Day of rocket troops and artillery of the Republic of Belarus. Artillerymen and missilemen Soviet Union, Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan annually celebrate their holiday on November 19.
Day of Rocket Forces and Artillery
Artillerymen and rocketmen of the Soviet Union, Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan annually celebrate their holiday on November 19th. For missilemen of the Strategic Forces, the holiday comes a month after this date - December 19th.
Due to the same numbers in memorable dates, civilians often confuse the latter with birthdays.
To avoid this confusion and to clarify the situation in this matter, I will tell you about the Artillery Day. That is how, until 1964, the holiday was called, which is celebrated on November 19.
Many people know that the date of honoring the artillerymen coincides with the start of the counteroffensive of the Red Army and the defeat of the Nazis near Stalingrad. And indeed it is.
It was on November 19, 1942, with the powerful artillery preparation of the Red Army, that the military operation code-named "Hurricane" began, which is known to everyone as Battle of Stalingrad. During this battle, thanks to powerful artillery fire from all artillery systems and installations, there was a radical change in the Great Patriotic War (hereinafter - the Second World War), and subsequently in the Second World War. Every day of hostilities, from 11/19/1942 until the complete victory over Nazi Germany, is marked by the unforgettable exploits of Soviet artillerymen.
However, few people know their heroes, and only a few will name their exploits.
So I remembered twice the hero of the Soviet Union Vasily Stepanovich Petrov, who, being the deputy commander of one of the artillery units, showed courage and heroism when crossing the Dnieper River, near the city of Kyiv. For these qualities, shown by Petrov in the battle against the Nazis, the Soviet officer received in December 1943 the highest title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
On this, another fighter would have stopped, but not Petrov V.S. I want to draw your attention to the fact that Captain Petrov was seriously wounded during the attack and military doctors amputated both of his hands. However, despite these circumstances and the prohibition of doctors, the officer completed the treatment and returned to the army. Some time later, in April 1945, commanding an artillery regiment, our Hero again distinguished himself. For the heroism and courage shown, Vasily Stepanovich Petrov was presented to the second star of the Hero of the Soviet Union. And this hero is not the only one. Along with Petrov, another officer became twice Hero of the Soviet Union - Shilin Afanasy Petrovich, who showed heroism in battles with the Nazis when crossing the Dnieper and Oder rivers.
In total, according to official data, 1885 artillerymen, including 48 Belarusians, became Heroes of the Soviet Union.
50 generals, natives of modern Belarus, who led artillery units and formations located in the directions of the strike, deserved universal respect and Eternal Glory.
10 Belarusian artillerymen became full cavaliers of the Order of Glory.
The artillery of the Soviet Union was rightly called the "God of War".
For military merit in the Second World War, more than 2 thousand artillery units were awarded orders, 1200 received honorary titles, and over 500 Guards titles.
It is also interesting that the sons of Stalin and Chapaev, who served as officers in the artillery, took part in the liberation of the Belarusian lands from the fascist invaders.
Day of the Strategic Missile Forces (Day of the Strategic Missile Forces) is a professional holiday for employees of the Strategic Missile Forces. It is also a memorial day of the Russian Federation. It is celebrated by strategic missilemen, military personnel, civilian specialists and employees of support services, research institutes, educational institutions, specialized factories, landfills.
In Russia, in 2020, the Day of the Strategic Missile Forces is celebrated on December 17 and is held at the official level for the 15th time.
Meaning: the holiday is dedicated to the day of the formation of the Strategic Missile Forces on 12/17/1959.
On this day, the traditional honoring of strategic missilemen is held. Distinguished employees are given memorable gifts. There are various composition promotions.
