MOSCOW. Nov 28 (Interfax-AVN) - The headquarters of the 76th airborne division in Pskov will host an extramural session of the Defense Ministry commission for preparing the division's stocks for a new training period on Thursday, a competent source in the Defense Ministry told Interfax-Military News Agency.
Armed Forces Chief-of-Staff Anatoly Kvashnin will chair the session, the source said.
"The main goal of the commission's session is to update the regular manning level of the division that is being transferred to professional service, and to check the preparedness of the division's stock for a new training period that starts on December 1," he said.
The session will involve Army General Alexander Kosovan, head of the Armed Forces construction and quartering department and deputy defense minister, Colonel General Valentin Bobryshev, commander of the Leningrad Military District, Colonel General Vasily Smirnov, head of the General Staff main mobilization department and deputy chief-of-staff, Colonel General Alexander Skorodumov, head of the Armed Forces main combat training department, and Lieutenant General Nikolai Staskov, Airborne chief-of-staff.