Comments. Military roads of Vitaliy Veterov General of the Veterinary Service

"Epizootic is not only an economic but also a political enemy" (V.I. Lenin.)

In fact, the winged expression even today belongs to the fiery revolutionary and life veterinarian Bauman.
Why is this problem so relevant to this day? on the fifth year of the new millennium. Without underestimating the importance of military veterinary medicine, which will enter its 300th anniversary in 2007, it should be noted that the problems facing man many centuries ago acquire new sophisticated forms in the technogenic world, and primarily the military aspect of the application of this branch of science.
Widespread in the world technology of fast food preparation, including Russia "Ready to eat" i.e. special dry rations for types and branches of troops require mandatory veterinary control.
This is actually confirmed in the military operations of troops in Yugoslavia, local conflicts, the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus, as well as the Coalition troops in Iraq, not to mention the more serious tasks of the anti-epizootic plan and the fight against biological terrorism.

Historical reference.

In 102 AD, the Roman legionnaires, led by King Troyan, on a campaign against the Dacian bastion (Dacia), beyond the Danube (present-day Romania), always took saddlers, blacksmiths and veterinarians with them. It was veterinarians, and not konoval, as they were called later in ancient Rus', and ironically now. Weapons, ammunition and a 3-day supply of grain, i.e. the cargo, with a total weight of 26 kg, was carried by the soldiers.

The fruits of enlightenment. History of the Roman Empire Diskaveri 1994

(In order of comparison with US veterinarians)

For example, an article dated April 01, 2003 from the javma magazine "Military veterinarians guarding the freedom of the people of Iraq" which states that two-thirds of the health officers in the US Air Force centcom, consisting of veterinarians, ensure the health of the military contingent, the population and environment in the theater of operations of the coalition detachments in the Central Asian Command, including Iraq, Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa. In order to maintain their high combat readiness. Verbatim; Military veterinarians keep working dogs that ensure safety american soldiers in Iraq.
They supervise the safety of food and liquor, which the troops so cherish. (Coalitions) US Army Veterinary Corps Veterinarians perform fundamental missions for the citizens of a free Iraq. Food safety is a very important issue for coalition troops in the theater of war, where veterinarians are in the lead in this area.
The Senate of the leading country in the world is well aware that due to objective geographical, religious, political, climatic, economic conditions, falsification of products and because of the extreme nature of the environment, the role of veterinary specialists is of paramount importance in these conditions.
Without being touched by the achievements of the "former probable opponents", the world veterinary luminaries state the following; I will cite only the words of Artem Khristoforovich Sarkisov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the greatest mycologist of world renown, now deceased "Historically, military veterinary medicine in Russia has a classic experience in organizing the veterinary business of troops, including those outside its territory and in local conflicts."
It is not in vain that the military horsemen of the Russian army have established themselves in Europe since 1707, 30 years earlier than their official registration as an independent branch of special veterinary science and practice. What is clearly confirmed by all historical events. On the example of the organization of veterinary support for the 40th separate army in Afghanistan, developed by the Logistics Headquarters of the USSR Armed Forces and, first of all, Major General of the Medical Service Oleg Belenky. Subsequently, introduced into practice by Lieutenant Colonel Grigory Gabelk and Vasily Tsygulev, the first military Afghan veterinary pioneers; Viktor Kholopov, Anatoly Shapovalov and Vladimir Burkov, now one of the leaders of the Association of Veterinary Medicine in Moscow. By the way, Viktor Kholopov arrived on December 27, 1979 in the city of Ferghana to check on the state of the veterinary support of the 80th Guards Airborne Division, but immediately went to war. At that time, an air assault brigade was deployed on the funds of the division, in the staff of which he was included, those. the first military veterinarian arrived on 301279 in Afghanistan. In the future, the experience of military veterinary medicine in solving the problems facing the service was increased during the eradication of epizootics for African plague in Cuba in 1970-72, and in the Odessa region at the end of the 80s. of the last century, rinderpest and sheep pox in Central Asia, outbreaks of anthrax, foot and mouth disease, brucellosis, leukemia and tuberculosis in various regions of the vast Soviet and post-Soviet space. Military veterinary medicine has shown itself to be one of the most trained mobile special services (forces) while providing radiation safety countries during the Chernobyl disaster, maintaining stable epizootic well-being of the Transcaucasian republics during Spitak earthquake 1989, and then Okinsky on Sakhalin. She ensured the protection of borders and territory Russian Federation from the penetration and spread of infectious animal diseases, during the periods of the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus and the unstable economic state of Russia at the end of the 20th and early XXI centuries. Through the efforts of the Veterinary and Sanitary Service of the PurVO, and primarily the 201st MSD, together with the Veterinary and Sanitary Service of the North Caucasian Military District, Moscow Military District, KpFl and KsPN, in cooperation with the state veterinary authorities of the Russian Federation and the state veterinary structures of the countries of Central Asia, for two decades has been supported epizootic stability in the south of Russia. This indisputable fact serves as a concrete proof of the importance of the service and its tasks. Those paramount tasks and problems that lie on the shoulders of an extremely small structure, in comparison with the number of existing state institutions, in the field of veterinary medicine and public health.
Veterinary and sanitary service in the center and in the field, under the supervision of prominent leaders; Major General of the Veterinary Service Vitaly Vetrov, Colonels Vladimir Burkov, Yuri Boev and Heads of Services of Operational-Strategic Associations: Ivan Ponomarev, Alexander Tyulenev, Ivan Kolesnichenko, Igor Maksimov, Vasily Garmaev, Nikolai Pecherkin, Nikolai Yanchuk, Boris Kobzenko, Konstantin Kolosov, Alexander Andrienko, Evgeny Yudina and other "veterinary aces" increased her veterinary and combat experience in numerous interethnic conflicts: in Baku, Nagorno-Karabakh, Transnistria, Abkhazia, Tajikistan and far beyond the borders of the Motherland. During the disarmament of illegal armed formations and the conduct of an anti-terrorist operation in Chechnya and the North Caucasus, military veterinarians, in particular V. Vetrov, V. Burkov, I. Tyulenev and Y. Selivanov, prevented mass outbreaks among animals and the population of anthrax, foot-and-mouth disease, tularemia and other anthropozoonoses.
There were many tragic pages and difficult trials in the history of Russia. And at present, the country is going through a difficult period when we have to overcome the consequences of changes in the domestic political life of the country, state structure, in international relations.
The once mighty state - the Soviet Union, could not resist in a rapidly changing world. But, despite all the difficulties, we managed to preserve its core - the Russian Federation.
The consequences of such changes were not long in affecting the economic and domestic political life of our country and our people. The military-political position of Russia in the international arena has also changed.
Russia did not retain the power and influence in the international arena that the Soviet Union had. Therefore, many of Russia's peaceful initiatives and proposals aimed at strengthening international security have been ignored by the international community. The United States had a big influence on this.
Returning to the theme of the importance of military veterinarians and the entire veterinary industry as a whole, as a complex of biological, humanitarian, special sciences, and especially genetic engineering, as well as practical directions all spheres of its activity, in the real conditions of biological terrorism, the following should be noted. At present, the country has lost those developed programs and a clear system of measures for anti-epizootic protection of the population, including livestock, that existed in state structures THE USSR. For example, in all territorial bodies of the civil defense (civil defense) there were special veterinary detachments of the civil defense, ensuring the implementation of the entire complex of anti-epizootic and anti-epidemic measures. At the same time, clear guidance was provided for their vertical activities and scientific support. The newly created ministry, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, the receiver of the USSR Civil Defense, unfortunately, does not have such formations in its structure, including veterinary specialists, with the exception of several veterinarians serving the cynological direction. There is a legitimate question. And who will expertly eliminate any epizootic, preventing the possibility of spreading to other regions and states? Only the main sanitary and epidemiological department of the country? So this department is quite satisfied with the problems of using forces and means in the prevention and prevention of banal food and toxic infections among the population. Which literally abound in children's institutions, schools, sanatoriums, on transport, in everyday life and even in military educational institutions, which was extremely rarely allowed in the past. (Actually, in world medical practice, and not only, it is customary for everyone to do their own specific business)
The bird flu pandemic has become threatening, and we have an extremely unfavorable forecast in the epidemic, epizootic plan, along with the financial and economic collapse of the entire domestic poultry industry.
Since 2003, only 210 people have died in 12 countries of the world, the last case was on December 31, 2007 in Egypt. In late 2007, an American scientist, professor of biotechnology Ram Sasiseharyan from the University of Massachusetts, established the mechanism of mutation of the H5 N1 avian influenza virus.
And the latest case of bird flu, in western China in Xinjiang, the authorities destroyed more than 30,000 chickens.
Of course, at the level of the layman, the figure of 210 human deaths from "bird disease" is negligible compared to the annual death of people on the roads and poisoning with alcohol surrogates, which, only in Russia, number tens of thousands of lives. But we must not forget that the property of mutation of any pathogen of an infectious origin, under the influence of unforeseen or unfavorable factors, is an extremely little-studied layer in modern virology and microbiology.
As I remember, 30 years ago, HIV infection in our country was not taken seriously!
Analysts of all stripes do not hide the fact that the problem of avian influenza, strongly heated up by journalists in the media, is one of the methods and means of conducting an information war, and primarily on the economic front, of competing companies and countries that produce and sell poultry meat.

INTRODUCTION OF THE HIGHEST RANK
FOR THE HEAD OF THE VETERINARY BODY
US ARMY APPROVED BY PRESIDENT D. BUSH

President Bush signed the US Department of Defense bill through Congress in November 2002, making provision for the rank of Brigadier General of the Chief of the Veterinary Corps.
The initiative to restore the highest rank in the veterinary corps was first initiated by the current president of the American Veterinary Association, Dr. James E. Nave, a veteran of the veterinary corps, since his leadership of the organization in July 2000. For more than two years, the American Veterinary Association lobbied Congress to introduce the necessary changes, which were subsequently successfully implemented in 2004. (See 1 AUMAD June 2002, p. 1601).

