Russian and, in general, the Greater Caucasus as part of historical Russia. The departure of military schools from the region and their abolition is political myopia.
Last fall, I spoke at a large international forum in Bulgaria dedicated to the 135th anniversary of the victory in Russian-Turkish War 1877–1878. I talked about the battles of two Vladikavkaz front line regiments on Shipka. This aroused great interest. Thus, we have a glorious military past. The fact that there is no Suvorov School, the universities of the Moscow Region, Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Border Guards have been liquidated is a mistake.
The approach to solving this issue should not be through numbers. If there is state will, it does not matter whether there are 600 or 800 students on staff (the question was raised of how many cadets the school should have). You don’t have to ask for two or three years to fix the problem. Some decisions are made quickly, as on a battlefield, if it suits political expediency.
With my personal conversations in 1998 with the president and chairman of the government, the filling of the newly opened VCA with everything necessary began. We weren't interested in money back then. We carried these things on ourselves in the hope that we would later transfer it to the Ministry of Defense. Now completely opposite information is being voiced.
So, there was a presidential order on the re-establishment of the school, a detailed government decree dated March 2, 2000, a directive of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces dated August 18, 1999, and an order of the Minister of Defense dated April 11, 2000. License No. 1342 dated April 2, 2010 was received, valid until April 3, 2015, in accordance with which the SKSVU must operate in the system of the Ministry of Defense.
In 2008, we managed, using primarily political arguments, to defend the school. Former minister Defense Serdyukov assured that there would be no liquidation. However, later, in 2011, all authorities were ignored. Decision were not even brought to the level of verbal agreement. This is an elementary, textbook procedure in the state. Military-political aspects were forgotten. Property and inventory turned out to be more important.
The school has disappeared. Today it is necessary to create a precedent: in order to correct the erroneous decisions of the Serdyukov era, it is necessary to cancel the completely inexplicable - the liquidation of SKSVU.
While traditions are not forgotten, there is aspiration, a spirit, it is important to focus on restoring a unique educational institution. The Public Chamber, which has special authority among a huge number of organizations, must resolve this issue.
Now we are working hard on a unified story. The diversity of teenage educational institutions triggers the opposite process. It is wrong to take away the Suvorov schools. The competition between law enforcement agencies creates an image that is by no means all-Russian. In each of them it is proven that their federal department is the most excellent, that without them the country would simply disappear. This is absurd.
Based on the results of the meeting and public hearings that took place on the territory of the republic, as well as taking into account the social and political significance of this educational institution in the training of military personnel from among the youth of the North Caucasus republics, the commission will write a letter to the Minister of Defense with a request to consider the possibility of restoring the North Caucasus Suvorov Military School military school in its previous status - under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defense. The Commission of the Public Chamber is creating a working group headed by the first deputy chairman of the commission, Vladimir Lagkuev, which will monitor the situation related to the restoration of SVUU in Vladikavkaz.
On September 26, 1901, the Vladikavkaz Cadet Corps (1901–1917) was created by a personal decree of Emperor Nicholas II.
1919 – The Vladikavkaz Cadet Corps was restored in the Armed Forces of the South of Russia.
On March 4, 1920, he retreated in marching order to Georgia, from where he was transferred to the Crimea. In the Russian army in Crimea, from the remnants of it and the Poltava Cadet Corps, the Crimean Cadet Corps was created, located in Oreanda, and then evacuated to Yugoslavia.
In August 1947, the school was relocated by three railway trains to the capital of North Ossetia - the city of Dzaudzhikau (since 1954 - Ordzhonikidze, since 1990 - Vladikavkaz) and became known as the North Caucasian SVU.
1948 – first issue of SKSVU.
1948–1958 – Caucasian Red Banner Suvorov Officer School (Suvorov officers and cadets).
1958–1965 – Caucasian Red Banner IED (Suvorov military personnel only).
1965–1968 – Ordzhonikidze IED.
1968–1988 - on the basis of the Suvorov and combined arms schools, the Ordzhonikidze Higher Combined Arms Command Twice Red Banner School named after Marshal of the Soviet Union A. I. Eremenko (OVOCU) was created and graduates officers.
