Ordzhonikidze Higher Combined-Arms Command Twice Red Banner School named after Marshal Soviet Union A. I. Eremenko ( OrdzhVOKU) - a military educational institution of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR and the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, which in different years of its existence bore various names.

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pre-war period

On November 16, 1918, in Tula, by order of the All-Russian General Staff, the 36th Tula Infantry Courses for Red Commanders were formed, the task of which was to train junior commanders for the infantry units of the Red Army.

On October 2, 1919, the first graduation of commanders took place, which was attended by the Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, M. I. Kalinin.

On December 31, 1920, the 36th Tula Infantry Courses were transformed into the 17th Tula Infantry School of the Red Army Command Staff.

In May 1924, the 17th Tula Infantry School was relocated to Vladikavkaz and renamed the 17th Vladikavkaz Infantry School.

The first release of junior commanders in the new deployment point took place in August 1925.

In the period from 1919 to 1930, cadets of the infantry school took part in civil war and in the suppression of anti-government rebellions in the Don and the North Caucasus.

January 1, 1932 by directive of the Main Directorate of Military Educational Institutions of the Red Army Vladikavkaz Red Banner Infantry School was renamed to Ordzhonikidze Red Banner Infantry School.

October 16, 1935 by order of the North Caucasian Military District Ordzhonikidze Red Banner Infantry School was converted to Ordzhonikidze United Red Banner Military School. With the renaming of the school, in addition to infantry commanders, they also began to train commanders for artillery troops.

On March 16, 1937, by order of the NPO of the USSR, the Ordzhonikidze United Red Banner Military School was renamed the Ordzhonikidze Red Banner Military School. The school switched to training commanders in three specialties: a rifle platoon commander, a machine gun platoon commander, and a mortar platoon commander.

In September 1938, the training program at the school was increased from 1 year to 2 years.

January 10, 1940 by order of the North Caucasus Military District, Ordzhonikidze Red Banner Military School was renamed to 1st Ordzhonikidze Red Banner Infantry School. The assignment of numbering was due to the fact that in the city of Ordzhonikidze 3 infantry schools were created at the same time.

By the beginning of the war, the 1st Ordzhonikidze Infantry School took first place in the military district and third place in the Red Army in combat and political training.

The Great Patriotic War

With the outbreak of war, the school continued to train commanders for the Red Army.

In July 1942, due to the difficult situation that had arisen at the fronts, a cadet regiment was formed from part of the cadets of the school under the command of the head of the school, Colonel I. D. Lavrentiev. This regiment was sent to the Stalingrad Front as part of the 64th Army. Initially, by mid-July 1942, the cadet regiment was attached to reinforce the 29th Rifle Division. By the end of August 1942, the cadet regiment, together with the cadet regiment from the Zhytomyr Infantry School, was transferred to reinforce the 126th Rifle Division.

Upon the departure of the personnel of the school to the front, from the remnants of the officers, the school was again restored under its former name. By the end of January 1943, a new set of cadets for training was produced.

In connection with the approach of the front line in August 1942, the school was relocated to the Georgian SSR, in the city of Lagodekhi. At the new location, in early September, 2 anti-tank battalions were formed from the remaining cadet battalions and sent to the front, to the Tuapse, Gelendzhik and Novorossiysk regions.

At the end of September, one cadet battalion, along with officers and political workers, was sent to defend the Zakatala passes. Later, this battalion became part of the 103rd separate cadet brigade, which in January 1943 participated in the defense of Novorossiysk.

In October 1942, another cadet battalion of the school became part of the 164th cadet brigade. This brigade became part of the 10th Rifle Corps of the 4th Army and took part in the hostilities from late October to November 1942 on the territory of the North Ossetian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

In October 1943, the school sent to the front the third cadet battalion, which participated in the hostilities for the liberation of Ukraine, as part of the 38th Rifle Division.

On November 18, 1943, in honor of the 25th anniversary of its creation, the 1st Ordzhonikidze Red Banner Infantry School was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for success in training commanders and participation in hostilities.

In total, out of approximately 2,000 cadets of the 1st Ordzhonikidzevsky Red Banner Infantry School, sent to the front during the war as part of cadet regiments and cadet battalions, about 120 people survived.

post-war period

In September 1945, the first post-war graduation of lieutenants was made at the school.

On December 13, 1972, for numerous merits and contribution to the defense capability of the state, as well as to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the formation of the USSR, the school was awarded the Jubilee Badge of Honor of the Central Committee of the CPSU of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the Council of Ministers of the USSR.

At this historical stage, the Vladikavkaz Cadet Corps, created in 2012 outside the structure of the MO RF, on the basis of the North Caucasian Suvorov Military School that existed from 2000 to 2011, is considered the successor of the Ordzhonikidze Higher Combined Arms Command School.

ORDZHONIKIDZEVSKOYE

Higher Combined Arms Command Double Red Banner School

named after Marshal of the Soviet Union A.I. Eremenko

R It was born in the fire of civil war and foreign military intervention.

November 16, 1918By order of the All-Russian General Staff L 212 in the city of Tula, the 36th Tula Infantry Courses of the Red Commanders were created, which laid the foundation for the OVOKU.

On October 2, 1919, the Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee M.I. Kalinin.

