The development of the modern patriotic movement The role of military-historical reconstruction in the patriotic education of youth. Socio-pedagogical foundations of the activities of military commissariats to improve the pre-conscription training of youth mukhamadeev

The army begins with the draft board. Reuters photo

During the entire period of the existence of the military commissariats, almost the entire male population and part of the female population of our country, to one degree or another, were necessarily associated with them.

CONNECTING THE ARMY WITH THE PEOPLE

In terms of the volume and specifics of the tasks performed, the military commissariats are a unique body of military control on the ground not only in Russia, but also in the world. It is through them that invisible threads pass that connect the army with the people, the army of today begins with them and the army of the future is born. For many Russians, the military commissariats are a symbol, a living history of the fact that the power of the army comes from the efforts of the whole people.

The military commissariat is a territorial body of the Ministry of Defense in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, which is the main source of military accounting of human resources intended for manning the Armed Forces, other troops, military formations, bodies and special formations of Russia in peacetime and wartime.

Decades fly by, the state changes, but the solution of the tasks of ensuring the security of our country by the military commissariats remains practically unchanged. At the same time, the rapidly changing political situation in the world today dictates the introduction of new priority areas, which can make adjustments to all spheres of life of these unique structures.

For many years, military registration and enlistment offices, in cooperation with local executive authorities, have been developing plans for the mobilization of human and transport resources for wartime, organizing military registration, conscription of citizens for military service, booking workers and employees for enterprises in the interests of the Armed Forces and other law enforcement agencies.

THE MAIN THING IS WORKING WITH RECRUITES

From the origins of the creation of military commissariats, it was believed that military mobilization activity is a phenomenon of a grand strategy, on which the fate of the state depends. And the number of military-trained reserves, the possibility of replenishing the Armed Forces during the war and the formation of new formations and units directly depend on the clarity and coherence of the work of these structures.

In the near future, a mechanism for the stay of citizens in the mobilization human reserve will be launched in the military commissariats. (Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 933 “Regulations on the procedure for the stay of citizens in the mobilization human reserve.”) This is a completely new structure for our state for the voluntary entry of reserve troops into the reserve army, which will significantly increase the volume of work of the military registration and enlistment office with military formations and units for their staffing with the specified contingent.

A huge amount of work is being done today by the military registration and enlistment offices for registering citizens who took part in hostilities to defend the Fatherland in zones of armed conflicts, as well as those who participated in the aftermath of accidents and natural disasters. Servicemen who have lost their ability to work during military service on conscription are registered, and relevant documents are drawn up to help them solve social and domestic issues. Documents are being prepared, and the presentation of awards to reserve servicemen and front-line soldiers is organized. Employees of the military registration and enlistment office participate in the perpetuation of the memory of those who died in the defense of the Fatherland, put in order the places of military burials. Provide pensions to citizens discharged from military service and their family members, family members of dead (deceased) servicemen, assign pensions, allowances to these persons, provide compensation and make other payments provided for by current legislation.

Certification of citizens in the reserve is constantly carried out for conferring on them the first and next military ranks of an officer.

Despite the created recruitment points under the contract, the main work on providing the troops with this category of servicemen in practice continues to be carried out by military registration and enlistment offices.

However, a special place in their work today is occupied by the organization and conduct of the conscription of citizens for military service. It is here that cooperation with all bodies, institutions and public organizations that participate in this work in one way or another is especially fruitful. It is here that the inculcation of legal awareness among young people, the steadfastness of their compliance with the current legislation on defense issues, as well as the constant work to increase the prestige of military service among them, are priority areas for the work of military registration and enlistment offices. It is here that the young man really learns the basics of legal education - his rights and obligations to the state.

Thanks to the steps taken in recent years to improve the pre-conscription training of young men for military service, the military registration and enlistment offices ensured guaranteed, high-quality staffing of the Armed Forces and other troops with physically, morally and psychologically prepared recruits with a positive motivation for military service.

The military commissariat is one of the coordinators of preparing young people for military service in the country at the level of district and subject levels. It is he who, together with local authorities on the ground, is carrying out purposeful work to form devotion to the Motherland and readiness for its defense among pre-conscription and draft youth. He takes an active part in promoting a healthy lifestyle and sports events.

PATRIOTS ARE NOT BORN

The patriotic education of the younger generation is a long-term program, and real patriotism is impossible without a certain ideology and constant information support. The state needs to invest money in it, since this is one of the main tasks of any country that wants to educate a new generation capable of fulfilling and defending all the leading directions of its development in the future.

It is today, in the context of information confrontation and propaganda attacks by our “liberal well-wishers” on negative coverage of patriotic and military-patriotic topics in relation to the younger generation in our country, that there is a need to adopt new forms of competitive struggle against them.

After all, the maintenance and dissemination of negativity on these issues continues by the actions of a number of human rights organizations and public associations, as well as some radio and television channels. On various sites on the Internet, original information cocktails are published, consisting of distorted and unverified facts, as well as outright lies on the issues of the military development of the state.

That is why, in order to cover (bring) military and military-patriotic topics to the majority of Russian youth, in my opinion, it is necessary to take urgent measures to attract Internet resources for the systematic work of military registration and enlistment offices in a constantly changing information field.

First of all, this refers to the widespread use of social networks in working with young people, which today are an integral part of their lives. At present, it is easier and more convenient to convey information to them via the Internet, rather than by phone or through parents. The print media today is not very popular among them, since young men read newspapers to a lesser extent, and more often use Internet resources to obtain various information. In this space, it is necessary to create an atmosphere of a modern informational dialogue with young people in order to organize targeted work to counteract deliberately negative and false information on military topics and to distort historical events in the life of our state.

We need to be constantly ready for obligatory explanations of the real position of the Ministry of Defense on various publications, regularly post information materials on various sites most visited by young people that help increase the prestige and attractiveness of military service by conscription and contract. And it should have been done yesterday.

In social networks, it is necessary to change the current situation, in which any positive coverage of the military-patriotic topic causes a flurry of negative statements on behalf of coded “truth-mongers”. Such information confrontation takes place in almost all subjects of the Russian Federation, especially in metropolitan cities. That is why one of the steps to actually counteract the emerging negative information can be the organization of the systemic work of military commissariats in social networks as a structure that is closest and most understandable to the absolute majority of pre-conscription and conscription youth.

