The date of the celebration on October 22 was not accidental. On this day in 1918, the Order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the young Soviet Republic was signed on the establishment of the Financial Department. The approved Regulations on the Financial Department under the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic determined the structure and main tasks assigned to the newly formed body in the Armed Forces system.
As before, currently the main tasks of the Financial and Economic Service include timely financial support for the command and control bodies of the armed forces, as well as military formations.
Personnel replenishment of financial and economic service bodies is carried out thanks to the presence of special military educational institutions that train financier officers. The issue of replenishing the service with professional personnel was raised simultaneously with the release of the Order on the establishment of the Finance Department.
The path to establishing a system for training specialists for the financial and economic service of the armed forces was quite difficult. It began with the formation of special courses and schools of a military-economic profile, and ended with the creation of schools and an academy. The training of military financiers did not stop during the Great Patriotic War, and the invaluable experience of their wartime service formed the basis for the training of specialists in the post-war period. According to general estimates alone, more than half of the state budget passed through the military financial system during the war years. Many graduates of the military financial school also occupied command positions during the war.
Yaroslavl and Moscow have become traditional centers for training personnel for the financial and economic service of the armed forces. In the difficult years for our country in the 1990s, when there was a massive reduction in the armed forces, the abolition of benefits and subsidies for officers, and the disbandment of many military educational institutions, there was talk of the possible abolition of the Yaroslavl Higher Military Financial School. Then there were proposals to train military financiers on the basis of civilian universities. However, Prime Minister E.T., who visited the school. Gaidar abandoned this idea, highly appreciating the level of training of the school's officers.
For the first time this year, a celebration took place on October 22 Day of Financial and Economic Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The celebration took place at the Russian Army Theater. Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Tatyana Viktorovna Shevtsova addressed the financial service veterans and other meeting participants with a welcoming speech. In her speech, she noted that the list of significant dates of the country included the Day of Financial and Economic Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The signing of the Decree was preceded by a lot of painstaking work in which enthusiasts, historians, and service veterans took part. Thanks to their work, it was possible to reconsider and supplement the emergence and formation of army financial bodies. A new assessment of the role of military financiers in strengthening the country's defense capability. It was on October 22, 1918 that it was adopted by order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic.
For the first time in Armed Forces a legal document was issued on an independent financial body. This was due to the construction of a regular Army and the need for centralized financial support for personnel Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and its connections and parts at the expense of the state budget. In the years Civil War, the day before and during Great Patriotic War, in subsequent years, the financial service and financial support system were constantly improved along with changes in the combat composition of the Armed Forces and the tasks performed by the Army and Navy.
Today, the created system of financial support for troops provides sufficient transparency of cash flows, and allows us to solve the assigned tasks for the timely and complete satisfaction of formations, units and other military formations. The profession of a military financier has always been and remains prestigious and in demand.
It was noted that today in the hall there are participants of the Great Patriotic War, veterans of the financial and economic service of the Armed Forces. The army is strong in traditions. The current generation of financial workers remembers and honors the work of veterans, studies their works and appreciates everything. what they did for the Army.
The establishment of the Day of Financial and Economic Service is recognition of the contribution of military financiers to strengthening the defense capability of the country's Armed Forces, as well as a tribute to veterans who managed to build an effective financial support system for the Army. The modern generation of economists is capable of successfully solving the problems of financial support for the army in the difficult conditions of building and reforming the Russian Armed Forces.
The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General, delivered a congratulatory speech Shoigu Sergei Kozhugetovich, who noted the enormous importance of the financial service in the development and strengthening of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union and Russia. The issuance of the order of the RVS on the creation of a financial department in the Red Army was a consequence of the realization that there could be no Army without a financial body and financiers. And on this day, 97 years ago, the financial service was formed in the Armed Forces of the Republic.
Over the years of the existence of the financial service, a lot has been done to establish, develop and strengthen it. Many resolutions, decrees, and orders were adopted that, to one degree or another, affected every serviceman. It was especially noted that great difficulties arose in financial support during critical periods for the Army and Navy. This concerned the Great Patriotic War, when a unique system for supporting troops fighting on the fronts was created.
The Minister of Defense highly appreciated the activities of veterans of the financial service of the Armed Forces, who have done a lot of work to develop the service over many years. In the most difficult conditions, they did everything to ensure that the Army and Navy of the country did not need anything and were fully provided with everything they needed. Today's financiers face important challenges. In recent weeks alone, the Minister of Defense has reviewed many documents that affect the financial support of the troops. These include documents on providing support for Russian pilots performing combat missions in Syria, set by the President of Russia - Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Federation.
Veterans and employees of the financial and economic service were congratulated by students of the military lyceum and popular Russian pop artists, including the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Russian Aerospace Forces.
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Photo: Tatyana Shevtsova, Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation.
By decree of the President of Russia, the Day of the Financial and Economic Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation was added to the list of professional holidays and memorable days. According to the decree, military financiers will celebrate this holiday annually on October 22.
