Vsevobuch ( rus, всевобуч, p=fsʲɪˈvobʊtɕ), a

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governed by the Chief Administration of Universal Military Training of the People's Commissariat of Military Affairs. The first ''vsevobuch'' was urged by the 7th Congress of the Bolshevik Party. It took place

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in March 1918 to fight the remnants of opposition to Soviet rule. Initially Vsevobuch engaged mainly the workers; from that summer, it also took poor peasants.

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's ''Sistema trudovoi gimnastiki'' was published in 1922. The whole process was canceled in 1923. Shortly after the opening of the

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a decree of the

State Defense Committee The State Defense Committee (russian: Государственный комитет обороны - ГКО, translit=Gosudarstvennyĭ komitet oborony - GKO) was an extraordinary organ of state power in the USSR during the German-Soviet War (Grea ...

was issued on September 17, 1941. Named "On Universal Compulsory Military Training of the Citizens of the USSR", it came into force on October 1 of the same year and embraced males between 16 and 50 years old. The document proclaimed that military training should be provided without isolation from civilian work. The Central Department of Vsevobuch was formed within the

People's Commissariat A People's Commissariat (russian: народный комиссариат; Narkomat) was a structure in the Soviet state (in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, in other union and autonomous republics, in the Soviet Union) from 1917– ...

of Defense. It is estimated that the total number who passed through Vsevobuch in 1941-45 was 9,862,000 men. A mountain in

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was named after Vsevobuch.Stepanova, V. I. ''Through Trans-Ili Alatau''
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