RUSSIAN FEDERATION
FEDERAL LAW NO. 31-FZ OF FEBRUARY 26, 1997
‘ON MOBILIZATIONAL PREPARATIONS AND THE MOBILIZATION IN THE RUSSIAN
FEDERATION’
(with the Amendments and Additions of July 16, 1998, March 24, December 30, 2001)
Adopted by the State Duma January 24, 1997
Approved by the Federation Council February 13, 1997
Summary:
This law regulates preparedness for mobilisation and the mobilisation process itself. The law elaborates the
basic concepts and principles, describes the preparations necessary for the mobilisation of all units from
administrative issues through to the use of the mass media to facilitate the process. Related issues such as
ration and medical services provision are discussed.
The law defines the powers of the president, state power bodies, and the powers of local government. The
mobilisation bodies, military transportation duties, the financing of mobilisation preparations and mobilisation, the
regime for carrying out mobilisation, the call up and postponement of call up of citizens, and the terms of their
service are also detailed.
Section I.
General Provisions (Articles 1–3)
Section II.
The Powers of the President of the Russian Federation and of the State Power Bodies of the
Russian Federation, the Powers and Functions of the Executive Power Bodies of the Subjects
of the Russian Federation and of the Local Self-Government Bodies in the Area of
Mobilizational Preparations and of the Mobilization (Articles 4–8)
Section III.
The Duties of the Organizations and of the and of the Citizens in the Area of Mobilizational
Preparations and of the Mobilization (Articles 9–10)
Section IV.
The Organizational Foundations of Mobilizational Preparations and of the Mobilization
(Articles 11–16)
Section V.
The Call-Up of Citizens for Military Service by Mobilization (Articles 17–21)
Section VI.
Granting a Call-Up Relief to the Citizens in the Reserve for the Period of Mobilization and for
War-Time (Articles 22–24)
Section VII.
Final Provisions (Articles 25–26)
The present Federal Law shall implement the legal regulation in the area of mobilizational preparations
and of mobilization in the Russian Federation, and shall constitute the rights, the duties and the responsibility of
the state power bodies, of the local self-government bodies and of the organisations, regardless of their form of
ownership (hereinafter referred to as the organisations), as well as of their official persons, and also of the
citizens of the Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as the citizens) in the given area.
SECTION I. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1.
The Basic Concepts
1. Mobilizational preparations in the Russian Federation shall be interpreted as a set of measures
carried out in peace-time and aimed at preparing, well in advance, the economy of the Russian Federation, the
economy of the subjects of the Russian Federation, and the economy of the municipal entities, and at preparing
the state power bodies, the local self-government bodies and the organisations, and also the Armed Forces of
the Russian Federation and the other troops, military units and bodies, as well as the formations, specially
created for war-time in conformity with the Federal Law on Defence (hereinafter referred to as the special
formations), to ensure the protection of the state against an armed attack and the satisfaction of the
requirements of the state and the needs of the population in the war-time.
2. The mobilization in the Russian Federation shall be interpreted as a set of measures aimed at shifting
the economy of the Russian Federation, the economy of the subjects of the Russian Federation and the
economy of the municipal entities, at shifting the state power bodies, the local self-government bodies and the
organisations to work under the war-time conditions, and also at shifting the Armed Forces of the Russian
Federation, the other troops, military units and bodies and the special formations to the war-time organisation
and structure.
The mobilization in the Russian Federation may be general or partial.
Article 2.
The Basic Principles and the Content of Mobilizational Preparations and of the
Mobilization
1. Mobilizational preparations and the mobilization in the Russian Federation shall be carried out in
conformity with the present Federal Law and with the Federal Law on Defence, and shall be seen as the
component parts of organizing defence in the Russian Federation.
2. The basic principles of mobilizational preparations and of the mobilization shall be:
—centralized guidance;
—carrying out well in advance according to the plan and under control;
—carrying out as a set and in mutual coordination.
