History of bvtkku - bvtkku Blagoveshchensk Higher Tank Command Red Banner School. History of bvtkku - bvtkku Blagoveshchensk Higher Tank Command Red Banner School Armored School
In May 1918, three-month infantry instructor courses were created in Ivanovo-Voznesenka to train platoon commanders for the Red Army.
The cadets took part in the suppression of the Yaroslavl uprising in July 1918.
On December 4, 1918, the courses were included in the general republican lists under the name “14th Ivanovo-Voznesensk Courses for Command Staff of the Red Army.” The training period was set at 8 months.
In May 1919, the entire variable composition of the courses (218 cadets) was sent to the Petrograd front against Yudenich, forming the 7th company of the 3rd battalion of a special combined detachment of cadets. The cadets returned to Ivanovo-Voznesensk on August 24, 1919.
By order of the RVSR No. 1208 of April 4, 1921, the 14th Ivanovo-Voznesensk courses were reorganized into the 27th Ivanovo-Voznesensk Infantry School of command personnel with a three-year training period.
In September 1925 the school was moved to Orel.
On March 23, 1930, for military distinction on the fronts of the civil war and the suppression of the kulak uprising in the Tambov region, the school was awarded the Honorary Revolutionary Red Banner by the Central Executive Committee of the USSR.
In July 1930, when the school was serving a camp training camp in Gorokhovets, an order was received: “The Red Banner Ivanovo-Voznesensk Infantry School is renamed the Oryol Armored School named after M. V. Frunze.” On July 15, 1930, the school was reorganized into an armored school. In the fall of 1930, the first MS-1 tanks and tanks of foreign brands arrived - trophies of the Civil War, as well as tractors and cars.
On September 1, 1931, the school held its 18th regular graduation - the first graduation of motorized mechanized troops commanders.
In 1932, the school completely switched to training on T-26 tanks. This year, 935 commanders were graduated.
By 1935, the school had 700 cadets and trained lieutenants - commanders of BT platoons.
By order of NKO No. 0053 of September 12, 1940, it was transferred to a new profile of training (state No. 17/936). They began to train lieutenants for the T-34 (two battalions) and BT (two battalions). The number of variable composition of the school was 1,600 cadets.
In August - September 1941, the Oryol Tank School was evacuated to Maykop. Classes resumed at the new location on September 15, 1941.
By order of the Armed Forces of the North Caucasus Front, the Maikop Tank Brigade was formed from the personnel of the school on July 25, 1942. The commander of the brigade was the head of the school, Colonel S.P. Varmashkin, and the military commissar of the brigade was the military commissar of the school, brigade commissar I.T. Kuprin.
After the tank brigade left, classes continued at the school. Two battalions were trained.
On August 7, 1942, due to the approach of German troops, the school was evacuated from Maykop to Tuapse, from where it was transported to Sukhumi. At the same time, a separate rifle and machine gun detachment was formed from the school personnel, operating as part of the 31st Infantry Division.
In the second half of August, the personnel of the tank brigade were returned to the school, and the motorized rifle battalion (commander - Major Fedorovich) remained part of the active forces of the North Caucasus Front and was only sent back to the school on December 5, 1942.
At the end of August, the command of the Transcaucasian Front ordered the school to be transferred to the city of Shamkhori.
On October 17, 1942, by order of the USSR NGO, the school was relocated to the Urals and on November 20 arrived at a new location - in the village. Degtyarka (now Degtyarsk) Sverdlovsk region.
At the beginning of December 1943, the command of the school received from the General Staff of the Spacecraft an order to relocate the school to the city of Balashov, Saratov region. The first echelon was sent from the station. Degtyarka December 9, 1943. On December 25, all personnel and equipment arrived at a new location, in the second military town of Balashov.
Full name: Oryol Order of Lenin Red Replacement Armored School named after M. V. Frunze.
Story
In 1918, in the city of Ivanovo-Voznesensk (now Ivanovo), on the initiative of M. V. Frunze, the headquarters of the Yaroslavl Military District opened infantry courses for junior commanders and a cadet dormitory. On December 4, they were transformed into the 14th Ivanovo-Voznesensk intermediate command courses with an eight-month training period. In 1921, the 27th Ivanovo-Voznesensk Infantry School was formed on the basis of the courses.
