Questions from Orientir magazine correspondents are answered by the Commander of the Siberian Military District, Colonel-General Nikolai Kormiltsev Nikolay Viktorovich Kormiltsev was born on March 14, 1946 in Omsk. He graduated from the Omsk Higher Combined Arms Command School. He served as a platoon commander, company commander, battalion commander, and deputy regimental commander. After graduating from the Frunze Military Academy in 1978, he was appointed a regimental commander. 1983-1988-Deputy Division Commander, Division commander, head of the district training center in Omsk. In 1990, he graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR. He commanded an army corps and then an army in the Far Eastern Military District. Since November 1994 - First Deputy Commander of the Trans-Baikal Military District. Since August 1996 - Commander of the ZabVO troops. Since December 1998, after the merger of the two districts, he has been Commander of the Siberian (United) Military District. "Comrade Commander! A new military-territorial entity has appeared on the map of our country, which has no analogues in the world both in terms of its geopolitical scale and in terms of the nature of the tasks being solved. To what extent has it been possible to implement organizational and managerial measures related to the unification of districts so far? - Indeed, the district's area of responsibility includes the largest region in terms of geopolitical and economic significance, including thousands of kilometers of the state border, the most complex border areas, strategic and national economic objects of Western and Eastern Siberia, Transbaikalia and the North. Even by today's modern standards, the spatial scope of the combined Siberian Military District is impressive. SibVO unites troops stationed on the territory of four republics, two territories, six regions, four autonomous districts of the Russian Federation with a population of more t ... Читать далее