Any officer who has had even a little experience with mobilization work knows what a headache it is. Today, this" pain " has doubled, especially for employees of military commissariats. Needless to say, the old well-established schemes no longer work, the number and quality of assigned personnel has changed beyond recognition, and the new legislation simply does not keep up with the realities of life. Well, we know what these realities are. Nevertheless, employees of the military commissariats of the Khabarovsk Territory and in this difficult time quite successfully solve the tasks assigned to them, although the Far East is a very specific region.

"Judge for yourself," Major General Kuzmin says to the regional military commissar. - As of January 1, 1993, 1 million 621 thousand people, or 1.1% of the total population of Russia, lived in the Khabarovsk Territory. This, if you are interested, is about 2.1 people per square kilometer. These figures alone will clearly tell any specialist about the intensity with which we are working on the preparation of the mobilization reserve. Another serious problem has been added to this objectively difficult situation in recent years: today, out of ten conscripts, at least 6-7 people are simply unfit for service. First of all - for health reasons (they are underweight, suffer from drug addiction, alcoholism, mental disorders, and so on). Thus, the personnel who leave the Armed Forces practically do not meet the requirements that we define for the mobile reserve.

Leonty Alekseyevich also spoke about the problem of transport resources, which is probably typical for all military commissariats of the country.

There is still a lot of automobile equipment in the region today, which, if necessary, should be sent to the Armed Forces. However, it is simply unprofitable for the vast majority of organizations to maintain it. The annual inspection costs alone are worth a lot. If earlier 200 - 300 cars were used at the enterprises, now - at most 10 - 15. The rest are standing. There are also problems of financing and staff turnover, and a shortage of spare parts...

Among the many difficulties faced by the military enlistment office, there is a separate problem of conscription. Military commissariats are already struggling to conduct even a special selection (the Federal Border Service, parts of the central subordination...). But after it, for the same Ground Forces, there is a contingent suitable for service, as they say, on the verge of a foul. And this is despite the fact that today the region is very actively working with pre-conscription youth. But the period when such activities were almost universally anathematized caused tangible harm to the common cause. We will feel the effects of this thoughtless pacifist frenzy for a long time to come. How many children over the past few years have been irrevocably thrown on the sidelines of drunkenness, idleness, theft, drug addiction?! The military enlistment office and, it should be emphasized, the regional Committee for Youth Affairs are very concerned about this and are fighting the disease together. But the importance of patriotic and pre-conscription education of young men is still not clear to everyone.

However, this problem is not the only one that faces the military enlistment office with an indestructible wall.

"When I took over the regional military commissariat, we had only one general registered," Leonty Alekseyevich compares. It's not about the generals, of course. It's just that before, the vast majority of officers who finished their service left the Far East for their native places. Today, this is difficult to do for many, many reasons. But if in the late eighties, as was required by law, an officer received an apartment for three months and the waiting list for housing was purely nominal, today the list of homeless pensioners has grown to 1,700 people. If it weren't for the help of the local authorities and the special attention paid to our difficulties by the governor of the region, Viktor Ivanovich Ishaev, I don't even know how we would have solved our many problems.

Major General Kuzmin emphasizes that the military enlistment office also has plenty of debts today: for communications, electricity,and utilities. Only the good will of the same governor, who allocates funds from the regional budget, allows you to survive. It is interesting that such a" scheme " of relations between the military enlistment office and the local administration operates throughout the territory of the region. And we must pay tribute to those leaders who are sympathetic to the tasks of the military enlistment office. After all, the Far East has always been a kind of leading edge. And the leading edge is never far away... All the problems here are acute. But they don't give up here.

"Where the military commissar works closely with the local administration," the regional military commissar emphasizes, " things are much better there. For example, I can mention the Central Military Enlistment Office of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, which is headed by Colonel Vladimir Mikhailov. Even today, in this difficult time, he successfully copes with the most unsolvable tasks. But this is the most difficult area of work - the only first-class commissariat in the region. They also work in the Kirov military enlistment office in Khabarovsk (commissar-Lieutenant Colonel Alexey Shivdyakov). And the military commissar in Okhotsk, Captain Andrey Vasiliev, was lucky in general, since the administration is headed by his former teacher. And, of course, it is impossible not to mention the Vyazma military enlistment office of Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Zubov. It is difficult to find any weak point in its activities, as we say: not only with the draft, with pensioners, even with housing, all issues are resolved.

Veterans ' organizations provide significant assistance to the military enlistment offices of the Khabarovsk Territory, and especially Khabarovsk. And all without exception: war veterans, veterans of the Far Eastern Military District and military service, soldiers-internationalists, and even "Chechens". It is especially noticeable in the work with conscripted youth. Each organization during the conscription period considers it its duty to send its representative to the same regional assembly point. And there is already a complete expanse for communication. Individual interviews with conscripts are very helpful. In some cases, just a few words of a gray-haired veteran or a still rather young "Afghan" do for the moral maturation of a guy what others could not do for years.

However, it would be naive to believe that all this was given to the regional military commissariat in the form of manna from heaven: then the governor offered to help, then the veterans... People just work. And they work, by the way, according to the formula "H+H", where H is the norm. After all, the reduction of the army did not bypass the military enlistment offices. Although it's not just him: it's just that life itself has changed so much in recent years that it takes much more effort and time to perform the same duties than it did 7-8 years ago.

A separate article is the department of educational work, which is headed by Colonel Sergey Naftalin. It communicates with all regional and city organizations that are "tied" to young people. It includes sports and recreation camps, all military sports events, and work with military-patriotic clubs, thanks to which, by the way, their number is steadily growing. The department is responsible for both public and state training and direct educational work with officers, workers and employees. And because the military commissar believes that the department should not be reduced, but strengthened.

For more than one year, the Khabarovsk Regional Military Commissariat has been recognized as one of the best by the results of its work. There is, as you can see, still gunpowder in the powder flasks, although in the military enlistment office itself for a long time, smiling sadly, they repeat the famous: "We just need to stand for a day and hold out for a night..."

() THE EDITORIAL TEAM'S tag. When this material was being prepared for publication, it became known that Major General L. Kuzmich was dismissed to the reserve. Colonel Evgeny Feoktistov was appointed to the post of regional military commissar.

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