Anatoly trailer airborne biography. Anatoly Konchevoi, Major General of the Russian Airborne Forces, visited Rechitsa
I must say right away that the visit was of a private nature. Anatoly Georgievich, originally from the Gomel region, came to visit his mother in Dobrush and, as he himself admitted in an interview, he simply could not help but visit his good friend Vladimir Gabrov, who repeatedly invited him to visit.
For the Scythians and paratroopers, Anatoly Kontsevoi is a legendary person. In 1989 he graduated from the Ryazan Higher Airborne command school. From 2003 to 2006 he commanded the 45th Separate Guards Regiment special purpose, who took part in the counter-terrorist operation in Chechnya. He has three military orders, as well as other awards. It was Anatoly Kontsevoi who for several years at the May 9 parade in Moscow personally led a box of paratroopers across Red Square.
It was no coincidence that Anatoly Georgievich came to Rechitsa: the thing is that two years ago, our Rechitsa boys, pupils of Skif, visited Ryazan. In general, Ryazan is a special city, it is called the capital of the Airborne Forces, it is here that the only higher education institution of the Airborne Forces in the world is located, and our fellow countryman leads it.
In Rechitsa, Anatoly Georgievich visited the monument to the participants of local wars and armed conflicts, the fallen and the living, which is in Victory Park on the Alley of Heroes. As well as the district gymnasium, where memorial place all paratroopers, main character- BMD-1 and a bust of Margelov. A special point of the visit was the only museum in Belarus airborne history and special forces. There, Vladimir Gabrov gave a tour of the museum and spoke about the exhibits.
And here, everyone present was very interested in the reaction of A. Kontsevoi, a man who knows everything about the Airborne Forces. Those who have been to Ryazan unanimously say that the entire infrastructure there works for the Airborne Forces. Imagine: the school has its own 22-meter swimming pool with an underwater shooting range, submarine models, a wind tunnel with a special parachute system, a huge museum… There is nothing else like it in the world. And that's why everyone was waiting for what the general would say about our museum. A. Kontsevoi looked at the exposition with restraint, but it was clear that he was very interested. This betrayed at least the fact that he photographed almost all the exhibits on the phone, and after the end of the tour for some time he examined the weapons, uniforms and information stands.
- It is surprising that, in fact, in one school class you managed to put together a very informative museum with exclusive exhibits, - summed up A. Kontsevoi. - I even took a picture to show my colleagues how to work, and in turn I want to say that we will help you with some exhibits. Let there be our contribution to this good cause.
It is customary to believe the word of the general. I think A. Kontsevoi will confirm this, and soon we will see new exhibits.
Leaving Rechitsa, Major General Anatoly Kontsevoy gave a mini-interview to a journalist from Dniproўets:
About Rechitsa
I am in your city for the first time and I am pleasantly surprised: everything is clean, beautiful, tidy. Quiet and pleasant town, a lot of greenery, flowers. I noticed that in Belarus in general, and in the Gomel region in particular, very polite drivers practically do not violate the Rules. For me it amazing fact. I will try to return to Rechitsa once again, but not alone, but with Vadim Ivanovich Pankov, the hero of Russia, also a native of Gomel.
About Skif
The guys from Skif always surprise me with something. They are already doing what we train in the army today. And these are not soldiers, but schoolchildren who study at their own request. Today I watched a clip where the guys under the combat swimmers program completed a number of difficult tasks, and this despite the fact that they do not have a specialized pool. Fiction! I, in turn, promise that I will invite the best students of Skif to Ryazan, where they will be able to visit our unique swimming pool complex.
I. KOROTCHENKO: Hello, this is the General Staff program, in the studio Igor Korotchenko. I am pleased to introduce our guest - the head of the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School, Major General Anatoly Georgievich Kontsevoi. Anatoly Georgievich, hello.
A. END: Good afternoon.
I. KOROTCHENKO: I would like to start our conversation with a story about the school you head. This is a legendary military university, known throughout the world, and even more so in our country. Your school will soon be 100 years old - what has been done in recent years, how has the training of paratrooper officers changed, what is today Ryazan school?
A. END: I would like to note that our Ryazan School has always been and remains one of the most prestigious military educational institutions countries, and the competition at the school, even in the most difficult years associated with the reform of the Russian Armed Forces, has always been high and remains so to this day. The school was, is and will be a forge of personnel for airborne troops and special forces. Here the fighting spirit is alive, the focus and charge on the performance of a combat mission, devotion to the air landing troops, their traditions, and most importantly - loyalty to their homeland.
The profession of an officer in our country has a long history, in three years the school will reach the level of its centenary. Over these 100 years, glorious traditions, strength, generations have been incorporated into which we, the current generation, starting with the leadership, like me with my commanders, the same variable composition, cadets, draw strength. And they have no other right than to be the same as their predecessors, their veterans, they should be the standard of how to defend the homeland, and this has been proven over the years.
Many years of experience in training cadets at the school shows that one of the important components is a good, perfect, innovative material and technical base. On the this stage During the development of the school, the entire educational and material base has been almost completely updated, new equipment for practicing practical skills is being received, the best training grounds have been created, and the areas of combat training have been expanded.
Already in the built pool and in a special class, cadets-officers work out the basics of diving, perfect buoyancy, working with equipment under water, techniques hand-to-hand combat underwater, including cold weapons, underwater orientation, they get acquainted with the latest models of diving equipment to perform specific tasks.
