Organizational and methodical activities, concerning training of subjects due to the training direction of the artillery officers in Lviv Institute of the Army, were commenced from September 2005 in accordance with the demands of governmental decision from 26.05.05 № 381 «About activities concerning optimization of the network of the higher military educational establishments...».
Therefore, the department of rocket and gun artillery was established in the Institute in November 2005, that provided the creation of the educational resources of the future faculty in a short time.
From April 25, 2006 on the base of the department, the faculty of rocket and gun artillery began to develop, which had in its staff:
- Department of combat application and control over field artillery subunits;
- Department of rocket troops;
- Department of artillery reconnaissance.
The first staff of the department of artillery reconnaissance was appointed with the following personnel:
- head of the department — lieutenant colonel Vyshnevskyi Y. V.;
- associate professor — candidate of military science, lieutenant colonel Krasiuk O. P.;
- teacher — captain Tymchuk Y. V.
- teacher — Ukrainian Armed Forces worker Marchenkov O. I.
- manager of the educational rooms — Ukrainian Armed Forces worker Nikolaieva O. Z.
- Laboratory assistant Ukrainian Armed Forces worker Ostapenko H. М.
- Laboratory assistant Ukrainian Armed Forces worker Kostiuk V. І.
From May to September 2006, the staff of the department arranged all conditions for training the specialists of artillery reconnaissance (direction of training— 010922 «Electromecanics», speciality — «Systems and instruments of artillery reconnaissance», specialization — «Exploitation of systems and instruments of artillery reconnaissance»), prepared the educational and methodical resources, created classrooms and trainers fund. In July-August of the same year the first admission of cadets was held.
The planned lessons were commenced at the department of the artillery reconnaissance from September 1, 2006.
During the period of its activity, the department created nine educational classes, six trainer classes of educational and training complex, scores of manuals, scientific articles, methodical films and computer programs, issued three textbooks with classification of Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. Nowadays more than fifty officers- artillery reconnaissance men, who professionally accomplish their tasks on different positions, were trained and coordinated to troops.
The department is proud of its graduating cadets who got the state awards for their high professionalism, personal courage and heroism in the course of Anti-terrorist operation in the east of our country:
- captain Stepan Vorobets — awarded with Order of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi of I class (posthumously);
- lieutenant Ivan Habchak — awarded with Order of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi of III class (posthumously);
- lieutenant Dmytro Sevostianychyk — awarded with Order of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi of III class (posthumously);
- first lieutenant Oleksandr Stelmakh — awarded with Order of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi of III class (posthumously);
- captain Tymur Asilharaiev — awarded with Order of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi of III class;
- first lieutenant Volodymyr Hiera — awarded with Order of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi of III class;
- first lieutenant Anton Pashkevych — awarded with Good Conduct Medal of III class;
- first lieutenant Petro Ostapchiuk —got the military rank «captain» advance in shedule.
Nowadays the department leads active scientific, pedagogical and research activity.