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Ryazan Higher Airborne Command Order of Suvorov twice Red Banner School named after Army General V. F. Margelov- military educational institution of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Story

In November 1921, the Ryazan Infantry School was awarded the Revolutionary Red Banner of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee for the courage and bravery of its personnel.
1941 (August 2) - in Kuibyshev (now Samara), on the basis of an infantry school, a military parachute school was secretly created to train military personnel of the Airborne Forces, which was carefully hidden behind the number of military unit No. 75021.
By the beginning of the war, the school had two battalions of cadets. They were commanded by Colonel Golovlev P.D. and Major Yagudin L.I. The personnel of the school learned about the beginning of the war in the Selets camp during the next opening of this camp. Company demonstrations and sporting events were stopped. A rally was held at which many cadets, Red Army soldiers and commanders spoke. They vowed to give all their strength and knowledge to defeat the enemy, to defend the Motherland and asked to send them to the active Army. Approximately half a month later, the school switched to a reduced training period. Scheduled classes were held not for 8 hours a day, but for 10-12 hours, not counting self-preparation and maintenance of equipment. The number of night classes has increased. New cadets selected by the military registration and enlistment offices arrived at the school, most of them who had previously served in the Red Army. There were three battalions of cadets and several divisions of political fighters. The battalions were commanded by Lieutenant Colonel P. D. Golovlev, Major Yagudin L. I., Major Bogdanov N. N. On July 20, 1941, senior cadets graduated from the school ahead of schedule. The release was made without exams for the average annual assessment, and all issued orders of the military council of the district were awarded the military rank "lieutenant". Graduates were primarily sent to staff the first-priority rifle units being formed, to subsequent formations and to spare parts for training Red Army soldiers and gaining practical skills. Instead of graduates, the school was quickly staffed with cadets to the full staff, taking into account the upcoming expansion. The quality of recruitment can be partially assessed from the book by Viktor Aleksandrovich Titov, a cadet of the March 1942 graduation school: “1000 days and nights at gunpoint” “... In 1941, from Belev, on my own, I got to Ryazan, to the infantry school named after. Voroshilov. The selection was motley, mainly from higher educational institutions in Moscow. Nobody wanted to be in the military, they thought that the war would not delay them for long. For enrollment as a cadet of the school, personal consent was required, but no one wanted to give consent to become a cadet. When at a reception at the head of the school, Colonel Garussky, they asked my consent, I replied that I wanted to be an artist, and I was ready to fulfill my duty to the Motherland as a private. The head of the school replied that the Motherland demands, and I have already been enrolled as a cadet of the school ... "On October 25, 1941, the school was relocated from Ryazan to the city of Ivanovo, and on February 15, 1942 returned from Ivanovo to Ryazan. Carrying out the operational task on the basis of the order of NPO No. 02011 dated 10/20/41 to relocate the school to the city of Ivanovo, the personnel successfully completed a 470 km transition on foot - a transition at a high disciplinary level within the specified period. Heavy property was transported on board along the Oka to the city of Gorky
On November 12, 1943, the Ryazan Infantry School, in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of its formation, was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for military services to the Motherland and outstanding achievements in the training of officers by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
From 1946 to September 1947, the parachute school was located in the city of Frunze, the capital of the Kirghiz SSR.
1958 (June) - By the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, the Ryazan Red Banner Infantry School (secondary) was transformed into the Higher Combined Arms Command School with a four-year training period. Graduates called it RKPU and received diplomas of higher civil education, and military training remained at the same level. These transformations did not affect the Alma-Ata Airborne School in any way, and the Commander of the Airborne Forces V.F. Margelov proposed the merger of the two schools to the country's leadership.
1959 (May 1) - the first echelon of paratrooper cadets departed from Kazakhstan to Ryazan, headed by Colonel A.S. Leontyev, who was appointed commander of the Ryazan Higher All-Arms Command Red Banner School. Only by the end of all graduations of infantry cadets on April 4, 1964, the school replaced its sign with the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command Red Banner School. Since 1959, when the Alma-Ata Military Parachute School became part of the "RKPU", the school began to "forge" officer cadres for the Airborne Forces of the USSR Armed Forces. V. F. Margelov constantly kept the school in sight and patronized in a paternal way. The school has grown, acquired an excellent educational base both in Ryazan and in the Selets camps, which have been unrecognizably transformed since the war.
1962 - the school switched to a new profile of education, and knowledge in one of the foreign languages. The admission and training of foreigners at the school began (the fourth platoon, consisting of Vietnamese, joined the 4th cadet company, and in subsequent years the company was replenished with Indonesians, cadets from 32 countries are currently studying).
1964 (April 4) - by the end of all graduations of infantry cadets, the school was renamed the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command Red Banner School and was unrecognizably transformed.

On February 22, 1968, in connection with the 50th anniversary of the Armed Forces of the USSR, the school was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the second time for great merits in the training of officers. He is given the honorary title "the name of the Lenin Komsomol".
In 1989, for a great contribution to the training of Polish military personnel, the school was awarded the "Commander's Cross" of the Order of Merit of the Polish People's Republic.
On November 13, 1995, a monument to the founder of the airborne service, General of the Army Vasily Margelov, was unveiled on the territory of the Institute.
On November 12, 1996, taking into account the numerous requests of personnel and veterans of the airborne service, the President of Russia assigned the school a new honorary name, as a result of which it became known as the "Ryazan Higher Airborne Command Double Red Banner School named after General of the Army V. F. Margelov."
August 29, 1998 in connection with the reorganization of the military educational institutions and in accordance with the order of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation No. 417 of September 16, 1998, the Ryazan Higher Airborne School named after General of the Army Margelov V.F. was renamed the "Ryazan Institute of the Airborne Forces".
November 11, 2002 by Government Decree Russian Federation No. 807, the institute was returned the name "named after Army General V. F. Margelov".
2004 (July 9) - taking into account the numerous requests of the personnel and veterans of the school, it was again renamed the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School (Military Institute) named after Army General V.F. Margelov (Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 937-R of 07/09/2004 of the year).
2006 - By order of the Minister of Defense of Russia, the school was awarded the Pennant of the Minister of Defense for courage, military prowess and high combat skills.
2008 - for the first time, the Ryazan Airborne Command School began accepting female cadets (20 people) for training in the military specialization "Application of airborne support units." These will be female officers, commanders of platoons of parachute stackers, who ensure the performance of parachute jumps by military personnel, as well as the release of military equipment using special platforms and multi-dome systems.
In early 2011, on the basis of the school, they plan to open a center for the training of military priests, imams, rabbis and lamas for the army and navy. On the territory of the training center there is a temple of Elijah the Prophet of the Russian Orthodox Church.
By the decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated November 14, 2013, the school was awarded the Order of Suvorov. President Putin personally attached the sign and ribbon of the order to the military banner of the school during his visit on November 15, 2013.
In August 2013, a special reconnaissance battalion was returned from the Novosibirsk VVKU. From that moment on, the RVVDKU resumed the training of officers for special forces units.
In the summer of 2015, the SPO intelligence faculty was transferred from the Novosibirsk VVKU, which merged into the SPO faculty.

Modernity

The educational institution in its composition has its own school, Training Center, located 60 km from Ryazan in the vicinity of the village of Seltsy, an aviation military transport squadron and the Central Parachute Club of the Airborne Forces.

On the territory of the school there are barrack-type dormitories for accommodating cadets, educational buildings and laboratories for conducting classes (including firing and technical complexes), a shooting range, an airborne training complex, sports and gyms for practicing various types of martial arts, a stadium with a sports town, dining room, cadet cafe, club, post office, medical center, consumer services complex.

The school fulfills the state personnel order for the preparation graduates VPO in three military specialties: "Use of Airborne Forces", "Use of Special Intelligence Units", "Use of Communications Units of the Airborne Forces" and two specializations: "Use of Airborne Support Units" and "Use of Marine Corps Units" with a training period of 5 years, including including 4-5 courses, two platoons of girls are trained.

The main subdivisions of the institute are: departments, companies and platoons of cadets. The institute trains and educates cadets in 17 military and 4 civilian departments:

combat support;
weapons and shooting;
humanitarian and natural science disciplines;
airborne training;
armored vehicles;
operation of weapons and military equipment;
department management;
special purpose units;
engineering training;
physical training;
Russian and foreign languages;
mathematical and natural science disciplines;
encryption and data transmission complexes;
radio, radio relay, tropospheric, satellite and wired communications;
organization of communication and military telecommunication systems;
general professional disciplines;
automotive technology;
automotive service;
restoration of military equipment;
engines and electrical equipment.

Currently [when?] 21 doctors of sciences and 170 candidates work at the school.

On the territory of the RVVDKU there is a museum of the history of the Airborne Forces.

Since 2013, it has been large-scale reconstruction schools. In Ryazan and Sel'tsy, more than 150 different facilities have been built, repaired and reconstructed, gasification has been carried out, roads have been reconstructed, and engineering infrastructure facilities have been replaced. As of March 2016, an aerodynamic installation for the education and training of parachutists, a deep-water pool for training divers, the Fighter sports complex and the Landing Ice Sports Palace were put into operation.

The Automotive Faculty of the RVVDKU takes the place of the disbanded campus. In 2009, the disbanded Ryazan Higher Military Command School of Communications entered the RVVDK as a communications faculty.

Education

The educational process at the Ryazan Institute of the Airborne Forces differs from educational process v high school. Education at the university is based on a close combination of theory and practice, its duration is 5 years, at officer courses (training of commanders of paratrooper companies (battalions) and specialists of the airborne service) - 5 - 10 months. The entire period of study is divided into 10 academic semesters - two semesters per academic year. At the end of each semester and school year in accordance with curriculum an examination session. The main forms of students' theoretical work are: listening to lectures, working at seminars and out-of-class consultations; to check and consolidate the knowledge gained in the learning process, laboratory and test papers. Within the course practical exercises with a platoon of cadets, group exercises, tactical exercises and exercises, and internships are provided. At the end of each course, starting from the second year of study, cadets are required to submit personal course projects; any independent work cadets to improve personal skills.

During the training, cadets spend more than a year on field trips. Every year, cadets are given a winter holiday vacation of 2 weeks and a basic summer vacation of 30 days.

Cadets who graduated from the college with a diploma with honors enjoy the preferential right to choose a place of service after graduating from the institute within the limits of the order established for the school.

