Rear of the Russian Armed Forces

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Тыл Вооружëнных Сил Российской Федерации
Rear of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
Russian Federation
BranchRussian Armed Forces
RoleLogistics and support
Garrison/HQMoscow
AnniversariesAugust 1
Commanders
Current
commander
Army General Dmitry Bulgakov (2008-2010)

The Rear of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (RAF-RF) (Russian: Тыл Вооружëнных Сил Российской Федерации, romanizedTyl Vooruzhonnykh Sil Rossiyskoy Federatsii), often referred to in English as the rear services, was an organization of support services for the Russian Armed Forces until 2010 when it was transformed into Logistical Support of the Russian Armed Forces.

The Rear of the Armed Forces included an unusually diverse range of services, for example medical services, firefighters, logistical services, economic analysts, scientific units, and combat-ready formations for maintaining and protecting rear installations such as pipelines and railways. The Rear also had its own central staff organization.

In addition to the centrally controlled Rear of the Armed Forces, there were also separate rear services for each armed service, e.g. the Rear of the

Soviet Ground Forces, Rear of the Strategic Rocket Forces
, etc. In principle, these rear organizations were coordinated by the Rear of the Armed Forces.

History

Moscow Kremlin
.

The formation of Russian rear services is commonly ascribed to the year 1700, when

. The Rear Services of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union were renamed as the Rear Services of the Armed Forces of Russia in 1991.

In 2010 it was transformed into the Logistical Support of the Russian Armed Forces.[1]

Road Troops

The Road Troops (Russian: Дорожные войска) are a part of Material and Technical Support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.[2][3] They included road commandant units and formations, bridge, pontoon-bridge, as well as road units and subdivisions, designed to perform road maintenance tasks.[4]

In Russia until 2017, there were also road construction 'parts'

Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
and included:

At present, the main composition of formations, units and subdivisions of the road troops, their institutions, institutions, enterprises and organizations, are part of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Road-building formations are also part of the Military Construction Complex of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation.[6]

History of military road building

Former site of 46th Central Base of Material-Technical Support, Reutov, Moscow Oblast, photographed 2007

Road construction troops date back to

Imperial Russia
and even before.

In 1930, by the decision of

reserve officers for the Soviet Armed Forces
, since the training profile of civilian specialists, who were trained in road institutes, completely coincided with their military specialties.

By the Decree of the

Second Five Year Plan
was adopted. In accordance with it, it was planned to build the Vladivostok-Khabarovsk highway, with a hard (gravel) surface, 600 kilometers long.

For Daldorstroy, the Red Army from December 1933 to January 1934 formed two brigades of road troops: the first - in the city of Rostov-on-Don, led by brigade commander N. M. Anisimov, and the second - in the city of Kiev (brigade commander - Lebedev), with a total number of personnel of about 15,000 people, and redeploy them to the Far East. The headquarters of the first brigade is the village of Dmitrievka, Primorsky Region, the second is the city of Khabarovsk. The first brigade was building from Vladivostok to Iman, and the second - from Iman to Khabarovsk. On November 4, 1935, the central press organ of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, the newspaper Pravda published an article signed by the head of Daldorstroy, Comrade Yu.Apanasenko:[7]

Starting to get acquainted with the affairs of the front and operational plans, Apanasenko discovered that along most of the Trans-Siberian Railway, with its dozens of bridges and tunnels, there is no reliable highway (Moskovsky Trakt) that would run parallel to the railway. This circumstance made the troops of the front extremely vulnerable, since the railway line sometimes passed very close to the border. It was enough for the Japanese to blow up several bridges or tunnels to deprive the armies of the front and freedom of maneuver, and reliable supplies. Apanasenko immediately ordered the construction of a reliable road with a length of almost a thousand kilometers, using not only the construction units of the front, but also the population of the surrounding areas. The deadline for this huge work was set as short as five months. ..Apanasenko's order was carried out, and the road from Khabarovsk to the station Kuibyshevka-Vostochnaya was built by September 1, 1941.

After the

Second World War
operation was possible without the motor transport and road services, and soldiers of automobile and road formations and units.