Reference. From the history of the veterinary corps (department) of the USA

The US Army Veterinary Corps was established in 1916. Today, it has approximately 410 veterinarians, 58 warrant officers, and 1,365 enlisted personnel. They provide veterinary services to all departments of the US Department of Defense, including food inspection, biomedical research and development, and are engaged in the prevention of animal diseases in order to protect health and, therefore, maintain the combat effectiveness of personnel.
Current Chief of the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps Dr Jack Fourier holds the rank of brigadier general. The initiative launched by the American Veterinary Association was of great importance for the United States as a world leader in the military field. It should be noted that in the past, during international meetings of military veterinarians, there was some discrepancy due to the fact that the chiefs of veterinary services of all countries had general ranks, while the chief of the US veterinary corps had a lower rank.
Thus, one of the provisions in the bill providing for the assignment of at least the rank of brigadier general to the head of the veterinary corps was fulfilled.
Awareness of great importance, which the US Veterinary Corps has for the health and performance of personnel, dictated the need to introduce the position of general, endowed with the same powers and performing the same tasks that are currently facing the chief of the Veterinary Corps. Since the Chief of the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps also acts as the coordinator of the activities of all veterinary services within the US Department of Defense and is responsible for the execution of these actions, he (or she) must interact with representatives of the veterinary service of foreign countries and make decisions on issues of international concern. economic and diplomatic importance. The head of the Veterinary Corps of the US Army is obliged to coordinate the actions of representatives of the veterinary services of many countries, to cooperate with the veterinary, medical and sanitary institutions of the allied countries (NATO members); and many of these institutions are headed by generals, thus the status of brigadier general puts the Chief of the US Army Veterinary Corps on an equal footing with his foreign counterparts. In connection with the growing importance of research and development in the field of the use of defensive biological weapons, as well as in the field of protection against zoonotic diseases, the need to introduce the rank of general is historically justified and has acquired a targeted direction.
US ARMY VETERINARY CORPS
US President Bush in early 2004 nominated Michael B. Cates to head the US Army Veterinary Corps. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumseld on June 12, 2004 officially announced that Michael B. Case would take the post of brigadier general. In September 2004, the US Senate confirmed his appointment.
And so, at the end of 2004, Dr. Michael B. Cates was appointed head of the US Army Veterinary Corps, and on December 14, 2004 he was sworn in and promoted to Brigadier General. The appointment and swearing-in ceremony took place on 14.12. 2004 at Fort Sam Holston, San Antonio, Texas. The ceremony was opened by Army Surgeon General Keven K. Kelley. Officials from the US Congress and other dignitaries were present, as well as all representatives of the US Army Veterinary Corps, including the colonel, Dr. Fourienner, predecessor of Brigadier General Cates, and two previous heads of the veterinary department.
The President of the American Veterinary Association, Dr. Maeve, noted at the presentation; "At the international meetings of Military Veterinarians, it was obscene when the foreign veterinary leaders of the veterinary corps were generals and the head of the US Army corps was of a lower rank." This did not paint the US Army in the eyes of the allies and the international community, at a time when the US Army Veterinary Corps performed and is performing extremely responsible tasks and functions.
In a reciprocal speech by Brigadier General Michael B. Cates, it was emphasized, "The US Army Veterinary Corps plays a big role in achieving our ability to be ahead, always and at all times. And everything we do must ultimately focus on our primary customers: soldiers, sailors, aviators, marines, along with their families that we serve. While remaining versatile, vigilant and relevant, we must look for opportunities to improve our effectiveness, and effectiveness in what we do."
Brigadier General Dr. Michael B. Cates received his veterinary degree in 1980 from the College of the University of Texas. ( Scientific Institute Veterinary Medicine and Animal Health) Diploma in American Veterinary Medicine. After graduation, he was appointed commander of the 100th detachment medical department 30th Medical Brigade, 5th US Army Corps in Gelbelberg. (Germany) Awarded with more than 20 medals and distinctions.
The US Army Veterinary Corps makes a significant contribution to national defense through food safety, biomedical research, and the implementation of a large-scale veterinary program in the protection of army personnel and the entire military readiness of the US Army.
The U.S. Army Veterinary Corps has 404 veterinarians, 60 senior officers in active military service, who, along with 170 veterinarians, 10 reservists and officers of the order, perform the assigned tasks of military readiness. In total, the number of veterinary staff in the Veterinary Corps, with military personnel, is more than 1,700 people.
Historically, Brigadier Generals led the Veterinary Department from 1946 until 1990. IN air force The United States had an independent veterinary service, headed by an official, with the highest officer rank - brigadier general and above. Military veterinarians, until the mid-80s of the last century, served in more than 60 countries around the world.

Specialists of the Veterinary Corps performed:

1. Veterinary-epidemiological, epizootic reconnaissance and economic and sanitary assessment of the areas of deployment and operations of troops (forces).
2. Carried out veterinary and anti-epizootic measures aimed at protecting military personnel and their families from infectious, parasitic and exotic diseases in the host countries; carried out research and biomedical work in various regions, with an unfavorable epizootic and epidemiological situation, and in particular in the countries of the "third world".
3. Ensured the safety of food purchased in host countries through well-organized work of officials, technicians and other personnel of food inspections.
4. Provided supervision and control over service animals, in particular military dogs, organized medical and preventive work directly in the troops, as well as training centers for specialists (dog handlers).
5. Carried out a special program of veterinary medicine for the study and use of marine service animals in the training centers for reconnaissance and sabotage forces of the Marine Corps;
6. Supervised the ornithological service at the US air bases and carried out medical and preventive work among birds.
In addition to the main tasks of veterinary support, a number of veterinarians were involved to perform specific work on the instructions of special services.
Hundreds of veterinarians work at permanent and temporary air bases around the world. They represent two-thirds of the health officials in the Biomedical Science Corps. They form the basis of medical support, in the work and decision-making of the medical command of the group. These recruited and highly professional cadres are better known by the general name of Health Technicians (Lieutenant Colonel Courtney, Veterinarian).
Provided medical assistance to pets and birds belonging to family members of US military personnel.
Veterinarians perform humanitarian missions, especially in the provision of veterinary care and improvement of animal husbandry in Iraq, Afghanistan and Central Asia. Special veterinary teams (departments) work within the Army Special Forces, which specialize in "unconventional warfare". They work in difficult combat conditions, ensure the military readiness of mine detection dogs. They perform the role of dog handlers in reconnaissance of mines, shelters and other structures, for the presence of explosives and terrorists.
Ensure the security of food supplies and other humanitarian functions, in terms of veterinary medicine, among civilian population. They, along with special forces, undergo preliminary professional education methods of conducting special operations. Perform coordination activities in non-governmental and private companies, on the organization of veterinary services and the prevention of anthropozoonoses.
The work of veterinarians constitutes the medical and preventive component of public health
Responsibilties in protecting the health of military personnel at Centkom in Tampa. For example, it monitors the vaccination of special forces against anthrax and smallpox. Veterinarians are actively involved in the problems of combating biological terrorism and the use of chemicals. (They carry out a specific indication of biological agents and toxic substances, Russian terminology) The army is the personal representative of the US President abroad or a "sore point" in the consumption of food. It is important for veterinarians to know where food is produced and processed. "We are expanding our ability to search for intentionally contaminated food, and we manage this and reduce the risk of poisoning and sickness to soldiers" (Colonel Van Hook).
Colonel Hook Denis Wang - chief veterinarian of the Air Force - Air Force Operational Support Directorate of the Medical Activities Agency said.
"We're veterinarians in general, the first people in the air force on earth, to take on the task of taking over the main force at an air base. So we're trying to make sure the place is as safe to bring people in."
In Iraq, Veterinarians, as an independent health department, serve military personnel, their families, civilian personnel and the local population of Iraq, at a rate of one specialist per 5,000 people. They conduct preliminary veterinary and epizootic reconnaissance, monitor the spread of infections, and draw up disease vectors before deploying bases and detachments there.
The task of military veterinarians in the CENTCOM theater of operations, and in particular in Iraq.
1.Veterinary service for service dogs.
2. Maintaining the health of the military contingent.
3. Ensuring the food safety of food and alcoholic beverages.
Given the climatic conditions of the Middle East, food security is a very important issue for special forces in the theater of war, and veterinarians are leading the way, said Colonel Cornwell. More than 150 military veterinarians serve in the CENTCOM command, 30 of them directly in the theater of operations, the rest are officers and technicians serving animals and food inspectors.
From 27 to 31 October in Belgium (Brussels) the International Military Veterinary Conference was held. Representatives of the armies of 17 European countries, with the exception of Russia, took part in the work. This project has been sponsored by the American Veterinary Association for 50 years. The conference was attended by all leaders of the Military Veterinary Medicine of the NATO bloc and the countries of Eastern Europe, chaired by the President of the American Veterinary Association and the Association of Colleges of Veterinary Medicine of the United States.
As a result of the work, a joint Communiqué was adopted.
The priorities of military veterinary medicine are:
- Ensuring food safety;
- fight against biological terrorism;
- veterinary service for service dogs and increasing their efficiency in terms of tasks to be solved.
(For example, in the British Army, the entire canine service is organizationally part of veterinary medicine, the cost of one service dog per day is up to 50 pounds sterling).
In the armies of the countries of NATO and the Coalition, military veterinary medicine occupies a worthy place and is full member army health team. All military veterinary medicine and its subdivisions have been refocused on food safety and food hygiene.

In 1994, due to market conditions in the country, there was some re-profiling of the activities of military veterinary medicine to ensure the quality of food and food raw materials supplied to the troops and navy. The military veterinary service is given a new legal status, a departmental veterinary and sanitary service of the Armed Forces, as an integral part of the state veterinary supervision, ensuring the implementation of the normative acts of the law "On Veterinary Medicine" in the power structures of the Russian Federation.
The service receives further improvement on August 22, 2004, when, in accordance with federal law Russian Federation 122-FZ, the veterinary and sanitary service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is included in the system of the state veterinary service. On the basis of Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of August 16, 2004 N 1082, it implements public policy in the field of veterinary and phytosanitary supervision in the Armed Forces, other troops, military units and bodies in the manner prescribed by legislative and other regulatory legal acts Russian Federation.
The Veterinary and Sanitary Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, an integral and integral part of the Logistic Support of the Troops and Fleet Forces, both in peacetime and in wartime.
The role of veterinary specialists in the general scheme of logistical support for troops on the territory of the Russian Federation and beyond is of great importance. They are always in the forward echelon of the rear, in resolving any issues assigned to the rear of the Armed Forces. The main combat mission and professional duty of veterinary specialists of all levels is to provide a set of veterinary-sanitary and anti-epizootic measures for logistics areas or deployment of troops. At the same time, to guarantee complete food safety of food products, to exclude toxic infections and diseases of people, thereby maintaining the health (combat capability) of the personnel of the troops.
Based on the foregoing, the Veterinary and Sanitary Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, as an integral and component Logistics of the Armed Forces, which received the high status of the State executive body in the Armed Forces. A special logistics service performing one of the specific elements national security country, has a significant legal and social position in the military administration and society.
Given the increased role of military veterinary medicine and the natural need for the upcoming financial and organizational measures under the MUSTO program, in terms of military veterinary medicine, it is necessary:
For the further development of the service, the leaders of military veterinary medicine, at all levels, with all interacting management bodies and interested structures, legally and qualitatively revise the governing documents regulating the activities of the service. To build a completely new organizational and staffing structure of the governing bodies of the service, its organizations, in relation to the dictates of the times. (Work is underway in this direction.)
And, in addition, to restore historical justice - to return the special military rank of officer of the veterinary service and to determine the highest officer position of the head of the State Veterinary and Sanitary Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
Example: Head of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance of the Russian Federation S.A. Dankvert has the status of a general in the army.
January 7, 2008 Moscow

Libmonster ID: RU-12670

Major General of the Veterinary Service Vitaly Petrovich Vetrov

(the only one in the Russian Federation)

Brief biographical sketch

(Material in the book "generals and heads of military veterinary medicine in Russia)

SOUTH. Boev, Head of the Veterinary and Sanitary Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - Chief Veterinary and Sanitary Inspector of the Armed Forces, Colonel of the Medical Service (2004 -2010)

Abbreviations: NPP- nuclear power plant,VVI- military veterinary institute,IN- military district sun- armed forces,GSh- General base,cattle- cattle,MIA- Ministry of the Interior,OKVS- veterinary service officer courses,RF- Russian Federation,R&D- research experimental and control work,research- research work,NSO- scientific student society

Vetrov Vitaly Petrovich - Major General of the Veterinary Service in reserve, Honored Veterinary Doctor of the Russian Federation, Candidate of Biological Sciences, combat veteran, Chairman of the Council of Veterans of the Veterinary and Sanitary Service of the Armed Forces, full member International Academy Informatization., Professor of the Academy of Military Sciences,

One of the main activities of Vitaly Vetrov as a military veterinary specialist is the protection of the territory of the USSR, the CIS countries and the Russian Federation from the introduction of anthropozoonoses and the elimination of infectious animal diseases. Over the 50-year period of service, he went from a veterinary paramedic to the head of the Central Authority of the country's military veterinary medicine, from lieutenant to general.