Heads of the school

08/28/1918-04/01/1919 - Troitsky, Ivan Alexandrovich
04/01/1919-12/10/1919 - Oraevsky, Ivan Fedorovich
12/16/1919-05/24/1920 - Domozhirov, Nikolai Nikolaevich
05/24/1920-07/29/1920 - Troitsky, Ivan Alexandrovich (second time)
09/10/1920-10/19/1921 - Oraevsky, Ivan Fedorovich (second time)
10/19/1921-1922 - Pinaev, Georgy Andreevich
1922-1926 - Goryachko, Alexander Ignatievich
10.1926-1929 - Semashko, Valentin Vladislavovich
01/10/1929-1931 - Tikhomirov, Pyotr Pavlovich
1931-1932 - Podshivalov, Ivan Martemyanovich
04.1932-1939 - Vinogradov, Vasily Ivanovich, brigade commander
03/11/1940-05/31/1946 - Garussky, Mikhail Petrovich, major general
06/01/1946-01/10/1950 - File:Hero of the Soviet Union medal.png Lashchenko, Pyotr Nikolaevich, major general
01/10/1950-04/25/1952 - Vizzhilin, Viktor Alekseevich, major general
04/25/1952-05/1959 - Savchenko, Sergey Stepanovich, major general
06/10/1959-11/30/1965 - Alexander Stepanovich Leontiev, major general
11/30/1965-06/1968 - Popov, Alexander Mikhailovich, major general
07/27/1968-06/1970 - Kulishev, Oleg Fedorovich, major general
07/02/1970-03.1984 - Chikrizov, Alexei Vasilyevich, lieutenant general
03/15/1984-12/17/1995 - File:Hero of the Soviet Union medal.png Slyusar, Albert Evdokimovich, lieutenant general
12/17/1995-12/17/2001 - Shcherbak, Valery Vitalievich, major general
12/17/2001-02/10/2008 - Krymsky, Vladimir Yakovlevich, major general
05/06/2008-12.2009 - Lugovoy, Vladimir Nikolaevich, colonel
01/01/2010-01/27/2012 - Krasov, Andrey Leonidovich, Hero of Russia, Colonel
09/14/2012 - present time - Kontsevoi, Anatoly Georgievich, major general

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- Yes, how can I tell you ... At first, it was even interesting while my mother was alive. And when she died, the whole world faded for me... I was too small then. And she never loved her father. He only lived in war, even I had only the price for him that I could exchange for me by marrying ... He was a warrior to the marrow of his bones. And he died like this. And I always dreamed of returning home. I even saw dreams... But it didn't work.
- Do you want us to take you to Tristan? First, we will show you how, and then you will walk by yourself. It's just…” I suggested, hoping in my heart that she would agree.
I really wanted to see this whole legend “in full”, since such an opportunity arose, and at least I was a little ashamed, but this time I decided not to listen to my strongly indignant “inner voice”, but to try to somehow convince Isolde to “walk” on the lower "floor" and find her Tristan there for her.
I really loved this "cold" northern legend. She won my heart from the very moment she fell into my hands. Happiness in her was so fleeting, and there was so much sadness! .. Actually, as Isolde said, apparently they added a lot there, because it really hooked the soul very much. Or maybe it was so?.. Who could truly know this?.. After all, those who saw all this did not live for a long time. That's why I so strongly wanted to take advantage of this, probably the only case, and find out how everything really happened ...
Isolda sat quietly, thinking about something, as if not daring to take advantage of this unique opportunity that so unexpectedly presented itself to her, and to see the one whom fate had separated from her for so long ...
– I don’t know... Do I need all this now... Maybe just leave it like that? Isolde whispered in confusion. - It hurts a lot ... I wouldn’t make a mistake ...
I was incredibly surprised by her fear! It was the first time since the day when I first spoke to the dead, that someone refused to talk or see someone whom I once loved so deeply and tragically ...
- Please, let's go! I know you will regret it later! We'll just show you how to do it, and if you don't want to, then you won't go there anymore. But you must have a choice. A person should have the right to choose for himself, right, right?
Finally she nodded.
“Well then, let’s go, Light One. You're right, I shouldn't hide behind "the back of the impossible", that's cowardice. And we never liked cowards. And I've never been one of them...
I showed her my protection and, to my great surprise, she did it very easily, without even thinking. I was very happy, because it greatly facilitated our "campaign".
- Well, are you ready? .. - Stella smiled cheerfully, apparently to cheer her up.
We plunged into the sparkling darkness and, after a few short seconds, were already “floating” along the silvery path of the Astral level...
“It’s very beautiful here ...” Isolda whispered, “but I saw him in another, not so bright place ...
“It's here too... Just a little lower,” I reassured her. "You'll see, now we'll find him."
We “slipped” a little deeper, and I was ready to see the usual “terribly oppressive” lower astral reality, but, to my surprise, nothing of the kind happened ... We ended up in a rather pleasant, but, really, very gloomy and what something sad landscape. Heavy, muddy waves splashed on the rocky shore of the dark blue sea... Lazily “chasing” one after another, they “knocked” against the shore and reluctantly, slowly, returned back, dragging gray sand and small, black, shiny pebbles. Farther on, a majestic, huge, dark green mountain was visible, the top of which shyly hid behind gray, swollen clouds. The sky was heavy, but not intimidating, completely covered with gray clouds. Along the shore, in places, stingy dwarf bushes of some unfamiliar plants grew. Again - the landscape was gloomy, but "normal" enough, in any case, it resembled one of those that could be seen on the ground on a rainy, very cloudy day ... And that "screaming horror" like the others we saw on this "floor" of the place, he did not inspire us ...
On the shore of this "heavy", dark sea, a lonely man was sitting in deep thought. He seemed still quite young and rather handsome, but he was very sad, and did not pay any attention to us who came up.
- My bright falcon ... Tristanushka ... - Isolde whispered in a broken voice.
She was pale and frozen like death ... Stella, frightened, touched her hand, but the girl did not see or hear anything around, but only looked at her beloved Tristan without stopping ... It seemed that she wanted to absorb every his line... every hair... the native curve of his lips... the warmth of his brown eyes... to keep it in his suffering heart forever, and perhaps even carry it into his next "earthly" life...
- My light ice ... My sun ... Go away, do not torment me ... - Tristan looked at her in fright, not wanting to believe that this was reality, and closing himself from the painful "vision" with his hands, he repeated: - Go away, joy my... Go away now...
Unable to watch this heartbreaking scene any longer, Stella and I decided to intervene...
- Please forgive us, Tristan, but this is not a vision, this is your Isolde! Moreover, the real one ... - Stella said affectionately. “Therefore, it is better to accept it, do not hurt more ...
“Linushka, is it you?.. How many times have I seen you like this, and how many have I lost!... You always disappeared as soon as I tried to talk to you,” he carefully stretched out his hands to her, as if afraid to frighten her away, and she , forgetting everything in the world, threw herself on his neck and froze, as if she wanted to stay like that, merging with him into one, now not parting forever ...
I watched this meeting with growing anxiety, and thought how it would be possible to help these two sufferers, and now they are so infinitely happy people so that at least this life left here (until their next incarnation) they could stay together...
“Oh, don't think about it now! They just met! .. - Stella read my thoughts. “And then we’ll definitely come up with something ...
They stood pressed against each other, as if afraid to be separated... Afraid that this wonderful vision would suddenly disappear and everything would again be the same as before...
- How empty it is for me without you, my Icicle! .. How dark it is without you ...
And only then I noticed that Isolde looked different!.. Apparently, that bright "sunny" dress was intended only for her alone, just like the field strewn with flowers... And now she met her Tristan... And I must say, in her white dress embroidered with a red pattern, she looked amazing!.. And she looked like a young bride...
- They didn’t dance round dances with you, my falcon, they didn’t say health resorts ... They gave me to a stranger, they married me on the water ... But I have always been your wife. Always betrothed... Even when I lost you. Now we will always be together, my joy, now we will never part ... - softly whispered Isolde.
My eyes stung treacherously and, in order not to show that I was crying, I began to collect some pebbles on the shore. But Stella was not so easy to deceive, and even now her eyes were also “in a wet place” ...
How sad, right? She doesn't live here... Doesn't she understand?.. Or do you think she'll stay with him?
Dozens of questions swirled in my head for these two, insanely happy people who do not see anything around. But I knew for sure that I would not be able to ask anything, and I would not be able to disturb their unexpected and so fragile happiness ...
– What are we going to do? Stella asked worriedly. - Shall we leave it here?
- It's not for us to decide, I think ... This is her decision and her life, - and, already turning to Isolde, she said. “Forgive me, Isolde, but we would like to go already. Is there any other way we can help you?
“Oh, my dear girls, but I forgot! .. You must forgive me! ..” The bashfully blushing girl clapped her hands. – Tristanushka, it is them who should be thanked!.. It was they who brought me to you. I used to come as soon as I found you, but you couldn't hear me... And it was hard. And so much happiness came with them!
Tristan suddenly bowed low, low:
- Thank you, slavnitsy ... for the fact that my happiness, my Ldinushka was returned to me. Joy and goodness to you, heavenly... I am your debtor for all eternity... Just tell me.
His eyes shone suspiciously, and I realized that just a little more - and he would cry. Therefore, in order not to drop (and once beaten so much!) His male pride, I turned to Isolde and said as affectionately as possible:
"I take it you want to stay?"
She nodded sadly.
“Then, look carefully at this one… It will help you stay here. And it will make it easier, I hope…” I showed her my “special” green protection, hoping that with it they would be more or less safe here. – And one more thing... You probably realized that here you can create your own “sunny world”? I think he (I pointed to Tristan) will like it very much ...
Isolde obviously didn’t even think about it, and now she just shone with real happiness, apparently anticipating a “deadly” surprise ...
Everything around them sparkled with cheerful colors, the sea sparkled with rainbows, and we, realizing that everything would be fine with them, “slid” back to our beloved Mental Floor to discuss our possible future travels...

