“Royal troops” or construction battalion were a real legend in the USSR. True, rather in the bad sense of the word - many conscripts shunned this type of troops, and the military leadership generally opposed its existence. “Royal troops” Military construction detachments (VSO), or in common parlance - “construction battalion”, date back to February 13, 1942, when, by decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, the Military Reconstruction Directorate was formed, which was engaged in the repair and construction of facilities in the territories liberated from the German occupiers.
The term “construction battalion” was officially withdrawn from circulation in the 1970s, but did not completely disappear from the lexicon, remaining as part of military and civilian jargon. Also, the phrase “construction battalion” continued to be used in relation to some groups of foreign troops. The “Stroybatovtsy” ironically called themselves “royal troops.” According to one version, due to the large number of personnel: in the 1980s, it numbered approximately 300 to 400 thousand people, which exceeded the number of military personnel in the Airborne Forces (60,000), Marine Corps (15,000) and Border Troops (220,000) combined. According to another version, the self-name was associated with the name of the designer Sergei Korolev (all cosmodromes in the USSR were built by construction teams).
Among Soviet youth, the construction battalion was not considered the most prestigious place for military service. His unpopularity was largely due to the fact that he had only a formal relationship directly with military affairs. However, the recruits who joined the construction detachments had certain advantages over those drafted into other branches of the military. According to Order No. 175 of the USSR Minister of Defense dated May 30, 1977, a military builder was paid a salary for his work, from which, however, the cost of food, uniforms, bath and laundry services, cultural events and other types of support was deducted - those that were united under the concept of “clothing debt."
As one of the employees of the construction battalion recalled, he was deducted about 30 rubles monthly for household services - “washing, bathing, uniforms.” Salaries in the construction troops (for the period of the 1980s) ranged from 110 to 180 rubles, but in some cases reached 250 rubles. Everything depended on the specialty. As a rule, those who worked on tower cranes and excavators received more than others. The money was deposited into the employee’s account and given out upon retirement. True, in case of urgent need, they were allowed to send money to relatives. At the end of the service, the “construction battalions” sometimes took away up to 5 thousand rubles. The “construction battalion workers” also had additional sources of income, in particular, in the so-called “hack jobs”, where they paid around 10-15 rubles for one working day. They were also entitled to benefits. They were received by warrant officers and officers who had the opportunity to quickly solve their housing problems.
The VSO personnel were recruited mainly from conscripts who graduated from construction educational institutions. Construction teams were often replenished with people from rural areas who “knew how to hold a tool in their hands.” Troubled youth were also sent there, sometimes with a criminal record. Although it was not customary to talk about it, nationality was another criterion for selection into the construction battalion. Thus, the share of Caucasian and Central Asian peoples in some construction battalions reached 90% of the personnel.
It is widely believed that the reason why immigrants from Central Asia and the Caucasus were mainly allowed to work in construction work was their poor knowledge of the Russian language. The national composition of the construction brigades scared off many conscripts. Another category of conscripts for whom the road to the construction battalion was “banned” are young men with disabilities. Their parents, by hook or by crook, looked for all sorts of workarounds to protect their children from labor service.
The very fact of the existence of military construction detachments has more than once been criticized by senior military leaders, who considered such formations ineffective and even “illegal.” In 1956, Defense Minister Georgy Zhukov and Chief of the General Staff Vasily Sokolovsky reported that “the use of military personnel in industry is a violation of the USSR Constitution, since, according to Article 132 of the Constitution, military service ... should take place in the ranks of the Armed Forces of the USSR, and not in construction organizations of civilian ministries THE USSR".
Experts drew attention to the fact that the production activities of military construction units were poorly organized, and their material and living support was at an extremely low level. One of the negative examples is associated with military construction detachment No. 1052, which in November 1955 was located in an unfinished building. The commission revealed unacceptable living and sanitary conditions for employees. The workers had to sleep dressed, since the temperature in the rooms did not exceed +3 degrees. For a month they were deprived of the opportunity to wash in the bathhouse or change their linen, as a result of which many got lice.
Contrary to popular belief, service in construction brigades was by no means safe. In 1986, “construction battalion workers” were sent to eliminate the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster - according to some sources, they made up at least 70% of the contingent working in the contaminated zone. Two years later, construction teams went to Armenia to remove rubble and rebuild cities after a devastating earthquake. They also served in Afghanistan. In 1979, immediately after the entry of Soviet troops into this country, the question of quartering personnel arose. In the shortest possible time, builders were required to create and improve military camps with all the infrastructure, residential and military-administrative buildings, build warehouses for ammunition and equipment, fortifications along the perimeter of military units, and airfields.
But almost no one knows that the soldiers of our Soviet construction battalion fought heroically against British paratroopers during the Falklands War in 1982.
In 1982, a Soviet construction battalion was sent to the Falkland Islands to Port Stanley to extend a concrete runway. It was at this time that the islands were invaded by British troops, who disputed control over these territories with Argentina.
According to a participant in those events, Soviet soldiers mined all approaches to the airfield, armed themselves with captured weapons and withstood a siege from British paratroopers for three days.
The airfield was a strategic site; the British had to occupy it first.
The first to land was a capture group of English paratroopers, in three helicopters, which was all destroyed with shovels, picks and crowbars. After all, the construction battalion soldiers did not have personal weapons.
Armed with captured weapons and dug in, the construction battalions fought off 4 more attacks by British landing forces on the first day. For three days ours held the airfield, the British suffered the greatest ground losses of their units there.
Only thanks to the intervention of Moscow was the local military conflict stopped - Soviet soldiers were ordered to lay down their arms and evacuated to Cuba.
After all, the joke about the construction battalion was not born out of nowhere:
Two CIA generals communicate, one speaks to the other
- you heard that the Russians have created new troops, animals in general ..
- called special forces?
-what special forces, construction battalions, such animals that they are not even given weapons - they kill with their hands!
Notes from an Afghani, part 30. Sally of our
Remember, at the beginning of the story, I described how indignant I was about working on the construction of huge garages (back in the Union)? And then he said that he was not drafted into a construction battalion and, of course, this was not how he saw his service at all.
Now about the construction battalion.
After some time of service in Bagram, part of the construction troops stood not far from us.
This is what we didn’t expect: a construction battalion in Afghanistan?
There was a lot of construction going on there, of course, but people were still perplexed.
Although, if you think about it: who will build long-term defensive structures, for example? Here we need professionals from masons to foremen and above.
I don’t know what the new arrivals built, but they were soon remembered, perhaps, by everyone who was not far from them, and beyond (the earth is full of rumors).
Anyone who served in the DRA will definitely remember how the soldiers from his unit somehow ate enough grapes, melons or other gifts of the earth.
We are Soviet people. And we got used to the fact that “this is all collective farm property - it’s all mine.”
No one thought while picking the sweet fruits: after all, they belong to someone. And the absence of a guard does not mean that the plants are ownerless.
One day, a small group of soldiers from the construction troops went to pick grapes growing near the unit. Of course, without permission. Who would let them go to such an event?
They left... and disappeared.
True, it seems like there were several single shots from the side where the soldiers died, but who would pay attention to something like that in Afghanistan?
This is what happened.
The soldiers were captured by the very owners of the grapes, and all of them were well armed. Apparently, they carried out the first attacks in our places of deployment.
The mountains are far from Bagram. From there, it is impossible for large gangs to reach Soviet units unnoticed. They will be destroyed on the way.
The owners of the land who captured our servicemen did not go to the commandant’s office with a complaint, which was the practice in similar cases. The Afghans knew who to complain to about the shuravi.
The owners of the lands themselves began to administer bloody justice.
First, the soldiers were brutally beaten. Then, apparently, they decided to deal with each separately.
One fighter in a semi-conscious state was dragged by “peaceful farmers” to the elder, probably the “chairman of the collective farm.” The leader was holding in his hand a Mauser pistol, known from ancient times.