2000 - opening of a new SKSVU (2000–2011), restored on the basis of the order of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation dated April 11, 2000 with the active support of the President of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania Alexander Dzasokhov.
April 2, 2010 - SKSVU received license No. 1342, according to which the school must operate in the Ministry of Defense system until April 3, 2015.
2011 – SKSVU was closed, the property was transferred to the Ministry of Education of the Republic in 2012.
2012 – opening of the Vladikavkaz Cadet Corps outside the Russian Defense Ministry system.
On October 24, 25 and 26, 1981, the capital of North Ossetia, Ordzhonikidze (now Vladikavkaz), was rocked by large-scale anti-government protests by extremist and hooligan groups of local residents. To fight them in a city whose population barely exceeded 250 thousand people, combined detachments and units of 3 military schools, 13 units of internal troops, 2 formations of the Soviet army, internal affairs and state security bodies were concentrated - a total of 7160 bayonets (according to data as of October 27, 1981).
The cause of the events that occurred in Ordzhonikidze in the fall of 1981 should be sought in the even more distant year of 1957. It was then that conflicts broke out on the territory of the Prigorodny district of the North Ossetian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic between the Ingush who returned from thirteen years of exile in Kazakhstan, and immigrants from South Ossetia resettled here after their deportation.
The decision of the Soviet government to provide former special settlers with in this case Ingush, the right to choose their former places of residence as permanent ones has turned the Prigorodny district, one of the most densely populated in the republic, into a source of constant headache for district and regional leaders. The situation was further aggravated by the pretentious behavior of the Ingush who returned from remote places forced to remain evil and gloomy, but in the status of an illegally repressed and completely trustworthy people.
The result of criminally illiterate decisions at the highest level, multiplied by the explosive ethno-psychological factor and elementary human aggressiveness, made itself felt during the period of “peace and quiet” of the reign of the most serene Soviet leadership led by Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev...
From the report of the First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the North Ossetian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic B.B. Dziova at a meeting of the board of the Republican Ministry of Internal Affairs on December 23, 1981:
“The events that you witnessed are the result of a shallow analysis, an insufficiently critical attitude towards the events that took place in previous years. Operational situation in Ordzhonikidze and some settlements of the Prigorodny district, it escalated back in 1972-1973. At that time, there was an active indoctrination of the Ingush part of the population (of course, not by internationalists) in order to raise the question of separating the Prigorodny District and annexing it to the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
...The situation subsequently changed after a series of murders. There was information about sentiment, but... vague.
...And a new murder was committed... Here is the result for you.”
During the period of the events described, V.G., who was the head of the Prigorodny District Department of Internal Affairs of the North Ossetian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Gritsan reported at the same meeting:
“On October 21, 1981, at night, in the village of Plievo, Nazran district of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, in the courtyard of Makhriev’s house, unidentified persons killed the OPAP-1 taxi driver of the city of Ordzhonikidze, Gagloev Kazbek Ivanovich, born in 1953, an Ossetian who lived in the village of Kambileevskoye, Prigorodny district North Ossetian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. On October 22, after an autopsy performed in Grozny, the corpse of K.I. Gagloev. was taken to Kambileevskoye. The funeral was scheduled for October 24, 1981.”
...About 10 am on October 24, 1981, the operational duty officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the North Ossetian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic informed the acting head of the Ordzhonikidze Higher Military Command Red Banner School (OVVKKU) named after S.M. Kirov Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR (now the North Caucasus Military Institute of Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation) Colonel N.T. Nabatov (the head of the school, Major General N.I. Ivanov, was on vacation) about the likelihood of involving cadets in suppressing possible riots in a number of settlements in the Prigorodny district and Ordzhonikidze himself in connection with the funeral of K.I. Gagloeva.
The forces and means of the school were brought to an appropriate state of readiness. This did not take much time, taking into account the fact that the personnel of two of the four battalions of the OVVKKU (2nd and 3rd courses) were in the Iraf region, where they assisted the village workers in harvesting corn.
