Ryazan military academy Ryazan Higher Airborne Command Double Red Banner School named after General of the Army Margelov V.F.

RECEPTION RULES

to the Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command Order of Suvorov twice Red Banner School

named after Army General V.F. Margelov in 2019

1. These Rules regulate the admission of citizens of the Russian Federation to the Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School named after General of the Army V.F. Margelov for training in basic educational programs of higher and secondary vocational education in accordance with the order of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation No. of the year "On approval of the Procedure and conditions for admission to educational organizations of higher education under the jurisdiction of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation."

The number of candidates to be enrolled as cadets for the first courses in each military specialty (specialization) is determined by the annual calculations for the recruitment of the first courses of universities with a variable composition, developed by the Main Directorate of Personnel of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Full information on admission is available on the school website: rvvdku.mil.ru, email address: [email protected].

2. Admission to the RVVDKU for the first year is carried out on a competitive basis with July 1. Citizens are admitted to study at the school, fit for health reasons to serve in the Airborne Forces:

those who have not completed military service - up to 22 years;

completed military service, military conscripts - under the age of 24;

military personnel under the contract - up to 27 years (age is determined on August 1 of the year of admission).

Citizens are considered as candidates for admission to higher military educational institutions for training by cadets under programs with secondary military special training, until they reach the age of 30 years.

Admission conditions for studies in higher education programs

3. For citizens with secondary (complete) general or secondary vocational education, the conditions for admission to study in higher education programs include:

1) assessment of the level of general education (according to the results of the USE):

"Personnel management", USE: mathematics, Russian language, social studies. ( YOUTH );

"Translation and translation studies", USE: foreign language (English, German), Russian language, history. ( YOUTH );

"Infocommunication technologies and special communication systems", Unified State Examination: physics, mathematics, Russian language. ( YOUTH , GIRLS ).

2) determination of fitness for health reasons;

3) assessment of the level of physical fitness;

In accordance with the instructions of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, admission to 2019 year is allowed according to the results of the Unified State Examination, confirmed by certificates of the Unified State Examination issued in 2015 , 2016 , 2017 And 2018 years and valid for 4 years.

Admission conditions for studies in secondary education programs

4. For citizens with secondary (complete) general or primary vocational education, the conditions for admission to study in secondary education programs include:

1) determination of fitness for health reasons;

2) assessment of the level of physical fitness;

4) without assessing the level of general education.

The procedure for submitting documents

5. For admission to the school, candidates submit an application to the military commissariat at the place of residence before April 1 (servicemen - a report on command) and draw up documents. Documents are accepted at the school until May 20 (and for candidates from among the military - until May 15). After the selection committee considers the candidates' documents, calls are sent through the regional military commissariats.

6. Candidates with secondary vocational education, as well as certain categories of candidates, can enroll for training based on the results of general education entrance examinations conducted by the university independently:

on the basis of secondary vocational or higher education;

on the basis of the Federal Law of October 27, 2015 NR 293-FZ, the assessment of the level of general education of candidates from among the Crimeans entering higher education programs should be carried out at the choice of candidates based on the results of the unified state exam and (or) on the results of entrance examinations, conducted by the military educational organization of higher education of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation independently.

7. Candidates specified in paragraph 6 of these Guidelines, at their discretion, pass all general education entrance examinations conducted by the university independently, or pass one or more of these entrance examinations along with the presentation of the results of the Unified State Examination as the results of other general education entrance examinations.

8. The Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science has made changes to the procedure for conducting the USE in 2019 (instructions dated September 16, 2014 No. 02-624). It is not planned to conduct the Unified State Examination during the period of entrance examinations to universities in July 2019.

In 2019, the results of the USE 2015-2018 are valid. Graduates of previous years who do not have valid USE results apply to the regional departments of education before February 1, 2019 and take the USE in April or May-June 2019 at the place of residence.

Military personnel, graduates of previous years, apply for the USE at the RVVDKU by e-mail: [email protected]

The following documents are required to apply for the exam:

application for the chairman of the SEC of the Ryazan region;

consent to the processing of personal data (to the Department of Education and Youth Policy of the Administration of Ryazan);

a copy of the certificate (11 classes) or a diploma of secondary vocational (higher) education;

copy of the passport;

certificate from the military unit on the service on conscription (under contract);

a copy of the report with the permission visa of the commander of the military unit;

a copy of the military ID;

power of attorney.

In Ryazan, documents are submitted to the address: Ryazan, st. Lenina 45a, room. 307. (work schedule from Monday to Friday from 9.00 to 18.00).

Without the results of the Unified State Examination, candidates who need to enter the Unified State Examination will not be considered for participation in the professional selection!

9. Applicant to the first year for training in specialist training programs has the right to submit an application for participation in the competition at the same time in three areas of training.

When applying for admission to a higher educational institution, the applicant submits:

original or photocopy of documents proving his identity, citizenship;

original or photocopy of a state document on education;

information about passing the exam.

The original documents are submitted before the beginning of the credentials committee. Candidates who have not submitted original documents are not allowed to the credentials committee.

Determination of fitness for health reasons

10. The determination of the suitability of candidates for admission for health reasons is carried out in accordance with the Regulations on the military medical examination, approved by Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of 2013 No. 565, Instructions on the procedure for conducting a military medical examination and medical examination in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, approved by order Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation dated August 20, 2003 No. 200.

To successfully pass the medical commission at the school, you must have a citizen's medical examination card. The card must have the conclusion of the military medical commission, certified by a seal, and all the necessary test results.

Military personnel must additionally submit a medical book, which reflects the results of annual in-depth and control examinations, requests for medical help.

Military personnel and citizens who are in the reserve, having tattoos of a criminal, nationalist or anti-Russian orientation, as well as with profanity, are not allowed to enroll in the school.

Assessment of the level of physical fitness

11. Checking the level of physical fitness is carried out in accordance with the Manual on the physical training of military personnel of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the Methodological recommendations of the Department of Physical Training of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation for three exercises (minimum threshold):

on HPE:

exercise number 4 - pull-ups on the crossbar (10 times);
exercise No. 41 - 100 m run (13.9 s);
exercise No. 46 - 3 km run (12.25 minutes);

Girls at HPE:

exercise number 1 - flexion and extension of the arms in the lying position (12 times);
exercise No. 41 - 100 m run (17.2 s);
exercise No. 45 - 1 km run (4.27 min.);
exercise No. 57 - swimming 100 m (3.53 min) (Subject to conditions).

on free software:

exercise number 4 - pull-ups on the crossbar (8 times);
exercise No. 41 - 100 m run (14.4 s);
exercise No. 46 - 3 km run (14.00 min);
exercise number 57 - swimming 100 m (2.24 min).

One attempt is given to perform the physical exercise. Testing the physical fitness of candidates is carried out in sportswear.

The results of the physical fitness of candidates are entered in the competitive lists along with the results of passing the exam. For enrollment, a table is used to transfer the amount of points scored in physical training to a 100-point scale.

12. Determining the category of professional suitability in the Armed Forces is one of the main types of professional selection and is a set of measures aimed at achieving high-quality recruitment of military posts.

13. The main stage of work on professional psychological selection is carried out after the arrival of candidates at the school.

When testing, the main components are examined:

Intelligent Features

Personal qualities

Degree of military-professional motivation

The study of individual professionally important qualities

Checking the level of knowledge in general subjects

The completed forms are processed electronically and are the source material for interviews and identifying motives for admission. During a conversation with a candidate, it is established:

what attracted him to the profession of an officer;

how he prepared himself for it;

what idea does he have about the conditions and procedure for studying at the school, what does he know about the service and activities of the graduates of the school.

