'Russia and India in 1903' [‎5r] (9/68)

THE RUSSIAN ARMY OF TO-DAY.
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Reserve, subject to liability to be called up for two
trainings of six weeks each. More than one training
of a fortnight is, however, rarely insisted upon, unless
the colour service has been less than three years,
when the Reservist is usually called up twice for
three weeks.
In the Imperial Navy the service is seven years
afloat and three in the Reserve.
Standing Army .—The Standing Army numbers in
time of peace over a million rank and file, or 4 per
cent, of the male population between 21 and 60 years
of age. There are on a peace footing :
627,000 infantry, in 25 army corps, 52 divisions, 209
regiments, and 836 battalions.
117,000 cavalry, in 23 divisions and 634 squadrons.
138,000 artillery, with 412 batteries of field artillery
and 46 of horse artillery.
34*000 engineers.
34,000 commissariat, transport, medical, and other
departmental troops.
60,000 Cossacks.
The Reserve.
The Army is mobilised by Imperial ukase to the
Senate. It recalls to the ranks, in classes, all the
regular soldiers below thirty-nine years of age, or,
allowing for casualties, a total of 2,900,000, thus
bringing the Regular forces up to a strength of
nearly four millions. But there is a still further
reinforcement available of trained men. In addition
to the Standing Army and its Reserve there is
The Opoltschenie or Militia.
It is divided into two categories. The First Class
consists of:
[a) All men who, having served in the Standing
Army and its Reserve, have attained their thirty-ninth