In addition to OVVKKU named after S.M. Kirov Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR, not a single unit of internal troops was stationed on the territory of the republic. Security units of local correctional and medical labor institutions did not count.
...Further events of the day took an unexpected and extremely bad turn.
“At 2 p.m. on October 24, 1981,” V.G. subsequently reported. Gritsan, - a funeral procession of about 1000 people headed towards the cemetery. However, some women began to call on men, especially young ones, to carry the coffin with the body of K.I. Gagloev to the regional party committee. Inciting calls led to the fact that the procession actually turned towards Ordzhonikidze.
There were changes in the order of the funeral procession that were unacceptable in North Ossetia: women and children went ahead...
This, to a certain extent, was the reason why the barrier police officers was broken through, and the column continued to move in the direction of Ordzhonikidze.
... When breaking through the barrier, the male part of the column behaved aggressively, made threats, used obscene language, and used physical force against police officers and old people from the Gagloev family, who were preventing the procession from advancing to the capital of the republic.”
Having crushed other few police cordons along the route, the crowd, already numbering about 3,000 people, by 15:00 reached the northern outskirts of Ordzhonikidze - the village of Sputnik, where it was blocked by cadets of the 8th and 9th companies of the 3rd battalion (4th course) OVVKKU under the command of Lieutenant Colonel M.S. Mina and a small detachment of employees of the Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs. Neither one nor the other even had rubber sticks.
... A few minutes later, the cadets and policemen, beaten until they bled, their uniforms torn to pieces, received the order to return to Ordzhonikidze, where the “funeral procession”, which had turned itself into an evil, raging herd, was now rushing straight ahead, unrestrained by anyone and nothing.
Head of OVVKKU named after S.M. Kirov Major General N.I. Ivanov, interrupting his short vacation, arrived at the school at 14.50 directly from an emergency meeting of members of the headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the SO ASSR, from where he reported by telephone about the incident to the duty officer at the GUVV (Main Directorate of Internal Troops) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR.
The alarming news about the breakout of the participants in the “Kambileyevsky march” through the police-cadet barrier at Sputnik and their unhindered passage to the central, Leninsky district of Ordzhonikidze, of course, forced the republican leadership to take urgent, but, as it soon became clear, insufficiently adequate measures.
...At about 15.40, the crowd, which had increased to 4,000 people, quickly advanced into the central part of Ordzhonikidze and, having overturned the barrage ranks of two companies of the 3rd and 4th battalions of the OVVKKU on the approaches to Freedom Square, instantly filled it. The building of the regional committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers of the North Ossetian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was located here. And fifteen meters away from him towered the gray stone mass of OVVKKU.
Having ordered the coffin with the body of the unfortunate taxi driver to be placed on the marble podium, the organizers of the gathering went to the regional party committee to hand over to the first secretary B.E. Kabaloev demanded to go to the protesters. One of the main demands of the participants in the overly prolonged funeral was the eviction of people of Ingush nationality from the North Ossetian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, at least from the territory of the Prigorodny District.
Where exactly, and most importantly, guided by what legal acts, B.E. Kabaloev had to deport the Ingush, the “protesters,” the enraged residents of the ill-fated region, as well as the almost thousand “patriotic” onlookers who had already joined them in Ordzhonikidze, seemed to be of least interest.
...Meanwhile, time passed. The first secretary of the regional committee of the CPSU still did not show up at the door of the institution entrusted to him, and the patience of the crowd began to threateningly dry up: it no longer grumbled, but roared wildly.
Having cordoned off the square for the second time, the cadets were finding it increasingly difficult to contain the influx of new recruits to the “rally,” mainly numerous groups of young people hanging around in the city center.
...Perhaps Bilar Emazaevich Kabaloev should have left earlier. Although, as it turned out later, this would have changed little.
What happened a few minutes later, during this and the next two days on Freedom Square and not only on it?