Supervision by commanders is carried out during the entire time the candidates stay in the unit. Observation is a purposeful fixation of the studied qualities of the candidate's personality and analysis of their manifestation. The results of the observation are summarized by the commanders and the subcommittee on professional selection are taken into account when making the final conclusion.

14. Individual achievements of candidates are taken into account when making a conclusion about the category of professional suitability of candidates as part of their socio-psychological study.

15. At the final stage of the work, final recommendations are made for each candidate, and the group of professional psychological selection formulates final conclusions.

Based on the results of professional psychological selection, one of the following conclusions is made on the professional suitability of the candidate for studying at the school:

Professional psychological selection is one of the main exams for which you need to seriously prepare!

The procedure for enrolling candidates

16. Candidates who did not pass the professional selection, who did not appear for the professional selection without a good reason, who refused to enter the school after the start of the professional selection, as well as candidates who were denied further professional selection due to indiscipline, drop out of the competition and do not enter the school are credited.

If there are vacant training places in the 2nd year of the school, citizens who have completed the first courses of educational institutions of higher professional education and enrolled as cadets for training in the direction of training (specialty) in which they studied, have the right to be transferred to the 2nd year, after passing the combined arms training and acceptance by them of the Military oath, taking into account the transfer of academic disciplines.

Candidates who do not arrive at the place of the professional selection at the school at the scheduled time for a good reason are allowed to participate in the professional selection only if they can pass the professional selection in accordance with its schedule.

Repeated professional selection events with the candidate are not allowed.

Accommodation conditions, working time regulations

17. Cadets who have not completed military service enter into a contract from the second year. Cadets who are passing and have completed military service conclude a contract from the moment of admission. In case of expulsion due to unwillingness to study, indiscipline or poor progress, the payment for the military component of training is reimbursed.

Working time regulations - in accordance with the Charter of the internal service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The accommodation of military personnel is in barracks and kubrick-type dormitories, depending on the course of study.

Meals for personnel - three times a day, in one shift, in the cadet canteen by the in-line method, according to the standards of the Airborne Forces.

Personnel are provided with clothing in accordance with the standards for the supply of the Airborne Forces.

Who are the current sergeants? What does their training look like? Having visited the RVVDKU, I received an answer to these questions, communicating with teachers and cadets for two days, observing their life and studies. In this part, we will talk about contract cadets studying sergeant business for 2 years and 10 months, the so-called. professional sergeants.

Faculty of Secondary Vocational Education of the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School (Military Institute) named after General of the Army V.F. Margelov (branch) of the Federal State Military Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education "Military Educational and Scientific Center of the Ground Forces" Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation "in Ryazan was established in accordance with the directive of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation dated December 31, 2008 No. D-112 and on the basis of the staff approved by the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation dated September 25, 2009 No. 17\269.

At the faculty, cadets are trained in the following specialties:
Specialty "Maintenance and repair of motor vehicles" qualification "technician", in nine military specialties:
- combined-arms specialists intended to fill military positions, deputy commander of a motorized rifle platoon (rifle platoon, security platoon).
- specialists of paratrooper units intended to fill military positions - deputy commander of a paratrooper platoon;
- specialists of the airborne service, intended to fill the vacant position of deputy commander (squad leader) of an airborne support platoon.
- military intelligence specialists intended to fill the vacant position of deputy commander of a reconnaissance platoon.
- intelligence specialists (special-purpose military units) intended to fill the vacant post of group commander.
- combined-arms specialists intended to fill military positions repair platoon commander deputy repair platoon commander commander of an automobile platoon, support platoon.

Specialty "Communication networks and switching systems" qualification "technician"
- communications specialists intended to fill the vacant position of a senior technician.
The term of study is 2 years and 10 months.
Specialty "Multichannel telecommunication systems" qualification "technician"
- communication specialists intended to fill the vacant position of the head of the station, head of the department, senior technician.
The term of study is 2 years and 10 months.
Specialty "Radio communication, radio broadcasting and television" qualification "technician"
- communication specialists intended to fill the vacant position of deputy platoon commander.
The term of study is 2 years and 10 months.

Total for studying at the faculty of secondary vocational education in 2009-2010. 448 people have been enrolled, 343 people are left to serve at the moment.
Several hundred people were weeded out before admission, because. did not show a desire to study, but simply hoped to receive 10-20 thousand scholarships, eat for free and have a roof over their heads. There is a poor work of the military registration and enlistment offices and the command of the units in the selection of candidates.
During the training, another 105 people dropped out for the following reasons:
Cadets who passed the entrance examinations with a "satisfactory" grade receive a salary of 7,000 rubles, this amount does not satisfy them;
While serving (by conscription or under contract) in other troops, there were no strict requirements for service, and upon admission for training, they faced exactingness, the need to comply with the established rules of conduct, and fulfill the prescribed norms of military service;
They made a mistake in choosing a future profession, they realized that military service was not their vocation;
Close relatives and family members are not satisfied with the choice made, they do not agree that the training takes place in isolation from families.
Initially, three students received 7,000 rubles each, but at the moment the situation with payments with all the allowances looks like this:
if there is at least one triple in any of the subjects - 10 thousand;
if there is at least one four in any of the subjects - 15 thousand;
if all the scores of the five are 20 thousand.
Doubles are simply deducted. The teachers are very supportive of this decision, because no need to pull out frank clumsiness and loafers.

The training program is as follows:

At the end of the training, the final state certification of graduates is carried out:
1. Final interdisciplinary exam in the specialty
- General tactics
- Species tactics
- Management and communications
- Engineering support
- RHB protection
- Military topography
2. State exam in the discipline "Physical culture (training)"

The time schedule looks like this:
... after the morning activities (getting up, exercising, washing, examining, breakfast, exercise) the l / s of the FSF cadets departs for scheduled classes. From 9.00 to 14.00, in accordance with the schedule of classes, the cadets are in the classroom. After scheduled classes and lunch, they are given time to independently prepare for classes the next day. After the completion of self-training from 18.40 to 19.20, planned activities are carried out with the cadets: sports work and educational work.
After completing self-training and conducting compulsory events from 19.30, cadets are given personal time with the right to leave the territory of the faculty (departure to the city).
Since all cadets of the faculty of secondary vocational education are military personnel undergoing military service under a contract, they, in accordance with Art. 244 of the Charter of the internal service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, it is allowed to stay outside the school until 24:00, and family cadets (whose families live with them) until 7:30 the next day.
The control of the l / s of the faculty departing outside the territory is carried out by the unit commander, the officer who controls the daily routine and the company on duty.

At the moment, first-year cadets (193 people) and second-year cadets (150 people) are studying. We can confidently say that only those who really want to study and serve as a sergeant remained, the rest were eliminated, for example, now 43 cadets are excellent students, 128 are studying for four and five, the rest have a range of grades from "3" to "5". I talked to the guys why they decided to become sergeants. Many are motivated by a good salary and a social package promised upon admission, which is added to the desire to be a military man. There is a part of the cadets who were unsure that they would be able to study under the higher education program for an officer, so they chose something simpler - an average professional sergeant. The contract is signed immediately for 8 years - 2 years and 10 months of training, then 5 years in the army. Recently, an order was issued according to which a cadet who refused further studies of his own free will must return to the state the money spent on his education, until that moment it was possible to quit without any consequences.
Cadets-sergeants and cadets-officers undergo training in the troops directly at the school, commanding platoons of cadets-three-month military service.
The guys' vision of their future is very interesting: "We are the sergeants of the new army! We are the best! We will change the armed forces! We will train soldiers in a new way!" Moreover, they say this without any bragging, but as a matter of course.