The soldier was supported by the shoulders, his head hung down. They reported to the boss how and what, after which the senior, without hesitation, shot the fighter in the back of the head with a Mauser.
The spirits thought that they had killed the soldier and abandoned him for now. We went to the other captured people to sort it out. Or maybe they decided to have a snack after the first short-term “trial”.
But the fighter was alive. The bullet entered the skin in the neck area and popped out in the hip area.
The wounded soldier, left without supervision, came to his senses and rushed to his own. He told the whole truth to the top of the battalion, only they stopped his bleeding.
What to do? We need to save the “Ass...ants”. That's roughly how the commander put it. He obviously called higher authorities, explained everything and received the go-ahead to rescue his subordinates from captivity on his own.
And the construction battalion began the operation.
The soldiers walked in a long chain (the coverage area was decent).
Moreover, they just walked: they did not jump in short dashes, did not crawl, walked at full height and did not shoot. This was clearly visible from the territory of our battalion. After all, the events described took place opposite, about three hundred meters away and a little to the right on a hill.
From the outside, out of ignorance, such actions can be mistaken for filming a movie. But the feeling from this movie is not very good.
Everyone understood that now the boys would start to fall, and perhaps someone would never rise again. We could not calmly look at the picture of the approaching battle. Everyone was waiting, suddenly the battalion commander would order to get weapons and move to the aid of the construction battalion. But no such order came. Our battalion commander stood at the checkpoint and anxiously looked first at the chain of soldiers, then at us, ready to rush to the aid of our own.
The commander was probably expecting a call from division headquarters. In this situation, the lieutenant colonel had no right to act without permission.
We saw how the local residents began to retreat, stopping and shooting at the attackers. Immediately the crackle of machine gun fire was heard. A fight ensued.
Seeing a clear advantage, the opponents began to scatter. One spirit jumped into a haystack, which was immediately pierced with tracers. The hay caught fire.
Then a couple of houses were blown up with grenade launchers, from where they fired aimed at our people.
Soon people came out to meet the military, waving a white flag.
I don’t know all the details of further events, but the soldiers decorated with black eyes were handed over to the construction unit.
I can say: the construction battalion of the division also fought in Afghanistan. And successfully. It is noticeable that the soldiers were well prepared before arriving in the DRA.
We are trying to write the history of our battalion
The photographs show the cars used by the 126th autobat
For
cargo transportation
and other
assigned tasks.
The conditional name of military unit PP 25909 belonged to , which was introduced into the territory of Afghanistan (DRA) on March 14, 1980.
The automobile battalion of our unit, called the 126th separate motor battalion (hereinafter referred to as 126 OAB), was formed by tankman-Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Sergeevich Kovalev in 1960, in the city of Tiraspol (Tiraspol was then part of the Odessa Military District) and was subordinate to the Main Directorate of the Special Construction for the construction of a nuclear missile complex. The first relocation of the battalion took place to the Ural Military District - to the city of Nizhny Tagil. Then there was a move to the Siberian Military District, Tyumen, Bogandinskaya station. Later redeployed to the Turkestan Military District, Tyura-Tam station, Baikonur. In 1967 The battalion was redeployed to the Moscow Military District in Kostroma, the village of Susanino. After Kostroma - moving to the Volga Military District, Yoshkar-Ola. In August 1971, under the leadership of battalion commander V.F. Doroshenko, the battalion moved to Transbaikalia, to
Trans-Baikal Military District of Petrovsk-Zabaikalsky, where the battalion was at the disposal of the 159th Separate Road Construction Brigade and carried out the task of building the M55 Ulan-Ude - Chita highway.INThe Transbaikalia battalion was assigned a location on the eastern side of the village of Novopavlovka, which is forty kilometers from the city Petrovsk-Zabaikalsky. In 1979, in honor of the completion of the construction of the section of the Ulan-Ude - Chita highway, east of the Bada railway station, near the village of Zurun, a (<-памятник
) " ". В 1980г. нашему батальону предстояла следующая передислокация в Афганистан, в город Шинданд. Передислокация осуществлялась как и раньше
by railway in 3 echelons (one echelon - one company of 40 platforms and cars). In 1975 after the dismissal of Doroshenko V.F. reserve commander
V.S. Grinyaev was appointed to the battalion. (Before that he was chief of staff in the road battalionVdovichenko V.A., 159 ODSBr). Major P.I. Krasnov was the deputy commander for economic affairs, and the deputy commander for political affairs was E.V. Krasnopolsky. By 1979 the brigade's shortfall was more than 30%, and in the autobats (there were 3 of them) it was even greater, so in a very short time the brigade was replenished at the expense of the other three brigades of the Far Eastern Military District (Separate road constructionthere were four brigades, which means 44 separate battalions, bases and logistics offices), and the personnel were also supplemented with military personnel from training in Belogorsk. After being re-equipped, the 126th motor battalion, together with its equipment, was sent to Ekaterinoslavka Amur region forloading into railway 
echelons, two other battalions left Petrovsk-Zabaikalsky, the rest from Belogorsk. So
classified brigadewent to Afghanistan in 13 echelons. Two battalions were sent to Kushka, one of which is a road construction battalion (construction battalion) and our 126th automobile battalion, which later received the nickname “Grinyaevsky”. "Grinyaevsky" - from the surname of the battalion commander, Valentin Semenovich Grinyaev. All the remaining 11 went to Termez. (From the memoirs of the commander of the 159th Specialized Rifle Brigade V.D. Kovshov and the commander of the 126th motor battalion V.F. Doroshenko, book of memoirs "Rokada")
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After a two-week move, temporary (about a month) the battalion's camp site in the city of Kushka was determined to be 1-2 km away. from the settlement and the military units of the garrison, they lived in a mountain range, in tents. After some time, new ZILs were received and on their own (in a column) consisting of 3 companies along the Kushka-Shindand highway, the battalion arrived in the city of Shindandon the territory of the DRA. About twenty days earlier, one of the colony-apartments had already left for the city of Shindand,
which installed on sitebasing (deployment) of the 126th separate motor battalion tenttown, three scarves for the rank and file and 8-person tents for the officers. On arrivalcolumns (the main part of the battalion personnel) to the battalion’s location, the arrangement of the tent city continued. The structures (repair zone workshops) in the car park were made of stone. At the end of 1981 an officer "module" - headquarters was built (the "module" is a wooden, one-story building of the typedormitory corridor made of plywood panels with a layer of glass wool). The officer module was delivered by Hurricanes, which were parked at the end of the 6 vehicle fleet. also from the 58th motor brigade, they still had their own combat guard - armored personnel carriers. Parallel to 126The OAB included a road construction battalion, battalion commander Stelmakh, which was based next door to our 126th OAB. First time
the battalion's columns walked along the route "Shindand-Kushka-Shindand" until they lined up the divisionalhospital made of wooden “modules”. Then the Shindand-Kandahar route was added. (From the memoirs of Leonid Chirkov, Katanyan, Alexander Grauer and Viktor Sushkin who served on the territory of the DRA from 03/14/80 to October 1981, 2.3 companies)
The Shindand-Kushka route took one daylight hours, and the Shindand-Kandahar route took 2 to 3 days (in one direction), depending on the combat situation (sometimes the flight to Kandahar and back took 8 days).
From the moment of commissioning to 1983. in the battalion, the fighter-drivers of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd companies continued to live in tents, and on the voyage - in cars, as well as the soldiers of the platoon household lived in the tents of the 1st company; the repair platoon, communications platoon and clerks were part of the 2nd company and lived in the tents of the 2nd company; the commandant's platoon was part of the 3rd company (From the memoirs of Valera Ponomarenko, 83-85, 2nd company)
. The officers in the battalion lived in a wooden “module”, and during the flight they lived in “Letuchka”, MTOshka (Parma).