The content of the article
history of the holiday
The date of the holiday has a symbolic meaning. On December 17, 1959, the Government of the USSR decided to create the Strategic Missile Forces. In 1997, they were merged with the Military Space Forces and the Rocket and Space Defense Forces into a single type of troops - the Strategic Missile Forces. By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin dated March 24, 2001 No. 337c “On ensuring the construction and development of the RF Armed Forces, improving their structure”, the Strategic Missile Forces were separated from the Space Forces. In 2006, a professional holiday for strategic missilemen was established (Decree of the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin dated May 31, 2006 No. 549).
Holiday traditions
On this day, a reception is held in the Kremlin on the occasion of the holiday. AT military units ceremonial formations are taking place. The best military personnel are awarded awards, regular titles. Some divisional temples are presented with icons of St. Ilya Muromets - the patron saint of the Strategic Missile Forces.
Task for the day
look documentary or a report on the Strategic Missile Forces.
- The Strategic Missile Forces are the only ones in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation whose army-divisional structure has remained unchanged. In all other troops, it was modified or was abolished.
- In 1980, during the next inspection check of the central command post of the Strategic Missile Forces of the USSR, the commission asked the general on duty what actions he intended to take if, upon receipt of a command to launch a rocket launch, the lock of the safe where the documentation is stored does not open, and all 3 attempts of the dialed code will be unsuccessful . The general replied that for such cases he kept a sledgehammer behind a safe, and he would have to use it to knock down the lock. Most of the commission was outraged by such a response, but the chief of the 8th Directorate of the General Staff managed to convince them that this fallback option was justified, and the order to store such a tool should be delivered to all troops immediately. After this inspection, the sledgehammer was legalized and was at every post of duty commander of the Strategic Missile Forces.
- In 2008, Russia had 682 strategic carriers, in 2011 - 492, in 2013 - 448, in 2015 - 526.
- The main headquarters of the Strategic Missile Forces of the Russian Federation is located in the village of Vlasikha in the Moscow region.
- The Strategic Missile Forces include three training grounds: Kapustin Yar, Kura (Kamchatka), Sary-Shagan (Kazakhstan).
- The patron saint of the Strategic Missile Forces - St. Elijah Muromets, is also considered the patron saint of the Russian border service and the defender of his native land.
toasts
“On the Day of the Strategic Missile Forces, I send my rocket with congratulations and wishes of strength, stamina, confidence, good luck and victory. May your work be famous for its success and hitting the right spot, may your life always be full of explosive happy and wonderful moments!
“Congratulations on the Day of the Missile Forces to all the military, whose service provides our country with peace and protection from sudden invasions. You are a thunderstorm of opponents, an invincible stronghold of our army. Let your installations be always ready, but never need to be applied, because the peace and tranquility of our people is above all!
“Today we are celebrating another important holiday dedicated to the valiant servants of our country - rocket men. Your labors have paved the way to the peace of civilians. Let combat intercontinental maneuvers, despite their accuracy and effectiveness, remain only on the map, and in civilian life, not a single missile will strike at other lands!
Gifts
Pocket flask. A pocket flask for drinks with the emblem of the AFRF troops made of stainless steel will be an original and memorable gift.
Gift book. Gift edition of an artistic or historical book on a military theme will be a good gift idea for a rocket scientist for a professional holiday.
Icon. An icon or amulet with the face of Elijah Muromets will serve as a memorable gift for an employee of the Strategic Missile Forces. Such a present will also become a talisman for a believer.
Souvenir products. T-shirt, baseball cap, mug with a print on the theme of artillery will be an original thematic present for a professional holiday.
Competition
rocket launch
Couples participate in the competition, each of which the host hands over a roll of toilet paper. One of the participants depicts a rocket and stands with his hands raised and folded over his head. The second participant prepares the rocket for launch. His task is to wrap his partner with paper from head to toe. The pair that completes the task faster wins the competition.
Strength and Endurance
In the competition, participants have the opportunity to demonstrate strength and endurance. Their task is to do push-ups or sit down as many times as possible. To complicate the task, the contestants are offered to do push-ups on one arm or squat with a partner in their arms. The one who completes the exercise more times wins.
