Military commissariat
Military commissariat is a military institution in some European counties.Russia and former USSR
Military commissariat, abbreviated as voyenkomat is а local military administrative agency in the former Soviet Union as well as in present-day Russia and some other CIS countries that prepares and executes plans for military mobilization, maintains records on military manpower and economic resources available to the armed forces, provides premilitary training, drafts men for military service, organizes reserves for training, and performs other military functions at the local level.
Voennyi komissariat is headed by an officer called voenkom in Russian, which is an abbreviation for voennyi komissar, translated simply as "military commissar".Elsewhere in Europe
The word commissariat, within the Military of France and the Military of Italy designates services providing supplies, as well as financial and legal support to units, roughly equivalent to the Quartermasters in the US military. Officers from these services are called commissaires, commissari and commissaries in English.
