The career of the "sea monster" The samurai son Yataro spent more than one year in the service of the Yamanouchi princes, the rulers of the influential principality of Tosa on the island of Shikoku. He remained their vassal even in October 1870, when the Tsukumo Shokai shipping company appeared in Osaka. When one hundred

THE MISTAKE OF THE MARINE COLLECTION I would not have paid much attention to the surname Seraphimov flashed in the documents of the detachment, if, before arriving in Leningrad, leafing through the old issues of the Marine Collection, I had not come across in the October 1915 book of the year a neat message that

As you know, Sevastopol is not only a naval base, but also a long-standing forge of personnel for the Russian Navy. Here is the Black Sea Higher Naval Order of the Red Star School named after P. S. Nakhimov (CHVVMU) - one of the most famous naval educational institutions in Russia.

One of the best naval schools

Founded back in 1937, ChVVMU has produced thousands of officers with higher naval education. Among them are 15 Heroes of the Soviet Union and 5 Heroes of Russia, as well as Russian Defense Minister Marshal Igor Sergeev. Until 2014, the school functioned as an academy in the military education system of Ukraine, but after the reunification of Crimea with Russia, a decision was made to restore the Russian Naval School in Sevastopol on the basis of the Ukrainian Academy. Most of the cadets and teachers of the school took this event positively - after all, the prospects for service in the Russian Navy cannot be compared with service in the Ukrainian Navy, which are in a deplorable state. The only thing I had to change learning programs, but this also benefited the cadets - in Russian naval educational institutions they take the educational and educational process much more seriously.

Few people know, but foreign military personnel are also trained at the Black Sea Higher Naval School. In June 2016, the first graduation of the revived ChVVMU took place. In the solemn formation of cadets there are not only Russians, but also Africans. The natives of distant Equatorial Guinea were trained at the school according to the programs of secondary military education. Seventeen black cadets went to ChVVMU "inherited" from the Ukrainian period in the history of the military educational institution. The fact is that they were admitted to the school during the entry of Crimea into Ukraine, and completed a training course designed for 4 years and 10 months already in Russia. Cadets from a small African country received diplomas of mechanics, miners and gunners. They are to serve in Naval Forces ah Republic of Equatorial Guinea.

Graduates will go to fight the pirates?

There used to be a military partnership between Equatorial Guinea and Ukraine, including in the field of training, but now, apparently, African country reoriented in this regard to Russia. The population of a small country located in the west of Central Africa is just over 704 thousand people. However, it has one of the strongest navies in Africa. Thanks to oil revenues, Equatorial Guinea has managed to invest heavily in the development of its own armed forces and, in particular, the navy, which is designed to protect the republic from encroachments on oil resources. There really is a need for this - the coastal waters of West and Central Africa are teeming with pirates, who are not inferior in their activity to Somali ones. Therefore, the knowledge that cadets from Equatorial Guinea receive in Sevastopol is likely to be extremely in demand in a real combat situation.

Previously, the Soviet Union was the main exporter of weapons to Equatorial Guinea. After its collapse, the country continued to cooperate with Ukraine and Bulgaria. So, in Nikolaev they designed, and in Varna they built the frigate "Wele Nzas". According to the Ukrainian project, the amphibious frigate Capitán de Fragata David Eyama Angue Osa was also built in Bulgaria. Corvette "Bata" was also designed in Nikolaev, and launched in the Bulgarian Varna. That is, it was Ukraine that actually laid the foundations of the modern naval forces of Equatorial Guinea. Therefore, there was nothing surprising in the fact that the cadets of this country went to receive a naval education in Sevastopol. When Crimea was reunited with Russia, the command of the Equatorial Guinean Navy decided that the cadets would continue to study at a Russian military university. The cadets themselves were also not opposed, especially since the Russian military education continues to be highly rated throughout the world.