On December 31, 1920, by order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic, the 36th Tula Infantry Courses, which had extensive combat experience and good practice in training command personnel for the Red Army, were transformed into the 17th Tula Infantry School for the command personnel 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 issue of commanders was already in Vladikavkaz.

In August 1928, the cadets of the school met with the outstanding Soviet writer A.M. Gorky.

From 1919 to 1930, the cadets of the school took part in the civil war and the suppression of counter-revolutionary rebellions in the Don and the North Caucasus.

On September 15, 1930, the 17th Vladikavkaz Infantry School was awarded the Revolutionary Red Banner by the Central Executive Committee of the USSR for active participation in the civil war, the elimination of counter-revolutionary gangs in the mountains of the North Caucasus and the good training of command personnel for the Red Army. The school began to be called Red Banner.

In 1931, by the Decree 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 the directive of the GUVUZ of the Red Army of January 1, 1932, the Vladikavkaz Red Banner Infantry School was renamed the Ordzhonikidze Red Banner Infantry School.

According to the order of the troops of the North Caucasian Military District dated October 16, 1935, the Ordzhonikidze Red Banner Infantry School was transformed into the Ordzhonikidze United Red Banner Military School. It trained infantry and artillery commanders.

By order of the NPO dated March 16, 1937, the Ordzhonikidze United Red Banner Military School was renamed the Ordzhonikidze Red Banner 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 Caucasian Military District dated January 10, 1940, the Ordzhonikidze Red Banner Military School was renamed the 1st Ordzhonikidze Red Banner Infantry School.

In May 1941, in combat and political training, the school took 1st place in the North Caucasus Military District and 3rd place in the Red Army.

During the years of the Great Patriotic War, in July 1942, the school, by order of the Supreme High Command, departed for the Stalingrad Front, where the school cadet regiment as part of the 64th Army heroically fought against the Nazi invaders.

After the departure of the personnel of the school to the front, it did not cease to exist. By order of the Commander of the North Caucasus Military District, on the basis of the rest of the officers, the school was again restored and formed under the old name and according to the same staff. By the end of January, new cadets were recruited, and the school began training commanders for the army in the field.

In August 1942, the school was relocated to Georgia in the city of Lagodekhi. Here, in early September, 2 anti-tank battalions were created from two cadet battalions and sent to the front, in areas of Tuapse, Gelenzhik and Novorossiysk.

At the end of September, the 1st cadet battalion, together with its commanders and political workers, was sent to defend the Zakatala 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, fought heroically against the Nazi invaders in North Ossetia at the end of October and November 1942.

In October 1943, the school again sent a cadet battalion to the front, which participated in fierce battles west of Kyiv and in the Battle of Korsun-Shevchenkovsky as part of the 38th Infantry Division.

In commemoration of the 25th anniversary of its founding, the 1st Ordzhonikidze Red Banner Infantry School on November 18, 1943 was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for outstanding success in officer training and direct participation in the battles for the Motherland.

From the beginning of its existence until the end of the Great Patriotic War, the school produced thousands of well-trained, devoted to the cause of the Communist Party, commanders for the Red Army. And when a particularly difficult situation developed at the front, the school sent over 5,000 cadets and over 2,000 watered to the front. fighters.

Skillfully, steadfastly and heroically, the graduates of the school fought against the Nazi invaders, defending the honor, freedom and independence of their beloved socialist Motherland. Many pupils of the school during the harsh years of the war became the largest military leaders. Among them are the Hero of the Soviet Union, Marshal of the Armored Forces P.P. POLUBOYAROV, Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel-General S.N. PEREVERTKIN, Colonel-General V.D. 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. 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 was made.

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 Caucasian 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 were trained in it and officers were trained at the same time.

In August 1958, the Caucasian Red Banner Suvorov Officers' 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. Malinovsky, A.A. Grechko, Army General I.M. Popov.

In August 1964, by order of the Deputy Minister of Defense, the school was awarded the challenge Red Banner and a sculpted bust of A.V. Suvorov.

In 1967, on the basis of the Suvorov Military School, the Ordzhonikidze Higher Combined Arms Command School named after Marshal of the Soviet Union AI Eremenko was opened twice.

The school began training highly qualified officers with secondary military and higher specialized education.

On October 20, 1967, for merits in 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 Central Committee of the CPSU, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the Council of Ministers of the USSR.

In June 1968, the 21st (and last) issue of Suvorov was produced.

July 23, 1970 produced the first graduation of officers with higher educationOrdzhonikidze Higher Combined Arms Command Double Red Banner School.

On January 13, 1971, by the decision of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, the school was given the honorary name of 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 formation of the USSR, the school was awarded the Jubilee Badge of Honor of the Central Committee of the CPSU of 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 in North Ossetia, was awarded the Jubilee Commemorative Red Banner of the Regional Committee of the CPSU, the Presidium of the Supreme Council and SO ASSR of Ministers of SO ASSR for great military-patriotic work in honor of Ossetia's accession to Russia.

On September 24, 1976, in connection with the transformation of the school into a higher school and a change in the name of the school, the Battle Banner with the name "Ordzhonikidze Higher Combined Arms Command Double 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 All-Union Leninist Young Communist League of the SO ASSR for great military-patriotic work.

In 1978 and in 1983 the Military Council of the District awarded the school with the Challenge Prize of the Military Council of the North Caucasus Military District "The Best Military School of the District" and a commemorative diploma.