Let's move on to photos and videos. On the day of my arrival, there were supposed to be parachute jumps near the SPO faculty. During the year of training, future sergeants make four jumps, and the fourth one is mandatory from the IL-76.

Every now and then the snow fell off, so the flight was postponed and postponed. In order not to stand on their feet, the cadets gave rest to their feet.

I photographed one of the paratroopers in a circle

Sling cutter

This is a mechanical safety device designed to open the parachute after a predetermined time interval (using a clock mechanism) if the parachutist for some reason did not do this on his own.

Shoes for jumping were chosen in a clearly democratic way - some in felt boots, some in high fur boots, some in sneakers

When the sky cleared a little and the snow stopped, several people got into the An-2 for a test jump

First - go!

The next group is getting ready.

Instructor

Equipment inspection

As you can see, the gloves are quite a free sample

School emblem

Unfortunately, as soon as the An-2 landed behind the second set, it began to snow again and the jumps were finally canceled that day.

These photos and videos were taken during class.

One of the teachers. At the moment, 60% of the teaching staff of the school is out of state, awaiting either appointment or dismissal, while the prospects are not very clear. The school needs to reach the full set of three-year sergeants (according to the plan 1615 people) in order to retain all the teachers, but so far there are not so many candidates. A real solution to the problem can be achieved only next year, when the salaries of servicemen will be increased, and service in the army will regain its former prestige.

Parachute packing

“In the event of a military conflict, men in blue berets will go into the mouth of the enemy with one goal - to tear this mouth apart.”
V.F. Margelov

94 years ago, on November 13, a glorious military institute of the armed forces of our Motherland was organized - the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School (RVVDKU) named after General of the Army Vasily Filippovich Margelov.

This institution began in August 1918, when it was decided to form the first infantry courses in Ryazan to replenish the command staff of the young worker-peasant Red Army. On their basis, in the future, they first organized an infantry, and later an airborne school. The birthday of the RVVDKU was November 13, 1918 - the first day when the courses began. Colonel Ivan Alexandrovich Troitsky was appointed head of the school. It was military time, hectic, classes were held at an accelerated pace. The students were given only the very “basics” of military wisdom, they were taught to work with subordinates, to handle. The first red commanders were issued on March 15 of the following year. Every last person they were immediately sent to various fronts of the civil war. In total, during the time the civil war lasted, seven graduations or 499 people passed through the school.

In 1920, these infantry courses were renamed the fifteenth Ryazan Infantry School. The term of study immediately increased to three years. And in the late autumn of 1921, the infantry school was awarded the Revolutionary Red Banner of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the USSR for the courage and courage shown by the personnel. In 1937 the school was transformed into the infantry school of Kliment Voroshilov, one of the first Marshals of the Soviet Union. And on August 2, 1941, on the basis of this school in Samara, a military parachute school was secretly created for the education and training of airborne troops. In all papers, the new part was hidden behind the number 75021.

In November 1943, the RVVDKU turned 25 years old. On the day of the anniversary, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the training center was awarded the honorary Order of the Red Banner. The document read: "For military services to the Fatherland and great success in the training and education of officers." During the years of the Great Patriotic War, ten valiant graduates of the school were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

In the summer of 1958, by decision of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, the secondary Ryazan infantry school was reformed into a higher command combined arms school. The term of study has grown again, now to four years. Graduates of this institution could receive diplomas of higher education, but military training has not changed in any way. Then V.F. Margelov, who headed the airborne troops, proposed to the top leadership of our country to combine this school with the Alma-Ata airborne for the training of airborne officers. In 1959, the two educational institutions merged. On May 1 of the same year, the first group of cadets led by Colonel Leontiev arrived from Kazakhstan. The name - Ryazan Higher Airborne Command - the school received only by the end of their training on April 4, 1964. The military parachute school of Alma-Ata, having become part of the Ryazan, also trained officers of the Airborne Forces of our country.

V.F. Margelov carefully watched the work of the institution. Under his strict guidance, the school grew and acquired an excellent educational base, unrecognizably changed. Much later, in 1995, in gratitude to the merits of the ancestor of the landing service, a monument to the famous general will be erected at the school.

Margelov Vasily Filippovich was born in 1908 in the city of Dnepropetrovsk in a working-class family. He joined the Soviet Army in 1928. He graduated from the Belarusian military school. He served in the army as a platoon commander, then a company and battalion commander. During the Great Patriotic War, he became commander of a rifle regiment, chief of staff, deputy commander of a rifle division, and commander of a guards rifle division. Participated in battles during the crossing of the Dnieper and the liberation of the city of Kherson. He was awarded the honorary title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Later he was the commander of the Airborne Forces. Among other awards, Vasily Margelov is an honorary citizen of Kherson, an honorary soldier of the military unit of the Airborne Forces, a laureate of the State Prize of the Soviet Union, a cavalier of more than 60! Soviet and foreign medals and orders. Died in 1990. Under his patronage, the Airborne Forces achieved great results in the development of means for landing, training troops and their weapons, organizing units, and combat capabilities.

In 1962, knowledge in foreign languages ​​was placed at the head of the preparation process. At the same time, the school began to accept and train foreigners. The first of them were the Vietnamese, then the Indonesians appeared. Today, children from thirty-two countries of the world study at the RVVDKU! In 1968, in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, the school was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the second time, and in 1989 it received the "Commander's Cross" of the Order of Merit of Poland for excellent training within the walls of the training center for the military personnel of this country. On July 9, 2004, by Order of the Government of the Russian Federation under the number 937-R, the school was renamed for the last time to the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command (Military Institute) named after General of the Army Vasily Margelov. Rumor has it that this was done on the basis of numerous requests from veterans and the staff of the school. In 2006, the school was awarded the Pennant of the Minister of Defense of our country for excellent combat training.

This school never rests on its laurels. Since 2008, the RVVDKU began to train girls in the military profession called "Application of airborne support units." Female officers will command parachute stackers, helping to deploy paratroopers as well as military equipment on special platforms or complex multi-dome systems. Since 2011, on the basis of the training center, courses have been opened to train military priests, as well as rabbis, imams and lamas for the navy and land army.

Today, the institution includes the school itself, a training center sixty kilometers from the city, an aviation squadron and a parachute club. On the basis of the school, dormitories were built to accommodate students, laboratories and educational buildings where classes are held, a shooting range, sports halls, gyms, for teaching martial arts, airborne training, a stadium, a canteen, a cafe, a post office, a club, a consumer service facility, medical Center. On the territory of the school there is an Orthodox church of Elijah the Prophet and a museum of the history of the Airborne Forces.

The school prepares cadets in two specialties. Commander of an airborne platoon of the Airborne Forces with additional qualifications of a manager and commander of a reconnaissance platoon of paratrooper units of the Airborne Forces with the qualification of a linguist-translator. The military institute has nine military personnel (weapons and shooting, tactical and special training, humanitarian and economic disciplines, materiel and repair, airborne training, command and control in peacetime, operation and driving, physical training, tactics) and three civilian departments (mathematics and physics, foreign languages, Russian). They employ about a dozen doctors of science and several dozen candidates. The system of military education is constantly being improved. Candidates undergo a rigorous multi-stage selection during which a conclusion is formed on the degree of suitability of a particular individual for the needs of the chosen profession. Training at the Ryazan Airborne Forces Institute for all five years is based on the closest combination of practice and theory. Any independent work of cadets to improve their personal skills is welcome and encouraged. During training, cadets spend more than a year in the field. And those who graduate from an educational institution with honors are given the right to choose a place of further service (unfortunately, so far within the limits of the order designated for the school).