Closer to the autumn of 1980. there was a “production” need to transfer one of our companies of our battalion to the Termez route (eastern part of Afghanistan). The 2nd divisions were then established in this part of Afghanistan, and 201 divisions in Kabul and Kunduz. Therefore, in the fall of 1980. Partold-timers (40 people) conscription 1979-1981 with equipment: GAZ-66, ZIL-MTO, flatbeds and scows ZIL-130 and 3rd ZIL-131 vehicles, and then in June 1981. the second part of the old-timers with part of the soldiers of the spring conscription of 1981. The first company, together with its equipment, were sent on a business trip (via Soyuz, Kushka - Termez), to transport goods along the route "Termez -Puli-Khumri - Kabul" (made 3-5 flights in winter,unloaded in Tyoply Stan, near the headquarters of the 58th brigadeuntil the "Alekseevsky" motor battalion appeared)then along the route "Termez -
Bullets-Khumri - Kunduz" (unloaded at the end of the airfield). Initially (autumn-winter) the company was based on the territory of the garrison of the city of Puli-Khumri, in the spring they moved to the garrison of the city of Kunduz, at the end of the airfield, where they lived in a dugout and in cars. After some time time (autumn-winter) to improve service and ensuretechnology, in 1981 the company returned to the garrison of the city of Puli-Khumri, where the drivers lived in 2 tents and in cars next to the “Romanovsky” auto battalion (behind the barb of the vehicle park. The Romanovsky auto battalion was also part of the 58th automobile brigade) and carried cargo only to Kunduz along the route Termez-Puli-Khumri-Kunduz. The company's officers spent the night in the officers' dormitory of the "Romanovsky" battalion or in "Letuchka" at the ZIL vehicle base. In March
1982 together with the equipment, the 1st company (via Soyuz, Termez-Kushka) was returned to Shindand. Summer 1982 from Puli-Khumri to Shindand (via Soyuz, Termez-Kushka) underThe leadership of the battalion commander of the Shindand Autobattalion, Mr. Shumny, transferred to our battalion most of the 2nd company of the Romanov battalion (58 auto brigade), 40 people, the entire conscription in the spring of 1981. from Ukraine and Central Asia. All with their own cars and one car with a ZU-23 installation without anti-aircraft gunners. The convoy arrived in Shindand in ZIL-130 vehicles with license plates 09-..LZ, then they were changed to 27-..ICH. There were no officers transferred from Puli-Khumri.
In Shindand, on the territory of the battalion (June 1983), a modular barracks was built for the 1st company in September 1983. - for the 2nd company and in the winter of 1983, 1984. - for the 3rd company. The main vehicle in the convoys was the ZIL-130 (flatbed),The tankers in the convoys were fuel tankers based on ZIL and MAZ vehicles. To transport long-length cargo, semi-trailers based on ZIL, MAZ and KamAZ vehicles were used, and drinking water and radio stations were used on GAZ-66 vehicles; throughout the territory of the Shindand Division, dump trucks based on ZIL, MAZ and KamAZ vehicles were used. Since 1983 to 1985 The battalion's vehicle fleet was updated: September 1983. - 1st company, April 1984 - 2nd company and February 1985 - 3rd company. ZIL-130 vehicles were replaced by KamAZ vehicles (KAMAZ trailers have been used since the fall of 1984). Anti-aircraft installations (ZU), 2 installations per column, remained on the ZIL-130 until the
withdrawal of the battalion. Since March 1985 The route "Shindand-Lashkargah-Shindand" was added.
Since October 1984, after several accidents associated with the death of the local population under the wheels of our columns in Herat and Kandahar, the numbers on the cars of the 2nd and 3rd companies were replaced: 2nd company from 07-_lz to 28-_ich and 3 -I company from 20-_vb to 29-_ich.
11/15/86 The 2nd companies of the 126th separate auto battalion (military unit 25909) were withdrawn from the city of Shindand through the city of Kushka and by 11/20/86. (to be specified... by railway train through the city of Dmitrov, in the Moscow region, Russia,...) was redeployed to the Carpathian Military District in Ukraine in the city of Uzhgorod, where in December 1986. from the personnel of our battalion and the personnel of other auto battalions, military unit 02949 (conditional name 1666 VSO) was formed, which, by act of June 21, 1989. was liquidated. ( information from Sergey Lyzhnenko, 1st company, 81-83. ) The transition and withdrawal across the border from Turagundey to Kushka was very difficult and lasted more than 2 months (a story about the reasons for such a transition and a more complete description of the transition itself is expected from eyewitnesses appointed responsible for the withdrawal of our battalion...).
After the withdrawal of the main part of the machinesour battalion(1st company and 2nd company, drivers with cars) the remaining drivers were scattered to parts of the Shindand garrison: tank crews…. , some of the fighters of the auxiliary units (signalmen, repair platoon...) of the battalion remained in place.
At the end of the summer of 1986, by plane, from Kabul to Shindand, without cars, the 3rd company of the “Upper Battalion”, 58 motor brigade, was sent on a business trip. Upon arrival in Shindand, as such, the 126th Autobat was no longer there, and in its place stood the Baltic Autobat of Fillers. From the 126th Autobat all that remained were the vehicles of only one company, most of which were numbered 29-...ich (1113) with 2 chargers on KamAZ trucks and the remnants of the personnel of the auxiliary units. For the drivers of these vehicles, a barracks was allocated on the territory of the construction battalion (next to the joint store, behind the officer’s module), and a team of drivers under the name of military unit 25909 again continued transporting goods from Turagundey to Kandahar.In February
1987 this company was divided into two parts and approximately 2 platoons of drivers without cars were transported by plane to Kunduz, then by helicopter to Hairatan, Termez and then to the Baltic states near Riga, Mucenieki village. In the village of Mucenieki there was an air defense unit behind the fence of which barracks were built for the withdrawn personnel, from where, after some time, everyone was discharged for demobilization. (
from the memoirs of Igor Shevkunov, 86-87.
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The platoon that remained in Shindand remained with the construction battalion and, if necessary, continued to transport cargo to Kandahar, attaching to other columns, and also gradually transported the remaining vehicles of the 126th AB to Turagundi.
This is how the 126th separate motor battalion ended its existence, the archival documents of which cannot be found today. The soldiers of the "Upper Automatic Battalion" also cannot find the archive of their battalion.
According to archival information, one can only state that “...military unit 25909 took part in combat in the period from 03.14.80 to 11.15.86actions on the territory of the Republic of Afghanistan. Base: DShG No. 314/12/0555 ()
Note: The 126th OAB (military unit 25909) was subordinate to58th Automobile Brigade (having the code name military unit PP 26039), which inturnwas part of the 342nd UIR.
InitiallyThe 58th Automobile Brigade was called as159th Road Construction Brigade (DSBr)
and before entering Afghanistan it had military unit number 02172 with a location in the city of Belogorsk of the Far Eastern Military District. INperiodfrom 03/07/80 to 04/01/83,more precisely since 1983,The 159th DRR was reorganized into the 58th Automobile Brigade with its locationheadquarters on the territory of the DRAin Kabul(Dar-Ul-Aman)in other words "Tyoply Stan"With04/01/83 to 02/28/87, brigade newspaper "Son of the Fatherland".
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History of the creation and production activities of Separate Road Construction Brigades of the GVSU MO.
Separate road construction brigades were created in 1969 - 1971.
