The Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces is the main intelligence agency of Russia. GU is a new name introduced in 2010 during the military reform. Transcript of the GRU of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The outdated designation GRU is common among people.

The intelligence of the RF Armed Forces rests on the shoulders of this body. The department coordinates subordinate intelligence departments, following the Constitution of the Russian Federation and acting in the interests of the state. Intelligence officers intercept information through personal involvement (conspiracy) or the use of electronics and radios.

History of the organization

In the RF Armed Forces, military intelligence existed back in the USSR (more precisely, its prototype). On the basis of the GRU of the USSR in 1992, after signing all the documents on the collapse of the military coalition, the main body and its officers passed to Russia. Based on the old management, an updated one was created. The abbreviation GRU (stands for Main Intelligence Directorate) of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces was brought to the official level in 2010 after the reform of the military administration. The change in the name of the body did not affect its tasks.

During its existence, the department participated in many missions. In 2015, employees collected information and conducted a report on the plans of Islamic groups in Central Asia. The merits of the intelligence officers include the destruction of the Chechen militant leader, information analysis and actions to annex the Crimean Peninsula in 2014, planning attacks in Syria in 2015, and assistance in establishing international contacts.

At the moment, the situation of the intelligence department can be called positive, since all the intelligence officers have been bought out or exchanged and are in Russia, or on a mission abroad, but at large.

GRU tasks

The set of tasks of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces was determined back in 1992 and has remained unchanged since then. Main goals of the organization:

• information support that benefits the political, military, technical or scientific development of the country;
• providing the central bodies of the Russian Federation (the President, the Ministry of Defense, the General Staff) with information necessary for making decisions in the field of foreign policy, economics and military relations;
• creating conditions favorable for the implementation of the foreign policy goals of the Russian state.

In practice, these tasks are implemented through the use of intelligence resources: trained personnel, modern technology, encryption knowledge and other intelligence tools.

Managment structure

The body is headed by the General Staff and the Russian Ministry of Defense. The top level in the hierarchy is the President of the Russian Federation, Commander-in-Chief of the army units. The heads of the GRU of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces (or deputies, or acting) must report on their activities primarily to the General Staff.

The vacancy of the chief in the Main Directorate of the General Staff was vacated several times due to the resignation of the previous chief. Since 1992, 6 managers have been replaced. The first to speak was Timokhin E.L., Colonel General. Most of the subsequent chapters are also colonel generals (except for Army General Korabelnikov).

The most prominent figure among the leaders of the body is considered to be I.D. Sergun, who held the managerial post from 2011 to 2016. During his leadership, the most striking intelligence operations of recent times took place (Crimea, Syria).

The reason for the change of leadership is the death of Sergun. Currently, the department is managed by Colonel General Korobov, whose biography includes being awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation. He was responsible for coordinating the fighting in Syria.

Official information about the structure of intelligence units is not disclosed. According to unconfirmed data, the organization has 21 divisions, of which 13 are main and 8 are auxiliary. Approximate composition:

1. EU countries (First Directorate).
2. America, Australia, Great Britain, New Zealand (Second Division).
3. Asia (Third).
4. Africa (Fourth).
5. Operational intelligence (Fifth Department).
6. OsNaz (radio engineering, Sixth Department).
7. NATO.
8. Special Forces (sabotage department).
9. Military technologies.
10. War economy.
11. Strategic management.
12. Information warfare department.
13. Space reconnaissance.

Auxiliary departments:

• personnel;
• operational and technical;
• archives;
• information service;
• external relations;
• administrative department.

Among the lower-level departments there is OBPSN - a special-purpose security department.

All departments are managed by the organizational and mobilization center located at the headquarters of the organization. The headquarters address is Grizodubovaya Street in Moscow, where the official office of the head of the department and his council is located. The former headquarters building is located at Khoroshevskoye Shosse, building 76. You can get from one building to another by walking just 100 meters.

Number of intelligence structures

Official data on the number of intelligence officers has not been disclosed. According to analysts, the number of military personnel in this industry ranges from 6 thousand to 15 thousand people.

The forces of the intelligence department include combined arms military units (military units) - 25,000 people. All of them serve under contract. The department is subordinate to artillery units, special equipment, and a fleet of motor vehicles.