Chief of ChVVMU captain of the first rank Alexander Grinkevich told the press that more than 50 cadets from Equatorial Guinea, as well as cadets from Angola, are being trained at the school. The educational institution is looking forward to further cooperation with the Naval Forces of these African states. This is quite realistic, especially considering that Angola is also one of Russia's traditional military partners on the African continent. The expansion of Russian military-industrial exports to African countries will inevitably lead to an increase in the demand of African states for the availability of specialists trained to service complex Russian-made equipment.

Partisans of the "Third World" were trained in Crimea

By the way, in Soviet time it was in the Crimea that the famous training center for the training of foreign military personnel was located. The 165th training center for the training of foreign military personnel was located in the village of Perevalnoye, not far from Simferopol. For a long time it was one of the most secret military educational institutions in the Soviet Union. In 1965-1980. participants of national liberation movements from all over the world - future partisans - were trained here. In 1980, the training center was transformed into the Simferopol Military Joint School, where they began to train officers for the armies of states friendly to the Soviet Union. In 1992 the school was disbanded.

For twenty-seven years of existence, 16 thousand people have been trained in the training center and school. Military specialists were trained here for such famous organizations as the African National Congress of South Africa and the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Mozambican FRELIMO and the Angolan MPLA, the Namibian SWAPO and the PAIGC from Guinea-Bissau. The first cadets in 1965 were just partisans from Guinea-Bissau. Seventy-five young people aged 16 to 35 completed the full course of training.

After being based in 1980 training center a school was created, it began to accept cadets from Vietnam, Laos, Kampuchea, Mongolia, Cuba, Afghanistan, Lebanon, India, Nicaragua, Madagascar, Ethiopia, Libya and a number of other states. The main task was to train officers of the ground forces for the armies of the above states in the most popular specialties - tankers, artillerymen and anti-aircraft gunners, signalmen, motorists, as well as advanced training for existing officers of foreign armies, including in rather big military ranks.

Thus, the Crimea has a rich tradition of training foreign cadets. It is possible that they will continue in the future as the prestige of Russian military education in the world remains very high.

"Army General Khrulev"

In his book "General of the Army Khrulev" the famous Soviet writer Hero of the Soviet Union Vladimir Vasilyevich Karpov says: “I can’t leave this life without objecting to anotherinjustice. I mean some disrespect for the quartermaster service. It is believed - this is such a service - as it is impossible to get out of the water dry, so in supply affairs it is impossible to remain uninvolved in fraud. I am a combat officer who went through the ranks and in battle from private to colonel, I saw, I know, I felt the good deeds and care of the quartermasters both in peacetime and in wartime. Therefore, I have every reason to tell the truth about this difficult and multifaceted service, without which no army can exist. It is indecent, insulting and, most importantly, unfairly the above insulting opinion about the home front workers. It’s not good, it’s dishonorable to talk about them like that!”

The need to train specialists in economic services was recognized quite a long time ago, however, a coherent system of special education in the interests of the rear of the Navy dates back only to 1938. It is known that in the pre-revolutionary Russian fleet, all combat officers, in the order of their service in junior ranks, served on the ship as an auditor who was in charge of ship management, guided by some theoretical information received at training in the Marine Corps.

With the beginning of the program for the construction of powerful naval forces of the Soviet Union, the need arose for the training of highly qualified cadres of commanders-economic managers of the Navy. Onefrom the first conscious and justified decisions of the newly created independent People's CommissariatThe Navy was ordered to form a naval school named after M.V. on the basis of a separate preparatory battalion. Frunze in Old Peterhof of the Naval Economic School. By the end of October 1938, the minimum necessary educational and material base was created, and scheduled classes began on November 1. The date of November 8 was approved by the People's Commissar of the Navy as the school's annual holiday.Colonel Andrei Andreevich Polyanin, an active participant in civil war, commander of a separate preparatory battalion of the VMU im. M.V. Frunze.

In 1940, after the Finnish company, the school was relocated to the city of Vyborg, where it was located most of the time of its functioning (until 1956).

