Miniz about that to say, 1 about the destruction of this miner company to carry out according to Her Tiperatorskal “Majesty’s decree, & drink the mentioned grain list in a message at this memorial.” (See Appendix U).
Genuine subtitled:
in bi eg.
Ivanz Wiko'skoy. Secret? Tvan Zapreiky. Ka "target @edor at 16 August Sokolov.
1727 yuda.
From the message sent by Gen. From the list of names you can see that the mining company at that time was not fully equipped: 2 officers and 3 lower ranks were missing. The company was stationed mainly in St. Petersburg, and from its composition there were: in K!ev - 7, in Vyborg - 5, in Rig5 - 4 and in Moscow 1 person. All the ranks of the Mineral Company were Russian; there were no foreigners in it at that time. General Minich began his administration by defining quite clearly the responsibilities of himself, as well as the engineering corps, in the first year, issuing a special instruction for this task entitled “Points to compose instructions for the chief director from Oortieikaschi, as the Head of the Engineering Corps and the Mineral Company that belongs to that.” (See Attached! UG 1.
The above-mentioned instruction established that only the chief director “should be in charge of the Engineering Corps and the Mineral Plant”; his responsibility lay with: recruitment, production, appointment to positions and management of training of all ranks. It also indicated what should be taught. The engineering corps was supposed to study: the construction, attack and defense of fortresses, as well as the construction of military buildings, bridges and locks; The mining company was trained to conduct glanding operations and mine galleries, construct landmines and explosions under all parts of the fortress fence. The chief director was obliged to: monitor the training in “Engineering Sciences” in the army regiments, for which conductors were sent there; monitor the good condition and construction of all fortresses and, being with the active army, personally supervise the work of attack and defense of the fortresses. The mass of files on the Engineering Department preserved in our archives from the time of General Minich leads us to the conclusion that the instructions he issued were only a summary of those cases that were the subject of his careful attention, especially if we remember that the institutions of the late Great Sovereign were only at the beginning
1) Art. Archive. Vacation book from Gen. von Minich, etc. No. 74 p. 14.
of your existence; In my opinion, the branches of the Engineering Department did not come into force, and every new case in the affairs of this department required the establishment of a new law or decree. To this it must be added that the entire organization of the engineering department, according to the system that Peter I had in mind when establishing engineers in Russia, rested on only two persons truly devoted to engineering and worthy representatives of it: Minikh and de Coulomb. |
General Minich, together with General de-Coulomb!) was instructed to review the project on the maintenance of the Engineering Corps and the Mineral Company, drawn up by de-Coulomb and submitted to the Military College on May 22, 1726.
1728 Based on a report compiled by General Munnich on the maintenance of the Engineering Troops, on Pyun 3, 1728, the next command was announced by the Highest 2). (See Appendix UP).
1) Destroy the division of engineers into field and garrison 3), dividing them into three parts (the Ostsee, Rose and Persian fortresses 5). And if there is a need for engineers with the troops, send them from fortresses located in the vicinity of military operations. Engineers sent to the troops were assigned, among other things, responsibilities that currently constitute the direct specialty of the Field Engineering Troops. This serves as the best proof that even then there was a shortage of Field Engineering Officers.
In addition, some Engineers stationed with the troops were assigned the duties of current officers of the General Staff.
2) To carry out work on the Engineering part, it was ordered to establish a separate Fortification or Engineering part from the Artillery part. office—“Office of the Engineering Board” 4%). Head of the office
1) P.S. Zak. Ross. Imi., vol. UP, No. 5277.
2) This is how General Minich wrote in his report: “And with such a dangerous and wickedly difficult Engineering service, it is necessary to import very skilled and willing and hardworking people who, for a small salary, will not only be supported in this service, but will also be difficult to find; for this reason, in my opinion, they should be, both the field Engineering Corps and “Whoa, at the capital posts, the headquarters and chief officers with other servants will be maintained on equal salary.”