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Dear friends!
The team of our company Soyuz Marins Group has been publishing the Marine Corps magazine for many years, dedicated to topical issues of the Russian army and navy, the history of their development and formation, the immortal feats of soldiers and officers of our country. History knows many examples of courage, courage and valor. We are proud of the feat of our veterans of the Great Patriotic War, the courage of servicemen who performed their military duty outside the Fatherland, the steadfastness of soldiers and officers who took part in counter-terrorist operations.
We want modern youth to continue the military traditions of the defenders of the Motherland thanks to, among other things, our magazine Marine Corps. Always together, Always to victory!
Founder of the magazine "Marine"
Kulikov Alexander Gennadievich
Dear friends!
Dear sailors, officers and veterans of the Marine Corps! The Marine Corps has been and remains a symbol of military glory, courage and bravery. Marines entered many glorious victories in the history of the Russian state, participated in the most important battles.
The marines are rightfully considered the elite of our armed forces, which are distinguished by special physical and psychological training, the ability to solve a wide range of combat missions in the most difficult conditions. The highest military skill, selfless patriotism, strength and courage are the essence of the character of everyone who has chosen to serve in the Marine Corps. Today, the marines preserve and increase the traditions of the centuries-old history of the army and navy. A marine is first and foremost a warrior. Warrior in battle and in life. I wish everyone who bears the worthy title of a Marine to cherish military traditions, happiness, peace in the family, health and optimism. And let the proud motto of the Marine Corps illuminate your path everywhere, always and in everything - “Where we are, there is victory!”
Although numerically small compared to other elite formations, the Soviet marines have a right to be proud of their glorious traditions dating back to the time of Tsar Peter the Great, who already in 1705 established the first regiment of marines to serve on the ships of the nascent fleet of the Russian Empire. After the war with Napoleon, the regiment was disbanded, and companies of marines took its place, which showed valor in the Crimean campaign of the 19th century and the Japanese campaign of the early 20th.
The coming of the communists to power somewhat slowed down the development of this type of troops, and the first Soviet marine brigade appeared only in 1940 as part of the Baltic Fleet.
The Soviet marines reached their peak of power during the Second World War - 350,000 people in 40 brigades, 6 separate regiments and many special units. Five brigades for the valor shown in battles were awarded the title of guards. In the post-war years, the importance of the Marine Corps declined significantly, and ultimately it was disbanded altogether. The second birth of the marines took place only in 1961, when the command of the Navy decided to create one brigade of marines for each of the four military fleets - the Baltic, Northern, Black Sea and Pacific. Small military flotillas (Azov, Danube, etc.) were given smaller units.
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The Soviet Marine Corps, numbering 18,000 in its ranks, has always remained a relatively small formation (for example, the number of the US Marine Corps is ten times larger). However, the tasks before the Soviet "black berets" were more modest: landings with the aim of striking at the rear of the enemy or capturing strategically important objects. Their tactics also differed significantly from those adopted by the American "tanned heads", which, as the war with Japan in the Pacific showed, always had sufficient forces to organize a massive landing right in front of the enemy's fortifications. Although, due to their numbers, units of the Soviet marines could not compete with the Americans on an equal footing, they achieved significant success in the use of hovercraft, the largest of which are capable of transporting up to 220 infantrymen or four PT-76s, or two T-72s. These ships, moving equally easily both on water and on land, are used to break through the enemy's defense line and to quickly transfer troops.
The selection of candidates for service in the Marine Corps - even more stringent than in the airborne troops - is entrusted to the best officers of the Navy. Each service receives its own quota of recruits, who, after several months of intensive training (under the guidance of sergeants and officers), are enlisted in the fleet, where they have to master the art of sailors and marines in order to be deservedly proud of their black beret - a sign of belonging to the elite troops.
2nd book "This was the beginning ..."
Now, when I think about why it was in the mid-nineties of the last century that the newspaper first appeared, and then the Marine Corps magazine, I believe that time itself is “to blame”. It turned out almost according to the phrase: “time has chosen us”! Do I need to say what those years were? Who among us does not remember how the Soviet Union collapsed shortly before? And we, the marines of a great power, remained, in fact, in the ashes of our native country. Remained in the same lawlessness of the nineties of the last century. We tried to understand where we are, who we are and how we should live and serve further? We met and talked to each other. There were not so many of us, Muscovites-Marines, then. Mostly marines of the Pacific, Baltic and Northern fleets: Major General Boris Ivanovich Sergeenko, senior officers Pavel Shilov, Sergey Trukhachev, Taras Kiyashchuk, Viktor Parfenov. Maybe now I don’t remember someone, but it’s not so important. Those whom I named were the backbone or basis of our initiative group, which decided to create at that very time a newspaper uniting the marines.