It was here, thanks to the energy and perseverance of the command, headed by the newly appointed head of the school, Captain 2nd Rank Arkady Varfolomeevich Katsadze, an experienced sailor and educator, highly trained teachers - graduates of the Military Economic Academy and officers from the fleets, demanding and attentive commanders of cadet units, not only due working atmosphere, but also that special aura that allowed long time to train highly qualified personnel who love the fleet and their specialty.Graduates for a long time retained the spirit of fidelity to theirAlmamaterand the enduring state of naval friendship. Evidence of this are the regularly held traditional meetings of graduates and solemn and mourning events on the memorable days of Russia's military glory.

In April 1941, the first release was made in the amount of 109 people. With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the school quickly switched to a wartime organization. The third course was released ahead of schedule (81 people), according to the plan of the head of the garrison of Vyborg, emergency units were allocated to protect the area to ensure the mobilization deployment of the front. Soon, due to the deteriorating situation on the border with Finland, the school was relocated first to the village of Znamenka, and then to Leningrad. , where it was placed on the funds of the VMIU evacuated by that time. F.E. Dzerzhinsky.

Captain 2nd rank A.A. Katsadze was appointed assistant commander of the Leningrad naval base, Rear Admiral Yu.P. Panteleev on internal defense of the maritime defense sector of the city. “The main forces here,” the admiral later recalled, “were the naval crew, the quartermaster and border naval schools ... The senior combatant commander in this sector was Captain 2nd Rank Katsadze, a very energetic combat sailor. He was a good help…” . The school became part of the 1st Combined Naval Defense Battalion of Leningrad.

In accordance with the combat order of the Military Council of the Leningrad Front No. 00244 dated September 9, 1941, signed by K.E. Voroshilov, A.A. Zhdanov and I.S. Isakovfrom the VMHU, a naval cadet battalion of 348 people was formed.

Colonel Andrei Stepanovich Dementyev, head of the military department of the school, became its commander, Georgy Matveyevich Suzdalov, senior political instructor, and chief of staff, lieutenant commander Alexei Kirillovich Boev, became its commander. Company commanders were appointed senior lieutenant Anatoly Ivanovich Stavrovsky, quartermaster 2nd rank Nikolai Andreevich Prudko and quartermaster 3rd rank Efim Abramovich Bernshtein. On the night of September 11, the battalion was alerted and sent at the disposal of the commander of the 8th Army, Major General Vladimir Ivanovich Shcherbakov, to the newly formed, so-called Oranienbaum bridgehead.

The Admiralty gates are open,
Cadets clearly beat off the step,
A company followed a company in Oranienbaum -
At that time, the enemy was rushing to Leningrad ...

(K. Platonov)

In the Oranienbaum Logistics Department, the cadets were given army uniforms, allowing them to leave only a vest and a wide naval belt with a badge. But many managed to keep their peakless caps by hiding them in gas mask bags. By order of the head of the garrison, the battalion was sent to the second line of defense. But this did not last long. The battalion was in the operational reserve of the army for only three hours. The enemy fiercely rushed to Leningrad. The 291st Wehrmacht infantry division, which called itself “the hero of the capture of Paris and the storming of Libau,” was stopped at the turn of the Gostilitsky highway. The political report of the battalion commissar Yevstafyev stated that “the cadets and commanders of the battalion, acting together with 11, 48 and 191 rifle divisions to defeat the bands of Nazi hordes in the areas of Bolshie Iliki - Razvilka - a grove near the road to Razvilka - Old Peterhof - a crossing at English Palace, showed themselves selflessly devoted to the cause of Lenin-Stalin, the people of the great Motherland of the Soviets. There are many examples of heroism in the fighting of the battalion. Courage, heroism ... in the defense of the grove near the Fork and in the battle for the crossing at the English Palace ... allowed the battalion to fulfill the assigned tasks with honor ".