Among the honorary graduates are forty-five Heroes of the Soviet Union, sixty-nine Heroes of Russia, hundreds of holders of military orders, more than sixty champions of our country and the world in parachuting. This school graduated from: the former Minister of Defense of Russia P.S. Grachev, former commander of the Airborne Forces A.P. Kolmakov, Honored Artist of Russia, singer, actor O.V. Kukhta, former army commander, governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory A.I. Lebed, mixed martial arts fighter S.V. Kharitonov, adviser to the Minister of Defense, former army commander, head of the Ulyanovsk region, hero of Russia V.A. Shamanov, governor of the Ryazan region, former commander of the Airborne Forces G.I. Shpak, governor of the Tver region A.V. Shevelev and many others. From other countries, the RVVDKU studied: the former leader of Poland V.V. Jaruzelsky, President of Mali A.T. Toure, former head of the Georgian defense department L.L. Sharashenidze.

Today, the main goal of the RVVDKU is to educate a qualitatively new generation of military leading personnel of any level, capable of serving their Fatherland not under duress, but only out of personal conviction, ready at any moment to defend the independence, sovereignty and state interests of our great country.

The Ryazan Infantry Courses were formed.

Story

• In November 1921, the Ryazan Infantry School was awarded the Revolutionary Red Banner of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee for the courage and bravery of its personnel.
• 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 carefully 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 Golovlev P.D. and Major Yagudin L.I. The personnel 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 stopped. 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 selected by the military registration and enlistment offices arrived at the school, most of them who had previously served 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 Yagudin L. I., Major Bogdanov N. N. 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 "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 to the full staff, taking into account 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” “... In 1941, from Belev, I got to Ryazan on my own, to the infantry school named after. 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 enlisted as a cadet of the school ... "On October 25, 1941, the school was relocated from Ryazan to the city of Ivanovo, and on February 15, 1942 returned from Ivanovo to Ryazan. Carrying out the operational task on the basis of the order of 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 time. Heavy property was transported on board along the Oka to the city of Gorky
• On November 12, 1943, the Ryazan Infantry School, in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of its formation, was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for military services to the Motherland and outstanding achievements in the training of officers by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
• From 1946 to September 1947, the parachute school was located in the city of Frunze, the capital of the Kirghiz SSR.
• 1958 (June) - By the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, the Ryazan Red Banner Infantry School (secondary) was transformed into the Higher Combined Arms Command School with a four-year training period. Graduates called it RKPU and received diplomas of higher civil 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 departed from Kazakhstan to Ryazan, headed by Colonel A.S. Leontiev, who was appointed commander of the 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 the 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 of the USSR Armed 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 Selets camps, which have been unrecognizably transformed since the war.
• 1962 - the school switched to a new profile of education, and knowledge of one of the foreign languages ​​was put at the forefront. 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.
• On November 13, 1995, a monument to the founder of the airborne service, General of the Army Vasily Margelov, was unveiled on the territory of the Institute.
• On November 12, 1996, taking into account the numerous requests of personnel and veterans of the airborne service, the President of Russia assigned the school a new honorary name, as a result of which it 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 troops."
• On November 11, 2002, by Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 807, the name “named after 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 Army General V.F. Margelov (Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 937-R of 07/09/2004 of the year).
• 2006 - By order of the Minister of Defense of Russia, the school was awarded the Pennant of the Minister of Defense for courage, military prowess and high combat skills.
• 2008 - for the first time, the Ryazan Airborne Command School began accepting female cadets (20 people) for training in the military specialization "Application of airborne support units." These will be female officers, commanders of platoons of parachute stackers, who ensure the performance of parachute jumps by military personnel, as well as the release of military equipment using special platforms and multi-dome systems.
• In early 2011, on the basis of the school, they plan to open a center for the training of military priests, imams, rabbis and lamas for the army and navy. On the territory of the training center there is a temple of Elijah the Prophet of the Russian Orthodox Church.
• By the decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated November 14, 2013, the school was awarded the Order of Suvorov. President Putin personally attached the sign and ribbon of the order to the military banner of the school during his visit on November 15, 2013.
• In August 2013, a special reconnaissance battalion was returned from the Novosibirsk VVKU. From that moment on, the RVVDKU resumed the training of officers for special forces units.
• In the summer of 2015, the SPO intelligence faculty was transferred from the Novosibirsk VVKU, which merged into the SPO faculty.

Modernity

The educational institution in its composition has its own school, a training center located 60 km from Ryazan in the vicinity of the village of Seltsy, an aviation military transport squadron and the Central Parachute Club of the Airborne Forces.

On the territory of the school there are barrack-type dormitories for accommodating cadets, educational buildings and laboratories for conducting classes (including firing and technical complexes), a shooting range, an airborne training complex, sports and gyms for practicing various types of martial arts, a stadium with a sports town, dining room, cadet cafe, club, post office, medical center, consumer services complex.

The school fulfills the state personnel order for the training of graduates of the Higher Professional Education in three military specialties: "Use of Airborne Forces", "Use of Special Intelligence Units", "Use of Communications Units of the Airborne Forces" and two specializations: "Use of Airborne Support Units" and "Use of Marine Corps Units » with a training period of 5 years, including two platoons of girls are trained in 4-5 courses.

The main subdivisions of the institute are: departments, companies and platoons of cadets. The institute trains and educates cadets in 17 military and 4 civilian departments:

• combat support;
• weapons and shooting;
• humanitarian and natural science disciplines;
• airborne training;
• armored vehicles;
• operation of weapons and military equipment;
• department management;
• special purpose units;
• engineering training;
• physical training;
• Russian and foreign languages;
• mathematical and natural science disciplines;
• encryption and data transmission complexes;
• radio, radio relay, tropospheric, satellite and wired communications;
• organization of communication and military telecommunication systems;
• general professional disciplines;
• automotive technology;
• automotive service;
• restoration of military equipment;
• engines and electrical equipment.

Currently [When?] 21 doctors of sciences and 170 candidates work at the school.

On the territory of the RVVDKU there is a museum of the history of the Airborne Forces.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at the RVVDKU, 2016	In the sports complex RVVDKU	Aerodynamic installation for the training of cadets of the RVVDKU	Deep-water pool for the training of divers RVVDKU

Since 2013, a large-scale reconstruction of the school has been underway. In Ryazan and Sel'tsy, more than 150 different facilities have been built, repaired and reconstructed, gasification has been carried out, roads have been reconstructed, and engineering infrastructure facilities have been replaced. As of March 2016, an aerodynamic installation for the education and training of parachutists, a deep-water pool for training divers, the Fighter sports complex and the Landing Ice Sports Palace were put into operation.

The Automotive Faculty of the RVVDKU takes the place of the disbanded campus. In 2009, the disbanded Ryazan Higher Military Command School of Communications entered the RVVDK as a communications faculty.