On November 16, 1978, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the school, for outstanding achievements in the training of officers, he was awarded the Certificate of Honor of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the SO ASSR.

November 15, 1983 - the second Diploma of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the SO ASSR in commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the school.

July 4, 1985 by order of the Minister of Defense of the USSR forever enlisted 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 pupils of our school became generals, 31 pupils of the school were awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union for feats of arms in the fight against the Nazi invaders in the harsh years of the Great Patriotic War and other military services to the Motherland.

Today, graduates of the famous Ordzhonikidze Higher Combined Arms Command School named after Marshal of the Soviet Union A.I. Eremenko. with their services to the Fatherland, they continue to glorify, covered with glory, their native school.

Commission of the Public Chamber Russian Federation on issues of national security and socio-economic conditions of life of servicemen, 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 made.

The main issue is the reconstruction of the North Caucasian Suvorov Military School (SKSVU) in the system of the Ministry of Defense on the basis of the current Vladikavkaz Cadet Corps.

In line with state policy

In 1918, the 36th Tula infantry courses for red commanders were created, which laid the foundation for the Ordzhonikidze Higher Combined Arms Command School named after Marshal of the Soviet Union A.I. Eremenko (OVOKU). In May 1924, the 17th Tula Infantry School (former 36th courses) was relocated to Vladikavkaz and became known as the 17th Vladikavkaz Infantry School. I, a graduate of the Ordzhonikidze VOKU, know the history of the city. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Vladikavkaz Cadet Corps was created there, 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 the peoples of the Soviet Union. We were different. Four years received 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 graduating from college, leaving abroad, to other republics, territories, regions, we, having such a potential, worked with soldiers, the local population, introduced this culture, developed it. In fact, we were educators and conductors of a correct interethnic policy. Our and other schools in Vladikavkaz played a huge role in instilling tolerance and tolerance among our people, forming a sense of friendship, respect for the peoples of different nationalities, for people in general.

officer and in Russian Empire, and in the USSR carried state ideas, preserved the integrity of the country. Today, somehow, we are gradually leaving the North Caucasus, including due to the fact that we are reducing military schools. The OVOKU, the Ordzhonikidze Higher Military Red Banner Command School of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR named after S. M. Kirov (OVVKKU, later the North Caucasian Military Institute of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs), the Ordzhonikidze Higher Anti-Aircraft Missile Air Defense Command School (OVZRKU) were destroyed.

This year marked the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad. There is a book about OVOKU. She says: in the most difficult period in November 1942, when Manstein was sent to break through - to release Paulus, all Vladikavkaz schools were sent to the front. The boys were alerted and unloaded at the Chirskaya station. All three schools perished in the snow to prevent the breakthrough of Manstein's tank columns. We can imagine what training the cadets had and what our militia had with a two-week training. Cadets spent months, and sometimes years, preparing for a real war. It was they who 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 War, 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 of officers. Look at our borders. How many mountainous territories do we have, ranging from Far East and ending north. Mountain training is needed everywhere. There is no such base as it was in OVOKU. There were schools in Alma-Ata, Tbilisi, but the best was in Vladikavkaz. I say this as a former officer of the Main 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.

ending historical part, I note: if we achieved the legal status of the Suvorov School, which belongs to the Ministry of Defense, then we would not only transfer glorious traditions to the current Vladikavkaz Cadet Corps, but also strengthen our state. It is necessary to take into account the political situation and the 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 a cadet (Suvorov) school of the Ministry of Education, but at the same time - the successor of both the Imperial Cadet Corps and the Higher Combined Arms Command School of the USSR Armed Forces.

Alexander Kanshin,
Chairman of the Commission of the Public Chamber on National Security and Socio-Economic Conditions of Life of Military Personnel, Members of Their Families and Veterans

The Ministry of Defense does not eliminate itself

We are very sensitive to what we have. We are talking about pre-university educational institutions of the system of Suvorov schools, the Nakhimov School, and cadet corps. The same applies to higher military educational institutions. Traditions and military-patriotic education are now being revived in the Ministry of Defense. It's no secret that one of the first decisions of the Minister of Defense was the return of Suvorov and Cadets to the parades in 2013. In all cities where pre-university educational institutions are located, such events were held.

The next step - by order of the Minister of Defense, the Suvorov and Nakhimov schools, the cadet corps are subordinate to the respective commanders-in-chief, that is, the chiefs, in whose interests the training will subsequently take place. Basically, all IEDs - to the Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces. Ulyanovsk School - Commander of the Airborne Forces. St. Petersburg Cadet Corps - to the Deputy Minister of Defense, General of the Army Bulgakov. Maritime pre-university educational institutions, primarily St. Petersburg Nakhimov, to the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy.

Further, we made the departmental system of pre-university education more open and understandable. Currently, we are ending the enrollment of underage citizens in pre-university educational institutions. Over 1700 people have been selected. The competition for pre-university educational institutions this year is much higher than last year. This is facilitated by the fact that the Minister of Defense expanded the categories of citizens for admission to departmental educational institutions. The privilege to enroll only children of military personnel and civilian personnel, orphans, children left without parental care has been removed. All underage citizens come from the current admission campaign.

