Russian bases abroad: 102nd base in Gyumri

Russia has a limited number of military bases abroad. With the American 800 bases scattered from Guam to Djibouti and from Japan to Bahrain and Afghanistan, there is no sense in "competing" in this regard. And it is not necessary. The point is different.

This meaning is to ensure security in key sectors and directions for Russia. One of these areas was and remains the Caucasus. And it is there that Russia has one of its foreign military bases - the 102nd base of the RF Armed Forces in the city of Gyumri (Republic of Armenia).

This base is in many respects determining the security structure of the region.

One of the components of the Russian 102nd military base in Armenia is the so-called "black fortress", in which defensive positions were and are located, allowing to repulse the enemy.

The plot "Polygon" on the T24 channel tells about how the base of the Russian armed forces in the Caucasus is arranged, how it can resist terrorist attacks and sabotage attacks. In particular, the correspondent becomes a participant in the operation, during which the personnel of the base release the taken hostage.

The plot tells about the combat training of the military personnel of the base, about military planning and other nuances of service in Gyumri.

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[Flooding]

Photos March 14
dinner in part

[Flooding]

I read the correspondence in the social group. networks
informative ))

[Avior]

It used to be very different from this photo.

Or something really changed for the better, or a show about the arrival of correspondents or bosses, which is prompted by the appearance of the dishes - they have a suspiciously new look, and the baked goods in the photo raise doubts that this is not an ordinary dinner.

[Lara Croft]

Avior (Sergey) Or something really changed for the better, or a show about the arrival of correspondents or bosses, which is prompted by the appearance of the dishes - they have a suspiciously new look, and the baked goods in the photo raise doubts that this is not an ordinary dinner.

Crockery with 3-4 photos, as we had. The food was certainly better than in your photo .... and video ....

[Avior]

Maybe I lagged behind life in matters of army nutrition, we, of course, had better nutrition than in the above photos (although it was also far from always normal, and there were worms in the rice, and there was much more fat in the meat than meat, and there was a mixed fat, from which heartburn was sweat), and the plates were not metal, but ordinary ones, I somehow got into the kitchen at the “disco”, as we called them, they then stood in front of my eyes for a month, and, in principle, I do not mind that food can now be much better, a lot of time has passed than in those photos and videos that I brought, why not, but questions come to mind.
For example, was there fish or cutlets for dinner? I have never seen both at the same time, except perhaps at a banquet :)
The plates have the perfect ceremonial look, as if they just came out of the package. I remember how the plates looked with us :)))
Where is the salad? In any form, at least last year's sauerkraut, some kind of beet, at least something vegetable, it cannot be that there are no vegetables in the norms of ration, and it is not far from scurvy. If it's a canteen handout, why isn't there a tray?
The bun also suggests that the dinner is some kind of special (although, maybe, that is included in the usual one, I also admit it). What's the cover on the table? Are the cutlery knives included in the cutlery? Are these knives for cutlets, for fish or for mashed potatoes? :)))
Maybe, of course, there is a simple explanation for all this, but this is not obvious from the photo.

[Lara Croft]

Quote: Avior

Maybe I lagged behind life in matters of army nutrition, we, of course, had better nutrition than in the above photos (although it was also far from always normal, and there were worms in the rice, and there was much more fat in the meat than meat, and there was a mixed fat, from which heartburn was sweat), and the plates were not metal, but ordinary ones, I somehow got into the kitchen at the “disco”, as we called them, they then stood in front of my eyes for a month, and, in principle, I do not mind that food can now be much better, a lot of time has passed than in those photos and videos that I brought, why not, but questions come to mind.
For example, was there fish or cutlets for dinner? I have never seen both at the same time, except perhaps at a banquet :)
The plates have the perfect ceremonial look, as if they just came out of the package. I remember how the plates looked with us :)))
Where is the salad? In any form, at least last year's sauerkraut, some kind of beet, at least something vegetable, it cannot be that there are no vegetables in the norms of ration, and it is not far from scurvy. If it's a canteen handout, why isn't there a tray?
The bun also suggests that the dinner is some kind of special (although, maybe, that is included in the usual one, I also admit it). What's the cover on the table? Are the cutlery knives included in the cutlery? Are these knives for cutlets, for fish or for mashed potatoes? :)))
Maybe, of course, there is a simple explanation for all this, but this is not obvious from the photo.

I completely agree. The fish was given on "fish day" though not always ...
They reminded of the combi-fat ... the story was I remember one soldier standing in his daily outfit at the checkpoint, at night while the officer was sleeping he made himself a toast on the combi-fat, ate and he felt bad, then they were taken to the hospital right from the checkpoint ...
I don’t remember about the salad or wasn’t, the bread was white and gray ... sometimes they gave me a cut, except for the young no one ate it ...

[Avior]

We often had fish for dinner, just like the classics

Butter has eaten - the day has begun
They ate the fish, the day has passed.
The foreman went home.
Dembel became a day shorter ...