The international situation was so tense at that time that it led to border skirmishes with China. Suffice it to recall the battles for Damansky Island in the Far East, the battles at the Dzungarian Gate in Southern Kazakhstan. By Decree of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers of the USSR of October 23, 1970 No. 878-301 “On the construction and reconstruction of border roads (AD) in the regions of Eastern Siberia, the Far East and Central Asia,” four road construction brigades were created in the Main Military Construction management (GVSU) of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR of the Armed Forces of the USSR, which were located and began in 1970 at the construction and reconstruction sites of the road Irkutsk - Chita in the regions of Transbaikalia and Kazakhstan with further relocation after the completion of the road Irkutsk-Chita And Aktogay-Druzhba for road construction Chita-Khabarovsk-Nakhodka. Financing of construction and reconstruction was carried out through capital investments allocated centrally, once a year, for these purposes by the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR. The total length of the road from Irkutsk to Chita reached 1,172 km(with entrances), of which 566 km. constituted existing paved areas, and 606 km. had to be rebuilt by three road construction crews. The work began in 1970. The formation of brigades of 11 battalions, with a strength of 5 thousand people each, was entrusted to the Deputy Minister of Defense for the construction and quartering of troops, the headquarters of the military construction complex.
70th Specialized Brigade in 1969, it formed the Main Military Construction Directorate of the Ministry of Defense (GVSU MO) and directed it to build the Irkutsk - Ulan-Ude highway, the Baikalsk-Posolskoye section with a length of 204.3 km;
146th Specialized Brigade in 1971, it formed the Central Directorate of Special Construction of the Ministry of Defense (TSUSS MO) and directed it to the construction of the Aktogai-Druzhba highway with access to the border with China in the area of the Dzungarian Gate with a length of 180 km.
159th Specialized Brigade in 1971, it formed the Main Directorate of Special Construction of the Ministry of Defense (GUSS MO) and directed it to the construction of the Ulan-Ude - Chita highway, the Mukhorshibir-Glinka section, with a length of 178.5 km.
160th Specialized Brigade in 1971, it formed the Main Military Construction Directorate of the Center of the Ministry of Defense (GVSU Center of the Ministry of Defense) and directed it to the construction of the Ulan-Ude - Chita highway, the Bludnaya-Cheremkhovo river section with a length of 223.5 km.
In 1975, for more efficient management of the brigades, they were reassigned to the Main Military Construction Directorate of the Ministry of Defense (GVSU MO). The military builders were given the most difficult tasks. They had to build the Irkutsk-Chita-Khabarovsk-Nakhodka highway under the most difficult conditions. Permafrost soils and hard-to-reach mountainous areas, rock excavations of 9 - 11 categories, where it is impossible to pass even 1 meter of the road without drilling and blasting operations, swamps with multi-meter peat excavations and complete off-road conditions with 40-50 degree frosts “beautifully” complemented the overall picture of road construction work . Harsh social and living conditions, lack of comfortable housing, tent cities and trailers further aggravated the situation close to combat. But the military teams, in this most difficult situation, coped with the tasks set by the Party and the Government with honor. In total, 606 km were built and put into operation on the Irkutsk-Chita road. roads with asphalt concrete pavement according to the standards of the III technical category, while 207 million rubles of capital investments were spent (in estimated prices of 1969). In addition to the highway, the following were built: - 103 capital bridges; 480 culverts; 12 complexes of buildings and structures of the road maintenance service; 8 gas stations (gas stations); 3 bus stations (bus station); 2 service stations (service stations) for cars and road vehicles; As work was completed in their sections, the ODSBr GVSU of the USSR Ministry of Defense moved to the construction of the Chita-Khabarovsk AD (M58). Work on the construction and reconstruction of the Irkutsk-Chita AD was mainly completed in 1981. Interesting Facts. During the reconstruction and construction of the Irkutsk-Chita AD (1970-1981) on the Bludnaya-Cheremkhovo river section, a number of large excavations were developed using powerful directed explosions with the placement of up to 400 tons of explosives per explosion. But the situation changed again.
On December 27, 1979, the country's leadership introduced a limited contingent of troops (40th Army) into Afghanistan to provide military assistance to the Afghan people. The Minister of Defense decided to redeploy the 159th Special Forces Brigade to Afghanistan to equip the troops of the 40th Army, which was done in the period January-March 1980.
The brigade successfully completed the task assigned to it, dozens of military camps were built in a combat situation, and thousands of tons of all kinds of cargo were transported from the Union. By 1984, it was reorganized into the 58th Automobile Brigade, and in 1987, after completing the tasks of organizing the troops, it was withdrawn to the USSR and disbanded. For completing the assigned task, hundreds of brigade soldiers were awarded military orders and medals.
The remaining teams continued to successfully complete the tasks of constructing the Amur highway. The 160th Specialized Brigade was stationed in the military town of Vasilyevka, liberated by the 159th Specialized Brigade. In 1977, having completed its Aktogai-Druzhba section in Kazakhstan, the 146th Specialized Brigade was redeployed to the Far East and stationed in the towns of Arkhara and Kundur, Amur Region, for the construction of the Arkhara-Pashkovo section and the Chita-Khabarovsk highway. (Website "Veterans of individual road construction brigades of the GVSU MO"
http://odsbr.ucoz.ru/index/istorija_odsbr/0-14).
Withdrawal of the Limited Contingent of Soviet Forces (RCSV)— the organized, planned withdrawal of formations, units, units of the 40th Army, border troops from the territory of Afghanistan to the USSR was carried out in 3 stages: 1st - before the Geneva agreements, 2nd and 3rd - during their implementation. The first units (anti-aircraft missile) were withdrawn in January 1980. In the same year, Moscow and Kabul made the first official attempts to hold Afghan-Pakistani negotiations under the auspices of the UN. In 1982 The first negotiations to resolve the Afghan problem took place in Geneva. They went on for 6 years, 12 rounds took place. In April 1985 The new political leadership of the USSR announced a policy of renouncing the use of force in international relations and, without proper preparation, began reducing the combat strength of the OKSV. By 09/20/86 6 regiments were redeployed from Afghanistan to the territory of the USSR. 04/14/88 In Geneva, a quadripartite agreement was reached on the timing and schedule of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan within 9 months. But on the eve of April 9, USSR Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov signed an order for the withdrawal of troops. The Soviet side implemented the Geneva Agreements in full by August 15, 1988. At the 1st stage, the number of OKSV was reduced by 50%, at the 2nd stage - January-February 1989. the remaining 50% l/s were withdrawn. The withdrawal of Soviet troops was carried out on a planned basis. In the western direction, troops were withdrawn along the route Kandahar-Farakhrud-Shindand-Turagundi-Kushka. On the east - along 5 routes, starting in the garrisons of Jalalabad, Ghazni, Faizabad, Kunduz, Kabul, then through Puli-Khumri to Hairatan and Termez. Some aircraft from the airfields of Jalalabad, Gardez, Faizabad, Kunduz, Kandahar and Shindand were transported by plane. 02/15/89 The last Soviet unit left Afghan territory. Conclusion OKSV is not only the most important military-political. event, but also a large-scale defensive operation of the 40th Army (see "Typhoon" operation)
The head of military operations for the withdrawal of troops in the western direction is Major General N.P. Pishchev.
02/04/1989 - a convoy from the city of Shindand of the ground echelon of the Air Force begins to move, consisting of the 403rd Obato and the 5th Motorized Rifle Division. Crosses the state border of the USSR on February 5, 1989.
- 02/04/1989 Units of the 196th and 424th in the amount of 434 vehicles of the district automobile battalions of the 246th KEC, the 704th military hospital and the 279th SED are moving forward in one convoy. Crosses the state border of the USSR on February 6, 1989.
- The rear of the 5th Motorized Rifle Division and the 371st Motorized Rifle Regiment, consisting of the 375th Infantry Division and the 460th Medical Battalion in the amount of 284 vehicles, begin to move. The state border of the USSR is crossed on February 7, 1989.
- 02/07/1989 The beginning of the advance of the control of the 5th motorized rifle division, the 3rd motorized rifle division of the 371st motorized rifle regiment consisting of 360 units of military equipment and vehicles in the amount of 365 units. The state border of the USSR is crossed on February 8, 1989.