It was decided to restore the military component of training. From September 1, we plan to introduce the subject "Fundamentals of military service", including drill and fire training. In the 10-11th grades - military regional studies. During the summer period, at least two weeks, and in some educational institutions even three weeks, for Suvorov, Nakhimov, Cadets, trips to specialized military educational institutions are planned. There they will be able to get acquainted with the life of cadets, get primary knowledge about the chosen military specialties.

This year, about 90 percent of graduates of pre-university educational institutions The Ministry of Defense decided to enter the 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 question.

In 2010-2011, the North Caucasian 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 accompany 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, SKVVU 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. Appropriate appeals were 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 the terms of co-financing. Two new articles were introduced into the Budget Code (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 to amend the budget code to return to co-financing, or to look for new ways to co-found educational institutions of the cadet type.

only public interest

It is necessary to switch from the language of financial to state-political. The basic position is the one proposed to the society in many public speeches of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. When we set about recreating this historic military educational institution, the situation in the North Caucasus was better. However, there was little money and response in state structures.

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 the Greater Caucasus in general as part of historical Russia. The withdrawal of military schools from the region, their abolition is political myopia.

Last autumn, I spoke at a large international forum in Bulgaria dedicated to the 135th anniversary of the victory in the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878. I told about the battles of two Vladikavkaz regiments of the front line 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 Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the border troops have been liquidated is a mistake.

The approach to solving this issue should not go through numbers. If there is a state will, it doesn't matter if there are 600 or 800 trainees in the state (the question was raised how many cadets should be in the school). You don't have to ask for two or three years to fix a problem. Some decisions are made quickly, like on the battlefield, if it is politically expedient to do so.

From my personal conversations in 1998 with the president and the chairman of the government, the filling of the newly opened SVU with everything necessary began. We were not interested in money then. We pulled these things on ourselves in the hope that we would later hand it over to the Ministry of Defense. Now the exact opposite is being said.

So, there was a presidential order to recreate the school, a detailed government decree of March 2, 2000, a directive of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces of August 18, 1999, an order of the Minister of Defense of April 11, 2000. Received license No. 1342 dated April 2, 2010, valid until April 3, 2015, according to which the SKVVU must operate in the system of the Ministry of Defense.

In 2008, we managed, using primarily political arguments, to defend the school. Former Minister of Defense Serdyukov assured that there would be no liquidation. However, later, in 2011, all instances were ignored. The decision was not brought even to the level of verbal agreement. This is an elementary, textbook procedure in the state. The military-political aspects were forgotten. The main thing turned out to be property, inventory.

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 the SKVVU.

As long as traditions are not forgotten, there is aspiration, attitude, it is important to focus on restoring a unique educational institution. The Public Chamber, which has a special authority among a huge number of organizations, must resolve this issue.

Now there is a hard work on a single story. The diversity of teenage educational institutions triggers the reverse process. It is wrong to take apart the Suvorov schools. The competition between law enforcement agencies creates an image that is by no means a national one. In each of them, it is proved that it is their federal agency that is the most excellent, that without them the country will simply disappear. This is absurd.

Decisions made

Based on the results of the meeting and public hearings that took place on the territory of the republic, and also taking into account the social and political significance of this educational institution in the training of military personnel from among the youth of the republics of the North Caucasus, the commission will send a letter to the Minister of Defense with a request to consider the possibility of restoring the North Caucasian Suvorov military school in its former status - under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defense. The Commission of the Civic 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 SKVVU in Vladikavkaz.

Help "VPK"

On September 26, 1901, the Vladikavkaz Cadet Corps (1901–1917) was created by personal decree of Emperor Nicholas II.

1919 - The Vladikavkaz Cadet Corps was reinstated 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 the Crimea, from the remnants of him 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 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 - the first issue of SKVVU.

1948-1958 - Caucasian red banner Suvorov officer school (Suvorov and cadets).

1958-1965 - Caucasian Red Banner SVU (only Suvorov).

1965-1968 - Ordzhonikidze SVU.

1968-1988 - on the basis of the Suvorov and combined arms schools, the Ordzhonikidze Higher Combined Arms Command School named after Marshal of the Soviet Union A. I. Eremenko (OVOKU) was created and graduates officers.

2000 - opening of a new SKVVU (2000-2011), restored on the basis of the order of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation of April 11, 2000 with the active support of the President of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania Alexander Dzasokhov.

April 2, 2010 - SKVVU received license No. 1342, according to which the school must operate in the system of the Ministry of Defense until April 3, 2015.

2011 - SKVVU was closed, the property was transferred to the Ministry of Education of the Republic in 2012.

2012 - the opening of the Vladikavkaz cadet corps outside the system of the RF Ministry of Defense.

On October 24, 25 and 26, 1981, the capital of North Ossetia, Ordzhonikidze (now Vladikavkaz), was shaken by large-scale anti-government protests by extremist and hooligan groups of local residents. To combat them in the city, whose population barely exceeded 250 thousand people, consolidated detachments and units of 3 military schools, 13 units of internal troops, 2 formations of the Soviet army, internal affairs and state security agencies were concentrated - a total of 7160 bayonets (according to as of October 27, 1981).

The cause of the events that took place in Ordzhonikidze in the autumn of 1981 should be sought in the even more distant 1957. It was then that on the territory of the Prigorodny region of the North Ossetian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic conflicts broke out between the Ingush, who returned from a thirteen-year exile in Kazakhstan, and immigrants from South Ossetia who were resettled here after their deportation.