In 1925, on the initiative of People's Commissar of Military Affairs M.V. Frunze, the 27th Ivanovo-Voznesensk Infantry School was transferred to the city of Orel. By order of the RVS No. 355 of April 7, 1925, the school was named after M. V. Frunze. On March 23, 1930, she was awarded the Honorary Revolutionary Red Banner for military services during the Civil War.
On July 15, 1930, the first armored school in the Red Army was organized on the basis of the school. The first head and commissar of the school was Suren Stepanovich Shaumyan, the son of Stepan Shaumyan, one of the 26 Baku commissars who were shot in 1918 by the British interventionists. According to the recollections of a graduate of the school of Hero of the Soviet Union K.N. Abramov, he was a “highly educated, energetic, dedicated person, he devoted himself entirely to the education of future tank commanders.” By 1935, 700 cadets were studying at the school, who were being trained to become lieutenants - platoon commanders of BT tanks. Future Soviet tank officers studied the history of the CPSU(b) and the peoples of the USSR, the Constitution of the USSR, Russian language and mathematics, tactics and topography, tank driving and combat techniques, radio equipment and regulations, and were engaged in combat, combat and physical training.
On January 1, 1936, the school's technical fleet included: 210 tanks (BT-2 - 48, BT-5 linear - 26, BT-5 radial - 2, BT-7 radial - 2, T-26 double-turret - 19, T-37 linear - 2, T-27 - 17, T-18 - 94) and 7 armored vehicles (BA-27 - 5, FAI, D-8, D-12 - 1, BA-I - 1).
On March 16, 1937, the school was reorganized into Oryol Armored School named after M. V. Frunze. Many graduates of the school took part in combat during the Spanish Civil War, in the battles at Lake Khasan and on the Khalkhin Gol River, as well as during the Soviet-Finnish War.
On August 15, 1940, the technical park of the school included: 32 BT-2 machine guns, 3 BT-2 cannons, 24 BT-5 linear, 5 BT-5 radio, 13 BT-7 linear, 10 BT-7 radio, 2 BT artillery, 1 T-26 linear, 4 T-26 radial, 2 T-26 double-turret machine gun, 3 T-37/38 linear, 1 T-37/38 radial, 2 FAI, 1 BA-10, 1 BA-6, 1 Comintern , 2 Kommunara, 5 S-60, 1 S-65, 3 GAZ-A, 3 M-1, 2 ZIS-101, 30 GAZ-AA, 5 GAZ-AAA, 1 GAZ all-terrain vehicle, 11 ZIS-5, 1 ZIS -6, 1 ZIS all-terrain vehicle, 2 pickup trucks, 2 staff buses, 2 ambulances, 2 passenger buses, 1 type “A” workshop, 3 gas tankers and tanks, as well as one camp electric lighting station.
By order of NKO No. 0053 of September 12, 1940, it was transferred to a new profile of training (state No. 17/936). They began to train lieutenants for the T-34 (two battalions) and BT (two battalions). The number of variable staff of the school was 1,600 cadets.
In 1941, the school was evacuated to the city of Maykop. In the summer of 1942, the Separate Oryol Tank Brigade was formed from the school’s personnel, which fought as part of the Primorsky Group of the North Caucasus Front.
On December 13, 1942, the school was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. The school was evacuated to the Urals, to the Sverdlovsk region, then to the city of Balashov, Saratov region, where the students celebrated Victory Day.
On December 25, 1943, to commemorate the 25th anniversary, the school was awarded the Order of Lenin.
After the Great Patriotic War, the school moved to Ulyanovsk, and in 1960, during the Khrushchev Thaw, it was disbanded due to the reduction of the Armed Forces.
Chiefs
Famous graduates
By 1941, the school had trained more than 6 thousand tank commanders, many of whom became famous military leaders during the Great Patriotic War. 112 graduates were awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union (including V. A. Bulychev, I. N. Mashkarin, M. S. Piskunov, I. I. Revkov, N. N. Fomin, A. T. Shurupov and other) .
Awards and honorary titles
Memory
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Notes
- Irina Krakhmaleva. Oryol city website InfoOrel.ru. 01/28/2010.
- Tatiana Fileva. Orlovskaya truth. September 24, 2008.
- on the website "Museums of Russia"
- Anatoly Matenin."Working edge" 05/30/2011.
