The snap check started in the moning of September 11
© ITAR-TASS/Yuri Smityuk The inspection embraces four armies, the 3rd Command of the Air Force and Air Defense Troops, the command of the Pacific Fleet, as well as the command of Strategic and Military Transport Aviation
© ITAR-TASS/Yuri Smityuk Over 100,000 servicemen are taking part in the snap check
© ITAR-TASS/Yuri Smityuk The drills will focus on the tasks of troops’ regrouping for large-distance re-deployment. Photo: armored vehicles of the Russian Marine Forces board the Peresvet major amphibious ship
© ITAR-TASS/Yuri Smityuk Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on Thursday gave orders to inform foreign military attaches of the snap check
© ITAR-TASS/Yuri Smityuk Armored vehicles of Russia's Marine Forces get ready to board an amphibious ship
© ITAR-TASS/Yuri Smityuk A major amphibious ship seen during the snap check
© ITAR-TASS/Yuri Smityuk The Peresvet and the Nikolai Vilkov amphibious ships during the snap check
© ITAR-TASS/Yuri Smityuk The Admiral Nevelskoi major amphibious ship seen during the snap check
© ITAR-TASS/Yuri Smityuk This is not the first checkup of the operational readiness of troops of a military district since the beginning of 2014.
© ITAR-TASS/Yuri Smityuk Military hardware being loaded onto an Antonov An-12 cargo aircraft
© ITAR-TASS/Yuri Smityuk Military hardware being loaded onto an Antonov An-12 cargo aircraft
© ITAR-TASS/Yuri Smityuk In February Putin ordered checking up the operational readiness of the Western and Central Military Districts.
© ITAR-TASS/Yuri Smityuk Another snap check was carried out in the Central Military District in June.
© ITAR-TASS/Yuri Smityuk