GRU equipment

Much attention is paid to the appearance of scouts. The official uniform is gray (for officers) or dark blue (for subordinates) greatcoats with red and gold design elements. The chief dresses in a black uniform with blue accents.

The modern emblems were developed in 1997. There are small, medium, large emblems that are attached to the chest or sleeve. The big one is only for officers.

Weapon equipment for soldiers is carried out according to army standards. Special units should be equipped with an improved set of weapons - machine gun, knife, pistol, etc. Since the time of the USSR, the GRU weapons have been considered the best.

Personnel training

Officers for the GRU are trained mainly at the Academy of the Ministry of Defense. Leading military personnel are also trained at the Ryazan Airborne School in the field of special reconnaissance. A candidate who wants to enter one of the schools and subsequently become an intelligence officer must have a good knowledge of foreign languages, a high level of physical fitness, and excellent health.

There is additional education at the Academy of the Ministry of Defense - Higher Academic Courses. The structure of the GRU includes two of its own research institutes located in the capital.

Areas of training at a higher educational institution under the Ministry of Defense:

• strategic human intelligence;
• operational-tactical reconnaissance;
• agent-operational intelligence.

From the first year of study, students undertake to maintain state secrets and not disclose the stages of their training.

Since 1992, the vector of management development has not changed: the priority tasks remain to improve personnel training, obtain more detailed information, and use new technologies for intelligence purposes. However, the goals of the State Administration are not always fully implemented: information leaks occur, and the collected information does not always reach the top of the authority’s hierarchy.

According to British experts, due to an inconvenient bureaucratic system, important information does not reach the President. In 2016, due to incorrect operation of information security services, an information leak occurred. The task of the GRU in the future is to prevent such problems.

There is a new chief in the GRU - General Igor Korobov (biography raises many questions)

Lieutenant General Igor Korobov was appointed head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.This was reported to the Russian Ministry of Defense.

“The corresponding decision has been made, Igor Korobov has been appointed head of the GRU,”- explained the representative of the Ministry of Defense.

“On Monday, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu presented General Korobov with the personal standard of the head of the GRU. General Korobov was introduced to the generals and officers of the military intelligence headquarters. The ceremony took place at the Glaucus headquarters. On Friday, Korobov will take up his new office,” the source said.

According to information from the military department, the GRU seriously feared that a security officer from other structures (for example, from the Federal Security Service or the Foreign Intelligence Service) who had not previously encountered the peculiarities of working in military intelligence could be appointed as the new leader.

The Main Intelligence Directorate - GRU - is one of the most closed security forces: its structure, numerical strength, as well as the biographies of senior officers are a state secret.

The GRU is the foreign intelligence agency of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the central military intelligence management body in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. It is the executive body and military control body of other military organizations (the Russian Ministry of Defense and the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation).It is headed by the Chief of the GRU, who reports to the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation. The GRU and its structures are engaged in intelligence in the interests of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, including intelligence, space, radio-electronic, etc.

On November 21, 2018, after a long illness, Igor Korobov, Chief of the GRU of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, died. Appointed to perform his duties

According to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, the Russian military intelligence system under the command of Colonel General Igor Sergun worked very effectively. She “timely revealed new challenges and threats to the security of the Russian Federation.” Military intelligence participated in the planning and implementation of the operation to annex Crimea to Russia in February-March 2014.

Since the summer of 2015, the GRU, together with the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff, has been planning a Russian air operation in Syria.

In November 2015, the head of the GRU, Colonel General Igor Sergun, visited Damascus confidentially. The GRU prepared an open report at an international conference held in Moscow in the fall of 2015, which analyzed the goals and recruitment activity of the Islamic State in the Central Asian region and the republics of the Ural-Volga region and the North Caucasus.

Sergei Shoigu presents a personal standard to the Chief of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Igor Korobov. Photo: Twitter of the Russian Ministry of Defense

The GRU, according to foreign sources, uses high-tech methods of search and data analysis to collect information. Thus, in January 2016, the German magazine “Spiegel” claimed that the hacker attack on the Bundestag in 2015 was initiated by Russian military intelligence. Similar actions by hackers took place in some other NATO countries.

Bloomberg indicates that GRU employees use disguises in cyberspace that the US National Security Agency is unable to reveal.Moreover, the level of competence of GRU specialists is so high that their presence can only be revealed if they themselves want it...