Combat operations of quartermasters are described in the books of G.G. Polyakov "Naval cadet battalion" and "On three fleets", L.D. Kaidalov "From Oranienbaum to Baikonur", in articles and memoirs of I.T. Iokhin and S.P. Kruzhilin. Subsequently, the Leningrad poet Nikolai Brown wrote memorable lines:

“Business executives walked under the bullets,

We went with the sailors on a par.

Quartermasters drowned in water

And burned more than once in the fire.

And we have been in such a mess,

What seemed to be neither give nor take.

Braces of our stripes

They began to cast gold.

A heavy price was paid for the victory in the battles near Leningrad. 51 people from the battalion died a heroic death, many were wounded and shell-shocked. In early December, on the basis of the decision of the People's Commissariat of the Navy to resume training, the cadets were returned to the school and evacuated to Moscow.. In the most difficult winter conditions, a foot crossing was made directly through the war zone along the route Lake Ladoga - Novaya Ladoga - Pashsky Perevoz - Efimovskaya station, where the personnel were loaded onto a train and taken to Moscow.

Among the exhibits of the museum of the 286th school of the Admiralteisky district of St. Petersburg, there is a front-line notebook of Leonid Evgenievich Balakhonov, who, unfortunately, recently left us. It is impossible to read the stingy lines of a 19-year-old youth without excitement, like reports on every day of the transition ... As early as January 19, 1942, classes were resumed at the funds of the former Moscow Institute of Soviet Cooperative Trade on Volokolamsk Highway. In May of the same year, the third graduation of the school took place - 148 people, and then another 27 people from among those who returned after treatment. In the order of the People's Commissar of the Navy, Admiral N.G. Kuznetsov dated May 19, 1942, No. 84, on congratulating graduates, it was noted: “In fierce battles with the Nazi invaders on the outskirts of the city of Lenin, you showed the ability not only to successfully master military knowledge, but also to skillfully apply them in the fight against the enemy ... I wish you and continue to fight just as fearlessly in the ranks of the Navy for the liberation of our land from fascist evil spirits ... Remember that the exact and steady implementation of orders and existing legal provisions, thrift, accounting and control should be your inviolable commandment in work on ships and in parts of the Navy ".

In 1942, the first award for participation in hostilities at the Oranienbaum bridgehead took place. Orders of the Red Banner were awarded to Lieutenant Commander A.I. Vostrikov and cadet S.D. Vasilevich (posthumously), orders of the Red Star - paramedic quartermaster of the 3rd rank E.P. Domashninov, quartermaster technicians of the 1st rank I.A. Sokolov, N.I. Gruzdev and A.F. Shokhin, quartermaster technician 2nd rank I.D. Vakhrameev, sanitary troopers A.N. Pavlova and E.D. Kernina (posthumously).

Alexander Ivanovich Vostrikov, being the head of communications of the battalion, after wounding his commander and chief of staff, took command of the unit and achieved well-deserved recognition with his skillful actions. Subsequently, he fought in the Sea of ​​\u200b\u200bAzov and near Novorossiysk, became an honorary citizen of the city of Temryuk. Former commander 83 separate brigade marines F.M. Monastyrsky in his book "The Land Washed with Blood" wrote: "... our glorious combat commander Vostrikov, the commander-fire, who knew no fear and barriers, is capable of amazing feats of arms."

At the beginning of 1942, by order of the People's Commissar of the Navy dated July 30 No. 00268, 150 second-year cadets of August 1941 recruitment were sent to the North Caucasian Front, where, as part of 62 separate naval rifle brigadetook part in bloody battles near Mozdok and Ordzhonikidze. We have the recollections of the direct participants in the events - graduates of 1945 Viktor Ivanovich Pankov and Evgeny Ivanovich Selifanov - about the combat everyday life of that time.

But even in the terrible military hard times, the school continued to train personnel. In April 1942, advanced training courses for command personnel were restored, which trained about 700 commanders of the quartermaster service during the war years. In November 1942, the fourth graduation took place, the so-called normal wartime (with a training period of 1 year 2 months) numbering 49 people. In 1943, preparatory courses for students were opened at the school. It is interesting that among the students of the VMCU was the future submarine admiral, commander of the Northern Fleet, Hero of the Soviet Union Arkady Petrovich Mikhailovsky.