- . Tank front. Retrieved May 2, 2013. .
- on the website rkka.ru.
Links
- on the Tank Front website.
- on the website rkka.ru.
- on the website "Museums of Russia"
- Irina Krakhmaleva. Oryol city website InfoOrel.ru. 01/28/2010.
- Tatiana Fileva. Orlovskaya truth. September 24, 2008.
An excerpt characterizing the Oryol Armored School
- Yes, in what sad circumstances did we have to see each other, Prince... Well, what about our dear patient? - she said, as if not noticing the cold, insulting gaze directed at her.Prince Vasily looked questioningly, to the point of bewilderment, at her, then at Boris. Boris bowed politely. Prince Vasily, without answering the bow, turned to Anna Mikhailovna and answered her question with a movement of his head and lips, which meant the worst hope for the patient.
- Really? - Anna Mikhailovna exclaimed. - Oh, this is terrible! It’s scary to think... This is my son,” she added, pointing to Boris. “He himself wanted to thank you.”
Boris bowed politely again.
- Believe, prince, that a mother’s heart will never forget what you did for us.
“I’m glad that I could do something pleasant for you, my dear Anna Mikhailovna,” said Prince Vasily, straightening his frill and in his gesture and voice showing here, in Moscow, in front of the patronized Anna Mikhailovna, even greater importance than in St. Petersburg, at Annette’s evening Scherer.
“Try to serve well and be worthy,” he added, turning sternly to Boris. - I'm glad... Are you here on vacation? – he dictated in his dispassionate tone.
“I’m waiting for an order, your Excellency, to go to a new destination,” answered Boris, showing neither annoyance at the prince’s harsh tone, nor a desire to engage in conversation, but so calmly and respectfully that the prince looked at him intently.
- Do you live with your mother?
“I live with Countess Rostova,” said Boris, adding again: “Your Excellency.”
“This is the Ilya Rostov who married Nathalie Shinshina,” said Anna Mikhailovna.
“I know, I know,” said Prince Vasily in his monotonous voice. – Je n"ai jamais pu concevoir, comment Nathalieie s"est decidee a epouser cet ours mal – leche l Un personnage completement stupide et ridicule.Et joueur a ce qu"on dit. [I could never understand how Nathalie decided to come out marry this dirty bear. A completely stupid and ridiculous person. And a player, too, they say.]
“Mais tres brave homme, mon prince,” Anna Mikhailovna remarked, smiling touchingly, as if she knew that Count Rostov deserved such an opinion, but asked to have pity on the poor old man. – What do the doctors say? - asked the princess, after a short silence and again expressing great sadness on her tear-stained face.
“There is little hope,” said the prince.
“And I really wanted to thank my uncle again for all his good deeds to both me and Bora.” C"est son filleuil, [This is his godson," she added in such a tone, as if this news should have greatly pleased Prince Vasily.
Prince Vasily thought and winced. Anna Mikhailovna realized that he was afraid to find in her a rival in the will of Count Bezukhy. She hastened to reassure him.
“If it weren’t for my true love and devotion to my uncle,” she said, pronouncing this word with particular confidence and carelessness: “I know his character, noble, direct, but he has only the princesses with him... They are still young...” She bowed her head and she added in a whisper: “Did he fulfill his last duty, prince?” How precious are these last minutes! After all, it can’t be worse; it needs to be cooked if it is that bad. We women, Prince,” she smiled tenderly, “always know how to say these things.” It is necessary to see him. No matter how hard it was for me, I was already used to suffering.
The prince apparently understood, and understood, as he did at the evening at Annette Scherer’s, that it was difficult to get rid of Anna Mikhailovna.
“Wouldn’t this meeting be difficult for him, here Anna Mikhailovna,” he said. - Let's wait until evening, the doctors promised a crisis.
“But you can’t wait, Prince, at these moments.” Pensez, il va du salut de son ame... Ah! c"est terrible, les devoirs d"un chretien... [Think, it’s about saving his soul! Oh! this is terrible, the duty of a Christian...]
A door opened from the inner rooms, and one of the count's nieces entered, with a gloomy and cold face and a strikingly disproportionate long waist to her legs.
Prince Vasily turned to her.
- Well, what is he?
- All the same. And as you wish, this noise... - said the princess, looking around Anna Mikhailovna as if she were a stranger.