Like everything else “interesting”, my amazing walks to different levels of the Earth gradually became almost permanent, and relatively quickly landed on my “archival” shelf of “ordinary phenomena”. Sometimes I went there alone, upsetting my little friend. But Stella, even if she was a little upset, never showed anything and, if she felt that I preferred to be left alone, she never imposed her presence. This, of course, made me even more guilty towards her, and after my little “personal” adventures, I stayed to take a walk with her, which, by the same token, already doubled the load on my physical body, which was not quite used to it, and I returned home exhausted, like a squeezed, ripe lemon to the last drop ... But gradually, as our "walks" became longer, my "tormented" physical body gradually got used to it, fatigue became less and less, and the time it took to restore my physical strength became much shorter. These amazing walks very quickly overshadowed everything else, and my everyday life now seemed surprisingly dull and completely uninteresting ...
Of course, all this time I lived my normal life as a normal child: as usual - I went to school, participated in all the events organized there, went to the cinema with the guys, in general - I tried to look as normal as possible in order to attract to my "unusual » abilities as little unnecessary attention as possible.
I really liked some classes at school, some not so much, but so far all the subjects were still quite easy for me and did not require much effort for homework.
I also loved astronomy very much... which, unfortunately, has not yet been taught here. At home we had all sorts of amazingly illustrated books on astronomy, which my dad also adored, and I could spend hours reading about distant stars, mysterious nebulae, unfamiliar planets ... Dreaming someday at least for one short moment, to see all these amazing miracles, as they say, live ... Probably, then I already "inside" felt that this world is much closer to me than any, even the most beautiful, country on our Earth ... But all my "star" adventures then were very distant (I didn’t even think about them yet!) and therefore, at this stage, I was completely satisfied with “festivities” on different “floors” of our native planet, with my girlfriend Stella or alone.
My grandmother, to my great satisfaction, fully supported me in this, thus, leaving "for a walk", I did not have to hide, which made my travels even more pleasant. The fact is that in order to “walk” along the same “floors”, my essence had to leave the body, and if someone entered the room at that moment, they would find the most amusing picture there ... I she sat with her eyes open, seemingly in a completely normal state, but did not react to any appeal to me, did not answer questions and looked completely and completely “frozen”. Therefore, grandmother's help at such moments was simply irreplaceable. I remember once in my “walking” state my then friend, neighbor Romas found me ... When I woke up, I saw a face completely stunned with fear and eyes round like two huge blue plates ... shoulders and called by name until I opened my eyes...
– Are you dead or something?!.. Or is it again some new “experiment” of yours? - almost chattering with fright, my friend hissed softly.
Although, for all these years of our communication, it was definitely difficult to surprise him with something, but, apparently, the picture that opened up to him at that moment “surpassed” my most impressive early “experiments” ... It was Romas who told me after how frighteningly my "presence" looked from the outside ...
I did my best to calm him down and somehow explain what was so “terrible” that happened to me here. But no matter how I reassured him, I was almost 100% sure that the impression of what he saw would remain in his brain for a very, very long time...
Therefore, after this ridiculous (for me) "incident", I always tried so that, if possible, no one would take me by surprise, and no one would have to be so shamelessly dumbfounded or frightened ... That's why grandmother's help is so strong I needed it. She always knew when I once again went for a “walk” and made sure that no one at this time, if possible, bothered me. There was another reason why I didn’t really like it when I was forcibly “pulled out” of my “campaigns” back - in my entire physical body at the moment of such a “quick return” there was a feeling of a very strong internal blow and this was perceived very, very painful. Therefore, such a sudden return of the essence back to the physical body was very unpleasant for me and completely undesirable.
So, once again walking with Stella on the “floors”, and not finding something to do, “without exposing ourselves to great danger”, we finally decided to “deeper” and “more seriously” explore, which has become almost familiar to her , Mental "floor"...
Her own colorful world once again disappeared, and we, as it were, “hung” in the sparkling air, powdered with starry reflections, which, unlike the usual “earthly” one, was here richly “dense” and constantly changing, as if it were filled with millions of stars. tiny snowflakes that sparkled and sparkled on a frosty sunny day on Earth ... We stepped together into this silver-blue shimmering "emptiness", and immediately, as usual, a "path" appeared under our feet ... Or rather, not just a path, but a very bright and cheerful, ever-changing path, which was created from shimmering fluffy silvery "clouds" ... It appeared and disappeared by itself, as if inviting you to walk along it in a friendly way. I stepped onto the sparkling “cloud” and took a few cautious steps... I didn’t feel any movement, not the slightest effort for him, only a feeling of very light gliding in some calm, enveloping, silver-shining void... The traces immediately melted away , crumbling into thousands of multi-colored sparkling dust particles ... and new ones appeared as I stepped on this amazing and completely fascinated "local land" ....
Suddenly, in all this deep silence shimmering with silvery sparks, a strange transparent boat appeared, and in it stood a very beautiful young woman. Her long golden hair fluttered softly, as if touched by a breeze, then froze again, mysteriously sparkling with heavy golden highlights. The woman was obviously heading straight towards us, still gliding easily in her fabulous boat along some “waves” invisible to us, leaving behind her long, fluttering tails flashing with silver sparks ... Her white light dress, similar to a shimmering tunic, also - it fluttered, then smoothly fell, falling in soft folds down, and making the stranger look like a wondrous Greek goddess.
“She swims here all the time, looking for someone,” Stella whispered.
- Do you know her? Who is she looking for? - I did not understand.
I don't know, but I've seen her many times.
Well, let's ask, shall we? - already accustomed to the "floors", I bravely suggested.
The woman "sailed" closer, from her emanated sadness, grandeur and warmth.
“I am Atenais,” she said in her mind, very softly. - Who are you, wondrous creatures?
The "wonderful creatures" were a little confused, not exactly knowing what to answer to such a greeting...
“We are just walking,” Stella said smiling. We won't interfere with you.
- Who are you looking for? Atenais asked.
“No one,” the little girl was surprised. Why do you think we should be looking for someone?
- How else? You are now where everyone is looking for themselves. I was looking too…” she smiled sadly. But that was so long ago!
– How long ago? - I could not stand it.
– Oh, a very long time!... There is no time here, how can I know? All I remember is a long time ago.
Atenais was very beautiful and somehow unusually sad... She was somewhat reminiscent of a proud white swan, when he, falling from a height, giving his soul, sang his last song - she was just as majestic and tragic...
When she looked at us with her sparkling green eyes, she seemed to be older than eternity itself. There was so much wisdom in them, and so much unspoken sadness, that goosebumps ran through my body ...
– Can we help you with something? – A little embarrassed to ask her such questions, I asked.
– No, dear child, this is my job... My vow... But I believe that someday it will end... and I will be able to leave. Now, tell me, joyful ones, where would you like to go?
I shrugged.
We didn't choose, we just walked. But we will be happy if you have something to offer us.
Athenais nodded.
“I guard this interworld, I can let you through there,” and, looking affectionately at Stella, she added. - And you, child, I will help you find yourself ...
The woman smiled softly and waved her hand. Her strange dress swayed, and her hand became like a white-silvery, soft fluffy wing ... from which stretched, scattering with golden highlights, already another, blinding with gold and almost dense, bright sunny road, which led directly to the "flaming" in the distance an open golden door...
- Well, what - let's go? – already knowing the answer in advance, I asked Stella.
- Oh, look, there is someone there ... - she pointed with her finger inside the same door, baby.
We easily slipped inside and ... as if in a mirror, we saw a second Stella! .. Yes, yes, Stella! .. Exactly the same as the one who, completely bewildered, was standing next to me at that moment ...
– But it’s me?!.. – looking at the “other self” with wide eyes, the shocked little girl whispered. – After all, it’s really me… How is it?..
So far, I could not answer her, such a seemingly simple question, since I myself stood completely taken aback, not finding any explanation for this “absurd” phenomenon ...
Stella quietly extended her hand to her twin and touched the same small fingers extended to her. I wanted to shout that it could be dangerous, but when I saw her satisfied smile, I kept silent, deciding to see what would happen next, but at the same time I was on my guard, in case something suddenly went wrong.
- So it's me ... - the little girl whispered in delight. - Oh, how wonderful! This is really me...
Her thin fingers began to glow brightly, and the "second" Stella began to slowly melt, smoothly flowing through the same fingers into the "real" Stella, who was standing near me. Her body began to thicken, but not in the same way as the physical body would, but as if it became much denser to glow, filled with some kind of unearthly radiance.
Suddenly, I felt someone's presence behind me - it was again our friend, Atenais.
“Forgive me, bright child, but you will not come for your “imprint” very soon ... You still have to wait a very long time,” she looked into my eyes more attentively. Or maybe you won't come at all...
- How is it “I won’t come”?! .. - I was frightened. - If everyone comes, then I will come too!
- I do not know. For some reason your fate is closed to me. I can't answer you, sorry...
I was very upset, but, trying my best not to show this Atenays, I asked as calmly as possible:
What is this “imprint”?
“Oh, everyone, when they die, comes back for him. When your soul ends its “languishing” in another earthly body, at the moment when it says goodbye to it, it flies to its real Home, and, as it were, “announces” its return ... And then, it leaves this “ seal". But after that, she must again return back to the dense earth, in order to say goodbye forever to who she was ... and a year later, having said “last goodbye”, leave from there ... And then, this free soul comes here to merge with his left part and find peace, waiting for a new journey to the "old world"...

Ryazan Higher Airborne Command

School (military institute)

Named after General of the Army V.F. Margelov

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For admission to the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command

School (military institute) named after General of the Army V.F. Margelov (branch) of the Federal State Military Educational Institution of Higher Education vocational education"Military educational and scientific center ground forces"Combined Arms Academy

Armed Forces of the Russian Federation"

Ryazan

Rules for admission to the RVVDKU (VI)

1. These Rules govern the admission of citizens of the Russian Federation to the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School (Military Institute) named after General of the Army V.F. activities.

The rules are developed on the basis of: the laws of the Russian Federation “On Education” (No. 12-FZ of January 13, 1996), “On Higher and Postgraduate Professional Education” (No. 125-FZ of August 22, 1996), the order of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation dated October 21, 2009 No. 442 “On approval of the Procedure for admission of citizens to state accreditation educational institutions of higher professional education”, Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation of January 15, 2009 No. 4 “On Approval of the Procedure for Admission of Citizens to State Educational Institutions of Secondary Vocational Education”, Order of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation of April 24, 2010 No. 100 “On approval of the Instruction on the conditions and procedure for admission to military educational institutions of higher professional education of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation”; Regulations on the RVVDKU (VI).

2. Admission to a higher educational institution for the first year is carried out on a competitive basis upon the applications of persons:

For specialties of higher professional education with secondary (complete) general or secondary vocational education - according to the results of the unified state exam (hereinafter - the USE) for general education subjects corresponding to the direction of training (specialty) for which admission is carried out;

For specialties of secondary vocational education with secondary (complete) general or primary vocational education - according to the results of the unified state exam (hereinafter - the USE) in general education subjects corresponding to the direction of training (specialty) for which admission is carried out and according to the results entrance examinations, the form of which is determined by the university independently (instruction of the Ministry of Education and Science of September 11, 2009 No. VM-954/03).