A general model for creating such a system in the military commissariats of the subjects can be created taking into account the population in the region of 3-5 people.

This group will need to constantly post photo and video materials on social networks covering the work of the military registration and enlistment office for such events as conscript days, five-day student gatherings, the learning process at DOSAAF, the process of sending conscripts to the assembly point and to the troops, as well as the work of various patriotic public associations. Arrange thematic discussions on the most significant historical dates of the country. In addition, it is also possible to publish lists by districts of those citizens who for a long time do not come to the military enlistment office on calls (deviators). Also organize meetings of citizens discharged from military service in social networks in order for them to share their impressions of their military service with pre-conscripts. Invite recruits and their parents to the group. Such measures will significantly expand the circle of communication between the military enlistment office and the draft contingent, will allow the army to form the public opinion necessary for the army on the attractiveness of army service not only by conscription, but also by contract, and will provide significant assistance to young men in their decision to enter military schools.

It is the involvement of the Internet resource today that can be used in military registration and enlistment offices with the greatest benefit to create a stable positive image of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, and such communication will significantly reduce the correspondence of the military registration and enlistment office, reducing the number of complaints and statements.

In addition, the military commissariat will become a real conductor of the ideas of building a modern army among the population of the country, especially among young people, bringing them information from primary sources through social networks.

Chapter I. Historiography and characteristics of the sources of the problem.

§ 1. Historiography of the problem.

§ 2. Characteristics of the source base of the study.

Chapter II. Formation and development of domestic military museums as cultural and educational institutions in the period from 1918 to 1991

§ 1. Military museums in the system of education of military personnel.

§ 2. Creation and development of the legal foundations of military museums.

§ 3. Activities of state and military administration bodies to improve the organizational structure of the military museum network.

Chapter III. Cultural and educational work of military museums in the period under study.

§ 1. Activity of military museums on excursion service of visitors.

§ 2. Stationary and mobile exhibitions as a form of cultural and educational work of military museums.

§ 3. Organization of social-mass and search work.

Chapter IV. Popularization and publishing work of military museums in the period from 1918 to 1991.

§ 1. The work of military museums to promote their funds and collections.

§ 2. The role of the publishing work of military museums in the cultural service of military personnel.

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Introduction to the thesis (part of the abstract) on the topic "Military museums and their role in cultural and educational work with military personnel: 1918-1991"

At present, state and military authorities face a serious task - strengthening the moral and psychological state of the personnel of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The practice of educational work has developed many directions, forms and methods for its solution, however, skillful and professional use of the possibilities of the centuries-old culture of the country, the armed forces, especially its material component, stands apart. The material component of culture is a set of tangible objects that express the uniqueness and originality of a particular culture that has existed in human history. These can be tools, samples of household utensils, clothing, architectural structures and, importantly for a military audience, items of military activity. Already at the dawn of their history, people began to collect and pass on to their descendants the most significant and valuable objects of material culture, which served as the basis for the continuity of the traditions of a particular people. To ensure the safety of objects, the possibility of displaying them, special premises began to be created, which later became known as museums. With the development of civilization, museum work improved, acquired new features and began to develop in certain directions. This is how historical museums appeared that specialize in collecting, studying and displaying various objects of the history of a particular state, art museums that collect and promote art objects, technical museums that tell about the development of technology, etc. A special place among them began to be occupied by museums that collected and stored objects of the "material history" of the military practice of mankind.

The history of the creation, formation, development and functioning of domestic military museums testifies to the fact that they carried and carry a huge educational and cultural potential aimed at instilling in the Russian army a feeling of love for their homeland, the armed forces, devotion to the best military traditions.

The study of the historical experience of the activities of domestic military museums at various stages of its development will expand the practical possibilities in organizing the leisure of military personnel, will contribute to the education of personnel on the examples of the heroic past of our Motherland.

One of the most significant periods in the development of domestic military museums was the period from 1918 to 1991. At this stage, the military museum network was practically re-created by the state and military authorities, legal documents were developed that formed the basis of its work.

The activities of military museums in the Soviet period have repeatedly passed the test of time. The events of the Civil War and foreign military intervention, the interwar period, the Great Patriotic War, the post-war period, the period of the 1960s and early 1980s, perestroika showed that the work of preserving, accumulating and using objects of military history in educational and cultural and educational work with military personnel was quite effective. In this regard, for military historians it is of particular interest to study the experience of the functioning of domestic military museums in the Soviet period, the activities of cultural services for military personnel and their families, which can be in demand in the practice of educational work and socio-cultural activities in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

The relevance of the study of this problem is determined by the following circumstances.

Firstly, its insufficient development, the absence of major generalizing scientific works on this topic, revealing the activities of domestic military museums in 1918-1991. and their role in cultural and educational work with military personnel.

Secondly, the study of the activities of military museums during this period meets the requirements of the State Program "Patriotic Education of Citizens of the Russian Federation for 2006-2010", orders of the Minister of Defense

RF No. 265 of June 10, 2001 "On military history work in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation" and No. 79 of February 28, 2005 "On the improvement of educational work in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation."

Order No. 265 dated June 10*, 2001, in particular, states: “The use of military historical knowledge in the education of military personnel is carried out in order to develop their abilities to realize and deeply understand their military duty and personal responsibility for defending the Fatherland. It is carried out within the framework of the performance of official duties by the relevant commanders (chiefs) together with the educational work of the Armed Forces in the course of studying the military history of the Fatherland in the system of public and state training, as well as carrying out activities to promote it by popularizing the heroic deeds of Russian soldiers, the activities of outstanding commanders and warlords" 1.

Historical items in the funds and expositions of military museums are the material basis for conducting military history work and contribute to a more substantive formation of patriotism among Russian soldiers.

Order No. 79 dated February 28, 2005 notes that cultural and leisure activities are part of the complex of educational work organized by the RF Armed Forces. One of the forms of cultural and leisure activities is visiting museums by military personnel on weekends and holidays.

In addition, the order contains a provision that commanders of all levels must take measures to develop and update the expositions of military museums, museum-type formations, rooms of military glory. Appropriate councils must be elected for their effective operation2.

In order to put these provisions into practice, it is necessary to closely study the relevant experience of the activities of the military administration bodies, the military museum network, accumulated in the period from 1918 to 1991.

