That heroic time gave birth to heroes, or rather real heroines... They were different, but they were all united by the fleet. From ship captains to marines to divers, women had a place everywhere. They proved their right to be there and that a woman in the navy can do anything!
And also, looking at these photos, I remembered the words of the classic: “Yes, there were people in our time...” There were!!!
"Valentina Yakovlevna Orlikova (11/19/1915 - 01/31/1986) - the first female captain of a large sea fishing trawler (BMRT), the only female captain of a whaling ship ("Storm"), a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, the first woman in the country's fishing industry, awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor.
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In 1941 she graduated from the navigating department of the Leningrad Institute of Water Transport Engineers. When the Patriotic War began, she worked as a navigator on naval vessels. She took part in the evacuation of the wounded from Tallinn in August 1941. From August 1942 to October 1944 - 4th navigator, and then third mate on the ship "Dvina". Dvina transported Soviet raw materials to the United States in exchange for American products supplied under Lend-Lease.
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During her first interview, she was asked the following question:
How do you, a small woman, manage to command men?
She explained very clearly what her responsibilities were. She gave an example of how she had to maneuver during the first attack of a fascist submarine in her life, how she looked at the approaching torpedo, and how she steered the ship away from it.
“I didn’t feel any fear,” Valentina said, “there was enormous tension.” I closed my eyes. I counted to fifteen. It blew by. And her subordinates listen because they understand: the fate of the ship and all the people on it depends on how accurately they carry out the orders.
At the end of the hour and a half interview, during which Valentina brilliantly answered all the questions, one of the correspondents said in a deep voice:
Now I understand why the sailors obey all your commands.
Orlikova's husband was a second mate on another ship. Fate brought them together very rarely. During the war, her ship came to the United States three times, and each time correspondents sought to talk with the brave woman."
“The boatswain explained to me that this was our captain Valentina Yakovlevna Orlikova. There were already rumors about a female captain who had recently appeared in the trawl fleet. In my mind, she should have been, as Ilf and Petrov said, a “broad-shouldered citizen”, tall , a manly woman, giving commands in a loud voice, interspersed with choice obscenities.
Valentina Yakovlevna was below average height, a fragile, graceful, pretty woman with small, very regular facial features, large expressive eyes, and short hair. Intelligent, smart, ironic. In her relationships with the crew, she was attentive, simple, friendly, calm, never raised her voice or used strong expressions, but, when necessary, showed extraordinary strength of character in her actions and independent decisions.
Her petite appearance was more suitable for the hostess of an aristocratic salon of a bygone era or, finally, for an art critic in the decorous silence of museum halls, but not at all for steering an ocean trawler in the stormy Atlantic with a crew of ninety people.
During the harsh years of the war, V.Ya. Orlikova went in convoys on transports, after the war she commanded whalers in the Far East, then worked in Moscow, at the Ministry of Fisheries, and when she arrived from the new BMRT building in Murmansk, she returned to the captain’s bridge. She mastered the field work relatively quickly, voyage assignments were exceeded on a regular basis, hence the stability of earnings and the constancy of the crew.
They worked off the coast of Canada, in the Newfoundland area. A very unfavorable area, storms give way to fogs, and the work is complicated by ice carried away from the coast of Greenland. There is a large crowding of ships, hence the danger of collision, forcing the captain not to leave the bridge for days. Early in the morning a small Icelandic trawler "Iceberg" approached us. They asked for help from its side.
"What help do you need?" - Orlikova asked in English. “I need Mr. Captain,” came the answer. “I’m listening to you,” answered Valentina Yakovlevna. The captain of the "Iceberg" and his entire crew looked with amazement at the little woman in a black fur coat and hat - the captain of a huge ocean trawler..."