3. The results of the USE, recognized as the results of entrance examinations in general education subjects corresponding to the direction of training (specialty) for which admission is carried out, confirming the successful completion of entrance examinations in general education subjects, should not be lower than established by the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science minimum quantity points for USE results in such general education subjects, confirming the development of the general education program of secondary (complete) general education in accordance with the requirements of the federal state educational standard secondary (complete) general education in the current year.

Based on statistical data on the results of admission of citizens in previous years:

the university has the right to establish a minimum number of points based on the results of the Unified State Examination, entrance examinations conducted by the university independently, confirming the successful completion of entrance examinations in specialized general education subjects, exceeding the minimum number of points established by the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science, confirming the development of the general education program of secondary (full) general education;

the university establishes a minimum number of points confirming the successful completion of additional entrance tests of a creative and (or) professional orientation, additional entrance tests of a profile orientation.

The establishment of the minimum number of points cannot be changed by the university until the completion of the enrollment procedure.

4. The level of general educational readiness of candidates for admission to the faculty of secondary vocational education is determined by conducting entrance tests (exams) in subjects (disciplines): Russian language and mathematics in the scope of programs of secondary (complete) general education. All entrance examinations at admission are carried out in writing.

5. When conducting a competition, observance of the rights of citizens to education and enrollment of citizens who are the most capable and prepared to master the basic educational programs corresponding level, unless otherwise provided by the legislation of the Russian Federation.

6. Without entrance examinations to universities are accepted:

Winners and prize-winners of the final stage All-Russian Olympiad schoolchildren, members of the national teams of the Russian Federation participating in international olympiads in general education subjects and formed in the manner determined by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, in areas of training (specialties) corresponding to the profile of the All-Russian Olympiad for schoolchildren, the international Olympiad.

7. Out of competition, subject to successful completion of entrance examinations, candidates from among:

orphans and children left without parental care, as well as persons under the age of 23 from among orphans and children left without parental care;

citizens under the age of 20 who have only one parent - a disabled person of group I, if the average per capita income of the family is below the subsistence level established in the corresponding subject of the Russian Federation;

citizens dismissed from military service and entering universities on the recommendations of the commanders of military units, as well as participants in hostilities;

citizens who, in accordance with the Law of the RSFSR dated May 15, 1991 No. 1244-1 “On social protection Citizens Exposed to Radiation as a Result of the Catastrophe at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant” provides the right to non-competitive admission to educational institutions of higher and secondary vocational education.

8. Candidates who showed equal results in the course of entrance examinations from among:

citizens who have a preferential right to enter educational institution in accordance with the Law of the RSFSR dated May 15, 1991 No. 1244-1 "On the social protection of citizens exposed to radiation as a result of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant";

children of Heroes of the Russian Federation;

citizens discharged from military service;

children of servicemen performing military service under a contract and having a total duration of military service of 20 years or more;

children of servicemen who died in the performance of their duties of military service or who died as a result of military injuries or diseases;

children of persons who were killed or died as a result of military trauma or diseases they received while participating in counter-terrorism operations and (or) other measures to combat terrorism. The procedure for determining the persons who took part in the conduct of counter-terrorism operations and (or) other measures to combat terrorism is established in accordance with federal laws;

“In the event of a military conflict, men in blue berets will go into the mouth of the enemy with one goal - to tear this mouth apart.”
V.F. Margelov

94 years ago, on November 13, the glorious military institute of the armed forces of our Motherland was organized - the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School (RVVDKU) named after General of the Army Vasily Filippovich Margelov.

This institution began in August 1918, when it was decided to form the first infantry courses in Ryazan to replenish the command staff of the young worker-peasant Red Army. On their basis, in the future, they first organized an infantry, and later an airborne school. The birthday of the RVVDKU was November 13, 1918 - the first day when the courses began. Colonel Ivan Alexandrovich Troitsky was appointed head of the school. It was military time, hectic, classes were held at an accelerated pace. The students were given only the very “basics” of military wisdom, they were taught to work with subordinates, to handle. The first red commanders were issued on March 15 of the following year. Every last person they were immediately sent to various fronts of the civil war. In just the time it lasted Civil War, seven graduations or 499 people passed through the school.

In 1920, these infantry courses were renamed the fifteenth Ryazan Infantry School. The term of study immediately increased to three years. And in the late autumn of 1921, the infantry school was awarded the Revolutionary Red Banner of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the USSR for the courage and courage shown by the personnel. In 1937, the school was transformed into the infantry school of Kliment Voroshilov, one of the first Marshals Soviet Union. And on August 2, 1941, on the basis of this school in Samara, a military parachute school was secretly created for the education and training of airborne troops. In all papers, the new part was hidden behind the number 75021.

In November 1943, the RVVDKU turned 25 years old. On the day of the anniversary, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the training center was awarded the honorary Order of the Red Banner. The document read: "For military services to the Fatherland and great success in the training and education of officers." During the years of the Great Patriotic War, ten valiant graduates of the school were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

In the summer of 1958, by decision of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, the secondary Ryazan infantry school was reformed into a higher command combined arms school. The term of study has grown again, now to four years. Graduates of this institution could receive diplomas of higher education, but military training didn't change at all. Then V.F. Margelov, who headed the airborne troops, proposed to the top leadership of our country to combine this school with the Alma-Ata airborne for the training of airborne officers. In 1959, the two educational institutions merged. On May 1 of the same year, the first group of cadets led by Colonel Leontiev arrived from Kazakhstan. The name - Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School - received only by the end of their training on April 4, 1964. The military parachute school of Alma-Ata, having become part of the Ryazan, also trained officers of the Airborne Forces of our country.

V.F. Margelov carefully watched the work of the institution. Under his strict guidance, the school grew and acquired an excellent educational base, unrecognizably changed. Much later, in 1995, in gratitude to the merits of the ancestor of the landing service, a monument to the famous general will be erected at the school.

Margelov Vasily Filippovich was born in 1908 in the city of Dnepropetrovsk in a working-class family. V Soviet Army got in 1928. He graduated from the Belarusian military school. He served in the army as a platoon commander, then a company and battalion commander. To the Great Patriotic war became commander rifle regiment, chief of staff, deputy commander rifle division, commander of the Guards Rifle Division. Participated in battles during the crossing of the Dnieper and the liberation of the city of Kherson. He was awarded the honorary title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Later he was the commander of the Airborne Forces. Among other awards, Vasily Margelov is an honorary citizen of Kherson, an honorary soldier of the military unit of the Airborne Forces, a laureate of the State Prize of the Soviet Union, a cavalier of more than 60! Soviet and foreign medals and orders. Died in 1990. Under his patronage, the Airborne Forces achieved great results in the development of means for landing, training troops and their weapons, organizing units, and combat capabilities.

In 1962, knowledge in foreign languages was placed at the head of the preparation process. At the same time, the school began to accept and train foreigners. The first of them were the Vietnamese, then the Indonesians appeared. Today, children from thirty-two countries of the world study at the RVVDKU! In 1968, in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, the school was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the second time, and in 1989 it received the "Commander's Cross" of the Order of Merit of Poland for excellent training within the walls of the training center for the military personnel of this country. On July 9, 2004, by Order of the Government of the Russian Federation under the number 937-R, the school was renamed for the last time to the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command (Military Institute) named after General of the Army Vasily Margelov. Rumor has it that this was done on the basis of numerous requests from veterans and the staff of the school. In 2006, the school was awarded the Pennant of the Minister of Defense of our country for excellent combat training.

This school never rests on its laurels. Since 2008, the RVVDKU began to train girls in the military profession called "Application of airborne support units." Female officers will command parachute stackers, helping to deploy paratroopers as well as military equipment on special platforms or complex multi-dome systems. Since 2011, on the basis of the training center, courses have been opened to train military priests, as well as rabbis, imams and lamas for navy and the land army.

Today, the institution includes the school itself, a training center sixty kilometers from the city, an aviation squadron and a parachute club. On the basis of the school, dormitories were built to accommodate students, laboratories and educational buildings where classes are held, a shooting range, sports halls, gyms, for teaching martial arts, airborne training, a stadium, a canteen, a cafe, a post office, a club, a consumer service facility, medical Center. On the territory of the school there is an Orthodox church of Elijah the Prophet and a museum of the history of the Airborne Forces.

The school prepares cadets in two specialties. Commander of an airborne platoon of the Airborne Forces with additional qualifications of a manager and commander of a reconnaissance platoon of paratrooper units of the Airborne Forces with the qualification of a linguist-translator. The military institute has nine military personnel (weapons and shooting, tactical and special training, humanitarian and economic disciplines, materiel and repair, airborne training, command and control in peacetime, operation and driving, physical training, tactics) and three civilian departments (mathematics and physics, foreign languages, Russian). They employ about a dozen doctors of science and several dozen candidates. The system of military education is constantly being improved. Candidates undergo a rigorous multi-stage selection during which a conclusion is formed on the degree of suitability of a particular individual for the needs of the chosen profession. Training at the Ryazan Airborne Forces Institute for all five years is based on the closest combination of practice and theory. Any independent work of cadets to improve their personal skills is welcome and encouraged. During training, cadets spend more than a year in the field. And those who graduate from an educational institution with honors are given the right to choose a place of further service (unfortunately, so far within the limits of the order designated for the school).

Among the honorary graduates are forty-five Heroes of the Soviet Union, sixty-nine Heroes of Russia, hundreds of holders of military orders, more than sixty champions of our country and the world in parachuting. This school graduated from: the former Minister of Defense of Russia P.S. Grachev, former commander of the Airborne Forces A.P. Kolmakov, Honored Artist of Russia, singer, actor O.V. Kukhta, former army commander, governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory A.I. Lebed, mixed martial arts fighter S.V. Kharitonov, adviser to the Minister of Defense, former army commander, head Ulyanovsk region, Hero of Russia V.A. Shamanov, governor of the Ryazan region, former commander of the Airborne Forces G.I. Shpak, governor of the Tver region A.V. Shevelev and many others. From other countries in RVVDKU studied: former leader Poland V.V. Jaruzelsky, President of Mali A.T. Toure, former head of the Georgian defense department L.L. Sharashenidze.

Today, the main goal of the RVVDKU is to educate a qualitatively new generation of military leading personnel of any level, capable of serving their Fatherland not under duress, but only out of personal conviction, ready at any moment to defend the independence, sovereignty and state interests of our great country.

