Central Military District
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The Central Military District Russian: Центральный военный округ, romanized: Tsentral'nyy voyennyy okrug is a military district of Russia.
It is one of the five
The Central Military District is the largest military district in Russia by geographic size at 7,060,000 square kilometers (2,730,000 sq mi) (40% of Russian territory) and population at 54.9 million people (39%). The district contains 29 of the 85 federal subjects of Russia: Altai Krai, Altai Republic, Bashkortostan, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Chuvashia, Irkutsk Oblast, Kemerovo Oblast, Khakassia, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Kirov Oblast, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Kurgan Oblast, Mari El, Mordovia, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Novosibirsk Oblast, Omsk Oblast, Orenburg Oblast, Penza Oblast, Perm Krai, Samara Oblast, Saratov Oblast, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Tatarstan, Tomsk Oblast, Tuva, Tyumen Oblast, Udmurtia, Ulyanovsk Oblast.
The Central Military District is headquartered in Yekaterinburg, and its current district commander is Lieutenant-General Andrey Mordvichev, who has held the position since 17 February 2023.[2]
History
It was reported that a new mountain motorised rifle brigade, the
In June 2015, Leslie H. Gelb wrote that the role of the Central Military District is to "orchestrate Russian engagement in local conflicts within Central Asia, to manage Russia’s bases in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, and to supply reinforcements from its two armies either to the east or the west in the event of war" and that their purpose is to "forestall instability that might spill over into Russia and to remind everyone that Russia’s Armed Forces are mightier than China’s".[5]
In February 2019, there were Russian-language reports that the Central Military District (as well as the Western Military District) were to be divided, to leave a military district organisation more like the pre-2010 situation.[6]
After the signing of the
Component units
The following list is mostly sourced from milkavkaz, 2017.[8]
Ground forces
- Samara)[9]
- 41st Combined Arms Army (Novosibirsk)[10][9]
- 90th Guards Tank Division (Chebarkul)
- 232nd Rocket Artillery Brigade (Chebarkul) (see ru:232-я реактивная артиллерийская бригада)
- 28th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade (Chebarkul)
- 59th Command Brigade (Verkhnyaya Pyshma)
- 179th Signal Brigade (Yekaterinburg)
- 12th Separate Guards Engineer Brigade (Ufa)[9]
- 15th Separate Motor Rifle Peacekeeping Brigade (Roshchinsky, Samara Oblast)
- 1st Mobile NBC Protection Brigade (Shikhany)
- 29th Separate NBC Protection Brigade (Yekaterinburg)[9]
- 5th Separate Railway Brigade (Abakan)
- 43rd Separate Railway Brigade (Yekaterinburg)
- 48th Separate Railway Brigade (Omsk)
- 105th Separate Logistics Support Brigade (Kryazh)
- 106th Separate Logistics Support Brigade (Yurga)
- 24th Separate Repair and Recovery Regiment (Karabash)
- 473rd District Training Center (Yelansky, Sverdlovsk Oblast)[11]
- 1311 Central Base for Storage and Repair of Weapons and Military Equipment (TsBHiRT) (Volga-Urals Military District;[12]- 415 tanks are relatively combat-ready (of which 289 are being preserved under dry air)
- 3018 Central Tank Reserve Base (military unit 75485, 624852, Kamyshlov, Sverdlovsk Oblast)[12]
Main Directorate of General Staff
- 3rd Guards Special Purpose Brigade (Tolyatti)
- 24th Special Purpose Brigade (Novosibirsk)[13]
- 39th Separate Special Purpose Radio-Technical Brigade (Orenburg)
Airborne troops
- 31st Guards Airborne Brigade (Ulyanovsk)
- 242nd Training Centre
Aerospace Forces
Joint-service ceremonial units
- Military Band of the Central Military District (Yekaterinburg)
- Honour Guard of the Central Military District
- Song and Dance Ensemble of the Central Military District
Leadership
Commanders
- Lieutenant-General Vladimir Chirkin (9 July – 13 December 2010 (acting), 13 December 2010 – 26 April 2012)
- Colonel-General Valery Gerasimov (26 April – 9 November 2012)
- Major-General Aleksandr Dvornikov (9 November – 24 December 2012 (interim)).
- Colonel-General Nikolay Bogdanovsky (24 December 2012 – 12 June 2014)
- Colonel-General Vladimir Zarudnitsky (12 June 2014 – 22 November 2017)
- Lieutenant-General Aleksandr Lapin (22 November 2017 – 29 October 2022) (later Colonel General)[14]
- Major-General Aleksandr Linkov (29 October 2022 – 17 February 2023 (acting)) [15]
- Lieutenant-General Andrey Mordvichev (17 February 2023 – present)
Chiefs of Staff - First Deputy Commanders
- Lieutenant General Mikhail Teplinsky (February 2019 – June 2022) (Colonel General since 8 December 2021)
Deputy commanders
- Deputy commander
- Lieutenant General Yevgeny Poplavsky (November 2018 – present)
- Deputy commander for Military-Political Work and Head of the Department for Military-Political Work
- Major General Rustam Minnekaev (December 2020 – present)[16]
See also
References
Citations
- ^ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 20 сентября 2010 года № 1144 «О военно-административном делении Российской Федерации» Archived 2012-03-31 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Major General Linkov appointed interim commander of Russian army's 'Center' grouping in Ukraine". www.meduza.io. 3 November 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
- ^ "55 OMSBr (G)". 23 May 2014.
- ^ Ivanov, Ivan (9 February 2016). "Приказ быстро построиться" [Order to quickly build]. Rossiskaya Gazeta (in Russian). Retrieved 13 October 2016.
- ^ Russia and America: Toward a New Détente, National Interest, p. 5
- ^ "Soldat.ru • Просмотр темы - Новые-старые военные округи".
- ^ "Russia deploying peacekeeping forces to Karabakh". anadolu agency. 11 November 2020.
- ^ "ЦВО". Milkavkaz. 2021-05-22. Archived from the original on 22 May 2021. Retrieved 2022-05-30.
- ^ a b c d e Galeotti 2017, p. 30.
- ^ Dorofeyev, Viktor (18 October 2016). "Шойгу оставил Екатеринбург без генералитета" [Shoigu left Yekaterinburg without generals] (in Russian). URA.RU. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
- ^ Belousov, Yury (21 May 2017). "Еланская школа профессионализма" [Yelanskaya Professional School]. Krasnaya Zvezda (in Russian). Archived from the original on 14 April 2018. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
- ^ a b Za Uralom
- ^ Michael Holm, 24th independent Special Forces Brigade, accessed January 2014.
- ^ "Commander of Russia's Central Military District dismissed". 29 October 2022.
- ^ "Major General Linkov appointed interim commander of Russian army's 'Center' grouping in Ukraine". Retrieved 6 November 2022.
- ^ Seddon, Max (2022-04-26). "'At war with the whole world': why Putin might be planning a long conflict in Ukraine". Financial Times. Retrieved 2022-04-26.
Bibliography
- Galeotti, Mark (2017). The Modern Russian Army 1992–2016. Elite 217. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 978-1-47281-908-6.