“Ah, chere, je ne vous reconnaissais pas, [Ah, dear, I didn’t recognize you,” Anna Mikhailovna said with a happy smile, walking up to the count’s niece with a light amble. “Je viens d"arriver et je suis a vous pour vous aider a soigner mon oncle. J'imagine, combien vous avez souffert, [I came to help you follow your uncle. I can imagine how you suffered," she added, with participation rolling my eyes.
The princess did not answer anything, did not even smile, and immediately left. Anna Mikhailovna took off her gloves and, in the position she had won, sat down on a chair, inviting Prince Vasily to sit next to her.
- Boris! “- she said to her son and smiled, “I’ll go to the count, to my uncle, and you go to Pierre, mon ami, in the meantime, and don’t forget to give him the invitation from the Rostovs.” They call him to dinner. I think he won't go? - she turned to the prince.
“On the contrary,” said the prince, apparently out of sorts. – Je serais tres content si vous me debarrassez de ce jeune homme... [I would be very glad if you saved me from this young man...] Sits here. The Count never asked about him.
He shrugged. The waiter led the young man down and up another staircase to Pyotr Kirillovich.
Pierre never had time to choose a career for himself in St. Petersburg and, indeed, was exiled to Moscow for rioting. The story told by Count Rostov was true. Pierre participated in tying up the policeman with the bear. He arrived a few days ago and stayed, as always, at his father's house. Although he assumed that his story was already known in Moscow, and that the ladies surrounding his father, who were always unkind to him, would take advantage of this opportunity to irritate the count, he still went after his father’s half on the day of his arrival. Entering the drawing room, the usual abode of the princesses, he greeted the ladies who were sitting at the embroidery frame and behind a book, which one of them was reading aloud. There were three of them. The eldest, clean, long-waisted, stern girl, the same one who came out to Anna Mikhailovna, was reading; the younger ones, both ruddy and pretty, differing from each other only in that one had a mole above her lip, which made her very beautiful, were sewing in a hoop. Pierre was greeted as if he were dead or plagued. The eldest princess interrupted her reading and silently looked at him with frightened eyes; the youngest, without a mole, assumed exactly the same expression; the smallest one, with a mole, of a cheerful and giggling character, bent over the embroidery frame to hide a smile, probably caused by the upcoming scene, the funnyness of which she foresaw. She pulled the hair down and bent down, as if she was sorting out the patterns and could hardly restrain herself from laughing.
“Bonjour, ma cousine,” said Pierre. – Vous ne me hesonnaissez pas? [Hello, cousin. Don't you recognize me?]
“I recognize you too well, too well.”
– How is the count’s health? Can I see him? – Pierre asked awkwardly, as always, but not embarrassed.
– The Count is suffering both physically and morally, and it seems that you took care to cause him more moral suffering.
-Can I see the count? - Pierre repeated.
- Hm!.. If you want to kill him, completely kill him, then you can see. Olga, go and see if the broth is ready for your uncle, it’s time soon,” she added, showing Pierre that they were busy and busy calming his father down, while he was obviously busy only upsetting him.
Olga left. Pierre stood, looked at the sisters and, bowing, said:
- So I’ll go to my place. When it is possible, you tell me.
He went out, and the ringing but quiet laughter of the sister with the mole was heard behind him.
The next day, Prince Vasily arrived and settled in the count's house. He called Pierre to him and told him:
– Mon cher, si vous vous conduisez ici, comme a Petersbourg, vous finirez tres mal; c"est tout ce que je vous dis. [My dear, if you behave here as in St. Petersburg, you will end very badly; I have nothing more to tell you.] The Count is very, very sick: you don’t need to see him at all.
Since then, Pierre was not disturbed, and he spent the whole day alone upstairs in his room.
While Boris entered his room, Pierre was walking around his room, occasionally stopping in the corners, making threatening gestures towards the wall, as if piercing an invisible enemy with a sword, and looking sternly over his glasses and then starting his walk again, uttering unclear words, shaking shoulders and arms outstretched.
