Russian Ground Forces Day

The army is an essential component of any independent state; its main task is to ensure security in the country Ground forces are part of the armed forces of any country; their main goal is to conduct combat operations on land All employees of these troops celebrate their professional holiday on October 1 Every year, on October 1, Russia celebrates Ground Forces Day It began to be celebrated in 2006 according to the decree of the President of the Russian Federation, VV Putin, dated May 31, “On the establishment of professional days of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation” Despite the fact that this celebration is included in the official register of public holidays, it is not a day off According to tradition, on this day they organize festive festivities, hand out certificates and extraordinary titles at the ceremonial formation, organize ostentatious exercises, and of course remember all those who died while serving for the good of our Motherland The date of the celebration was not chosen by chance; it was on this day in 1550 that the Tsar of Rus', Ivan the Terrible, issued a decree on the formation of permanent troops in cities and counties This served as the basis for the formation of the first permanent troops in Tsarist Russia Ivan IV laid the foundation of the Russian army, but it was Peter I who created permanent formations, carrying out a reform according to which, from 1699, a regular army was created During the reign of Alexander I, the Ministry of Land Forces was created Alexander II also continued the military reform; he proposed to reorganize the army, created a training institute, and introduced compulsory military service After a complete reorganization of the army structure, by the middle of the 19th century, a period begins when the modernization of military equipment begins, more and more resources are invested in improving the technical component of the army It was the ground forces that played a huge role in the outcome of the Great Patriotic War, because the main theater of military operations took place on land, and, despite the enemy’s superiority at the beginning of the war, by 1945, Russian firepower had almost doubled and surpassed the quality and quantity of equipment German invader After the Great Victory in World War II, the ground forces were officially recognized as part of the Soviet army, making Marshal of the USSR, Georgy Zhukov, its first commander-in-chief The entire post-war period can be characterized as a symbiosis of power and science; a lot of work was devoted to improving the existing military arsenal and creating new, more powerful types of weapons For modern Russia, the Ground Forces are the largest part of the Russian Armed Forces It consists of the following units: - motorized rifle; - tank; - missile forces and artillery; - special units (technical support, air defense, electronic defense, reconnaissance) The main task of the Ground Forces is to quickly respond to regional and global conflicts, guarantee the military security of Russia, and adequately respond to various external and internal threats The army is equipped with the most powerful and modern weapons: T-72, T-80 tanks, Smerch-type multiple launch rocket systems, anti-tank and anti-mine installations, anti-aircraft missile systems "Strela-M", "Buk-M1", "Sturm" -WITH" 1) During the reform of 2011-2022, the military power of the army should increase by 70% 2) To equip the Russian army, 26 trillion rubles have been allocated until 2022 for the purchase and creation of new weapons 3) In the Russian ground forces More than 270 thousand people serve4) The Russian Ground Forces consist of 8 divisions, 150 brigades, 4 bases and 2 centers