The decision of the Soviet government to grant the former special settlers, in this case the Ingush, the right to choose their former places of residence as permanent ones turned the Prigorodny district, one of the most densely populated in the republic, into a source of constant headaches for district and regional leaders. The situation was further aggravated by the pretentious behavior of the Ingush, who returned from remote places of forced stay angry and gloomy, but in the status of illegally repressed and completely trustworthy people.

The result of criminally illiterate decisions at the highest level, multiplied by an explosive ethno-psychological factor and elementary human aggressiveness, made itself felt during the period of “quiet and smoothness” of the reign of the most serene Soviet leadership headed by Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev ...

From the report of the First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the North Ossetian ASSR B.B. Dziova at a meeting of the collegium 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. The operational situation in Ordzhonikidze and some settlements of the Prigorodny district 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 joining it to the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

... Subsequently, the situation changed after a series of murders. There was information about moods, but ... vague.

... And a new murder was committed ... Here is the result for you.

During the period of the events described, the head of the Prigorodny District Department of Internal Affairs of the North Ossetian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic V.G. Gritsan reported at the same meeting:

“October 21, 1981, at night, in the territory of the village of Plievo, Nazranovsky district of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, in the courtyard of Makhriev’s house, unidentified persons killed the taxi driver OPAP-1 of the city of Ordzhonikidze Gagloev Kazbek Ivanovich, born in 1953, an Ossetian who lived in the village of Kambileevskoye of the Prigorodny district North Ossetian ASSR. On October 22, after an autopsy performed in Grozny, the body of Gagloev K.I. was taken to Kambileevskoye. The funeral was scheduled for October 24, 1981.”

... At about 10 am on October 24, 1981, the operational duty officer for 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 of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR (now the North Caucasian Military Institute of the 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 the suppression of possible mass unrest in the territory of a number of settlements in the Prigorodny district and Ordzhonikidze himself in connection with the funeral of K.I. Gagloev.

The forces and means of the school were brought to an appropriate state of readiness. It did not take much time, given that the personnel of two of the four OVVKKU battalions (2nd and 3rd courses) were in the Irafsky district, where they assisted the village workers in harvesting corn.

In addition to the OVVKKU named after S.M. Kirov of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR, not a single part of the internal troops was deployed on the territory of the republic. The security units of local correctional and medical labor institutions did not count.

... The further events of the day took an unexpected and extremely bad turn.

“At 2 pm on October 24, 1981,” V.G. 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. The inflammatory appeals led to the fact that the procession actually turned in the direction of Ordzhonikidze.

In the order of the funeral procession, there were changes that are unacceptable in North Ossetia: women and children went ahead ...

This, to a certain extent, was the reason that the barrier of the police officers was broken, and the column continued to move in the direction of Ordzhonikidze.

... The male part of the column, when breaking through the barrier, behaved aggressively, expressed threats, allowed obscene language, used physical force against police officers and old men from the Gagloev family, who prevented the procession from moving to the capital of the republic.

Having crushed other few police cordons along the way, the crowd, already numbering about 3,000 people, by 15 o'clock reached the northern outskirts of Ordzhonikidze - the village of Sputnik, where 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 of them had even rubber sticks.

... A few minutes later, cadets and policemen, beaten to the blood, in torn uniforms, received an order to return to Ordzhonikidze, where now the “funeral procession” was rushing straight by no one and nothing restrained, turning itself into an evil, raging herd.

Head of the OVVKKU named after S.M. Kirov Major General N.I. Ivanov, interrupting his vacation, which turned out to be short, 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 phone to the officer on duty at the GUVV (Main Directorate of Internal Troops) of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The alarming news about the breakout of the participants of the “Kambileev march” through the police-cadet barrier at Sputnik and their unimpeded passage to the central, Leninsky district of Ordzhonikidze, of course, forced the republican leadership to take urgent, but, as it soon turned out, insufficiently adequate measures.

... At about 15.40, the crowd, which had increased to 4,000 people, rapidly moved into the central part of Ordzhonikidze and, having overturned the barrage lines of two companies of the 3rd and 4th OVVKKU battalions on the outskirts of Freedom Square, instantly filled it. The building of the regional committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers of the North Ossetian ASSR was located here. And about fifteen meters from him towered a gray stone bulk of the OVVKU.

Having ordered the coffin with the body of the unfortunate taxi driver to be placed on a marble podium, the organizers of the gathering went to the regional party committee to hand it over to the first secretary B.E. Kabaloev demand to go to the protesters. One of the main demands of the participants in the excessively prolonged funeral was the eviction of persons 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 was supposed to deport the Ingush, the “protesters”, the angry inhabitants of the ill-fated region, as well as the almost thousand “patriotic” onlookers who had already joined them in Ordzhonikidze, it seems, were of the least interest.

…Time meanwhile passed. The first secretary of the regional committee of the CPSU did not show up at the door of the institution entrusted to him, and the patience of the crowd began to run out menacingly: it no longer grumbled, but roared wildly.

The cadets, who had cordoned off the square for the second time, managed with great difficulty to restrain the influx of replenishment to the “rally”, mainly numerous groups of young people loitering 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?