I then taught journalism at the Military University of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. I was assigned this task. Of course, all this was not very easy. Neither personnel, nor finances, nor editorial and publishing equipment supported this project. But, as they say, dashing trouble is the beginning. And we got into a fight. And off we go. There were no problems with the materials themselves. Veterans of the Marine Corps willingly shared their memories, publications came from the fleets and flotillas, and we ourselves wrote. The pre-press preparation of the first issues of the newspaper was first carried out in the editorial office of the Morskoy Sbornik magazine, then in the Voeninform of the General Staff. Our publication was printed in the printing house of the Babushkinsky Higher Border Military School. All this was without any agreements - on a friendly basis. The circulation was sent to the fleets through the Main Headquarters of the Navy.
From issue to issue, the newspaper gained volume and circulation. From four pages of the first issue, published in February 1995, by December of the same year, we had grown to thirty-two pages. Approximately in a year of release - there was also a color. Then the newspaper became a magazine and passed the appropriate legal registration. All this, of course, could not have been possible without stable financial support. Starting with the sixth issue of the newspaper, the money to pay mainly for the printing costs of the publication was allocated monthly by an entrepreneur, a former officer of the Marine Corps of the Black Sea Fleet, Viktor Tabachkov.
During the period of my editorship, about fifty issues of The Marine came out. And each of them is an event. As a result, the history of the Russian Marine Corps from pre-Petrine times to the present day was collected, summarized and conveyed to the reader, the sonorous motto "Where we are, there is victory!" Was born, bright, imaginative and, most importantly, honest journalism about everyday life, worries and problems of a modern marine! The unifying, collective and creative significance of the journal, I think, will be well said by the readers themselves. And I would just like in connection with the round date, first of all, to remember on this day the spiritual nurturer of our magazine, as well as the entire Russian marines as a whole, Metropolitan Pitirim of Volokolamsk and Yuryevsky. He was a man of the greatest spirit. Conversations with him, his instructions and words of support, I think, were real inexchangeable wealth for many of us, were the most important guidelines in that difficult time. I am sure that Vladyka Pitirim even now, from his otherworldly distances, is earnestly praying for the glorious Russian naval army, for each of us. Remembering those distant years, I would like to name the executive secretary with whom I was lucky enough to work on The Marine. This, now departed from us, . He did a lot for the design of the magazine. Thanks to his talent and diligence, the magazine acquired a modern look, the Marine Corps got an expressive logo, and the design of the publication simply changed. Alexander Burtsev was a great conversationalist, a true friend. , in my opinion, one of the strongest works about the modern army of the 70-80s of the last century, was published on the pages of the magazine.
A significant event in the literary life of both the magazine and the country as a whole, I also consider the publication in our magazine of a novel about the Afghan war, literary works by Sergei Belogurov "On the sidelines of the war", stories by Vyacheslav Degtev. In the works I mentioned, it was honestly and directly told about the fate of a man in uniform in our recent time. I would like to note that this, in addition to everything and everything else, was the first among many, many publications of our country, boldly and boldly done by our Marine.
What were those first four years of work on the magazine for me personally? I am sure that it was one of the most significant periods in my life. Now we can directly say that during the dashing nineties, the Russian Marine Corps, for the first time in almost three hundred years of history, found its own printed organ.
I wish our publication a long and fruitful journey to new victories of the spirit, to new heights of valor, courage and honor!
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first editor of the newspaper and magazine "Marine" from 1995 to 1998
FOUR-VOLUME FOR THE DAY OF THE MARINE INFANTS OF RUSSIA
Through the pages of The Marine
Prose writer Vadim Arefiev had a chance in 1995 to create and then edit a newspaper until 1998, and later on, the Marine Corps magazine. It was the first periodical publication of the Russian Marine Corps in its almost three hundred years of history.
Unfortunately, newspapers and magazines were scattered throughout the fleets and flotillas, and, in fact, only a single editorial file remained.
At the numerous requests of readers, the publishing house "Russian Writer" published all four books under the title "This was the beginning .... Through the pages of The Marine. These books include materials from newspapers and magazines "The Marine" from 1995 to 1998, and photo supplements from the editor's archive.
The publication is addressed to a wide range of readers, and above all to those who are interested in the fate and history of the Russian Marine Corps.
The first two books were presented to the marines of the Baltic Fleet who participated in the parade on Red Square on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory.
The full four-volume edition was published in November of this year - on the occasion of the Day of the Marine Corps of Russia.