Siberian Military District

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Siberian Military District
Сибирский военный округ
Russian Federation (1991–2010)
BranchRussian Ground Forces
TypeMilitary district
Part ofMinistry of Defence
HeadquartersChita
DecorationsOrder of Lenin Order of Lenin

The Siberian Military District was a Military district of the Russian Ground Forces. The district was originally formed as a military district of the Russian Empire in 1864. In 1924 it was reformed in the Red Army. After the end of World War II the district was split into the Western and Eastern Siberian Military Districts. In 1956 the district was reformed. In 2010 it was divided between the two newly formed Central and Eastern Military Districts.

History

Boundaries of the Siberian Military District (in red) on 1 January 1989

The Siberian Military District was originally formed in 1864, as the Western Siberian Military District, being one of the ten original military districts of the Russian Empire. It was renamed the Omsk Military District in 1882, until renamed again Western Siberian Military District in 1918-1919.

The Siberian Military District was created in June 1924 with the consolidation of the Western, Central and Eastern Siberian Military Districts, which had become the Imperial Military Districts in the area. In June 1941 the District was host to the

91st Rifle Division at Achinsk
.

Among the many, many formations the district raised during the

75th Cavalry Division
, formed in September and October 1941.

Immediately after the end of World War II, on July 9, 1945, to facilitate the demobilisation process, the Siberian Military District was divided into the Western and Eastern Siberian Military Districts.

On January 4, 1956 the Western Siberian Military District was again renamed the Siberian Military District.[2]

In 1959 the 74th Temryukskaya Red Banner Motor Rifle Division (74-я мотострелковая Темрюкская Краснознамённая дивизия) (в/ч 77087) at Krasnoyarsk was disbanded, with two units joining the 85th Motor Rifle Division.[3]

In 1968 the 33rd Army Corps was transferred into the district from the Turkestan Military District, establishing its headquarters at Kemerovo.[4] The 13th Motor Rifle Division at Biysk was assigned to it. Among the mobilisation divisions formed in the district from the late 1970s was the 167th Motor Rifle Division, whose equipment storage area was co-located with the barracks of the 13th MRD.

The 242nd Motor Rifle Division was established at Abakan in 1972.

In 1974 for their great contributions to the cause of strengthening the defence of the Soviet State and its armed protection, successes in combat and political training, the Transbaikal Military District was rewarded with the Order of Lenin, and the Siberian Military District with the Order of the Red Banner.

The 33rd Army Corps disbanded in July 1991 and its personnel and assets were absorbed by the arriving 28th Army Corps from Czechoslovakia.[5] General Major Nikolai Loktionov remained in command of the merged formation, having been appointed as the 33rd Army Corps commander in June 1991.

In August 1992, the

Kishinev in the Odessa Military District was split out of the division and sent to Abakan. In the city of Abakan, four years later, the 300th Guards Parachute Regiment was reorganised as the 100th independent Guards Airborne Brigade, but was then disbanded circa 1998.[7]

In 1998, seven years after the fall of the Soviet Union, the District absorbed most of the territory and responsibilities of the former Transbaikal Military District, retaining the name Siberian Military District, but on their merger gave up the vast Sakha Republic (also known as Yakutia) to the expanded Far Eastern Military District.

District forces in 1990

The Siberian Military District has traditionally been a source for creating new wartime reserves, as demonstrated by the crucial role the Siberian rifle divisions have played in the

14th independent Red Banner Air Defence Army of the Air Defence Forces
with its headquarters in Novosibirsk were based in the Siberian Military District's area of responsibility, but were independent operational formations.