3. The content of mobilizational preparations and of the mobilization shall be comprised of:
1) the normative legal regulation in the area of mobilizational preparations and of the mobilization;
2) the scientific and the methodological provisions for mobilizational preparations and for the
mobilization;
3) defining the labour conditions and preparing the state power bodies, the local self-government bodies
and the organisations to work in the period of mobilization and in war-time;
4) carrying out the measures aimed at shifting the state power bodies, the local self-government bodies
and the organisations to work under the war-time conditions;
5) preparing the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the other troops, military units and bodies,
and the special formations to the mobilization;
6) carrying out the mobilization of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, of the other troops,
military units and bodies, and of the special formations;
7) elaboration of plans for the mobilization of the economy of the Russian Federation, of the economy of
the subjects of the Russian Federation and of the economy of the municipal entities, and also of plans for the
mobilization of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and of the other troops, military units and bodies, as
well as of the special formations (hereinafter referred to as the mobilization plans);
8) preparing the economy of the Russian Federation, the economy of the subjects of the Russian
Federation and the economy of the municipal entities, and also the organisations, to work in the period of
mobilization and in the war-time;
9) launching measures aimed at shifting the economy of the Russian Federation, the economy of the
subjects of the Russian Federation and the economy of the municipal entities, and also the organisations, to
work under the war-time conditions;
10) appraising the state of the mobilizational readiness of the Russian Federation;
11) the establishment, development and maintenance of the capacities and of the objects for the
manufacture of the products, necessary to satisfy the requirements of the state, of the Armed Forces of the
Russian Federation and of the other troops, military units and bodies, and also of the special formations, as well
as of the needs of the population in the war-time;
12) the setting up and the training of the special formations which shall be passed, when the mobilization
is declared, to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, or which shall be used in the latter's interest, as well
as in the interest of the economy of the Russian Federation;
13) preparing the technology which shall be supplied, when the mobilization is declared, to the Armed
Forces of the Russian Federation and to the other troops, military units and bodies, as well as to the special
formations, or which shall be used in their interest;
14) the formation, accumulation, maintenance and renewal of the stock of material assets in the
mobilization and in the state reserves, and of the emergency stock of the foodstuffs and of oil products;
15) the setting up and the maintenance of the insurance stock of documentation on the armaments and
the military technology, on the vital civilian products, on the heightened risk objects, on the life-support system
for the population and on the objects, which comprise the national property;
16) preparing and organizing a rationed supply of the foodstuffs and of non-foodstuff products to the
population, rendering it medical services and providing it with the means of communication and with the
transportation facilities in the period of mobilization and in the war-time;
17) the setting up in conformity with the established order of reserve administration centres of the state
power bodies, of the local self-government bodies and of the organisations, and preparing the said
administration centres to work under the war-time conditions;
18) preparing the mass media to work in the period of mobilization and in the war-time;
19) organizing the military registration in the state power bodies, in the local self-government bodies and
in the organisations;
20) training the citizens in the military registration specialities to man the Armed Forces of the Russian
Federation, the other troops, military units and bodies, and the special formations in the period of mobilization
and in the war-time;
21) granting a relief from the call-up, for the period of mobilization and for the war-time, to the citizens,
who have been written down in the reserve of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation or of the federal
executive power bodies, having a reserve (hereinafter referred to as the citizens in the reserve) and who are
working in the state power bodies, in the local self-government bodies and in the organisations;
22) holding the exercises and the training drills, involved in the mobilization deployment and in fulfilling
the mobilization plans;
23) raising the level of professional skills of the workers in the mobilization bodies;
24) the international cooperation in the area of mobilizational preparations and of the mobilization.
Article 3.
The Legal Foundations of Mobilizational Preparations and of the Mobilization
The legal foundations of mobilizational preparations and of the mobilization shall be the Constitution of
the Russian Federation, the international treaties signed by the Russian Federation, the Civil Code of the
Russian Federation, the Federal Law on Defence, the Federal Law on the Military Duty and on the Military
Service, the present Federal Law and the other federal laws, as well as the other normative legal acts of the
Russian Federation in the given area.
SECTION II. THE POWERS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND OF THE STATE
POWER BODIES OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, THE POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF THE EXECUTIVE
POWER BODIES OF THE SUBJECTS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND OF THE LOCAL
SELF-GOVERNMENT BODIES IN THE AREA OF MOBILIZATIONAL PREPARATIONS
AND OF THE MOBILIZATION
Article 4.