German Anufriev. "Sea captain V. Ya. Orlikova"
In Murmansk
The crew of the minesweeper TSCH-611
“Seven Braves,” as the crew of TSCH-611 was nicknamed by the Stalingraders. In the history of the navy, there is only one known case when the entire crew of a warship - from sailor to commander - consisted of women. In 1942, minesweeper No. 611 successfully operated on the Volga, near Stalingrad. A large-caliber machine gun and depth charge droppers were installed on its deck, and the Naval flag was raised on the mast. Antonina Kupriyanova was appointed commander of the ship, squad commander Dusya Parkhacheva, helmsman Tamara Dekalina, sailor Vera Frolova, miner Anna Tarasova, machine gunner Vera Chapava and engine mechanic Agnia Shabalina. “Seven Braves”—that’s how the all-girl crew of the minesweeper TSCH-611 was soon called. This minesweeper is now permanently parked in the city of Kamyshin.
O. Tonina.
Yu.A. remembers Panteleev Commander of the Volga Flotilla in 1943:
“Soon after the death of the minesweeper, Komsomol foreman 2nd article Kupriyanova came to me and began to persistently ask me to allocate the minesweeper to her and allow her to staff its crew only with girls.
- Aren’t you afraid?
The girl was even offended.
I said that I would think about it, but, to be honest, I didn’t dare for a long time. Experts began to persuade me, they say, Kupriyanova has selected a good crew and the girls will cope with their task. Reluctantly, I agreed and allocated an old boat. The girls repaired it on their own, installed trawls and reported their readiness to carry out military service. Before the first departure, I myself meticulously examined the ship and checked the knowledge of the crew. The best impression was left, and I gave the go-ahead to leave. Soon we received a report: Kupriyanova’s crew had detonated a mine. Then the second, third... By the end of the campaign, the entire crew was awarded government awards and received large cash bonuses.”
The Navy needs girls too!
Sniper of the 255th Marine Brigade Elizaveta Mironova. Novorossiysk. 1943
“Evdokia Nikolaevna Zavaliy is the only woman in World War II who commanded a platoon of marines. Here is just a small fragment from her memoirs:
Black pea coats always brought mortal horror to them [the Germans]. Suddenness, audacity and fearlessness. My guys were desperate. But when the Krauts found out that there was a woman among them, at first they couldn’t believe it, and then they started hunting for me. As for respect, I don’t know, but I’ll tell you one more case. This was the most daring and most difficult operation that my special platoon was assigned to.
In February 1945 there were fierce battles for Budapest. For four days, the Marines fought their way to the fortress where Hitler’s nest was located - the headquarters of the fascist executioner Horthy. All approaches to the castle were mined, and many firing points were equipped. The command of the 83rd brigade set the task: to penetrate the fortress at any cost. Examining all the nooks and crannies, the sailors paid attention to the sewer hatch, went down into it and discovered an underground passage. The scouts reported that it was possible to go through the dungeon, but it was difficult to breathe there - there was a heavy stench that made you dizzy. Company commander Kuzmichev remembered that among the trophies we captured there were pillows with oxygen. We calculated that we had to go to the fourth well, and decided to take a risk. My platoon walked ahead of the company - one pillow for two, you take a saving breath and give it to your neighbor. The collector turned out to be narrower than expected, they walked bent over, their legs got stuck in the fetid mud. At the second well they heard a roar and clanging. They carefully pulled back the lid and immediately closed it - at the top the entire street was filled with tanks and armored vehicles. Lord, I thought, what awaits us at the fourth well? After all, this stinking dungeon can become our mass grave, just throw a couple of grenades! At the fourth well the platoon stopped. My heart is pounding, but it was quiet up there. So, we calculated correctly.
Having left the well, the fighters scattered in a thin chain along the gray wall of the castle, and in a burst they killed the sentry. The sudden appearance of the “black commissars” threw the enemy into confusion; these seconds were enough for us to burst into the building while the machine gun started firing. The company and other units arrived in time - they took floor by floor and soon completely cleared the castle and surrounding areas of the Nazis. A German general was among the prisoners. He looked at us like we were ghosts, unable to understand how miraculously we ended up behind the lines of his troops.
When they told him that they had passed underground, he did not believe it until he saw the scouts who had not had time to wash themselves off from dirt and sewage. When I heard that the platoon commander was a girl, I again didn’t believe it and was offended: “You couldn’t think of a worse mockery?!”