1 See: Order of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation No. 265 dated June 10, 2001 “On Military Historical Work in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”. - M., 2001. - S. 3-4.

2 See: Order of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation No. 79 dated February 28, 2005 “On the improvement of educational work in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”. - M., 2005. - S. 15-16.

Thirdly, by increasing the role of military museums in the upbringing, education and cultural services for servicemen and their families.

Fourthly, the need to improve the activities of state and military administration bodies, educational structures in the field of cultural services for the personnel of the Russian Armed Forces based on the experience accumulated by domestic military museums.

Fifthly, the growing attention of the public to the objects of material culture of military activity and everyday life of the domestic armed forces, stored in military museums, and the possibility of their use in the patriotic education of the younger generation.

The relevance, insufficient degree of development of the problem determined the choice of the topic, determined the object, subject, scientific problem, chronological framework, purpose and objectives of this dissertation research.

The object of the study is domestic military museums in the period 1918-1991. The author considers it necessary to note that under military museums only those institutions that were under the jurisdiction of the military department will be considered. Museums of other ministries, which kept, among others, objects of military activity and everyday life (culture, internal affairs, state security, etc.), were not included in the object of study.

The subject of the study is the activity of state and military administration bodies, museum management in the formation and development of a network of military museums, the organization of their cultural and educational work with military personnel in the period under review.

Substantiation of the chronological framework of the study.

The events of October 1917 marked the beginning of a new stage in the development of domestic statehood, which was associated with the coming to power of the Bolsheviks, who oriented the country towards building the world's first socialist state. For its armed protection, the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR on January 15 (28), 1918 adopted a decree on the creation of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army (RKKA), and on January 29 (February 11), 1918 - on the creation of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Fleet (RKKF) . From that moment on, the military museums of the Soviet Republic were focused on working with the military personnel of the Red Army and the Red Army.

On December 8, 1991, the heads of the republics of the Russian Federation, Ukraine and Belarus, in an agreement signed by them, announced the termination of the existence of the USSR and the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Along with the collapse of the Soviet Union, its Armed Forces and the military museum network ceased to exist, the activities of which, first of all, were aimed at the education and cultural service of the military personnel of the Soviet army and navy.

The scientific problem of the dissertation research is to comprehensively investigate and summarize the historical experience of the activities of state and military bodies, the museum guide to the formation and development of the network of military museums in the country, the organization of their work on the cultural service of military personnel in the period from 1918 to 1991, to identify characteristic features and trends, formulate scientific conclusions, historical lessons and practical recommendations.

The purpose of the work is to carry out a systematic and comprehensive study of the activities of state and military authorities, museum management on the creation and development of a network of military museums, the organization of their cultural and educational work with military personnel in the period under review, to draw scientifically based conclusions, to formulate historical lessons, practical recommendations and trends in the development of military museums in the Russian Federation.

To achieve this goal, the dissertation formulated the following main objectives of the study.

1. Assess the degree of development of the problem and characterize the source base of the study.

2. Determine the role of Soviet military museums in the education of military personnel, taking into account the previous experience of the military museum network of Imperial Russia.

3. To study the activities of state and military administration bodies in creating and improving the legal and organizational foundations of military museums in the period under review.

4. To reveal the work of military museums for the cultural service of the personnel of the army and navy in the period from 1918 to 1991.

5. To analyze the popularizing and publishing work of military museums in the period under study.

6. Make scientifically based conclusions, formulate historical lessons arising from the activities of domestic military museums in 1918-1991, practical recommendations for further study and use of the results of dissertation research, development trends of military museums in the Russian Federation.

The dissertation proposes the following research concept.

The revolutionary events of October 1917 and the creation in January 1918 of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army, and then the Workers' and Peasants' Red Fleet determined the new content of the activities of military museums and served as the starting point of the Soviet stage in the development of military museums.

During the years of the Civil War and foreign military intervention (1917-1920), the state and military authorities made efforts to preserve the rich historical and cultural heritage stored in military museums, as well as to create a fundamentally new military museum network, which should was to become at the service of education and cultural service of command and rank and file in the spirit of the new ideology.

In the interwar years (1921-June 1941) the foundations of the legal and organizational development of the Soviet military museum network were laid, the tasks and directions of its development were determined. During this period, the material base of the existing military museums was significantly strengthened, and the construction of new ones began. These processes took place under the control of the organs of the party, state and military administration.

Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 became a test of the strength of the established Soviet military museum network. The experience of military museums in solving the tasks assigned to them confirmed the correctness of the proposition that their role in the educational and cultural-educational work with soldiers of the army and navy was very significant.

The functioning of military museums in the USSR in the postwar years was closely linked to the need to collect and preserve documents and materials showing the greatness of the feat of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, the improvement of the legal and organizational structure, material and technical base, and the construction of new museums.

With the development of the country, the quantitative and qualitative changes in the Soviet Armed Forces, the organs of state and military administration adjusted the tasks of military museums in the field of education of soldiers. The main directions were the education of the personnel of high discipline, the desire to master weapons and military equipment, fidelity to the military oath, respect for their history and the heroic traditions of the Armed Forces.

Late 1980s-early 1990s were marked by turbulent processes that took place in national history. During this period, there were two trends in the development of military museums. On the one hand, the lifting of bans for ideological reasons, publicity, accessibility to previously unknown sources made it possible to expand the exposition complexes of military history museums, “saturate” them with new museum items.

On the other hand, the transition to market economic relations, the lack of proper attention from the state led to the fact that many military museums became unprofitable enterprises. The consequence of this was the deteriorating material fund, the departure of qualified employees, the leasing of their premises to commercial organizations, the transformation of military museums in some cases into warehouses, hostels, etc.

Military museums of the Soviet period carried out active cultural and educational work among military personnel and members of their families. It was aimed at promoting moral and aesthetic education, establishing glorious military traditions in military teams, raising the cultural level, and participating in the organization of full-fledged leisure for military personnel.

The generalized experience of the work of military museums of the Soviet period in the education and cultural services of military personnel can be used in the practice of the modern military museum network.

The structure of the dissertation includes an introduction, four chapters, a conclusion, a list of sources and references, and applications.

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Chapter Conclusions

In the period from 1918 to 1991, domestic military museums carried out popularization and publishing work, which to a large extent had an impact on the quality of cultural services for visitors.