The Powers of the President of the Russian Federation
1. The President of the Russian Federation shall:
1) formulate the goals and the tasks for mobilizational preparations and for the mobilization in the
Russian Federation;
2) issue the normative legal acts in the area of mobilizational preparations and of the mobilization;
3) provide for a coordinated functioning and interaction of the state power bodies in the area of
mobilizational preparations and of the mobilization;
4) establish the procedure for submitting annual reports on the state of the mobilizational readiness of
the Russian Federation;
5) hold the talks and sign the international treaties of the Russian Federation on cooperation in the area
of mobilizational preparations and of the mobilization;
6) in the cases of aggression against the Russian Federation or of a direct threat of such aggression, or
of the flaring up of armed conflicts directed against the Russian Federation, declare a general or a partial
mobilization, immediately informing the Federation Council and the State Duma about it;
7) establish the work regime for the state power bodies, the local self-government bodies and the
organisations in the period of mobilization and in the war-time;
8) lay down the procedure for organizing the work involved in granting a relief from the call-up for the
period of mobilization and for the war-time to the citizens in the reserve, working in the state power bodies, in the
local self-government bodies and in the organisations;
9) grant (suspend) the right to a postponement of the call-up for the military service by mobilization to
the citizens or to the individual categories of citizens.
2. The President of the Russian Federation shall also exert, in addition to the powers, pointed out in Item
1 of the present Article, other powers in the area of mobilizational preparations and of the mobilization, which are
not regulated by the present Federal Law.
Article 5.
The Powers of the Federal Assembly Chambers
1. The Federation Council shall:
1) consider the outlays for mobilizational preparations, which have been earmarked by the Federal Law
on the Federal Budget, passed by the State Duma;
2) consider the federal laws passed by the State Duma in the area of provisions for mobilizational
preparations and for the mobilization;
2. The State Duma shall:
1) earmark the outlays for mobilizational preparations by the Federal Law on the Federal Budget;
2) pass federal laws in the area of provisions for mobilizational preparations and for the mobilization;
Article 6.
The Powers of the Government of the Russian Federation
1. The Government of the Russian Federation shall:
1) guide mobilizational preparations and the mobilization in the Russian Federation within the scope of
its authority;
2) carry out the measures which are aimed at providing for mobilizational preparations and for the
mobilization in the Russian Federation;
3) on the commission of the President of the Russian Federation, delineate the authority of the federal
executive power bodies and guide their activity in the area of mobilizational preparations and of the mobilization;
4) organize a coordinated performance and interaction of the federal executive power bodies with the
executive power bodies of the subjects of the Russian Federation in the issues of mobilizational preparations
and of the mobilization;
5) organize the drawing up of the mobilization plans to satisfy the requirements of the state, of the
Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and of the other troops, military units and bodies, and of the special
formations, as well as the needs of the population in the war-time;
6) establish the procedure for signing agreements (contracts) with the organisations on their carrying out
the mobilization tasks (orders) and on providing the material and technical resources for the said tasks (orders);
7) define the procedure and the sources of the financing for the measures, involved in mobilizational
preparations and in the mobilization;
8) resolve within the scope of their authority the issues involved in allocations for mobilizational
preparations and for the mobilization from the federal budget and in granting privileges to the organisations,
which have been entrusted with the mobilization tasks (orders);
9) draw up the draft normative legal acts which shall be enforced in the period of mobilization and in the
war-time, and also the draft normative legal acts in the area of mobilizational preparations;
10) organize the discharge of the obligations contained in the international treaties of the Russian
Federation on cooperation in the area of mobilizational preparations and of the mobilization;
11) hold international talks in the area of mobilizational preparations and of the mobilization;
12) organize the scientific, the methodological, and the informational backing up for mobilizational
preparations and for the mobilization;
13) organize raising the level of professional skills of the workers in the mobilization bodies;
14) organize mobilizational preparations and exert control over these, introduce submitting statistical
reports and appraise, within the scope of its authority, the state of the mobilizational readiness of the Russian
Federation, and annually present reports on this account to the President of the Russian Federation;
15) when declaring the mobilization exert, within the scope of its authority, control over the
implementation of the measures aimed at shifting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the other troops,
military units and bodies, and the special formations to the war-time organisation and structure;
16) when declaring the mobilization organize, in conformity with the established procedure, the shifting
of the economy of the Russian Federation, of the economy of the subjects of the Russian Federation and of the
economy of the municipal entities to work under the war-time conditions;
17) organize granting a call-up relief for the period of mobilization and for the war-time to the citizens in
the reserve, working in the state power bodies, in the local self-government bodies and in the organisations;
18) organize the holding of the exercises and of the training drills aimed at the mobilizational deployment
and at the fulfilment of the mobilization plans;
19) establish the procedure for the formation, the accumulation, the maintenance, the renovation and the
use of the mobilizational stocks, of material values from the mobilization and from the state reserves, and of the
emergency stock of the foodstuffs and of the non-foodstuff goods, and of oil products;
20) define the procedure for the setting up, maintaining and using the insurance fund of documentation
on the armaments and the military technology, on the vital civilian products and on the heightened risk objects,
on the life-support system for the population and on the objects, which comprise the national property.