They called me. I came to the headquarters, dirty as hell, it stinks from me a kilometer away. Major Kruglov, holding his nose with a handkerchief, turns to me: “Report how you captured the German general!” And suddenly the German hands me a Walter system pistol - apparently the guys searched him badly. “Frau Russisch Black Commissar! Gut! Gut! I rolled my eyes at the political department, they nodded - take it. Then the guys made a personal inscription on this pistol for me..."
Evdokia Zavaliy
Platoon commander Evdokia Zavaliy. 83rd Marine Brigade. Bulgaria. 1944
Evdokia Zavaliy. During the war years she was wounded four times and shell-shocked twice.
Platoon commander Evdokia Zavaliy, sailor Pryomrukov (left), foreman 2nd class Sedykh
With the Order of the Red Banner of Battle
Ekaterina Demina. Hero of the Soviet Union.
"The medical instructor of the 369th separate battalion of the marine corps of the Danube military flotilla, chief petty officer Mikhailova E.I. On August 22, 1944, when crossing the Dniester estuary as part of the landing force, she was one of the first to reach the shore, provided first aid to seventeen seriously wounded sailors, suppressed the fire of a large-caliber machine gun, and threw grenades bunker and destroyed over 10 Nazis"
Ekaterina Demina
She went to the front at the age of 15...
Gantimurova Albina Alexandrovna. Chief Sergeant, commander of the Marine Corps reconnaissance department
Two sailors
On the way to Port Arthur. August 1945
Baltic Fleet
Marine Corps medical instructor Kozlova. Carried 70 wounded soldiers from the battlefield. October 1942
Little sister
Northern Fleet nurses
On hospital ships (face)
On hospital ships (turnover)
Unknown. Possibly a pre-war photo
In several buildings on Razvodnaya Street there was once a military school named after Emperor Alexander II, and later the Naval Institute of Radio Electronics named after A.S. Popova. Now here is one of the divisions of the Naval Polytechnic Institute (VMPI).
Recently, not only boys, but also girls study and serve here. Two years ago they began to be admitted to the Faculty of Automated Naval Control Systems. The girls will become communications specialists. They will serve on shore - in control centers and headquarters.
KP correspondents found out who the command will trust to manage the fleet.
KAMCHATKA, CRAB...
There are strict rules in the military camp. Twenty-year-old girls are prohibited from chatting on social networks and wearing civilian clothes. Not only what to wear, but even to store it on the territory of the institute!
A separate topic is hairstyles. Only braids are allowed. Well, or a short haircut (the majority chose the first option).
- It's worth it! Study lasts only a few years, but service is forever, says cadet Elena Sergeevskaya. – I always dreamed of connecting my life with the sea. Its open spaces, waves... Romance! But I want to serve somewhere in the North.
– And I’m in Kamchatka! – another cadet specifies. - There's caviar, crabs...
Begench Diniev, deputy head of the VMPI for work with personnel, enters the classroom. The girls stand at attention.
– Do you reveal secrets to journalists? – he asks jokingly.
- Comrade captain! - the female cadets are offended. – We have no secrets.
– Who knows you! “Women always have secrets,” the commander says amid laughter. – Kamchatka, crabs... Our country, girls, is big. Wherever they send you, that’s where you’ll go!
For girls, school comes first Photo: Oleg KUZENKOV
"LET'S GIVE THE GUYS A HARD WORK"
Cadet Alina Karpacheva from St. Petersburg dreamed of army life since childhood. She was inspired by the example of her stepfather - he served as a sapper.
– He has always been a role model for me! Honest, courageous, decent... His service was not easy, but at home he did not talk about its hardships. “I overcame all difficulties and never complained,” admits Alina. “There aren’t many girls studying here.” So we're worth our weight in gold ( laughs). Everyone treats us with honor and respect. No one will give us offense.
- Yes, we can protect ourselves. Here’s Katka, a master’s candidate in judo,” says Elena Sergeevskaya and points to the fragile girl sitting in the corner. – And Lenka is engaged in hand-to-hand combat... We will give many guys a head start, it’s dangerous to mess with us ( laughs). Recently we took a course for young fighters - sailed on yawls. We beat the boys in almost all respects!