Two specialized classes have been created and used in the educational process for teaching work on automated controls to obtain work skills. A comprehensive tactical simulator was put into operation for carrying out practical exercises as part of a platoon with means of reinforcement and support.
For fire training, a national shooting complex was built, with a length of more than two kilometers along the front for firing from various weapons, airborne combat vehicles of the second, fourth generation, armored personnel carriers, special foreign sniper weapons, and grenade launchers.
A tank and foot biathlon track with shooting ranges has been equipped for the comprehensive development of training exercises as part of crews and units, such as a squad, a platoon. Shooting ranges have been created for training in special high-speed shooting in a closed space in a special gallery using the latest target equipment.
A combined-arms airborne mountain maritime, moral-psychological, international obstacle course was reconstructed and created. An equestrian sports complex with a stable for keeping horses and an equestrian parade ground, both open and closed, has been introduced into the educational process of the school. Construction work is being completed study place urban-type buildings, where cadets are trained to manage a platoon in an offensive on the outskirts of the city, in houses, neighborhoods, which is now relevant, based on recent armed conflicts.
For example, in a two-story building with two entrances, on the video surveillance system of the target equipment, the trainee will perform a special exercise with a live cartridge, live shooting. The walls of the building, door and window openings are made of bullet-catching material, which excludes ricochets and makes it possible to conduct exercises using live ammunition.
The reconstruction of the survival town is underway, the construction of a multifunctional shooting complex is underway to improve shooting both underground and in confined spaces, on the ground and from the air. The construction of a multifunctional airborne training complex for laying, preparing both human parachutes and multi-dome parachute systems and preparing equipment for landing has been completed.
The construction of a wind tunnel has been completed, which makes it possible to carry out high-altitude training with the entire category of trained cadets and officers during training and retraining for more complex parachute systems.
The construction of a multifunctional deep-sea diving complex with a diving tower with a depth of 21 meters is nearing completion, where cadets will learn how to operate under water in various types of diving equipment. It will train shooting under water from military weapons, landing from a helicopter without a parachute, evacuation and boarding a helicopter.
There is also a coastal barocomplex, which is designed to test the barofunction, check the compliance of individual physiological characteristics, various types of flow generators for changing buoyancy both under water and on the surface, assault actions, barrage actions of a ship and much more, including special technical actions, in relation to actions in water. It is planned to complete the equipment of another specialized class of unmanned aerial vehicles.
Thus, a fundamental change in the educational and material base of the school provides not only an improvement in the quality of education, but also the efficiency, intensity of everything educational process. It's not all about the walls, people decorate the walls, but it's very good when people are motivated, and the training and material base is made in such a way that it is as close as possible to combat conditions.
I. KOROTCHENKO: Who do you train: paratroopers, special forces, translators, marines, mountain rangers? What are the areas of officer training?
A. END: The school fulfills the state personnel order for the training of higher vocational education in three military specialties: the use of units of the airborne troops, units special intelligence, as well as communications units of the airborne troops in two specializations: the use of airborne support units and marines with a five-year study period.
Including in the first and second courses, two platoons of girls are trained in a connected specialty. These specialists are intended to fill the primary officer positions in the airborne troops, on navy, air assault brigades district subordination, head office General Staff, the Federal Security Service, the Federal Security Service and other federal executive bodies.
To serve in the Airborne Forces and special forces is a special honor, service requires great courage, physical fitness, only strong and fearless, who are not afraid to get behind enemy lines and are ready for intense physical exertion in the area of military operations, hard work can get into the ranks of paratroopers or special forces. Our school selects only seasoned and strong people. About 20% of applicants this year served in the airborne troops and special forces, and also have some combat experience.
I. KOROTCHENKO: Is it possible to get a secondary vocational education in your school? How are these specialists trained?
A. END: Since December 2009, the first school in the Armed Forces of our country has begun training professional non-commissioned officers, deputy platoon commanders and their equals. Since 2014, graduates of this faculty, secondary vocational education, receive military rank ensign.
The training of specialists with secondary vocational education is one of the most important stages in the creation of a professional army in our country. Candidates who want to connect their entire professional career with the army are recruited to the faculty of secondary vocational education.
Graduates receive a diploma of secondary vocational education, the military rank of ensign. When appointed to a vacant officer position, graduates who graduate with honors can receive a military rank junior lieutenant and continue in the officer rank.
I. KOROTCHENKO: What is the difference between the training program for officers and ensigns?
A. END: The main difference is in the degree of preparation. If higher education - we train platoon commanders, officers, then on secondary vocational education - junior level commanders, deputy platoon commanders, deputy commanders of a reconnaissance group, heads of an apparatus, and so on. Federal state standard It provides for five years of higher education and two years and ten months of secondary education.
Having a narrower specialization on some issues, ensigns are more seriously trained than universal officers, which should affect the level vocational training divisions in the army. Program training higher education cover a wider range academic disciplines, we are preparing a commander with a broader outlook, well-versed in equipment, weapons, subordinates and able to navigate in any difficult situation.
I. KOROTCHENKO: What training methods, including innovative ones, are used in the training of paratroopers?
A. END: A system of studying, generalizing, implementing in educational process modern experience of conducting armed struggle, first of all, the experience of using the latest combat weapons. The knowledge and skills of the cadet are formed at the point of permanent deployment, practically the skills are fixed on the basis of the training center.
