17 February, representatives of the Fuel Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation celebrate their professional holiday.
The fuel service is one of the youngest Logistics services of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The main and most important task of this service is the supply of fuel and lubricants to the troops. (Fuels and lubricants) and rocket fuel, ensuring the functioning of military equipment and weapons as in peacetime, and in combat conditions.
The starting point in the history of the fuel service was 1936 year. 17 February 1936 year by Order of the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR No. 024 Fuel Supply Directorate was established. The order was signed by the People's Commissar of Defense Kliment Voroshilov.
The first head of the Fuel Supply Directorate was Nikolai Nikolaevich Movchin (1896-1938). It was Nikolai Nikolaevich who initiated the creation of the prototype of the fuel service, forming the first fuel supply structure of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army (RKKA). AT 1938 Movchin was arrested after “Tukhachevsky case” and later shot, rehabilitating in 1956 year.
The massive equipping of the Red Army with military equipment has significantly increased the need for fuels and lubricants. AT 1937 year, the new service began organizing fuel depots, organizing a whole network of military and district fuel depots. The need for continuous supply of troops was proved during the hostilities near Lake Khasan and on the Khalkin-Gol River., as well as during the winter war with Finland.
During the Great Patriotic War, timely delivery of fuel often decided the outcome of battles.. military, included in the divisions of the Fuel Service, often performed real feats, transporting fuel for military equipment directly to the front line. In the shadow of the glory of the pilots, tankers, sailors – they made their invaluable contribution to the approach of Victory.
Since the introduction into service of the Soviet Army of missile weapons, the Fuel Service was given a new task to provide troops with liquid rocket fuel. To develop new technologies in 1946 the Scientific Research Institute of Fuel and Lubricants was opened (Research Institute of Fuel and Lubricants), today - the 25th State Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
Of course, you cannot ignore the activities of the Fuel Service in “hot spots”. Servicemen provided fuel and lubricants to Soviet troops in Afghanistan, building field main pipelines, which were one of the main goals “mujahideen”. Day and night, service specialists eliminated the consequences of shelling and sabotage, ensuring the delivery of the necessary fuel. During the war in Afghanistan, specialists of the Fuel and Lubricants Service have laid 1200 km of pipelines, on which it was pumped 5,4 million. tons of fuel.
The service specialists took part in the liquidation of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident, earthquakes in Armenia, and also in many cases of man-made accidents and natural disasters.
AT 2010 the formation of, formation and development of the Fuel Service as a unified system of material and technical support (MTO). Today, the Fuel Service solves storage problems, transportation of fuel by land, sea and air. Specialists of the SG of the RF Armed Forces perform refueling work, serving hundreds of warehouses, automated fuel dispensing points, filling stations and bases of various subordination. Officers for the Fuel Service are trained by the Ulyanovsk Higher Military Technical School.
“military Review” congratulates all servicemen and veterans of the Fuel Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (the USSR) happy professional holiday!
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