---
id: "ru_military_unit_number"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["government"]
country: ["RU", "BY", "KZ"]
langs: ["ru"]
quality: 80
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/ru_military_unit_number"
---

# Russian military unit number (`ru_military_unit_number`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Conventional number of a military unit (войсковая часть, в/ч), used in open documents instead of the real name of the unit. Units of the Ministry of Defence have five digits, and units of the internal troops and the border troops have four. A subunit without its own number takes the number of its parent unit and a Cyrillic letter. The Soviet Union introduced the system, and Belarus and Kazakhstan use the same form. The pattern accepts the number with or without the words в/ч or войсковая часть; a bare number needs the field name or context.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Government related (government)
- Countries: Russian Federation (RU), Belarus (BY), Kazakhstan (KZ)
- Languages: Russian (ru)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^(?:(?:в/ч|войсковая часть) ?(?:№ ?)?)?\d{4,5}(?: ?[-–—] ?[А-Я])?$
```

## Examples

- `06017` — Five-digit number with a leading zero
- `в/ч 32363` — Number with the abbreviation
- `войсковая часть 3111` — Four-digit number of an internal troops unit
- `в/ч 71184-А` — Subunit with a letter
- `А0998` (invalid example) — Ukrainian form with a letter prefix

## Translations

- ru: Номер войсковой части: Условное наименование войсковой части (в/ч), пять цифр для частей Министерства обороны и четыре для внутренних и пограничных войск; у подразделений без собственного номера добавляется буква.

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Войсковая_часть>

## Quality

Score 80/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/ru_military_unit_number.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/RU/government/ru_military_unit_number.yaml>