For a long time, the headquarters of the GRU was located in Moscow in the Khodynskoye Pole area, Khoroshevskoye Shosse, 76.After the construction of a new headquarters complex, which consists of several buildings with an area of ​​more than 70 thousand m² with a so-called situation center and command post, the GRU headquarters was moved to the street. Grizodubova in Moscow, 100 meters from the old complex known as the Aquarium.

Colonel General Igor Sergun, who previously headed the GRU, died suddenly on January 3, 2016 in the Moscow region due to acute heart failure at the age of 58.

As Ivan Safronov wrote earlier in the article “Intelligence Among Our Own”, posted on the portal of the Kommersant publishing house, competent persons first of all named one of his deputies as the new head of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation instead of the deceased Igor Sergun .

Vladimir Putin expressed condolences to Sergun’s family and friends, calling him a man of great courage. Expressing condolences to the general’s family and colleagues, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that it was under his leadership that “the Russian military intelligence system received its further development, functioned with proper efficiency, and promptly identified new challenges and threats to the security of the Russian Federation.”

Let us note that General Sergun headed the GRU immediately after the reforms of Alexander Shlyakhturov. The reform provided for a reduction in the number of special forces brigades, as well as the transfer of some units to the subordination of military districts. According to a General Staff officer, after the appointment of Sergei Shoigu as head of the military department, Igor Sergun carried out a structural reorganization of the GRU, rolling back some of the changes of his former chief.Already in February-March 2014, the special service played one of the main roles in the operation to annex Crimea to Russia.

Sources close to the General Staff note that the new head of military intelligence will lead an extremely effective and balanced department, the creation of which is “the merit of Igor Dmitrievich Sergun.” The head of the GRU, Sergun, has had at least four deputies in recent years, about whom little is known.

General Vyacheslav Kondrashov

in 2011, he was already deputy to the previous head of the GRU, Alexander Shlyakhturov; in May of the same year, he presented a report at the Academy of the General Staff on the tactical and technical characteristics of ballistic missiles in service in the countries of the Near and Middle East (including Iran and North Korea) .

General Sergey Gizunov

Before his appointment to the central apparatus of the GRU, he headed the 85th main center of the special service, and at the end of 2009 he became a laureate of the Russian Government Prize in the field of science and technology.

Igor Lelin

in May 2000, with the rank of colonel, he was the military attache of the Russian Federation in Estonia (he was mentioned in a report by a local publication dedicated to the laying of flowers at the memorial to liberating soldiers on Tõnismägi Square), by 2013 he received the rank of major general and worked as deputy head of the main department personnel of the armed forces of the Russian Federation. In 2014 he was transferred to the GRU.

The fourth deputy of Igor Sergun was General Igor Korobov. There is no mention of his participation in any public events, Igor Korobov’s biography is a “closed seal” secret, but it was he who was called a “serious person” in the media and considered the most likely candidate for the vacated post.

What is reliably known about the new head of the GRU?

What details of Igor Korobov’s biography are still known?

He was awarded the Order “For Services to the Fatherland”, 4th degree, the Order of Alexander Nevsky, the Order of Courage, the Order “For Military Merit”, the Order “For Service to the Motherland in the USSR Armed Forces”, 3rd degree and the Medal “For Courage”.

It is difficult to construct a detailed biography, but the key points can be outlined. Let's skip the school years. It is known that Igor Korobov graduated with honors from the flight department of the Stavropol Higher Military Aviation School of Air Defense Pilots and Navigators (1973-1977) and received the rank of lieutenant. To serve, he was assigned to the 518th Fighter Aviation Berlin Order of Suvorov Regiment (Talagi airfield, Arkhangelsk) of the 10th Separate Red Banner Air Defense Army.

Young pilots who arrived in the regiment from the Stavropol school - lieutenants Faezov, Anokhin, Korobov, Patrikeev, Zaporozhtsev, Syrovatkin, Tkachenko, Fatkulin and Tyurin - spent the first year retraining for new equipment in the third squadron of the regiment. After this they were assigned to the first and second squadrons. Lieutenant Korobov ended up in the second.

Two-seat Tu-128 long-range loitering interceptors (a total of five regiments in the USSR Air Defense Fighter Aviation were equipped with them) covered the areas of Novaya Zemlya, Norilsk, Khatanga, Tiksi, Yakutsk, etc. In those directions, there were “gaps” in the single radar field and there were very few alternate airfields, which made the “carcass” the only effective means of covering the country’s air borders.