- L "Angleterre a vecu, [England is finished," he said, frowning and pointing his finger at someone. - M. Pitt comme traitre a la nation et au droit des gens est condamiene a... [Pitt, as a traitor to the nation and people rightly, he is sentenced to ...] - He did not have time to finish his sentence on Pitt, imagining himself at that moment as Napoleon himself and, together with his hero, having already made a dangerous crossing through the Pas de Calais and conquered London - when he saw a young, slender and handsome officer entering him He stopped. Pierre left Boris as a fourteen-year-old boy and definitely did not remember him; but, despite this, in his characteristic quick and cordial manner, he took him by the hand and smiled friendly.
- Do you remember me? – Boris said calmly, with a pleasant smile. “I came with my mother to the count, but he seems to be not entirely healthy.
- Yes, he seems unwell. “Everyone worries him,” Pierre answered, trying to remember who this young man was.
Boris felt that Pierre did not recognize him, but did not consider it necessary to identify himself and, without experiencing the slightest embarrassment, looked him straight in the eyes.
“Count Rostov asked you to come to dinner with him today,” he said after a rather long and awkward silence for Pierre.
Historical information about the school
Let's preserve the history of our school!
Photo 1. Amur region, Blagoveshchensk-18, Mokhovaya Pad. Here from 1958 to 1999. DVTU was located, later - BVTKKU.
Photo 2. The historical path of the school. Photo 3. Battle Banner of the BVTKKU.
The history of BVTKKU began during the Great Patriotic War and comes from 2nd Gorky Automobile and Motorcycle School (2nd SAMU),
the order for the formation of which was signed July 10, 1941
in Moscow. It was headed by a colonel (later - on March 11, 1944 - major general of tank forces). The school was subordinate to the Main Armored Directorate of the Red Army.
The immediate formation of the school began July 14, 1941 with the arrival of the head of the school. Its location since July 15, 1941 was determined in the Gorokhovets camps of the Gorky region (see photo 2). Order No. 2 of the 2nd State Medical University determined the school's mailbox: Mulino post office, Gorokhovetsky district, Ivanovo region, post office box No. 10 (now next to the village of Mulino, Volodarsky district, Nizhny Novgorod region). The creation of a school during the war was associated with great difficulties. It was necessary to create everything anew; there was no ready-made base. Commanders, political workers, teachers, and cadets built a camp, a race track, parks, workshops, a summer club, equipped classrooms and training fields, and prepared visual aids.
The school was formed according to peacetime states: four battalions of four-company cadets and a special battalion of communists. Three battalions trained motorist officers, one - motorcyclists. Classes began on August 1, 1941. We studied for 11 hours, seven days a week. Preparation was carried out in stages: studies began with cycling. Those who didn’t know how should master it. Those who passed practical riding switched to a motorcycle. The study of motorcycles began with the AM-600 model with a sidecar and IZH-9, and then moved on to the study of the M-72 motorcycles that had just been put into service. After mastering motorcycles, we moved on to studying GAZ-AA and ZIS-5 cars.
WITH October 16, 1941 the school was relocated to the city (see photos 2, 4, 5) - 200 km northeast of the city of Gorky, 47 km from the Uren railway station. The best buildings in the city were allocated to house the school for barracks, educational buildings and headquarters. They were located at 23 points scattered throughout the city and towns. The city leadership squeezed out the townspeople and turned over schools, a forestry college, a museum, a district military registration and enlistment office and other institutions to the school. The school headquarters was located in one of the main buildings (see photos 4, 5). After the war, it housed a school.
The first graduation of officers from the school took place after an eight-month training course in March 1942: about 400 motorcycle platoon commanders were sent to the front. The rest continued their training in the vehicle platoon commander program. The release of motorists took place in August 1942. 100 people were selected from the graduates and continued their training under the program for tank platoon commanders.
October 15, 1942
the school was reorganized into 2nd Gorky Tank School(2nd GTU)
(see photo 2) with a change in the training profile to tank commanders with a six-month training period. In addition, the school retrained political personnel for command positions in armored and mechanized units of the Red Army. A feature of the training programs was that they provided for the training of cadets only in military disciplines. The main attention was paid to tactical, fire and technical training. We studied mainly on T-34 tanks, but also studied light tanks BT-5, BT-7, T-26, T-70, T-80, and amphibious tanks T-37, T-38. Graduates of the school who passed the main exams (materials, tactics, topography, shooting, driving) with excellent marks were graduated from the school as lieutenants for the position of commander of a tank platoon, the rest - with the rank of junior lieutenant for the position of commander of the T-34 tank.
