Servicemen of the Ministry of Defense of South Ossetia will take part in the international ski mountaineering competition "Sayan March", which will be held from 14 to 17 April in the Krasnoyarsk Territory on the basis of mountain training in the park "Ergaki".
The international competition "Sayan March" is a competition for field training of mountain units in winter conditions. This competition is part of the 2021 International Army Games.
As the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the republic informed the IA "Res", the competition is based on the basics of combat training of military personnel of mountain subdivisions.
“Participants in the ‘’Sayan March’ ’from South Ossetia will be South Ossetian cadets studying in higher military educational institutions of the Russian Federation. They must have a high level of physical fitness, excellent results in shooting from standard weapons, as well as master the program of mountain and ski training,” the press service said.
The training program for the competition participants includes 11 stages. The servicemen will have to look for a conditionally injured in an avalanche, ski down the slope in bundles, and conduct reconnaissance of targets. The shooting will be carried out as part of a group; the soldier will have to prepare for the shooting on skis. In total, within the framework of ARMI-2021, it is planned to hold 34 competitions in 15 countries with the participation of about 95 countries.
This year, the servicemen of the national army will take part in the competitions of the games: "Tank Biathlon", "Sniper Frontier", "Excellence in Military Intelligence". In addition, it is planned that South Ossetian cadets studying at the higher military educational institutions of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation will participate in the Airborne Platoon and Confident Reception contests. Servicemen of the Special Purpose Battalion and the Motorized Rifle Battalion of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of South Ossetia will take part in other competitions of the games - tank biathlon, honors in military intelligence, etc.
In 2020, the South Ossetian teams, which for the first time took part in the Tank Biathlon and Excellence in Military Intelligence contests of the Army Games, showed good results - the tankers took third place in the second division in a bitter struggle. A total of 45 crews from over a dozen countries took part in two divisions of the competition.
The participation of the teams of the South Ossetian national army in the competition gave a significant impetus to the South Ossetian military personnel to improve their professional skills. The leadership of the department noted that participation in ARMI-2021 would serve the further development of relations between the Republic of South Ossetia and the Russian Federation in the military sphere.