V.P. Vetrov was born on January 1, 1948 in the village of Saryagach, Chimkent region, Kazakh SSR, in a family of employees. After graduating from school, he entered the oldest (established in 1932) in Central Asia Kalambek veterinary technical school at the veterinary department. He graduated from a technical school with honors and worked for about a year as a veterinary assistant at a training and production facility.

During this period, he was seconded to a detachment of the special purpose veterinary police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Kaz.SSR for the elimination of foot-and-mouth disease type "AI" in the territory of South Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

EDUCATION, THE BEGINNING OF SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL ACTIVITY

In 1967 he continued his education at the Alma-Ata Veterinary Institute.

By decision of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, a military veterinary (special) cycle (1966) was organized at the combined arms department of the institute, designed to train army veterinary personnel and reserve veterinary service officers.

During the period of study at AZVI, V.P. Vetrov was repeatedly involved as a veterinary paramedic in veterinary anti-epizootic teams and expeditions to combat epizootics and outbreaks of infectious animal diseases in Central Asia, Mongolia and East Kazakhstan (rabies, rinderpest, foot and mouth disease, sheep pox, brucellosis, classical swine fever, Newcastle disease ), and also successfully engaged in scientific work in the NSO in the problematic laboratory of virology on closed topics, under the guidance of well-known domestic scientists X.

FAR EASTERN PERIOD

After graduating from the university in 1972, V.P. Vetrov received the specialty of a veterinarian - military veterinary and sanitary expert, primary officer rank- lieutenant of the veterinary service and was assigned to the cadres of the Armed Forces Soviet Union. He began his service in the Far Eastern Military District as a veterinarian in charge of controlling the meat allowance of units deployed in wartime states of the 123rd GuardsDukhovshchina-Khingan, Order of the Red Banner, Order of Suvorov II degree and October revolution motorized rifle division. Due to official necessity, in addition to the main tasksActed as head of the garrison bakery. (district subordination) In terms of district anti-epizootic affairs, organized measures to improve a number of garrisons of Primorsky Krai from brucellosis, classical swine fever, tick-borne encephalitis, infectious anemia in horses and other infections, for which he was encouraged by the Commander of the 5th OA with a valuable gift and presented to the next military rank , ahead of schedule.

In 1973 V.P. Vetrov graduated from the 43rd OKVS at the MBA, on the basis of which the military veterinary faculty was created in 1978.

CUBA PERIOD

In 1974, he was sent to the Republic of Cuba, where he participated in the elimination of the consequences of African swine fever and carried out various activities aimed at preventing the disease of Soviet military and civilian specialists. was engaged veterinary and logistic support for the redeployment of Cuban troops to Angola in 1975. On duty, he took an active part in the training of military veterinary specialists from among Cuban officers. Participated in a number of hydrographic expeditions in the South Atlantic, and also visited a number of Caribbean countries. He was directly involved in the logistics of ships and vessels of the Seventh Operational Squadron of the Northern Fleet.

PRIMORSKY PERIOD

In 1976 V.P. Vetrov continued his service in the Far Eastern Military District as the head of the veterinary service of a motorized rifle division. (in Primorye) At the same time, successfully, for a year and a half, he acted as head offood service of the motorized rifle regiment of cover state border, head of the organizational planning department of the compound. During this period, he successfully performs the tasks of logistics support during the construction of the "Battalion Defense Areas" on Soviet-Chinese border. He takes an active part in the formation of teams of military personnel transferred to the reserve for the construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline. Participates in the organization of veterinary support Railway Troops at BAM. With his participation, veterinary and epizootic reconnaissance was carried out and the veterinary and sanitary condition of the entire BAM route was determined.

At the same time, the veterinary staff of the railway brigades and the veterinary service of the Far East Military District carried out colossal scientific research in terms of identifying anthrax burials and identifying soil infections during construction and moving millions of tons of soil. Only 44 district veterinary laboratories conducted more than 489 thousand studies of soil and soil. For merit in this activity, V.P. Vetrov was awarded the State Award medal "For the construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline"

SAKHALIN PERIOD

In 1978, for success in his official activities, he received another promotion - he was appointed to the position of senior veterinary inspector - head of the veterinary service of the combined arms army on Sakhalin. The area of ​​responsibility of the veterinary chief included the island and peninsular part of the Far East and the Arctic coast and was 4.5 thousand km from North to South to 2 thousand km, from East to West and 28.5 thousand miles along the coastline. The veterinary service of the army included veterinary epizootic detachments and veterinary laboratories; 886 VEO, Veterinary Service of the 23rd Omsbrin the village of Coal mines in Chukotka; 252 veo, N - veterinary laboratory, Rybachy village, veterinary services of the 22nd MRD, in the village of Ust-Kamchatsk and 146th military state farm on the Kamchatka Peninsula; 249 VEO Listvenichnoye village, 401 veterinary laboratory, veterinary service of the 33rd Motor Rifle Division, veterinarians of formations and units, veterinary service of the 147th military state farm on the island, Sakhalin, veterinary service of the machine gun and artillery division on the islands of Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan; and food quality laboratories at 12 county food depots off the island. Iturup to Providence Bay.

During this period, along with the solution of everyday tasks for the veterinary support of the troops, V.P. Vetrov worked as part of the expeditions of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Pacific Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography) and carried out tasks under the line of the General Staff of the Armed Forces in the field of research work.At the same time, considerable attention was paid to the study of the epizootic situation, the veterinary and sanitary condition in the theater of operations, as well as ethnographic and other expeditions to the Kuriles, Sakhalin, Kamchatka, Chukotka and the mainland of the Far East.

In 1981 V.P. Vetrov participated in the aftermath of Typhoon Dora on Sakhalin Island, organizing anti-epizootic and veterinary and sanitary measures, Organized the work of all services for the collection and disposal of about two thousand animal carcasses in the southern regionsSakhalin Islands.Achieved stable well-being of the island garrisons for a number of infections and zoonoses.

BELARUSIAN PERIOD

From June 1983 V.P. Vetrov - head of the veterinary service of the Belarusian Military District. A special milestone in its activities is the elimination of the consequences of the disaster on Chernobyl nuclear power plant. In the course of this work, veterinary support was organized for more than 300,000 troops on the territory of Belarus, and the system of veterinary and radiation control in the area of ​​responsibility was effectively functioning. As a result, the veterinary service of the Belarusian Military District was recognized as the most prepared, efficient and mobile of all special services of a similar profile. She solved many national economic tasks on the territory of the republic.

In the same years, V.P. Vetrov had to perform combat missions for the logistics and veterinary support of individual units and teams, in particular, the formation of separate pack-transport companies for operations in the mountainous desert areas on the territory of the Central Asian, Turkestan, Transcaucasian Military District and the Republic of Afghanistan. And to ensure the rotation of the personnel of the veterinary service of the Belarusian Military District to gain combat experience in 40 OA.

In addition, Vitaly Vetrov was responsible for providing veterinary equipment, equipment, biological preparations and other items to the troops and forces of the fleet; Northern Group of Forces (Poland); Baltic Military District; (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) Baltic Fleet; parts and formations of the Strategic Missile Forces; VA of the reserve of the Civil Code and units of central subordination on the territory of the BSSR. And most importantly, the veterinary service of the BVO was entrusted with the formation of more than 20 veterinary institutions of the army and front level for the needs of the fronts and groups of troops. Warsaw Pact. As a result, out of five years of service in Belarus, the bulk of the service time was spent on exercises, training grounds, and on business trips. tents and kungs.

MOSCOW PERIOD

In March 1988, Vitaly Vetrov was appointed to the position of DeputyHead of the Military Veterinary Department of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union.

Thoroughly studies the epizootic situation, flies around and travels around up to 200 subordinate units and institutions on the territory of the Soviet Union and Commonwealth countries, works in the field, organizes close interaction with local party-government and veterinary bodies.

In 1988 V.P. Vetrov was directly involved in the elimination of the consequences of the devastating Spitak earthquake in Armenia, organizing anti-epizootic work and other activities, ensured the epizootic well-being of the entire Transcaucasian military district, in 1989 - Okhinsky on Sakhalin.

From 1989 to 1998 successfully led the Veterinary and Sanitary Service of the USSR Ministry of Defense, the United Armed ForcesCIS and Russian army. In the conditions of the collapse of the country and the army, he managed to keep the military veterinary service at the proper qualitative and quantitative level, giving it a new legal status. With his direct participation, the law of the Russian Federation “On Veterinary Medicine” (1993) and the regulation “On State Veterinary Control and Supervision” (1994) were developed. the new kind logistic support - veterinary and sanitary. The timeliness of the reorganization of the service was especially clearly manifested in the organization of veterinary and sanitary support for the Russian troops in Abkhazia, Transnistria, Tajikistan, Kosovo and the joint forces that were carrying out the task of disarming illegal armed formations on the territory of the Chechen Republic.

During these years, more than 70 documents regulating the legal, social and special status of the veterinary and sanitary service were adopted.

ORGANIZATIONAL MEASURES in MILITARY VETERINARY

Performing the functions of a state customer for the creation of means of protecting agricultural animals and plants, the central department of the veterinary and sanitary service has achieved uninterrupted provision of law enforcement agenciesall types of material and technical and special means, in the field of military veterinary medicine. More than 15 research and development organizations of the country and up to 30 co-executors were involved as performers of research and development in the interests of military veterinary medicine. New positions have been introduced, up to 350 veterinary specialists in some types and branches of the Armed Forces, the staff position of the veterinary staff has been increased.