2. The Government of the Russian Federation, in addition to the powers, pointed out in Item 1 of the
present Article, shall also exert other powers in the area of mobilizational preparations and of the mobilization,
which are not regulated by the present Federal Law.
Article 7.
The Powers of the Federal Executive Power Bodies
1. The federal executive power bodies shall, within the scope of their authority:
1) organize and provide for mobilizational preparations and for the mobilization;
2) guide the mobilizational preparations of those organisations, whose activity is connected with the
activity of the said bodies, or which fall within the latter's jurisdiction;
3) set up the mobilization bodies;
4) delineate the necessary amount of the financing for the works, involved in the mobilization
preparations;
5) map out the mobilization plans;
6) launch measures, in interaction with the executive power bodies of the subjects of the Russian
Federation, which shall ensure the implementation of the mobilization plans;
7) sign agreements (contracts) on the implementation of the mobilization tasks (orders) with the
organisations, whose activity is connected with the activity of the said bodies, or which fall within the latter's
jurisdiction;
8) when declaring the mobilization organize, in an interaction with the executive power bodies of the
subjects of the Russian Federation, the launching of a set of measures aimed at shifting the organisations to
work under the war-time conditions;
9) submit to the Government of the Russian Federation proposals on the improvement of mobilizational
preparations and of the mobilization;
10) in case of the insolvency (the bankruptcy) of the organisations, which have been entrusted with the
mobilization tasks (orders), take measures for passing these tasks (orders) to the other organisations, whose
activity is connected with the activity of the said bodies, or which fall within the latter's jurisdiction;
11) organize the military registration of, and grant a relief from the call-up for the period of mobilization
and for the war-time to, the citizens in the reserve working in the federal executive power bodies and in the
organisations, whose activity is connected with the activity of the said bodies, or which fall within the latter's
jurisdiction, and provide for the submitting of reports on the call-up relief in conformity with the procedure,
defined by the Government of the Russian Federation;
12) organize the raising of the level of professional skills among the mobilization bodies' workers.
2. The federal executive power bodies shall provide for the fulfilment of the legislation of the Russian
Federation, of the normative legal acts of the President of the Russian Federation and of the normative legal
acts of the Government of the Russian Federation in the area of mobilizational preparations and of the
mobilization.
Article 8.
