Birthday of Russian Pipeline Troops
Description:
The high efficiency of the collapsible main pipelines was appreciated by the leadership of the Red Army.
During the war, the fuel service first gained experience in the deployment, long-term operation and curtailment of field main pipelines.
On November 22, 1951, Chairman of the Council of Ministers J.V. Stalin signed a decree on the manufacture of a prototype of a new generation pipeline. The Ministry of Defense of the USSR and the Ministry of Petroleum Industry were instructed to conduct its joint tests in the field.
On January 14, 1952, on the basis of the adopted resolution, the Minister of War of the USSR Marshal of the Soviet Union A. M. Vasilevsky signed a directive in which it was prescribed to form the first separate battalion for pumping fuel. The date of signing the directive was the birthday of the Pipeline Forces.
For several decades designers, engineers, soldiers-pipemakers, workers have created, developed and adopted various sets of field trunk pipelines that have no world analogues, machines for their installation and mobile means of pumping.