The infrastructure of the Aktau garrison is improving

A diving training center, a military hospital will be built in the Mangistau region, and a military airfield will be reconstructed.

In the region, the head of the defense department was reported on the project for the construction of a training and diving center of the Naval Forces. Its creation will make it possible to conduct year-round training courses for combat swimmers, specialists in light diving, parachute training, underwater engineering work and small craft driving.

In order to provide the servicemen and their family members with the necessary medical care, it is planned to build a military hospital in the Aktau garrison.

The military sector of the Aktau airfield, which was put into operation in 2003, requires infrastructure development. "The goals of the long-term plan for the development of the airfield are to ensure constant combat readiness of the air base, increase the capacity of the airfield, improve the quality of training and combat work, and ensure flight safety requirements," Lieutenant General of Aviation Nurlan Ormanbetov, Commander-in-Chief of the Air Defense Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, reported to the Minister of Defense.

During the working trip, the Minister visited the department for storing ammunition and small arms, got acquainted with its workload, storage conditions and fire and explosion safety requirements, according to the guidelines.

Defense Minister Lieutenant General Nurlan Yermekbayev heard the commanders of the Aktau garrison units, got acquainted with the combat work of the command post and the automated air defense control system.

Nurlan Yermekbayev examined the modular barracks, the regional assembly point of the Department of Defense of the Mangystau region, where the draft medical commission is currently working.