In addition, 22 laboratories for the veterinary and sanitary examination of foodstuffs have been created, and more than 100 specialized veterinary units have been organized in the troops to serve the livestock sector, which served as the prototype for veterinary organizations (institutions)new image of the Logistics of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, now the organization of the veterinary and sanitary serviceLogistics.

PARTICIPATION IN PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS

In order to protect the territory of the Russian Federation from the introduction of infectious diseases (anthropozoonoses), 26 veterinary checkpoints were formed at military airfields and naval bases. The total number of veterinary personnel of the service was increased to more than three and a half thousand military personnel and civilian personnel.

WITH 1992 to 1998 V.P. Vetrov participated in combat missions on the territory of Abkhazia, the Chechen Republic, Ingushetia, North Ossetia and other regions North Caucasus. In 1993 and 1996, he performed special tasks for the leadership of the Ministry of Defense in the countries of Central Asia and Tajikistan. Under his direct supervision, veterinary and sanitary support was provided for the KFOR peacekeeping forces in Kosovo, Bosnia and Transnistria.

In 1996 V.P. Vetrov became a candidate of biological sciences. He is the author of over 250 scientific works, has 13 copyright certificates, prepared 7 candidates of veterinary sciences. As a member of the Bureau of the Department of Veterinary Medicine of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, he has repeatedly represented the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in a number of government committees, commissions, as well as international conferences and symposiums.

Between 1994 and 1997 worked fruitfully as part of Interdepartmental Scientific and Technical Commission for the Protection of the Territory of the Russian Federation from the Importation and Distribution of Especially Hazardousinfectious diseases of humans, animals and plants,as well as toxic substances under the Department of State Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance of the Ministry of Health of Russia, created to consider and prepare proposals for the organization and implementation of work in the field of preventing and eliminating the consequences of the importation and spread of especially dangerous infectious diseases of people, animals and plants on the territory of the Russian Federation, as well as toxic substances.In terms of military veterinary medicine, (supervised the veterinary structures of the ministries of the power bloc) organized the interaction of the services of the interested ministries, departments and organizations of the Russian Federation in carrying out activities to identify, localize and eliminate cases of importation and spread of especially dangerous diseases and toxic substances and determine the degree of their danger.

SCIENTIFIC AND EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

In 1997, under his editorship, a collection of scientific articles “290 Years of the Military Veterinary Business. Lessons from history and challenges for the future. V.P. Vetrov is a co-author of such publications as “Military Symbols and Heraldry of the Military Veterinary Medicine of the USSR and the Russian Federation” (1989, 1994, 2005), “300 Years of the Military Veterinary Medicine of the Armed Forces” (2007), “Generals and Heads of the Military Veterinary Medicine of Russia”, “200 Years military veterinary education in Russia” (2008). Co-author of the three-volume book "Examination of good quality and radiation safety of products, their standardization and certification" (2008),"90 years of the Central Veterinary Warehouse" (2009) and a number of others. Under his methodological guidance, the symbols and heraldry of military veterinary medicine, as well as the bodies of the state veterinary service of the Russian Federation, were determined (1994). V.P. Vetrov is one of the authors of the documentary films "An extraordinary service - a veterinary service" (2000), "300 years of the Military Veterinary Medicine of Russia" (2005). "Military veterinary education in Russia" (2006). "Veterinary and sanitary supervision and control in the Armed Forces" (2007).

As a senior researcher at the Military Veterinary Institute, a member of the Institute's Academic Council, V.P. Vetrov takes all necessary actions to promote the development of information and innovative technologies in the Veterinary and Sanitary Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and VVI. Systematically travels to the troops and universities of the Logistics of the Armed Forces, participates in the educational process of the VVI, pays attention to the patriotic and moral education of cadets of the institute and military educational institutions of the Logistics of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. He took an active part in the re-edition of textbooks and manuals "Military epizootology" (2006). "Field veterinary and sanitary examination" (2007). "Organization and tactics of the veterinary and sanitary service" (2008).

Between 1999 and 2008 V.P. Vetrov works in the Research Laboratory of Radiology and Toxicology of the Institute and fruitfully participates in Research and development on problem topics. The work performed by the laboratory team in the field of creating protective equipment for military and food animals has no analogues in world practice. Development materials were repeatedly submitted for the competition of state and government prizes of the Russian Federation.

STATE CIVIL SERVICE

Since August 04, 2008, V.P. Vetrov has been in the state civil service in the Office of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance in Moscow and the Moscow Region. As the head of the department of internal veterinary supervision and approvals of the territorial Department of the Rosselkhoznadzor of the Russian Federation, organizes and implements control and supervision activities for the subject veterinary services to fulfillfunctions transferred by the Russian Federation in the field of veterinary medicine. Performs the functions of coordinator of departments of veterinary supervision in railway, road, air transport and temporary storage warehouses for regulated goods, circulation of animals and other tasks assigned to the state veterinary supervision of the Russian Federation. Participates in the development of the concept of the veterinary legal and methodological framework, in the implementation of the control and supervisory functions of the bodies of the Rosselkhoznadzor of the Russian Federation.From January 2016; Independent expert Territorial Administration Rosselzoznadzor for the city of Moscow, Moscowand Tula region.

MERITS AND AWARDS

Major General in reserve V.P. Vetrov was awarded the Order of Courage, Honor, 38 medals, V. including combat: "For Courage", "For Military Merit" and "For Combat Cooperation". Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of February 6, 2008 for high personal performance in official activities and many years of conscientious work awarded the order Honor. He has awards from foreign countries: the "Brotherhood in Arms" medal and the "XX Anniversary" commemorative medal (storming of the Moncada barracks)Republic of Cuba. "Medal for Good Service to Afghanistan" medal "From the grateful Afghan people" DRA, medal "60 years of the Mongolian People's Revolution" MPR.

Him p ricemilitary honorary title"Honored Veterinarian of the Russian Federation" (1994), as well as "Warrior-Internationalist" (1989), "Liquidator of the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster" (1986), "Veteran of military operations" (2003). Honorary veteran of the city of Moscow (2013) Has; Letters of thanks from the President of the Russian Federation, Diplomas from the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, his deputies.Insignia from ministries and departments, also from public organizations and associations.

PUBLIC ACTIVITY AND SERVICE.

V..P. Vetrov - Chairman of the Veterinary Council of the Veterinary and Sanitary Service of the Armed Forces (1999), member of the Council of Veterans of the Far East (1992), All-Russian Heraldic Society (1994). Chairman of the District Coordinating Council of the Regional Public Organization Soyuz "Chernobyl" of ZAO Moscow (2008). Member of the Public Council of the Western Administrative District of Moscow.

December 26, 2008 - Major General of the Veterinary Service in the reserve V.P. Vetrov was elected Deputy Chairman of the Central Council of the Interregional Public Organization of Veterans of the Logistics of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

From February 2011 to present. Inspector of the group (of inspectors) of the Department, and then the Headquarters of Logistics . Google. Yandex

Permanent link for scientific papers (for citation):

Boev Yury Gennadevich, MAJOR GENERAL OF THE VETERINARY SERVICE VETROV VITALY PETROVICH // Moscow: Russian Libmonstr (website). Date of update: 15.11.2016..03.2020).

