August is rich in holiday dates, after VDV Day and the Day of the railwayman, which is celebrated in Russia quite massively, it was the turn of highly specialized professional holiday. 7 August, Russia marks Day of Service for Special Communications and Information Protection of the Federal Service of Russia. Service of Special Communication and Information - a structural unit of the Russian Federal Security Service, which is responsible for ensuring that government communications.
Itself the Federal Security Service is the successor of the 9th KGB of the USSR, which was responsible for protecting the leaders of the Communist Party and the government, and Service of Special Communication and Information in its structure - a former Federal Agency for Government Communications and Information (formerly known as FAGCI). 1 July 2003 President of the Russian Federation abolished FAGCI, having created a new FSO Russian federal state body - the Service of Special Communication and Information (Special Communication Russia). FROM 7 August 2004 year, this service is included directly in the Russian Federal Security Service, with a portion of the former divisions FAGCI was transferred to the jurisdiction of the FSB and other Russian special services. This day 7 of August and became a professional holiday of employees of the Service of Special Communication and Information FSO Russia.
In this regard, a special system of government has a long history. It was established in the Soviet Union in 1928 and it was called HF communications. This communication system is administered by the security organs (OGPU and his successors). Initially, the RF link was responsible for the establishment of data transmission system between the different bodies of the OGPU at Sovnarkom. But in the future the lines of Special Communication and started to use the civil structures of the young Soviet state - mostly it was about the representatives of the higher ranks of government.
During the Great Patriotic War, a special bond was used to facilitate the exchange of information between the command of armies and fronts and betting. At this time, the selection of candidates for work in the special communication facilities was conducted very carefully, as virtually every day selected experts were dealing with top-secret information, information, which came directly from the top leadership of the USSR. That is why during the war years was a special communication in a special account in the KGB. During the war years in the personal expert, which is claimed to work in HF communication structures, It should not be anything, which could even throw a little shade and provide a reason for any doubts about the reliability of such employee.
In the Soviet Union the RF link served as military and government communications and is a closed telephone system, which used a high frequency (VCh). The term "high-frequency connection" can also be applied to a range of equipment for communication, using wires of high-voltage power lines (6-1150 KB). Among other things, RF devices were placed in top government and party institutions in Moscow, regional and national regional centers of the Soviet Union, as well as embassies in socialist countries. Dialing RF communication unit, along with so-called "spinner", was a very important status symbol for all, without exception, representatives of the Soviet nomenklatura.
AT 1966 by professionals for maintenance HF communications began to prepare the Military Technical School of the KGB of the USSR Council of Ministers (now a higher educational institution is named - the Academy of Russian Federal Security Service). Military Technical School of the KGB was opened in Kaliningrad in Bagrationovsk, it was created on the basis of the 1st Corps Border Management Staff College and the military camp of 95th frontier. Across 6 years after the opening of the WTU KGB was relocated to Eagle and transformed into Orel Higher Military Command School of Communications (OVVKUS), here it was carried out training of officers, who already had higher military education. At the same time training of officers in the field in Bagrationovsk, which were related to government communication, It did not stop until 1975 of the year.
The collapse of the Soviet Union was reflected in the specialized military institution of higher education. 24 December 1991 FAGCI, the President of the Russian Federation was established in the country, and in August 1992 year, the highest level decided on reorganization OVVKUS. The new institution was called the Military Institute of Government Communications. In November 2004 year higher education institution was renamed again, Now the Academy of the Russian Federal Service protection, is the name of the university is today.
Museum Special Communications Service of Russia
These days, service of special communication and information work provides special communication channels, including those, enjoyed by the President of the Russian Federation, government members, Russian diplomats abroad. Among other things, the service provides information security activities of top officials, It protects information, which represent a state secret, and confronts technical intelligence.
In addition to this is to ensure the highest state authorities with the latest means of communication in the conduct of Special Communications Service of Russia, computer and office equipment, as well as software and video- and audioapparaturoj. It is also interesting, that the service is actively involved in the development of electronic document management systems and monitors, measuring the data on the socio-economic and socio-political processes in the country. In this case, the head of Russian Special Communication by post is the deputy director of the Russian Federal Security Service.
Today, employees of the Service of Special Communication and Information FSO Russia is necessary to operate any communication and information systems, simultaneously, engaged in the development and information security in a variety of settings. In this special communication service it is one of the most closed of special structures of the Russian state, and the day of its formation is not as widely celebrated, as a professional holiday of employees of other state apparatus.
7 August "Military Review" congratulates all current and former employees of the Service of Special Communication and Information FSO Russia (regardless of its name in the past) on their professional holiday.
Based on materials from open sources