Innovative methods are used to form skills and abilities, primarily on a stationary training and material base, including appropriate computer programs, improvement and creation of new training software in relation to the tactics of airborne troops, special forces.
For example, programming training combat, defensive, offensive, raid actions and other tactical special tasks. This is a big job that needs to be done. So that the cadet does not start practical actions unprepared, it is necessary to practice the relevant skills on simulators that are equipped with a training program, and subsequently move on to practical actions.
On the one hand, this saves materiel and ammunition, on the other hand, it develops a conceptual apparatus that allows the trainee to quickly enter and grow into the situation, since in combat conditions and as close as possible to them, the commander has a very short period of time to assess the situation, make the only right decision and convey it concisely, clearly to your subordinates so that they understand it correctly. Of course, this requires detailed study and constant monitoring.
We have already taken a significant step in improving these methods, and this work is ongoing. At the moment, scientific companies have been created within the framework of the Ministry of Defense, which have become a help in this work. We, unfortunately, do not have such a company, but we give applications, and we are allocated such military personnel from other subdivisions of scientific companies in the interests of our school.
In the educational process, in addition to conducting various kinds of classes, it is used big number innovative approaches aimed at improving the efficiency of the educational process. In the classroom, methods such as problematic, based on the acquisition of new knowledge by solving problems, answering questions, when placing students in a problem situation are widely used.
The method of associative thinking is also used; multimedia accompaniment of classes, based on the presentation of class materials using slides, video fragments for a clearer visual and auditory connection with educational materials.
Modular rating system of education - when the presentation educational material occurs in the form of its presentation by dividing it into modules that have a certain rating in the course of study in the discipline and their systematization. The discussion method is also used - this is the method of brainstorming, round table, dialogue, press conference, business game method, role-playing games, which are used to obtain, by placing the student in a certain situation, a role, which contributes to his more active and constant participation.
If we proceed from the classroom system of education, then the training platoon, 20-25 people, has a low coefficient of assimilation of the material. The student must be in a constant tone of the educational material, which creates his growing into the environment, from which his correct thinking follows, and most importantly, the decision of the commander.
I. KOROTCHENKO: Let's talk about how you can become an applicant, and then a cadet of the school? I know the competition is crazy. How is the selection going, what does the process look like, what does a young man need to do to get into the school and become a paratrooper officer? What is the dropout rate in admission to training, who has it higher: boys or girls?
A. END: A large number of young guys and girls want to enter our school, the competition is big. Naturally, radio listeners perceive my speech and my information as a certain preparation for admission. Taking this opportunity, I would like to remind you that all the conditions for admission are posted on the school's website.
I emphasize that all citizens with a secondary education are considered as candidates for admission. complete education fit for health reasons to serve in the airborne troops, who have not passed military service up to 22 years old, who have completed military service and conscripted military personnel under the age of 24 years old, and military personnel who serve under a contract - up to 27 years old. Admission conditions for higher education programs include an assessment of the level of educational readiness based on the results of a unified state exam, determination of fitness for health reasons, an assessment of the level of physical fitness, as well as determining the category of professional suitability.
Of course, all admission conditions are displayed on the school website. I would like to emphasize that with all the exams and requirements, we have an additional requirement for physical training, where we raised the number of points for each individual type of test instead of 28 for all higher educational institutions to 50, in relation to our school. This is due to the fact that applicants must be prepared for further workloads, which will be subsequently implemented during the five-year study.
For athletes, these standards may not seem so significant, for example, pulling up at least 10 times, if nine pulled up, he will not be able to enter the school, running 100 meters - 13.9 seconds, 3 kilometers - 12 minutes 25 seconds swimming: 100 meters - 2 minutes 24 seconds.
It is worth considering that before admission, you must have a margin of safety, because the applicant, having arrived at the school, is faced with big serious physical activity, as we understand that we have no right to make a mistake, and in accordance with this, from the first day we put the incoming applicant in the most difficult conditions.
I. KOROTCHENKO: Is there a big competition?
A. END: This year the competition was 7 people per place, but this is not the main indicator. There are certain problems in the military registration and enlistment offices, since a very large number of people who want to enter the school do not always satisfy the wishes of our future cadets for admission and sending documents to the school.
But we are actively cooperating with the military registration and enlistment offices of all 86 regions of our country, and every year, taking into account the demographic surge and population growth, this figure will grow. And if at one time I entered in 1985, and the competition was about 35 personal files per place, then I think that in the near future we will also approach this standard. The girls who entered this year had a competition of 20 people per place.
Anyone who wants to enter and tie their lives, further fate with the airborne troops, special forces and enter our school, they will be able to do this, there is everything for this. It doesn’t work the first time, it will work the second, the main thing is not to lose confidence. We are strong because, starting from the first day, we strive to ensure that young people who come to the school subsequently become strong, strong, confident commanders who love and value their homeland without exaggeration and those borders of our country that our older generations passed on to us , grandfathers, great-grandfathers, fathers, we must not only preserve, but also, if possible, increase, as the last example with Crimea, when competent, well-coordinated actions at all levels made it possible to return to our homeland such a historical value as Crimea.