The first graduation of tank officers took place April 25, 1943 . During the year, the school graduated seven students. In total, during the years of the Great Patriotic War, the tank school produced 22 graduates, training more than one thousand motorist officers, motorcyclists and, mainly, tank officers for the front. At the beginning of 1944, there were two graduations of tank officers of Polish nationality for the then-formed First Polish Army.
The results and quality of training for replenishment commanders for tank forces are eloquently evidenced by the fact that, as a result of repeated inspections, by 1944 the 2nd GTU occupied first place among the tank schools of the Red Army.
Graduates of the 2nd Gorky Tank School fought fearlessly and skillfully against the fascist invaders. Many of them fell on the battlefields, and 10 graduates were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Many hundreds of graduates were awarded orders and medals for the valor and courage shown on the battlefields of the Great Patriotic War. The 2nd Gorky Tank School made a worthy contribution to the achievement of Victory over Nazi Germany.
In the post-war years, a new period began in the history of the school: a period during which the school continued to successfully solve the problems of training highly qualified officers who were fluent in modern weapons and military equipment, capable of confidently commanding in difficult battle conditions, skillfully training and educating subordinates, but already stationed in other cities of the Soviet Union.
Immediately after the end of the Great Patriotic War, in accordance with the Directive of the Chief of the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces dated March 11, 1945, the school was relocated to the city of Proskurov (from January 1954 - Khmelnitsky) of the Ukrainian SSR, where May 20, 1945
(see photos 2, 6, 7) and became known as Proskurovskoe
(later - Khmelnitsky
) tank school (military unit 74400)
. The school switched to a full, three-year course of study. In the first post-war years, Albanians and Romanians studied at the school.
IN 1958 the school was relocated to the city of Blagoveshchensk Amur region. It was located in the suburban hills in Padi Mokhovaya (see photos 1, 2) and became known as Far Eastern Tank School(DVTU)
. Interesting fact: many former cadets remember that the abbreviation DVTU was used in classes on military topography and fire training to memorize the “thousandth formula”: D wow IN T thousand U. The school trained tank officers in an average profile with a three-year training period. The first graduation in Mokhovaya Pad took place in 1959.
IN 1965, in connection with the increased requirements for the training of officers, a number of secondary schools, including DVTU, were transformed into higher ones, which, along with the training of commanders capable of managing the battle from a platoon to a battalion inclusive, were supposed to provide knowledge for obtaining an engineer's diploma in operation and repair of tracked and wheeled vehicles. In this capacity, the academic year began in September 1966, and the school began to be called - Blagoveshchensk Higher Tank Command School (BVTKU) .
The first intake of cadets for higher education with a four-year course of study took place in 1966 (in the same year there was the last intake for a secondary school program with a three-year course). The first graduation of officers with higher education was made in 1970, the last graduation of the intermediate course was in 1969.
In the period from 1966 to 1969, the school launched 10-month courses to train platoon commanders for tank troops. Those who completed these courses were awarded the military rank of junior lieutenant.
The school also trained tank officers of Mongolian nationality for the army of the Mongolian People's Republic (MPR).
February 22, 1968 for great merits in the training of officers and in connection with the 50th anniversary of the Armed Forces of the USSR, the school was awarded the order Red Banner. From that moment on it began to be called Blagoveshchensk Higher Tank Command Red Banner School(BVTKKU) .
IN February 1969
the school was named after the Marshal of the Soviet Union. From that time on it began to be called Blagoveshchensk Higher Tank Command Red Banner School named after Marshal of the Soviet Union K.A. Meretskova (BVTKKU).
By Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of August 29, 1998 No. 1009 "On military educational institutions of professional education of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation" Blagoveshchensk Higher Tank Command Red Banner School named after Marshal of the Soviet Union K.A. Meretskov was disbanded. On its basis, the RTC was created - a regional training center for the training of junior artillery specialists, which was disbanded in November 2005.
Over the years of its existence, the Gorky, Proskurov (Khmelnitsky), Far Eastern, and Blagoveshchensk Tank Schools have made a worthy contribution to the training of officers for tank forces. Graduates of the school fought for their homeland during the Great Patriotic War, reaching as far as Berlin and Prague, fulfilled their international duty in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Vietnam and other hot spots, and defended the territorial integrity of Russia in Chechnya.
