Argumenty.ru on Friday reported a Main Military-Medical Directorate (ГВМУ or GVMU) source says Russia’s military-medical headquarters will relocate from Moscow to St. Petersburg. Although no timetable is specified, it has been decided that GVMU will end up sharing the complex of the Military-Medical Academy (ВМА or VMA) in Piter.
Military-Medical Academy
The GVMU source said:
“This issue was raised and decided positively from the moment when General-Major of the Medical Service Aleksandr Belevitin transferred from the post of VMA chief to the post of GVMU chief.”
General-Major Aleksandr Belevitin
A VMA source says:
“The issue is being actively discussed in the academy, although the exact timing is unknown. But part of the buildings, in particular, the physical training faculty building have already been set aside.”
Argumenty.ru reminds that the final decision on moving the Navy Main Staff to St. Petersburg was made not long ago, and ‘military experts’ put the cost of that move at 20-25 billion rubles.
This is kind of interesting. That’s a lot of influence to attribute to the new guy in the job, particularly a job several ‘comrade doctor generals’ have not been able to hold onto for long in recent history. Moreover, there are a lot of military hospitals and clinics in Moscow to serve the real capital’s large military and ex-military population. If GVMU moves, they will be somewhat illogically separated from their headquarters element.
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