I. KOROTCHENKO: Does the competitive selection take into account the motivation of children for the profession of a paratrooper officer? Are there any advantages for those who have already served in the special forces or the Airborne Forces for enrollment, compared with the usual applicant from school?
A. END: I can't answer unequivocally. On the one hand, motivation is taken into account, it develops into a desire, a desire to show results. But as a statesman, I put everyone in the same conditions. It happens that someone tries to show that he wants more, and the second one is nearby and may not be able to openly show his emotions, but his core is not weaker than that of the one who openly declares. Therefore, our task is to understand the course of the professional psychological testing, which lasts for five hours, and after which we have an understanding of the integrity of the character of this applicant.
At the same time, such merits and consideration individual achievements, as the status of a champion, medalist of the Olympic Games, world championships, Europe, winners of championships, masters of sports, candidates for master of sports, first ranks in military applied sports, a certificate of secondary general education with honors, participation in Olympiads and high achievements in them give the right to the competition commission to charge no more than 10 points in total to the sum of the unified state exam.
This will be of great help, because sometimes one point is not enough for admission. Everything is transparent, everything is visible to everyone: all the numbers of the state exam are marked, posted, they receive a mark for physical training up to 100 points.
At the professional psychological selection, intellectual abilities are evaluated, personal qualities, the degree of military-professional motivation, a separately taken professional important quality is studied separately.
Completed forms are being processed electronically and are the source material for conducting an interview, identifying the motives for entering, what attracted him to the profession of an officer, how he prepared himself for it, what kind of idea he has. Based on the results of this testing, we determine what degree of readiness he has according to a four-point system: the first and second are the highest, the third is conditional, and the fourth is not suitable for entering the school. As the experience of the last three years shows, somewhere around 20-25% on average do not pass professional selection for one of the types of testing.
I. KOROTCHENKO: And what are the peculiarities regarding the admission of girls, in particular, according to the standards?
A. END: Now there is a surge of patriotism among our youth. We have wonderful young people who should be proud of, but at the same time they should be taught correctly, then they will be an invincible force. Female applicants differ from male students only in terms of physical fitness standards. They run 100 meters in 17.2 seconds, run 1 kilometer - 4 minutes 27 seconds, swim: 100 meters - 3 minutes 53 seconds, flexion-extension of the arms in the lying position at least 12 times.
This is only needed for admission and for the first course. The subsequent task and our requirements are such that from the second year the girls fulfill all the standards just like the guys, they are the same military personnel as young people, since when performing combat missions no one will separate by gender, and the girls have all the abilities for this there is. Everything must be done very carefully, consistently, without sudden changes, so as not to disturb the unformed bone skeleton or muscle masses.
I. KOROTCHENKO: How many jumps do cadets make during training, how is the process structured in terms of organizational and other factors?
A. END: Cadets of our school during the training period make parachute jumps from airplanes, helicopters of military transport aviation, such as An-2, Il-76, Mi-8 and others. According to curriculum, jumps are made both at night and in the daytime, in difficult weather conditions on limited landing sites with the implementation of tactical tasks immediately after landing.
For the entire period of study, cadets of higher professional education make at least 32 jumps, including female cadets, and cadets studying at the special purpose department - at least 41 jumps in five years. Cadets of secondary vocational education make at least 18 jumps in three years. Cadets landing faculty and the Faculty of Special Purposes, in addition to the D-6, D-10 parachute systems, master the Arbalet-2 parachute system, which allows landing from high altitudes and complex tactical tasks.
I. KOROTCHENKO: What type of weapons are taught to wield cadets of your school, what program do they follow?
A. END: For five years of study in the program, a large number of weapons and weapons. Based on today's realities, this is more than 28 species. I will not say that we study and make combat spiders, we have to deal separately and are subject to certain secrets, but with a certain degree of conventionality, the mastered crossbow, bow, reconnaissance knife, various devices for stabbing, cutting, axes, knives can be attributed to exotic types of weapons , blades that can be successfully used and used to perform: the greater the range of possibilities for performing a given task, the easier it is for the commander to make the only right decision for this.
Foreign weapons such as M-16, M-4 rifles, G-30 machine guns, Stein Mannlicher rifles. Cadets study everything without exception, but in the future, depending on the specialty and specialization, this range either increases or decreases, but requires a detailed approach in accordance with the fact that tasks will have to be performed, including on foreign territory.
I. KOROTCHENKO: Are electronic simulators used to train cadets and in the practice of everyday training, mastering a military specialty?
A. END: Yes, of course, I already said in the previous question that all innovations in training also imply simulation actions using simulators. They exist, are being actively developed, and are made with the possibility of as close as possible to combat conditions. At the moment, we have simulators for all subjects of training, which allow us to quickly approach the practical component of fulfilling the combat conditions of firing, tactically completing tasks.
For example, at the Department of Airborne Training, there are up to six types of such simulators of various kinds, such as parachute towers, various kinds of simulators for landing with military transport aviation in a sequential stream. There are about 20 such simulators in the Department of Armament and Shooting, in tactics - three simulators are already actively used, in driving combat vehicles - seven. They are integral part in the process of studying.
I. KOROTCHENKO: How many hours a week do cadets devote to physical training classes? And what percentage of graduates have sports categories?