The appearance of the Decree was preceded by painstaking work with archival documents, thanks to which it was possible to supplement the history of the emergence and formation of army financial bodies, as well as to re-evaluate the contribution of military financiers to increasing the country's defense capability. It was on October 22, 1918, that by order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic (RVSR), for the first time in the history of the army and navy, a regulation on the financial department was adopted and a legal document on an independent financial body was put into effect. The issuance of this order was due to the fact that in connection with the abandonment of the volunteer principle of recruiting the Red Army and the transition to the construction of a regular army, it was necessary to abandon various extra-budgetary sources of financial support for volunteer detachments and organize financial support for regular units and formations entirely from the state budget .
The Financial Department under the RVSR was entrusted with providing the necessary loans to the fronts and individual armies and treasury services for the army. The financial department had to perform its functions in conditions of economic devastation and depreciation of money. During the Civil War, the functions of the Finance Department expanded in accordance with the situation. Thus, the department was entrusted with the management and management of all field treasuries, financial control and other functions. When forming the Financial Department under the RVSR and the Regulations on it, two fundamentally new circumstances were identified. First: it was established that the positions of financial workers were filled with commanding officers. Before this period, in the tsarist army, the financial authorities were staffed by military officials. In the post-revolutionary years, this was due to the need to subordinate the financing system to people who took the oath of allegiance to the new government on an equal basis with other representatives of the command staff. Second: the “integration” of the financial support system (as well as other support systems) into the regular organization of troops and command and control units and into their daily activities was determined. This was due to the special conditions of combat activity, the need to carry out tasks by troops in any situation and ensure their independence.
The financial service of the Red Army, under the leadership of the Financial Department under the RVSR, fulfilled its duties in 1918-1920, having accumulated a wealth of experience in mobile response to rapidly changing economic and military circumstances, and laid certain foundations for organizing financial support for the further improvement of the country's Armed Forces. During the period of construction of the Red Army from 1921 to 1941, the position of the financial service was strengthened. 1921-1936 was a period of self-service practice for troops, in which internal sources of financing were of great importance. And in the pre-war years, the troops switched to strict budget financing. In the 30s, with the increasing role of the financial service, all management systems were improved, Regulations on financial management were issued (1936, 1938, 1940), Regulations on financial control (1936 and April 4, 1941), Regulations on monetary allowances for military personnel and pension provision, a special order on measures for the transition of the financial service to support troops in war conditions. When you read these documents, you understand that the basic approaches to organizing financial support for troops contained in them are still relevant today.
During the Great Patriotic War, along with the main task of uninterruptedly ensuring the combat activities of the troops, a very important task arose - to achieve, through the introduction of a strict economy regime, high efficiency in the use of military appropriations. The establishment of the Day of Financial and Economic Service can be considered state recognition of the contribution of military financiers and veterans of the Great Patriotic War to strengthening the country's defense capability, as well as a tribute to our veterans who managed to build an effective system for financing the army and navy, emphasized Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia Tatyana Shevtsova. - On October 22, we will have another reason to meet with our honored specialists, congratulate them, and remember those who are no longer with us. The modern generation of military financiers is determined to preserve and enhance the traditions of service accumulated over decades of worthy work in the interests of the state.” Military expenditures then accounted for 51 percent of the state budget, and the task was set: to save on everything.
During the Great Patriotic War, military financiers managed to create a mechanism that ensured the mobilization of the state's economic resources and the restructuring of its economy on a military footing, and to organize competent planning of budget expenditures. The key issue was ensuring uninterrupted financing of the needs of the front. Suffice it to say that more than half of all budget expenditures of the country passed through the financial system of the army and navy during that period! From the first days of the war, the procedure for financial planning and financing for wartime was put into effect. Quarterly planning of cash needs has given way to monthly planning. In accordance with wartime requirements, the structure of financial bodies at the military level was adjusted, in particular, financial departments were created within the fronts and armies. The “household” of the regiment chief of finance was extremely ascetic: a small metal box for storing money, a wooden box for financial documents, and a field bag with a money book and a control book. The organization of financing for the active army was carried out simultaneously with the establishment of their cash and settlement services. Field institutions of the State Bank were formed: offices in the fronts, branches in the armies, and cash offices in formations.
At the same time, significant amounts of funding fell on military supplies: up to a third of all expenses according to the estimate of the People's Commissariat of Defense. It is interesting that the quality of the work of military financiers in those years was also assessed by the level of non-cash payments. Family certificates were introduced for officers, subscriptions to government loans and contributions to defense funds were organized. Financial services specialists were also entrusted with the tasks of accounting for captured valuables and foreign currency, which were capitalized according to acts of commissions of military units. The quality of work of the financial service of the Red Army during the war years is eloquently evidenced by the memoirs of the then Minister of Finance Arseny Zverev: “Having large funds at its disposal, the Financial Directorate of the People's Commissariat of Defense had such reserves that even the Narkomfin did not have. But it never clung to them, but approached matters in a statesmanlike manner. In this regard, the contact between me and Khotenko (Head of the Financial Directorate of the People's Commissariat of Defense) was complete. If the People’s Commissariat of Finance encountered difficulties (and this naturally happened more than once during the war), I knew for sure that by contacting the Financial Directorate of the People’s Commissariat of Defense, I would find assistance.”