Major General Reserve Veterinary Service Vitaly Petrovich Vetrov is 60 years old. Of the 32 years of service in the Armed Forces, 13 he served in the Far East. Then there were Sakhalin, Belarus, Cuba... I traveled all over the Soviet Union and many countries of the former Warsaw Pact. He is a witness and a direct participant in very significant events, including tragic ones...
From November 1974 to December 1976, he served in Cuba as a veterinarian in a separate military unit of Vetrov. There he solved multifaceted tasks of organizing veterinary support, did everything to prevent diseases common to humans and animals among our military personnel, workers and employees, members of their families, Navy sailors and civilian personnel performing tasks of national economic importance. He was also in charge of ensuring the food safety of food supplied to the Soviet contingent in various parts of the world.
A notable event for him was his participation in the elimination of the consequences of African swine fever in a number of provinces of the Republic of Cuba, veterinary support for the relocation of Cuban troops to Angola by air and sea in 1975. As well as participation in hydrographic expeditions in the Panama Canal zone, the Caribbean Islands, the Sargas Sea and other places.
Providing assistance to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba, Vitaly Vetrov took an active part in the training of veterinary specialists from among Cuban officers.
In 1978–1983 Vetrov is a senior veterinary inspector of a separate army of the Far Eastern Military District. At that time, along with solving everyday problems of veterinary support, he paid great attention to the arrangement of his departments, the reconstruction of veterinary service institutions in the Kuriles, Sakhalin, Kamchatka, Chukotka and the mainland of the Far East. His business was the reconnaissance of the theater of operations in remote areas of the island and peninsular parts of the Far Eastern Military District, participation in a number of research expeditions through the General Staff and the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1981, during the elimination of the consequences of Typhoon Dora, he took prompt measures to dispose of dead animals in the area of ​​Aninsky Bay on Sakhalin, which ensured the epizootic well-being of the island.
At the same time, the young officer had to solve the problems of veterinary support for a limited contingent of Soviet troops on the territory of the Republic of Afghanistan.
In 1983, Vetrov, major of the veterinary service, was appointed head of the veterinary service of the Belarusian Military District. He gave this position for five years. During this time, the service subordinate to him did not allow a single case of anthropozoonoses or toxic infections among the personnel of the troops and members of the families of military personnel. According to the estimates of the Military Veterinary Department of the USSR Ministry of Defense, it was in the lead in all respects, having ensured complete well-being in its area of ​​responsibility in 1983-1988.
A special milestone in the activities of Vitaly Vetrov is the management of the organization and implementation of measures assigned to the veterinary service of the district in the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident. The military veterinary service from the first days was involved in the work to ensure the radiation safety of both livestock products and agricultural facilities. The functioning of the system of veterinary and radiation control posts was ensured, radiometric control of all agricultural products was organized, and the radiation safety of food products in the territory of the BWO was ensured. At the same time, not a single case of meat and milk contaminated with radionuclides was admitted to the processing enterprises of Belarus. These and other activities of the veterinary service made it possible to protect the health of the personnel of the district troops and their families, as well as the population in the radioactively contaminated area of ​​the BSSR.
The veterinary service of the BVO, headed by Vetrov, during the liquidation of the consequences of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, proved to be the most prepared, operational and mobile service among all paramilitary units that performed similar tasks.
Since March 1988, Lieutenant Colonel of the Veterinary Service Vetrov - Deputy Head of the Military Veterinary Department of the USSR Ministry of Defense. In this position, he was directly involved in the elimination of the consequences of the devastating Spitak earthquake in December 1988, organized veterinary support for the troops and the civilian population, placed veterinary institutions and units in the destruction zone, and controlled the epizootic situation on the territory of the Armenian SSR.
Since 1989, colonel of the veterinary service Vitaly Vetrov has been in charge of the military veterinary service of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, the joint Armed Forces of the CIS, the Russian Federation, consistently holding the appropriate positions. In 1995 he became a general.
richest practical experience, high military-theoretical training and, most importantly, dedication in the work of Vitaly Vetrov became the basis not only for the confident leadership of the service, but also for its successful reform in the conditions of building the Russian army.
With the direct participation of V.P. Vetrov, in the Law of the Russian Federation “On Veterinary Medicine”, the military veterinary service was given the legal status of a departmental veterinary and sanitary service, which significantly expanded its rights and obligations. Under his leadership, the priorities of the service were determined, the concept of its development as an integral part of the unified system of state veterinary supervision was revised. Also, the military veterinary service was reorganized into a veterinary and sanitary service, as a result of which the organizational and staffing structure of the service was as close as possible to the modern composition and purpose of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. New service documents were duly developed and old documents were revised, its composition was brought into line with the real scope of work on in-depth examination of food and the diagnosis of infectious animal diseases.
All this allowed the service to reach a modern, qualitatively new level and significantly increase the efficiency of work. Skillful management of the veterinary and sanitary service in the conditions of a difficult economic situation in the country and underfunding of the Armed Forces made it possible to ensure the stable epizootic well-being of the areas of deployment of troops and fleet-based forces, as well as food safety at the stages of production, procurement and storage in stocks. At the same time, the service put a strict barrier to the abuses associated with the supply of unsuitable food to the troops.
The timeliness of the reorganization of the service was especially clearly manifested in the organization of veterinary and sanitary support for Russian troops in Abkhazia, Transnistria, Tajikistan, Kosovo, as well as the joint forces opposing illegal armed formations on the territory of the Chechen Republic.
Vetrov was a member of the Bureau of the Department of Veterinary Medicine Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, represented the military department in the Interdepartmental Scientific and Technical Commission for the Protection of the Territory of the Russian Federation from the Importation and Spread of Especially Dangerous Infectious Diseases of People, Animals and Plants, as well as Toxic Substances under the Department of State Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance of the Ministry of Health of Russia.
Major-General of the Veterinary Service Vitaly Vetrov was distinguished by a deeply thought-out, balanced and scientifically based approach to the management of the service. This was largely facilitated by the multifaceted scientific activity, a wide range of his scientific interests.
Vitaly Petrovich - the author of about 150
scientific works. Under his leadership, textbooks, teaching aids, manuals, manuals and instructions on the veterinary and sanitary service were revised and published. It has 13 copyright certificates. It should be noted in passing that Vetrov is a co-author of a number of projects on military veterinary symbols and heraldry. He paid close attention to this.
realizing role and significance intensive development informatization, Vetrov, as head of the Veterinary and Sanitary Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, did a lot for the development information technologies and processes in the service.
Under Vetrov, the role and importance of military veterinary medicine in the country is noticeably increasing. So, in 1990, by a decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, the Military Veterinary Department of the Ministry of Defense was entrusted with the functions of the general customer for the creation of veterinary and phytosanitary protection means. The membership of the head of military veterinary medicine in the bodies of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences and a number of state committees and commissions.
Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No.
On June 7, 1995, the highest military rank of Major General of the Veterinary Service was introduced as the head of the Veterinary and Sanitary Service - Chief Veterinary and Sanitary Inspector of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
Veterinary and sanitary support of troops as one of the types of logistics support acquires a preventive direction in terms of creating anti-epizootic and veterinary and sanitary well-being of the activities and deployment of troops, fleet forces and other formations where military service is legally provided.
IN last years more than 40 documents were adopted, including combat ones, regulating the legal, social and special status of the Veterinary and Sanitary Service, an organizational and mobilization body was formed as part of the department. More than 15 research and development organizations were involved as performers of research and design work in the interests of military veterinary medicine.
In some branches and branches of the Armed Forces, the number of veterinary specialists was increased to 300, the staff position of the veterinary staff was increased, a three-year period of study was introduced at the military veterinary faculty and special programs for higher military educational institutions Logistics of the Armed Forces with a specialization in Veterinary and Sanitary Support for the Troops.
In addition, 22 laboratories for the veterinary and sanitary examination of foodstuffs were created, and more than 100 specialized veterinary units were organized in the troops to serve the livestock sector, and about 20 veterinary checkpoints were formed at military airfields and naval bases. The total number of veterinary personnel of the service has been increased to 3,000 servicemen and civilian personnel. All this was created by active participation General Vetrov, thanks to his efforts.
After transfer to the reserve in 1998. Vitaly Petrovich works at the Military Veterinary Institute. Giving a lot of time to scientific research and experiment, he does not shy away from social activities, for more than 10 years he has chaired the council of veterans of the Veterinary and Sanitary Service of the Armed Forces.
Most recently, a three-volume manual was published: “Examination of good quality and radiation safety of products. Their standardization and certification”. In this work, one of the most urgent sections of veterinary medicine is developed - the examination of good quality, safety and usefulness of food products. In the age of a catastrophic increase in pollution of all spheres of human habitation, this direction is of paramount importance in terms of ensuring the health, and hence the life of mankind.
The manual is intended for a new generation of young professionals starting their responsible path in life. How tutorial The three-volume edition will accompany cadets of the Military Veterinary Institute, training centers (courses) for reserve officers, and students of veterinary universities during all years of study. The manual contains all the necessary material on the history of the subject, on radiobiology, on general and private veterinary and sanitary examination of products, their good quality, safety and usefulness.
As an applied manual, the three-volume book will be indispensable for practicing military specialists of the veterinary and sanitary services, all structures of the power unit, including for specialists from the Ministry of Emergency Situations, as it contains the latest scientific developments on a number of topical issues of examination of good quality and food safety, as well as a description of new progressive examination instruments and methods of their use. One of the authors of this manual is Vitaly Vetrov.
It is worth adding that he is also the only one of the veterinary chiefs of the post-war period who was awarded a nominal firearm. Vitaly Petrovich was also awarded state awards. Among them are the Orders of Courage, Honor, medals "For Courage" and "For Military Merit". Vetrov is an honored veterinarian of the Russian Federation. But most of all, he, I think, cherishes the fact that he still remains for all employees of the Veterinary and Sanitary Service a model of devotion to the profession and military duty.

On the picture: in the hands of Vitaly Vetrov - a new textbook on military veterinary medicine.

The role of veterinary specialists in the general scheme of logistical support for troops on the territory of the Russian Federation and beyond its borders has, of course, changed over the past two centuries, but has not lost its relevance. They are always in the forward echelon of the rear. The main combat mission and professional duty of veterinary specialists of all levels is to provide a complex of veterinary-sanitary and anti-epizootic measures for logistic support areas or deployment of troops. They must guarantee complete food safety of food products, exclude toxic infections and diseases of people, thereby preserving the health, and hence the combat effectiveness of the personnel of the troops.

FROM THE DECREE OF PETER I

The beginning of a special veterinary education in the interests of the army was laid by Peter I in the Decree of the Senate of March 31, 1715. It said: " Great Sovereign indicated ... to find: horse-dressers to be sent to the regiments, in the provinces to teach good horse-carrying science, and now to the regiments laid down in the province from each province of blacksmiths and horse-dressers, if there are ready, but if not, although, having hired, send in ambulances numbers. "It follows from the decree that Peter I considered horseshoe knowledge a science, and the beginning of veterinary education in Russia was laid when in Western Europe about veterinary education and did not think. It is known that the first veterinary school in Europe was opened only in 1762 in France, in the city of Lyon.

Veterinary education was further developed during the growth of cavalry in the army, in connection with which measures were taken in the country to develop state horse breeding. In 1732, in the instruction to Major General Volynsky "On bringing horse factories to a better condition and expanding them," it was ordered to establish a Stable Office in Moscow, and § 12 of this instruction says: "Select 50 literate people and send them to school with purpose of knowledge of special medical and natural sciences, so that they could know Latin names of herbs and other medicines suitable for use by horses. And then special education to distribute them for further education directly to the konoval ... ". For preparatory education, it was opened in 1733 in the village of Khoroshevsky near Moscow, a boarding school for 50 people.

IN early XIX V. a more rational formulation of the matter of preserving and treating the horse composition of the army was already required. There were a lot of horses in the troops, which were a valuable asset of the state: in 1803 - 66,000, in 1808 - 269,252, in 1813 - 349,879. veterinary education, which arose at the beginning of the 19th century. Thus, the formation of horsemen in the troops was organizationally formalized.

In 1808, veterinary departments were opened in St. Petersburg and Moscow at the Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy. Its charter noted that the purpose of the latter was to educate young people in all parts of the medical sciences, while three parts of teaching were established: medical, veterinary and pharmaceutical. Training at the veterinary department was conducted for 4 years.

However, in 1879, in connection with the transformation of the Medico-Surgical Academy into the Military Medical Academy, unexpected complications arose for the veterinary department. The Chief Military Medical Inspector stated that in view of the army's small need for veterinarians - an average of 10 per year - there is no need for a special veterinary educational institution. And in 1880, the admission of students to the veterinary department of the academy was stopped. In total, over the 75-year period of its existence, the veterinary department has graduated more than 1000 veterinary specialists.

However, the lack of such specialists in the army soon made itself felt. And in 1919, courses for the training of laboratory workers were organized at the Central Military Veterinary Bacteriological Laboratory, which were transformed in 1923 into epizootological courses for advanced training of veterinarians. After civil war the program and the capacity of the courses are further expanded. But this measure did not solve the problem. Therefore, in 1925, at the Military Veterinary Bacteriological Institute, to improve the qualifications of veterinarians, full-time advanced training courses for higher and senior veterinary staff (KUVET) were created, for which an additional training department was included in the institute.

And a little earlier, in December 1922, in Moscow, on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, 25, the training of veterinarians began. The first head of the school was M. Gannushkin, former head of the veterinary department of the 5th Army, later Doctor of Veterinary Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Epizootology of the Military Veterinary Academy of the Red Army. In 1937, the school, which was then in Leningrad, was renamed the Leningrad Military Veterinary School.

In 1925, for the training of junior veterinary assistants (at one time they were called veterinary instructors), military schools for junior veterinary assistants were also opened in cavalry and artillery units, and later at garrison veterinarians. Training in schools lasted 22 months, of which 10 months - in the first year of service and 12 months - in the second. The significance of these schools was not only in the fact that they trained junior veterinary assistants for the army, but also in the fact that after demobilization these paramedics replenished the cadres of veterinary specialists in agriculture.

In accordance with the order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR dated September 12, 1925, No. 918, in 1925 a military department was opened at the Kazan Veterinary Institute, designed to train 30 students. Great merit in the creation of this department belonged to the head of the Military Veterinary Directorate of the Red Army N. Nikolsky, who did a lot for the formation and development of military veterinary medicine in the Soviet period. The training program included theoretical courses military disciplines, military administration, military topography, training in military chemical and shooting, the theory of riding and dressage of a drill horse, military zoohygiene:

The first release of military veterinarians - 28 people - took place on October 8, 1929 and laid the foundation for a systematic system of recruiting veterinary and medical staff for the Red Army. In total, during the existence of the military department of the Kazan Veterinary Institute (1925-1932), 128 military veterinarians were trained.