The girls get up early - at 06.30. Then – exercise, breakfast, study. The ceremonial raising of the national flag. In a word – iron discipline. At nine in the evening, the cadets gather in the hall to watch the news.
“We like this routine,” says Elena Kazakova, who came from Novokubansk. “My classmates tried to dissuade me from serving.” They asked if I was in my right mind?! They said the army would ruin me. But you see that nothing like that happened!
EVERYTHING YOU DREAM
It takes several years for girls to be recruited to the Naval Polytechnic Institute. There are only two of them on each course so far, nine people each. Here you can get both higher and secondary education.
One of the cadets entered VMPI with honors diploma in hand. Anna Ilyina is a clinical psychologist. Now she is studying the specialty “Operation and repair of electronic computers.”
– I tried my hand at civilian life... Immediately after graduating from the university, I began working as an ordinary psychologist. But somehow it didn’t work out. Apparently, military service was destined for me. My dad and mom are military. Father is a retired officer. Mom still serves in the Federal Penitentiary Service,” says Anna.
Military service is now the most stable area, she believes.
“In it you will always feel support from the state,” says the young girl. “Sometimes it’s not easy, but that’s the kind of person I am.” I love organization.
Now it’s time for the cadets to tidy up. Eighteen girls live in four rooms. There are paintings with a marine theme hanging on the wall. Raging sea. Moonlight night. "Aurora" drowning in the orange sunset...
“We often dream about all this,” the cadets share, carefully making their beds.
The order in living rooms should be perfect Photo: Oleg KUZENKOV
SUBMARINE OWNERS
We leave the building and head to the educational and practical building. Cadets march along the parade ground and sing songs. A group of young men in tracksuits rush past beautiful girls. Future sailors run past with calm faces. Only one turns around.
– Aren’t you offended? – we ask an immodest question. - At least they looked in your direction. For decency.
- What are you speaking about! – the girls are embarrassed. - Not before that. The guys and I don't pay attention to each other. At least we try.
We go into the building. There are several simulators in front of us. One of them resembles a submarine compartment. Training to combat the survivability of the submarine takes place here.
– A group of up to ten people participates in the lesson. We adjust the valves and simulate various damages. Water can come from one or another hole. Or all of them at once! The cadets must quickly repair them,” explains Sergei Lukin, head of the VMPI ship survivability department.
The requirements for girls are the same as for boys. No favors!
– The conditions are the same for everyone. But the approaches are different,” notes Sergei Ivanov. - Female cadets are more careful. They try to patch all the cracks so that a drop does not fall. They are suitable for economic purposes. Real women!
Girls practicing water rescue operations Photo: Oleg KUZENKOV
READY FOR ANYTHING
Finally it comes to practice. We are standing in front of a small pool several meters deep. An inflatable raft, similar to a tent, sways on it. The girls, already dressed in wetsuits, are going to once again perform a rescue operation on the water. In five years, they must practice every action until it becomes automatic.
– Do you feel comfortable? – asks Sergei Lukin.
- Yes! - the divers answer.
– Let’s start the exercise!
Two cadets need to load the third one onto the raft. The girls complete the task in a matter of minutes.
“Comrade captain 1st rank, everyone is on board,” the girls report. - There are no injuries!
In real life they will not encounter such extreme conditions. But you have to be ready for anything.
- We will! - the girls promise. – Without us, the army is not an army at all!
It's hard to learn, but it's easy to fight! Photo: Oleg KUZENKOV
DIRECT SPEECH
“Our girls are the best of the best! They were able to enter the institute with a competition... forty people per place. This alone speaks volumes. At the same time, they are not only excellent students - each has a 5.0 GPA - but also athletes. All of them are masters and candidates for master of sports. Most of them really want to serve in the North. There are additional payments for harsh climatic conditions. The fact is that almost all of our girls are from Siberia. The weather is nonsense for them, it doesn’t scare them (laughs). In general, benefits are also a very important point. Girls in their first year are considered to be of military age. And from the second they serve under a contract. They are entitled to the same privileges as male military personnel. For example, they will be able to join the military mortgage program. And their scholarships are now good - up to 18 thousand. So there are prospects."
