Contractual Service

Contractual service is not an easy job, as many people mistakenly believe. After all, military contract servicemen are professional defenders of our country.

Today, the Ministry of Defense of Russia considers one of the most important moments in its activity to be the maximum improvement in the recruitment of the armed forces. And the main role in this process is played by the contract service. According to the President's instruction, the number of contractors by 2017 should go to the line of 425 thousand.

In this regard, the relevant departments have developed basic approaches for the assembly of military units by contractual military personnel. At the heart of this rather new process in the army is a complex, multifaceted system of selection of candidates, as well as their further referral to training for appropriate training in educational centers or universities, with the subsequent conclusion of contracts with them.

For the Russian state, military service under the contract is an innovation. And just like everything new, it has both its positive and its negative sides.

The biggest advantage of the Armed Forces, formed on a contract basis, for Russian citizens who reached the draft age is the possibility of free choice, only on their own: to serve in the army or not to serve.

A contract on military service is signed between a Russian citizen and the Ministry of Defense or the federal executive body in which the candidate must continue his military service. It is drawn up in writing in a prescribed form in the manner prescribed by law.

The service under the contract provides for voluntary admission to military service. Age qualification, according to which citizens of our country are admitted - from eighteen to forty years.

The contract specifies a clear period during which the contractor must "work" in the Armed Forces, and the conditions under which the military service will be carried out under the contract. The latter include the legitimate duty of a citizen of our country to serve in the Armed Forces, troops of a certain type, military formations or in the relevant bodies for a specific period.

At the same time, the contractor undertakes to perform all duties of servicemen, both general and official, as well as special ones, those that are established by legislation or other legal acts as conscientiously as possible.

The contract also stipulates all the rights of a contracted citizen and all members of his family, including the receipt of certain benefits, guarantees, compensation, in short, everything that the contractual service determines for servicemen during the performance of their duties. This is the appointment to a particular military post with the appropriation of the appropriate military rank, the periodic passage of attestation, the procedure for dismissal from service, as well as other circumstances and events in accordance with the law that determines the service and legal status of servicemen.

The beginning of the term of such service in the Armed Forces is considered to be the day when the contract has already come into legal force. The term specified for the soldier serving the service is the one specified in the contract.

Who has the right to contract?

First, those men who have completed the previous contract, who are in reserve, servicemen who undergo conscription military service and graduated from higher educational and professional institutions, as well as those citizens who are not in reserve but have already received higher education, in Including women. To this list, you can add that category of citizens, which is determined by the normative act of the President.