Education

The educational process at the Ryazan Institute of the Airborne Forces differs from the educational process in higher education. Education at the university is based on a close combination of theory and practice, its duration is 5 years, at officer courses (training of commanders of paratrooper companies (battalions) and specialists of the airborne service) - 5 - 10 months. The entire period of study is divided into 10 academic semesters - two semesters per academic year. At the end of each semester and academic year, an examination session is held in accordance with the curriculum. The main forms of students' theoretical work are: listening to lectures, working at seminars and out-of-class consultations; to check and consolidate the knowledge gained in the learning process, laboratory and control work is periodically carried out. As part of the course of practical exercises with a platoon of cadets, group exercises, tactical exercises and exercises, and internships are provided. At the end of each course, starting from the second year of study, cadets are required to submit personal course projects; any independent work of cadets to improve personal skills is encouraged.

During the training, cadets spend more than a year on field trips. Every year, cadets are given a winter holiday vacation of 2 weeks and a basic summer vacation of 30 days.

Cadets who graduated from the college with a diploma with honors enjoy the preferential right to choose a place of service after graduation within the limits of the order established for the school.

Heads of the school

• 08/28/1918-04/01/1919 - Troitsky, Ivan Alexandrovich
• 04/01/1919-12/10/1919 - Oraevsky, Ivan Fedorovich
• 12/16/1919-05/24/1920 - Domozhirov, Nikolai Nikolaevich
• 05/24/1920-07/29/1920 - Troitsky, Ivan Alexandrovich (second time)
• 09/10/1920-10/19/1921 - Oraevsky, Ivan Fedorovich (second time)
• 10/19/1921-1922 - Pinaev, Georgy Andreevich
• 1922-1926 - Goryachko, Alexander Ignatievich
• 10.1926-1929 - Semashko, Valentin Vladislavovich
• 01/10/1929-1931 - Tikhomirov, Pyotr Pavlovich
• 1931-1932 - Podshivalov, Ivan Martemyanovich
• 04.1932-1939 - Vinogradov, Vasily Ivanovich, brigade commander
• 03/11/1940-05/31/1946 - Garussky, Mikhail Petrovich, major general
• 01.06.1946-10.01.1950 - Lashchenko, Pyotr Nikolaevich, major general
• 01/10/1950-04/25/1952 - Vizzhilin, Viktor Alekseevich, major general
• 04/25/1952-05/1959 - Savchenko, Sergey Stepanovich, major general
• 06/10/1959-11/30/1965 - Alexander Stepanovich Leontiev, major general
• 11/30/1965-06/1968 - Popov, Alexander Mikhailovich, major general
• 07/27/1968-06/1970 - Kulishev, Oleg Fedorovich, major general
• 07/02/1970-03.1984 - Chikrizov, Alexei Vasilyevich, lieutenant general
• 15.03.1984-17.12.1995 - Slyusar, Albert Evdokimovich, lieutenant general
• 12/17/1995-12/17/2001 - Shcherbak, Valery Vitalievich, major general
• 12/17/2001-02/10/2008 - Krymsky, Vladimir Yakovlevich, major general
• 05/06/2008-12.2009 - Lugovoy, Vladimir Nikolaevich, colonel
• 01/01/2010-01/27/2012 - Krasov, Andrey Leonidovich, Hero of Russia, Colonel
• 09/14/2012 - present time - Kontsevoi, Anatoly Georgievich, major general

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“I don’t understand,” said Pierre, fearfully feeling doubt rising in himself. He was afraid of the vagueness and weakness of the arguments of his interlocutor, he was afraid of not believing him. “I do not understand,” he said, “how the human mind cannot comprehend the knowledge you are talking about.
The Mason smiled his meek, paternal smile.
“The highest wisdom and truth is, as it were, the purest moisture that we want to absorb into ourselves,” he said. – Can I take this pure moisture into an unclean vessel and judge its purity? Only by inner purification of myself can I bring the perceived moisture to a certain purity.
– Yes, yes, it is! Pierre said happily.
– Higher wisdom is not based on reason alone, not on those secular sciences of physics, history, chemistry, etc., into which mental knowledge breaks down. There is only one supreme wisdom. The highest wisdom has one science - the science of everything, the science that explains the entire universe and the place of man in it. In order to accommodate this science, it is necessary to purify and renew your inner man, and therefore, before you know, you need to believe and improve. And to achieve these goals, the light of God, called conscience, is embedded in our soul.
“Yes, yes,” Pierre confirmed.
“Look with your spiritual eyes at your inner man and ask yourself if you are satisfied with yourself. What have you achieved by being guided by one mind? What are you? You are young, you are rich, you are smart, educated, my lord. What have you made of all these blessings given to you? Are you satisfied with yourself and your life?
“No, I hate my life,” Pierre said, grimacing.
- You hate, so change it, purify yourself, and as you purify, you will learn wisdom. Look at your life, my lord. How did you spend it? In violent orgies and debauchery, receiving everything from society and giving nothing to it. You have received wealth. How did you use it? What have you done for your neighbor? Have you thought about the tens of thousands of your slaves, have you helped them physically and morally? No. You used their labors to lead a dissolute life. That's what you did. Have you chosen a place of service where you would benefit your neighbor? No. You have spent your life in idleness. Then you got married, my lord, took on the responsibility of leading a young woman, and what did you do? You did not help her, my lord, to find the path of truth, but plunged her into the abyss of lies and misfortune. A man insulted you and you killed him and you say that you don't know God and that you hate your life. There is nothing tricky here, my lord! - After these words, the freemason, as if tired of a long conversation, again leaned on the back of the sofa and closed his eyes. Pierre looked at this stern, motionless, senile, almost dead face, and silently moved his lips. He wanted to say: yes, vile, idle, depraved life, and did not dare to break the silence.
The Mason cleared his throat hoarsely, like an old man, and called for a servant.
- What about horses? he asked, not looking at Pierre.
“They brought the change,” answered the servant. - You won't rest?
- No, they ordered to pawn.
“Is he really going to leave and leave me alone without finishing everything and promising me help?” thought Pierre, getting up and lowering his head, occasionally looking at the freemason, and starting to walk around the room. “Yes, I didn’t think so, but I led a despicable, depraved life, but I didn’t love her, and didn’t want it,” thought Pierre, “and this man knows the truth, and if he wanted, he could reveal it to me” . Pierre wanted and did not dare to say this to the Mason. The passer-by, with habitual, senile hands, having packed his things, buttoned up his sheepskin coat. Having finished these things, he turned to the Earless and indifferently, in a courteous tone, said to him:
“Where would you like to go now, my lord?”
“I? ... I’m going to Petersburg,” Pierre answered in a childish, indecisive voice. - Thank you. I agree with you on everything. But don't think that I'm so stupid. I wished with all my heart to be what you would like me to be; but I never found help in anyone ... However, I myself am primarily to blame for everything. Help me, teach me, and maybe I will ... - Pierre could not speak further; he sniffled and turned away.
Mason was silent for a long time, apparently considering something.
“Help is given only from God,” he said, “but the amount of help that our order has the power to give, he will give you, my lord. You are going to Petersburg, give this to Count Villarsky (he took out his wallet and wrote a few words on a large sheet of paper folded in four). Let me give you one piece of advice. Arriving in the capital, devote the first time to solitude, discussing yourself, and do not enter the old paths of life. Then I wish you a happy journey, my lord,” he said, noticing that his servant had entered the room, “and success ...
The traveler was Osip Alekseevich Bazdeev, as Pierre learned from the caretaker's book. Bazdeev was one of the most famous Freemasons and Martinists of Novik's time. Long after his departure, Pierre, without going to bed and without asking the horses, walked around the station room, pondering his vicious past and with the delight of renewal imagining his blissful, impeccable and virtuous future, which seemed to him so easy. He was, as it seemed to him, vicious only because he somehow accidentally forgot how good it is to be virtuous. Not a trace of the old doubts remained in his soul. He firmly believed in the possibility of a brotherhood of people united for the purpose of supporting each other on the path of virtue, and this was how Freemasonry seemed to him.