A. END: A graduate of the school, a lieutenant must have the highest qualification level of physical fitness not lower than the first category in a military applied sport, or in other sports, perform such an exercise as a marathon run of 42 kilometers 195 meters in the fifth year, pass a daily orientation in consisting of two people for a set time and indicators for finding the necessary objects and points on a given route.
Of course, it is necessary to have special skills in mastering and techniques of special hand-to-hand and other types of combat, as well as shooting. This is achieved not in one day and not in one year, it is given five years and begins with morning physical exercises daily, at least four scheduled hours weekly for all students, sports activities that take place in the evening, sports activities and sports holidays on weekends . And the most important thing in all this is self-study and self-improvement, without personal understanding and fanaticism of one's physical improvement, there can be no talk of these results, which I have listed below.
In accordance with this, the future lieutenant must have iron muscles that must ring, must be elastic, strong. It is no secret that the moral and psychological state of a single warrior directly depends on his physical condition, its physiological and physical capabilities.
I. KOROTCHENKO: I spoke with one of the leaders airborne intelligence, and heard from him such words as healthy landing chauvinism. People who graduate from your university and join the troops are probably distinguished by love and special reverence for the fact that they serve in the Airborne Forces, have appropriate signs and uniforms that distinguish a paratrooper from the general mass of military personnel. An important criterion is love for the Airborne Forces?
A. END: The word chauvinism can be treated differently. Healthy airborne and spetsnaz chauvinism itself implies that this is not some kind of arrogance, exaltation. We are simple natives of our people, and it is precisely for this love of the people for the airborne troops that this healthy airborne chauvinism is born, because we understand what our homeland needs, we are its guarantor of security, therefore the people love us, and we are inherently obliged to love their homeland, to protect it from enemies.
No wonder we have a slogan hanging in the school: "Whoever offends Russia will deal with the airborne troops." We are proud of these words, because under it there is component the fact that we are Russian warriors, we must feed on history. If we forget history and our ancestors, we can immediately put an end to ourselves.
I. KOROTCHENKO: How does the career of a paratrooper officer develop after graduation from the school, if possible, using your personal example?
A. END: In order for it to develop confidently, you need to study well at the school. To reach healthy airborne chauvinism, you need to become a professional, you won’t throw hats on anyone, and you won’t convince anyone with words and threats - there must be clear correct deeds, actions and the result of your preparation.
A young kid came to us, 20% of the troops, they are already feeling better, and 80% are yesterday's schoolchildren who immediately get into the army, who need to quickly and steadily convey everything. Starting with the course of combined arms training, the course of a young soldier, where, making the first jump, he already receives a vest, he earns it himself.
When he makes a big jump from an Il-76 military transport aircraft, he is solemnly presented with a blue beret. This suggests that he is already in the unit, is able to land and carry out the task. At the end of combined arms training, he makes a two-day 100-kilometer march a month after he joined the army, in conditions close to combat, with the performance of tactical tasks, he goes 100 kilometers to the school, where I personally meet the cadets on the parade ground, and we solemnly presentation of well-deserved cadet shoulder straps. It is during this month that the ability to be an officer in the future is already being determined.
Further, the main milestone of the profession chosen in life is a military oath, where he swears allegiance to his homeland, after these words he studies for four years, consistently mastering and undergoing military training in the troops, understands with whom and how he should work, serve and how carry out assigned tasks.
Because the soldiers who will be imputed to him, the future platoon commander, also have parents, and parents, giving their children to serve in the army, understand that their sons are destined, having been born soldiers, to learn how to defend their homeland, while, most importantly, minimizing combat losses.
Subsequently, before graduating from the school, we conduct a good test for our graduates - a mountain-field exit, which begins in Ryazan with take-off from our airfield, landing on the territory of the Krasnodar Territory, and continues with a three-day 150-kilometer transition to the location of the field camp , the performance of combat training tasks, in relation to the mountainous wooded area. Upon completion - landing back between Ryazan and Tula regions, performing a three-day transition with combat training tasks.
I. KOROTCHENKO: How do you see the future of the school?
A. END: The future of the school is multifaceted. As we said at the 95th anniversary of the school, a good and promising future awaits us, taking into account everything done for the school, we have this backlog for at least the next 10-15 years. But the forms and methods of conducting armed struggle are changing, and we must always be ready, be on our guard, and immediately introduce everything that entails changes into training and educational activities in order to be ready for various changes, and most importantly, to fulfill the set combat task.
I. KOROTCHENKO: Thank you! We meet, as always, in the program "General Staff" in exactly one week.
A. END: Thank you.
For almost three years, Anatoly Kontsevoi has commanded the Ryazan Higher Airborne School. Ryazan is rightfully considered the capital of the Airborne Forces - after all, with rare exceptions, the entire officer corps of this type of troops at one time tasted what it is like here, cadet porridge. Since September 1998, the Ryazan Higher Airborne Twice Red Banner, Order of Suvorov Command School named after General of the Army V.F. Margelov has been called the State Military Institute. It sounds a little civil, but it continues to be the standard of military spirit and the recognized forge of blue beret cadres. Once upon a time, cadet Anatoly Kontsevoi also passed it - now the guards major general and blacksmith of Ryazan ...
To get to Ryazan, the future cadet Kontsevoy had to graduate in 1985 high school with a gold medal - even then the competition for paratroopers was huge. And he was not born in the capital - in the village of Dmitrievka, Gomel region, in the southeast of Belarus. Of course, the flying club worked in the half-million regional center even before the barracks of the 103rd Vitebsk division it was not so far away, but in order to fulfill a youthful dream, it was necessary to get to Ryazan by any means and stand in the cadet formation.