...Suddenly, a furious storming of the regional committee building by a maddened crowd. “The crowd went wild” - such words will appear in the entries of the combat log of the OVVKKU on October 24-26, 1981 more than once. The rapid rush of a special platoon of Kirovites, who literally snatched B.E. Kabaloev from the ring of completely uncontrollable pogromists who squeezed him, truly a jackal reprisal against cadet Lipov, thrown out of the window of the second floor of the regional committee.
...The gang, bursting with anger, left the regional committee building together with Kabaloev, who was closely surrounded by special platoon cadets.
Addressing the relatives, friends and fellow villagers of K.I. Gagloeva, the first secretary calls on them to be prudent: to stop the outrages, show respect, and finally, compassion for the deceased, return to the village and bury his body, as this has long been supposed to be done in accordance with Orthodox and universal human traditions. In response, angry shouts, whistles, guffaws, and threats are heard. At this time, additional forces of “Kirov residents” - already in protective helmets, with rubber sticks and shields - hastily pour out of the school and disperse around the perimeter of the square. The reaction of the already extremely electrified crowd is quite predictable - now its rage was concentrated on the only force capable of resisting it...
One of the companies of senior students and a special platoon, forced at that moment to again save B.E. Kabaloev from the completely enraged “demonstrators”, having grabbed the head of the republic almost in an armful, managed to retreat to the regional committee building, where they barricaded themselves. The remaining units of the 3rd battalion and the 4th battalion were pressed against the walls of their school, first by a hail of paving stones (in stacks lying right there, nearby - the day before they were going to lay out the alley of Mira Avenue), and soon by the many times superior enemy themselves. The crowd beat the cadets with fists and sticks, and numerous women participating in this terrible Sabbath tore their faces with their nails.
Ivanov immediately ordered the urgent entry of the personnel of both battalions into the OVVKKU. A crowd of thousands, chasing the cadets, “on their shoulders” tried to break into the school, but to no avail and compensated for their tactical failure by bombarding the window panes of the “command Red Banner” with the same paving stones they had in abundance. OVVKKU responded with “Bird Cherry” and explosive packages, which, however, caused only short-term confusion among the besiegers. And soon the Cheryomukha, one after another, flew back, that is, into the windows of the school, most of the glass was already broken. The windows had to be screened from the inside with bed nets, cabinets, stands - they served as more or less reliable protection from the paving stones that were still flying from the street, the supply of which the crowd, fortunately, soon ran out of...
Ivanov gives three more orders. A few minutes later, the officers, together with the warrant officers, received their service weapons and ammunition. In the lobby, opposite the doors of the central checkpoint, a machine gunner took a position. And an armored personnel carrier equipped with ammunition and filled to capacity drove into the “gateway” of the cargo checkpoint. Its crew had to, if necessary, remove the “Kirovites” banner from the building.
...The disgruntled scoundrels, for the most part, went in search of “shells” in the city cultural park located next door; the remaining hooligans of different ages, dispersed along the alley of Mira Avenue, methodically broke out the beams from the few surviving benches, not immediately reacting to the trucks quickly driving into the gates of the school.
These were cadets of the 2nd and 3rd years of the OVVKKU, urgently recalled from the harvest from the collective farms of the Iraf region...
...Forty minutes later, at about 01.15 on October 25, the 1st, 2nd battalions and two companies of the 3rd battalion of the Kirovites simultaneously poured into the square from the cargo gates and the doors of the central checkpoint of the school, crashed into the crowd, stunned by surprise, cutting they immediately split it in two, then they drove this whole gathering into the depths of the cultural park, to Ossetinskaya Slobodka and over the Cast Iron Bridge.
The area was cleared within 5-7 minutes. Coffin with the body of K.I. A reinforced police squad took Gagloev to Kambileevskoye.
Almost half of the cadets who participated in this attack did not have helmets; more than 500 (out of a little over 800) had special rubber batons in their hands instead wooden beams, legs of armchairs and chairs or thick wood branches.
The acute shortage of shields had to be filled with “copies” of plywood, the backs and seats of chairs, trays for bakery products (in fairness, it should be noted that these “non-standard means of protection” to a certain extent turned out to be more reliable than the few plexiglass shields, like usually shattered into pieces from a strong blow with a large stone).