The GKO of the USSR decreed on 16 January 1942 that separate road construction battalions (odsb) with a strength of 477 people be formed: 8 odsb in the Moscow Military District; 6 odsb in the Volga Military District; Central Asian - eight odsb in the Central Asian Military District; 3 odsb in the Siberian Military District, 4 odsb in the South Ural Military District; six battalions in the Transcaucasian Military District, and separate bridge-building battalions (omostsb) with a personnel strength of 501 people : four in the Moscow MD, two bridge battalions in the Arkhangelsk MD, two bridge battalions in the Privolzhsky MD, two bridge battalions in the Central Asian MD, one bridge battalion in the Siberian MD, two bridge battalion in the Ural MD, one bridge building battalion in the South Ural Military District, and ten bridge building battalions in the Transcaucasian MD.

By order of the

Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union No. 104 (23 June 1955), a common emblem was introduced for Automotive Troops and Road Troops (previously only the emblem of the Automotive Troops),[9][10] and from that period it became a common emblem for these military branches until 1988.[11]

By the middle of 1943, the road troops of the Soviet Armed Forces consisted of:

  • 294 separate road battalions;
  • 22 Military Highway (VAD) directorates with 110 road commandant areas (DKU);
  • 7 military road departments (VDU) with 40 road detachments (DO);
  • 194 horse transport companies;
  • repair bases;
  • bases for the production of bridge and road structures;
  • educational and other institutions.

In total, there were 400,000 road warriors at the front.

Great Patriotic War they restored, repaired and built about 100,000}} kilometers of roads, more than a million running meters of bridges, harvested and transported for road construction over 20,000,000 cubic meters of sand and stone. The total length of the military highways maintained by the road troops was 359,000 kilometers. For exemplary performance, 59 units of the road troops were awarded orders, 27 of them received honorary titles, more than 21,000 soldiers were awarded orders and medals.[13]

After the end of the war, it was decided to reduce the "road troops" of the Soviet Armed Forces. Of the reduced units and units in 1945, by the decision of the State Defense Committee, a road construction unit was created - the Special Road Construction Corps of the

Kharkov, built the main roads of national importance Kharkov - Rostov-on-Don, Kharkov - Simferopol
and other BP. Between 1946 and 1956, he built 3,244 km of paved roads, 17 km of bridges, and laid 2.7 km of reinforced concrete pipes.

By a Decree of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers of the USSR, dated October 23, 1970, regarding

Council of Ministers of the RSFSR
. The total length of the road from Irkutsk to Chita reached 1,172 km, of which 566 km were existing paved sections, and 606 km were to be rebuilt by three separate road construction teams. Work began in 1970 at three sites:

Emblem of the Road Troops, adopted in 1988

In total, 606 km of roads with asphalt concrete pavement were built and put into operation on the Irkutsk-Chita road in accordance with the standards of the 3rd technical category, while 207,000,000

petrol stations; three bus stations; and two service stations (SRT) of cars and road vehicles were built.[15]

As the work on their sections was completed, the road construction brigades shifted to work on the

M58 highway between Chita and Khabarovsk.[15]

Work on the construction and reconstruction of the "Irkutsk - Chita" road was basically completed in 1981.[15] During the reconstruction and construction of the "Irkutsk - Chita" road (1970-1981) on the section of the river Bludna - Cheremkhovo, a number of large excavations was developed using powerful directed explosions with laying up to 400 tons of explosive per explosion.[15]

The road construction brigades worked on the construction of the Chita-

Amur Wheel”.[16]
Work started in 1977 on two sites:

Later, it was decided to build, by the forces of three special brigades of the Main Military Construction Directorate, from two directions:

  • one special brigade of the GVSU of the USSR Ministry of Defense launched construction on the Chita - Nikolaevka - Znamenka section from the western direction;
  • one special brigade of the GVSU of the USSR Ministry of Defense launched construction on the eastern section of the road in the direction of Pashkovo - Arkhara - Zavitinsk;
  • one special brigade of the GVSU of the USSR Ministry of Defense launched construction on the eastern section of the road in the direction of Zavitinsk -
    Sivaki
    .