On October 9, 1943, on behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the school was awarded the Battle Banner of a military unit, which was a convincing confirmation of its military merits. During the war years it was a fighting school. Combat awards serve as clear evidence of the recognition by the Motherland of the contribution of the personnel of the VMHU to the Great Victory of our people over fascism. During the four war years, they were awarded orders: Lenin - 6 people, Red Banner - 12 people, Red Star - 34 people, Patriotic WarIdegree - 5 people, Patriotic WarIIdegree - 4 people, "Badge of Honor" - 4 people, Glory - 1 person. More than 250 people were awarded medals "For Courage", "For Military Merit", "For the Defense of Cities".

Since 1943, the school has become known as the Quartermaster's School of the Navy. At the end of the summer, it moved to the building of the student hostel of Moscow State University on the street. Stromynka, 32. In February of the following year, it was headed by an experienced sailor, Captain 1st Rank Ivan Grigoryevich Karpov.

He went through a good naval school on battleships, destroyers and minelayers, commanded ships, evacuated the command of the Hanko naval base on the Marty mine in December 1941, and headed the Astrakhan naval base for more than a year. With his arrival at the school, the emphasis in training cadets was placed on preparation for ship service. Internships on warships of the active fleets tempered the will of future officers, enriched them with much-needed experience.

In August 1944, the fifth graduation (224 people) took place, the last under a reduced wartime program, and on October 6 the school was returned to Vyborg.

Since April 1945, Captain 1st Rank Yuri Samoilovich Sider-Brock, who previously served as Deputy Chief of Logistics of the Northern Fleet, Head of Logistics of the White Sea Military, and then of the Caspian Flotilla, became the head of the school. His authority as an officer and specialist was indisputable. Six issues of quartermasters tremblingly keep a good memory of their commander and mentor, who gave them a start in life. On August 31, 1945, the “B” course was graduated (199 people) - the first post-war graduation of commissary service officers who completed a full course of study in a three-year program. Most of the young officers were sent to the Pacific Fleet and the Amur Flotilla, where battles with Japan were still ongoing. A year later, the seventh graduation took place - the largest graduation in the history of the school - 295 people. The eighth, ninth and tenth editions were held in 1948-1950.

In 1951, Rear Admiral Fyodor Vasilievich Budanov took command of the school. He was an authoritative admiral with extensive experience in serving on ships and in parts of the fleet. In the mid-1930s, he headed the first submarine coastal base in the Northern Fleet, then commanded the departments of the main military port in Murmansk, was deputy chief of logistics for the Northern Fleet, led the rear of a number of flotillas and naval bases, and before being appointed head of the Quartermaster's School for three years he served as the chief of logistics of the 8th Navy in Tallinn.

Until 1956, our school had the status of an independent naval educational institution and regularly supplied the Motherland with highly trained and dedicated personnel who loved the fleet and their profession. There were 16 issues with a total number of 2765 people. These were officers who forged victory in the fleets and fronts of the Great Patriotic War, who successfully mastered a new business - providing for the strategic nuclear missile fleet of the USSR, which entered the expanses of the World Ocean for combat service and made a worthy contribution to strengthening the military power of the country.

But, following the principles military reform(known as Khrushchev), in 1956 the Quartermaster's School of the Navy was disbanded and, as a cadet battalion, merged into the Quartermaster's School of the USSR Ministry of Defense.The last of the sets made in Vyborg was already released in Kaliningrad and today marks the 50th anniversary of this event.

Returning once again to the history of the school's stay in Vyborg, it should be noted that it was here that a special atmosphere of solidarity between the pupils of the Quartermaster's School around their own was formed and preserved.Almamater. This is recognized not only by graduates of the school, their fighting girlfriends and children, but also by students of other universities, participants and witnesses of traditional meetings of classmates. To our great regret, subsequent generations of rear officers succeeded in preserving the close connection between the naval quartermasters-vyborgzhans only occasionally and not to the full extent.