There is no point in drawing incriminating conclusions from this - at that “conflict-free” time, military educational institutions of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs were provided with special protective and other by professional means in the quantity necessary for practical training and the required supply.
By 2.00 a column of several ZIL-131s with the personnel of the 1st motorized rifle battalion of the Grozny convoy regiment entered the square - the “Kirovites” received the long-awaited reinforcement.
...Starting from the next day and until October 28, units and military equipment of the Ordzhonikidze Higher Combined Arms and Anti-Aircraft Missile Schools, motorized rifle units of the North Caucasus Military District, units of internal troops: the Tbilisi motorized rifle regiment, separate motorized police battalions from Grozny, will arrive to the aid of the OVVKKU. Rostov-on-Don, Donetsk and Astrakhan, Pyatigorsk separate military commandant's office, Donetsk separate motorized rifle battalion. A special group of the 54th convoy division, a company special purpose OMSDON named after F.E. Dzerzhinsky, 8 senior officers of the Main Directorate of Internal Troops, KGB units, “extern students” and KUOS members of the OVVKKU. And even... “reserves”, “seconded” from the next training camp. The top political leadership, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Defense of the USSR will send the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR M.S. to Ordzhonikidze. Solomentsev, generals Yu.M. Churbanova, F.V. Bubenchikova, A.G. Sidorova, F.I. Belousova, Yu.I. Bogunova, V.V. Dubanin, as well as deputy Prosecutor General USSR N.A. Bazhenova.
In these two days - the morning onslaught and ultimately the breakthrough of almost 6 thousand people (and on the 26th - and more) into Freedom Square, then - repeated and futile persuasion (to disperse) and, finally, fierce battles that continued until late at night .
The core of the crowd is young rabble, slackers, drunkards, drug addicts, in short, those who usually actively participate in this kind of “event.” Almost all of them carry sticks, many have metal rods and knives.
Neither one nor the other side gives any mercy: they beat evil, persistently, sometimes frantically... Everything rushes by in a crazy rhythm: a furious counterattack of the “missile cadets” that amazed even the “Kirov residents”, indescribable joy in the OVVKKU - several were hastily delivered from the general military school “batches” of straightened pieces of thick transformer cable - a worthy replacement for the service PR-73, and the belated arrival in Beslan of a plane with hundreds of units of the most necessary special equipment: the same rubber sticks, strong shields, protective helmets. ...The second attack of the crowd on the regional committee and school, attempts to seize the pre-trial detention center, the building of the national drama theater, a filtration point in the suburb of Ordzhonikidze, arson of the Central Bank, the Vladikavkaz hotel, the Komsomolets cinema...
The hooligans cannot be stopped either by the icy jets of water hitting them point-blank - knocked off their feet, they break through to the fire trucks and cut the hydrant sleeves, nor by the armored personnel carriers - they simply set fire, breaking bottles of gasoline on their bodies, tearing out batteries and cooling hoses from the power compartments , radiators are leaking.
Only people can stop people. Noon of the 26th: the decisive phase of the special operation according to the “Blizzard” plan. In fact, the person in charge of the operation was the First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Internal Troops of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, Major General F.V. Bubenchikov orders to act quickly and decisively.
And then the roar of an armored personnel carrier, and with it the rhythmic blows on the shields of batons that then shot up - dispersal groups, seemingly calm soldiers of the famous Tbilisi regiment of internal troops, crash into the crowd. Extraction groups - fighters from Rostov, Grozny, cadets of the All-Russian Military Commissariat for Military Commissariat - burst into the gaps made by the Tbilisians.
...The convoy groups that completed the destruction dragged the “seized” to the paddy wagons. They arrived one after another... A thorough search - and to the filtration point, in Dachny.
The hundreds of tramps who fled from the square were consolidated in other quarters and often “reformed” into new bands, the numbers of which quickly grew - “comrades in arms” continued to flock from all over the city. Replenishment from residents of other regions of the republic was excluded: reinforced stationary and mobile traffic police posts, since the morning of the 26th, had stopped any attempts to enter the territory of Ordzhonikidze by suspiciously large groups of citizens, except, of course, passengers of buses operating interdistrict and intercity flights.