Formations and units under direct district subordination

District Command and Headquarters (Управление командующего и штаб) - Novosibirsk

  • 373rd Separate Staff Security and Supply Battalion (373-й отдельный батальон охраны и обеспечения штаба) - Novosibirsk
  • 67th Separate
    Spetsnaz Brigade (67-я отдельная бригада специального назначения) - Berdsk (GRU
    formation operationally attached to the district)
  • 172nd Radio-technical Brigade OsNaz (172-я радиотехническая бригада ОсНаз) - Biysk (GRU formation operationally attached to the district)
  • 233rd
    Radio-electronic Warfare Regiment (233-й полк РЭБ) - Shilovo village (EW Directorate of the General Staff
    's (Управление РЭБ ГШ СССР) unit operationally attached to the district)
  • 103rd Separate Signals Brigade (103-я отдельная бригада связи) - Yagunovo village
  • 135th Separate Tallinskaya, awarded the Order of the Red Star Signals Brigade (135-я отдельная Таллинская ордена Красной звезды бригада связи) - Kochenyovo village
  • 1310th Separate Troposphere Signals Battalion (1310-й отдельный батальон тропосферной связи) - Kyzyl
  • 130th Separate Landing Assault Brigade [cadred] (130-я отдельная десантно-штурмовая бригада (кадра)) - Abakan
  • 485th Separate Motor Rifle Regiment (485-й отдельный мотострелковый полк) - Aktash village
  • 6th Guards SSM Brigade (6-я гвардейская ракетная бригада) - Taksino village
  • 1168th Separate SSM (or possibly MLRS) Battalion (1168-й отдельный ракетный дивизион) - Pashino village
  • 351st High Power Artillery Brigade (351-я артиллерийская бригада большой мощности) - Shilovo village
  • 520th Gun Artillery Brigade (520-я пушечная артиллерийская бригада) - Krasnoyarsk
  • 314th Separate Radio-technical Regiment (314-й отдельный радиотехнический полк) - Krasnoyarsk
  • 247th Separate Radio-technical Battalion (247-й отдельный радиотехнический батальон) - Taskino village
  • 11th Chenical Defence Brigade (11-я бригада химической защиты) - Topchikha village
  • 40th Chenical Defence Brigade (40-я бригада химической защиты) - Pospelikha village
  • 430th Separate Sapper Engineer Battalion (430-й отдельный инженерно-сапёрный батальон) - Pospelikha village
  • 309th Pontoon Bridging Regiment (309-й понтонно-мостовой полк) - Mochishte village
  • 587th Separate Pontoon Bridging Battalion (587-й отдельный понтонно-мостовой батальон) - Achinsk
  • 84th Separate Overhaul and Complex Repair and Maintenance Battalion (84-й отдельный ремонтно-восстановительный батальон комплексного ремонта) - Shilovo village
  • 12th Automobile [Transport] Brigade (Automotive Troops) (12-я автомобильная бригада) - Mochishte village
  • 48th Automobile [Transport] Brigade (Automotive Troops)(48-я автомобильная бригада) - Biysk
  • Separate Heavy Vehicle Automobile [Transport] Battalion (Automotive Troops)(Отдельный автомобильный батальон тяжёлых машин) - Abakan
  • 51st Brigade for Material Support (51-я бригада материального обеспечения) - Barnaul
  • 121st Brigade for Material Support (121-я бригада материального обеспечения) - Shilovo village
  • 250th Pipeline Brigade (250-я трубопроводная бригада) - Kamarchaga village
  • 465th District Training Center (465-й окружной учебный центр) - Omsk