The Powers and the Functions of the Executive Power Bodies of the Subjects of the
Russian Federation and of the Local Self-Government Bodies
1. The executive power bodies of the subjects of the Russian Federation and the local self-government
bodies shall, within the scope of their authority:
1) organize and provide for mobilizational preparations and for the mobilization;
2) guide the mobilizational preparations of the municipal entities and of the organisations, whose activity
is connected with the activity of the said bodies, or which fall within the latter's jurisdiction;
3) set up the mobilization bodies;
4) provide for the fulfilment of the present Federal Law, of the normative legal acts of the President of
the Russian Federation and of the normative legal acts of the Government of the Russian Federation in the area
of mobilizational preparations and of the mobilization;
5) map out the mobilization plans;
6) launch measures for the mobilizational preparations of the economy of the subjects of the Russian
Federation and of the economy of the municipal entities;
7) launch, in an interaction with the federal executive power bodies, measures which would ensure the
fulfilment of the mobilization plans;
8) sign agreements (contracts) with the organisations for the supply of products, for the performance of
works, for the allocation of the labour power and of the means, and for rendering services in order to provide for
the mobilizational preparations and for the mobilization of the subjects of the Russian Federation and of the
municipal entities;
9) when declaring the mobilization launch measures to shift the economy of the subjects of the Russian
Federation and the economy of the municipal entities to work under the war-time conditions;
10) in the case of the insolvency (the bankruptcy) of the organisations which have been entrusted with
the mobilization tasks (orders), take measures for passing these tasks (orders) to the other organisations, whose
activity is connected with the activity of the said bodies, or which fall within the latter's jurisdiction;
11) render cooperation to the military commissariats in their mobilization work in the peace-time and
when declaring the mobilization;
12) organize, in conformity with the established order, a timely notification and the arrival of the citizens
subject to the call-up for military service by mobilization, the supply of the technology to the assembly points or
to the military units, and also the surrender of the buildings, the structures, the communications, the land plots,
the transport facilities and the other kind of material resources in conformity with the mobilization plans;
13) organize and provide for the military registration and the relief from the call-up for the period of
mobilization and for the war-time of the citizens in the reserve working in the state power bodies of the subjects
of the Russian Federation, in the local self-government bodies and in the organisations, whose activity is
connected with the activity of the said bodies, or which fall within the latter's jurisdiction, and ensure the
submitting of reports on the call-up relief in conformity with the procedure, laid down by the Government of the
Russian Federation;
14) hand in proposals to the state power bodies on the improvement of mobilizational preparations and
of the mobilization;
15) provide for the presentation of information on the organisations' registration to the military
commissariats.
2. The executive power bodies of the subjects of the Russian Federation shall coordinate and control the
launching by the local self-government bodies and by the organisations, whose activity is connected with the
activity of the said bodies, or which fall within the latter's jurisdiction, of measures aimed at mobilizational
preparations, and shall also provide for these measures in methodological terms.
3. The local self-government bodies shall be granted the state powers in the area of mobilizational
preparations and of the mobilization in conformity with the present Federal Law; this shall be accompanied with
placing at their disposal the material and the financial means, necessary for carrying them out, in conformity with
the procedure laid down by the Government of the Russian Federation.
SECTION III. THE DUTIES OF THE ORGANIZATIONS AND OF THE CITIZENS IN THE AREA OF
MOBILIZATIONAL PREPARATIONS AND OF THE MOBILIZATION
Article 9.
The Organizations' Duties
1. The organisations shall be obliged:
1) to organize and carry out measures to provide for their mobilizational readiness;
2) to set up the mobilization bodies or to appoint the workers who shall perform the functions of the
mobilization bodies (hereinafter referred to as the mobilization workers);
3) to map out the mobilization plans within the scope of their authority;
4) to carry out measures to prepare the production for fulfilling the mobilization tasks (orders) in the
period of the mobilization and in the war-time;
5) to fulfil the mobilization tasks (orders) in accord with the concluded agreements (contracts) in order to
provide for mobilizational preparations and for the mobilization;
6) when declaring the mobilization, to carry out measures to shift the production to work under the wartime conditions;
7) to render cooperation to the military commissariats in their mobilization work in the peace-time and
when the mobilization is declared;
8) to ensure a timely notification and the arrival of the citizens subject to the call-up for the military
service by mobilization and maintaining labour relations with them, to the assembly points or to the military units;
9) to provide for the supply of the technology to the assembly points or to the military units;
10) to surrender, in conformity with the legislation of the Russian Federation, the buildings, the
structures, the communications, the land plots, the transport facilities and the other material means, in
accordance with the mobilization plans, with the state obliged to compensate for the losses, sustained by them,
in the order, defined by the Government of the Russian Federation;
11) to set up the military-registration subdivisions, to perform the works involved in the military
registration and in granting a call-up relief for the period of mobilization and for the war-time to the citizens in the
reserve working in these organisations, and to ensure the submitting of reports on granting the relief.
2. The organisations shall have no right to refuse to sign agreements (contracts) on fulfilling the
mobilization tasks (orders) aimed at providing for the country's defence and for the state security, if, taking into
account the mobilization deployment of the production, their capacities make it possible for them to cope with
these mobilization tasks (orders). The state shall compensate for the losses sustained by the organisations as a
result of their fulfilment of the mobilization tasks (orders), in conformity with the procedure laid down by the
Government of the Russian Federation.