- 02/08/1989 Advancement of the 177th orvb of the 5th motorized rifle division, the 1st and 2nd motorized rifle battalions of the 371st motorized rifle regiment after their removal from the blocks and the transfer of outposts (posts) from the city of Shindand to the city of Herat. Crosses the state border of the USSR on February 9, 1989.
- 02/09/1989 Advancement of the 12th MRR in full force after removal from the “blocks” and transfer of outposts in the area from Herat to the Mirza-Rabati pass, consisting of 432 units of equipment. Crosses the border on February 10, 1989
- 02/10/1989 The 101st Motorized Rifle Regiment begins to move with 432 units of military equipment, joining the column of units removed from the “blocks” after the transfer of outposts. The state border of the USSR is crossed on February 11, 1989.
- 02/11/1989 Deployment of combat support units of the 5th Motorized Rifle Division as part of the 650th reconnaissance battalion and engineer battalion. Removal of units of the 101st Motorized Rifle Division from the “blocks”. The state border of the USSR is crossed on February 12, 1989.
- 02/12/1989 Advancement of motor transport columns consisting of 465 units. vehicles of the 1468th district transshipment base from the village of Turagundi. The USSR state border is crossed on February 13, 1989.
- 02/13/1989 Transpotransfer of the 278th separate company of heavy vehicles from the army SPPM, with the repair stock of overhaul vehicles, and decommissioned armored hulls taken from the garrisons of the Western direction. It crosses the state border of the USSR on February 14, 1989. The export was carried out on two flights - 278 or.TM.
- 02/14/1989 Advancement of the convoy of the 1356th separate security battalion with the removal of its units from the “blocks” in the section of the Rabati-Mirza region to the security zone of the village of Turagundi.
The last soldier of the Soviet troops crossed the state border of the USSR in the region of Turagundi - Kushka, Major General N.P. Pishchev. (information taken from the 602 autobat website. Gorbunov Sergey,http://602avtobat.ru/forum/index.php/topic,541.0.html )
Original taken from oper_1974 in STROYBAT. "Beat the Chuchmeks, they are for Beria!"
V. A. Kozlov: Mass riots under Khrushchev and Brezhnev.
The conflicts of Khrushchev's time include numerous cases of group fights, mass hooliganism and unrest among military personnel of construction battalions and workers called up (mobilized) through military registration and enlistment offices to work in industry or soldiers demobilized ahead of schedule for the same purposes.
Army commanders responded to the new policy by mass dumping physically weakened soldiers, as well as those with criminal records or indiscipline, into construction units.
When investigating the unrest among the soldiers of the construction battalion in the city of Usolye-Sibirskoye (August 1953), it turned out that the conflict unit, which existed for only a month and a half, from the very beginning became a kind of septic tank, where the command of the normal units sent their worst soldiers.
Of the 650 soldiers in the battalion, 350 had disciplinary sanctions (172 people - from 2 to 10 disciplinary sanctions). 498 military personnel were admitted with various diseases (dysentery, gastritis, chronic gonorrhea, urinary incontinence, residual effects of tuberculosis, etc.). 38 people had previous convictions for hooliganism, theft, etc.
In a word, the personnel of the construction battalion provided ideal soil for informal semi-criminal self-organization. On the one hand, “inveterate” soldiers who actively reject military discipline and even have a criminal record, and therefore specific experience of hierarchical criminal self-organization and suppression of the weak, on the other hand, losers unsuited to military service and incapable of resistance, sick and weakened military personnel.
It is not surprising that during the formation of the battalion not a single day passed without incident. Officers were beaten and robbed. The soldiers were brought in drunk and unloaded from their vehicles by their arms and legs.
Dominating the battalion, the “inveterate” were able to quickly subjugate the rest of the soldiers to themselves and their rules of life, created an informal hierarchy, protected by mutual responsibility, and suppressed the system of formal social connections. During the investigation of the unrest, none of the 242 Komsomol members and 14 communists of the battalion named the organizers of the unrest - they were afraid.
The battalion was quartered in summer tents on the outskirts of the city - in open areas. Mass unauthorized absences began. The guardhouse simply turned into a “day rest house” - soldiers arrested for violations of discipline took advantage of the inaction of the guard service, freely went to the city at night, and slept during the day.
In February 1954, the Prosecutor General of the USSR R.A. Rudenko had to specifically inform the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR G.M. Malenkov about the unfavorable situation in the construction battalions transferred by the USSR Ministry of Defense to a number of line ministries.
The soldiers were housed in cramped and stuffy rooms; there were no washrooms or dryers; colds and skin diseases, frostbite, and lice were common among military personnel.
The work of the construction battalion workers was extremely poorly organized, and salaries were paid late. Mass unauthorized absences, drinking, fights, and rowdy behavior in nearby settlements became commonplace. There were cases of murder, rape and robbery of civilians.
Cases of direct clashes with military commanders, internal, “barracks” riots of construction battalions were the exception rather than the rule. One of the few examples of such conflicts is unrest in one of the companies of a separate construction battalion of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Ashgabat (April 1954). Usually, the aggression of construction battalions was directed outward - towards the civilian population or towards police officers and developed according to two possible scenarios.
In the first case, the aggressive behavior or criminal actions of military builders, whose status and nature of service seemed to take them beyond the usual boundaries of military discipline, caused a defensive reaction and retaliatory aggression of the civilian population. The conflict, which developed for more or less a long time in a latent form, was eventually resolved by group fights, sometimes accompanied by pogroms.
The peculiarity of this scenario was the absence of aggression towards government officials. The participants in the conflict, if they did not perceive them (these representatives) as an arbitrator, then at least did not consider them an enemy who should be dealt with along the way.
Without encroaching on the foundations of the system and the sacred inviolability of power, these unrest, nevertheless, required a quick response from the authorities. A typical episode is a clash between military personnel from construction battalions and construction workers in the city of Kstov, Gorky Region (February 1955).
The snowball of conflict rolled downhill as a result of an insignificant event. Four soldiers took a bottle of vodka from the worker and beat him. In response, a crowd of workers (40-50 people), armed with knives, sticks, and crowbars, burst into the women's dormitory, attacked a group of soldiers there, beat eight of them, and inflicted serious bodily injuries on three.
A participant in the clash who ran from the hostel to the construction battalion reported the incident to his comrades. This time, 100 people ran out of the barracks and, also armed with iron pipes, shovel handles, crowbars and sticks, attacked the workers' dormitory.
As a result of the pogrom, which lasted several hours, doors were broken and windows were broken. 15 workers and five soldiers were seriously injured. After the events in Kstovo, the causes of the emergency and “measures to strengthen military discipline” were discussed at a meeting in the Gorky Regional Committee of the CPSU. A separate report on the events was presented by the Chief Military Prosecutor to the USSR Prosecutor General Rudenko.
Despite the efforts of the authorities, emergencies with military builders continued. A group fight between construction battalion members and factory workers in the city of Molotovsk, Arkhangelsk Region in January 1955 ended with the seizure of weapons, shooting, wounding 11 people and killing one.
A similar clash between the local population and construction battalion workers in the city of Biysk, Altai Territory (December 1955) broke through a long-ripening abscess - the growth of a hotbed of crime and mass hooliganism - and demanded more radical decisions from government officials.
The matter was not limited to bringing active participants in mass hooliganism to criminal liability. The source of the conflict was removed from the city. 500 construction battalion members were immediately demobilized and taken out of Biysk in an organized manner. Local residents could celebrate.
The second scenario of the construction battalion unrest was characterized by the escalation of intergroup conflict into direct aggression against government officials. Having failed to seize the initiative at the very beginning of events, but having tried to do so at least belatedly and arrest the instigators, police officers or military commanders themselves became the target of an attack. Since the police are “at one with them” - the offenders, they have no right to count on untouchability!