Divisions under direct district subordination

  • 33rd Army Corps (33-й армейский корпус) - Kemerovo
    • 5349th Weaponry and Equipment Storage Base (5352-я БХВТ) in Biysk since 1989. Previously the 1010th Territorial Training Center (1010-й территориальный учебный центр) itself formed on the base of the 167th Motor Rifle Division [cadred] (167-я мотострелковая дивизия (кадра)) in 1987.
    • 5351st Weaponry and Equipment Storage Base (5351-я БХВТ) in Biysk since 1989. Previously the 13th Motor Rifle Division. In July 1992 took over the traditions, honors and awards from the disbanded 23rd Guards Motor Rifle Division, and was renamed 13th Guards Motorised Rifle Division.[8]
    • 5352nd Weaponry and Equipment Storage Base (5352-я БХВТ) in Omsk since 1989. Previously the 62nd Motor Rifle Division (62-я мотострелковая дивизия) - Itatka village
  • 85th Leningradsko-Pavlovskaya Red Banner Motor Rifle Division (85-я мотострелковая Ленинградско-Павловская Краснознамённая дивизия) - Novosibirsk (the sole active combat division in the district)
  • 5350th Weaponry and Equipment Storage Base (5350-я БХВТ) since Dec. 1, 1989. Previously the 242nd Motor Rifle Division in Abakan under the 33rd Army Corps
  • 95th Motor Rifle Division [cadred] (95-я мотострелковая дивизия (кадра)) - Stepnoy village
  • 190th Motor Rifle Division [cadred] (190-я мотострелковая дивизия (кадра)) - Berdsk
  • 218th Motor Rifle Division [cadred] (218-я мотострелковая дивизия (кадра)) - Biysk
  • 227th Motor Rifle Division [cadred] (227-я мотострелковая дивизия (кадра)) - Svetliy village
  • 261st Motor Rifle Division [cadred] (261-я мотострелковая дивизия (кадра)) - Stepnoy village
  • 241st Rear Area Security Division [cadred] (241-я дивизия охраны тыла (кадра)) - Novosibirsk
  • 84th Deep Reserve Artillery Division (84-я артиллерийская запасная дивизия) - Taskino village
  • 67th Deep Reserve Tank Division [cadred] (67-я запасная танковая дивизия (кадра)) - Shilovo village
  • 68th Deep Reserve Tank Division [cadred] (68-я запасная танковая дивизия (кадра)) - Topchikha village
  • 71st Deep Reserve Tank Division [cadred] (71-я запасная танковая дивизия (кадра)) - Omsk

Air Forces of the Siberian Military District

Air Forces of the Siberian Military District (ВВС Сибирского военного округа) - Novosibirsk[9]

  • 137th Separate Composite Aviation Squadron (137-я отдельная смешанная авиационная эскадрилья) - Tolmachevo Airport, Novosibirsk (sometimes also listed as Tolmachevo - Ob) - Il-22, An-12, An-26, An-24, Mi-8 (under direct district HQ control)
  • Barnaul Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots named after Chief marshal of aviation K. A. Vershinin (Барнаульское высшее военное авиационное училище лётчиков имени Главного Маршала авиации К. А. Вершинина) - Barnaul[10]
    • 96th Training Air Regiment (96-й учебный авиационный полк) - Kamen-na-Obi - MiG-21
    • 59th Training Air Regiment (59-й учебный авиационный полк) - Slavgorod, based at two airfields called North (Северный) and South (Южный) - MiG-21, L-29
    • 44th Training Air Regiment (44-й учебный авиационный полк) - Panfilovo - Panfilovo - L-39, Mi-8
  • Irkutsk Higher Engineer School of Military Aviation awarded the Order of the Red Star, named after the 50th Anniversary of the Komsomol (Иркутское высшее военное авиационное инженерное ордена Красной Звезды училище имени 50-летия ВЛКСМ) - Irkutsk
  • Achinsk Military Aviation Technical School (Ачинское военное авиационно-техническое училище) - Achinsk
  • Krasnoyarsk Military Aviation School for Specialists (Красноярская военно-авиационная школа специальных служб) - Krasnoyarsk
  • Rubtsovsk Military Aviation School for Mechanics (Рубцовская военная авиационная школа механиков) - Rubtsovsk
  • Kansk School for On-Board Signals and Gunner Airmen (Канская школа воздушных стрелков-радистов) - Kansk

District forces c. 2009–2010

Siberian Military District 1998–2010

The

41st Army was formed from the headquarters of the former Siberian Military District at Novosibirsk while the new district’s headquarters were established at Chita
(the former Transbaikal MD HQ). It is likely safe to assume that the 41st Army controls all the field formations of the previous Siberian Military District.