Second squadron of the 518th Berlin Aviation Order of Suvorov Regiment. The squadron commander and his deputy are sitting. Standing on the far right is senior lieutenant Igor Korobov (between the pilots - “Korobok”). Talagi airfield, Arkhangelsk, late 1970s.

In 1980, a personnel officer from the central apparatus of the GRU came to the regiment, began to study personal files, and selected two SVVAULSH graduates from 1977 - Viktor Anokhin and Igor Korobov. At the interview, Viktor Anokhin refused the offer to change his job profile. Igor Korobov agreed.

In 1981, Igor Korobov entered the Military Diplomatic Academy with a specialization in military intelligence.

Then - in various positions in the GRU, he was the first deputy head of the Main Directorate, supervising strategic intelligence issues - all of the department's foreign residencies were under his jurisdiction.

In February 2016, by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

Apparently, the Ministry of Defense was inclined towards the option that would allow maintaining continuity in the work of the special service, which General Sergun had been building in recent years.

Sources in the military department told Kommersant that the new head of the GRU will be an active intelligence officer, and not someone from other law enforcement agencies. According to them, the candidacies of several deputies of Igor Sergun, who died suddenly on January 3 in the Moscow region due to acute heart failure, were considered as a priority.

According to Kommersant's information, the GRU feared that a security officer from other structures (for example, from the Federal Security Service or the Foreign Intelligence Service), who had not previously encountered the peculiarities of the work of military intelligence, could be appointed as the new leader.

The General Staff and the Ministry of Defense considered that continuity was necessary for the stable functioning of the department.

New headquarters of the Main Intelligence Directorate outside and inside

Currently, the GRU is actively involved in planning Russia’s military air operation in Syria, and also provides space, electronic and human intelligence data to the country’s top military-political leadership.

Given the importance of this work, it can be assumed that the new head of the GRU enjoys the full confidence of the Russian leadership.

GRU structure

It is difficult to judge the current structure of the GRU, but judging by open sources, the GRU includes 12-14 main departments and about ten auxiliary departments. Let's name the main ones.

The first Directorate includes the countries of the European Commonwealth (except Great Britain).

Second Directorate - the Americas, Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand.

Third Directorate – Asian countries.

Fourth Directorate – African countries.

The Fifth Directorate deals with operational intelligence.

Sixth – radio intelligence.

The Seventh Directorate works for NATO.

Eighth Directorate – sabotage (SpN).

The Ninth Directorate deals with military technology.

Tenth – military economy.

Eleventh – strategic doctrines and weapons.

Twelfth – ensuring information wars.

In addition, there are auxiliary departments and departments, including the space intelligence department, personnel department, operational and technical department, administrative and technical department, external relations department, archive department and information service.

General military training of GRU officers is carried out at the Novosibirsk Higher Military Command School. Specialties:

“use of military reconnaissance units”

“use of special reconnaissance units” .

Special training for GRU officers is at the Military-Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Faculties:

strategic human intelligence,

agent-operational intelligence,

operational-tactical reconnaissance .

The structure of the GRU also includes research institutes, including the famous 6th and 18th Central Research Institutes in Moscow.

2018-11-22T21:22:11+05:00 Alex Zarubin Analysis - forecast Defense of the Fatherland Figures and faces army, biography, military operations, GRU, intelligence, RussiaThe GRU has a new chief - General Igor Korobov (biography raises many questions) Lieutenant General Igor Korobov was appointed head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. This was reported to the Russian Ministry of Defense. “The corresponding decision has been made, Igor Korobov has been appointed head of the GRU,” explained a representative of the Ministry of Defense. “On Monday, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu presented General Korobov with a personal...Alex Zarubin Alex Zarubin [email protected] Author In the Middle of Russia

GRU is the main intelligence department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Established on November 5, 1918 as the Registration Department of the Field Headquarters of the RVSR.

The head of the GRU reports only to the chief of the General Staff and the minister of defense and has no direct connection with the country's political leadership. Unlike the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service, whom the president receives weekly on Mondays, the head of military intelligence does not have “his own hour” - a time strictly fixed in the daily routine for reporting to the president of the country. The existing system of "marking" - that is, the receipt by high authorities of intelligence information and analyzes - deprives politicians of direct access to the GRU.