However, the city troublemakers had enough of their own “reserves” for quite a long time, almost until 11.00 on the 26th, although already in the morning of the same day they resorted to a peculiar method of sending additional forces “to the front line”: they blocked the path of buses, trolleybuses, trams and minibuses, drove them out of these passengers, the bulk of whom were traveling, as befits a Monday, to work, then, calling on apolitical ordinary people to the need to realize their civic duty, they convinced them to follow them in a “voluntary-compulsory” manner. Needless to add, this recruitment did not bring any practical results...
Towards the evening of October 26, numerous operational military groups began to methodically defeat the “rebels” who had gone on the defensive. The most fierce resistance was provided on the Hotel Bridge and at the House of Political Education, where, due to hastily erected barricades, bricks and lit bottles of gasoline were thrown at armored personnel carriers and military personnel, and the armored personnel carriers were unable to overcome the rather high rubble. We had to call the infantry fighting vehicles of the army motorized rifle units participating in the operation...
The raids were carried out by units of internal troops, state security agencies and the police until the morning of October 27. Over three days, about 800 of the most zealous rioters were detained.
According to official data, of those who took part in the riots, one person died as a result of injuries received. The security forces registered 328 injured servicemen, the vast majority of whom (226) were at the OVVKKU named after. CM. Kirov. 28 servicemen from other units of the internal troops received injuries of various types and degrees. The allies also suffered (74 casualties among cadets and officers of the Ordzhonikidze combined arms and anti-aircraft missile schools).
328 - applicants medical care. How many “unconverted” were there - those who were embarrassed, who considered it shameful or unnecessary?
Most of the injured servicemen had their heads broken, lower and upper limbs damaged, and their faces mutilated.
“...If it weren’t for our Ministry of Internal Affairs school, we would have missed many,” summed up at the end of the special operation according to the “Blizzard” plan, the head of the public order department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the SO ASSR R.M. Kabaloev.
Timur MAKOEV
November 16 marks the 90th anniversary of the formation of the Ordzhonikidze Higher Combined Arms Command Twice Red Banner School named after Marshal of the Soviet Union A.I. Eremenko. On the eve of the anniversary, our correspondent met with one of the former heads of this university, which was highly rated in the Soviet Army, Hero of the Soviet Union, retired Lieutenant General Vitaly ULYANOV.
First, a few words about Ulyanov itself, whose fate is tightly connected with the army, as they say, from a young age. At the age of 17, he volunteered to go to the front, and at 18 he already became a holder of the Golden Star. Here are the lines from the presentation of the platoon commander of 45-mm cannons of the 1st Guards Rifle Battalion of the 280th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 92nd Guards Rifle Division of the Guard, Sergeant Vitaly Andreevich Ulyanov, for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union:
“Comrade Ulyanov showed heroism and courage in the battles to clear the left bank of the Dnieper River from German invaders, crossing the right bank and moving forward. Having crossed with the first gun to the right bank, he suppressed several enemy firing points with direct fire and ensured the successful crossing of the river by his battalion. In the battles for the village of Zeleny and the village of Kukovka, repelling counterattacks of enemy tanks and infantry, being left alone with two guns, he fired direct fire and knocked out two tanks, seven armored vehicles, captured one cannon and destroyed it before the infantry platoon, thereby ensuring the success of the regiment’s combat operations to expand the bridgehead on the right bank of the Dnieper River. For skillful management of the platoon and demonstrated personal heroism, he deserves to be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Commander of the 280th Guards. joint guard lieutenant colonel PLUTAKHIN."
As evidenced by the entries in the column “Conclusion of superior officers” on the reverse side of the award sheet, this submission, dated October 20, 1943, was approved by the commander of the guard division, Colonel Petrushin, the very next day. On October 25, the commander of the 37th Army, Lieutenant General Sharokhin, and a member of the military council, Colonel Bagnyuk, will give their go-ahead.