Arriving in St. Petersburg, Pierre did not inform anyone of his arrival, did not go anywhere, and began to spend whole days reading Thomas of Kempis, a book that was delivered to him by no one knows who. Pierre understood one and all the same when reading this book; he understood the pleasure, unknown to him, to believe in the possibility of achieving perfection and in the possibility of brotherly and active love between people, opened to him by Osip Alekseevich. A week after his arrival, the young Polish Count of Villarsky, whom Pierre knew superficially from St. Petersburg society, entered his room in the evening with that official and solemn air with which Dolokhov's second entered him and, closing the door behind him and making sure that there was no one in the room there was no one except Pierre, turned to him:
“I have come to you with a commission and a proposal, Count,” he told him without sitting down. “A person very highly placed in our fraternity has petitioned for you to be admitted to the fraternity ahead of time, and has offered me to be your guarantor. I regard the fulfillment of the will of this person as a sacred duty. Do you wish to join the brotherhood of free stonemasons on my guarantee?
The cold and strict tone of the man whom Pierre almost always saw at balls with an amiable smile, in the company of the most brilliant women, struck Pierre.
“Yes, I wish,” said Pierre.
Villarsky inclined his head. - One more question, count, he said, to which I ask you, not as a future freemason, but as an honest person (galant homme), to answer me with all sincerity: have you renounced your former convictions, do you believe in God?
Pierre considered. “Yes… yes, I believe in God,” he said.
“In that case…” Villarsky began, but Pierre interrupted him. “Yes, I believe in God,” he said again.
“In that case, we can go,” said Willarsky. “My carriage is at your service.
All the way Villarsky was silent. To Pierre's questions about what he should do and how to answer, Villarsky only said that the brothers, more worthy of him, would test him, and that Pierre needed nothing more than to tell the truth.
Having entered the gate of a large house, where there was a lodge, and passing along a dark staircase, they entered a lighted, small hallway, where, without the help of servants, they took off their fur coats. From the hallway they went into another room. A man in strange attire appeared at the door. Villarsky, going out to meet him, said something quietly to him in French and went up to a small closet, in which Pierre noticed robes he had never seen before. Taking a handkerchief from the closet, Villarsky put it over Pierre's eyes and tied it in a knot at the back, painfully trapping his hair in a knot. Then he bent him to him, kissed him, and, taking him by the hand, led him somewhere. Pierre was in pain from the knotted hair, he grimaced in pain and smiled in shame at something. His huge figure, with lowered hands, with a shriveled and smiling face, followed Willarsky with unsteady, timid steps.
After leading him ten paces, Villarsky stopped.
“Whatever happens to you,” he said, “you must endure everything with courage if you are determined to join our brotherhood. (Pierre answered in the affirmative by inclining his head.) When you hear a knock at the door, you will untie your eyes,” Villarsky added; I wish you courage and success. And, shaking hands with Pierre, Villarsky went out.
Left alone, Pierre continued to smile the same way. Once or twice he shrugged his shoulders, put his hand up to the handkerchief, as if wishing to take it off, and lowered it again. The five minutes he spent with his eyes tied seemed like an hour to him. His hands were swollen, his legs gave way; he seemed to be tired. He experienced the most complex and varied feelings. He was both afraid of what would happen to him, and even more afraid of how he would not show fear. He was curious to know what would become of him, what would be revealed to him; but most of all he was glad that the moment had come when he would finally embark on that path of renewal and an actively virtuous life, which he had been dreaming of since his meeting with Osip Alekseevich. Strong knocks were heard at the door. Pierre took off his bandage and looked around him. The room was black and dark: only in one place a lamp was burning, in something white. Pierre came closer and saw that the lamp stood on a black table, on which lay one open book. The book was the gospel; that white, in which the lamp burned, was a human skull with its holes and teeth. After reading the first words of the Gospel: “In the beginning there was no word and the word went to God,” Pierre went around the table and saw a large open box filled with something. It was a coffin with bones. He was not at all surprised by what he saw. Hoping to enter into a completely new life, completely different from the old one, he expected everything extraordinary, even more extraordinary than what he saw. The skull, the coffin, the Gospel - it seemed to him that he expected all this, expected even more. Trying to arouse in himself a feeling of tenderness, he looked around him. “God, death, love, the brotherhood of man,” he said to himself, associating with these words vague but joyful ideas of something. The door opened and someone entered.
In the weak light, which, however, Pierre had already managed to get a closer look at, a short man entered. Apparently from the light entering the darkness, this man stopped; then, with cautious steps, he moved to the table and placed on it his small, leather-gloved hands.
This short man was dressed in a white leather apron that covered his chest and part of his legs, he was wearing something like a necklace around his neck, and a high, white frill protruded from behind the necklace, fringing his oblong face, illuminated from below.
- Why did you come here? - asked the newcomer, according to the rustle made by Pierre, turning in his direction. – Why do you, who do not believe in the truths of the light and do not see the light, why did you come here, what do you want from us? Wisdom, virtue, enlightenment?
At the moment the door opened and an unknown person entered, Pierre experienced a feeling of fear and reverence, similar to the one he experienced in confession as a child: he felt face to face with a completely alien in terms of living conditions and with a loved one, in the brotherhood of people, man. Pierre, with a breath-taking heartbeat, moved towards the rhetor (that was the name in Freemasonry of a brother who prepares a seeker to join the brotherhood). Pierre, coming closer, recognized in the rhetorician a familiar person, Smolyaninov, but it was insulting to him to think that the person who entered was a familiar person: the one who entered was only a brother and a virtuous mentor. Pierre could not utter a word for a long time, so the rhetor had to repeat his question.
“Yes, I ... I ... want updates,” Pierre said with difficulty.
“Good,” said Smolyaninov, and immediately continued: “Do you have any idea about the means by which our holy order will help you achieve your goal? ...” the rhetorician said calmly and quickly.
“I ... hope ... guidance ... help ... in renewal,” Pierre said with a trembling voice and with difficulty in speech, which comes from excitement and from being unaccustomed to speaking Russian about abstract subjects.
– What concept do you have about Freemasonry?
– I mean that Frank Freemasonry is fraterienité [brotherhood]; and the equality of people with virtuous goals, ”said Pierre, ashamed, as he spoke, of the inconsistency of his words with the solemnity of the moment. I mean…
“Very well,” said the rhetorician hastily, apparently quite satisfied with this answer. Have you looked for means to achieve your goal in religion?
“No, I considered it unfair, and did not follow it,” Pierre said so quietly that the rhetorician did not hear him and asked what he was saying. “I was an atheist,” answered Pierre.
- You are looking for truth in order to follow its laws in life; therefore, you seek wisdom and virtue, do you not? said the speaker after a moment's silence.
“Yes, yes,” Pierre confirmed.
The rhetor cleared his throat, folded his gloved hands on his chest and began to speak:
“Now I must reveal to you the main goal of our order,” he said, “and if this goal coincides with yours, then you will profitably join our brotherhood. The first main goal and the foundation of our order, on which it is established, and which no human power can overthrow, is the preservation and transmission to posterity of some important sacrament ... from the most ancient centuries and even from the first person who has come down to us, from whom the sacraments can may depend on the fate of the human race. But since this sacrament is of such a nature that no one can know it and use it, if one has not prepared for a long-term and diligent purification of oneself, then not everyone can hope to find it soon. Therefore, we have a second goal, which is to prepare our members, as far as possible, to correct their hearts, purify and enlighten their minds by those means that are revealed to us by tradition from men who have labored in the search for this mystery, and thereby make them capable of perception of it. Purifying and correcting our members, we try in the third place to correct the entire human race, offering it in our members an example of piety and virtue, and thus we try with all our might to oppose the evil that reigns in the world. Think about it, and I will come to you again,” he said and left the room.
“To resist the evil that reigns in the world ...” Pierre repeated, and he imagined his future activities in this field. He imagined the same people as he himself had been two weeks ago, and he mentally addressed them in an instructive, mentoring speech. He imagined vicious and unfortunate people whom he helped in word and deed; imagined the oppressors from whom he saved their victims. Of the three goals named by the rhetor, this last one, the correction of the human race, was especially close to Pierre. Some important sacrament mentioned by the rhetorician, although it aroused his curiosity, did not seem to him essential; and the second goal, the purification and correction of himself, interested him little, because at that moment he felt with pleasure that he was already completely corrected from his former vices and ready for only one good thing.
Half an hour later the orator returned to convey to the seeker those seven virtues, corresponding to the seven steps of Solomon's temple, which every Mason had to cultivate in himself. These virtues were: 1) modesty, observance of the secrets of the order, 2) obedience to the highest ranks of the order, 3) good nature, 4) love of humanity, 5) courage, 6) generosity and 7) love of death.
“Seventhly, try,” said the rhetorician, “by frequent thinking about death, bring yourself to such a point that it does not seem to you a more terrible enemy, but a friend ... who frees the soul, languishing in the labors of virtue, from this miserable life in the labors of virtue, to introduce it into the place of reward and calm.
“Yes, it must be so,” thought Pierre, when, after these words, the rhetorician again left him, leaving him to solitary reflection. “It must be so, but I am still so weak that I love my life, the meaning of which is only now being revealed to me little by little.” But the remaining five virtues, which Pierre remembered fingering, he felt in his soul: courage, and generosity, and kindness, and love for humanity, and especially obedience, which did not even seem to him a virtue, but happiness. (He was so happy now to get rid of his arbitrariness and subordinate his will to that and those who knew the undoubted truth.) Pierre forgot the seventh virtue and could not remember it.
The third time, the rhetor returned sooner and asked Pierre if he was still firm in his intention, and whether he dared to expose himself to everything that was required of him.
“I am ready for anything,” said Pierre.
“I must also inform you,” said the rhetorician, “that our order teaches its teachings not only in words, but by other means that, perhaps, have a stronger effect on the true seeker of wisdom and virtue than verbal explanations only. This temple with its decoration, which you see, should have already explained to your heart, if it is sincere, more than words; you will see, perhaps, in your further acceptance of a similar way of explaining. Our order imitates the ancient societies that revealed their teachings with hieroglyphs. A hieroglyph, - said the rhetorician, - is the name of some thing that is not subject to feelings, which contains qualities similar to the one depicted.
Pierre knew very well what a hieroglyph was, but did not dare to speak. He silently listened to the rhetor, feeling in everything that the trials would immediately begin.
“If you are firm, then I must begin to introduce you,” said the rhetorician, coming closer to Pierre. “As a sign of generosity, I ask you to give me all your precious things.
“But I don’t have anything with me,” said Pierre, who believed that they were demanding that he hand over everything he had.
- What you have: watches, money, rings ...
Pierre hurriedly took out his wallet, watch, and for a long time could not remove the wedding ring from his fat finger. When this was done, the Mason said:
- As a token of obedience, I ask you to undress. - Pierre took off his tailcoat, waistcoat and left boot at the direction of the rhetor. Mason opened the shirt on his left chest, and, bending down, lifted his trouser leg on his left leg above the knee. Pierre hurriedly wanted to take off his right boot and roll up his trousers in order to save a stranger from this labor, but the mason told him that this was not necessary - and gave him a shoe on his left foot. With a childish smile of modesty, doubt and mockery of himself, which appeared on his face against his will, Pierre stood with his hands down and legs apart in front of his brother rhetorician, waiting for his new orders.
“And finally, as a sign of candor, I ask you to reveal to me your main passion,” he said.
- My passion! I had so many of them,” said Pierre.
“That addiction which, more than any other, made you waver in the path of virtue,” said the Mason.
Pierre was silent for a while, looking for.
"Wine? Overeating? Idleness? Laziness? Hotness? Malice? Women?" He went over his vices, mentally weighing them and not knowing which one to give priority to.
“Women,” Pierre said in a low, barely audible voice. The Mason did not move or speak for a long time after this answer. Finally, he moved towards Pierre, took the handkerchief lying on the table and again blindfolded him.
- For the last time I tell you: turn all your attention to yourself, put chains on your feelings and seek bliss not in passions, but in your heart. The source of bliss is not outside, but within us...
Pierre already felt this refreshing source of bliss in himself, now filling his soul with joy and tenderness.