3. The organisations shall be obliged to present the information necessary for the elaboration and the
carrying out of the mobilization measures in conformity with the order established by the Government of the
Russian Federation.
Article 10.
The Citizens' Duties
1. The citizens shall be obliged:
1) to come upon the summons to the military commissariats to specify their destination in the period of
the mobilization and in the war-time;
2) to satisfy the demands laid out in the mobilization instructions, in the summons slips, and in the orders
of the military commissars, which they have received;
3) to surrender in the war-time, in conformity with the legislation of the Russian Federation, in order to
provide for the country's defence and for the state security, the buildings, the structures, the transportation
facilities and the other property in their ownership, with the state being obliged to compensate for the losses,
sustained by them, in accordance with the procedure laid down by the Government of the Russian Federation.
2. In the period of the mobilization and in the war-time the citizens shall be drawn into the performance
of the works aimed at providing for the country's defence and for the state security, and shall also be conscripted
in conformity with the established order into the special formations.
3. For the non-performance of their duties in the area of mobilizational preparations and the mobilization,
the citizens shall be held responsible in conformity with the legislation of the Russian Federation.
SECTION IV. THE ORGANIZATIONAL FOUNDATIONS OF MOBILIZATIONAL PREPARATIONS
AND OF THE MOBILIZATION
Article 11.
The Organization and the Procedure of Mobilizational Preparations and of the Mobilization
1. The organisation and the procedure of mobilizational preparations and of the mobilization of the state
power bodies, of the local self-government bodies, of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and of the
other troops, military units and bodies, as well as of the special formations, shall be defined by the normative
legal acts of the President of the Russian Federation and by the normative legal acts of the Government of the
Russian Federation.
2. The organisation and the procedure of mobilizational preparations and of the mobilization of the
economy of the Russian Federation, of the economy of the subjects of the Russian Federation and of the
economy of the municipal entities, as well as of the organisations, shall be defined by the normative legal acts of
the Government of the Russian Federation.
3. The official persons of the state power bodies, of the local self-government bodies and of the
organisations shall be held personally responsible for the discharge of the duties imposed on them in the area of
mobilizational preparations and of the mobilization in conformity with the legislation of the Russian Federation,
and shall create for the workers of the mobilization bodies the conditions which are necessary for them to
discharge the duties imposed on them.
Article 12.
The Mobilization Bodies
1. The federal state power bodies, the federal executive power bodies, the executive power bodies of
the subjects of the Russian Federation, the local self-government bodies and the organisations entrusted with
the mobilization tasks (orders) or with the tasks involved in the mobilization work shall set up the mobilization
bodies for launching measures aimed at carrying out mobilizational preparations and the mobilization, and at
exerting control over them.
2. The structure and the staff of the mobilization bodies shall be determined proceeding from the nature
and the dimensions of the mobilization tasks (orders) or of the tasks involved in the mobilization work.
Depending on the dimensions of the said tasks (orders) or of the tasks involved in the mobilization work, the
mobilization workers may be appointed instead of setting up the mobilization bodies.
3. The heads of the mobilization bodies or the mobilization workers shall be directly subordinate to the
heads of the corresponding federal state power bodies, of the federal executive power bodies, of the executive
power bodies of the subjects of the Russian Federation, of the local self-government bodies and of the
organisations.
4. The functions, the rights, and the duties of the mobilization bodies set up in the federal executive
power bodies, in the executive power bodies of the subjects of the Russian Federation, in the local selfgovernment bodies and in the organisations, shall be delineated in conformity with the model regulations on the
mobilization bodies, approved by the Government of the Russian Federation.
5. The regulations on the mobilization bodies set up in the federal state power bodies shall be approved
by the heads of these federal bodies.
6. The regulations on the federal body for ensuring the mobilizational preparations of the state power
bodies of the Russian Federation, which is set up in conformity with the Federal Law on Defence, shall be
approved by the President of the Russian Federation.
7. The mobilization bodies and the mobilization workers shall be financed according to the order,
established by the Government of the Russian Federation at the expense of the means from the federal budget.
Article 13.