And before that, on October 22, Guard Sergeant Ulyanov will take part in a battle that will end with him being seriously wounded and will essentially be the last in his short front-line biography. Then there will be months of wandering around hospitals, where all the fragments taken in that battle will never be removed from him. Already with the rank of Hero of the Soviet Union, which he was awarded on February 22, 1944, he graduated from the Kiev School of Self-Propelled Artillery and was left there to command a platoon. Then there will be long years of military service, with only breaks for studying at advanced courses and academies. Having replaced many garrisons, without jumping over a single command rank, having spent six years in a company and six and a half in a division, he will become a general. For eleven years, until his resignation in 1985, he will head the Ordzhonikidze VOKU. The longest tenured of the 22 heads of this university.
In total, Vitaly Andreevich walked through life in military service for more than forty years. Things happened along the way. But no matter where his military fate took him and no matter what heights his military fate took him, that front-line sergeant school was always with him. Having known the army from the inside as a young man, he then, not without reason, considered himself entitled to act based on personal experience, including front-line, even if it sometimes did not fit into some canons or was not liked by the authorities.
Actually, our conversation began with memories of this.
- Vitaly Andreevich, they say that even when you were the head of the Higher Educational Institution, you sometimes acted at your own peril and risk, introducing some innovations into the educational process?
- Well, there wasn't much risk there. Although I had to deal with some bewilderment at higher authorities. For example, when we decided, having postponed the general education training required for freshmen to the end of the year, to quickly give them military disciplines, so that from the first days of their stay at the school they would begin to understand what service is, how necessary the knowledge that they have to master is. This was perceived almost as arbitrariness.
Or take the supposedly excessive passion for mountain training of cadets, which some short-sighted education officials also accused us of at one time. Can you imagine, there is a war going on in Afghanistan, and we, being in the foothills of the Caucasus, should not be involved in mountain training, because, you see, this is not our profile! But we were busy. After only 4-5 months of training, the cadets climbed Table Mountain, even went to Kazbek, and conducted exercises in the mountains. Yes, it wasn't easy. But then, when the leadership of the Armed Forces finally decided to make the Ordzhonikidze Higher Educational Institution the base for recruiting the Turkestan Military District, returning from Afghanistan, many graduates specially came to the school to say thank you for the science. By the way, they don’t forget about their native OrdzhVOKU even now. They visit and write. The letters, as a rule, again contain words of gratitude. 
- Surely many warm words will be said during the celebration of the anniversary of the school, many of whose graduates, as you know, became major military leaders and achieved significant success in other areas of activity.
- As the chairman of the organizing committee for the preparation and holding of anniversary events, I can report that they will be held in both Vladikavkaz and Moscow, where there are also many of our graduates now. Moreover, the anniversary will be celebrated not only in Russia, but also in neighboring countries, where our students and graduates serve with dignity in various positions in the armed forces, in other law enforcement agencies, or are simply in the reserve, retired, or retired. After all, over the seventy-five years of its existence, the school has graduated more than 40 thousand officers, more than 300 of them became generals. It so happened that life scattered them around different parts Sveta. But they are still faithful to the cadet brotherhood, the friendship that they carried through all the trials, and are full of pride in their native university.
And we have something to be proud of. Our school originates from the 36th Tula infantry courses for red commanders, created by order of the All-Russian General Staff on November 16, 1918. Its graduates took an active part in the Civil War, the fight against bandit elements in the North Caucasus and the Basmachi in Central Asia, with the Phalangists in Spain, repelled the aggression of Japanese militarists on Lake Khasan and the Khalkhin Gol River, contributed to achieving victory over Finland, fought on various fronts of the Great Patriotic War, defeated the Kwantung Army, worked as military advisers, participated in military operations in Afghanistan, in unblocking interethnic conflicts on the territory of the Soviet Union, in establishing constitutional order in the Chechen Republic. At the same time, they showed courage, heroism, and perseverance everywhere. Suffice it to say that 72 of our graduates became Heroes of the Soviet Union, and Major Generals I.I. Fesin and P.I. Shurukhin were awarded this title twice. Nine pupils of the Ordzhonikidze VOKU are Heroes of Russia.