(Elena MAKSIMOVA, head of courses 421 and 422, Faculty of Automated Naval Control Systems, Naval Polytechnic Institute)
ON A NOTE
The Naval Institute has an auditorium with a replica of the "Polite People" monument.
The educational process at VMPI is approached with feeling, sense, and alignment. The institute has three military camps. One is based in Petrodvorets, the second in Pushkin, and the third on the territory of the Main Admiralty in St. Petersburg. Each has named audiences. For example, one of them bears the name of the father of the Soviet nuclear submarine fleet Igor Spassky, the other - the legendary shipbuilder Alexei Krylov.
– Named classrooms educate cadets just by their appearance! They instill in them a love of history and tell them about our compatriots who made a huge contribution to the development and construction of the fleet,” says Begench Diniev, deputy head of VMPI for work with personnel. – For example, in the division of our institute in Pushkin there is a “Sevastopol” auditorium. The plenipotentiary representative of the President of Russia took part in its creation
A soldier must be a comprehensively developed personality Photo: Oleg KUZENKOV
AND AT THIS TIME
“We are not cut off from the world!”
- And our love has a ba-ta-ray-ka! - the girls sing with a guitar.
Studying is studying, but the cadets also find time for creativity. The management of the institute is confident: a real military man must be a comprehensively developed personality. Therefore, songs with a guitar and going to the theater are not at all uncommon. The girls publish a wall newspaper and even practice dancing. The teacher comes to their dormitory several times a week.
– Don’t think that everything here is deaf! We are not cut off from the world,” the girls laugh.
This was one of the most curious formations of the First World War. 35 cheerful, short-haired young ladies in sailor uniforms learned the formation, crammed the regulations, listened to the detached commander and dreamed of dying for their Motherland. On the ribbons of their caps there was an inscription in gold: “Naval Women’s Team.”
REPORT TO THE MINISTER
On July 1, 1917, Assistant Minister of the Navy Captain 1st Rank Boris Dudorov received an interesting petition. “True patriots,” the organizers of the circle “Russian women, unite,” wrote to him. They demanded the formation of a women's naval team that would selflessly serve the fleet and the Fatherland.
Such extravagant reports were periodically received by the Minister of War and Navy. Either the ladies asked to organize shock units “to fight anarchy in the villages,” or to create a “women’s regiment of black hussars.” But to take aim at the holy of holies - the Russian fleet?!
At any other time, the caperang Dudorov would not have attached any importance to the strange paper. But the time was explosive, the Southwestern Front was trying to organize an offensive, while laziness and defeatism reigned in the rear. And just a week ago, Maria Bochkareva’s disorganized “death battalion” set off for Krevo to show the men how to fight.
Alexander Kerensky tore his throat at rallies, shouting about the “female factor” and the benefits it should bring. Commander-in-Chief Alexei Brusilov and commander of the Petrograd Military District, Lieutenant General Pyotr Polovtsov, also welcomed the formation of female units. Dudorov had no choice but to approve the petition.
He had little idea what women could do in the navy. But they themselves knew this very well: to serve on an equal basis with sailors, to be, if necessary, “both sailors and laundresses.”
"COUNTRY OF FLYING DOGS"
In mid-July 1917, the Main Naval Headquarters officially announced the formation of the Women's Naval Team. Problems immediately arose. There are orders, there are more than enough people willing to join the team, but the fleet is against it.
“Under current circumstances, we consider the presence of women undesirable,” naval crews responded to Dudorov’s requests. It is not known how all this would have ended, but suddenly an encouraging answer came from the Kola Naval Base: the boss is ready to accept a female team for positions... cooks, laundresses, typists, cleaners.
But no sea!
The Kola base was called “the country of flying dogs” - because of the constant winds that made life in this disastrous place completely unbearable. Many "sailors" hastened to withdraw their applications. Even the high salary promised by the ministry was not seducing - 90 rubles a month, the salary of a junior non-commissioned officer in the fleet!