Such a psychological transformation was accomplished all the more easily because in Russia, even in educated society, it was considered indecent to “love the authorities,” especially the police. The paradox of such situations is that the aggression was, as it were, personified in nature - negative emotions were directed against “bad” police officers, sometimes against local authorities, but, as a rule, did not extend to the supreme power.
In these cases, the spontaneous actions of the crowd showed greater self-organization. The usual motive for continuing the unrest in a new form is “they took our people to the police station”!
In order to overcome the subconscious fear of authority, the crowd needed more authoritative leaders than for a vulgar fight. And they, these leaders, were present quite often, since internal criminal and semi-legal self-organization inevitably arose in decaying formal groups.
Collective solidarity and mutual responsibility contrasted the informal soldiers' “We” with the rest of the world. The police, whose relations with the military builders who were constantly looking for adventure were already quite strained, intervened in the conflict and became an ally of the “enemies.”
During the “mild” course of the conflict, the police simply found themselves caught between two fires. It received blows from both sides, but the police were perceived more as an annoying nuisance, preventing them from reaching the enemy, than as an object of direct aggression.
In particular, mass riots in the city of Barnaul in the Altai Territory unfolded according to a similar pattern. On August 22, 1954, two soldiers got into a fight with a construction worker, who then went to a workers' club to watch a movie.
After some time, about 40 soldiers from two construction battalions located nearby burst into the club. The soldiers took off their belts and began to beat those present with buckles, damaged film equipment, broke furniture and disappeared.
A three-man police patrol, which was at the club building at that time, was unable to provide serious resistance to the soldiers. At night, city police and military authorities detained 40 soldiers who were absent without permission. Meanwhile, false rumors spread throughout the city that a child had been killed by soldiers during a fight in a club.
(In general, the topic of a “murdered child” had a special catalytic effect even on civilians. We know of at least three other cases when such a rumor caused rapid spontaneous self-organization of civilians who were usually not inclined to unrest and provoked spontaneous mass actions.
On the morning of the next day, construction workers and nearby enterprises, excited by rumors, began to group, catch single soldiers and beat them. By noon, a large crowd of workers had gathered at the construction of CHPP-2. She moved towards the barracks of the construction battalions, instigated by some “tipsy people”. An excited crowd swept away a group of police officers, consisting of 60 people, and broke through to the barracks.
A collective fight broke out, during which both sides threw stones at each other. About 100 soldiers, despite warning shots, broke through the cordon into the residential areas of the city, where they broke windows, rioted, and started fights.
Throughout the day on August 23, workers continued to gather in groups and beat up lone soldiers they encountered. In turn, small groups of soldiers infiltrated the city and beat the workers they encountered. The authorities used additional forces to stop the unrest.
Order was restored. Intensified patrols were organized between barracks, residential and industrial areas. In the neighborhoods adjacent to the construction, 22 soldiers of the construction battalions were picked up or taken away during the beating, 5 of whom died by the morning of August 24. Two workers were also taken to a local hospital for treatment.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR, taking into account the tense situation in the city, raised the question of the withdrawal of construction battalions from Barnaul to the CPSU Central Committee. Thus, the workers, who had obviously been outraged by the behavior of military builders for a long time, achieved their goal.
It is significant that in the report of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs of the CPSU Central Committee, the events were interpreted precisely as a clash of two conflict groups - both did not direct their aggressiveness directly against police officers and government officials, both groups simply swept away any annoying obstacle on the way to the true enemy.
However, much more often, as soon as it came to a direct clash with the police and military commanders, events developed according to a more “harsh” scenario, and sometimes resulted in a bloody riot.
On July 14, 1953, two construction battalions of the Soviet Army arrived from Odessa and Tiraspol to the city of Rustavi, Georgian SSR, to work on the construction of a chemical plant. They settled in the village of Mdavari-Arkhi near Rustavi.
The newcomers, excited by the journey, tried to start with status self-affirmation - a typical reaction of informal groups to a new environment. That evening, a group of drunken soldiers began a pogrom in the city. At first they simply wandered around the village and pestered local residents. But at about 10 p.m., a rumor spread among them that “they cut a soldier and took him to the police station” (the rumor turned out to be false).
A group of servicemen, armed with sticks, iron rods and stones, attacked the police operational point, broke down the door, and beat two policemen. Fleeing, the police officers opened fire indiscriminately and lightly wounded one soldier.
Under the cries of “ours are being beaten,” almost the entire personnel of one of the construction battalions—about a thousand people—joined the riots. In search of the escaped policemen, the soldiers destroyed the apartments of two local residents. In one of the destroyed apartments, someone quietly stole a watch and money.
The police officers who arrived to restore order were beaten with sticks and stones, and when they tried to hide from the beating, they were shot at. Representatives of the military commandant's offices of Tbilisi and Rustavi, called to the scene, were also fired upon.
The atrocities of the military personnel were stopped only in the morning of the next day. During the riots, in addition to two policemen who received serious injuries, 8 local residents were beaten.
The theme of the “wounded soldier” - this time real, not imaginary - became the catalyst for the previously mentioned unrest among construction battalion workers in the city of Usolye-Sibirskoye in August 1953.
On the night of August 9, unknown assailants stabbed a serviceman in the neck in the neck who was returning to his unit after being discharged from the city. Two friends who visited the victim in the hospital told the battalion that their colleague had been cut by “civilians,” and they needed to take revenge for this. The city garden was chosen as the gathering place, and the signal to start the fight was the command “air” (used during an enemy air raid).
On August 12 at 10 p.m., when military construction workers were watching a movie in the battalion, a certain soldier who arrived from the city garden on a bicycle said: “Guys, our people are being beaten in the garden.” Someone shouted “air”, the rest took up the agreed signal. About half of the soldiers present rushed to the city garden, while others left in a truck.
On the way, they were joined by servicemen from a separate construction battalion (formerly a battalion of the Ministry of Internal Affairs). Soldiers with belts, sticks and knives in their hands burst into the city garden. They broke off slats from the fence and benches of the garden, ran in groups along the streets adjacent to the garden, attacked local residents and beat them.
At the same time, windows in the city cinema and store were broken. Twice a crowd of soldiers tried to break into the premises of the city department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where people were fleeing in search of protection. In total, approximately 350-400 people took part in the riots. Six local residents were seriously stabbed (one, the director of an evening school for working youth, died from his wound). Forty-five people escaped with minor injuries.
Subsequent events allow us to give a more detailed psychological portrait of the “inveterate” instigators of the riots. On August 15, the military command sent a group of “the most undisciplined soldiers” (50 people) to the camps of a separate guards rifle brigade.
However, even there the rebels did not reconcile. The desire of the “inveterate” and “lawless” to maintain a high intra-group status in the informal community suppressed even the natural desire to avoid further troubles.
Two newly arrived soldiers impudently addressed the acting brigade commander and the head of the special department (military counterintelligence) with a “statement” that “they should not be accepted into the brigade, since they will bring a lot of trouble, that their job is not to serve, but to steal and “cut,” which is what they will do if they are left in the brigade.”
Even once in the guardhouse, the informal leaders of the riots did not calm down. They began to break partitions and windows, break out bars and call on the guard soldiers to join them.
Feeling that it is not so easy to disable the mechanisms of psychological self-defense and law-abiding among “normal soldiers,” the “inveterate” tried to use a simple but effective psychological technique based on improvising the image of the “enemy”: “Don’t listen to the officers, beat them, they are traitors.” , Bandera, only disguised themselves in officer's shoulder straps." After this, the arrested set the guardhouse on fire.
In November 1953, a conflict between drunken military construction workers and residents of Vladivostok escalated into an attack on government officials. A scandal with local teenagers ended with the beating of those who stood up for the youth.