... An unexpectedly furious assault on the building of the regional committee by a distraught crowd. “The crowd went berserk” - such words will be found in the entries of the combat operations log of the OVVKKU on October 24-26, 1981 more than once. The swift throw of the special platoon of the “Kirovites”, who literally snatched B.E. Kabaloev from the ring of completely uncontrollable rioters who squeezed him, a truly jackal reprisal against cadet Lipov, who was thrown out of the window of the second floor of the regional committee.

... The gang, bursting with anger, left the building of the regional committee together with Kabaloev, who was in a dense environment of cadets of the special platoon.

Addressing relatives, friends and fellow villagers K.I. Gagloev, the first secretary calls them to prudence: stop the atrocities, show respect, finally, compassion for the deceased, return to the village and bury his body, as it has long been supposed to be done in accordance with Orthodox, and indeed universal traditions. In response, angry cries, whistles, cackle, threats are heard. At this time, additional forces of the “Kirovites” are hastily pouring out of the school and dispersing around the perimeter of the square - already in protective helmets, with rubber sticks and shields. The reaction of the already extremely electrified crowd is quite predictable - now its fury 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 save B.E. Kabaloev from the finally furious "demonstrators", grabbing the head of the republic almost in an armful, managed to retreat to the building of the regional committee, 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 (piles lying right here, next to them - they were going to lay out the alley of Prospekt Mira the day before), and soon by the many times superior enemy. The crowd thrashed the cadets with fists and sticks, and numerous women who participated in this terrible coven tore their faces with their nails.

Ivanov immediately ordered to urgently let the personnel of both battalions into the OVVKKU. A mob of many thousands, pursuing the cadets, “on their shoulders” tried to break into the school, but to no avail and compensated for their tactical failure by bombarding the windowpanes of the “command Red Banner” with the same cobblestones that she had in abundance. The OVVKKU responded with “Bird cherry” and explosive packets, which, however, caused only short-term confusion among the besiegers. And soon "Bird cherry" flew back one after another, that is, into the windows of the school, most of the glasses of which were already broken. The windows had to be screened from the inside with bed nets, cabinets, stands - they served as more or less reliable protection against the paving stones still flying from the street, the stocks of which the crowd, fortunately, soon ran out of ...

Ivanov gives three more orders. A few minutes later, the officers, along with the ensigns, received service weapons and ammunition in their hands. In the lobby, opposite the doors of the central checkpoint, a machine gunner took up his position. And an armored personnel carrier equipped with ammunition and refueled to the eyeballs drove into the “gateway” of the cargo checkpoint. If necessary, his crew had to take out the banner of the “Kirovites” from the building.

... The frustrated scoundrels mostly went in search of "shells" in the nearby city park of culture, the remaining hooligans of different ages, dispersed along the alley of Prospekt Mira, methodically broke out the bars from the few surviving benches, not immediately responding to trucks quickly entering the gates of the school.

These were cadets of the 2nd and 3rd courses of the OVVKKU, urgently recalled from the harvest from the collective farms of the Irafsky district ...

... Forty minutes later, around 01.15 already on October 25, the 1st, 2nd battalions and two companies of the 3rd battalion of the “Kirovites” simultaneously poured into the square from the gates of the cargo and the doors of the central checkpoint of the school, crashed into the crowd, stunned by surprise, cutting through her on the move in two, then they drove all this bunch into the depths of the park of culture, to the Ossetian settlement and beyond the Cast-iron bridge.

The area was cleared within 5-7 minutes. The coffin with the body of K.I. Gagloev was taken by a reinforced police squad to Kambileevskoye.

Almost half of the cadets participating in this attack did not have helmets, more than 500 (out of 800 with a little) instead of special rubber batons, had wooden bars, legs of armchairs and chairs or thick tree branches in their hands.

The acute shortage of shields had to be filled with plywood “copies”, backs and seats, again, chairs, trays for bakery products (in fairness, it should be noted that these “unstable protective equipment” to a certain extent turned out to be more reliable than a few plexiglass shields, like usually shattered into pieces from a strong blow with a large stone).

It is not worth drawing accusatory conclusions from this - at that “conflict-free” time, the military educational institutions of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs were provided with special protective and other professional equipment in the amount necessary for practical training and the required reserve.

By 2:00 a.m., a convoy of several ZIL-131s with the personnel of the 1st motorized rifle battalion of the Grozny escort regiment entered the square - the “Kirovites” received long-awaited reinforcements.

... 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 Caucasian Military District, units of internal troops: the Tbilisi motorized rifle regiment, separate motorized police battalions from Grozny, Rostov-on-Don, Donetsk and Astrakhan, the Pyatigorsk separate military commandant's office, the Donetsk separate motorized rifle battalion. A special group of the 54th escort division, a special-purpose company of the OMSDON named after F.E. Dzerzhinsky, 8 senior officers of the Main Directorate of Internal Troops, KGB units, "external troops" and KUOS officers of the OVVKKU. And even ... "reserves", "seconded" from the next fees. 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. Solomentsev, Generalov Yu.M. Churbanova, F.V. Bubenchikova, A.G. Sidorova, F.I. Belousova, Yu.I. Bogunova, V.V. Dubanin, as well as the Deputy Prosecutor General of the USSR N.A. Bazhenov.

In these two days, there was an onslaught every morning and, ultimately, a breakthrough on Freedom Square for almost 6,000 (and on the 26th - and more) hordes, then repeated and futile persuasion (to disperse) and, finally, fierce fights that continued until late at night .