Model Soldier
For the competition, it is necessary to prepare as many elements of military clothing as possible: T-shirts, footcloths, boots, tunics, trousers, belts, etc. The contestants stand at the same distance from the props. When the host lights a match, the contestants begin to put on things. When the match burns out, the participants count the number of items of clothing worn. The one who has more of them wins the competition.
About the profession
The Strategic Missile Forces are considered an elite unit of the RF Armed Forces. They include missile armies and military units. They also include associations, formations, spaceports, a research station and institute, military universities, training centers, schools of technicians, arsenals, repair plants and central bases. The task of the AFRF is to deter possible aggression and defeat the enemy's strategic nuclear forces (SNF) by group or single nuclear missile strikes.
The AFRF are in constant combat readiness. Service in these troops is associated with a risk to life. The path to the profession begins with the end of a specialized university or secondary technical educational institution.
This holiday in other countries
On November 3, Ukraine celebrates the Day of Rocket Forces and Artillery. In Belarus and Kazakhstan, this holiday is celebrated on November 19.
Every holiday has its significant date. Each branch of the armed forces of our country celebrates its own special day. Rocket and gunners were no exception. In 2018, on November 19, Russians will celebrate Artilleryman's Day.
On November 19, Russia celebrates the Day of Missile Forces and Artillery Day of rocketmen and gunners 2018: interesting facts, the history of the holiday
- The tradition of celebration was approved by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on October 21, 1944;
- November 19 was chosen as the day of the holiday;
- The first rocketmen were artillerymen;
- The holiday was originally called Artillery Day;
- After the collapse of the USSR, the holiday was renamed once again.
Volleys of a thousand guns - the enemy will be defeated, the formation of a holiday
People are celebrating. They remember. Paradoxically, but often the triumph turns out to be more important than the event where people have gathered.
Indeed, an adult knows the date of his own professional holiday, and for what reason do people of a certain profession celebrate this, and not another day of the year, does anyone remember?
Artillery contributed greatly to the victory in World War II This can be understood if the solemnity of the event in no way corresponded to the mood of the whole country. That was exactly what the dank November day of 1942 was like, according to the recollections of eyewitnesses. Two years later, our country decided to recognize this day as a holiday and call it the Day of Rocket Forces and Artillery.
Video: On November 19, Russia celebrates the Day of Missile Forces and Artillery
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Today Russia celebrates Artillery Day
The fire of World War II captured all continents. Who in their right mind would celebrate Sabantuy? Postmen cursed their profession, as they often turned out to be heralds of death.
Soldiers died on the battlefield, people died painfully in concentration camps, leaving hope for salvation, in occupied cities, from grief and hunger in the rear. And at that moment there was a cannonade. Volleys of thousands of Soviet artillery guns have informed the world - another page of history has been turned. The enemy near Stalingrad will be defeated.
Without the support of Soviet artillerymen, the offensive of our troops near Stalingrad was doomed The history of the Artillery Day
Officially, the holiday appeared by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on October 21, 1944. Where did the date of this event come from?
On this day in 1942, the Red Army began to smash the hitler coalition, until that moment “invincible”, which occupied Europe. History has recognized that without the most powerful support of Soviet artillerymen, the offensive of our troops near Stalingrad was doomed.
Interestingly, the holiday was originally called Artillery Day. Rocket troops in Russia were created only in 1959. Nevertheless, the legendary rocket launchers BM-13 (later BM-8, BM-31), popularly nicknamed "Katyusha", in the forty-first year, brought down a deadly charge on the heads of the enemy.
The Day of Rocketmen and Artillerymen will forever remain in the memory of Russians In a military campaign, they traveled from Moscow to Berlin, often participating in the same military operations as field artillery. The first rocketmen were also artillerymen. Only they had to shoot with new shells of a different principle of operation. The shells were called mines.
Only in 1964 the holiday received a new name, known to us today as "Day of Rocket Forces and Artillery".