Chief of the GRU, Deputy Chief of the General Staff - Korabelnikov Valentin Vladimirovich

Structure of the GRU during the USSR

First Directorate (intelligence)

It has five departments, each responsible for its own set of European countries. Each department has sections by country

Second Directorate (front-line reconnaissance)

Third Directorate (Asian countries)

Fourth (Africa and Middle East)

Fifth. Directorate of Operational-Tactical Intelligence (reconnaissance at military installations)

Army intelligence units report to this department. Naval intelligence is subordinate to the Second Directorate of the Navy Headquarters, which in turn is subordinate to the Fifth Directorate of the GRU. The directorate is the coordinating center for thousands of intelligence structures in the army (from district intelligence departments to special departments of units). Technical services: communication centers and encryption service, computer center, special archive, logistics and financial support service, planning and control department, as well as personnel department. Within the department there is a special intelligence department, which is supervised by SPECIAL FORCES.

Sixth Directorate (electronic and radio intelligence). Includes the Space Intelligence Center - on Volokolamsk Highway, the so-called “K-500 facility”. The official intermediary of the GRU for the trade of space satellites is Sovinformsputnik. The department includes special-purpose units OSNAZ.

Seventh Directorate (responsible for NATO) Has six territorial departments

Eighth Directorate (work on specially designated countries)

Ninth Directorate (military technology)

Tenth Directorate (military economics, military production and sales, economic security)

Eleventh Directorate (Strategic Nuclear Forces)

- Twelfth Directorate

- Administrative and technical management

- Financial management

- Operational and technical management

- Decryption service

The Military Diplomatic Academy (in jargon – “conservatory”) is located near the Moscow metro station “Oktyabrskoe Pole”.

First department of the GRU (production of counterfeit documents)

Eighth department of the GRU (security of internal communications of the GRU)

- GRU Archive Department

- Two research institutes

Special Forces

These units constitute the elite of the army, noticeably surpassing the airborne forces and “court units” in the level of training and armament. Special forces brigades are a forge of intelligence personnel: a candidate for the “conservatory” student must have the rank of at least captain and serve 5-7 years in special forces. Traditionally, the numerical ratio between the residencies of the GRU and the KGB (now the SVR) was and remains approximately 6:1 in favor of “pure intelligence.”

Born in 1946. Graduated from the Military Diplomatic Academy under the USSR Ministry of Defense. He worked for more than 20 years in the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. From 1992 to 1997, he was the first deputy chief of the GRU of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. During the hostilities on the territory of the Chechen Republic, he repeatedly traveled to the combat zone. In May 1997, during the medical examination preceding the dismissal of Colonel General Fyodor Ladygin, he was acting head of the GRU. In May 1997, he was appointed head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces. The former head of the GRU, Fedor Ladygin, who held this position from 1992 to 1997, gave the following description of V. Korabelnikov: “I had to take a very direct part in the fate of Valentin Vladimirovich Korabelnikov and even be the initiator of one or another of his promotions. He is a military professional intelligence, well prepared theoretically and with extensive practical experience in various fields, including directly in operational work, my assessments turned out to be correct in relation to Colonel General Korabelnikov. copes with the tasks assigned to him." On August 20, 1997, he was introduced to the Coordination Interdepartmental Council for Military-Technical Cooperation of the Russian Federation with Foreign States. Since December 31, 1997 - member of the Supervisory Board for the activities of the Rosvooruzhenie and Promexport companies. In July 1999, V. Korabelnikov received gratitude from President B. Yeltsin for his significant contribution to the process of resolving the conflict in the Yugoslav region of Kosovo. On September 6, 1999, he was included in the Commission under the President of the Russian Federation on military-technical cooperation with foreign states. Married.

For many years, already more than 30, search engines have been asking the same question: why do the soldiers whom they find on the battlefields and whose name can be determined from medallions, awards, personalized items, often find themselves buried in military memorials - pompous and not so pompous, in regional and district centers, and even in the outback. How so? He, dear one, was found 10-100 km from them, in a forest or field, in a trench or dugout, thrown into a crater or left above without burial. And, as a rule, there is no doubt that this is exactly the warrior who is included in the memorial. Everything fits together. At first, we thought that at one time the employees of the military registration and enlistment offices were sent at different times to the TsAMO USSR in Podolsk, and as many as they had time, they wrote out the data of the personalities who died in their regions and settlements. Those who were discharged were immortalized on memorials. The second thought was this: the USSR Ministry of Defense issued a Directive, which obligated the TsAMO of the USSR to create for each region and city lists of losses in battles for them and send them to the local military registration and enlistment offices according to their affiliation.