The backbone of the crowd is young rabble, loafers, drunkards, drug addicts, in a word, those who usually actively participate in such “events”. Almost all with sticks, many with metal rods and knives.

Mercy is no longer given by either side: they beat evil, stubbornly, sometimes frenziedly ... Everything rushes in a crazy rhythm: a furious counterattack of cadets-“rocketmen”, which amazed even the “Kirovites”, indescribable joy in the OVVKKU - several “batches” of straightened pieces of a thick transformer cable - a worthy replacement for the standard-issue PR-73, and the belated arrival in Beslan of a board with hundreds of units of the most necessary special equipment: the same rubber sticks, durable shields, protective helmets. ... The second throw of the crowd at the regional committee and the school, attempts to capture the pre-trial detention center, the building of the national drama theater, the filtration point in the suburbs of Ordzhonikidze, the arson of the Central Bank, the Vladikavkaz hotel, the Komsomolets cinema ...

Hooligans cannot be stopped either by the icy streams of water hitting at point-blank range - knocked down by them, they break through to fire trucks and cut the sleeves of hydrants, nor armored personnel carriers - they simply set fire to, breaking bottles of gasoline on their bodies, pull out batteries, cooling hoses from power compartments , leaking radiators.

Only people can stop people. Noon on the 26th: the decisive phase of the special operation under the plan "Snowstorm". In fact, 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 the armored personnel carrier, and with it the rhythmic blows on the shields of the batons that then shot up - the dispersal groups, outwardly unperturbed soldiers of the famous Tbilisi regiment of internal troops, crashed into the crowd. Withdrawal groups burst into the breaches made by the Tbilisians - fighters from Rostov, Grozny, cadets of the OVVKKU.

... The escort groups that completed the rout dragged the “withdrawn” to paddy wagons. They drove up one after another ... A thorough search - and to the filtration point, to Dachny.

Hundreds of barefoot fled from the square consolidated in other quarters and often “reformed” into new bands, the number of which quickly increased - “comrades in arms” still flocked from all over the city. Replenishment at the expense of residents of other regions of the republic was excluded: from the morning of the 26th, reinforced stationary and mobile traffic police posts prevented any attempts to enter the territory of Ordzhonikidze by suspiciously large groups of citizens, except, of course, passengers of buses performing inter-district and intercity flights.

However, the city troublemakers had enough of their own “reserves” for quite a long time, almost until 11.00 am on the 26th, although already in the morning of the same day they resorted to a peculiar way of sending additional forces “to the front line”: they blocked the way for buses, trolleybuses, trams and fixed-route taxis, drove of these passengers, the bulk of whom went, as befits on Monday, to work, then, having called on the apolitical inhabitants to realize their civic duty, they urged them to follow them in a “voluntary-compulsory” manner. Needless to say, this recruitment did not bring any practical results ...

Towards the evening of October 26, numerous operational-military groups began to methodically smash the “rebels” who had gone on the defensive. The most fierce resistance was shown on the Hotel Bridge and at the House of Political Education, where, due to the erected on hastily bricks and lit bottles of gasoline flew into the barricades at the armored personnel carriers and the military, besides, the armored personnel carriers could not overcome the rather high blockages. I had to call in 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. In three days, about 800 of the most zealous rioters were detained.

According to official data, one person died as a result of injuries among those who took part in the riots. The security forces registered 328 injured servicemen, the vast majority of whom (226) were at the OVVKKU them. CM. Kirov. Injuries of various types and degrees were received by 28 servicemen of other units of the internal troops. The allies also got it (74 victims among cadets and officers of the Ordzhonikidze combined arms and anti-aircraft missile schools).

328 - applied for medical help. How many “non-converted” were there, who were ashamed, who considered it shameful or unnecessary?

Most of the injured servicemen had broken heads, injured lower and upper limbs, and mutilated faces.

“...If it weren’t for our school of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, we would have missed many,” summed up R.M. Kabaloev.

Timur MAKOEV

November 16 marks the 90th anniversary of the formation of the Ordzhonikidze Higher Combined Arms Command 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 highly rated university in the Soviet Army, Hero of the Soviet Union, retired lieutenant general Vitaly ULYANOV.