It is pleasant to realize that after the dramatic events that befell our country at the end of the previous century, which resulted in the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Russia cherishes the traditions won by blood. Decree of the President Russian Federation"Day of Rocket Forces and Artillery" is still celebrated on November 19.
Every year the money for military spending increases. One holiday for two types of troops: artillery today
At the end of the Great Patriotic War and the Second World War, the world “dozed off” for a short while. Just for a few months. In August 1945, a nuclear bomb exploded. Began " cold war". Against its background, "hot spots" began to flare up:
- Korean War;
- Cuban Missile Crisis;
- Vietnam War;
- Afghan war.
Military specialists, among them rocket and artillerymen, clung to their guns without a break.
Technological progress has made it possible for new classes of missiles to appear - tactical, strategic. The missiles became capable of making intercontinental flights within fifteen minutes.
They learned to carry nuclear warheads capable of dividing into a hundred nuclear warheads when struck, turning out to be invulnerable to enemy air defense.
Countries have become powerful "superpowers" and ... have increased the money for military spending. Today, every branch of the Russian armed forces has in its arsenal missile weapons for various purposes.
November 19 - a holiday for two types of troops Artillery may be inferior to some types of missiles in the radius and range of destruction, but in no way inferior in the importance of using weapons in modern combat. Combat missions in front of rocketmen and gunners are different, but the day November 19 will remain one holiday for the two branches of the armed forces.
Glory to the rocket launchers! Glory to the artillerymen! Glory to the defenders of the Motherland!
Video hymn of artillery and rocket troops
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Anthem of artillery and rocket troops
Congratulations on the day of rocket troops and artillery
The peace of the country is like granite
That's great - so be it
For those who keep it!
Let's not forget the Day of the Rocket Troops!
Rockets in the mines are fast asleep
Artillerymen all on guard
Everything from head to toe
They are ready, even on a holiday
When it comes to someone's mind
... and there are not many of them now ...
To risk making some noise
We have something ... so that they are gone!
We are not afraid of barriers
Our strength is great
Protect us from the enemy
Artillery troops!Rocket power of our wax
She does not lag behind
To all of them, congratulations!
And always move forward!
A rocket takes off into the sky
Measurement of the native spaceport.
You are always with us somewhere,
We are waiting for you at the table.Throw away your distant space
At least for one day.
Your work, of course, is not easy.
So come, let's sit down.
From ancient times, from the time of Borodino,
Artillerymen glorify Russia!
We wish you service without difficulties,
Smart bosses, devoted friendship,
We wish you happiness, love and health,
We sincerely congratulate you on the holiday!
Day of Rocket Forces and Artillery
I want to congratulate the military
Happy day rocket troops.
Still, brave artillerymen,
May you all have fun!
To have a lot of health
Happy days are countless
To have great luck
And that there be glory and honor to you!
Will not penetrate into our entrance, an enemy and a swindler,
Because an artilleryman friend lives in it.
We are not afraid that a comet will fall on the house,
Because at the ready, well-aimed missile.With a friend, in the morning, we begin the search.
So that there is something to celebrate the Day of the Missile Forces.
Oh, to lay a magnificent table, invite an artist.
Congratulations on Artillery Day!
Guys in the artillery
Everything as per choice:
Shoulders - a sazhen, height - two meters,
And eagle eyes!All rocketmen today
Warm congratulations,
Peaceful sky forever
We sincerely wish!And love, big and bright,
And smiles too
Accept congratulations from us
He is the most expensive!
The day of the rocket troops has come,
Let's congratulate!
Well done you guys
How can you not say?
Stand guard over the motherland
We can be calm
We are very grateful to you
Defend with dignity!
Read the congratulations
And for you - a sip of wine!
Today is the day of the rocket troops and we congratulate all the rocket men,
We wish good luck and happiness to all those who defend the country.