The Ryazan Institute of the Airborne Forces inherits and continues the military glory and combat traditions of the previous military educational institutions: the 1st Ryazan Soviet Infantry Courses for the command staff of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army, the Ryazan Infantry School, the Ryazan Infantry, Kuibyshev and Alma-Ata military parachute schools, the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command twice Red Banner School named after General of the Army Margelov V.F.

In 1918, by order of the Revolutionary Government, a network of special military courses for officer training was created in the country. Among these courses, by Order of the People's Commissariat for Military Affairs No. 743 of August 29, 1918, the 1st Ryazan Soviet Infantry Courses for the officers of the Red Army began to form in Ryazan. The head of the courses was appointed former colonel General Staff Troitsky Ivan Aleksandrovich of the Russian army, commissar - Goryunov Alexei Ivanovich.

Day November 13 By order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic in memory of the completion of the formation of the 1st Ryazan infantry courses, it was declared an annual holiday of personnel. Since then, this date has been celebrated as the birthday of the unit, as a professional holiday for the personnel of the Ryazan Institute of the Airborne Forces.

From April to August 1919, the Ryazan courses in full force participated in the battles against the White Cossacks on the Southern Front. In 1920, the courses were renamed the Ryazan Infantry School.

In 1920-1921, detachments of cadets took part in operations to eliminate the Wrangel landing in the Kuban, liberated Nagorno-Dagestan from the White Guard troops, liquidated Antonov's counter-revolutionary gangs in the Tambov region.

In 1937, the school was renamed the Ryazan Infantry School.

In battles against the Japanese on the Khalkhin-Gol River and the White Finns, graduates Terekhin M.F. and Komarov N.N. become the first Heroes of the Soviet Union among the graduates of the school.

The war years were a comprehensive test of the life of the school, fortitude, courage and perseverance of the personnel. The cadets studied hard, and the graduates skillfully smashed the hated enemy. Thousands of pupils of the Ryazan infantry performed feats in the name of the liberation of the Motherland and the peoples of Eastern Europe enslaved by fascism, 13 graduates of the school were awarded highest rank- Hero of the Soviet Union.

On November 12, 1943, the Ryazan Infantry School, in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of its formation, for military services to the Motherland and outstanding success in officer training, was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Battle by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

In the fifties, the country's leadership set the task of forming strong, highly maneuverable Airborne Forces. To solve it, it was necessary to create a specialized military educational institution that would satisfy the need for new troops in officer cadres. In the spring of 1953, the Alma-Ata Airborne School, established in 1947, was merged with the Ryazan School, and from that moment Ryazan became the forge of command personnel for the Airborne Forces. In 1958, the school was transformed into a higher combined arms command. Since 1964, this educational institution has become known as the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command Red Banner School. The cadets wholeheartedly accepted the combat traditions of the Ryazan Infantry and tried to create a worthy authority for the new landing school.

On February 22, 1968, in connection with the 50th anniversary of the Armed Forces of the USSR, the school was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the second time for great merits in the training of officers. He is given the honorary title "the name of the Lenin Komsomol".

On November 12, 1996, taking into account the numerous requests of personnel and veterans, the President of the Russian Federation awarded the school a new honorary name "named after Army General Vasily Filippovich Margelov."

On August 29, 1998, in connection with the reorganization of military educational institutions, by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation, the school was renamed the Ryazan Institute of the Airborne Forces.

Story

Ryazan military school It was formed on November 13, 1918 on the basis of the first Soviet Ryazan infantry courses.
In November 1921, the Ryazan Infantry School was awarded the Revolutionary Red Banner of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee for the courage and courage of its personnel.
1941 (August 2) - in Kuibyshev (now Samara), on the basis of an infantry school, a military parachute school was secretly created to train military personnel of the Airborne Forces, which was carefully hidden behind the number of military unit No. 75021.
On November 12, 1943, the Ryazan Infantry School, in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of its formation, was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for military services to the Motherland and outstanding achievements in the training of officers by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
From 1946 to September 1947, the parachute school was located in the city of Frunze, Kirghiz SSR.
1958 (June) - By the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, the Ryazan Red Banner Infantry School (secondary) was transformed into the Higher Combined Arms Command School with a four-year training period. Graduates called it RKPU and received diplomas of higher civil education, and military training remained at the same level. These transformations did not affect the Alma-Ata Airborne School in any way, and the Commander of the Airborne Forces V. F. Margelov proposed the merger of the two schools to the country's leadership.
1959 (May 1) - the first echelon of paratrooper cadets headed from Kazakhstan to Ryazan, headed by Colonel A.S. Leontyev, who was appointed commander of the Ryazan Higher All-Arms Command School of the Red Banner. And only by the end of all graduations of infantry cadets on April 4, 1964, the school replaced its sign with the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command Red Banner School. Since 1959, when the Alma-Ata Military Parachute School became part of the "RKPU", the school began to "forge" officer cadres for the Airborne Forces of the USSR Armed Forces. VF Margelov constantly kept the school in sight and paternally patronized. The school has grown, acquired an excellent educational base both in Ryazan and in the Selets camps, which have been unrecognizably transformed since the war.
1962 - the school switched to a new profile of education and knowledge of one of the foreign languages was put at the forefront. The admission and training of foreigners at the school began (the fourth platoon, consisting of Vietnamese, joined the 4th cadet company, and in subsequent years the company was replenished with Indonesians ..., cadets from 32 countries are currently studying).
1964 (April 4) - by the end of all graduations of infantry cadets, the school was renamed the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command Red Banner School and was unrecognizably transformed.
On February 22, 1968, in connection with the 50th anniversary of the Armed Forces of the USSR, the school was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the second time for great merits in the training of officers. He is given the honorary title "named after the Lenin Komsomol".
In 1989, for a great contribution to the training of Polish military personnel, the school was awarded the "Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit" of the Polish People's Republic.
On November 13, 1995, a monument to the founder of the airborne service, General of the Army Vasily Margelov, was unveiled on the territory of the Institute.
On November 12, 1996, taking into account the numerous requests of personnel and veterans of the airborne service, the President of Russia assigned the school a new honorary name, as a result of which it became known as the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command Twice Red Banner School named after General of the Army Margelov V. F. ".
On August 29, 1998, in connection with the reorganization of military educational institutions and in accordance with the order of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation No. 417 of September 16, 1998, the Ryazan Higher Airborne School named after General of the Army Margelov V.F. was renamed the "Ryazan Institute of Airborne troops."
On November 11, 2002, by Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 807, the name “named after General of the Army V.F. Margelov” was returned to the institute.
2004 (July 9) - taking into account the numerous requests of the personnel and veterans of the school, it was again renamed the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School (military institute) named after Army General V.F. Margelov (Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 937-R of 07/09/2004 ).
2006 - By order of the Minister of Defense of Russia, the school was awarded the Pennant of the Minister of Defense for courage, military prowess and high combat skills.
2008 - for the first time, the Ryazan Airborne Command School began accepting female cadets (20 people) for training in the military specialization "Application of airborne support units." These will be female officers, commanders of platoons of parachute stackers, who ensure the performance of parachute jumps by military personnel, as well as the release of military equipment using special platforms and multi-dome systems.
2010 - the recruitment of cadets for training at the school was suspended, presumably the next recruitment of cadets will begin no earlier than 2013, instead of paratrooper officers from September 2010, the educational institution will train contract sergeants.
In early 2011, on the basis of the school, they plan to open a center for the training of military priests, imams, rabbis and lamas for the army and navy. On the territory of the training center there is a temple of Elijah the Prophet of Russia Orthodox Church.

Modernity

The educational institution in its composition has its own school, a training center located 60 km from Ryazan, an aviation military transport squadron and the Central Parachute Club of the Airborne Forces.

On the territory of the school there are barracks-type dormitories for cadets, educational buildings and laboratories for conducting classes (including firing and technical complexes), a shooting range, an airborne training complex, sports and gyms for practicing various types of martial arts, a stadium with a sports town, dining room, cadet cafe, club, post office, medical center, consumer services complex.

The school is preparing command staff with higher military special education in two specialties:

"Personnel management", commander of a parachute platoon of the Airborne Troops, qualified as a manager.

"Translation and translation studies", commander of the reconnaissance platoon of the paratrooper units of the Airborne Forces, qualified as a linguist-translator.

The main subdivisions of the institute are: departments, companies and platoons of cadets. The institute trains and educates cadets of 9 military and 3 civilian departments:
tactics;
tactical and special training;
weapons and shooting;
humanitarian and socio-economic disciplines;
airborne training;
material part and repair;
operation and driving;
command and control in peacetime;
physical training and sports;
foreign languages;
mathematics and physics;
Russian language.

RIVDV coordinates:
390031 Ryazan-31, pl. Margelov, ow. one
Tel.: (491-2) 20-94-14

Education

The educational process at the Ryazan Institute of the Airborne Forces differs from the educational process in higher education. Education at the university is based on a close combination of theory and practice, its duration is 5 years, at officer courses (training of commanders of paratrooper companies (battalions) and specialists of the airborne service) - 5 - 10 months. The entire period of study is divided into 10 academic semesters - two semesters per academic year. At the end of each semester and academic year, an examination session is held in accordance with the curriculum. The main forms of students' theoretical work are: listening to lectures, working at seminars and out-of-class consultations; to check and consolidate the knowledge gained in the learning process, laboratory and control work is periodically carried out. As part of the course of practical exercises with a training platoon of cadets, group exercises, tactical exercises and exercises, and internships are provided. At the end of each course, starting from the second year of study, cadets are required to submit personal course projects; any independent work of cadets to improve personal skills is encouraged.

During the training, cadets spend more than a year on field trips. Every year, cadets are given a winter holiday vacation of 2 weeks and a basic summer vacation of 30 days.

Graduates of the RIVDV (former RVVDKU)

The track record of the institute includes 45 Heroes of the Soviet Union, 63 Heroes of the Russian Federation, thousands of holders of military orders, more than 60 champions of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, Russia and the world in parachuting, etc. Among the graduates of the school:
Pavel Grachev - Hero of the Soviet Union, former Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation,
Valery Vostrotin - Hero of the Soviet Union, former Deputy Minister for Emergency Situations,
Alexander Lebed - former army commander, former deputy commander of the Airborne Forces and later governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory,
Vladimir Shamanov - former army commander, former head of the administration of the Ulyanovsk region, now adviser to the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, since May 25, 2009 he was appointed commander of the Airborne Forces
A whole galaxy of airborne commanders in recent history Russia:
Evgeny Podkolzin - former commander of the Airborne Forces,
Georgy Shpak - Commander of the Airborne Forces in 1996-2003, 5th Governor of the Ryazan Region;
Alexander Kolmakov - First Deputy Minister of Defense,
Evgeny Nikolaevich Andreev - parachute equipment tester, Hero of the Soviet Union
Nikolai Ignatov - Hero of Russia, participant in the storming of the House of Soviets
Oleg Zobov - Hero of Russia, participant in the New Year's assault on Grozny in 1995,
Zaripov Albert Maratovich - Hero of Russia, commander of the Special Forces group, participant in the battle near the village. May Day, 1996.
Wojciech Jaruzelski - former leader Poland,
Levan Sharashenidze - former head of the Georgian Defense Ministry,
Amadou Toumani Touré is the current President of Mali,
Sergey Kharitonov - Russian mixed martial arts fighter,
Tseev, Eduard Kushukovich - Hero of the Russian Federation
Andrey Shevelev - Governor of the Tver Region

And many others.
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The Ryazan Infantry Courses were formed.