Soon after this, it was no longer the former rhetorician who came to the dark temple for Pierre, but the guarantor Villarsky, whom he recognized by his voice. To new questions about the firmness of his intentions, Pierre answered: “Yes, yes, I agree,” and with a beaming childish smile, with an open, fat chest, unevenly and timidly stepping with one bare and one shod foot, he went forward with Villarsky put to his bare chest with a sword. From the room he was led along the corridors, turning back and forth, and finally led to the doors of the box. Villarsky coughed, they answered him with Masonic knocks of hammers, the door opened before them. Someone's bass voice (Pierre's eyes were all blindfolded) asked him questions about who he was, where, when was he born? etc. Then they again led him somewhere, without untying his eyes, and as he walked, allegories spoke to him about the labors of his journey, about sacred friendship, about the eternal Builder of the world, about the courage with which he must endure labors and dangers . During this journey, Pierre noticed that he was called either seeking, then suffering, then demanding, and at the same time they knocked with hammers and swords in different ways. While he was led to some subject, he noticed that there was confusion and confusion between his leaders. He heard how the surrounding people argued among themselves in a whisper and how one insisted that he be led along some kind of carpet. After that, they took his right hand, put it on something, and with the left they ordered him to put the compass to his left chest, and forced him, repeating the words that the other had read, to read the oath of allegiance to the laws of the order. Then they put out the candles, lit alcohol, as Pierre heard it by smell, and said that he would see a small light. The bandage was removed from him, and Pierre, as in a dream, saw, in the faint light of an alcohol fire, several people who, in the same aprons as the rhetorician, stood against him and held swords aimed at his chest. Between them stood a man in a bloody white shirt. Seeing this, Pierre moved his sword forward with his chest, wanting them to pierce him. But the swords moved away from him and he was immediately bandaged again. “Now you have seen a small light,” a voice told him. Then the candles were lit again, they said that he needed to see the full light, and again they took off the bandage and suddenly more than ten voices said: sic transit gloria mundi. [this is how worldly glory passes.]

Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School. Part two. Professional sergeants

• Part two. Professional sergeants

Who are the current sergeants? What does their training look like? Having been in RVVDKU , I got the answer to these questions, talking with teachers and cadets for two days, observing their life and studies. In this part, we will talk about contract cadets studying sergeant business for 2 years and 10 months, the so-called. professional sergeants.