And so that all your dreams would come true,
And so that you would never know war, you sound terrible!And on your main holiday, we send congratulations.
Let it fly to you like a rocket
In it is the wish of love, the strength of happiness,
And so that rockets never explode in the world!
Music video congratulations to the gunners
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Until 1995, the day of the Strategic Missile Forces was celebrated on November 19 as the Day of Missile Forces and Artillery, which was established by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of November 17, 1964.
On the present stage In its development, the Strategic Missile Forces include three missile armies located in Vladimir, Omsk and Orenburg and including 12 missile divisions of constant readiness.
The missile divisions of the Strategic Missile Forces are armed with six types of missile systems (RK), subdivided according to the types of basing into stationary and mobile. The basis of the fixed-based grouping is made up of rocket launchers with "heavy" (RS-20V "Voevoda") and "light" (RS-18 "Stillet"), RS-12M2 ("Topol-M") missiles. The mobile-based group includes the Topol mobile ground-based missile system (PGRK) with the RS-12M missile, Topol-M with the RS-12M2 missile of monoblock equipment and the Yars PGRK with the RS-12M2R missile and multiple reentry vehicle in the mobile and stationary basing options.
The Strategic Missile Forces currently has about 400 launchers with ICBMs. The share of new RK in the grouping of the Strategic Missile Forces will constantly increase. It is planned that by 2022 the Strategic Missile Forces will have 100% of the new RK.
Throughout its history, the Strategic Missile Forces have never been used for their intended purpose as a military force, but together with other components of the strategic nuclear forces, they were visibly present in solving many military-political problems.
More than two-thirds of the nuclear carriers of Russia's strategic nuclear forces are concentrated in the Strategic Missile Forces, capable of solving tasks of hitting targets on enemy territory in a matter of minutes.
Every day, about six thousand people are at combat posts as part of the duty forces.
Since the formation of the Strategic Missile Forces, more than five thousand missile launches have been carried out, including about 500 combat training in the course of operational and combat training of troops.
The material was prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti and open sources
This branch of the army was dubbed the “God of War” by Russian soldiers for good reason. It was artillery, like a celestial, that repeatedly decided the fate of the largest and fiercest battles in national history. Russian gunners have always shown mass heroism, often preferring to die near their guns, rather than retreat before the enemy. Artillery has always been famous for its technical excellence and the skill of the gunners themselves.
Over time, the power of artillery only increased, and after the advent of rocket weapons, the truly divine power, which the religions of many peoples attributed to their idols, became available to ordinary mortal people. Congratulating on the Day of the Rocket Forces and Artillery all the soldiers serving now or serving in the past, we thank them for the fact that they always stand guard over our peaceful life and freedom.
Story
The Stalingrad victory, to which it was the artillery that made the main contribution, became the basis for the creation of this holiday. And it was then, in 1942, on November 19, a general offensive began. Soviet troops. Artillerymen of the USSR began spontaneously celebrating this date during the Great Patriotic War. However, the official professional artillery holiday was established only in 1988, according to the Decree of the USSR PVS.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the traditions of Russian artillery, including festive ones, were not lost. About prestige Armed Forces in general, and the artillery in particular, was taken care of constantly. And already in 2006, the Decree of the President of Russia No. 549 was issued, establishing the official status of the "Artilleryman's Day". It operates to this day. It should not be confused with the "Day of the Strategic Missile Forces", which is celebrated on December 17th.
Traditions
Artillery Day traditions are rich and varied. It is celebrated not only by military personnel, former and present, but also by members of their families. On this day, many guests visit artillery units and formations to:
- attend ceremonial constructions;
- look at demonstration shooting;
- get acquainted with the samples of gun systems in service with the troops.
On the same day, regular ranks are traditionally assigned to servicemen, state and commemorative awards are presented, congratulations and thanks are announced. And at home, everyone involved in the holiday is waiting for a laid table and congratulations from family members and friends.