- Vsevobuch
"Vsevobuch" (via _ru. всевобуч, a
portmanteau for всеобщее военное обучение ("vseobshcheye voyennoye obucheniye"), universal military training) is the name of the compulsory military training of men practiced in the formerSoviet Union . Vsevobuch is also affiliated with the sports training, to which it contributed.The first vsevobuch was urged by the 7th congress of the
Bolshevik Party. It took placede iure in March, 1918 to fight the remnants of opposition to the Soviet rule. Initially Vsevobuch engaged mainly the workers and from summer also the poor peasants. [ru icon [http://www.kursk1943.mil.ru/kursk/arch/books/memo/vasilevsky_am/04.html Vasilevskiy, A. M. "The matter of my whole life"] ] The whole process was canceled in 1923.Shortly after the opening of the
Eastern Front of World War II a decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense was issued onSeptember 17 ,1941 . Named "On Universal Compulsory Military Training of the Citizens of the USSR", it came into force on October, 1 of the same year and embraced the males between 16 and 50 years old. The document ascertained that the military training should be provided in civilian way without the isolation from work. The Central Department of Vsevobuch was formed within the People's Commissariat of Defense.It is estimated that the total figure of those passed through Vsevobuch in 1941-45 would be 9,862,000 men. [ru icon [http://www.historia.ru/2006/01/lotareva.htm Lotaryova, M. I. Vsevobuch and the war] ]
A 4550 m-mountain in
Trans-Ili Alatau was named after Vsevobuch. [ru icon [http://berendei.tsu.ru/win/library/books/stepanova2/027.htm Stepanova, V. I. "Through Trans-Ili Alatau"] ]ee also
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