Russian Engineer Troops

Engineer Troops of the Russian Federation
Active	1996-present
Country	Russia
Type	Combat Arm
Commanders
Current commander	Lieutenant General Yuri Stavitsky

The Engineer Troops of the Russian Federation (

After the

The official holiday of the Engineering Troops was established by decree of President Boris Yeltsin on 18 September 1996. By order of the Minister of Defense on 23 September 1996, it was prescribed to celebrate the Day of Engineering Troops on January 21 annually.^[3]

Mission

In preparation and conduct of

• engineer reconnaissance of the enemy, terrain and objects;
• construction (arrangement) of
  tunnels, roadblocks, wire obstacles, defensive fighting positions
  etc.) and organization of field deployment of troops (residential, logistical, medical);
• organisation of engineering
  anti-tank ditches, scarps/counterscarps, stakes, abatis
  etc.);
• clearance of areas and facilities;
• preparation and maintenance of traffic routes of troops;
• creation and maintenance of ferries across water barriers, including construction of bridges;
• extraction and purification of water in the battlefield

In peacetime, the Engineer Troops have a number of important and socially significant tasks: they clean areas of explosive hazards, are involved in the response and liquidation of aftermath of man-made accidents and catastrophes, natural disasters, prevent destruction of bridges and waterworks during floating of ice, etc. Further development of the Engineer Troops is carried out through equipping them with qualitatively new, highly effective, versatile means of engineer equipment, built on the basis of standardised elements, blocks and modules, with a simultaneous decrease of the nomenclature samples of the same type for the intended purpose.[4]

Structure

The Engineer Troops are composed of formations, units and subdivisions for various purposes: engineering-reconnaissance, field engineering, fencing, obstacle clearing, assault-and-traffic engineering, pontoon bridge (pontoon), assault-crossing, camouflage-engineering, technology-engineering, field water supplying ones and so on.

Composition

• Directorate of the Commander of the Engineering Troops (Moscow)
• 1st Guards Engineer-Sapper Brigade (Murom, Western Military District)
• 11th Guards Engineer Brigade (Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Southern Military District)
• 12th Guards Engineer Brigade (Ufa, Central Military District)
• 14th Guards Engineer Brigade (Vyatskoye, Khabarovsk Krai, Eastern Military District)
• 45th Guards Engineer Brigade (Murom, Western Military District)
• 28th Pontoon Bridge Brigade (Murom)^[5]
• 6th Engineer Regiment (Rostov)^[6] (1st Guards Tank Army)
• 16th Engineer Regiment (Boguchar, 20th Guards Combined Arms Army)
• 24th Engineer Regiment (Kyzyl, 41st Combined Arms Army)
• 30th Engineer Regiment (Kerro, Vsevolozhsky District, 6th Combined Arms Army)
• 31st Engineer Regiment (
  58th Combined Arms Army
  )
• 32nd Engineer Regiment (Afipsky, 49th Combined Arms Army)
• 33rd Engineer Regiment (Volgograd, 8th Guards Combined Arms Army)
• 35th Engineer Regiment (Razdolnoe, Primorsky Krai, 5th Combined Arms Army)
• 39th Engineer Regiment (Kizner, 2nd Guards Tank Army)
• 40th Engineer Regiment (Ishim, 41st Combined Arms Army)
• 45th Separate Engineer-Camouflage Regiment (HQ located in Vladimir Oblast; Western Military District; in late 2020 reported at Inzhenernyy 1, 55.793785, 37.192298).^[7] Military Unit Number 58142. The regiment's formation was completed in June 2017; as well as the ability to quickly camouflage key facilities, it has "“inflatable models of tanks, guns, infantry fighting vehicles, PVO [air defense] systems, and other weapons systems."^[8]
• Training centers
  • 66th Interdepartmental Training Methodological Center of Engineering Troops (Nakhabino)
  • International Mine Action Center (Nakhabino)
  • 187th Interspecific Regional Training Center for the Engineering Troops (Volzhsky),
  • 210th Guards Interspecific Regional Training Center for the Engineering Troops (Kstovo)
• Research institutes
  • Central Research and Testing Institute of Engineering Troops (Nakhabino)
• Orthodox Choir and Engineering Troops Ensemble "For Faith and Fatherland"^[9]

Educational institutions

• Military Engineering Academy
• Military Institute (Engineering Troops) of the Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
• Military Engineering and Technical University
• Tyumen Higher Military Engineering Command School named after Marshal of the Engineering Troops Alexey Proshlyakov

Commanders of the Engineering Troops

• Colonel General Vladimir Kuznetsov (1992-1999)
• Colonel General Nikolai Serdtsev (1999-2008)
• Lieutenant General Yuri Balkhovitin (2008-2009)
• Colonel Vladimir Prokopchik (interim) (2009-2010)
• Lieutenant General Yuri Stavitsky (since July 2010)^[10]

References

 This article incorporates text by Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation available under the CC BY 4.0 license.

• Muzyka, Konrad (December 2020). "Russian Forces in the Western Military District" (PDF).
  CNA Corporation
  . (Rochan Consulting)

External links

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