Popularizing work focused on those people who had insufficient knowledge about a particular museum and its work. Its main goal was to provide primary information about the museum, its objects and collections and to attract as many visitors as possible to the museum halls. The publishing work, in turn, was aimed at a trained audience, which sought to obtain additional information about the museum and its activities. Its goal was to systematize, expand and deepen knowledge about various aspects of museum activities, exchange experience in museum work.

The first provisions concerning the conduct of popularization and publishing work by military museums were reflected in legal documents that regulated the activities of the military museum network in the 1920s-1930s.

The work of military museums to popularize their funds and collections in the 1920s-1930s. was quite specific and meaningful. A large place in it was given to the cooperation of museum teams with representatives of the media. This made it possible to expand the possibilities for information support of various activities of museums, cultural events.

Starting from the 1950s-1960s, military museums began to actively use the possibilities of cinema in their promotional work, which involved, firstly, cooperation with the country's central film studios in the production of information and educational products, and, secondly, the creation of these purposes own film studios.

An important event that influenced the expansion of the geography of the popularizing work of military museums was the entry of the USSR into

International Council of Museums (ICOM) in 1957. This made it possible to establish a mutual exchange of experience in this area with their foreign colleagues.

In the second half of the 1980s. changing political4 and socio-economic conditions have made changes in the work of military museums to popularize their objects and collections. This was expressed, on the one hand, in strengthening the technical base for its implementation, acquiring the right for museum groups to independently choose the forms and methods of popularizing work, and, on the other hand, in reducing state funding, which led to a decrease in its effectiveness.

The publishing work of military museums in the period under review was a set of measures for the production of printed materials, which reflected important issues of museum activity. The direction of its development was the transition from the publication of small-circulation literature of one or two types (guides, catalogs) to the publication of literature of large volumes and many types (catalogues, guides, booklets, brochures, own periodicals, etc.).

During its organization in the first years after the October Revolution of 1917, military museums adopted the relevant experience of the military museum network of Imperial Russia.

Despite the fact that the issues of publishing work of military museums were reflected in the legal documents that appeared in the 1920s-1930s, in practice it developed at an insufficient pace. The reasons for this were the weak material and technical base of military museums, the lack of qualified personnel, and the lack of due attention to publishing work on the part of the museum management.

In the 1940s-1960s. there was an increase in the volume of publishing work of military museums, which was associated with the creation of editorial and publishing groups in their states. Their main task was the preparation and release of printed materials corresponding to the profile of the museum and activities. One of the types of printed publications that came out during this period were guides to military museums, which played a big role in educational and cultural work with military personnel.

In the 1950s the largest Soviet military museums began to prepare and publish their own printed periodicals, which became a platform for discussing the most important issues of museum activity. A significant place on the pages of publications was given to the coverage of various aspects of cultural and educational work with visitors.

In the 1970s-1980s. Orders of the USSR Ministry of Defense were issued, which adjusted the goals and objectives of publishing work in accordance with the realities of the time. In addition, major military museums issued a number of internal documents that specified the procedure for preparing and publishing printed materials.

Significant changes in the publishing work of military museums took place in the second half of the 1980s. The weakening of military censorship, the acquisition of high-quality printing equipment and technology, the expansion of the independence of military museums in planning and issuing printed materials should have brought the publishing work of military museums to a qualitatively new level. However, this was prevented by the collapse of the Soviet Union and its military museum network.

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Report of the Chairman of the Synodal Department for Cooperation with the Armed Forces and Law Enforcement Agencies, Archpriest Sergiy Privalov: “Pastorship and clergy in the troops. The role of the personality of a military clergyman in the spiritual and moral education of military personnel.

The service of the military clergy at the present stage of the development of the Armed Forces poses urgent questions for the Church in understanding the role of a clergyman in the troops, ways to improve spiritual and moral education and assess the effectiveness of pastoral work.

The Russian Orthodox Church is aware of its spiritual responsibility and strives to convey to every person the light of the Gospel Truth: “And having lit a candle, they do not put it under a vessel, but on a candlestick, and it shines on everyone in the house” (Matt. 5, 15).

At present, the close attention of society to the representatives of the Church is becoming not only obvious, but is the subject of a struggle for the souls of people. Opponents of Orthodoxy, looking for disorder and spiritual infirmity of a particular person ordained to the priesthood, are trying to discredit the entirety of the Church, which consists primarily of celestials - the angels of the Church, who have already acquired the right to incessantly glorify the Lord, as well as people who have embarked on the path of Christian good deeds but because of the weakness of the forces that stumble and rise up for further battle with the forces of wickedness in high places. The head of the Church is the Savior of the world - our Lord Jesus Christ.

Pastoral service in the army is the service of a person who has dedicated himself to God. All the attention of the military personnel is directed to the military clergyman, not only because of his black cassock and cross, unusual for the military class, but primarily because of the unusual nature of his service, which is mysterious, not always clear, stands out from ordinary military life and those tasks which are carried out on a daily basis by military personnel.

A military priest is not just in front of everyone, they want to see Christ and holiness in him, to which they would like to aspire and find the meaning of their lives. If only believers gather in parish churches, then a military unit is a team of like-minded people who perform a single combat mission, but in their own worldview can belong to a variety of groups, currents of religious beliefs, stand at different levels of churching and participation in religious sacraments and rituals .

There is no need to talk about the highest level of responsibility of a military clergyman in observing the moral and ethical standards that should be inherent in any citizen of our state. We are talking about the manifestation of the qualities characteristic of the holy fathers of the Church and, first of all, about clergy.

A military priest should not only become a good shepherd who performs the established Divine Services, preaches correctly, conducts unceasing educational and spiritual and moral work, participates in social and patriotic events, helps the command in eradicating negative phenomena in the army environment, but first of all should be a prayer book - a confessor, whose sacred mission should be the spiritual core of a military formation.

We are talking about spiritual warfare or spiritual warfare that began even before the creation of the world with the fall of angels and has been going on here on earth throughout the entire existence of civilization. The struggle for the human soul, for its choice of movement towards God or towards the devil, never stops. There are big and small victories in it, temporary retreats and advances, but the result of everything is unity with God or retreat from Him. In this fight, the prayer of the priest-confessor for the child he is tending is the main work of the clergyman.

