Adopting these guns, our field artillery will have an undeniable superiority over the artilleries of other states." On state of domestic artillery before Russian-Turkish War of 1877-1878
The article is devoted to the creation of the first samples of rifled artillery in the Russian Army, development of the organisational forms of the domestic artillery in the 60-70s of the XIX century, problems of its combat employment on the eve of the Russian-Turkish War of 1877-1878.