The Military-Transportation Duty
1. To provide the transportation facilities for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and for the
other troops, military units and bodies, as well as for the special formations in the period of mobilization and in
the war-time, the military-transportation duty shall be introduced in the Russian Federation.
2. The military-transportation duty shall be spread to the federal executive power bodies, to the
executive power bodies of the subjects of the Russian Federation, to the local self-government bodies and to the
organisations, including the ports, the moorages, the airports and the oil storage bases, the fuel trans-shipment
terminals, the gas-filling stations, the repairs centres and the other kind of organisations, catering to the work of
the transportation facilities, and also to the citizens who are the owners of the transportation facilities.
3. The state shall compensate for the losses sustained by the organisations and by the citizens in
connection with their surrender of the transportation facilities and the other kinds of property in their ownership to
provide for the country's defence and for the state security, in conformity with the procedure defined by the
Government of the Russian Federation.
4. The procedure for the discharge of the military transportation duty shall be defined by the Regulations
on the Military-Transportation Duty, approved by the President of the Russian Federation.
Article 14.
The Financing of Mobilizational Preparations and of the Mobilization
1. Mobilization preparations shall be financed at the expense of the means from the federal budget, of
the means from the budgets of the subjects of the Russian Federation, of the means from the local budgets and
of the means of the organisations.
2. From the means of the federal budget shall be financed the works involved in mobilizational
preparations which are performed to provide for the country's defence and for the state security.
3. From the means of the budgets of the subjects of the Russian Federation shall be financed the works
involved in the mobilizational preparations of the economy of the subjects of the Russian Federation in whose
interest the agreements (the contracts) have been concluded on the initiative of the state power bodies of the
subjects of the Russian Federation.
4. From the means of the local budgets shall be financed the works involved in the mobilizational
preparations of local importance.
5. From the means of the organisations shall be financed the works involved in mobilizational
preparations which are performed on the initiative of the organisations themselves in order to raise the stability of
their operation.
6. The measures involved in the mobilization shall be financed in accordance with the procedure
established by the Government of the Russian Federation.
Article 16.
The Regime for Carrying Out Mobilizational Preparations and the Mobilization
The organisation of the works and the protection of information in the area of mobilizational preparations
and of the mobilization shall be effected in conformity with the Law of the Russian Federation on the State
Secret and with the normative legal acts on the issues of secret record-keeping.
SECTION V. THE CALL-UP OF THE CITIZENS FOR THE MILITARY SERVICE BY MOBILIZATION
Article 17.
The Call-Up of the Citizens for the Military Service by Mobilization
1. The call-up of the citizens for the military service by mobilization shall be carried out in conformity with
the federal laws.
2. Subject to the call-up for the military service by mobilization shall be the citizens in the reserve who
have not been granted the right to a postponement in the call-up for the military service by mobilization.
3. The citizens in the reserve who have not been called up for the military service by mobilization may be
sent to work in the posts for the civilian personnel in the Armed Forced of the Russian Federation and in the
other troops, military units and bodies, and also in the special formations.
4. Not subject to the call-up for the military service by mobilization shall be the citizens with a nonexpunged conviction or with an unserved sentence for committing a grave crime.
5. When the mobilization is declared, the servicemen shall go on with their military service, with the
exception of the service-women with children below 16 years of age.
Article 18.
The Postponement in the Call-Up for the Military Service by Mobilization
1. A postponement in the call-up for the military service by mobilization shall be granted to the following
categories of citizens:
1) who have been granted a call-up relief in conformity with the procedure defined by the Government of
the Russian Federation;
2) those recognized as temporarily unfit for the military service on account of a poor health—for a term
of up to six months;
3) those engaged in a constant care of the father, the mother, the wife, the husband, the blood brother,
the blood sister, the grandfather, the grandmother or the adopter, who are in need of a constant outside care
(assistance or supervision) on account of the state of their health, in conformity with the conclusion of the
medical-consultation commission, or those looking after the persons who are 1st-group invalids, and also after
the family members who have not reached the age of 16 years, if there are no other persons, obliged by the law
to maintain the said citizens;
4) those supporting four or more children (in the case of the females—those supporting one child);
5) whose mothers, besides them, have four or more children below 8 years of age, while raising them
without a husband;
6) the members of the Federation Council and the deputies of the State Duma.