Military squad and police officers detained two hooligans. The rest ran away and brought about 60 soldiers to help. The crowd demanded the release of the detainees. Armed with stones, she surrounded the police station and attacked the policemen. It was possible to restore order only with the help of additional military personnel and workers from a special department.
After the stormy year of 1953, there were no serious clashes between construction battalion members and the police for a long time. However, in July 1958, in the immediate vicinity of Moscow, in the village of Perovo, Moscow Region (now within the city), another conflict broke out between construction soldiers engaged in the construction of military facilities and workers of the Karacharovo Mechanical Plant.
The drunken soldiers left their unit without permission and headed to the workers' dormitory. There they started a quarrel among themselves. The workers tried to intervene. A fight ensued. Finding themselves outnumbered, the soldiers were sent to the barracks for help.
Soon a group of 60-70 military men surrounded the four-story dormitory building and began throwing stones at the windows and breaking into closed doors. Seven workers were injured, one of them was taken to the hospital with a concussion.
The soldiers resisted the 15 police officers who arrived at the scene and threatened with violence. We had to alert the entire personnel of the city police department, call duty units from the nearest military unit and from the city of Balashikha. Only after this was it possible to stop the atrocities of the soldiers. Most of the servicemen detained during the liquidation of the riots turned out to be drunk.
In the construction battalion unrest at the Perovo station in 1958, for the first time, a hint of certain political circumstances was revealed. As follows from the message of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs of the CPSU Central Committee, during the destruction of the dormitory, “paintings and portraits were torn down and broken in the Lenin room.” (Obviously, we are talking about some works of Soviet art and portraits of Lenin, the leaders of the party and government).
We know from other sources that the desecration of portraits was a common form of spontaneous protest against the authorities. At that time, especially the portraits of Khrushchev, which were hung on the days of revolutionary holidays and on which unknown “defilers” worked hard, adorning them with insulting inscriptions or, if artistic talent allowed, turning these portraits into caricatures, were especially punished.
In the late 1950s, such symbolic actions that offend the authorities, as we see, begin to accompany ordinary intergroup conflicts. The vulgar hooliganism reveals a rare hint of anarchic protest against power and its political symbols.
Legal status and composition of mobilized workers A specific place in the general series of soldier unrest is occupied by unrest, cases of mass hooliganism and group fights in which a special category of military personnel participated - conscript-age workers mobilized through military registration and enlistment offices or soldiers transferred from construction units to work on construction sites or in industry.
Localized in time (all 9 episodes known to us took place in 1955) and the composition of the participants, these events became quite a serious socio-political problem for the Khrushchev leadership, since they were provoked (and even predetermined) not only by the specific circumstances of the place and time, but also a whole bunch of clumsy administrative actions by the authorities.
The first wave of outrages and mass hooliganism engulfed the cities and towns of the Kamensk region in March 1955, which already suffered from high crime rates. In January 1955, two potentially conflicting groups simultaneously arrived in the coal industry and for the construction of mines - about 30 thousand people recruited through organizational recruitment, and almost 10 thousand workers called up through military registration and enlistment offices or “conditionally demobilized.”
The paramilitary "contingent" included a significant number of people with criminal records. Most of these people ended up in the city of Novoshakhtinsk and the villages of Gukovo and Sholokhovka, where riots subsequently broke out.
The local population was terrorized. In some cities and towns, a struggle for dominance began between the newcomers themselves. She followed the cruel laws of suppressing competitors adopted in criminal or criminal communities. All this unfolded against the backdrop of the stress of adaptation experienced by the majority of the new-build population and the growing dissatisfaction of certain groups of local workers.
The criminal self-organization of the mobilized contingent began already on the way to their destination. Therefore, problems arose immediately as soon as trains with conscripts began to arrive in the Kamensk region. On the night of March 1, a train of 1,000 people mobilized to work in the coal industry arrived in Novoshakhtinsk from the Moscow region.
Drunk conscripts committed several crimes. While trying to rob a food stall, they attacked a police officer. The latter used a weapon in self-defense and wounded one of the attackers in the stomach.
The wounded man was taken to the hospital. And a group of mobilized people (up to 60 people), led by a former criminal, came to the city police department, demanded to hand over the wounded man and started a riot. The police managed to stop the riots and arrest the main instigator. Measures were taken to apprehend the remaining criminals.
On the same day, March 1, in the village of Sholokhovka, some conscripts from the Belarusian Military District did not go to work, but began to drink and behave hooliganly. Several people, also led by a former criminal, came to the office of the construction department and, threatening the administration with violence, presented demands for inflated advances, clothing and free food.
After that, having gathered about 100 conscripts around them, they started a fight with soldiers of the construction battalion stationed in the village of Sholokhovka. Armed with knives, iron sticks and stones, the hooligans broke into the headquarters of the construction battalion, broke windows, disarmed a sentry and beat eight servicemen.
Four days later (March 5, 1955) in the village of Sokolovka, Novoshakhtinsky district, a clash occurred between two groups of mobilized workers. And on March 18, several drunken conscripts who arrived in the village of Sambekovskie Mines from the Volga Military District, led by two former criminals (convicted for robbery), started a quarrel with people standing in line at the store. Three were severely beaten.
Outraged workers detained the hooligans and committed lynching against them. The triumph of primitive justice cost the lives of both leaders. Three conscripts were seriously wounded.
On March 23, 1955, the outrages and hooliganism of the paramilitary contingent in the village of Gukovka, Zverevsky district, acquired ethnic overtones. A group of conscripts decided to take revenge for some old grievances and, armed with iron rods and sticks, beat the mobilized Uzbeks. 3 people were killed, 48 were injured.
At the initiative of Moscow, open trials were held. The sentences handed down were demonstratively cruel - which immediately cooled the criminal ardor of the conscripts. In the villages of Gukovo and Sholokhovka, operational police groups numbering 130 people were created; the rank and file of the police in the cities of Shakhty and Novoshakhtinsk was increased; In the areas where conscripts are located, guard and patrol services were strengthened.
On May 1 and 2, 1955, riots broke out again in different parts of the country with the participation of former soldiers of construction battalions and conscripts transferred to the construction of coal industry enterprises.
Two episodes occurred in close proximity to Moscow (the village of Sokolniki, Gremyachevsky district, Moscow region and the city of Kimovsk, Tula region). Another one is in the city of Ekibastuz, Pavlodar region, Kazakh SSR.
In Kimovsk, a real massacre unfolded between former soldiers of the construction battalions, transferred to industry, and local residents. Several thousand people, mostly drunk, took part on both sides. An additional trigger was rumors about the murder of a woman and child and ethnic antagonism (some of the former construction battalion members were Azerbaijanis, Uzbeks and Georgians).
In reality, no woman or child was killed, and the ethnic argument turned out to be false (among the former military builders, more than half were Russians and Ukrainians, who, like Uzbeks, Azerbaijanis and Georgians, were among the victims).
Among the rumors that fueled the crowd, there were some vague references to anti-Soviet statements by former construction battalion members. Local residents, in an effort to destroy a constant source of fear and aggression, were ready to believe everything - They killed the woman, and they were speaking out against Soviet power, and even the “Chuchmeks.”
The investigation found that 377 construction workers - former soldiers of construction battalions - arrived in Kimovsk on February 22, 1955. They worked well, but behaved disgustingly - they behaved hooliganly, participated in fights, broke into women's dormitories, beat and tried to rape girls.
In two months, the townspeople began to hate the aliens. And the local hooligan “elite” was clearly looking for an opportunity to suppress competitors. The events began at two o'clock in the afternoon on May 2, 1955 with another drunken brawl on the central square of Kimovsk. Local hooligans emerged victorious; three Azerbaijani workers were severely beaten.
