Higher Officers' Artillery Staff School during the Great Patriotic War

Objective of the study — to analyze the training of staff officers for the Red Army artillery during the Great Patriotic War, as well as the training system, areas of training, studied disciplines and quantitative indicators of trained officers. The relevance of the topic is due to the insufficient coverage of the historical facts related to the activities of the VOASHSh KA from 1943 to May 1945. Research methods: analytical, scientific, cause-and-effect, historical-systemic. Key findings: the formation and development of the Higher Officer Artillery Staff School and its activities during the war were of key importance in solving the problem of training highly qualified officers for the artillery headquarters of the Red Army at various levels. It is positive that the school, while creatively generalizing the combat experience of the war, highlighted all the best in the activities of staff work at the fronts and introduced it into the educational process, and later, through its students, introduced it into the practice of the headquarters of many other artillery units and formations. In this way, a unity of views was established, and uniform and most rational forms and methods of work of artillery staffs were developed. All this indicates that the organization of a special staff school was a necessary and very significant measure for solving the problem of training staff personnel, taking into account the development of forms and methods of combat use of the Red Army artillery at each stage of the Great Patriotic War.