As a result, there was an embarrassment: it was planned to recruit 150 people, but by mid-August there were only 35 applications. But there was no turning back: it was necessary to prepare brave women for service. They were placed in Oranienbaum, in a specially designated room, and were enrolled in the pay of the Naval Shooting Training Team. First of all, they chose an official representative for the team committee - Evdokia Merkuryevna Skvortsova, a teacher and, according to the directory “All Petersburg,” a hereditary noblewoman.
"WOMEN IN PANTS"
In that alarming summer, exactly between the February and October revolutions, another revolution took place - in military equipment. For the first time in European history, women wore men's uniform trousers. Until now, Russian society ladies got by exclusively with breeches (while riding a bicycle) and riding breeches (while riding horseback). Breeches, however, were worn by both Maria Bochkareva’s subordinates and the personnel of the 1st Petrograd Women’s Battalion.
But trousers were considered an indecent form of clothing - both commoners and aristocrats agreed on this. However, the Naval Ministry decided: since the young ladies will be sailors, then they should wear a sailor’s uniform - caps, vests, work blouses, pea coats, overcoats and trousers. So in the navy, where traditions are reverently respected, “women in pants” appeared. At the beginning of August, all those who arrived for service were given a full set of uniforms. Blouses, trousers, boots and caps were sewn to order by tailors specially hired from Kronstadt: not a single workshop had “women’s sizes”.
The young ladies were extremely pleased with the new uniform, especially the wide sailor trousers with a “lapel” - a folding flap in the front. And they posed for the photographer with great pleasure, not forgetting to move the “imp” to the back of the head and light a “cigarette”. The sailors turned out just right.
But trouble came to them from where they did not expect it.
MUTUAL ON THE SHIP
“We, the sailors of the Naval Shooting Training Team, are protesting against the formation of women’s naval teams,” began the angry message from the sailors to their colleagues. The sailors tried to succinctly explain why women have no place in the navy. "A woman in the sea - woe to the team!" - we also remembered the old saying. And in many ways the sea wolves were right. The young ladies had just fluttered out of the walls of the gymnasium, did not know even a bit of maritime art, and were absolutely not prepared for service. In addition, their presence could arouse unnecessary thoughts, which also prevents men from fulfilling their military duty.
The sailors politely offered an alternative: “Unite not into naval women’s teams, not into shock battalions, not into battalions of death, but into battalions of labor and mutual aid!”
The young ladies carefully read the message and sent a copy of it with indignant comments to the Main Naval Headquarters. Dudorov reprimanded the head of the Naval Shooting Training Team, after which he spoke with the sailors in a language they understood. The rebellion in the team died down.
THE MAGNIFICENT SIX
Meanwhile, there was intense correspondence between the Main Naval Staff and the head of the Naval Shooting Training Team: what should the sailors be taught? And should they, for example, be given rifles for rifle techniques? In the end, we agreed on the military minimum: walking in formation, turning, saluting.
The girls' daily schedule resembled that of a sailor. We woke up at 7.30, washed, dressed, cleaned the room and drank tea. After prayer, classes began at nine o'clock - gymnastics, drill training, literacy. At 19.00 - dinner, at 21.00 - evening prayer.
Classes lasted until mid-September. After which the Naval Team... was disbanded due to its small numbers, and those who learned to type a step were distributed among the ground units. And only six Amazons, dressed in army field uniforms, went to the Kola Naval Base - “bread bakers”. They continued to proudly call themselves the “Naval Women’s Team” until the October Revolution...
The strange female formation seemed to many to be a whim of Kerensky. But today this project is perceived differently. The naval women's team is the first, albeit naive, attempt by women to fight for the right to serve in the navy. They will conquer it much later. Today, thousands of women serve with dignity in the Russian Navy. Seven feet under the keel!
PARALLELS
How many women are serving in the navy now?
