The beginning of partial mobilization in Russia was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin on September 21, 2022. A month later, on October 28, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that mobilization activities in the country had been completed. According to the Russian Defense Ministry , 302,503 people from 1,430 municipalities were called up as part of the partial mobilization.
Moreover, 33 thousand of them arrived at military registration and enlistment offices before receiving a summons, RBC reported at the end of December 2023 .
According to the publication, the Ministry of Defense presented a social portrait of the mobilized. The average age of men is 35 years, most of them served in the army, more than half are married and have children. 7% of mobilized have higher education, 30% have secondary vocational education, 63% have secondary education.
89% of men had a job before mobilization, 40% of them had henan mobile number database more than 10 years of work experience. At the same time, 834,224 Russian citizens received a deferment from partial mobilization , including employees of the IT sector, banking system, energy companies, agriculture, media and other industries.
According to the Ministry of Defense, about 30.7% of those granted a deferment are IT specialists, their number is 256.1 thousand people. In addition, the right to a deferment was received by employees of the banking system (20.4% or 170 thousand people), energy companies (12.4% or 103.1 thousand people), agriculture (6.5% or 54.5 thousand people), mass media (5.2% or 43.7 thousand people) and other industries (24.8% or 206.9 thousand people).
What is known about military training in 2025
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On January 16 , it became known that Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an annual decree on the call-up of Russians in the reserves for military training, which will take place in 2025. The corresponding document was published on the official legal information portal.
"In 2025, to call upon citizens of the Russian Federation who are in the reserves to undergo military training in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the troops of the National Guard, the rescue military formations of the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters, state security agencies and the federal security service agencies," the document says.