Invisible abuse, but clearly felt by the soul of a serviceman, for whom his relatives, parents, colleagues and priest-confessor are praying, is his real life. External events only replace the entourage of the struggle for the main thing - the acquisition of the spirit of the Holy God.

“Acquire the spirit of peace, and thousands around you will be saved,” said St. Seraphim of Sarov. This order of the holy elder should be considered the motto for the entire corps of the military clergy.

The role of the personality of the clergyman sometimes becomes a key element of pastoral service in the army. On the one hand, the authority of the shepherd, his spiritual qualities are an attractive force for military personnel. The desire to see in a priest a friend, a colleague, a kind interlocutor invites him to enter the sphere of relations poorly corresponding to his vocation - serving God. Priorities in shepherding are shifting to the spiritual, not the spiritual component. Prayer and inner work fade into the background. And this does not always happen at the will of the clergyman himself. The whole complex of tasks that have to be solved makes the military shepherd an administrator, organizer, builder, disciplined executor of the will of the command, shifting the emphasis in his activities towards socially significant events.

The initial stage of earning in a military collective ends, and questions arise that are not always easy to give unambiguous answers. What is the return on the efforts invested in the churching of military personnel, what percentage of the total number of personnel attends Divine services, lectures and conversations on Orthodox topics conducted by a clergyman? In what quantities can one measure the inner world in a team with the arrival of a clergyman? How many suicide incidents have been prevented by the efforts of the assistant commander for work with religious servicemen?

We, as specialists in the field of organizing the activities of the military clergy, will have to formulate general approaches to assessing pastoral work, but the conscience of the priest and God's judgment on our ministry will remain the highest measure. I would like the measure of our strength and capabilities to coincide with the providence of God about the ways of laying down the soul for one's friends.

It seems important in this audience to remind the representatives of the military command of the share of responsibility that is determined by God and those in power. Not only the fulfillment of assigned combat missions depends on the role of the commander - chief in the process of spiritual and moral education, but, first of all, the fate of a person who is at that age when everything good is still absorbed like a sponge, but everything bad is deposited in the soul for life through moral or immoral attitudes and formed stereotypes of behavior.

It is easy for us to remember our military youth, when copying the methods of action for managing cadet units was part of the style of behavior, flesh and blood for many years of life. It is good if the teachers were highly moral and spiritually mature commanders. You should learn these skills all your life, and taking responsibility for the fate of others, keep in mind not only the physical, but also the spiritual life of subordinates, which is many times more expensive. The life of the spirit is eternal, and everyone involved in the formation of a warrior of the Russian state should worry about it.

Spiritual and moral enlightenment is not a set of sayings from the texts of Holy Scripture, it is primarily a personal example of keeping the commandments of God and communion with the grace-filled gifts of the Church of Christ, which enlightens the soul and transforms the body. The path of all life is the path of knowing God within your heart. And in this field it is impossible to be alone, without the advice, guidance and prayer of the confessor.

Can a military priest be the confessor of the entire military team? How many spiritual children can he bring to God, protect from the corruption of this world? Is it possible to hope that 10 - 12 warriors who regularly communicate with the priest and participate in Divine services will turn out to be sufficient potential to become the "salt" of the military brotherhood?

The Lord likens His disciples to salt, which preserves the human race from moral decay: “You are the salt of the earth,” and adds: “If the salt loses its strength, then how will you make it salty?” (Matthew 5:13).

Fundamental theological questions require fundamental knowledge and pastoral experience. It cannot be obtained only in an educational institution. The growth of the spirit in a military priest should be a constant process, where humility, obedience and struggle with sinful passions produce spiritual fruit - a state of Divine love, which “suffers long, is merciful, does not envy, gets irritated, thinks no evil, does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; covers everything, believes everything, hopes everything, endures everything. Love never fails” (1 Cor. 13:4-8). It has its source in God Himself, who is Love (1 John 4:26).

What are the requirements of the time for the military clergy? There has never been such a favorable mission of the Church in the Army. On the one hand, the aggravation of all the contradictions of the modern soulless civilization, roughly focused not on raising a person to the image and likeness of God, but on reducing to a state of madness and consumption of everything that harms the soul. On the other hand, the question of the meaning of human life, the questions of good and evil, honesty and justice, Divine destiny and personal choice of the spiritual paradigm, is more and more obvious to the sane part of humanity. Where, if not in the Army, and even on the brink of a large-scale war, with a constant threat to life, a person should sober up and return to true spiritual values, rethink his life and behavior, uniting in prayer with God and consciously standing up for the defense of the Fatherland, which is being revived for service to God.

The Russian Army today is the second in the world after the United States in terms of military potential. And in terms of the justice of goals and objectives and the spiritual potential that restrains satanic aggression, of course, it is the first in the world. The military clergy at the present stage of development of the Armed Forces is increasingly asserting its potential. The development of military-church relations develops into cooperation, where the role of the priest-confessor will only increase. Our task is to prepare for serious and hard work and correspond to the mission that God has prepared for us.

Time put two dates side by side: February 23, 1918 - the birthday of our Armed Forces (according to the modern calendar - Defender of the Fatherland Day) - and April 8, 1918, when the formation of new territorial military administration bodies began at the state level, in the name of which appeared the French word “commissariat”, unusual for Russian hearing.
The path traveled by the military commissariats is not long by historical standards, but it was not easy. In difficult periods of formation and development of the army and navy, the military commissariats were faced with large-scale and responsible tasks for recruiting troops, and they successfully solved them. Today, professional training, daily hard work of military commissariat personnel, as before, are subordinated to the implementation of the main goal - to increase the combat readiness of the Armed Forces and ensure the military security of the state.

