At the end of the 50s of the last century, the head of the country and the party, Nikita Khrushchev, took an extremely unpopular step among the military - a radical reduction in the fleet, aviation and ground forces in the interests of creating a new type of the USSR Armed Forces - the Strategic Missile Forces. Young blood represented by graduates of naval, aviation and combined arms military schools for 4 years, starting in 1958, poured into the Strategic Missile Forces.