Four years later, the Kaliningrad School ceased to exist, and the training of logistics specialists was transferred to the Yaroslavl Military Financial School, where maritime specialty received representation in the cadet company.

In the same capacity, she moved to Volsk, where in 1964 she began to function. military school rear. Gradually, the specialties that previously existed in the Quartermaster's School of the Navy "bud" or disappeared. So, financiers for the fleet began to be trained in Yaroslavl, fuelmen - in Ulyanovsk, and the training of skipper service specialists was completely stopped.

In 1971, the Volsk Military School received the status of a higher one with a 4-year term of study. For the fleet, they began to train logistics specialists with the qualifications of an engineer-economist.The company of sailors was expanded to a battalion of 4 companies (up to 100 people in a company on each of the courses). High-quality selection of cadets, the prestige of the naval specialty and long-term traditions allowed the naval cadet battalion to regularly be among the leaders in education, sports, and amateur arts.

In connection with the opening of a branch, and then an independent home front school in Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod) in 1975-1976. the naval battalion, the department of logistics of the Navy and naval disciplines, as well as a number of teachers from other departments specializing in the training of naval logistics officers, were gradually transferred there. In 1981, the battalion was reorganized into the Faculty of Logistics of the Navy (the head of the faculty is Captain 1st Rank Igor Ivanovich Orlov), and since 1987 the training period has been increased to five years.

From 1997-1999 Gradually, the training of logistics specialists to fill primary officer positions on ships, in military units (formations) and organizations of the Navy again began to be carried out in Volsk, where the Faculty of Logistics of the Navy is currently an educational and scientific unit of the Higher Military School (Military Institute). The radical reduction in the combat strength of the Navy has led to a significant decrease in the number of faculty (less than 200 people, and in the first year - only 30 people), and its graduates are less and less going to serve on ships. Now the faculty is in search of solutions to the problems of transition to new educational programs training of specialists or bachelors. We believe that in this difficult time, they would be very useful for the qualities that their predecessors, graduates of the Navy Quartermaster's School, possessed in full: steadfastness, adherence to principles, honesty and decency, devotion to the fleet and love for their specialty. Convincing confirmation of this is the active life position and practical deeds of the naval quartermasters, who formed their own veteran organization.

In May 1967, the initiative group of the third graduation of the VMHU, chaired by Colonel Ivan Tikhonovich Iokhin, began to implement the decision made by the veterans - to install a monument at the site of the battles of the naval cadet battalion at the expense of voluntary financial contributions from fellow soldiers.

It was called "Anchor" and after five months of hard work, a group of activists was solemnly opened in the presence of Lieutenant General V.I., commander of the 8th Army during the war years. Shcherbakov, head of the school captain 1st rank A.V. Katsadze, commander and commissar of the naval cadet battalion of captains 1st rank A.I. Vostrikova and G.M. Suzdalov, the command of the Leningrad naval base, fellow soldiers and veterans, cadets of naval schools and students of sponsored schools. On a pink slab of Karelian granite, 51 names of the dead soldiers and commanders are engraved in gold. Above, next to the image of the medal "For the Defense of Leningrad", there is an inscription: "At this turn in the fall of 1941, as part of the 8th Army, fierce battles were fought and fierce attacks of the enemy, who were rushing towards Leningrad, were fought by cadets and officers of the VMHU of the Navy."

In 1970, the monument was reconstructed according to the project of the architects Tsitsin and Kukushkin with the participation of the former cadet of the Moscow Art Academy, Lieutenant Colonel Mikhail Efimovich Komarovsky. The work was carried out by the Lendorstroy organization. The reopening of the monument took place on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Great Victory and gave impetus to a sustainable tradition of annual visits to the Yakor monument, included in the Green Belt of Leningrad Glory, by veterans, cadets and schoolchildren. This tradition is still alive today.

