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For some, the employees of the military registration and enlistment office will remain the heroes of numerous jokes. Others thank them for the start in life and the opportunity to start a career in the military. The conscription in Our Country is provided by thousands of workers: these are doctors, and clerks involved in document management, and peddlers of subpoenas. Everyone involved in this area has a professional holiday. Healthy Food Near Me talks about the Day of employees of the military commissariats in 2023.
When is the Day of employees of the military commissariats
The holiday has a fixed date and is celebrated annually. If it falls on weekdays, it is not a day off even for employees. Moreover, the celebration always coincides with the first days of the beginning of the spring conscription. Day of employees of military commissariats in Our Country is celebrated 8 April. In 2023, celebrations will be held throughout the country.
The history of the holiday and military commissariats in Our Country
Historians believe that the reforms of Ivan the Terrible in the XNUMXth century should be considered the forerunner of the appearance of military registration and enlistment offices. Under the tsar, a nationwide army was created, and authorities were needed to recruit it. There were no military registration and enlistment offices then, but there were people whose job was, as they would say today, to systematize and select candidates.
It is impossible not to mention another great autocrat – Emperor Peter the Great. Under him, a recruiting system was introduced to recruit soldiers and dragoons. Even the date of the order is known (February 20, 1705), in which the phrase “recruitment set” was first mentioned. It is clear that specially authorized persons should have been involved in it.
Throughout the existence of the Empire, the forms and types of recruitment changed. However, cardinal changes happened after the October Revolution in 1917. A year after it, they began to create the Red Army. The decree of April 8, 1918 is directly related to the history of the holiday. It was called “On the establishment of volost, district provincial and district commissariats for military affairs.”
The powers and functions of the first Soviet military commissars were as close as possible to modern ones. Only adjusted for the difficult times and moods that were then hovering in society. For example, they were tasked with “universal training in military affairs” for all workers and peasants, regardless of whether a person is subject to conscription or not.
By the end of 1920, 200 thousand people were already working in the military commissariats. This military institution has been repeatedly reformed over the years of the formation of the state, but has not changed its essence.
Already in the recent history of Our Country, a presidential decree was issued on May 31, 2006, which is called “On the establishment of professional holidays and memorable days in the Armed Forces of the Federation.” In it, all branches of the military and specialists of the Ministry of Defense received their solemn date. The military registration and enlistment offices did not deprive of attention, having established in honor of the decree of April 8, 1918, the Day of employees of the military commissariats.
Holiday traditions
By 2023, there were no large-scale and high-profile undertakings associated with this holiday in Our Country. The day of the military commissariat is celebrated only by employees, and even then limited to verbal congratulations and personal initiatives within the team. A wider celebration is arranged on the days of round dates. Such, for example, was in 2018, when the 100th anniversary of the commissariats was celebrated. Local authorities invited employees of the military commissariats to solemn meetings, concerts and gave memorable gifts.
Interesting facts about military commissariats in Our Country
- At the dawn of the formation of military commissariats in 1920, Vladimir Lenin said: “We have a huge military apparatus. Without the military registration and enlistment office, we would not have the Red Army.
- During the Great Patriotic War, military commissars drafted more than 30 million people into the army.
- Today, military registration and enlistment offices are engaged not only in compulsory conscription and work with contract soldiers. Among their tasks are support for veterans of all modern military conflicts, social assistance to former military personnel and patriotic education of youth.
- In the recent history of Our Country, the structure of military registration and enlistment offices has been reformed three times: in 1994, 2007 and 2017.
- In each of the subjects of the country there is a military commissariat, the total number of departments of which is more than 1500 units.
- Since 2019, they began to publish the magazine “Military Commissariats of Our Country”. It comes out once every two months. Any reader can subscribe to it.