The total length of the AD (with entrances) reached 2283 km, of which the existing paved road was 370 km. It was necessary to build 1913 km of new capital road.[15]

From the beginning of construction until 1992, 510 km of the road were built by the personnel of the Specialized Brigades, and more than 300,000,000 rubles of capital investments were disbursed (in estimated prices of 1969). From 1984 to 1992, the M58 built:

  • more than 30 capital bridges and overpasss, including a large 750 metre bridge across the River Zeya;
  • two complexes of buildings and structures of the road and motor transport services of the road;
  • petrol stations;
  • posts of the State Automobile Inspectorate and other objects[15]

All these tasks were performed by the following Road Troops formations:

In accordance with a Armed Forces General Staff directive, in 1969, under the Ministry of Construction and Maintenance of Roads of the Ukrainian SSR, the

Uzhgorod
, the arrangement of compressor stations, industrial and other facilities, produced industrial products for the needs of the region.

The Road Troops took part in the

Limited Contingent of Soviet Forces in Afghanistan (OKSVA). They first deployed a separate road commandant battalion (army) and then with the 278th Separate Road Commandant Brigade (278 odkbr) at Chaugani[17] in Baghlan Province, the operational maintenance of the army's highway from the Soviet-Afghan border at Hairatan to Kabul to Pul-i-Charkhi
was carried out.

At different times, the Limited Contingent/40th Army (Soviet Union) included:

In accordance with the directive of the Minister of Defence of the USSR of June 1, 1988, the 307th Training Road Brigade (307 uchdbr) (V/Ch 32213) was established in

Belorussian Military District. The 29th Tank Division was also located in the town. Another road training brigade, the 308th, was located at Skala-Podolskaya in the Carpathian Military District.[18]

Road Troops under the Russian Flag from 1992

The Road troops of the Russian Federation today consist of separate road commandant and bridge brigades, separate road commandant, road, bridge, bridge preparation battalions, other units, institutions and organizations. Training of specialists for road troops is carried out at

(university) of the Russian Federation.

The Road Troops of the North Caucasus Military District included in the Joint Group for the counter-terrorist operation, were very limited: parts of the road commandant's brigade, three road depots and road maintenance sections of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (Russian Ministry of Defense). In Chechenya, they restored bridges across the river (river) Terek in the area of the settlement Chervlyonnaya, r. Argun and r. Sunzha — in Petropavlovsk.

The Road Troops also reacted after floods damaged infrastructure. In 2002, road builders quickly restored bridges across the river Argun in Shatoi and across the river. Kuban on a federal highway in the city of Nevinnomyssk.

From October to December 2006, the 100th Separate Bridge Battalion, Central Automobile and Road Administration of the Russian Ministry of Defense assisted with transport infrastructure in Lebanon.

Soviet road building authorities

In various periods of the history of the Soviet Union, for one reason or another, in various government departments (sometimes simultaneously), there were various control bodies for road-building military formations:

Current Agencies

The rear services of the Armed Forces of Russia included:[citation needed]

  • Main Military Medical Department
    of the RF Defence Ministry
  • Main Department of Military Transportation of the RF Defence Ministry
  • Central Automobile Road Department of the RF Defence Ministry
  • Central Department of Rocket and Other Fuel of the RF Defence Ministry
  • Central Food Department of the RF Defence Ministry
  • Central Clothing Department of the RF Defence Ministry
  • Fire Rescue and Local Defence Service of the RF Armed Forces
  • Veterinary and Sanitary Service of the RF Armed Forces
  • Economic Security Department of the RF Armed Forces
  • Main Trade Department of the RF Defence Ministry
  • Main Department of Active Leisure of the RF Defence Ministry
  • Agricultural Department of the RF Defence Ministry
  • Military Science Committee of the RF Armed Forces Rear
  • Secretariat of the Chief of the RF Armed Forces Rear
  • Personnel Department of the RF Armed Forces Rear
  • Signal Troops of the RF Armed Forces Rear
  • Russian Railway Troops (since 5 October 2004)
  • Russian Automobile Troops
  • Russian Road Troops
  • Russian Pipeline Troops

Aside from these, all the branches of the Russian Armed Forces maintain their respective rear services, which report to the Rear Services HQ.

References

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