The system of local military administration was born long before 1917, with the need to create a mass regular army.
Military commissariats (bodies of local military administration) were created taking into account the history and experience of the departments of local brigades, the departments of district military commanders, provincial and district conscription presences, which were directly in charge of registration and mobilization issues when recruiting army troops.
After October 1917, a new system of state power took shape in Russia. Its armed defense was carried out by soldiers, sailors who sided with the new government, and the Red Guard, which consisted of young workers from Moscow and Petrograd.
From February to May 1918, the military departments of the volost, district and provincial councils were created and conducted their work. These departments were collegiate bodies. They included representatives of the local council, the headquarters of the Red Guard, the headquarters of a military unit or garrison.
All local military administration bodies were lined up in relation to the voluntary method of manning the army. In different places they were called differently: “Military Department”, “Commission for the Organization of the Red Army”, “Military Administrative Department”, “Military Collegium”, “Red Army Headquarters”, etc. The main tasks of these bodies were the recruitment of volunteers, the formation detachments and units of the Red Army and their material support.
The voluntary recruitment method was maintained until the spring of 1918. By this time, the army of the new government numbered about 300 thousand people. At the same time, the number of the opposing side is at least 700 thousand people, so that, despite the heroism and stamina of the Red Guard, it could not fulfill all the increasingly difficult tasks of protecting the state. And it was forced to take up the organization of a regular Red Army.
Its creation was initiated by a decree of the Council of People's Commissars dated January 15, 1918. In April of the same year, the Higher Military Inspectorate was established, designed to assist local military authorities, control the formation and training of units and formations of the Red Army.
By a decree of the Council of People's Commissars of April 8, 1918, approved by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee on April 22, 1918, a unified network of local military administration bodies - military commissariats - was created throughout the country. April 8, 1918 is the day of the creation of military commissariats in our country.
In accordance with the Decree of the Council of People's Commissars, military commissariats were created in volosts, counties, provinces and districts. By the end of 1918, 7 district, 39 provincial, 395 county and about 7 thousand volost military commissariats were formed on the territory of the RSFSR. In the center they were subordinate to the All-Russian General Staff (from February 10, 1921 - to the Headquarters of the Red Army), and in the districts - to the commanders of the fronts (from January 9, 1925 - to the commander of the territorial military districts).
The decree determined that the commissariats for military affairs are created to take into account the population fit for military service, its conscription, the formation of the armed forces of the republic, the training of all workers and peasants who do not exploit the labor of others in military affairs, the management of troops intended to serve local needs, and the satisfaction of material needs military supply.
On May 29, 1918, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee adopted a resolution "On the transition to the general mobilization of workers and the poorest peasants in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army", which determined the decision on compulsory military service.
On June 29, 1918, the Council of People's Commissars adopted a Decree on military registration. In accordance with this decree, the military commissariats did a great job of identifying and registering those liable for military service.
Certain duties were assigned to the military commissariats at that time.
Volost military commissariats carried out registration of the entire male population fit for military service, as well as horses and carts, organized military training for workers on the ground, carried out deployment of mobilization orders and equipped assembly points for the mobilized, collected and processed information for mobilization plans. The volost military commissariats retained in full the duties of the volost military departments for organizing recruitment work, agitation and recruiting volunteers for the Red Army.
The following duties were entrusted to the county military commissariats: management of the activities of the volost military commissariats within their county; accounting for human and transport resources; training of workers in military affairs; holding training camps; propaganda work among the population and registration of volunteers; drawing up a mobilization plan; mobilization in case of a declaration of war; material support for troops and assistance in their deployment; management of all military institutions and warehouses located on the territory of the county; the formation of units and military units enlisted in the Red Army; meeting the cultural and educational needs of the troops.
In comparison with the activities of district military commanders of pre-revolutionary Russia, the functions of district military commissariats expanded significantly - they began to additionally engage in campaigning among the population and train workers in military affairs.
The provincial military commissariats were instructed to manage the activities of the district military commissariats; conduct recruitment and campaigning activities among the population; to organize conscription for military service in the districts and military training of workers in the province. Their duties also included the organization of military training with those liable for military service, the formation of military units and their improvement.
All military units and institutions (infirmaries, hospitals, warehouses) stationed on the territory of the province were subordinate to the provincial military commissariats. The provincial military commissar was the head of the garrison and the commandant at the point of his stay, with the exception of cities where special commandant's offices were established.
The staffing of the provincial military commissariat (with a commandant's office) was 321 people, and the county one (with a transit point) - from 152 (first category) to 103 people. (third grade).
District military commissariats were endowed with military administrative power in the district. Provincial, district and volost councils were obliged to assist the district military commissariat in the implementation of the state defense plan.
Along with the tasks common with the lower military commissariats, the district military commissariats were assigned such functions as apportioning between the district military commissariats, in the provinces of the district, the orders of the All-Russian Collegium or the General Staff to call people and supply horses; control over the implementation of these orders; reception of formed military units and sending them to their destination; the supply of troops with everything necessary and the creation of all types of reserves.
By April 1920, the Red Army numbered over 3 million people. In achieving this result, the contribution of the military commissariats is obvious.
By the beginning of 1921, in connection with the cessation of hostilities on the fronts and the emerging reorganization and reduction in the size of the Red Army, local military administration bodies also underwent changes. By a decree of the Council of People's Commissars of March 21, 1921, the volost military commissariats were abolished. Instead, military office work was created, which kept records of those liable for military service and mobilization work.
In 1921-1923. the number and size of military commissariat personnel were reduced. In 1921 alone, the number of military commissariats from 2,276 (their number was 196 thousand 168 people) initially decreased to 1,216 (with a number of 98 thousand 543 people), and at the end of the year - to 1,036 with a total staffing of 73 thousand 292 people .
During this period, the provincial military commissariats were the highest military-administrative bodies of the provinces. They were entrusted with the leadership and control over the activities of district military commissariats, military units, institutions and institutions of local importance. The county military commissariats were the highest military administrative bodies in the county.
Military reform 1924-1925 made changes in the field of military development in the country in order to strengthen the Red Army, reduce its numbers in accordance with peacetime conditions and the country's economic capabilities. A mixed system of organization of the Armed Forces was adopted, which made it possible, at lower cost, to have a small regular army capable of ensuring the security of the country's borders, and in case of war to quickly mobilize the army. At the same time, extensive military training was provided for workers from among those liable for military service. The organizational and staffing structure of the troops was streamlined, the recruitment system was regulated, the personnel composition was qualitatively updated, the supply system was reorganized, a planned system of combat training was laid down, and much more.
