Legal Service of Oryentir Please explain the procedure for issuing military transportation documents for train, plane, and bus travel for military family members in Russia and the CIS. What documents (certificates, etc.) are required for their issuance, compensation, or reimbursement of transportation expenses? Lieutenant Colonel Alexey Polyantsev Currently, there are a number of regulations issued by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation that regulate the procedure for processing military transportation in the Ministry of Defense and the calculations for it. However, the main regulatory act is still the Order of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR No. 200 "On the Implementation of the Guidelines for Processing Military Transportation in the Ministry of Defense and the Calculations for It" dated October 8, 1984 (with subsequent amendments and additions). The full list of grounds for granting benefits to military personnel and other persons covered by transport benefits is contained in Article 20 of the Federal Law of the Russian Federation "On the Status of Military Personnel" No. 76-FZ dated May 27, 1998. If, for example, a military personnel needs to obtain travel vouchers for himself and his family members to travel to and from their vacation destination, he must submit a request to his command to grant him a leave of absence, listing the family members accompanying him to the vacation destination (including the age of the children), and specifying the type of transportation he wishes to use and the destination. The presence of an order for the serviceman's leave, indicating that he will be issued a travel voucher for a specific mode of transport to travel to and from his place of leave, provides the military communications department (VOSO) with the authority to issue the travel voucher. The serviceman's leave ticket must include information about the travel vouchers issued (numbers, series, and the number of vouchers issued). Upon return from ... Читать далее