Story

In November 1921, the Ryazan Infantry School was awarded the Revolutionary Red Banner of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee for the courage and bravery of its personnel.
1941 (August 2) - in Kuibyshev (now Samara), on the basis of an infantry school, a military parachute school was secretly created to train military personnel of the Airborne Forces, which was carefully hidden behind the number of military unit No. 75021.
By the beginning of the war, the school had two battalions of cadets. They were commanded by Colonel Golovlev P.D. and Major Yagudin L.I. The personnel of the school learned about the beginning of the war in the Selets camp during the next opening of this camp. Company demonstrations and sporting events were stopped. A rally was held at which many cadets, Red Army soldiers and commanders spoke. They vowed to give all their strength and knowledge to defeat the enemy, to defend the Motherland and asked to send them to the active Army. Approximately half a month later, the school switched to a reduced training period. Scheduled classes were held not for 8 hours a day, but for 10-12 hours, not counting self-preparation and maintenance of equipment. The number of night classes has increased. New cadets selected by the military registration and enlistment offices arrived at the school, most of them who had previously served in the Red Army. There were three battalions of cadets and several divisions of political fighters. The battalions were commanded by Lieutenant Colonel P. D. Golovlev, Major Yagudin L. I., Major Bogdanov N. N. On July 20, 1941, senior cadets graduated from the school ahead of schedule. The release was made without exams for the average annual assessment, and all issued orders of the military council of the district were awarded the military rank "lieutenant". Graduates were primarily sent to staff the first-priority rifle units being formed, to subsequent formations and to spare parts for training Red Army soldiers and gaining practical skills. Instead of graduates, the school was quickly staffed with cadets to the full staff, taking into account the upcoming expansion. The quality of recruitment can be partially assessed from the book by Viktor Aleksandrovich Titov, a cadet of the March 1942 graduation school: “1000 days and nights at gunpoint” “... In 1941, from Belev, on my own, I got to Ryazan, to the infantry school named after. Voroshilov. The selection was motley, mainly from higher educational institutions in Moscow. Nobody wanted to be in the military, they thought that the war would not delay them for long. For enrollment as a cadet of the school, personal consent was required, but no one wanted to give consent to become a cadet. When at a reception at the head of the school, Colonel Garussky, they asked my consent, I replied that I wanted to be an artist, and I was ready to fulfill my duty to the Motherland as a private. The head of the school replied that the Motherland demands, and I have already been enrolled as a cadet of the school ... "On October 25, 1941, the school was relocated from Ryazan to the city of Ivanovo, and on February 15, 1942 returned from Ivanovo to Ryazan. Carrying out the operational task on the basis of the order of NPO No. 02011 dated 10/20/41 to relocate the school to the city of Ivanovo, the personnel successfully completed a 470 km transition on foot - a transition at a high disciplinary level within the specified period. Heavy property was transported on board along the Oka to the city of Gorky
On November 12, 1943, the Ryazan Infantry School, in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of its formation, was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for military services to the Motherland and outstanding achievements in the training of officers by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
From 1946 to September 1947, the parachute school was located in the city of Frunze, the capital of the Kirghiz SSR.
1958 (June) - By the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, the Ryazan Red Banner Infantry School (secondary) was transformed into the Higher Combined Arms Command School with a four-year training period. Graduates called it RKPU and received diplomas of higher civil education, and military training remained at the same level. These transformations did not affect the Alma-Ata Airborne School in any way, and the Commander of the Airborne Forces V.F. Margelov proposed the merger of the two schools to the country's leadership.
1959 (May 1) - the first echelon of paratrooper cadets departed from Kazakhstan to Ryazan, headed by Colonel A.S. Leontyev, who was appointed commander of the Ryazan Higher All-Arms Command Red Banner School. Only by the end of all graduations of infantry cadets on April 4, 1964, the school replaced its sign with the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command Red Banner School. Since 1959, when the Alma-Ata Military Parachute School became part of the "RKPU", the school began to "forge" officer cadres for the Airborne Forces of the USSR Armed Forces. V. F. Margelov constantly kept the school in sight and patronized in a paternal way. The school has grown, acquired an excellent educational base both in Ryazan and in the Selets camps, which have been unrecognizably transformed since the war.
1962 - the school switched to a new profile of education, and knowledge of one of the foreign languages was put at the forefront. The admission and training of foreigners at the school began (the fourth platoon, consisting of Vietnamese, joined the 4th cadet company, and in subsequent years the company was replenished with Indonesians, cadets from 32 countries are currently studying).
1964 (April 4) - by the end of all graduations of infantry cadets, the school was renamed the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command Red Banner School and was unrecognizably transformed.

On February 22, 1968, in connection with the 50th anniversary of the Armed Forces of the USSR, the school was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the second time for great merits in the training of officers. He is given the honorary title "the name of the Lenin Komsomol".
In 1989, for a great contribution to the training of Polish military personnel, the school was awarded the "Commander's Cross" of the Order of Merit of the Polish People's Republic.
On November 13, 1995, a monument to the founder of the airborne service, General of the Army Vasily Margelov, was unveiled on the territory of the Institute.
On November 12, 1996, taking into account the numerous requests of personnel and veterans of the airborne service, the President of Russia assigned the school a new honorary name, as a result of which it became known as the "Ryazan Higher Airborne Command Double Red Banner School named after General of the Army V. F. Margelov."
On August 29, 1998, in connection with the reorganization of military educational institutions and in accordance with the order of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation No. 417 of September 16, 1998, the Ryazan Higher Airborne School named after General of the Army Margelov V.F. was renamed the Ryazan Institute of Airborne troops."
On November 11, 2002, by Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 807, the name “named after General of the Army V. F. Margelov” was returned to the Institute.
2004 (July 9) - taking into account the numerous requests of the personnel and veterans of the school, it was again renamed the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School (Military Institute) named after Army General V.F. Margelov (Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 937-R of 07/09/2004 of the year).
2006 - By order of the Minister of Defense of Russia, the school was awarded the Pennant of the Minister of Defense for courage, military prowess and high combat skills.
2008 - for the first time, the Ryazan Airborne Command School began accepting female cadets (20 people) for training in the military specialization "Application of airborne support units." These will be female officers, commanders of platoons of parachute stackers, who ensure the performance of parachute jumps by military personnel, as well as the release of military equipment using special platforms and multi-dome systems.
In early 2011, on the basis of the school, they plan to open a center for the training of military priests, imams, rabbis and lamas for the army and navy. On the territory of the training center there is a temple of Elijah the Prophet of the Russian Orthodox Church.
By the decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated November 14, 2013, the school was awarded the Order of Suvorov. President Putin personally attached the sign and ribbon of the order to the military banner of the school during his visit on November 15, 2013.
In August 2013, a special reconnaissance battalion was returned from the Novosibirsk VVKU. From that moment on, the RVVDKU resumed the training of officers for special forces units.
In the summer of 2015, the SPO intelligence faculty was transferred from the Novosibirsk VVKU, which merged into the SPO faculty.

Modernity

The educational institution in its composition has its own school, a training center located 60 km from Ryazan in the vicinity of the village of Seltsy, an aviation military transport squadron and the Central Parachute Club of the Airborne Forces.

The school fulfills the state personnel order for the training of graduates of the VPO in three military specialties: "Use of airborne units", "Use of special intelligence units", "Use of communications units of the Airborne Forces" and two specializations: "Use of airborne support units" and "Use of marine corps units » with a training period of 5 years, including two platoons of girls are trained in 4-5 courses.

The main subdivisions of the institute are: departments, companies and platoons of cadets. The institute trains and educates cadets in 17 military and 4 civilian departments:

combat support;
weapons and shooting;
humanitarian and natural science disciplines;
airborne training;
armored vehicles;
operation of weapons and military equipment;
department management;
special purpose units;
engineering training;
physical training;
Russian and foreign languages;
mathematical and natural science disciplines;
encryption and data transmission complexes;
radio, radio relay, tropospheric, satellite and wired communications;
organization of communication and military telecommunication systems;
general professional disciplines;
automotive technology;
automotive service;
restoration of military equipment;
engines and electrical equipment.

Currently [when?] 21 doctors of sciences and 170 candidates work at the school.

On the territory of the RVVDKU there is a museum of the history of the Airborne Forces.


Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at the RVVDKU, 2016	In the sports complex RVVDKU	Aerodynamic installation for the training of cadets of the RVVDKU	Deep-water pool for the training of divers RVVDKU

Since 2013, a large-scale reconstruction of the school has been underway. In Ryazan and Sel'tsy, more than 150 different facilities have been built, repaired and reconstructed, gasification has been carried out, roads have been reconstructed, and engineering infrastructure facilities have been replaced. As of March 2016, an aerodynamic installation for the education and training of parachutists, a deep-water pool for training divers, the Fighter sports complex and the Landing Ice Sports Palace were put into operation.

Education

The educational process at the Ryazan Institute of the Airborne Forces differs from the educational process in higher education. Education at the university is based on a close combination of theory and practice, its duration is 5 years, at officer courses (training of commanders of paratrooper companies (battalions) and specialists of the airborne service) - 5 - 10 months. The entire period of study is divided into 10 academic semesters - two semesters per academic year. At the end of each semester and academic year, an examination session is held in accordance with the curriculum. The main forms of students' theoretical work are: listening to lectures, working at seminars and out-of-class consultations; to check and consolidate the knowledge gained in the learning process, laboratory and control work is periodically carried out. As part of the course of practical exercises with a platoon of cadets, group exercises, tactical exercises and exercises, and internships are provided. At the end of each course, starting from the second year of study, cadets are required to submit personal course projects; any independent work of cadets to improve personal skills is encouraged.