Then the school was commanded by a truly legendary person - General Albert Slyusar, Hero Soviet Union and twice holder of the Order of Lenin, who had just returned from the "river", where under his command the 103rd fought on the Panjshir airborne division. Could the freshman Kontseva think that after a quarter of a century, future landing officers would look at him, three times an order bearer, in almost the same way as he once looked at Albert Evdokimovich?
What is war, Lieutenant Anatoly Kontsevoi realized very quickly. Just graduated from the school and it began - Azerbaijan, the Baltic states, Fergana Osh, South Ossetia. So, from one hot spot to another, he became deputy battalion commander in the 104th regiment of the Pskov division.
When the second Chechnya began, he served in the 45th Separate Guards Reconnaissance Regiment. But in fact - in the special forces of the Airborne Forces. This is a combat unit unique for Russia, where each fighter is worth five. To solve problems increased complexity, the 45th Airborne Regiment is equipped with all the necessary weapons and equipment, and military personnel receive enhanced training even according to strict landing standards. Of the recruits, only a third survive such tests. Rumor has it that when there was no replacement in 1999, North Caucasus a detachment of veterans from among those who had previously served in the regiment set off. While those who unexpectedly returned to duty “from civilian life” were fighting in the mountains, additional training of the special forces of the Airborne Forces at the base in Kubinka was carried out on an emergency basis. Perhaps this is just a beautiful story. But it most accurately reflects the principles of military partnership, which are accepted in the elite winged infantry unit.
In 2008, the 45th regiment went to oust Georgian troops from Tskhinvali, but without its commander, who had previously been appointed to the post of deputy division commander in the 76th Pskov division, and by the beginning of the peace enforcement operation had become deputy chief of the Ryazan Higher Air Force. landing school. Anatoly Kontsevoi headed the State Military Institute in September 2012, in February last year, another young general appeared in the Airborne Forces.
Airborne troops and special forces are the first to go on combat missions. Therefore, high demands are made on our graduates, - Anatoly Kontsevoy explains. - Everyone who wants to enter the school must, in addition to high physical performance and sports achievements, have certain intellectual and communication skills, knowledge of a foreign language. And most importantly, every future paratrooper officer must be a true patriot, confident that he is able and willing to defend the borders of our great and vast motherland ...
For almost a hundred years - long before the birth of the Airborne Forces - highly professional military specialists have been graduating from the walls of the school. The higher military educational institution traces its history back to 1918, when the first Ryazan infantry courses for red commanders were formed. In 1941, within its walls, they began, without too much publicity, to train military personnel for the Airborne Forces. But only twenty-three years later, at the suggestion of Vasily Filippovich Margelov, the school became completely landing. Today, a military institute is not only a base for theoretical classes, but also a fire and technical complexes, a stadium, Training Center near Ryazan, an aviation military transport squadron and the Central Parachute Club of the Airborne Forces. And the museum of the history of the airborne troops, quite reasonably, is located in this forge of blue berets.
According to Major General Kontsevoi, on average, each cadet makes forty-five parachute jumps from all types of military transport aviation during training, most of them are awarded the special title of “parachutist instructor”. Twenty percent of those entering the school are already combat veterans.
Forced marches of fifty kilometers or more, naval landing training and hand-to-hand combat techniques in any conditions - everyday life Ryazan cadets. The training ends with a mountain-field exit at the base of the 7th Airborne Division in Novorossiysk with the development of a potential clash and an indispensable landing from the Il-76. According to the firm conviction of the head of the Ryazan Higher Airborne School, local wars and armed conflicts recent years, as a rule, took place and continue to take place in the mountains, and unit commanders in combat conditions do not always have the necessary skills to manage subordinates. But every cadet of Anatoly Kontsevoy knows how to survive in such an area, knows how to interact with aviation and artillery.
Therefore, by the way, cavalry training has recently been introduced in the landing school. After all, not every technique will pass in a mountainous and wooded area, and mobility is one of the elements of victory. Naturally, no one is going to drop horses from the air. But paratroopers are taught seriously to learn how to handle these animals.
The Ryazan Higher Airborne School never ceases to amaze with its initiatives. Since December 2009 in military educational institution for the first time in Russia, they began to train specialists of secondary vocational education - in three years highly qualified sergeants and foremen for parts of the Airborne Forces, Ground Forces, Special Forces Brigades and Marine Corps. In 2013, the graduation of the first set of female military personnel took place here, who became commanders of platoons of parachute stackers and ensure the landing of personnel and the release of military equipment.
The military history of the school is fifty-three Heroes of the Soviet Union and seventy-four Heroes of Russia, thousands of holders of military orders, numerous national and world record holders in parachuting. A whole galaxy of top military leaders and the entire top command composition of the Airborne Forces. Today in Ryazan, Anatoly Kontsevoi continues to forge officer cadres for the airborne troops, and with him twenty-one doctors of science and one hundred and seventy candidates, a highly qualified teaching staff, where almost everyone has a war left behind.
