Apparatus • Collegium’s Work Organization Division • Insignia Division • Supervisory Department • Administrative Division • Analytical Division • Secretariat Division
Departments subordinated to the Ministry • Defence Policy Department • Finance, Budget and Planning Department • Capital Construction and Housing Department • Internal Audit Department • Information and Public Affairs Department • HR and Education Department • Legal Department • Social Security Department • Logistics Department
Services • Conscription and Mobilization Service • Central Military-Medical Committee • Central Clinical Military Hospital • Military Medical Training Centre • Human Rights and Integrity Building Centre • Council of the Union of Veterans of the Ministry of Defence • Military Control Service of the Ministry of Defence
Central Clinical Military Hospital It was created on March 15, 1994 in Yerevan. In May 2020, the surgical department, the neurosurgery department and the anesthesia department were named after Major Sergey Harutyunyan, Captain Karo Heboyan and Lieutenant Tigran Hovesyan, who were killed in a helicopter crash in early January 2000.
Other units and subordinate institutions •
Military Police •
12th Peacekeeping Brigade •
Special Forces Regiment • Separate Regiment of Protection •
Honour Guard Company •
BKMA Yerevan •
Army Chaplaincy Programme of the Armenian Church • Song and Dance Ensemble
Military Police The
Military Police () fall under the command of the Ministry of Defence, being considered to be a division that is separate from the central apparatus. The Military Police was established in May 1992 and had no special status until 2007, when a law to define the Military Police status was adopted. Its status is defined in the RA Law on Military Police, which says that the Military Police is responsible for the investigation of military crimes in the armed forces that were committed on the territory of military units and the deterrence of crimes being planned or committed by military servicemen. The Military Police Bylaws were approved by the
Government of Armenia on 25 December 2008. The military police is in control of the peacekeeping brigade.
Separate Regiment of Protection . The Separate Regiment of Protection is a security unit of the armed forces under the ministry. The
Honour Guard Company falls under its command. it descends from the Yerevan Special Regiment, founded on 20 September 1990 with 26 platoons from Yerevan. In 2008, the regiment, as this point known as the Capital Regiment, handed over its territory to the Armenian Peacekeeping Brigade, moving to a different location. It has taken part in the
2010,
2015 on
Red Square. It is currently led by Colonel Ashot Hakobyan a graduate of the
Moscow Higher Military Command School. The Armenian contingent at the 2010 parade was led by the grandson of Soviet Armenian Marshal
Sergei Khudyakov, Lieutenant Colonel Vardan Khanferyants. The contingent's colour guard held the flag of the
89th Rifle Division in the latter two parades.
Chaplaincy Programme The
Army Chaplaincy Programme of the
Armenian Apostolic Church (the
national church of
Armenia) is made up of more than 50 clergymen who currently serve as
military chaplains to the Armed Forces. It is jointly funded and sponsored by the Ministry of Defence and the church.
Ensemble The song and dance ensemble was formed in June 2010. The conscripts are admitted into the ensemble following an evaluation divided into these main parts: • Classical dances • Armenian folk dance • Foreign folk dances • Force movements • Perception of rhythm Razmik Marukyan, a ballet dancer and soloist at the
Alexander Spendiaryan Opera and Ballet National Theatre, has been a part of the ensemble. As part of the International Army Games 2020, it performed at the Partnership Without Borders National Cultural Festival in Moscow. ==List of ministers==