In 1972, under the chairmanship of Captain 1st Rank Alexander Fedorovich Tolochko, the Council of Veterans of a separate cadet battalion was formed, which was reformed in 1988 into the Council of Veterans of the VMHU - IntU of the Navy. The Council was headed by Colonel Korney Semenovich Zima, and since 1999 its chairman has been Major General of Aviation Yevgeny Petrovich Dyakov. Gennady Mikhailovich Orekhov, Gennady Vasilyevich Khripunov, Vladimir Ivanovich Karelin, Vasily Pavlovich Prisyazhnyuk, Boris Venediktovich Chigir, Evgeny Nikolaevich Volkov, Albert Ivanovich Bondarenko, Anatoly Borisovich Polyansky, Vladimir Alexandrovich Povartsov and others are actively working on the board.

Aksakovskaya Gymnasium No. 11 in Ufa (Director - Nasima Rafailovna Ganeeva) and School No. 286 of the Admiralteisky District of St. Petersburg (Director - Sergey Anatolyevich Lobov, teacher-organizer of OBZH Sergey Andreevich Filimonov) closely cooperate with the veteran organization. With the energy and efforts of the latter, the school museum “We Remember” was opened in 2006, where exhibits are collected that tell about the heroic chronicle of the defenders of Leningrad, the actions of the cadet battalion and the history of the school.

Opening of the monument to the fallen soldiers and workers of the military port on the territory of school No. 286 in St. Petersburg

And on September 8 of this year, on the day of the 67th anniversary of the beginning of the Leningrad blockade, a monument to the fallen soldiers and workers of the military port - the rear of the Leningrad naval base was solemnly opened on the school grounds. Previously, it stood in New Holland and, at the request of the veteran organization, it was installed where the solemn and mourning events of VMHU veterans now begin - IntU of the Navy and guests dedicated to the Great Victory and others anniversaries military glory of Russia. Thank you very much management and teaching staff schools for attention and sensitivity to veterans.

With a special feeling of gratitude and appreciation, we turn to the personnel of the training military unit, which is located on the basis of the former IntU of the Navy. The command of the detachment headed by one of the best officers of the Navy - holder of the orders "For Service to the Motherland in the USSR Armed Forces" and Honor, Honored Military Specialist Colonel Valery Nikolaevich Polyakov, military personnel and civilian personnel always warmly and hospitably welcome us, constantly organize and provide anniversary events school veterans. I bow to you for this and thank you very much.

Over the seven decades of the existence of the school and the maritime training units of other universities that took over from it, the Motherland has received thousands of highly qualified specialists from various logistics services of the Navy. Many of them have reached significant heights in their careers. The highest officer ranks were awarded to Vice Admiral V.D. Sabaneev (graduate of 1947), Lieutenant General V.G. Titov (1952), Major General A.M. Afanasiev (1947), V.A. Belov (1947), E.P. Dyakov (1948), Rear Admiral A.A. Kashcheev (1958)

For the first time, a graduate of the Volsk Higher Military School of Logistics in 1976, Vice Admiral V.F. Popov. The rear of the fleets was headed and is headed by graduates of the Volsky and Gorky VVUT, Vice Admirals E.Ya. Serba, A.V. Baglaev, E.O. Rassolov, Lieutenant General V.V. Machalnik, Rear Admirals Yu.V. Bailo and A.E. Belkin, Rear Admirals N.N. Sych, N.A. Lazarev, B.P. Poskrebyshev, S.B. Sergeev, Yu.N. Personal.

Many of the graduates of the school set foot on the pedagogical path, giving their rich experience to the young shift. Among them are D.E. Jerusalem, V.G. Gak, V.S. Povarov, S.G. Tveryanovich, A.I. Kharitonov, M.I. Ptichkin, G.M. Orekhov, L.S. Plotnikov, G.G. Dolgov, O.P. Chupans, D.P. Khomyakov, P.A. Zolotarev, S.T. Odintsov, V.A. Chistikhin, V.A. Povartsov, A.P. Polikarpov and others.