During the Great Patriotic War ten graduates of the school became Heroes of the Soviet Union: , , , , , , , , ,
One of them, Guard Lieutenant (1943)[tank commander of the 15th Guards. tank brigade (1st Guards Tank Corps, 65th Army, 1st Belorussian Front)] during the Belarusian offensive operation (Operation Bagration) on June 25, 1944 in a battle near the Chernye Brody railway station (Oktyabrsky district of Gomel region) as part of the crew, a burning tank rammed an enemy armored train and disabled three armored platforms. The brave lieutenant remained alive and continued to fight. He died on September 4, 1944 in the battle for a bridgehead on the western bank of the Narew River in Poland. He was buried in the Polish village of Zatori. The title of Hero of the Soviet Union was awarded on September 26, 1944 (posthumously). Lieutenant Komarov D.E. was enlisted forever in the lists of the first company of cadets of the BVTKKU. During the existence of the school, Komarov’s fellow countrymen (natives of the Shakhunsky district of the Gorky region) were sent to study at the school on Komsomol vouchers. Most of them were enrolled as cadets in the first company.
In honor of the graduates of the tank school who died on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, on September 13, 1970 (the date of the official opening of the monument) an IS-3M tank was installed on a pedestal in front of the school (see photo 1). On September 10, 2000, a memorial plaque was installed on the pedestal. In order to perpetuate the memory of the heroic graduates of the tank school, a tank was also installed on a pedestal in the city of Vetluga: on May 9, 2006 (the date of the official opening of the monument), a T-55 tank, delivered from the Leningrad region, was installed on Bratsk Square (see photo 5).
The country celebrated graduates of the Blagoveshchensk Tank School with golden hero stars in the post-war years. In 1956, for the courage and heroism shown while performing military duty in Hungary, the title of Hero of the Soviet Union was awarded to a senior lieutenant, a 1954 graduate.
In 2003, for demonstrated personal courage and skillful leadership of troops, the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously) was awarded to a 1964 graduate of the Army General.
A 1975 graduate, the colonel was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation in 2000 for his courage in battle and skillful leadership of troops in the fight against terrorist groups in the North Caucasus.
In battles on the territory of the Chechen Republic, a 1999 graduate, Lieutenant, accomplished his feat . He was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation posthumously in 2000.
Among the graduates of the school there are many military leaders and government officials. At one time, cadet shoulder straps were worn by:
Colonel General (1959) - Head of the USSR Civil Defense - Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR (1991); Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces of the CIS (1992); Commander of the CIS Collective Peacekeeping Forces (1993-1994); First Deputy Chief of Staff for Coordination of Military Cooperation of the CIS Member States (1994-1995);
General of the Army (1962) - Chief of the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR (1988-1991);
Colonel General (1963) - Commander of the Volga-Ural Military District (1991-1992), Volga Military District (1992-2001);
Hero of the Russian Federation, Army General (1964) - first Chief of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces (June - November 1992). In 2003, his name was given to the Ryazan Military Automotive Institute;
Lieutenant General (1966) - Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus (1999-2000), Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Belarus (2000-2001), Chairman of the Council of the Belarusian Physical Culture and Sports Society "Dynamo" (with 2001), Minister of Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Belarus (2003-2005), Vice-Rector of the Minsk Institute of Management (since 2005);
Colonel General (born in 1968) - Head of the State Medical Directorate - Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces (1994-1997); Head of the Department of Operational Art of the Military Academy of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces (since 1997);
Colonel General (born in 1969) - Deputy Minister of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense, Emergency Situations and Disaster Relief (1994-1999); Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation (1999-2001); auditor of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation (2001-2005); since 2009 - permanent representative of the Republic of Khakassia - Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Khakassia;
Lieutenant General (1969) - Deputy Minister of Defense of the Republic of Abkhazia (June 2004), Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Abkhazia (since March 2005);
Lieutenant General (1970) - Chief of the Main Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Republic of Belarus (1997-2001);
Lieutenant General (1974) - Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Republic of Belarus (since 2001 - replaced M.F. Kozlov);
Colonel General (born in 1974) - commander of the troops of the North Caucasus Military District (2008-2010);
In 1944- 1945 I studied at our school (in Vetluga and Proskurov). In the book published for the 50th anniversary of the school, there is a portrait of him with the caption “Cadet M.I. Pugovkin, who did a lot for the development of amateur artistic performances of the school, is now People’s Artist of the USSR.”
