Shoulder Evacuation

An evacuation arm is a military unit of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, designed to carry out civil defense activities (partially or completely) in accordance with planned assignments. Part (structural unit) of a regiment (territorially distant formation). Subordinate to the main command. A typical wartime staff is a platoon. In some cases, the name is used as a special name for units such as a vehicle convoy intended to transport personnel, weapons and military equipment of civil defense troops.

The evacuation arm consists of special processing, weapons, materiel, fire, and communications departments. Technical equipment is determined by the range of tasks performed and the leadership of the civil defense of the republic (territory, region, autonomous district). When performing tasks to evacuate the population and property, the following is escorted: cargo - by road, rail, water, air, pipeline modes of transport; population and animals - by personal transport; people on foot. Evacuation by water transport may be used. Transportation of property is organized during the period of their accumulation without repacking, reloading and regardless of the road situation, and personnel - only by rail