[Slaven]

It all depends on where who is serving. Those who served in the fortress were fed well, in Siverskoye they fed disgustingly, in the 8th military town there were two canteens, in one they fed tolerably, in the other disgusting (soup, water without everything), but better than in Siverskoye. But it was so in 12 year. Now everything may have changed, and I will willingly believe in it, I saw all sorts of vidos from different parts, the soldiers laid out. Yes, and he himself served in Volgograd on Kacha, they fed very well, the food was tasty and fatty, the tea looked like tea, and it was even sweet.

[6erJIblu]

I don’t pick up the shade, bad, good, normal ??? This also applies to the comment below.

[Flooding]

Quote: 6erJIblu

I don’t pick up the shade, bad, good, normal ??? This also applies to the comment below.

vitally
generally good

My son is in the infantry, okay. At first I was terrified, then I got used to it. Recently I was with the tankers for a week, so I wanted to return to the infantry.

[6erJIblu]

I get it now)

[Victorio]

Quote: Flood

Photos March 14
dinner in part

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however, no pickles. I remembered sa, sprat in tomato and mashed potatoes in vegetable oil

[Flooding]

Quote: Victorio

however, no pickles. I remembered sa, sprat in tomato and mashed potatoes in vegetable oil

don't say to "ah"
but for dinner, young organisms are provided with protein
and some pastries for tea in the right corner

[Victorio]

Quote: Flood

Quote: Victorio

however, no pickles. I remembered sa, sprat in tomato and mashed potatoes in vegetable oil

don't say to "ah"
but for dinner, young organisms are provided with protein
and some pastries for tea in the right corner

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lettuce, and oil is not enough

[Flooding]

Quote: Victorio

lettuce, and oil is not enough

March is not a very light month
Is it possible to ferment cabbage
and vitamins are needed, I agree

[Bad_gr]

Quote: Victorio

however, no pickles.

Quote: Flood

don't say to "ah"

Quote: Victorio

lettuce, and oil is not enough

At one time I served in Hungary (demonstration training in Debretsin, Veszprem for a year and a half, Guards unit). Abroad. But we had no forks. The plates were aluminum. The mugs were nylon and when the tea was hot, she bent all over when he took her by the handle and the tea smelled like nylon. The table was for ten people, of whom one was a breeder: that is, from a saucepan that stood in the center of the table, with a ladle, he handed out a portion to everyone on a plate. A portion of porridge oatmeal knocked into the plate with a strong blow of the ladle on the plate. A portion of noodles looked like a piece of dough from which noodles were sticking out. Borscht is a cloudy liquid in which torn leaves from sauerkraut floated ...
And here: ".... no pickles, .... butter is not enough ..."

[Bad_gr]

A friend told me, but he served a little earlier and on the territory of the USSR:
"... We are sitting at the table, having lunch. One of the fighters suddenly stopped eating borsch, began to carefully look at the plate and say:" ... Oh, mouse ... "And pulled a mouse out of the plate by the tail. In general, the whole table was vomited From the next table they asked what was the matter - and the second one there.
And this mug sits and still discusses on the topic: was it a young mouse or an old one. I came to the conclusion that the old, the young would be boiled down. "

[Victorio]

Quote: Bad_gr

Storytelling buddyl, but he served a little earlier and on the territory of the USSR:
"... We are sitting at the table, having lunch. One of the fighters suddenly stopped eating borsch, began to carefully look at the plate and say:" ... Oh, mouse ... "And pulled a mouse out of the plate by the tail. In general, the whole table was vomited From the next table they asked what was the matter - and the second one there.
And this mug sits and still discusses on the topic: was it a young mouse or an old one. I came to the conclusion that the old, the young would be boiled down. "

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I drove almost the entire Volga region in a short time, and I repeat - without pickles. the food was prepared by the military, incl. the same conscripts, they slept with them in the barracks. and you have mice in pans, pasta stuck together, tables for ten people. and we have four, and a cap by the barracks. and there for 20 kopecks a cake and a bottle of milk (with the delivery of dishes).

[Bad_gr]

Quote: Victorio

and you have mice in pans,

This is an isolated case, from which even the restaurant is not 100% insured. I recalled this incident as an incidental situation. Well, the army food that I described was in the training, in the linear units it is better. A friend's son 10 years ago served somewhere in Kamchatka, so they gave pies on weekends. I think that the food of a soldier depends on the commander of the unit.

[ccsr]

Quote: Victorio

lettuce, and oil is not enough

I have been to Leninakan and lived in this fortress for almost a month on an internship, there was a division headquarters and several separate battalions. I must say right away that the food there was enhanced, because the fortress itself was higher than 1500 m above sea level, and this affected the diet. Firstly, they gave raw smoked sausage, a small slice for breakfast, and secondly, they gave butter for dinner, or twice as much for breakfast (perhaps one and a half times, I don't remember), and in the third they gave greens, but as a seasoning for something. So I think even now these norms have been preserved, and they eat better there than in the rest of the ground forces.
Interestingly, the fortress withstood the earthquake, and there were practically no casualties among the military, although the city would have been destroyed and many were killed.
It was interesting to see familiar places in the film.