The contribution of military financiers to ensuring Victory was appreciated by the state. 95 percent of army and navy finance officers were awarded orders and medals. In the first post-war years, when the country directed colossal resources to restore the national economy destroyed by the war, the army and navy were given the task of developing and using the economic capabilities of the Armed Forces. Hence the accelerated development of various areas of the economy of the Armed Forces (construction, industrial and agricultural production, military trade, internal affairs of troops, etc.) and, accordingly, the strengthening of the role of the financial service of the Ministry of Defense and its gradual transformation into a financial and economic one.
During the Cold War, when the reform of the Armed Forces was carried out in the direction of strengthening the nuclear missile component, the size of the army and navy was increased to almost five million people, which entailed the inevitable development of the uninhabited northern, eastern and southern territories. These circumstances put the troops in conditions that required the development of their own internal economy, independent support services, incl. and financial. This also led to the widespread development of a network of field banks.
The financial support system of the Armed Forces was improved along with changes in its combat strength, military and social infrastructure. The troops must be engaged in solving their main task - achieving high combat readiness. Therefore, today all functions of material and financial support have been removed from the combat echelon and concentrated in territorial bodies. This solves not only the problem of increasing the mobility and combat readiness of troops, but also the possibility of the most effective use of human resources, the introduction of modern analysis tools, technical innovations and, of course, saving financial resources.
Such a system of financial support for troops (forces) has already shown its advantages and corresponds to the chosen strategy for building the Russian Armed Forces. Today, the financial support system is based on the territorial-sectoral principle. Financial support for military units and organizations of the Armed Forces is carried out through territorial financial bodies and sectoral managers: these are military educational and scientific centers and leading military medical institutions, which have their own financial bodies.
The levels of delivery of budget funds to recipients and participants in the budget process have been optimized, and the principle of operational subordination of the heads of territorial financial bodies to the commanders of military districts has been implemented. At the same time, tasks related to financial support of units are excluded from the responsibilities of commanders.
Settlements with military personnel have been transferred to the Unified Settlement Center of the Russian Ministry of Defense. The created system of financial support for troops (forces) ensures transparency of financial flows and makes it possible to solve problems of timely and complete financing of military formations in various conditions, including when solving unexpected problems. In response to threats and challenges to its security, Russia has launched a large-scale modernization of its Armed Forces.
Objectively, this is a long-term and very expensive process. And the national security of the Russian Federation directly depends on how effectively the federal budget funds are spent. In turn, a high level of military security, by the very fact of its existence, guarantees the stability of the economic system, the security of investments in the Russian economy and people’s confidence in the future.
Monument to military financiers / Photo: Press service of the Russian Defense Ministry
October 22 marks its professional holiday f financial and economic service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. It was established as an official holiday by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 437 of August 24, 2015.
The date of the celebration on October 22 was not accidental. On this day in 1918, the Order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the young Soviet Republic was signed on the establishment of the Financial Department. The approved Regulations on the Financial Department under the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic determined the structure and main tasks assigned to the newly formed body in the Armed Forces system.
Department of Financial Support of the Russian Ministry of Defense / Image:structure.mil.ru
As before, currently the main tasks of the Financial and Economic Service include timely financial support for the command and control bodies of the armed forces, as well as military formations.
Personnel replenishment of financial and economic service bodies is carried out thanks to the presence of special military educational institutions that train financier officers. The issue of replenishing the service with professional personnel was raised simultaneously with the release of the Order on the establishment of the Finance Department.
The path to establishing a system for training specialists for the financial and economic service of the armed forces was quite difficult. It began with the formation of special courses and schools of a military-economic profile, and ended with the creation of schools and an academy. The training of military financiers did not stop during the Great Patriotic War, and the invaluable experience of their wartime service formed the basis for the training of specialists in the post-war period. According to general estimates alone, more than half of the state budget passed through the military financial system during the war years. Many graduates of the military financial school also occupied command positions during the war.
Yaroslavl and Moscow have become traditional centers for training personnel for the financial and economic service of the armed forces. In the difficult years for our country in the 1990s, when there was a massive reduction in the armed forces, the abolition of benefits and subsidies for officers, and the disbandment of many military educational institutions, there was talk of the possible abolition of the Yaroslavl Higher Military Financial School. Then there were proposals to train military financiers on the basis of civilian universities. However, Prime Minister E.T., who visited the school. Gaidar abandoned this idea, highly appreciating the level of training of the school's officers.
In 2018, the financial and economic service of the Russian Armed Forces will celebrate its 100th anniversary.
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