During the training, cadets spend more than a year on field trips. Every year, cadets are given a winter holiday vacation of 2 weeks and a basic summer vacation of 30 days.

Heads of the school

08/28/1918-04/01/1919 - Troitsky, Ivan Alexandrovich
04/01/1919-12/10/1919 - Oraevsky, Ivan Fedorovich
12/16/1919-05/24/1920 - Domozhirov, Nikolai Nikolaevich
05/24/1920-07/29/1920 - Troitsky, Ivan Alexandrovich (second time)
09/10/1920-10/19/1921 - Oraevsky, Ivan Fedorovich (second time)
10/19/1921-1922 - Pinaev, Georgy Andreevich
1922-1926 - Goryachko, Alexander Ignatievich
10.1926-1929 - Semashko, Valentin Vladislavovich
01/10/1929-1931 - Tikhomirov, Pyotr Pavlovich
1931-1932 - Podshivalov, Ivan Martemyanovich
04.1932-1939 - Vinogradov, Vasily Ivanovich, brigade commander
03/11/1940-05/31/1946 - Garussky, Mikhail Petrovich, major general
01.06.1946-10.01.1950 - Lashchenko, Pyotr Nikolaevich, major general
01/10/1950-04/25/1952 - Vizzhilin, Viktor Alekseevich, major general
04/25/1952-05/1959 - Savchenko, Sergey Stepanovich, major general
06/10/1959-11/30/1965 - Alexander Stepanovich Leontiev, major general
11/30/1965-06/1968 - Popov, Alexander Mikhailovich, major general
07/27/1968-06/1970 - Kulishev, Oleg Fedorovich, major general
07/02/1970-03.1984 - Chikrizov, Alexei Vasilyevich, lieutenant general
15.03.1984-17.12.1995 - Slyusar, Albert Evdokimovich, lieutenant general
12/17/1995-12/17/2001 - Shcherbak, Valery Vitalievich, major general
12/17/2001-02/10/2008 - Krymsky, Vladimir Yakovlevich, major general
05/06/2008-12.2009 - Lugovoy, Vladimir Nikolaevich, colonel
01/01/2010-01/27/2012 - Krasov, Andrey Leonidovich, Hero of Russia, Colonel
09/14/2012 - present time - Kontsevoi, Anatoly Georgievich, major general

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“I don’t understand,” said Pierre, fearfully feeling doubt rising in himself. He was afraid of the vagueness and weakness of the arguments of his interlocutor, he was afraid of not believing him. “I do not understand,” he said, “how the human mind cannot comprehend the knowledge you are talking about.
The Mason smiled his meek, paternal smile.
“The highest wisdom and truth is, as it were, the purest moisture that we want to absorb into ourselves,” he said. – Can I take this pure moisture into an unclean vessel and judge its purity? Only by inner purification of myself can I bring the perceived moisture to a certain purity.
– Yes, yes, it is! Pierre said happily.
– Higher wisdom is not based on reason alone, not on those secular sciences of physics, history, chemistry, etc., into which mental knowledge breaks down. There is only one supreme wisdom. The highest wisdom has one science - the science of everything, the science that explains the entire universe and the place of man in it. In order to accommodate this science, it is necessary to purify and renew your inner man, and therefore, before you know, you need to believe and improve. And to achieve these goals, the light of God, called conscience, is embedded in our soul.
“Yes, yes,” Pierre confirmed.
“Look with your spiritual eyes at your inner man and ask yourself if you are satisfied with yourself. What have you achieved by being guided by one mind? What are you? You are young, you are rich, you are smart, educated, my lord. What have you made of all these blessings given to you? Are you satisfied with yourself and your life?
“No, I hate my life,” Pierre said, grimacing.
- You hate, so change it, purify yourself, and as you purify, you will learn wisdom. Look at your life, my lord. How did you spend it? In violent orgies and debauchery, receiving everything from society and giving nothing to it. You have received wealth. How did you use it? What have you done for your neighbor? Have you thought about the tens of thousands of your slaves, have you helped them physically and morally? No. You used their labors to lead a dissolute life. That's what you did. Have you chosen a place of service where you would benefit your neighbor? No. You have spent your life in idleness. Then you got married, my lord, took on the responsibility of leading a young woman, and what did you do? You did not help her, my lord, to find the path of truth, but plunged her into the abyss of lies and misfortune. A man insulted you and you killed him and you say that you don't know God and that you hate your life. There is nothing tricky here, my lord! - After these words, the freemason, as if tired of a long conversation, again leaned on the back of the sofa and closed his eyes. Pierre looked at this stern, motionless, senile, almost dead face, and silently moved his lips. He wanted to say: yes, vile, idle, depraved life, and did not dare to break the silence.
The Mason cleared his throat hoarsely, like an old man, and called for a servant.
- What about horses? he asked, not looking at Pierre.
“They brought the change,” answered the servant. - You won't rest?
- No, they ordered to pawn.
“Is he really going to leave and leave me alone without finishing everything and promising me help?” thought Pierre, getting up and lowering his head, occasionally looking at the freemason, and starting to walk around the room. “Yes, I didn’t think so, but I led a despicable, depraved life, but I didn’t love her, and didn’t want it,” thought Pierre, “and this man knows the truth, and if he wanted, he could reveal it to me” . Pierre wanted and did not dare to say this to the Mason. The passer-by, with habitual, senile hands, having packed his things, buttoned up his sheepskin coat. Having finished these things, he turned to the Earless and indifferently, in a courteous tone, said to him:
“Where would you like to go now, my lord?”
“I? ... I’m going to Petersburg,” Pierre answered in a childish, indecisive voice. - Thank you. I agree with you on everything. But don't think that I'm so stupid. I wished with all my heart to be what you would like me to be; but I never found help in anyone ... However, I myself am primarily to blame for everything. Help me, teach me, and maybe I will ... - Pierre could not speak further; he sniffled and turned away.
Mason was silent for a long time, apparently considering something.
“Help is given only from God,” he said, “but the amount of help that our order has the power to give, he will give you, my lord. You are going to Petersburg, give this to Count Villarsky (he took out his wallet and wrote a few words on a large sheet of paper folded in four). Let me give you one piece of advice. Arriving in the capital, devote the first time to solitude, discussing yourself, and do not enter the old paths of life. Then I wish you Bon Voyage my lord,” he said, noticing that his servant had entered the room, “and success ...
The traveler was Osip Alekseevich Bazdeev, as Pierre learned from the caretaker's book. Bazdeev was one of the most famous Freemasons and Martinists of Novik's time. Long after his departure, Pierre, without going to bed and without asking the horses, walked around the station room, pondering his vicious past and imagining his blissful, impeccable and virtuous future, which seemed so easy to him. He was, as it seemed to him, vicious only because he somehow accidentally forgot how good it is to be virtuous. Not a trace of the old doubts remained in his soul. He firmly believed in the possibility of a brotherhood of people united for the purpose of supporting each other on the path of virtue, and this was how Freemasonry seemed to him.