[Victorio]

Quote: ccsr

I have been to Leninakan and lived in this fortress for almost a month on an internship, t

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Oh thanks! info from the original source, I am glad that there is order.

[Lara Croft]

Quote: Flood

Photos March 14
dinner in part

The plate and the cup are porcelain, not made of luminium; cutlery in a quantity of 3 pcs. made of steel, and not one spoon made of luminium ... this is good ... potatoes on the water are familiar, cutlets were never given, but here they are, then there is a catch ...

[Victorio]

Quote: Lara Croft

cutlets were never given, and here they are, then there’s a catch ...

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was given on Sundays and holidays

[Lara Croft]

Quote: Victorio

Quote: Lara Croft

cutlets were never given, and here they are, then there’s a catch ...

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was given on Sundays and holidays

We were fed for slaughter in comparison with other parts (mid-90s) and then there were no cutlets, in my opinion, fish were given on holidays ...

[Victorio]

Quote: Lara Croft

We were fed for slaughter in comparison with other parts (mid-90s) and then there were no cutlets, in my opinion, fish were given on holidays ...

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understandable, but I wrote about sa, more precisely 80-82

[Avior]

During my service, cutlets were rare and only in winter, we were told that in the summer they were forbidden to work with minced meat. The same applies to vegetables - tomatoes, for example, were never even cut in half, only whole. However, once they gave watermelons, we went to some kind of collective farm to harvest, they paid with watermelon for help, they were cut. But there, as I understand it, there was no way out. Buns for the service a couple of times - for the day of the part, as far as I remember, and for the New Year.

[Azis]

Quote: Flood

Photos March 14
dinner in part

When and where were the cutlery in the military unit - a knife and a teaspoon ??? Officer? Then the menu is meager. And it's not clear - fish with pea puree and cutlets? Although, taste is an individual matter ...

[Your stranger]

Two sets of cutlery per plate

[TatarinSSSR]

Why are there English symbols on the keys of the reconnaissance group commander, for example "Menu"? That is, the tablet is foreign? Domestic military tablets don't exist yet? Well, you can't look at the exercises to free a journalist without a smile and laughter))))

[Cowbra]

And by the way...

YEREVAN, March 25 - RIA Novosti. The parliament of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic adopted the draft amendments on the recognition of the Russian language as the official language, press secretary of the NKR President Lusine Avanesyan told RIA Novosti.

Who said that Armenia won in Karabakh? Russia and Turkey - only! Moreover, more Russia. Turkey is nobody there, and Russia is now the highest authority

[Lara Croft]

Quote: Cowbra

And by the way...

YEREVAN, March 25 - RIA Novosti. The parliament of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic adopted the draft amendments on the recognition of the Russian language as the official language, press secretary of the NKR President Lusine Avanesyan told RIA Novosti.

Who said that Armenia won in Karabakh? Russia and Turkey - only! Moreover, more Russia. Turkey is nobody there, and Russia is now the highest authority

Definitely - and Russia is now the highest authority.
Russians, Armenians and Azerbaijanis have known others for a long time, but Turks are strangers ...

[Avior]

And in Chechnya, he is generally state-owned.
You would ask how many Russians are in Armenia and Karabakh.
Russians from Armenia survived even under the Soviet Union, it seems to be the only republic in which the number of Russians was declining long before 1991.

National composition of the population of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic according to the 2015 census
Armenian - 144 683
Russian - 238

https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Население_Нагорно-Карабахской_Республики

[Victorio]

Quote: Avior

Russians from Armenia survived even under the Soviet Union, it seems to be the only republic in which the number of Russians was declining long before 1991.
National composition of the population of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic according to the 2015 census
Armenian - 144 683
Russian - 238

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it is not evening yet, a similar scenario is prescribed for the Russians of Novoukrainy. assimilation or emigration

[Avior]

We are talking about Armenians, did you notice?

[Victorio]

Quote: Avior

We are talking about Armenians, did you notice?

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the main thing is that you notice something like that in Ukraine, or rather, do not close your eyes to it.

[Avior]

The fact that Armenia was admitted simply - there are no Russians, there is no problem, so you need to close your eyes?
: ((

[Victorio]

Quote: Avior

The fact that Armenia was admitted simply - there are no Russians, there is no problem, so you need to close your eyes?
: ((

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they have entered in armenia, you are now. in armenia the base of gyumri, you, more precisely, of you, the base of nato.

[Avior]

Therefore, you can close your eyes to the fact that Russians have been actively squeezed out of there for a long time?
Sorry, we have a different view of such things.

[Victorio]

Quote: Avior

Therefore, you can close your eyes to the fact that Russians have been actively squeezed out of there for a long time?
Sorry, we have a different view of such things.

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Enough to play the fool, put in your five cents and okay. that a Jew, that a Ukrainian. two of a Kind.

[Avior]

but who are you that you are not interested in the problems of the Russians - this is a question ...