Federal Agency for Special Construction: characteristics, results of work, tasks, abolition

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:47

There is a slow but steady trend in government institutions towards consolidation, liquidation, transformation into something else. Such a fate did not bypass the Federal Agency for Special Construction (Spetsstroy Rossii). Let's look at its functions, characteristics, the very moment of the abolition of this organization.

What is the Federal Special Construction Agency?

This organization was a federal executive body operating in the field of defense and security of the Russian Federation. The direction of its activity is the organization of work in the field of road, special construction, communications. The latter were carried out by the forces of the road-building, technical, engineering military formations under his command.

The Federal Agency for Special Construction was subordinate to the Russian Ministry of Defense. And the President of the Russian Federation personally supervised its activities. The headquarters of the organization was located in Moscow, on the street. Bolotnikovskaya, 4B.

The position of the last director was occupied by AI Volosov. Today, Spetsstroy has been replaced by the Military Construction Complex of the Russian Armed Forces.

The main tasks of the organization

Let's highlight the main goals of the Federal Agency for Special Construction ("Spetsstroy"):

• Training both military personnel and civilian personnel to solve the problems of road and special construction, restoration and operation of a unified telecommunications structure of the Russian Federation.
• Ensuring, within the limits of its competence, the mobilization and combat readiness of military units.
• Construction and restoration of special facilities: mobilization (for the federal executive power), operational purpose in order to strengthen the defense complex on the territory of the Russian Federation.
• Cover, increase the stability of work, operation and restoration of a single telecommunication network to ensure the security of the state.
• Construction, overhaul in peacetime and wartime of defense roads, as well as public highways (while acting as a contractor).

• Restoration and technical cover of roads and railways of defense importance.
• Both reconstruction and construction of nuclear complex facilities, plants for the destruction of various types of installations of mass destruction and other critical units for the country.
• Construction of facilities that ensure the security of the Russian Federation, law and order.
• Construction of residential buildings and social infrastructure facilities for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, as well as other military formations, federal and subject authorities, local self-government, public entities.

Results of Spetsstroy activities

The work of the Federal Agency for Special Construction began on March 31, 1951. Then the Construction Department was created under the supervision of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs. In 1953, his duties were transferred to the Main Directorate of Special Construction.

1997-16-07 instead of the Soviet organization, by decree of B. N. Yeltsin, Rosspetsstroy was created, uniting a number of related organizations. In 2004, this institution was renamed the Federal Agency for Special Construction of Russia.

Let's look at the results of the organization's construction activities:

• Kaliningrad Mission Control Center.
• Khimki Energomash.
• Samara Progress.
• Hydroautomatics plant in Samara.
• Mechanical plant in Voronezh.
• Izhstal, Izhavto, Izhmash.
• Buildings of the Moscow Research Institute of Automatic Equipment, Television.
• OKB "Rainbow" in St. Petersburg.
• Objects of the Research Institute of Communications in Voronezh.
• The unique cycle track in Krylatskoye for the 1980 Olympics.
• 7 thousand km of roads, of which 5.6 thousand km are for general use.
• 266 bridges.
• 6, 6,000 culvert pipes, etc.

"Spetsstroy" were restored:

• Machine-building plant in Tushino.
• Experimental plant in Zhukovsky.
• "Arrow".
• "Salute".
• Zenith.
• "Banner of Labor".
• Aircraft factories in Voronezh and Saratov.
• Helicopter factories in Ukhtomsk and Moscow, etc.

Abolition of the organization

The document on the abolition of the Federal Agency for Special Construction was signed by V. V. Putin on December 26, 2016.

All functions of the organization were transferred to the Ministry of Defense. Most of the workers came under the jurisdiction of the Russian Armed Forces. The complete liquidation of Spetsstroy was completed on 2017-30-07.

Now you are aware of the glorious history of the Federal Agency for Special Construction. Although it has been abolished today, its functions are alive - they have been transferred to other departments.