Marshal of the Armored Forces P.P. served or studied in our school at different times. Poluboyarov, generals S.N. Perevertkin, Yu.P. Kovalev, S.N. Suanov, F.M. Kuzmin, M.N. Tereshchenko, A.I. Sokolov, V.V. Bulgakov, G.P. Kasperovich, V.V. Skokov, N.K. Silchenko and many other military leaders. Among its graduates are military diplomats A.N. Chernikov, I.D. Yurchenko, former President of Ingushetia R.S. Aushev, head of GRU special forces V.V. Kolesnik, world record holder in parachute jumping V.G. Romanyuk and other famous people in the country and abroad.
Many graduates of the Ordzhonikidze VOKU still occupy responsible positions in State Duma, Federation Council, Public Chamber of the Russian Federation and other state and public structures. Among them, for example, Hero of Russia V.M. Zavarzin, who has headed the State Duma Defense Committee for two convocations, and Doctor of Philosophy A.N. Kanshin, head of the Commission of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation on the affairs of veterans, military personnel and members of their families. The list goes on. By the way, your former colleague from Red Star is also on the list of our graduates. This is P.I. Tkachenko, literary critic, a member of the Writers' Union, the titles of whose books speak for themselves: “When Soldiers Sing,” “From the Flames of Afghanistan,” “Officer’s Romance,” “Special Company. Feat in the Maravar Gorge." He graduated from college in 1971.
- Vitaly Andreevich, it’s no secret that some of your graduates went into business after completing their service...
- And many have achieved significant results in this area. Among them are R.T. Aguzarov, Yu.F. Glushko, N.E. Dontsov, A.L. Epifanov, A.A. Stukov, Yu.Yu. Shapovalov, A.P. Shcherbina and others. Unfortunately, it is impossible to list them all. I will only say that these are true patriots, they provide great practical assistance to their comrades and all those who need it.
In general, it must be said that the school provided its students with versatile training. And most importantly, it instilled in them willpower, the ability to withstand any difficulties. This is a great merit to all those who worked hard and fruitfully, preparing officer cadres for our Motherland: commanders, teachers, civilian personnel. Many thanks to all of them and low bow. We honor and remember those who are no longer with us, we pay tribute to their blessed memory.
- Have you received any offers to start a business?
- There were, and some more! For example, at one special event, the boss of some cool company came up and, glancing sideways at my Gold Star, offered me the position of... deputy director. At the same time, he explained that he wouldn’t have to do anything, he’d just have to sit in a respectable office and sometimes attend important meetings. In short, he offered the position of “wedding general.” Of course, I had to upset this boss.
- But now you are a member of the board of directors of the National Association of Reserve Officers of the Armed Forces “MEGAPIR”, where, as far as I know, they also do not shy away from entrepreneurship.
- Yes, I have been cooperating with this organization for a long time and, I must admit, with pleasure. Because I know who I'm dealing with. The Association is initially aimed at supporting the Armed Forces, veterans, families of deceased military personnel and other categories of citizens in need of help. In particular, the MEGAPIR Foundation, which I have been entrusted to head, has been involved for many years in organizing and conducting field training competitions for officers, where the winner receives a car from the association as a prize. We patronize orphanages; the association’s scholarship recipients from among the children of military personnel who died in the line of duty live in 16 regions of the country. Until they reach adulthood, they are paid 500 rubles a month. It is also important for me that this organization is headed by reserve colonel Alexander Kanshin, my former student and colleague. After graduating from the Ordzhonikidze VOKU, he, as one of the best graduates, was left there for Komsomol work. And now we are working together again. By the way, it is under his general editorship that a book about our school is now being published, which, I am sure, will arouse interest among a wide reader.
The school no longer exists since 1993, but the memory of it lives and will live as long as those who served, worked and studied within its walls are alive.
Happy holiday to you comrades, health, happiness, prosperity and long life!