Blagoveshchensk Higher Tank Command Red Banner School named after Marshal of the Soviet Union K.A. Meretskova was one of the leading military educational institutions of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR and the Russian Federation, which had a worthy history and glorious traditions in the training of officers. The school professionally trained tank commanders - proactive, loving difficult military service and faithful to the duty of a tank officer. The school has become the Alma Mater for many hundreds of graduates who believe that their cadet years were the best in their lives and still cherish their cadet friendships. The depth of feelings of those who went through tank school is reflected in the following lines:
In our school we entered into life,
To a big, dear family.
We will become gray, but we will not forget
Your cadet youth!
Since 2000, the school no longer exists, and its Battle Banner is now kept in the Museum of the Armed Forces (see photo 3). But the memory of the school lives on, and will live on as long as those who served, worked and studied within its walls are alive. Today, the memory of the tank university and its heroic traditions is preserved by its graduates - BVTKovtsy - this is how the graduates of the famous, but now, unfortunately, gone into history school call themselves. Time will tell how justified this decision was for the future of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
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Photo 4, 5 - Vetluga, st. Lenina, 25. Here from October 1941 to May 1945. the second Gorky Tank School was located.
Photo 6, 7 - Proskurov (Khmelnitsky). Here from 1945 to 1958. The Proskurov (Khmelnytsky) Tank School was located.
My father graduated from the 2nd Saratov Tank School in May 1941 and in general terms approximately (died - survived) knew the fate of the graduates - lieutenants of his department.
The general photo below shows the cadets of the department before graduation in the spring of 1941. Seated from left to right: Dolgopolov, Zharkoy, Golubyatnikov, Mavrin, Godlevsky. In the second row standing from left to right: Koloskov, Kolganov, Oleshko, Berest, Domnikov, Omelchenko, Shabash.
The post-war fate of Mavrin, Oleshko, Golubyatnikov, Godlevsky is known from the book of Zharky F.M. "Tank march"
After 70 years, my father no longer remembered the names and patronymics of other classmates. It seemed that without lengthy searches in the archives of the school and the Ministry of Defense, the fate of the supposedly dead tankers could not be determined...
What if you try to search through the MEMORIAL MO website?
Initial data - last name, rank (lieutenant - if died in 41-42), service in the SA (year of entry into the school 1939), branch of the army - tank.
Based on these incomplete data, in just an hour, by reviewing the already truncated lists, it was possible to establish the fate of all the dead and missing (i.e., burned in tanks) graduates of the school. Here is the data:
Berest S.L. - tank commander of the 8th Tank Brigade - went missing in September 1941 on the Kalinin Front.
Domnikov V.S. - tank commander of the 8th Tank Brigade - killed in October 1941 on the Karelian Front
Dolgopolov V.F. - platoon commander of the 161st separate tank brigade - went missing (i.e. burned in a tank) in August 1942 in the Smolensk region.
KOLGANOV Alexey Timofeevich - platoon commander of a heavy tank battalion of military unit No. 9138 - died on the Western Front in August 1942.
Koloskov A.F. - platoon commander of the 78th tank regiment - went missing in June 1941.
Omelchenko N.A. - commander of a platoon of heavy tanks of the 49th tank regiment - went missing in 1941.
Shabash V.P. - commander of a tank platoon of the 75th tank regiment of the 20th mechanized corps - went missing in 1941 on the Western Front.
Statistics for the department: 58 percent of deaths and only in 1941-1942.
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1. Order of the NPO dated March 16, 1937.
2. Order of the NPO dated August 24, 1940. (about subordination).
3. From the Forum on 06/22/1941. Thanks to Evgeniy Drig and others.
4. Directives of the General Staff of 07/03/1941 and 07/15/41 (on redeployment).
5. Order of the NPO dated 09/03/1941 (including on relocation).
6. From the Forum on 06/22/1941. Thanks to Alexander Kiyan.
7. From the Forum. Thanks to Oleg Nelzin and Sergei Chekunov.
8. List No. 30 of military educational institutions (training centers, colleges, schools and courses) with the dates for their inclusion in the active army during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
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