Arriving in St. Petersburg, Pierre did not inform anyone of his arrival, did not go anywhere, and began to spend whole days reading Thomas of Kempis, a book that was delivered to him by no one knows who. Pierre understood one and all the same when reading this book; he understood the pleasure, unknown to him, to believe in the possibility of achieving perfection and in the possibility of brotherly and active love between people, opened to him by Osip Alekseevich. A week after his arrival, the young Polish Count of Villarsky, whom Pierre knew superficially from St. Petersburg society, entered his room in the evening with that official and solemn air with which Dolokhov's second entered him and, having closed the door behind him and making sure that there was no one in the room there was no one except Pierre, turned to him:
“I have come to you with a commission and a proposal, Count,” he told him without sitting down. “A person very highly placed in our fraternity has petitioned for you to be admitted to the fraternity ahead of time, and has offered me to be your guarantor. I regard the fulfillment of the will of this person as a sacred duty. Do you wish to join the brotherhood of free stonemasons on my guarantee?
The cold and strict tone of the man whom Pierre almost always saw at balls with an amiable smile, in the company of the most brilliant women, struck Pierre.
“Yes, I wish,” said Pierre.
Villarsky inclined his head. - One more question, count, he said, to which I ask you, not as a future freemason, but as an honest person (galant homme), to answer me with all sincerity: have you renounced your former convictions, do you believe in God?
Pierre considered. “Yes… yes, I believe in God,” he said.
“In that case…” Villarsky began, but Pierre interrupted him. “Yes, I believe in God,” he said again.
“In that case, we can go,” said Willarsky. “My carriage is at your service.
All the way Villarsky was silent. To Pierre's questions about what he should do and how to answer, Villarsky only said that the brothers, more worthy of him, would test him, and that Pierre needed nothing more than to tell the truth.
Having entered the gate of a large house, where there was a lodge, and passing along a dark staircase, they entered a lighted, small hallway, where, without the help of servants, they took off their fur coats. From the hallway they went into another room. A man in strange attire appeared at the door. Villarsky, going out to meet him, said something quietly to him in French and went up to a small closet, in which Pierre noticed robes he had never seen before. Taking a handkerchief from the closet, Villarsky put it over Pierre's eyes and tied it in a knot at the back, painfully trapping his hair in a knot. Then he bent him to him, kissed him, and, taking him by the hand, led him somewhere. Pierre was in pain from the knotted hair, he grimaced in pain and smiled in shame at something. His huge figure, with lowered hands, with a shriveled and smiling face, followed Willarsky with unsteady, timid steps.
After leading him ten paces, Villarsky stopped.
“Whatever happens to you,” he said, “you must endure everything with courage if you are determined to join our brotherhood. (Pierre answered in the affirmative by inclining his head.) When you hear a knock at the door, you will untie your eyes, added Villarsky; I wish you courage and success. And, shaking hands with Pierre, Villarsky went out.
Left alone, Pierre continued to smile the same way. Once or twice he shrugged his shoulders, put his hand up to the handkerchief, as if wishing to take it off, and lowered it again. The five minutes he spent with his eyes tied seemed like an hour to him. His hands were swollen, his legs gave way; he seemed to be tired. He experienced the most complex and varied feelings. He was both afraid of what would happen to him, and even more afraid of how he would not show fear. He was curious to know what would become of him, what would be revealed to him; but most of all he was glad that the moment had come when he would finally embark on that path of renewal and an actively virtuous life, which he had been dreaming of since his meeting with Osip Alekseevich. Strong knocks were heard at the door. Pierre took off his bandage and looked around him. The room was black and dark: only in one place a lamp was burning, in something white. Pierre came closer and saw that the lamp stood on a black table, on which lay one open book. The book was the gospel; that white, in which the lamp burned, was a human skull with its holes and teeth. After reading the first words of the Gospel: “In the beginning there was no word and the word went to God,” Pierre went around the table and saw a large open box filled with something. It was a coffin with bones. He was not at all surprised by what he saw. Hoping to enter into a completely new life completely different from the former, he expected everything extraordinary, even more extraordinary than what he saw. The skull, the coffin, the Gospel - it seemed to him that he expected all this, expected even more. Trying to arouse in himself a feeling of tenderness, he looked around him. “God, death, love, the brotherhood of man,” he said to himself, associating with these words vague but joyful ideas of something. The door opened and someone entered.
In the weak light, which, however, Pierre had already managed to get a closer look at, a short man entered. Apparently from the light entering the darkness, this man stopped; then, with cautious steps, he moved to the table and placed on it his small, leather-gloved hands.
This short man was dressed in a white leather apron that covered his chest and part of his legs, he was wearing something like a necklace around his neck, and from behind the necklace protruded a high, white frill, framing his oblong face, illuminated from below.
- Why did you come here? - asked the newcomer, according to the rustle made by Pierre, turning in his direction. – Why do you, who do not believe in the truths of the light and do not see the light, why did you come here, what do you want from us? Wisdom, virtue, enlightenment?
At the moment the door opened and an unknown person entered, Pierre experienced a feeling of fear and reverence, similar to the one he experienced in confession as a child: he felt face to face with a completely alien in terms of living conditions and with a loved one, in the brotherhood of people, man. Pierre, with a breath-taking heartbeat, moved towards the rhetor (that was the name in Freemasonry of a brother who prepares a seeker to join the brotherhood). Pierre, coming closer, recognized in the rhetorician a familiar person, Smolyaninov, but it was insulting to him to think that the person who entered was a familiar person: the one who entered was only a brother and a virtuous mentor. Pierre could not utter a word for a long time, so the rhetor had to repeat his question.
“Yes, I ... I ... want updates,” Pierre said with difficulty.
“Good,” said Smolyaninov, and immediately continued: “Do you have any idea about the means by which our holy order will help you achieve your goal? ...” the rhetorician said calmly and quickly.
“I ... hope ... guidance ... help ... in renewal,” Pierre said with a trembling voice and with difficulty in speech, which comes from excitement and from being unaccustomed to speaking Russian about abstract subjects.
– What concept do you have about Freemasonry?
– I mean that Frank Freemasonry is fraterienité [brotherhood]; and the equality of people with virtuous goals, ”said Pierre, ashamed, as he spoke, of the inconsistency of his words with the solemnity of the moment. I mean…
“Very well,” said the rhetorician hastily, apparently quite satisfied with this answer. Have you looked for means to achieve your goal in religion?
“No, I considered it unfair, and did not follow it,” Pierre said so quietly that the rhetorician did not hear him and asked what he was saying. “I was an atheist,” answered Pierre.
- You are looking for truth in order to follow its laws in life; therefore, you seek wisdom and virtue, do you not? said the speaker after a moment's silence.
“Yes, yes,” Pierre confirmed.
The rhetor cleared his throat, folded his gloved hands on his chest and began to speak:
“Now I must reveal to you the main goal of our order,” he said, “and if this goal coincides with yours, then you will profitably join our brotherhood. The first main goal and the foundation of our order, on which it is established, and which no human power can overthrow, is the preservation and transmission to posterity of some important sacrament ... from the most ancient centuries and even from the first person who has come down to us, from whom the sacraments can may depend on the fate of the human race. But since this sacrament is of such a nature that no one can know it and use it, if one has not prepared for a long-term and diligent purification of oneself, then not everyone can hope to find it soon. Therefore, we have a second goal, which is to prepare our members, as far as possible, to correct their hearts, purify and enlighten their minds by those means that are revealed to us by tradition from men who have labored in the search for this mystery, and thereby make them capable of perception of it. Purifying and correcting our members, we try in the third place to correct the entire human race, offering it in our members an example of piety and virtue, and thus we try with all our might to oppose the evil that reigns in the world. Think about it, and I will come to you again,” he said and left the room.
“To resist the evil that reigns in the world ...” Pierre repeated, and he imagined his future activities in this field. He imagined the same people as he himself had been two weeks ago, and he mentally addressed them in an instructive, mentoring speech. He imagined vicious and unfortunate people whom he helped in word and deed; imagined the oppressors from whom he saved their victims. Of the three goals named by the rhetor, this last one, the correction of the human race, was especially close to Pierre. Some important sacrament mentioned by the rhetorician, although it aroused his curiosity, did not seem to him essential; and the second goal, the purification and correction of himself, interested him little, because at that moment he felt with pleasure that he was already completely corrected from his former vices and ready for only one good thing.
Half an hour later the orator returned to convey to the seeker those seven virtues, corresponding to the seven steps of Solomon's temple, which every Mason had to cultivate in himself. These virtues were: 1) modesty, observance of the secrets of the order, 2) obedience higher ranks orders, 3) kindness, 4) love of humanity, 5) courage, 6) generosity and 7) love of death.
“Seventhly, try,” said the rhetorician, “by frequent thinking about death, bring yourself to such a point that it does not seem to you a more terrible enemy, but a friend ... who frees the soul, languishing in the labors of virtue, from this miserable life in the labors of virtue, to introduce it into the place of reward and calm.
“Yes, it must be so,” thought Pierre, when, after these words, the rhetorician again left him, leaving him to solitary reflection. “It must be so, but I am still so weak that I love my life, the meaning of which is only now being revealed to me little by little.” But the remaining five virtues, which Pierre remembered fingering on his fingers, he felt in his soul: courage, and generosity, and kindness, and love for humanity, and especially obedience, which did not even seem to him a virtue, but happiness. (He was so happy now to get rid of his arbitrariness and subordinate his will to that and those who knew the undoubted truth.) Pierre forgot the seventh virtue and could not remember it.
The third time, the rhetor returned sooner and asked Pierre if he was still firm in his intention, and whether he dared to expose himself to everything that was required of him.
“I am ready for anything,” said Pierre.
“I must also tell you,” said the rhetorician, “that our Order teaches its teachings not only in words, but by other means that, perhaps, have a stronger effect on the true seeker of wisdom and virtue than verbal explanations alone. This temple with its decoration, which you see, should have already explained to your heart, if it is sincere, more than words; you will see, perhaps, in your further acceptance of a similar way of explaining. Our order imitates the ancient societies that revealed their teachings with hieroglyphs. A hieroglyph, - said the rhetorician, - is the name of some thing that is not subject to feelings, which contains qualities similar to the one depicted.
Pierre knew very well what a hieroglyph was, but did not dare to speak. He silently listened to the rhetor, feeling in everything that the trials would immediately begin.
“If you are firm, then I must begin to introduce you,” said the rhetorician, coming closer to Pierre. “As a sign of generosity, I ask you to give me all your precious things.
“But I don’t have anything with me,” said Pierre, who believed that they were demanding that he hand over everything he had.
- What you have: watches, money, rings ...
Pierre hurriedly took out his wallet, watch, and for a long time could not remove the wedding ring from his fat finger. When this was done, the Mason said:
- As a token of obedience, I ask you to undress. - Pierre took off his tailcoat, waistcoat and left boot at the direction of the rhetor. Mason opened the shirt on his left chest, and, bending down, lifted his trouser leg on his left leg above the knee. Pierre hurriedly wanted to take off his right boot and roll up his trousers in order to save a stranger from this labor, but the mason told him that this was not necessary - and gave him a shoe on his left foot. With a childish smile of modesty, doubt and mockery of himself, which appeared on his face against his will, Pierre stood with his hands down and legs apart in front of his brother rhetorician, waiting for his new orders.
“And finally, as a sign of candor, I ask you to reveal to me your main passion,” he said.
- My passion! I had so many of them,” said Pierre.
“That addiction which, more than any other, made you waver in the path of virtue,” said the Mason.
Pierre was silent for a while, looking for.
"Wine? Overeating? Idleness? Laziness? Hotness? Malice? Women?" He went over his vices, mentally weighing them and not knowing which one to give priority to.
“Women,” Pierre said in a low, barely audible voice. The Mason did not move or speak for a long time after this answer. Finally, he moved towards Pierre, took the handkerchief lying on the table and again blindfolded him.
- For the last time I tell you: turn all your attention to yourself, put chains on your feelings and seek bliss not in passions, but in your heart. The source of bliss is not outside, but within us...
Pierre already felt this refreshing source of bliss in himself, now filling his soul with joy and tenderness.

Soon after this, it was no longer the former rhetorician who came to the dark temple for Pierre, but the guarantor Villarsky, whom he recognized by his voice. To new questions about the firmness of his intentions, Pierre answered: “Yes, yes, I agree,” and with a beaming childish smile, with an open, fat chest, unevenly and timidly stepping with one bare and one shod foot, he went forward with Villarsky put to his bare chest with a sword. From the room he was led along the corridors, turning back and forth, and finally led to the doors of the box. Villarsky coughed, they answered him with Masonic knocks of hammers, the door opened before them. Someone's bass voice (Pierre's eyes were all blindfolded) asked him questions about who he was, where, when was he born? etc. Then they again led him somewhere, without untying his eyes, and as he walked, allegories spoke to him about the labors of his journey, about sacred friendship, about the eternal Builder of the world, about the courage with which he must endure labors and dangers . During this journey, Pierre noticed that he was called either seeking, or suffering, or demanding, and at the same time they knocked with hammers and swords in different ways. While he was led to some subject, he noticed that there was confusion and confusion between his leaders. He heard how the surrounding people argued among themselves in a whisper and how one insisted that he be led along some kind of carpet. After that, they took his right hand, put it on something, and with the left they ordered him to put the compass to his left chest, and forced him, repeating the words that the other had read, to read the oath of allegiance to the laws of the order. Then they put out the candles, lit alcohol, as Pierre heard it by smell, and said that he would see a small light. The bandage was removed from him, and Pierre, as in a dream, saw, in the faint light of an alcohol fire, several people who, in the same aprons as the rhetorician, stood against him and held swords aimed at his chest. Between them stood a man in a bloody white shirt. Seeing this, Pierre moved his sword forward with his chest, wanting them to pierce him. But the swords moved away from him and he was immediately bandaged again. “Now you have seen a small light,” a voice told him. Then the candles were lit again, they said that he needed to see the full light, and again they took off the bandage and suddenly more than ten voices said: sic transit gloria mundi. [this is how worldly glory passes.]