2. A postponement in the call-up for the military service by mobilization shall also be granted, in addition
to the citizens, pointed out in Item 1 of the present Article, to the other citizens or to the individual citizen
categories, who have been granted such right by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation.
Article 19.
The Term for the Citizens' Call-Up for the Military Service by Mobilization
The citizens shall be called up for the military service by mobilization within the term fixed by the
mobilization plans of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and of the other troops, military units and
bodies, and also of the special formations.
Article 20.
The Organization of Calling the Citizens Up for the Military Service by Mobilization
1. To timely shift the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the other troops, military units and bodies
to the organisation and the structure of war-time, and to set up the special formations, the citizens in the reserve
shall be registered well in advance with the military units (shall be intended for the special formations) in order to
perform the military service in the war-time in the military posts, or to perform the work in the posts for the civilian
personnel, envisaged by the war-time staff schedule.
2. The citizens registered with the military units (intended for the special formations) for performing the
military service in the war-time shall be called up for the military service by mobilization in case of the
implementation of the measures involved in shifting the military units, with which they have been registered, to
the war-time organisation and structure, and also in case the special formations are set up.
3. The call-up of the citizens for the military service by mobilization, or the sending of them to work in the
posts, intended for the civilian personnel envisaged by the war-time staff schedule shall be effected by the local
self-government body of the district or of the city (in the cities not broken up into city districts) jointly with the
military commissariat of the district or of the city (in the cities, not broken up into city districts).
4. The procedure for calling up for the military service by mobilization the citizens who have been
registered with the military units (intended for the special formations) for performing the military service in military
posts, envisaged by the war-time staff schedule, as well as the procedure for sending the citizens to work in the
posts for the civilian personnel in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and in the other troops, military
units and bodies, as well as in the special formations, shall be laid down by the Government of the Russian
Federation.
Article 21.
The Duties of the Citizens Subject to the Call-Up for the Military Service by Mobilization
1. When declaring the mobilization, the citizens who are subject to the call-up for the military service
shall be obliged to arrive at the assembly points within the term indicated in the mobilization instructions, in the
summons slips, and in the orders of the military commissars of the district or of the city (in the cities not broken
up into city districts).
2. The citizens put on the military registration records shall be forbidden, as from the moment of
declaring the mobilization, to leave the place of their residence without a permit from the military commissars of
the district or of the city (in the cities not broken up into city districts).
SECTION VI. GRANTING A CALL-UP RELIEF TO THE CITIZENS IN THE RESERVE FOR THE PERIOD
OF MOBILIZATION AND FOR WAR-TIME
Article 22.
Granting a Call-Up Relief to the Citizens for the Period of Mobilization and for War-Time
A call-up relief shall be granted to the citizens in the reserve working in the state power bodies, in the
local self-government bodies and in the organisations, for the period of mobilization and for war-time, in
conformity with the present Federal Law and the other federal laws, with the normative legal acts of the
President of the Russian Federation and with the normative legal acts of the Government of the Russian
Federation.
Article 23.
The Citizens Subject to a Call-Up Relief for the Period of Mobilization and for War-Time
1. The granting of a call-up relief to the citizens in the reserve shall be aimed at ensuring, for the period
of mobilization and for war-time, the activity of the state power bodies, of the local self-government bodies and of
the organisations.
2. The citizens subject to a call-up relief shall be exempted from the call-up for the military service by
mobilization and from the subsequent call-ups in the war-time for the period of the granted postponement.
Article 24.
The Organization and the Procedure for Granting a Call-Up Relief to the Citizens for the
Period of Mobilization and for the War-Time
The organisation of and the procedure for granting a call-up relief to the citizens in the reserve for the
period of mobilization and for the war-time shall be defined by the present Federal Law and by the normative
legal acts of the Government of the Russian Federation.
SECTION VII. FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 25.
Enforcement of the Present Federal Law
The present Federal Law shall come into force as from the date of its official publication.
Article 26.
Bringing the Normative Legal Acts in Line with the Present Federal Law
To suggest to the President of the Russian Federation and to order to the Government of the Russian
Federation that they bring their normative legal acts in line with the present Federal Law.
President
of the Russian Federation
Moscow, The Kremlin
B. Yeltsin