In addition to the active army, the defense system of the Russian Federation also has a so-called reserve - a certain category of the population that can be called up to participate in hostilities in the event of a war.
Stock categories
The reserve is the strategic manpower reserve of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. According to the main legal act. regulating interaction in this area - Federal Law No. 53-FZ of March 28, 1998 "On conscription and military service", the reserve category includes citizens who in peacetime are not subject to conscription for active military service, but can be called up to carry out fighting in case war breaks out.
The order of stay in the reserve, the categorization of "reserve" servicemen and other issues related to this topic are covered in detail in Section VIII of the specified normative legal act. In particular, Article 53, which bears the name "Composition of the stock", stipulates that in total the entire composition of the stock is divided into 3 categories or categories. In this case, belonging to a particular category is determined on the basis of the age of the serviceman, his sex and rank. In general, we can say that the maximum age established by the current legislation for stay in the reserve is 65 years: it is set for senior officers, and the rest of the categories of military personnel have a lower threshold for the maximum age of stay in the reserve. Upon reaching this age, a soldier is removed from the military register, that is, he cannot be called up for service even in the event of hostilities.
Stock category 1
The first category of the reserve consists of military personnel with the best fighting qualities in comparison with other categories of reserves. So, this category includes several groups of servicemen, differentiated by their age and rank. At the same time, military personnel with higher ranks remain in the first category of the reserve longer than military personnel with lower ranks.
So, the first category of the reserve includes soldiers, sailors, sergeants, warrant officers, foremen and warrant officers, whose age does not exceed 35 years and junior officers are not older than 40 years. In addition, this category includes majors, lieutenant colonels, captains of the third and second ranks under the age of 45, as well as colonels and captains of the first rank under 50 years of age. Senior officers are in the first category of the reserve until they reach the age of 60.
Upon reaching the threshold age, all of the listed categories of servicemen are transferred to the second category of the reserve, where they can stay for another 5 to 10 years. After that, some of them are removed from the military register, and some are transferred to the third category.