Fleeing from persecution, they ran to their hostel, persuaded their comrades to repel the attack, and with sticks and belts headed towards the central square. Not finding the instigator of the fight there, they beat his comrade.
Soon, however, the instigator returned, and with him several more local hooligans. Stones and knives were used. The military again got a lot of trouble from the civilians (one person was stabbed), and they hid in the hostel. The police who arrived at the scene closed the entrance to the building and pushed back the crowd that had gathered by that time.
It was at this time that rumors about murders allegedly committed by construction workers and cries of an anti-Soviet nature gave vulgar mass hooliganism some moral meaning, and more or less respectable ordinary people were drawn into the orbit of events.
Local residents began to flock to the hostel. According to eyewitnesses, several thousand people gathered. There were shouts: “Beat the Chuchmeks, they are for Beria!” The name of Beria, which by that time had been transformed by the efforts of Khrushchev’s propaganda into the worst political curse, into the highest embodiment of forces hostile to the people, finally freed the destructive instincts of the crowd.
The hooligans, taking advantage of the moral and physical support of the local residents who had gathered, boldly attacked the police officers guarding the entrance to the hostel, broke the glass in the windows, broke into the premises and committed reprisals against the workers who found themselves there.
Over the course of several hours, the crowd, seized by a murderous mania, repeatedly broke into the hostel, looked for construction workers who had not managed to take refuge there, and beat them with shovels, hammers, stools, and stones, showing exceptional cruelty.
After the beating, six workers - former soldiers - were thrown out onto the street from the 2nd floor and beaten to death there. Construction workers from another dormitory soon fell into the orbit of unrest. Only by 10 p.m., with the help of additional military units (up to 450 people), was it possible to completely clear the hostel premises and push back the crowd.
In total, as a result of the massacre, 11 construction workers from among the former soldiers were killed, and 3 people were seriously wounded. All the windows in the dormitory were broken, frames were broken, doors were torn off, tables, beds, stools were broken, and suitcases with personal belongings were broken into. The things themselves were stolen.
Stroybat. The sergeant saw that the recruit was driving a wheelbarrow, turning it upside down.
-Are you crazy, private Rabinovich?! - he barked. - You are pushing the car upside down!
- You see, Comrade Sergeant, when I drive it normally, they put bricks in it.
Old Chinese films are so Chinese.
In the morning they showed 2x2. A simple Chinese boy in the Shao-lin temple learned kung fu by building scaffolding from bamboo (!!!), and upon returning to his native village he gave all his enemies a hard time. I went to church to study, just like I went to the army, to a construction battalion. construction battalion-fu
Men on a hike drink by the fire. Everything is great, the only problem is mosquitoes, of which there are simply a huge number. The men were tired of the mosquitoes, they put out the fire so that the mosquitoes would not fly into the light, and hid in the tent. After a while, one, already quite drunk man, looks out of the tent, and fireflies are flying on the street - the frightened man climbs back into the tent and says:
- Guys!... The mosquitoes with flashlights are back! They are looking for us!!!...
Stroybat. Evening verification.
Captain Konov (K.K.):
- Phthirus pubis appeared in the company.
Valera giggled - after a year of medical school.
K.K.:
- I see problems with Latin. Let me make it easier: a pubic louse has appeared.
The experienced ones had fun.
K.K.:
- I’ll simplify it for those who don’t understand: mandavos have appeared.
Loud laughter turning into a long laugh.
K.K.:
- Why are you laughing so hard? It's called finished!
This is complete waste, to the point of rolling on the floor.
dat: How are you doing? We just returned from the street and played snowballs. A snowman has been made oO0
owl: dude...
dat: How is the weather there?
owl: Oh! Wonderful, I don’t know how you are in your St. Petersburg, but here in Tuapse we have already decided that on New Year’s Eve we will, as always, in the rain, sculpt a snowman out of mud and cover ourselves with asphalt...
Article about electromagnetic grenades
...
one of the comments:
If this is true, in five years you will be able to hear in the news how “A man entered the data center of Company N with two EMP grenades in his hands and, shouting *Not a single explosion*, extinguished all the electronics in the building.”
from the forum. two girls:
1: she took revenge on me later. Yes, so I went nuts!!!
2: and how?
1: she came to visit me, supposedly, to talk. Let’s make peace, she says, men aren’t worth it, and so on. We sat with her in the kitchen, drank tea, smoked a couple of times. Then she left, a couple of hours later my parents returned. I took over the kitchen ventilated. But do you know what this asshole came up with??
2: well
1: when I left the kitchen, she smoked in the refrigerator!!! she blew smoke in there and closed it!!! and my mother opened it
Comrade Lieutenant Colonel did not like Jews.
in order to understand this, it was not at all necessary to have a comrade p/n
know.
it was quite enough to see his loose-red, wide face,
not at all disfigured by intellect and in the best possible way
suitable for tanks in the buttonholes of the jacket.
but we happened to know comrade p/n and see him quite often, like
your tactics teacher.
Comrade s/p set a task for the 4th year cadets:
draw on the map a diagram of the location of three motorized rifle companies
battalion
in such a way as to exclude the possibility of simultaneous damage
all three companies with a low-power nuclear explosion. draw and sign:
Chief of Staff of the 1st MSB, Major So-and-so. and all this had to be done...
ink.
suppressing timid indignation about
the feasibility of such an assignment for future liaison officers and especially
regarding the requirement to use clumsy pens and ink, comrade
p/n proudly walked away until the end of class.
The eternal question “what to do?” hung in the audience.
and there is nothing to do. must be done.
except... to reduce the number of letters drawn in ink to the maximum possible
minimum.
the face of comrade p/n, in violation of all the laws of biology, became increasingly
redder and redder.
the air began to tremble above his monumental head, as it happens
over hot asphalt.
comrade p/n was furious. on his table there were 4 cards with schemes
location of the 1st SME,
neatly signed in clear, formal handwriting:
In the 70s, we rummaged through all sorts of dugouts and trenches and came across flasks,
shell casings, grenades, and a story about such a small artillery shell
WWII times. Prehistory, there lived in our village (dacha) a grandfather nicknamed
Khrym has been limping since time immemorial since his service in the royal fleet
before the revolution. His daughter bought piglets and not long before she found
They stole one pig's shell for us. Now we are loading the shell into a bag for
convenience, we go into the forest, light a fire to the desired condition, throw a shell
and we run, and grandfather Khrym turns out to have tracked us down, how can we fry his pig?
went. I thought I had scared him away, he walked up to the fire and there was a red-hot thing there.
The man was once a sailor and immediately realized this. Guess who overtook
four boys a hundred meters later with a stick at the ready and terrible
swear words?
Afghan 1982
We are preparing for an unusual operation, large-scale, with
helicopters and airplanes.
Accordingly, under the paternal control of very high military commanders.
Accordingly, they dress us ragamuffins from scratch and equip us to the very best
pamper.
Armor plates (7kg), helmet, dry food for 3 days, night vision devices,
cartridges, raincoats, etc.
And Lukyanych and I got a three-legged automatic grenade launcher between us.
When we got packed, we decided to try it all on. Put on the rucksacks with the help of
each other, lined up.
If you sit down, you won’t be able to get up without help. Ordered us
the platoon also raises the grenade launcher,
(grenades are already in the backpacks). They started lifting me up, I felt like a sirana (farted loudly).
The structure, barely standing under the weight of the load, fell (butterfly effect on the bar) and
no one could stand up with their hands on!!! Visually.
By the way, then in the mountains Lukyanych and I threw away this grenade launcher, supposedly “on
We'll find a way back."
And they walked back along a different path. How much was written and rewritten later
explanatory officers...
America is Raging
not Laden Afghan.
Danila calls
takes on a ram.
Planes are shot down -
either an Arab or a crest
Siberian greetings
came by mail.
I sit and watch:
What's it like - "behind the glass".
Merry autumn
outside my window...