First - a few words about Ulyanov himself, whose fate is firmly connected with the army, as they say, from an early age. At the age of 17, he volunteered for the front, at 18 he already became a holder of the Golden Star. Here are the lines from the introduction of the commander of a platoon of 45-mm guns of the 1st Guards Rifle Battalion of the 280th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 92nd Guards Rifle Division, Sergeant Ulyanov Vitaly Andreevich to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union:
"Tov. Ulyanov, in the battles to clear the left bank of the Dnieper River from German invaders, force the right bank and move forward, showed heroism and courage. 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 Zeleny farm and the village of Kukovka, repelling counterattacks of enemy tanks and infantry, remaining alone at two guns, fired direct fire and knocked out two tanks, seven armored vehicles, captured one gun and destroyed up to an 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 the skillful management of a platoon and the personal heroism shown, he deserves the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Commander of the 280th Guards. Guard Lieutenant Colonel PLUTAKHIN.
As evidenced by the entries in the column “Conclusion of superiors” on the reverse side of the award list, this presentation, dated October 20, 1943, will be 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, Guards Sergeant Ulyanov will take the fight, which will end for him with a serious wound and will, in fact, 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 not be removed from it. Already in the rank of Hero of the Soviet Union, which he will be awarded on February 22, 1944, he will graduate from the Kiev school of self-propelled artillery and will be left there to command a platoon. Then there will be long years of service in the army, only with breaks for study at advanced courses and academies. Having changed a lot of garrisons, without jumping over a single commanding step, having "beat" six years in a company and six and a half in a division, he will become a general. Eleven years, until his resignation in 1985, he will head the Ordzhonikidze VOKU. The longest of the 22 heads of this university.
For more than forty years, in total, Vitaly Andreevich walked through life in the military ranks. Everything happened along the way. But no matter where he threw and no matter what heights his military fate raised, that front-line, sergeant's school was always with him. As a young man, having known the army from the inside, he then, not without reason, considered himself entitled to act on the basis of personal experience, including the front-line, even if it sometimes did not fit into some canons or did not like the authorities.
Actually, our conversation began with memories of this.
- Vitaly Andreevich, they say that when you were the head of the VOKU, you sometimes acted at your own peril and risk, introducing some innovations into the educational process?
Well, there wasn't much risk. Although I had to face some bewilderment in higher instances. For example, when we decided, by postponing the general education prescribed for first-year students by the end of the year, to quickly give them military disciplines, so that from the very first days of their stay at the school they began to understand what service is, how necessary the knowledge that they have to master. It was seen almost as arbitrariness.
Or take the allegedly excessive enthusiasm for the mountain training of cadets, which we were also charged with at one time by some short-sighted officials from education. Can you imagine, there is a war going on in Afghanistan, and we, being in the foothills of the Caucasus, should not be engaged in mountain training, because, you see, this is not our profile! But we did. Already after 4 - 5 months of training, the cadets climbed Table Mountain, even went to Kazbek, conducted exercises in the mountains. Yes, it wasn't easy. But then, when the leadership of the Armed Forces nevertheless decided to make the Ordzhonikidze VOKU the base for recruiting the Turkestan military district, returning from Afghanistan, many graduates specially came to the school to say thank you for science. By the way, they do not forget about their native OrdzhVOKU even now. They visit, they write. In letters, as a rule, again, words of gratitude.
- Surely a lot of kind words will be said during the celebration of the anniversary of the school, many of whose graduates, as you know, have become major military leaders, have 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 both in Vladikavkaz and in 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 pupils and graduates serve with dignity in various positions in the armed forces, in other power structures, or simply are in the reserve, retired, retired. Indeed, over the seventy-five years of its existence, the school has produced more than 40 thousand officers, more than 300 of them became generals. It so happened that life scattered them in different parts of the world. 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 Falangists in Spain, repelled the aggression of the Japanese militarists on Lake Khasan and the Khalkhin Gol River, contributed to achieving victory over Finland, fought on different fronts of the Great Patriotic War, smashed 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 restoring constitutional order in the Chechen Republic. At the same time, courage, heroism, and fortitude were everywhere shown. 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, ex-president Ingushetia R.S. Aushev, head of the GRU special forces V.V. Kolesnik, world record holder in skydiving V.G. Romanyuk and other famous people in the country and abroad.
Many pupils of the Ordzhonikidze VOKU still hold responsible positions in the State Duma, the Federation Council, the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation and in other state and public structures. Among them, for example, Hero of Russia V.M. Zavarzin, who has been heading the State Duma Defense Committee for two convocations, and Doctor of Philosophy A.N. Kanshin, who heads the Commission of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation for Affairs of Veterans, Military Personnel and Members of Their Families. The list goes on. By the way, your former colleague from Krasnaya Zvezda is on the list of our graduates. This is P.I. Tkachenko, literary critic, member of the Union of Writers, whose book titles speak for themselves: “When the soldiers sing”, “From the flames of Afghanistan”, “Officer 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 have gone into business after completing their service...
- And many have achieved significant results in this area. Among them 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 can only say that these are true patriots, they provide great practical assistance to their comrades and to all those who need it.
In general, it must be said that the school gave its pupils a versatile training. And most importantly, it brought up in them willpower, the ability to withstand any difficulties. This is a great merit of all those who worked hard and fruitfully, preparing officer cadres for our Motherland: commanders, teachers, civilian personnel. Thank you so much to all of them and low bow. Those who are no longer with us, we honor and remember, pay tribute to their blessed memory.
- Did you have any offers to do business?
- There were, and some more! For example, at one solemn event, the boss of some cool company came up and, looking sideways at my Gold Star, offered the position of ... deputy director. At the same time, he explained that he would not have to do anything, he would just have to sit in a respectable office, 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 Associations of Reserve Officers of the Armed Forces "MEGAPIR", where, as far as I know, entrepreneurship is also not shy.
- Yes, I have been cooperating with this organization for a long time and, I must confess, with pleasure. Because I know who I'm dealing with. The Association is initially aimed at supporting the Armed Forces, veterans, families of fallen servicemen and other categories of citizens in need of assistance. In particular, the MEGAPIR Foundation, which I was entrusted to head, has been participating in the organization and holding of competitions for the field training of officers for many years, where the winner receives a car from the association as a prize. We patronize orphanages, in 16 regions of the country there are scholarship holders of the association from among the children of military personnel who died in the line of military duty. Until reaching the age of majority, 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 Ordzhonikidzevsky 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 the interest of a wide readership.
The school has been gone 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!