Faculty of secondary vocational education Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School (military institute) named after Army General V.F. Margelov (branch) of the Federal State Military Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education "Military Educational and Scientific Center of the Ground Forces" Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation " in Ryazan was created in accordance with the directive of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation of December 31, 2008 No. D-112 and on the basis of the staff approved by the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation of September 25, 2009 No. 17\269 .

At the faculty, cadets are trained in the following specialties:

Specialty "Maintenance and repair of motor vehicles" qualification "technician", in nine military specialties:

Combined-arms specialists intended to fill military positions, deputy commander of a motorized rifle platoon (rifle platoon, security platoon).

Specialists of paratrooper units intended to fill military positions - deputy commander of a paratrooper platoon;

Airborne service specialists intended to fill the vacant position of deputy commander (squad leader) of an airborne support platoon.

Military intelligence specialists intended to fill the vacant position of deputy commander of a reconnaissance platoon.

Intelligence specialists (special military units) intended to fill the vacant position of group commander.

Combined-arms specialists intended to fill military positions repair platoon commander deputy repair platoon commander commander of an automobile platoon, support platoon.

Specialty "Communication networks and switching systems" qualification "technician"

Communications specialists intended to fill the vacant position of a senior technician.

The term of study is 2 years and 10 months.

Specialty "Multichannel telecommunication systems" qualification "technician"

Communications specialists intended to fill the vacant position of the head of the station, head of the department, senior technician.

The term of study is 2 years and 10 months.

Specialty "Radio communication, radio broadcasting and television" qualification "technician"

Communications specialists intended to fill the vacant position of deputy platoon commander.

The term of study is 2 years and 10 months.

Total for studying at the faculty of secondary vocational education in 2009-2010. 448 people have been enrolled, 343 people are left to serve at the moment. Several hundred people were weeded out before admission, because. did not show a desire to study, but simply hoped to receive 10-20 thousand scholarships, eat for free and have a roof over their heads. There is a poor work of the military registration and enlistment offices and the command of the units in the selection of candidates.

During the training, another 105 people dropped out for the following reasons:

Cadets who passed the entrance examinations with a "satisfactory" grade receive a salary of 7,000 rubles, this amount does not satisfy them;

While serving (by conscription or under contract) in other troops, there were no strict requirements for service, and upon admission for training, they faced exactingness, the need to comply with the established rules of conduct, and fulfill the prescribed norms of military service;

They made a mistake in choosing a future profession, they realized that military service was not their vocation;

Close relatives and family members are not satisfied with the choice made, they do not agree that the training takes place in isolation from families.

Initially, three students received 7,000 rubles each, but at the moment the situation with payments with all the allowances looks like this:

if there is at least one triple in any of the subjects - 10 thousand;

if there is at least one four in any of the subjects - 15 thousand;

if all the scores of the five are 20 thousand.

Doubles are simply deducted. The teachers are very supportive of this decision, because no need to pull out frank clumsiness and loafers.

The training program is as follows:

At the end of the training, the final state certification of graduates is carried out:

1. Final interdisciplinary exam in the specialty

General tactics

specific tactics

Management and communications

Engineering support

RCB protection

Military topography

2. State exam in the discipline "Physical culture (training)"

The time schedule looks like this:

... after the morning activities (getting up, exercising, washing, examining, breakfast, exercise) the l / s of the FSF cadets departs for scheduled classes. From 9.00 to 14.00, in accordance with the schedule of classes, the cadets are in the classroom. After scheduled classes and lunch, they are given time to independently prepare for classes the next day. After the completion of self-training from 18.40 to 19.20, planned activities are carried out with the cadets: sports work and educational work.

After completing self-training and conducting compulsory events from 19.30, cadets are given personal time with the right to leave the territory of the faculty (departure to the city).

Since all cadets of the faculty of secondary vocational education are military personnel undergoing military service under a contract, they, in accordance with Art. 244 of the Charter of the internal service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, it is allowed to stay outside the school until 24:00, and family cadets (whose families live with them) until 7:30 the next day. The control of the l / s of the faculty departing outside the territory is carried out by the unit commander, the officer who controls the daily routine and the company on duty.

At the moment, first-year cadets (193 people) and second-year cadets (150 people) are studying. We can confidently say that only those who really want to study and serve as a sergeant remained, the rest were eliminated, for example, now 43 cadets are excellent students, 128 are studying for four and five, the rest have a range of grades from "3" before "5" . I talked to the guys why they decided to become sergeants. Many are motivated by a good salary and a social package promised upon admission, which is added to the desire to be a military man. There is a part of the cadets who were unsure that they would be able to study under the higher education program for an officer, so they chose something simpler - an average professional sergeant. The contract is signed immediately for 8 years - 2 years and 10 months of training, then 5 years in the army. Recently, an order was issued according to which a cadet who refused further studies of his own free will must return to the state the money spent on his education, until that moment it was possible to quit without any consequences.

Cadets-sergeants and cadets-officers undergo training in the troops directly at the school, commanding platoons of cadets-three-month military service. The vision of the guys of their future is very interesting: "We are the sergeants of the new army! We are the best! We will change the armed forces! We will train soldiers in a new way!". Moreover, they say this without any bragging, but as a matter of course.

Let's move on to photos and videos. On the day of my arrival, there were supposed to be parachute jumps near the SPO faculty. During the year of training, future sergeants make four jumps, and the fourth one is mandatory from the IL-76.

Let's move on to photos and videos. On the day of my arrival, there were supposed to be parachute jumps near the SPO faculty. During the year of training, future sergeants make four jumps, and the fourth one is mandatory from the IL-76.

Every now and then the snow fell off, so the flight was postponed and postponed. In order not to stand on their feet, the cadets gave rest to their feet.

I photographed one of the paratroopers in a circle

I photographed one of the paratroopers in a circle

Sling cutter

Sling cutter

This is a mechanical safety device designed to open the parachute after a predetermined time interval (using a clock mechanism) if the parachutist for some reason did not do this on his own.

Shoes for jumping were chosen in a clearly democratic way - some in felt boots, some in high fur boots, some in sneakers

Shoes for jumping were chosen in a clearly democratic way - some in felt boots, some in high fur boots, some in sneakers

When the sky cleared a little and the snow stopped, several people got into the An-2 for a test jump

When the sky cleared a little and the snow stopped, several people got into the An-2 for a test jump

First - go!

First - go!

The next group is getting ready.

The next group is getting ready.

Instructor

Instructor

Equipment inspection

As you can see, the gloves are quite a free sample

As you can see, the gloves are quite a free sample

School emblem. Unfortunately, as soon as the An-2 landed behind the second set, it began to snow again and the jumps were finally canceled that day.

School emblem. Unfortunately, as soon as the An-2 landed behind the second set, it began to snow again and the jumps were finally canceled that day.

I took these photos and videos during class:

One of the teachers. At the moment, 60% of the teaching staff of the school is out of state, awaiting either appointment or dismissal, while the prospects are not very clear. The school needs to reach the full set of three-year sergeants (according to the plan 1615 people) in order to retain all the teachers, but so far there are not so many candidates. A real solution to the problem can be achieved only next year, when the salaries of servicemen will be increased, and service in the army will regain its former prestige.

One of the teachers. At the moment, 60% of the teaching staff of the school is out of state, awaiting either appointment or dismissal, while the prospects are not very clear. The school needs to reach the full set of three-year sergeants (according to the plan 1615 people) in order to retain all the teachers, but so far there are not so many candidates. A real solution to the problem can be achieved only next year, when the salaries of servicemen will be increased, and service in the army will regain its former prestige.

Parachute packing

Parachute packing