The reality turned out to be worse. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR actually issued a Directive on March 4, 1965, only not for the TsAMO USSR, but for all military registration and enlistment offices of the USSR on... However, why retell the text of the Directive itself, which is given below in almost its entirety? He dots all the capital letters Yo and fully answers the following questions:

a) why do we find fighters tens of kilometers from the place of their official immortalization?

b) why do the lists on memorials list, at best, 30-40% of those who actually died in a particular area?

c) why in no case should you trust the lists of those allegedly buried at military memorials, and rely in your searches solely on information from reports about the losses of military units and notifications sent by them about the fate of soldiers to relatives (and even then not always)?

d) why can and should the place indicated in the report of losses or in the notice of the fate of a warrior be considered as the place of burial and immortalization?

The mess at war memorials was programmed from above, like everything that happens anywhere. And during the implementation of the Directive, officials of lower ranks inevitably contributed their 5 kopecks to the disorder (and where even rubles)

If reports on military unit losses during the war were compiled for only 9 million people. (see here) of the lost 19.4 - 20.6 million military personnel, and notifications about the fates were compiled in the military unit, at best, for 40-45% of the actual dead and missing, then why should we expect that workers military registration and enlistment offices were done in 1965-66. your work on drawing up cards based on notices for all 100% of available notices? During the war, documents were not completed and more than 50% of l/s were undercounted; in 1965-66. someone else was left out of the cards - and they flew to the cities and villages of the combat territory of the USSR as the ultimate truth. But there was no smell of truth there:

"Directive of the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces N 322/10310 of March 4, 1965

In order to complete the work of perpetuating the names of soldiers who died in battles for their Motherland and registering the graves, I ask you to instruct the military commissariats to carry out the following work:

1. District and city military commissars, based on notifications received from military units, medical and other institutions, draw up cards for military personnel and partisans of the Patriotic War who died in battles and died from wounds. Send completed cards by June 30, 1965 to the republican, regional and regional military commissariats.

2. To the republican, regional and regional military commissariats, the received cards should be sent by July 30, 1965, respectively, to the burial places in the republican, regional and regional military commissariats for subsequent distribution to the district and city military commissariats.

Cards for military personnel who died, died from wounds and were buried on the territory of foreign countries should be sent to privates and non-commissioned officers to the Directorate of Recruitment and Service of the General Staff, and to officers to the State Administration of the USSR Ministry of Defense.

3. District and city military commissars use cards to clarify the names of the victims whose remains were reburied in mass graves, and report them to local authorities for inclusion on monuments.

Inscriptions on monuments must be reproduced in accordance with Art. 149 and 150 "Manuals on personal accounting of irretrievable losses of personnel of the Soviet Army in wartime." (Order of the USSR VM N 0135-51).

Explanation for drawing up cards:

1. Cards are drawn up for officers, petty officers, sergeants and enlisted personnel of the SA and Navy, troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and GB, partisans of the Second World War of 1941-45, trainees of military units, workers and employees who were employed in units of the current army - those killed in battles, those who died from wounds and diseases received at the front, as well as those killed whose bodies were left on the battlefield, burned in tanks, and planes that sank while crossing water barriers, killed from a direct hit from a shell ( bombs), if the notification indicates the locality of the unit's combat operations.

2. The basis for filling out the card is a notification received from a military unit, a medical institution, the headquarters of a partisan detachment and central authorities involved in recording personal losses.

3. Cards are not drawn up for dead and deceased soldiers whose notices do not indicate the location of the funeral, or for missing persons, if the notices indicate the area of ​​military operations of the unit.

4. The card is filled out in one copy, with full information on the deceased. The completed cards are signed by the military commissar and sealed with the official seal.

5. The name of the settlement, district, region should be indicated as in the notice.

6. Please indicate your full name on the card. one of the direct relatives and his last address.

If relatives have died or moved to another area, indicate this.

