MOSCOW, March 29. /TASS/. Russia called up 130,000 conscripts in its army draft last fall, Deputy Head of the Russian General Staff’s Main Organizational and Mobilization Department Vladimir Tsimlyansky said on Friday.
"The objective set by a Russian presidential decree was accomplished on time and in full. A total of 130,000 conscripts were called up for military service in the Armed Forces, other troops and military formations. As before, the conscription campaign paid special attention to staffing scientific and scientific-production units. In interaction with central military command authorities, about 500 personnel were selected and sent for staffing these units," he added.
The fall draft was organized especially effectively in the Republics of Buryatia and North Ossetia-Alania, the Krasnoyarsk, Stavropol, Volgograd, Voronezh, Moscow, Rostov, Sakhalin, Samara and Chelyabinsk Regions and the city of Moscow, Tsimlyansky said.
"All the citizens sent for military service were provided with the established type of allowances at gathering places. About 200 civil aviation flights, 14 flights by army aircraft and 10 military trains were engaged to send conscripts to military units. All the conscripts were provided with food rations along the entire route and enjoyed three-time meals in railway dining cars, if the travel took more than three days. This practice has long been established in the Russian Armed Forces and proven its efficiency," he said.
Civil and military aviation flights, military and passenger trains transported over 120,000 conscripts in the fall army draft, he said.