Since 1929, the military department was gradually transferred from Kazan to Moscow, where the training of military veterinarians was organized at the Moscow Veterinary Institute. In 1930, the military department of the Moscow Veterinary Institute expanded into the Military Veterinary Faculty, which in 1935 was reorganized into the Military Veterinary Institute of the Red Army and, finally, in 1938, into the Military Veterinary Academy of the Red Army. Thus, within a short time, higher military veterinary education stood on a solid foundation.

PRICE OF COMBAT EXPERIENCE

In October 1941, the Military Veterinary Academy was evacuated from Moscow to the city of Aralsk, and in 1942 - to the city of Samarkand. Due to the great need for veterinarians for the troops, the number of students at the academy was increased from 700 to 1400. However, this did not last long due to the fact that with a shortened 3-year training period, the quality of training decreased. In 1943, the academy switched to a 4-year term of study. During the war years, the academy produced 8 graduates, giving the army 1178 veterinarians.

In addition, the academy did a lot of work on the training and improvement of veterinary specialists: surgeons, therapists, epizootologists for the veterinary departments of the fronts and armies, as well as front-line and army veterinary infirmaries and laboratories. The teaching staff constantly traveled to the active army, where they trained specialists in field veterinary institutions.

Research work was also restructured and aimed at meeting the needs of the veterinary service of the troops. In the first months of the war, 80 employees of the academy voluntarily went to the front. The regiment, formed from its listeners and permanent staff, in 1941 worked on defensive structures near Moscow and occupied combat positions there.

Examples of patriotism and military prowess were also shown by the command staff and cadets of the Leningrad Military Veterinary School in the besieged city. Their battalion of teachers and cadets, and this is more than 1200 people, under the command of the head of the school, Major General of the Veterinary Service L. Baitin, defended one of the sections on the outskirts of Leningrad. But he especially distinguished himself in the battles near Nevskaya Budrovka. For courage and courage, many employees and cadets of the school received high government awards.

Only from the reserve during the war, 6,507 veterinarians and 10,290 veterinarians were drafted into the army. But after its completion, in connection with the reduction in the number of the Armed Forces, a decision was made to reorganize, and subsequently close military veterinary educational institutions. The Military Veterinary Academy in 1948 was transformed into the Military Veterinary Faculty at the Moscow Veterinary Academy, which existed until 1956. From 1956 to 1978, the training and retraining of officers of the veterinary service was carried out at specialized officer courses.

A few more years will pass and again, as has happened more than once, the problem of the shortage of veterinary personnel in the army and reserve veterinary service officers will reappear. By the decision of the Council of Ministers of the USSR in 1966, a veterinary cycle was organized at the combined arms department at the Alma-Ata Veterinary Institute. The preparation of students there began with the 3rd year of the veterinary faculty. The training program included military and military-special disciplines, designed for 3 years of study and a monthly camp fee. And upon graduation, students received the primary officer military rank of lieutenant of the reserve veterinary service, specializing in veterinary radiology and toxicology.

For 16 years military department released about three thousand reserve officers, of which more than 100 graduates were voluntarily called up to the cadres of the Armed Forces, Border and Internal Troops. The graduates of the military department of the Alma-Ata Veterinary Institute replaced the entire personnel vacuum of the veterinary staff that had formed in the Soviet Army in the period from 1960 to 1970. The vacancies of veterinarians of motorized rifle and tank formations were then filled by 80 percent by graduate officers of the institute. But in 1982, the veterinary cycle of the military department was also disbanded.

On July 1, 1978, in accordance with the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR of August 19, 1977, on the basis of 43 officer courses of the veterinary service, the Military Veterinary Faculty was formed at the Moscow Veterinary Academy. K.I. Scriabin.

The reform of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation at the end of the 20th century also affected military veterinary education. In 1994, the Military Veterinary Service was given a completely new legal status of the departmental Veterinary Sanitary Service of the Armed Forces as an integral part of state veterinary supervision, which ensures the implementation of the normative acts of the law "On Veterinary Medicine" in law enforcement agencies. A new concept is being introduced as an integral and integral part of logistics support - "Veterinary and Sanitary Support", aimed at ensuring the food safety of food and food raw materials supplied to the troops and fleet forces. The veterinary and sanitary service occupies a strong position in the overall rear structure of the "service serving combat operations." In this regard, the tasks of training military personnel are becoming more complicated, and the educational process is being improved.

A lot of work is being done in the research laboratory - the oldest and only scientific unit in the system of the veterinary and sanitary service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. One of the main areas of scientific research, corresponding to the urgent needs of the veterinary and sanitary service, was the development of means and methods for detecting radioactive, poisonous, toxic and highly toxic substances in food products, food raw materials and fodder, as well as methods for their neutralization, protection of military and food animals. from WMP. Appropriate guidelines have been developed guidelines, instructions, a number of methods for the use of antidote agents are proposed. Several antidote formulations have been developed and put into practice, which have a highly effective therapeutic and preventive effect, as well as methods for determining physiologically in the meat of food animals active substances included in antidote formulations. Eight author's certificates have been received, two doctoral and nine candidate's dissertations have been defended.

AT THE TURN OF THE XX-XXI CENTURIES

The radical changes in all aspects of life taking place in our country at the turn of the 20th-21st centuries necessitated the improvement of the military education system in Russia, which has 200 years of experience in training military specialists. This process also affected the Military Veterinary Faculty at the Moscow state academy Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology named after K.I. Scriabin. On its basis, in accordance with the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation, the Military Veterinary Institute was established in 2002 to recruit units, units and organizations of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation with military veterinarians of the highest qualification.

Today, the institute is staffed with students at the expense of students who have completed four courses of veterinary academies, agricultural universities and institutes with veterinary faculties. The term of study is two years. Persons who graduate from the institute are awarded the qualification of "veterinary doctor", the military rank of "lieutenant of the medical service" and a state diploma.

The Institute carries out stage-by-stage training of veterinary specialists under the programs of higher and postgraduate (adjuncture) education. In addition, advanced training courses are provided for officers of the veterinary and sanitary service in a number of specialties. In this unified training system, veterinary specialists are formed who are capable of providing veterinary and sanitary support to the troops at a level that meets the requirements of the present moment.

Training of students in military special disciplines is carried out at the departments of the Institute and the Moscow State Academy of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology named after K.I. Scriabin. The high scientific and pedagogical qualifications of teachers make it possible to ensure the quality of educational and military-scientific work. More than half of the teachers have degree. Suffice it to say that at present, within the walls of the institute, work is underway on the preparation of four doctoral and seven master's theses by the method of solicitation and postgraduate studies. In total, nine doctors of science, eleven professors, twenty-two candidates of science and associate professors participate in the training of military veterinarians.

Only in the last ten years from the walls of the Military Veterinary educational institution more than 330 officers of the veterinary and sanitary service have been graduated and are adequately fulfilling their military and patriotic duty in the ranks of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. And in total for the period from 1978 to 2007, the Military Veterinary Faculty at the Moscow State Academy of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology named after K.I. Scriabin and the Military Veterinary Institute graduated 837 specialists. Among them are those who adequately performed their military duty in Cuba, Libya, Syria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Kosovo.

Now only the Military Veterinary Institute has remained the successor of the once rich system of military veterinary education and military veterinary science in the post-Soviet space. The Joint Military Department of the Kazakh National Agrarian University operates in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Powerful intellectual forces of the veterinary and sanitary service are concentrated today in these educational institutions, considerable scientific and practical experience has been accumulated.

In conclusion, I emphasize that the glorious past and present of a higher military educational institution, which is the Military Veterinary Institute, its traditions, constantly improving material, technical and scientific and information base, methodological skills and professionalism of the teaching and commanders- all this is the key to a successful solution of the tasks that today face the military veterinary education of the country as a whole. And these tasks, as the entire course of our history testifies, are not getting smaller. They just become more specific. This is confirmed by the recent creation of two mountain brigades in the North Caucasus, whose service and combat work is hard to imagine without the use of pack animals. This means that our veterinarians will still have enough work for a long time.

The story of Vetrov Vitaly Petrovich, Chairman of the Interregional Public Organization "Council of Veterans of the Veterinary and Sanitary Service" armed forces". The organization is part of the International Public Organization "Council of Veterans of Logistics of the Armed Forces".

Military rank: Major General of the Veterinary Service.

Honorary titles, academic degree:

- "Honored Veterinarian of the Russian Federation" (1994);

Honorary Member of the All-Russian Heraldic Society (1990);

Honorary veteran of the city of Moscow;

Candidate of Biological Sciences, Professor of the Academy of Military Sciences, Academician of the International Academy of Informatization.

Field of activity:

Veterinary medicine and biology, organization, strategy and tactics of veterinary support. One of the main activities of V.P. Vetrov as a military veterinary specialist - protection of the territory of the USSR, the CIS countries and the Russian Federation from the introduction of anthropozoonoses and the elimination of infectious animal diseases.

Over the 52-year period of service and work in the bodies of the Ministry of Defense, V.P. Vetrov went from a veterinary paramedic to the head of the Central body of military veterinary medicine of the country, from lieutenant to major general of the veterinary service (the only one in the Russian Federation)

Has publications in the digital library "Libmonster" and other Internet portals.

Orders, medals and other awards:

Order of Courage (1998), Order of Honor (2008), 38 medals, including combat ones: "For Courage" (1979), "For Military Merit" (1987), "For combat commonwealth"(1990). Has awards from foreign states: the Brotherhood in Arms medal and the commemorative medal "XX Anniversary" (storming of the Moncada barracks) of the Republic of Cuba. "Medal for Good Service to Afghanistan" medal "From the grateful Afghan people" DRA, medal "60 years of the Mongolian People's Revolution" of the MPR, as well as "Warrior-Internationalist" (1989), "Liquidator of the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster" (1986), "Participant in the aftermath of the Spitak and Okha earthquakes." "Veteran of military operations" (2003). letters from the President of the Russian Federation, Diplomas from the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, his deputies, insignia from ministries and departments, as well as from public organizations and associations.

Credo, life position - Serve, awake.

Cuban period of activity:

Why are military veterinarians needed in a war? History repeats itself many times, any military conflict, economic or other sanctions of states inevitably lead to the appearance of epidemics or epizootics.

The Cuban state survived in 1971 an epizootic of African swine fever that broke out in state farms a number of provinces. Whether it was a sabotage or an accidental introduction of the pathogen with food is still unknown to a wide range of specialists, although the remaining samples of field strains, in the current state of science, could partly help to establish the origin of the infectious agent.