7. The received cards from the republican, regional, regional military commissariats in the district (city) military registration and enlistment office should be stored as secret documents and in a convenient location (alphabet, burial places, etc.) for current reference work. When compiling lists, cards can be destroyed in the prescribed manner".

Particularly striking is paragraph 3 of the Explanations regarding missing soldiers, whose notices still indicate the area of ​​military operations of their military unit:

"...3. Cards are not drawn up... for missing persons, if the notifications indicate the area of ​​military operations of the unit". Of course, according to the “reasonable” thought of the drafter of the Directive, why include on memorials as immortalized dead those who are only listed as missing? You are “our” fucking reasoner!

And the extreme sentence is also striking in its programmed hopelessness:

"When compiling lists, cards can be destroyed in the prescribed manner"There was, there was, after all, an opportunity in any district (city) of the combat territory of the USSR to have complete copies of notices for soldiers who died there, but fate did not work out to preserve them as a priceless rarity. The directive allowed them to be destroyed in an “established manner,” knowing the diligence of our officials not that side, we can state that just give them a reason to burn something or throw it into waste paper - and they use exactly it to the fullest. But to do something useful for all living things - no, it’s a tough job. Or the pragmatic calculation is too thick to notice “such little things.” And that’s why our people still write and write to military registration and enlistment offices, and for decades they have been answering the same nonsense: “ We have nothing, we gave everything away (lost, burned, drowned - options vary)".

And where would any of the original or copy documents come from? In 1950, at first, military registration and enlistment offices completely transferred their registration documents to TsAMO USSR(see here), A From there they disappeared to no one knows where . And then in 1965-67. They also destroyed the cards they received for the soldiers, drawn up at the places of their former residence in accordance with the notices of fate. Very interesting things have happened and are still happening in our Fatherland. Or do we just still want to think that it is ours?

The source of information and the text of the Directive are reliable, however, we will not provide its output data in order to continue to use it without the obstacles that other officials throw at us with their seething zeal. It is sufficient that the number and date of the Directive are indicated. Those suffering will be able to check the documentation, and it is enough for us that clarity has been brought to the origins of the mess at war memorials.

Below we present another document in its authentic form (albeit visually let down). But its value is still the same - in information. This document explains where the notorious “...and others” or “came from” on the obelisks. ...and 5 more Red Army soldiers in ", etc. We all had no time, everyone was in a hurry to fight and write off. And to think that by doing so they gave headaches to many millions of descendants for decades to come, of course, there was not enough thought for this when necessary:

In "... and others" millions of fighters were recorded in the war, and therefore after the war, on the 20th anniversary of the Victory, it was necessary to issue the Directive of the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces dated 03/04/1965, which we posted above, so that all these clumsiness of the war and post-war time would at least clumsily expand and fill. State officials had a chance to somehow justify themselves to the people for their boorish attitude towards their own defenders, but they played their role, as always, extremely cynically:

a) perpetuated the memory of those killed in regions and cities only for those fighters for whom a notice was issued, which was preserved 20 years after the war;

b) did not bother to collect information on other soldiers, about whose fate no notices were issued to the military unit indicating the area and place of death;

V) excluded from the possible register of missing soldiers, whose notices indicated the area of ​​missing persons (this data could have been left in the RVK of the combat territory for reference purposes);

d) they destroyed the copy cards of the notices after compiling the memorial lists, as a result of which on the monument and in the legend to it there are only the full name, year of birth, rank, date of death, and even then - not for all positions and fighters; as a result, in the absence of the destroyed original card that was drawn up for the warrior upon notification of his fate, it is no longer possible to clarify biographical data if they coincide with someone.

And evidence of all these words are tens of thousands of scanty and almost worthless “passports of military graves” of the Russian Federation and some former republics of the USSR, which are now digitized and posted in the Memorial ODB, and which I can’t even call it passports. These are not passports, these are go-ahead letters: " Nate, we have nothing else. Why not - we don’t know, and we don’t want to know".

But now we know who was worth what and how he lived. They laugh at us over glasses of expensive cognac, sipped with cigars: " They are fools, they always climb wherever they get and dig where there is no nail down. When will they calm down, the idiot trackers?".

These words are hostile. Because only an enemy can so methodically and calculatingly destroy his people and the memory of them for so many years. And only the enemy can pretend that there is nothing obscene or vile in this. And with enemies the conversation is short. In any case, it was during the war. Is not it?