The most important issue of the military reform was the definition of a recruitment system, which provided for a combination of personnel troops with territorial police units. Most of the formations and units of the border military districts, technical and special forces, as well as the Navy remained personnel. Territorial troops were local formations of internal districts. These were, as a rule, infantry or cavalry formations and units, which contained 16-20% of the personnel, and the rest were assigned from the surrounding villages and cities. The combat training of the assigned (temporary) staff was carried out at annual training camps lasting 1-3 months for five years. Then the fighters of the territorial troops were enrolled in the reserve.
The military reform also affected the military commissariats. In accordance with the resolution of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of January 9, 1925, territorial military districts were created, and provincial military commissariats were reorganized into departments of territorial districts: corps, divisional or independent provincial. The county military commissariats remained in the same form and with the same functions of the main registration and mobilization body as military departments of county executive committees with subordination to the administrations of territorial districts.
Administratively, the departments of the territorial districts were the military departments of the local provincial executive committees.
In this form, the military commissariats existed until 1938.
With the transfer in 1938 of the Armed Forces to a personnel recruitment system and in connection with the new administrative division of the country into regions and districts, a radical reorganization of local military administration bodies was carried out.
According to the Regulations on local bodies of military administration, announced in the order of the People's Commissar of Defense of 1938 No. 0104 (Decree of the Council of People's Commissars No. 112 of 06/07/1938), local military authorities were: military commissariats of the union and autonomous republics, territories, regions; united city, city, district (in national districts), united district and regional military commissariats.
The military commissariats were at the same time the military departments of the corresponding councils of ministers of the union and autonomous republics, the executive committees of the regional, regional, district, city and district councils of workers' deputies. The General Staff and the commanders of the military districts led the local bodies of military administration.
Before the war and in the post-war period, the military commissariats were assigned to solve the following tasks: preparation and conduct of military mobilization; preparing young people for military service, carrying out the call-up of citizens for active military service and for training camps; organization of defense-mass and military-patriotic work among those liable for military service, conscripts and pre-conscription youth; accounting for human and economic resources suitable for the needs of the army; granting conscripts deferments from conscription and control over the correct organization of their accounting and booking at enterprises, institutions, organizations and educational institutions. In addition, the military commissariats were subsequently entrusted with the following duties: to prepare documents for receiving pensions for officers discharged from military service, long-term servicemen and their families; assist in the employment and provision of housing for officers discharged from the armed forces; select candidates from civilian youth to be sent to study at military educational institutions, as well as workers and employees to work in military units and institutions; consider and resolve complaints from conscripts, those liable for military service, servicemen, war invalids, members of their families, as well as members of the families of fallen soldiers.
On September 1, 1939, the Law "On universal military duty" was adopted, and from August 15 to December 31, 1940, a re-account of mobilization resources was carried out throughout the country. The re-registration was carried out in accordance with the new Accounting Guide, which was put into effect
June 5, 1940 by order of the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR No. 143.
As a result of the work carried out, as of January 1, 1941, 20.3 million people were taken for general registration (sergeants and privates) and 2.1 million people for special registration (booked). The number of military-trained human resources for that period was: trained - 15.8 million people; poorly trained - 2.3 million people; untrained - 4.2 million people.
Accounting for vehicles (cars, tractors, bicycles) and barrel containers was carried out by the bodies of the State Traffic Inspectorate and the Central Administration of the State Planning Commission for Narkhoz Accounting, and the accounting of horses, carts and harnesses was carried out by the People's Commissariat of Agriculture. From these bodies, the People's Commissariat of Defense received the data necessary for planning the mobilization of troops.
The reorganization of the military commissariats, carried out in 1938 and then in 1940, significantly strengthened the system of registration of those liable for military service and conscription in peacetime and wartime. This was especially clearly confirmed during the mobilization in 1941. With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, 3.5 million people were called up and put on staff: on orders - 3.5 million people, outside the orders in military units - 3.4 million people, in total - 6.9 million people, or 99.1% of the mobilization plan.
An exceptionally important role was played by the military commissariats during the Great Patriotic War.
From June 23, 1941, the General Staff became the main working body of the Headquarters of the High Command (from August 8 - the Supreme High Command). He was released from organizational and mobilization functions and, in accordance with the resolution of the State Defense Committee (GKO) of July 28, 1941, concentrated his efforts on the operational-strategic leadership (according to the instructions of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command) of the Armed Forces, unifying the activities of all departments of the People's Commissariat of Defense, and also the People's Commissariat of the Navy.
All organs of the General Staff, which were in charge of organizational and mobilization functions, were transferred to the Main Directorate for the Formation and Staffing of the Red Army Troops (Glavupraform), which was created a month after the start of the war, on July 29, 1941.
The Military Council of the Glavupraform of the Red Army did a lot to restructure the work of the military commissariats. It was entrusted with: the search for human mobilization resources, their recruitment and sending to the troops and to work in industry; the fight against desertion and evasion of military service; providing the families of officers, sergeants (foremen), soldiers (sailors) with pensions, benefits and providing them with material assistance; conducting work on the organization of universal military training of male citizens; solving the increased tasks of registering and booking conscripts.
The military council of the Glavupraform took strict measures to improve the situation in the military commissariats and cleanse their teams of bribe-takers, rogues and morally corrupted people.
The activities of the military commissariats during the war years were under strict control of the authorities. For example, in September 1942, the Tula Regional Committee of the Party discussed such issues as the timely provision of military units with human and material resources, the state of registration of those liable for military service, registration of citizens born in 1924 and conscription into the Red Army, general military training of the population, the creation of Komsomol youth departments in the Vseobuch system, and others.
In one of the regions most remote from the Soviet-German front - the Khabarovsk Territory, at the direction of the leadership in May 1942, the state of registration of those liable for military service in the regional and Amur regional military commissariats was analyzed. After analyzing the revealed facts, a resolution was issued in which all heads of industrial enterprises and institutions were strictly warned that "any violation of the GKO resolution on the reservation of certain categories of military men from conscription in the Red Army should be considered as the gravest anti-state crime with all the ensuing consequences under the laws of the military time."
The military commissariats, despite the enormous difficulties, especially in the initial period of the war, coped with the tasks assigned to them. From June 22, 1941 to May 1, 1942, they called up (mobilized) 15 million 384 thousand 837 people, hundreds of thousands of vehicles, tractors, horses and carts, which passed through the assembly and delivery points of military commissariats in accordance with mobilization plans developed in peacetime.