African swine fever virus, which is not found on the American continent, was used as a biological agent. In all likelihood, it could have been delivered by CIA agents from a secret testing station, a branch of the Dugway Chemical and Biological Testing Ground, from the territory military base Howard in the Panama Canal Zone. The pathogen was used by a covert method, in a landfill, near the location of the Soviet training center, there was also a subsidiary farm of the military unit, which was liquidated during the outbreak.

During the period of confrontation between the two world superpowers, the version about the occurrence of the epizootic of African plague in Cuba in foreign funds mass media was fabricated professionally correctly and aimed primarily at discrediting the Soviet troops. They say that the Soviet military contingent brought swine fever with food to the Island, which caused irreparable damage to the Cuban people: it undermined the country's economy, set agriculture back ten years, etc. But according to the remaining samples of strains, our scientists established the origin of the infectious agent, which ruled out the accidental introduction of the virus with food. In addition, this infection was not registered at all in the USSR at that time.

Political leadership of the Republic of Cuba with the help Soviet specialists made the only right decision: to exterminate the number of pigs in farms that are unfavorable for this disease, and to carry out a set of strict anti-epizootic measures. In the provinces of Pinar del Rio, Havana, Matanzas, about 500 thousand heads of pigs were destroyed. At the same time, it was believed that the appearance of African swine fever on the Island was the US economic war against Cuba. Undoubtedly, there were political overtones here.

In connection with these events, which caused significant economic damage to the economy of the young state, it was decided to strengthen the country's veterinary service. At the same time, the post of head of the veterinary service was introduced into the states of the Soviet contingent of troops in Cuba. These are the circumstances that preceded the arrival on Liberty Island in 1974 of the senior lieutenant of the veterinary service Vitaly Petrovich Vetrov, a graduate of the special faculty of the Alma-Ata Veterinary Institute.

The main tasks facing the head of the veterinary service of the 12th training center were:

Implementation of service measures aimed at preventing diseases common to humans and animals among a contingent of military personnel, workers and employees of the Soviet Army, their families, seafarers of a separate squadron of ships of the Navy and civilian personnel performing national economic tasks, totaling several thousand people;

Ensuring epizootic well-being and proper veterinary and sanitary condition of areas and places of deployment military units, institutions, individual teams and units, as well as places of residence for officers;

Ensuring the safety of food products supplied to the food supply of the Soviet contingent.

II. Memories

Vetrov Vitaly Petrovich:

In 1974, I was sent to Cuba, where I performed multifaceted tasks in organizing veterinary and logistics support. Participated in the elimination of the consequences of African swine fever in a number of provinces of the Republic of Cuba. Provided logistical support and veterinary and sanitary measures during the redeployment by air and sea transport in 1975 of Cuban troops to Angola. He took part in hydrographic expeditions in the Caribbean, the Sargasso Sea, the Panama Canal, and other versatile logistics tasks. As part of assisting the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba, he took part in the training and education of veterinary specialists from among Cuban officers.

Arriving at the place and having studied the epizootic situation and the veterinary and sanitary condition of the training grounds, areas of deployment and operation of troops, as well as the deployment of PMTO (logistics point), and fleet forces (Seventh OPESK - operational squadron Navy USSR, designed to solve combat missions in the Atlantic theater of operations), and in addition to all military facilities located in the Republic of Cuba, I reported to the Rear Command of the GSVS in Cuba on the state of affairs.

The relevant head made a decision to equip a laboratory for veterinary and sanitary examination and a permanent veterinary and sanitary post at the Joint Logistics Warehouse in the area of ​​the Havana port. I had to start from scratch. It was difficult to constantly argue with the leadership, to prove one's innocence and the need for veterinary influence on many areas of activity of an already well-established rear organization.

Vetrova Galina Vladimirovna:

After a long sea passage on the ship, we finally ended up in the beautiful Havana, which we did not really have time to see. Then ended all the tedious formalities and the official meeting with the chief military adviser. All the newly arrived officers with their families were brought to the training center, fed well, distributed among the villages, and their husbands were put into service. All! The free life of passengers ended, and fighting and fun everyday life began. It's bad that no one met us, my husband was the first of all Soviet military veterinarians in Cuba. But we are great, a couple of years later we met his successor.

It was much more difficult to live in Cuba than in the Union during the first five-year plans and subsequent years. There is discipline and order, there are all-powerful organizations of the KZR (Committees for the Defense of the Revolution), vigilantly watching all the events that take place, including the village of Managua, where we are located. The life of Soviet military specialists and their families in the settlements did not differ in diversity. Officers and warrant officers lived according to the general routine of the combat unit, where all issues were painted and verified to the smallest detail. All the families of military personnel were attached and adapted to the same daily routine. The Russian village of Managua was located 14 km from the deployment of the 7th Motorized Rifle Brigade (7 separate motorized rifle brigade) in a semi-hilly and abandoned area, away from central roads. True, 7 kilometers from the village was national park named after V.I. Lenin.

The village consisted of about 60 solid cottages (kas), a summer cinema club, a closed club, a Cuban guard commandant's office with a canteen and a food warehouse ("dry rations"). Families of Cuban guards lived in 4 casas, and the Cuban sergeant Ramon was the commandant. Water was supplied for 4 hours a day to five-cube asbestos-cement containers that stood on the roofs, and this amount was enough for two or three families. Electricity, by American standards, was 110 volts and was often unavailable due to tropical rain and stormy weather conditions. The electric shower satisfied all hygienic needs. True, on the territory of the brigade there was a chic full-time officer's bath with a steam room, but the inhabitants of the village of Managua did not go there, and so it was a terrible heat. Only husbands sometimes celebrated on Saturdays, to the "accompaniment" of a couple. The outdoor insulated wiring lay right on the roofs and trees and amazed our electrician Vitaly, who installed an ownerless radio relay antenna on the roof, taking a television program from the USA. Before the revolution, the American contingent was located in Managua, and then after 1962, Soviet missilemen and military motorized rifle regiments were stationed. In this village there were officers who did not have direct subordination of personnel that affect the combat readiness of the brigade. Motor transport (Gaz-51 cars - a variant of a cargo taxi) went on schedule between the village and the brigade: the first car came at 5 in the morning and the last one at one in the morning. The wives accompanied their husbands to work in the morning, by 11 o'clock they gathered at the dry rations, at which time a car with food arrived. The lunch break was set from 14:00 to 17:00, i.е. at the hottest time, and work continued until 19:00. Then dinner and at nightfall at 21:45 the cinema began every day, sometimes two or three films or series until one in the morning. And in the morning it all started all over again. At lunch, as a rule, there was a 30-minute downpour with a half-meter stream of water, and then within 20 minutes everything dried up and the bright sun shone again. The weather was always sunny with high air temperature and humidity, only once during the dry period, at night the temperature once dropped to plus 14 degrees Celsius, then all Cubans wrapped themselves in blankets when they went outside. On Sundays, the families of officers and ensigns were taken by bus and truck to Guanabo Beach, a specially designated area of ​​​​an excellent beach 60 km from Havana. There was a complex of cottages, a dining room and a bar for "Sovetiko militar", providing for a comfortable stay.

Vetrov Vitaly Petrovich:

Now I will add a little about the peculiarities of the work of specialists of the military veterinary service in the Republic of Cuba, and in particular mine. I had to start everything from scratch. During the Caribbean crisis, 42,000 Soviet soldiers were deployed to Cuba, so veterinary equipment and equipment were supplied for a whole veterinary detachment and a field meat processing plant, but by 1974 it was collecting dust in warehouses and was practically ownerless. I had to return, also not without difficulty, the property and premises belonging to the service.

Having studied the situation, I decided to equip a veterinary laboratory and workplace a veterinary specialist in a food warehouse and in the department of military trade in the Havana port area. I got acquainted with the officials of the revolutionary Cuban armed forces, the sanitary, quarantine and phytosanitary service of the commercial port. Once I did not allow about 130 tons of fresh-frozen flounder to be allowed for allowance. By decision of the command, this batch of fish had to be transferred to the Havana Zoo for food for crocodiles and other living creatures, and partially disposed of. My Cuban work colleagues were very cautious about our offer to donate almost a dozen truckloads of fish to them. Experts were terribly afraid of the introduction of infection - African swine fever was in everyone's memory. Interestingly, these products were, in principle, of good quality, but were defrosted twice and fell apart into small pieces during heat treatment, so that only fishmeal could be prepared from it.

With the permission of the head of the rear of the unit and the former front-line soldier, Colonel Vasily Andreevich Chukov, I organized the construction of the premises of the base laboratory of veterinary and sanitary examination. One morning, the unit commander himself checked the progress of work and, making sure that these were not empty talks, gave the command to increase the pace of construction. I did a grandiose job and in a month I completed a turnkey building of 200 square meters by equipping it with everything you need. A brigade of internationalist soldiers and Cuban builders worked hard on the construction! According to the application submitted to the Military Veterinary Department of the USSR Ministry of Defense, all laboratory equipment and property. Starting from that time, the service could carry out the tasks of veterinary support for the contingent of Soviet troops in full.

Since that time, the service has kept all incoming food under strict control, taking all spheres of veterinary influence into its own hands. Up to six non-staff veterinarians and paramedics served in critical areas; at our request, the main department of the Ministry of Defense specially selected them in the Union, and, in particular, in Leningrad region. I, having entered the taste of the creative excitement, created a special construction team. Electric welders assembled typical premises of a poultry farm and a rabbitry from metal. A small rabbit farm already existed at that time and had a good economic result. So the ideas of socialist construction were put into practice far from the Motherland with the practical development of production technology at the constructed facilities. Pay tribute to - building material, including acutely scarce, there was plenty.

But the Cuban comrades, seeing our economic zeal, delicately recommended: "You do not need to breed animals and poultry, we will provide you with everything you need for free anyway." Very good and timely advice. In the Revolutionary Armed Forces and other armies of the world there were no subsidiary farms, as in Soviet army. The “first” type that existed in our troops, the legalized fund of any commander and chief, contributed to the possibility of additional food for personnel without any significant costs, but in the conditions of the host country, this did not justify itself.

At the Soviet base, located on the territory of the port in Havana, leased from the Cuban authorities, a small veterinary laboratory was equipped with instruments and reagents, which made it possible to carry out the necessary amount of express food research. At the same time, the technical basis of the laboratory was made up of instruments available in the medical service, foreign-made equipment, as well as a regular military veterinary laboratory (norm-set 14), which was used during direct departures to ships. The presence of a workplace for a veterinary and sanitary expert directly in the port, as well as free access to all berths in the port of Havana, made it possible to quickly solve the tasks of the veterinary service - to provide practical assistance in determining the quality of food products to the battalions of the arriving ships of the Soviet merchant fleet, while drawing up the relevant documents. Near the laboratory, a place was equipped for storing fumigation and disinfection products, which came through the quarantine and sanitary service of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (RVS) of the Republic of Cuba.