There are also well-known writers among our milieu. This is Yu.V. Davydov, N.N. Molchanov, M.M. Barinov, A.A. Gusev, G.G. Polyakov, S.P. Kruzhilin.

V.I. became honorary citizens of their regions. Karelin, G.M. Orekhov.

We have someone and something to be proud of. It is impossible to enumerate all those who put their souls into the holy cause of serving the Motherland and the fleet in the quartermaster's field. God grant that their efforts and energy do not go to waste, but return a hundredfold for the good and benefit of the Motherland.

From family archive descendants of a graduate of the VMX-IntU of the Navy

Hello! My Dad - Grigory Oizerovich Maisky was just in the 1st graduation of the school in 1940-41. I have collected some photos of my Father, where he is in a sailor's uniform. A general photo of the cadets of the school - you have it on your site. When I saw your site, I was simply stunned - I immediately recognized in the first row - the seventh from the left - my Father! And here are some more photographs - where my Father is with his wife, our Mother - Polina Arkadyevna Maiskaya - she worked in the 50s as the head doctor of the polyclinic of plant 35 in Rost (Murmansk), and then from 1961-98 - a general practitioner, and then a cardiologist at the Polyclinic N2 in Leningrad, as well as family photographs of the Father with his eldest son Oleg (he graduated from LCI and worked as an engineer, and then as a realtor), father-in-law Arkady Lvovich Gilshtein (he worked as the chief accountant at Lenfilm in the 50s) and mother-in-law Riva Isaevna Gilshtein (she worked as an accountant at a book base on Vasilyevsky Island in Leningrad). photograph of my son Grigory - grandson of Grigory Oizerovich Maisky.

And a few more words. My Father - Grigory Oizerovich Maysky was friendly with Ivan Iokhin. They were even wounded on the same day. According to the Father's story, Jochin was dragging a reel with a communication cable on his back, and my Father was walking beside him with a rifle in guard. From the bushes someone shouted: "Stop, who's coming ...?" There, in theory, there should not have been any of ours. They lay down. They shouted in response: "Who is there?" In response, silence ... They shot into the bushes .... Silence ... They combed the bushes - no one .... Then they continued to move .. And at that moment there was a howl and they were covered with a mine explosion. Both of them were seriously wounded. Father was wounded in the leg by a fragment of a mine - he carried this fragment near his thigh all his life and was shell-shocked - he lay unconscious in the hospital at the Admiralty for about a week or more. He got to the hospital after he and Yochin was pulled out by one of the cadets from the battlefield. And in the Admiralty, my father was identified - the former teacher of the school Anatoly Ivanovich Stavrovsky - he came to the hospital on some business, and walking along the corridor he recognized my father. His name was Anatoly. Apparently, they named me Anatoly in his honor. My father talked a lot: about cadets' life, about boat trips along the Saima Canal under the command of boatswain Skok from the famous cruiser Askold, when they entered the former Finnish islands, with abandoned houses and household utensils ... about cadets' summer practice in 1941 and transition to Odessa on the mother ship "Neva", the former "Belfast" .. about the transition from besieged Leningrad to Moscow in early December 1941 - where at the Pasha station (I can be inaccurate - sorry, I’m still writing from my childhood memories) the cadets were announced that the train would not go further due to the railway station occupied by the Germans in front, and then, having appointed the elders, they We covered several kilometers off-road on foot until we arrived at our own... My father was very worried when Vanya Iokhin tragically died in 1968. It was only known - that he, while on vacation and riding a boat, leaned over the side, fell into the water and he felt bad with his heart in the water and he died tragically. The Pope maintained close relations with Vladimir Bazonov, Leonid Balakhonov, Efim Bernstein. They often called each other, went together to the annual meetings at the "Anchor".

Thank you very much for your site! I think you can't even imagine - what a great job you are doing and what value your site represents for current and future generations of relatives, friends and young cadets!
Sincerely, Anatoly Maisky