After the end of the Great Patriotic War, a large reduction in the Armed Forces was carried out. Millions of servicemen, having honestly fulfilled their duty to the Motherland, returned to peaceful work. During this period, the military commissariats did a tremendous job of registering demobilized officers, sergeants and foremen, soldiers and sailors for military registration. At the same time, the military commissariats showed great concern for the demobilized soldiers, their employment, and the creation of living conditions. In order to account for all mobilization resources in the Ministry of Defense in 1951, by a decree of the Council of Ministers, all work on accounting for those liable for military service, vehicles, barrel containers, horses and wagons was transferred from the police of the State traffic inspectorate and the State Planning Committee to the military registration and enlistment offices.
In the post-war period, the regulatory and legal framework and organizational and staff structure were changed for the military commissariats. From the perspective of these transformations, the creation in 1964 in the structure of the General Staff of the Main Organizational and Mobilization Directorate was important
(GOMU), which was entrusted with the task of leading the military registration and enlistment offices.
The collapse of the USSR and the creation of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation marked the beginning of a new stage in the history of military commissariats.
GOMU, moborgans of branches of the Armed Forces and military districts (fleets), military commissariats had to deal with the tasks of recruiting troops with great effort. This was shown by two Chechen campaigns. For many years no mobilization training events (exercises, mobilization trainings) were carried out. The quality of recruiting resources has deteriorated. The military record was in a state of disrepair. This was a consequence of the crisis in the state system of accounting and analysis of the draft and mobilization resources available in the country. There was a break in registration (propiska) and military records.
In order to rectify the current situation in the GOMU of the General Staff, a lot of work was done to improve the regulatory framework in creating a system that would guarantee the recruitment of the Armed Forces and other troops with human and transport resources on a qualitative basis and on time.
This large and complex process was reflected in the further improvement of the system of military command and control in accordance with the federal structure of the Russian Federation. Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of September 1, 2007 No. 1132 “On Approval of the Regulations on Military Commissariats” determines that military commissariats are territorial bodies of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, municipalities and are part of military districts (part of the Baltic Fleet) . The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation organizes the activities of military commissariats, and the commanders of the troops of military districts (commander of the Baltic Fleet) are the direct chiefs of the personnel of military commissariats and manage their activities.
The main tasks of the military commissariats at present are: mobilization planning and mobilization preparation, planning and preparation of measures for the mobilization of human and transport resources in the event of the transfer of the Armed Forces from peacetime to wartime; registration of citizens who are in reserve, their distribution by category and assignment to teams agreed with military units; accounting of transport resources and material resources intended for the implementation of the mobilization plan; organization of notification of mobilization human resources, organizations and institutions in case of mobilization; collection and supply to the troops of human and transport resources for mobilization; organization of gathering events with citizens in the reserve, together with military units, as well as the tasks of preparing for military service and conscription for military service, such as the initial registration of citizens for military registration, their preparation for military service, the implementation of the conscription of citizens for military service and referrals to alternative civilian service; work on the selection of candidates from among the citizens who are in the reserve, wishing to enter the military service under the contract; multifaceted work with pensioners of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, and many other important tasks.
All tasks solved by the military commissariats are linked into a single complex, which is a continuous process aimed at achieving the main goal - to be in constant readiness to mobilize human and transport resources in the assigned territory and ensure timely staffing of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, other troops and military formations .
Military commissariats perform the tasks assigned to them in the interests of not only all types and branches of the troops of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, but also all ministries and departments that have military formations in their composition.
Analyzing the results of fulfilling the set tasks, I would like to note that the past year 2007 was a landmark year for us to a certain extent. The military commissariats have made a significant contribution to the creation of a professional army, as a priority in the development of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. As one of the important directions of increasing their combat readiness, we consider the completion of the federal target program "Transition to recruiting military personnel serving under the contract, a number of formations and military units" for 2004-2007.
This made it possible from January 1, 2008 to switch to a one-year term of military service by conscription, to begin systematic and purposeful work to improve the status and authority of junior commanders. The development of a new federal target program “Improving the system for recruiting the positions of sergeants and soldiers by military personnel transferred to military service under a contract, the transition to recruiting the positions of sergeants (foremen), as well as the seafarers of the Navy with military personnel undergoing military service under a contract, in 2009- 2012".
As of January 1, 2000, there were 2,402 military commissariats in the Russian Federation, of which 81 were in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and 2,321 in administrative entities that are part of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Their staff number was 73 thousand 300 people, of which 18 thousand 300 military personnel and 55 thousand civilian personnel.
To address the issues of pension provision and social protection of pensioners of the Ministry of Defense living in the territory of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, social security departments have been created at the embassies of the Russian Federation of these countries.
To conduct military registration and conscription work among citizens of the Russian Federation permanently and temporarily residing in
Baikonur (until 1999 - Leninsk) of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Baikonur cosmodrome), in 1995 a military commissariat was formed
Baikonur.
Military commissariats have been created in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, municipalities with the status of an urban settlement, urban district, intracity territory of cities of federal significance, as well as in the territories of several municipalities.
Depending on the volume of tasks performed, military commissariats are divided into categories:
- military commissariats of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation (republics, territories, regions, autonomous formations) - non-class, 1 - 4 categories;
- military commissariats of municipalities - extra-grade, 1st, 2nd and 3rd categories.
All military commissariats, in essence, have a typical organizational and staff structure and consist of departments (departments) in the main areas of their activity.
During 2005-2007 in order to increase the efficiency of the functioning of the entire system of military commissariats, their structure and composition were optimized. In the course of it, structures were introduced involved in the selection of citizens for military service under a contract, in the interests of equipment during the period of conscription, the positions of chiefs of clothing and food services were introduced, legal, financial and audit bodies were strengthened due to an increase in the volume of legal work and the transfer of military commissariats to funding from the budget Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
In addition, we have abolished 669 military commissariats that had insignificant mobilization and draft assignments, and the released potential is aimed at developing the structure of military commissariats.
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At all stages of the activities of the military commissariats, the main wealth was, is and will be people who perform their duties. Their daily hard work, high professional and moral qualities, patriotism and heightened sense of responsibility convincingly testify that the tasks assigned to them will continue to be carried out successfully. The glorious 90-year history of military commissariats convincingly confirms this.
I congratulate the generals, officers, civilian personnel on our holiday - a significant date - the 90th anniversary of the formation of military commissariats. I wish you good health, success in your career and personal affairs. I am sure that the employees of the military commissariats will continue to solve their tasks in a timely manner and with high quality. Generals, officers, civilian personnel of the military commissariats have patience and optimism.