According to the Department of Information and Public Relations of the Navy, in the period from 2009 to 2010, about nine and a half thousand representatives of the fair sex served in the fleet, while five thousand had the positions of petty officers and sailors, four thousand were warrant officers and midshipmen, more than five hundred had officer ranks . According to the Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for 2015, about 700 female cadets are studying at military universities; in the summer, military universities should receive another 210 girls, and cadet corps - about a thousand students.
However, as in 1917, Russian women do not serve on ships, but work at coastal facilities in the rear and military medical services, and in communications units. Only one female captain served in the Russian Navy - Vera Kurochkina. For 13 years she navigated the hydrographic boat BGK-28. But in September 2013, she received a dismissal order “due to a change in the terms of the employment contract.”
In total, according to the press service and information department of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for 2015, 35 thousand women serve in the ranks of the Armed Forces. Among them are 2,600 officers, of which 900 are senior officers. There are 72 women in command positions.
Photos of the 1st Naval Women's Team are published for the first time.
The author cordially thanks the head of the reading room of the Central State Academic Agricultural Library, Lyubov Nikolaevna Pyzhova, for her help in finding illustrations.
Instructions
Upon admission, you will need to go through the following stages: collecting documents, entrance exams.
Required documents:
Personal statement of desire to study addressed to the head of the school;
-autobiography;
-a notarized copy of the birth certificate;
- a copy of the document on Russian citizenship if you live outside the Russian Federation;
- characteristics of the school teachers, certified by the signatures of the school teaching staff, the director, and the official seal of the school;
- an extract from the candidate’s report card with grades for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd academic quarters of the 4th (8th, 9th) indicating the study, certified by the official seal of the school;
-four 3x4 photographs without headdress with space for printing in the lower right corner;
-copy of health insurance policy;
-medical, issued by the military medical commission;
- a certificate from the place of residence of the parents indicating the composition of the family and living conditions.
Participants in preferential admission include orphans and those without parental care - they are enrolled without exams based on the results of an interview and medical examination. And also those who have one of their parents serving under a contract, in places of hostilities, etc. Such applicants must provide the necessary documents confirming their right to receive benefits:
Orphans:
- certified copies of the death certificate and the father;
- certified copies of the court decision on guardianship/trusteeship;
- certificate of availability of assigned living space;
- a certified copy of the guardian/trustee certificate.
Other candidates enjoying the right to non-competitive admission provide:
-a certificate or extract from a personal file confirming the death of one of the parents;
-a certificate from the military unit confirming that the parent served under a contract;
-a copy of the divorce certificate, etc. that the child is being raised without a father/mother;
-a certificate from the military unit confirming the length of service of the parent;
- an extract from the military unit about the parent’s dismissal for any reason, subject to length of service.
You will need to submit all original documents to the admissions committee upon admission. The selection of applicants for enrollment is carried out within the time frame established by the management of the school.
After 8th or 9th grade, applicants take the same tests, but according to the 8th and 9th grade program, respectively. All results are assessed on a five-point scale.
Physical fitness also varies somewhat. The junior team undergoes pull-ups on the horizontal bar and a 60-meter run according to school standards. The middle team completes pull-ups, 60-meter runs, and 2000-meter cross-country events according to high school standards.
From time immemorial, the Russian officer corps was famous for its decency, professionalism, bearing, steadfastness and endurance. It was the officer corps that at all times maintained the controllability, stability and combat readiness of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. So how to enter the higher military school to get officer's shoulder straps?
Instructions
To enter, you must be from the Russian Federation and have a secondary (complete) general or secondary vocational education. If you have not served in the military, you can enroll between the ages of 16 and 22. For those serving or having completed military service, the age limit rises to 24 years inclusive.
To be admitted to higher military service, it is necessary to submit a report (application), on the basis of which the applicant will be admitted to preliminary selection at the military commissariat at the place of residence. Admission to military educational institutions is carried out according to applications (reports) of citizens, on the basis of which they are admitted to preliminary selection at district or city military commissariats and professional selection at universities. The application must be supplemented with a reference from the place of work or study, an autobiography, a copy of the educational document and three photographs. A military ID, passport, as well as an original document on education are provided by the applicant to the admissions committee of the military educational institution upon arrival.
