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Photo: Key personnel of PF Communications Service.
Pacific Fleet (PF) 140th Communications Center will celebrate 75th anniversary on Aug 6. This is the first communications unit which saw Pacific Fleet's origination.
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Pacific Fleet's oldest communications unit celebrates jubilee
04.08.2011
Through such short period, the fleet's comm personnel have passed glorious and hard path.
They first saw fire at Khasan Lake, then were roads and battlefields of WW2 within marine brigades. Pacific Fleet sailors heard last echoes of WW2 at the Far East. Courage and heroism of the fleet's signalmen were so outstanding that Supreme Commander ordered to reward everyone.
In the post-war period communications center gradually developed. Since the fleet got nuclear power and missiles, data transfer methods were improved too. Information exchange between Kamchatka and Vladivostok became a matter of seconds.
Today 140th Communications Center headed by Lt. Col. Sergei Laukhin comprises 15 units (about 1 000 men) which connect PF Command with all units located in various regions of Russia. But people with their high professionalism and commitment have been always the main thing here. Among them are Capt. Lt. Yevgeny Pykov, Capt. Lt. Alexander Lenkov, Snr. Lt. Alexander Bereziuk, WO Roman Sitikishev, Tatiana Smirnova and many others.
Chairman of Vladivostok Veteran Council Yakov Kan who formerly served in the comm center will also celebrate this jubilee. Having spent many years in this unit, he is always glad to notice intergenerational continuity and solicitous attitude to the memory of predecessors. The center's personnel have created communications museum which reflects the whole history of the unit. One cannot find such showpieces even in famous museums. Not only photographs and unique comm facilities are collected here but the first telephone received the call about beginning of the Great Patriotic War.
"In the recent decade our communications center is being regularly re-equipped with advanced digital automation systems. This has significantly increased effectiveness of control and makes communications more reliable and continuous", says the center's commanding officer Lt. Col. Sergei Laukhin.
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