Finances do not tolerate fuss. This is what you remember immediately, as soon as you get to the Military University of Finance and Economics. The mighty columns of the building, decorated with stucco at the top, reliably support the high vaults of the ceiling, creating a sense of thoroughness and reliability for every visitor to this unique military educational institution, from the walls of which, by the way, more than 100 generals came out. It probably can't be any other way - here in the classrooms, the future elite of the financial and economic service of the Russian Army of the XXI century is diligently studying textbooks and notes, "heating up" computers-an army with developed economic incentives for recruiting, influencing the quality and effectiveness of military labor. The university is headed by Associate Professor Colonel Alexey Orlov, for whom the training of personnel in the financial and economic service has become a life's work. Alexey Ivanovich was born in a working-class family in Kasimov, Ryazan Region, a year after the end of the Great Patriotic War. There he graduated from the school and the local industrial technical school with a degree in "ferrous and non - ferrous metal production technician". He was assigned to a machine-building plant in the village of Nekrasovskoye, Yaroslavl region, where he began his career as a master of the foundry. Soon, the young specialist was noticed and sent to a site with a higher measure of responsibility - he began working as a process engineer. And this is at the age of 18! It's time to join the army. Alexey was summoned by the military commissar of the district and offered to enter a military school. Yaroslavl Financial District. And soon he became a cadet. For 33 years, I have served in various parts of the country and abroad. And during all this time, he never regretted the path of a financial officer chosen in 1965. No matter how hard it was when he was a lieutenant and no matter how difficult it was fo ... Read more