Large stocks of flour were stored at the Soviet base, which were constantly refreshed, the work of two mechanized bakeries was ensured, which baked 6-10 tons of bread per day. Control over this process by the military veterinary service was clearly established for the main reason - the massive development of flour pests in conditions of 95% humidity and, in particular, flour moth, the entire development cycle of which fit in a two-week period. To interrupt this cycle, under the guidance of a veterinary specialist, pest control work was regularly carried out in rooms with a total area of ​​​​up to 15,000 square meters.

Four times a week, our veterinary fumigator went to Havana, to the port base, which, together with representatives of the sanitary and quarantine services of the RVS, poisoned billions of flour pest larvae with a special gas. Only such harsh methods were used to suppress grain pests; the Cuban side did not have this problem, because all the flour from the "wheels" went into production.

The workplace of a laboratory assistant was equipped at the bakery, and a full-time specialist carried out his activities under the constant and methodical guidance of the head of the veterinary service. The bulk of the work consisted in conducting a veterinary and sanitary examination of food products and, first of all, perishable ones. Every day up to three tons of fresh pork was brought to the base directly from a primitive slaughterhouse, where veterinary control took place only when documents were issued for the issuance of finished products. I was convinced of this more than once, despite the high professional level of my Cuban colleagues. It's just that the method of approach to the issues of examination of products and raw materials was far from perfect. The European School of Veterinary Sanitary Expertise was the most rigid, principled and somewhat cumbersome. This was primarily due to the presence a large number infections and invasions on the Eurasian continent than in Latin America. For example, weekly I performed up to 60-80 different tests and laboratory research. He even examined pork carcasses for trichinosis, beef for finnosis and selectively, when such invasions in Cuba were practically not registered. But we were prescribed this by the instructions for the veterinary service, or rather the Guidelines for Veterinary Support. There were practically no doubts about vegetables and fruits, ensigns-forwarders and non-staff veterinarians easily managed at vegetable bases.

Once, the head of the library of the 12th training center turned to me and explained that they had tried all the remedies for cockroaches, but they still terribly defeated the library.

Save! The main book fund is disappearing! - she said. - Kukarachi - large yellow cockroaches - literally devour the bindings of books and publications.

It turned out that during the rainy period, in search of food, cockroaches found ordinary carpentry glue in the library, with which book bindings are made. I remembered how once in Central Asia I treated sheep for scabies with hexachlorane, so I set fire to hexachlorane checkers in the library, in the smoke of which not only cockroaches died, but all the mosquitoes in the area.

Another problem was rats, which in large numbers populated all structures, communications and sea ​​vessels in the port of Havana. But not all the baits used had an effect on them. So, zoocoumarin, as it was established empirically, practically did not have a serious effect on them. Therefore, the bait prepared by the service based on zinc phosphide has become the main means of combating rodents. The objects of veterinary supervision were located in garrisons (the so-called colonies), remote at a distance of up to 190 km, and therefore one veterinary specialist could not physically ensure the necessary volume of activities.

I must note that all non-staff specialists of the veterinary service worked conscientiously, and the volume of special activities carried out by them was very significant.

III. Photos:

(prepared by Sinelnikov Alexander Nikolaevich)

1. Officers of the 7th Motorized Rifle Brigade and the headquarters of the GSVSK perform a task in the province of Oriente. Taking this opportunity, we went on an excursion to Casa Siboney, where the legendary Fidel Castro and his associates launched an assault on the Moncada barracks on June 26, 1953. Thus began the Great Cuban Revolution, which is already 65 years old. In the well on which V.P. Vetrov, political worker Pyotr and the commander of the IL-14 Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Ivanovich, Fidel Castro and his associates hid their weapons. Santiago de Cuba, 1974

1. The main entrance to the former 7th separate motorized rifle brigade in Narocco, Havana province, Republic of Cuba

1. Head of the veterinary service of the 12th training center, senior lieutenant Vitaly Vetrov in the park 4 OMSB.

1. Officers check the outboard motor before going to sea. The goal is reconnaissance and study of the coast in the theater of operations, or the area of ​​\u200b\u200bprobable amphibious landing. Military veterinarian, senior lieutenant Vitaly Vetrov (right) studies, analyzes and predicts the epizootic situation, simultaneously conducting veterinary-sanitary and epizootic reconnaissance of the area and its economic component.

1. Laboratory of Veterinary and Sanitary Food Expertise of the 7th Motorized Rifle Brigade. The head of the veterinary service of the brigade V. Vetrov, the head of the food service of the brigade A. Loginovsky. Narocco, 1975

1. The work of the officers of the rear of the brigade in the province of Oriente. At the walls of the legendary barracks of Moncada. Photo for memory. Vitaly Vetrov on the left. Santiago de Cuba, 1975

1. The personnel of a separate automobile company of the brigade carried out long marches along the island of Liberty. The picture shows Senior Lieutenant Vitaly Vetrov with smart military drivers. Highway Havana - Kumaguey. 1975

1. In the location of a separate motorized rifle brigade, Vitaly Vetrov, with his daughter Svetlana and the head of the field branch of the State Bank, Alexei Fedorov, with his daughter. Narocco, 1974

1. The Vetrov family and neighbors in the village of Managua, in the province of Havana, at cash desk No. 53. 1976.

1. The daily trip to Havana exhausts the drivers, the drivers are tired. Small halt. Vitaly Vetrov on the right. Ciego de Avila, 1975

1. Cuban New Year, meeting with classmates (neighbors in cabins), Galina Vladimirovna is busy with her son Shurik. 1976

1. Part of the work of military veterinarian Vitaly Vetrov is related to the maritime component in the Republic of Cuba. With ships and support vessels of the Navy, and in particular, 7 OPECs of the Northern Fleet, which replenished supplies at the PMTO (logistical support point) of the USSR Navy. Pictured are BOD 290 officers off the far coast of Africa, 1975.

1. A military veterinarian is a universal fighter of the rear and combines up to three dozen specialties and specializations. Along with the main areas of activity, Vitaly Vetrov mastered a rare profession in Cuba - a taxidermist. Narocco, 1975

1. Joint tactical-special exercises with our colleagues. And the veterinary service conducts a study and assessment of the hydrobionts of the sea.

1. Verification and actual development of the standards established for specialists, and big photo for memory. Vitaly Vetrov on the right. 1975

1. A team of ichthyologists and rear fighters landed on the shore. Puerto Manati. One fighter caught a sand shark. Vitaly Vetrov is second from the right. 1976

1. The officers and rank and file of the brigade, in addition to service and work, had pleasant moments, such as excursions and visits to memorable and historical places in the Republic of Cuba. Medical warriors on the ruins of a sugar (cane) plant. Vitaly Vetrov on the left.

1. Committees for the Defense of the Revolution in Cuba, a powerful and effective organization in terms of ensuring the Revolutionary order. A vigilant KZR member, Jose, checked a suspicious Soviet military car parked on the side of the highway. For excellent service, he was awarded a mug of dry wine by Vitaly Vetrov. 1974

1. Interacting services in all commissions of the brigade, financiers, logistics, political workers, veterinarians and others. Vitaly Vetrov and head of the financial service Vyacheslav Ivanchikov. Narocco, 1975

1. Head of the veterinary service of the 12th training center, senior lieutenant Vitaly Vetrov, commandant of the 12th center, lieutenant colonel N.V. Kruglov and military conductor of the 12th training center, Major V.F. Generalov. Conversation on a free topic. Military Band of the Brigade. 1975

1. Very interesting, complex, unpredictable and responsible work of a military veterinarian Vitaly Vetrov in a distant country. Which on special questions submits only to itself! And his chief chief, Major General of the Medical Service Oleg Belenky, was far away in Moscow, on Red Square!

1. Work card of the head of the veterinary service of the training center, senior lieutenant of the veterinary service Vitaly Vetrov, for working out special issues.

1. 50 percent of the working time of the military veterinarian Vitaly Vetrov was devoted to the acceptance of general cargo from the Soviet Union and the Commonwealth countries. A dry cargo ship or ship with a displacement of up to 25 thousand tons was unloaded for no more than three days. Port of Cienfuegos. 1974 As a senior chief, Vitaly Vetrov serves borscht to his colleagues. Romantic and significant.

1. The closed Naval Base of Cienfuegos, at one time there was a floating dock for nuclear submarines of the USSR Navy, which was very disturbing to the American military leadership. Far away is the exit to the Caribbean, officer Vitaly Vetrov worked here more than 30 times. 1974

1. Ebb and flow in the Bahama Strait reach two kilometers from the coast. It was very convenient to reload weapons and equipment, driving along the hard seabed, right into the abyss. Ichthyopathologist Vitaly Vetrov in the center (biologists and veterinarians are engaged in this fishery, in accordance with the Veterinary Charter of the USSR of 1968.) Old Bahama Strait. 1975

1. Command of the 7th Motorized Rifle Brigade and officers of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of the Republic of Cuba. Commander of the 7th Motorized Rifle Brigade Colonel Shevchenko in the center

1. Officers and ensigns of the Logistics Services of the 7th Motorized Rifle Brigade. Deputy brigade commander for logistics, Colonel V.A. Chukov in the center. Head of the veterinary service of the brigade, senior lieutenant Vitaly Vetrov, third from left, second row. Narocco, Republic of Cuba, 1976.

1. Park-economic day in the troops. This is equivalent to general cleaning carried out by any hostess at home. This day applies to all commanders, chiefs and ordinary soldiers, it is held in parks, barracks, canteens, utility yards and other places. The picture shows soldiers of the 4th Motorized Rifle Brigade and 7th Motorized Rifle Brigade putting things in order in the barracks. 1976

1. Vitaly Petrovich Vetrov - today.

IV. Video

(prepared by Sinelnikov Alexander Nikolaevich)

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"At the Soviet base, located on the territory of the port in Havana, leased from the Cuban authorities, a small veterinary laboratory was equipped with instruments and reagents, which made it possible to carry out the necessary amount of express food research. At the same time, the technical basis of the laboratory was made up of instruments available in the medical service, equipment of foreign production, as well as a full-time military veterinary laboratory (norm-set 14), which was used when directly leaving the ships.The presence of a workplace for a veterinary and sanitary expert directly in the port, as well as free access to all berths in the port of Havana, made it possible to quickly solve the problems of the veterinary service - provide practical assistance in determining the quality of food products to the battalions of the arriving ships of the Soviet merchant fleet, while drawing up the relevant documents. came through the quarantine and sanitary service of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (RVS) of the Republic of Cuba.

Vitaly:

Dear Alexander, thank you for your wonderful review. Your time will also come imperceptibly, passing on your vast experience to the younger generation. As far as I know, that your service, more than 25 years, has been held in extreme conditions Far East and the Arctic, in permafrost and polar night. This is not the Crimea and not the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus. Only those who are strong in spirit, devoted to the cause and service of the Motherland, people are capable of such deeds and feats! I wish you military happiness, promotion and success!