Kirill Metelev, magazine "Commander" No. 1, 2015 (founder - NEVA "Afghanvet")
A criminal scandal erupts in the famous Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School (RVVDKU). The deputy head of the educational institution, Anatoly Kontsevoy, and two of his subordinates are on trial in Novorossiysk for abuse of office. The investigation believes that they severely beat one of the fifth-year students of the school because he went to the field formation without a gas mask. Now they face up to 10 years in prison.
As Izvestia found out, the incident occurred in early October 2010 during the exercises of cadets of the RVVDKU at a military training ground near Novorossiysk. That morning, the paratroopers were supposed to be lifted into the air and dropped by parachute in the Tula region. From there, they planned to make a march on foot to Ryazan. Among the cadets was a fifth-year student Dmitry Shmelev.
Before leaving for the airfield, a formation was announced, during which it turned out that Dima had forgotten his gas mask, ”Sergei Kulikov, a former classmate of Shmelev, tells Izvestia. He ran after him into the tent. Colonel Kontsevoi, our battalion commander Alexander Bezrukov and company commander Ramil Gainulov ran after him. For some reason they were infuriated that Dima made such a mistake.
According to investigators, in the tent, the officers threw Shmelev to the ground and began to kick him severely.
When Dima was taken out of the tent, I barely recognized him - his whole face turned into a continuous bloody mess, ”Kulikov recalls. - After that, we were taken to the airfield, and Dima was sent to Ryazan in a KamAZ.
The officers hoped that the cadet's bruises would pass and he would not complain about them. However, Shmelev in Ryazan recorded beatings from doctors and filed a complaint with the local military prosecutor's office. Based on the results of the check, a criminal case was initiated under the article “Exceeding official powers”.
Shmelev, as well as his colleagues Sergei Kulikov and Roman Osokin, testified against the officers. After that, Kontsevoi, Bezrukov and Gainulov went to the dock of a military court, and the truth-telling cadets were expelled from the school.
We were simply not allowed to answer at the December session, they interrupted us and said “incorrectly,” Kulikov explains. - It's a pity for Shmelev, because he was almost an excellent student.
22-year-old Dmitry Shmelev grew up in a small village near the town of Inza, Ulyanovsk region.
Since childhood, she and her older brother wanted to become officers, - says Dmitry's mother Svetlana Shmeleva. - They went in for sports and entered the landing school on their own, without bribes and family ties. The elder managed to finish his studies, but Dima was not lucky.
According to his mother, even after Dmitry was expelled from the RVVDKU, they tried to put pressure on the family.
After being expelled, Dmitry went to serve under a contract in the Sofrino division, but two months later, the command, having learned that a criminal case had been opened against the deputy commander of the airborne school at his request, terminated the contract with him, - Svetlana Shmeleva tells Izvestia. - The officers also threatened to fire my elder brother from the troops.
In the airborne school itself, they do not comment on the situation.
We have not heard of any criminal cases, - the officer on duty told Izvestia. - Anatoly Kontsevoi and a number of officers are on a business trip.
The press service of the Airborne Forces also declined to comment. However, Izvestia still managed to contact the colonel. He claims that he was slandered by cadets-losers.
I didn’t beat anyone,” Kontsevoi told Izvestia. - Shmelev was drunk, so he was not allowed to jump and sent by car to Ryazan. When the question arose of his expulsion along with two other cadets, he slandered me. But I think the court will sort it out.
The Committee of Soldiers' Mothers is surprised how such a case even came to court.
In fact, there is more lawlessness in all military schools than in military units, - says the chairman of the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers Valentina Melnikova. - This is how the officers appear, who then beat their soldiers.
Guard Colonel Anatoly Kontsevoi - a famous person in a military environment.
From 2003 to 2006, he commanded the 45th Separate Special Purpose Guards Regiment, which took part in the counterterrorist operation in Chechnya. It has military awards. Since 2009, he has been the Deputy Head of the School.
When he was a regimental commander, Kontsevoi was already a defendant in a high-profile lawsuit. In 2003, Novaya Gazeta columnist Anna Politkovskaya accused the commanders of the military unit he led of using the regiment's shooting range to train members of the Podolsk organized criminal group. The command considered these statements discrediting the "business reputation of the regiment." The consideration of the claim in the Basmanny Court lasted ten months, after which the judge decided to satisfy the claim, recovering 15 thousand rubles from the journalist and 25 thousand rubles from the editorial office of Novaya Gazeta.
The Ryazan military school was founded on November 13, 1918 on the basis of the first Soviet Ryazan infantry courses.
- November 1921 Ryazan Infantry School for the courage and courage of the personnel is awarded the Revolutionary Red Banner of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.
- 1941 (August 2) - in Kuibyshev (now Samara), on the basis of an infantry school, a military parachute school was secretly created to train military personnel of the Airborne Forces, which was hidden behind the number of military unit No. 75021.
