• Military

• WMD Menu                           

• Introduction
• Systems
• Facilities
• Agencies
• Operations
• Countries
• Hot Documents
• News
• Reports
• Policy
• Budget
• Congress
• Links

• Intelligence
• Homeland Security
• Space

Orsk, Orenburg

August 15, 1735 (according to the old style) near the mouth of the River Ory was laid the first Orenburg (Orskaya) fortress. About this event, the head of the Orenburg expedition, IK. Kirilov, in his report to the Senate, reported: "August 15 Orenburg fortress with the citadel on Mount Preobrazhenskaya is laid, and work with haste follows." The mountain was named Preobrazhenskaya in honor of the arrival of the expedition to the mouth of the River Ory on August 6, the day of the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord. On August 30, a soldier's command was put into the fortress, and on the morning of the 31st they established artillery.

On the 31st of August, solemnly with a magnificent ceremony after the prayer service, a "real Orenburg about nine bastions in the situation of the place was regularly laid down at Yaik and the mouth of Orsk on a regular basis when it was fired three times out of thirty-one cannons with green and blue stone and left without work until next year". The city of Orenburg was laid about 1.5 km. from the first fortress, closer to the mouth of the river Or. But the following year the construction of the city was prevented by the growing uprising in Bashkortostan, and soon on April 14, 1737, IK died. Kirilov - the initiator of the construction of the city of Orenburg in this place.

The newly appointed head of the Orenburg commission VN. Tatishchev arrived in Orenburg in the summer of 1738 and found the fortress "in a terrible state ... It was braided and a ditch about a half yard in diameter, but it was 50 meters thick and there was no moat, so in the winter the wolves ate horses in the city." Immediately, measures were taken, and the fortress was "regular earth work and a moat that was firmed."

After the Civil War (1918-1921), Orsk was the center of the average agricultural sector in the economy. In 1923, the city's population was 14,000 people. The history of the New City of Orsk began in 1932, when the government commission on the left bank of the Elshanka River selected sites for the placement of industrial enterprises

In the years of the 2 nd and 3 rd five-year plans, residential housing projects appear in the immediate vicinity of industrial building projects. In the pre-war period, the structure of the city was dispersed in form, the parts of which were arbitrarily combined only with a linearly branched car and railways.

The process especially intensified during the Great Patriotic War, when a large number of industrial enterprises and tens of thousands of people were evacuated to Orsk from the occupied territories. At this time, housing construction developed mainly through temporary low-rise construction in close proximity to industrial sites of enterprises. By 1945, 59 percent of housing in the city consisted of dugouts, barracks and adobe houses. By 1946, the city's population had grown to 122,000 (in 1939 - 66,000 people).

In the post-war period, the territory of the New City begins to grow most rapidly with the capital's high-rise residential and public buildings. It was at this time (1947-1960) that the architectural appearance of the central part of the New City, its main streets: Lenin Avenue (to Neftyanikov Street) and the streets adjoining on both sides.

On January 22, 1971 Orsk, by the Decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor for the successes achieved in the implementation of the 8th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Industrial Production.

Voronezh High Depot Readiness (HDR)

Since August 2013, construction work has been carried out to create an equipped technical position for the placement of the technological equipment of the Voronezh-M high-availability radar in the Orenburg region.

On 13 August 2013, a ceremony of laying a memorial capsule in the foundation of a new radar station "Voronezh-M" of a missile attack warning system was held, as construction began in Orsk, Orenburg Region. As stated in the press release of the Press Service and Information Department of the Defense Ministry, the ceremony was attended by representatives of the command of the Air Space Defense Troops (EKO), the leadership of RTI and Novorossiysk District. The high-availability readiness radar (VZG) of Voronezh-M in the Orenburg region will be included in the missile attack warning system (ERW), which is in service with the EKO troops. At present, 4 new generation radars are deployed on the territory of the Russian Federation. The combat watch is carried by the Voronezh-DM VZR radar in the Krasnodar Territory and the Voronezh-M radar station in the Leningrad Region.

At present, the creation of a high-availability radar station is carried out within the deadlines set by schedule. I stage on the creation of the technological position of the radar station of high factory readiness in the Krasnoyarsk Territory made it possible to conduct a timely installation of the technological building and antenna system and Delia, and construction work on the technological position of high operational readiness of radar in the Altai region provided beginning with the installation of metal products in October 2013.

Timely completion of installation and commissioning works and positive test results on these radars of high factory readiness will allow to ensure their creation by 2017. We gradually switch to the dislocation of our funds only in the territory of Russia and we are completing the creation of a continuous radar field of a ground level warning of a missile attack, this work we plan to complete by 2018. "- said in an interview with RIA Novosti news agency, the commander of the East Kazakhstan region, Major-General Alexander Golovko.