Engineer Troops (Soviet Union)
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Engineer Troops of the USSR — were special troops of the
The main purpose of
History
After the February and
On 22 June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. In October 1941, the post of chief of the Engineering Troops was established. During the course of the war, engineer troops built fortifications, created barriers, mined the terrain, ensured the maneuver of troops, made passages in enemy minefields, ensured the overcoming of enemy engineering barriers, forcing water barriers, participated in the assault on fortifications, cities, etc. During the Second World War, 10 sapper armies were created, later reorganized into brigades.
V.I. Feskov et al 2013 lists 11 pontoon-bridge and 76 engineer sapper brigades in the Red Army in 1946, including the 1st Guards, 2nd Guards, 3rd Guards, 4th, 5th, and 6th Guards engineer brigades and other engineer brigades (including the 52nd, 55th, 56th, 57th, 61st, 62nd, 63rd, 64th, 65th, 67th, 68th, 69th, and 70th).[2]
From the mid-1940s to the 1970s, motorized rifle
V.I. Feskov et al 2013 lists 26 regiments of engineer forces as existing during the 1980s, including the 1st Guards, 174th, and 177th.
In 1986, the Engineering Troops took part in the military response to the biological effects of the
Tasks
According to the
- engineering reconnaissance enemy, terrain and objects;
- fortification equipment of positions, lines, districts, command posts;
- device and maintenance of engineering barriers, and the production of destruction;
- installation and maintenance of land miness;
- destruction and neutralization of enemy nuclear mines;
- making and maintaining passages in barriers and destruction;
- the device of passages through obstacles;
- clearance of terrain and objects;
- preparation and maintenance of troop movement routes, transportation and evacuation;
- equipment and maintenance of crossings when forcing water barriers;
- engineering measures to camouflage troops and facilities;
- engineering measures to restore the combat capability of troops and eliminate the consequences of enemy nuclear strikes;
- extraction and purification of water, equipment of points of water supply.
The Engineer Troops performed engineering support missions that required special training of personnel, the use of engineering Equipment and engineer ammunition. In addition, their tasks include defeating enemy equipment and manpower with mine-explosive and nuclear-mine weapons.
Commanders
- 1942-1952 - Marshal of the Engineering Troops Vorobiev, Mikhail Petrovich;
- 1952-1965 - Colonel General (from 05/06/1961 - Marshal) of the Engineering Troops Proshlyakov, Alexei Ivanovich;
- 1965-1975 - Lieutenant General (from 05/07/1966 - Colonel General, from 12/16/1972 - Marshal) of the Engineering Troops Kharchenko, Viktor Kondratievich;
- 1975-1987 - lieutenant general (from 04/25/1975 - colonel general, from 05/07/1980 - Marshal) of the Engineering Troops Aganov, Sergey Khristoforovich;
- 1987-1999 - Lieutenant General (since February 15, 1989 - Colonel General) of the Engineering Troops Kuznetsov, Vladimir Pavlovich[6]
See also
References
- ^ Combat regulations of the Ground Forces, part III. Engineering. Archived May 1, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Feskov et al 2013, pp. 322–323.
- ^ Feskov et al 2013, pp. 324–326.
- ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 327.
- ^ "Инженерные войска России: 317 лет безупречной службы" (in Russian). 2017-01-21. Archived from the original on 2016-03-13. Retrieved 2018-02-17.
- ^ Feskov V.I., Golikov V.I., Kalashnikov K. A., Slugin S. A. (2013). Armed Forces of the USSR after the Second World War: from the Red Army to the Soviet. Part 1: Ground Forces. Tomsk: Tomsk University Press. p. 304.
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- Feskov, V.I.; Golikov, V.I.; Kalashnikov, K.A.; Slugin, S.A. (2013). Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской [The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II: From the Red Army to the Soviet: Part 1 Land Forces] (in Russian). Tomsk: Scientific and Technical Literature Publishing. ISBN 9785895035306.
- Scott, Harriet Fast; Scott, William F. (1981). The Armed Forces of the USSR (2 ed.). London: ISBN 0-85368-287-9.