- By the beginning of the war, the school had two battalions of cadets. They were commanded by Colonel P. D. Golovlev and Major L. I. Yagudin. The staff of the school learned about the beginning of the war in the Selets camp during the next opening of this camp. Company demonstrations and sporting events were cancelled. A rally was held at which many cadets, Red Army soldiers and commanders spoke. They vowed to give all their strength and knowledge to defeat the enemy, to defend the Motherland and asked to send them to the active Army. Approximately half a month later, the school switched to a reduced training period. Scheduled classes were held not for 8 hours a day, but for 10-12 hours, not counting self-preparation and maintenance of equipment. The number of night classes has increased. New cadets arrived at the school, selected by the military registration and enlistment offices, most of those who had previously military service in the Red Army. There were three battalions of cadets and several divisions of political fighters. The battalions were commanded by Lieutenant Colonel P. D. Golovlev, Major L. I. Yagudin, Major N. N. Bogdanov. On July 20, 1941, senior cadets graduated from the school ahead of schedule. The release was made without exams for the average annual assessment and all issued orders of the military council of the district were awarded the military rank of "lieutenant". Graduates were primarily sent to staff the first-priority rifle units being formed, to subsequent formations and to spare parts for training Red Army soldiers and gaining practical skills. Instead of graduates, the school was quickly staffed with cadets up to full staff for the upcoming expansion. The quality of recruitment can be partially assessed from the book by Viktor Aleksandrovich Titov, a cadet of the March 1942 graduation school, “1000 days and nights at gunpoint”:
On October 25, 1941, the school was relocated from Ryazan to the city of Ivanovo, and on February 15, 1942, it returned from Ivanovo to Ryazan. Carrying out the operational task on the basis of the order of the NPO No. 02011 dated 10.20.41 to relocate the school to the city of Ivanovo, the personnel successfully completed a 470 km transition on foot - a transition at a high disciplinary level within the specified period. Heavy property was transported on board along the Oka to the city of Gorky... In 1941, from Belev, I ended up on my own in Ryazan, in infantry school. Voroshilov. The selection was motley, mainly from higher educational institutions in Moscow. Nobody wanted to be in the military, they thought that the war would not delay them for long. For enrollment as a cadet of the school, personal consent was required, but no one wanted to give consent to become a cadet. When at a reception at the head of the school, Colonel Garussky, they asked my consent, I replied that I wanted to be an artist, and I was ready to fulfill my duty to the Motherland as a private. The head of the school replied that the Motherland demands, and I have already been enrolled as a cadet of the school ...
- November 12, 1943 Ryazan Infantry School named after Voroshilov in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of its formation, for military services to the Motherland and outstanding successes in the training of officers, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. The head of the school, Major General M.P. Garussky, was awarded the Order of Lenin, the commander of the cadet battalion, Captain F.A. Aleksandrov, was awarded the Order of the Red Star.
- From 1946 to September 1947, the parachute school was located in the city of Frunze, the capital of the Kirghiz SSR.
- 1958 (June) - Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Ryazan Red Banner Infantry School (secondary) was converted to Higher Combined Arms Command School with four years of study. Graduates called it RKPU and received diplomas of higher civic education, and military training remained at the same level. These transformations did not affect the Alma-Ata Airborne School in any way, and the Commander of the Airborne Forces V.F. Margelov proposed the merger of the two schools to the country's leadership.
- 1959 (May 1) - the first echelon of paratrooper cadets went from Kazakhstan to Ryazan, headed by Colonel A. S. Leontiev, appointed commander Ryazan Higher All-Arms Command Red Banner School. Only by the end of all graduations of infantry cadets on April 4, 1964, the school replaced its sign with Ryazan Higher Airborne Command Red Banner School . Since 1959, when the Alma-Ata Military Parachute School became part of the "RKPU", the school began to "forge" officer cadres for the Airborne Forces. V. F. Margelov constantly kept the school in sight and patronized in a paternal way. The school has grown, acquired an excellent educational base both in Ryazan and in the Seletsky camps, which have been unrecognizably transformed since the war.
- 1962 - the school switched to a new profile of education, and knowledge in one of the foreign languages. The admission and training of foreigners at the school began (the fourth platoon, consisting of Vietnamese, joined the 4th cadet company, and in subsequent years the company was replenished with Indonesians, cadets from 32 countries are currently studying).
- 1964 (April 4) - by the end of all graduations of infantry cadets, the school was renamed the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command Red Banner School and was unrecognizably transformed.
- On February 22, 1968, in connection with the 50th anniversary of the Armed Forces of the USSR, the school was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the second time for great merits in the training of officers. He is given the honorary title "the name of the Lenin Komsomol".
- In 1989, for a great contribution to the training of Polish military personnel, the school was awarded the "Commander's Cross" of the Order of Merit of the Polish People's Republic.
- November 13, 1995 in the territory Institute a monument was opened to the former commander of the airborne troops, General of the Army V.F. Margelov, who made a great contribution to the development of the Airborne Forces.
- November 12, 1996, in response to numerous requests from personnel and veterans landing service, The President of the Russian Federation assigned the school a new honorary name, as a result of which the school became known as the "Ryazan Higher Airborne Command Double Red Banner School named after General of the Army V. F. Margelov."
- On August 29, 1998, in connection with the reorganization of military educational institutions and in accordance with the order of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation No. 417 of September 16, 1998, the Ryazan Higher Airborne School named after General of the Army Margelov V.F. was renamed the Ryazan Institute of Airborne Forces ".
- November 11, 2002 by Government Decree Russian Federation No. 807, the name “named after the General of the Army V. F. Margelov” was returned to the institute.
- 2004 (July 9) - taking into account the numerous requests of the personnel and veterans of the school, it was again renamed the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School (Military Institute) named after General of the Army V.F. Margelov (Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 09.07.2004 No. R).
- 2006 - By order of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, the school was awarded the Pennant of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation