In its development, the Signal Troops has come a long and difficult process that is inextricably linked with the history of the Armed Forces, the changes in the forms and methods of their use and the improvement of military art.

From simple audio and visual means of communication for the transmission of signals and commands on the battlefield to widely branched multi-channel, advanced automated systems that can provide a link of virtually unlimited range of both stationary and moving objects on the ground, in the water, under the water and in the air, this is the historical path of development and improvement of military communications.

The main developing direction of the Signal Communications Troops is equipping the Land Force with means and complexes of signal communications, as well as automated systems for control of troops and weapons, providing steady, continuous, rapid and secretive control over associations, formations and subdivisions in peacetime, period of threat and during conducting hostilities under the toughest physical-geographic and climatic conditions.

Due to the spatial scale of hostilities, the communication problem in the military in the 19th century acquired great importance.

In the Imperial Russian Army the first attempts to introduce the telegraph took place during the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878, and it brought along with it enormous benefit in the management of troops, they have led to greater use of means of communication.

After the October Revolution and as the Russian Civil War had dawned in 1918, the Red Army officially reorganized the Russian Signals Corps, and October 20, 1919 they were officially recognized as special troops, as signals units distinguished themselves in action during the Civil War days.

On 23 July 1941, to help address these problems, Colonel Ivan Peresypkin was appointed as Chief of Signals Forces on the order of the People's Commissariat for Defence.

Also in 1946, the Osnaz formations that carried out radio reconnaissance were returned from the structure of the NKVD-NKGB to the subordination of the War Ministry.

Peresypkin set the task of starting work on the preparation of the first post-war weapons system for military communications.

Portable ultrashortwave radio stations were created, which provided non-search and non-tuning communications at the tactical control level.

Increased requirements for communication systems and channels began to appear in terms of their stability, noise immunity, secrecy and timeliness in the transmission of information.