The

21st 'Tagenrog' Motor Rifle Division, withdrawn from Germany to the former Siberian Military District, was apparently partially re-equipped with the T-90 MBT in the mid-1990s, in 2000 it was apparently disbanded.[13]

The

29th Army at Ulan-Ude was seemingly disbanded in the course of 2007.[14]

Subordinate units

Structure and units of the Siberian Military District 2010

Order of Lenin Siberian Military District 2010:

Commanders

West Siberian MD

  • Infantry General Alexander Osipovich Dyugamel; (April 1865 - October 1866)
  • Infantry General Alexander Petrovich Khrushchev; (October 1866 - January 1875)
  • Infantry General Nikolai Gennadievich Kaznakov; (January 1875 - February 1881)
  • Lieutenant General Grigory Vasilyevich Mescherinov (February 1881 - May 1882).

Omsk MD

  • General of Infantry Kolpakovsky, Gerasim Alekseevich; (May 1882 - June 1889)
  • Lieutenant General Babkov, Ivan Fedorovich (temporarily acting); (June - October 1889)
  • General of the Cavalry Taube, Maxim Antonovich; (October 1889 - May 1899)

Siberian MD

  • General of the Cavalry Taube, Maxim Antonovich; (May 1899 - July 1900)
  • Lieutenant General Aleksander F. Karpov (July 1900 - April 1901)
  • Lieutenant General Nikolay N. Sukhotin (April 1901 - April 1906)

Omsk MD

  • Lieutenant General Ivan Nadarov; (April 1906 - June 1908)
  • General of the cavalry Schmitt, Evgeny Ottovich; (August 1908 - April 1916)
  • General of the Cavalry Nikolai Alexandrovich Sukhomlinov; (April 1916 - March 1917)
  • Major General Dumbadze, Samson Antonovich; (March 1917)
  • Major General G.V. Grigoriev; (March - July 1917)
  • Lieutenant General Taube, Alexander Alexandrovich; (July 1917)
  • Colonel MP Predinsky; (July - August 1917) -
  • Ensign P. N. Polovnikov; (August - November 1917)
  • Captain M. I. Telitsyn; (November 1917 - May 1918)
  • Major General Aleksei Matkovsky (December 1918 - 1919).

Siberian MD

Eastern Siberian MD

Western Siberian MD

  • Lieutenant General Vladimir Kurdyumov (April 1944 – October 1946)
  • General of the Army
    Andrei Yeremenko
    (October 1946 – November 1953)
  • Colonel General
    Nikolai Pukhov (November 1953 – January 1956) (former commander of 13th Army
    )

Siberian MD

See also

Notes

  1. ^ See Leo Niehorster, http://niehorster.org/012_ussr/41_oob/stavka-reserves/army_24.html and http://niehorster.org/012_ussr/41_oob/interior/_siberia.html
  2. ^ "Siberian Military District".
  3. ^ "74th Motorised Rifle Division".
  4. ^ Holm, Michael. "33rd Army Corps". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-05-18.
  5. ^ Feskov et al 2013, 563-564.
  6. ^ Feskov et al. 2013, 396; Holm, 21st Taganrogskaya Motorised Rifle Division
  7. ^ Holm, Michael (2015-01-01). "300th Guards Parachute Regiment [300-й гвардейский парашютно-десантный ордена Кутузова полк] Military Unit: 40390; from 10.92: 00000". Soviet Armed Forces 1945-1991. Retrieved 2022-03-09.
  8. ^ Holm, 13th Motorised Rifle Division, and Feskov et al 2013, Chapter 29.1 (33 AK).
  9. ^ Drozdov, Sergey. "Была такая авиация... Эхо былой воздушной мощи (There Was Such Aviation... Echo of Air Power Past)". Авиация и космонавтика (Aviation and Spaceflight). March 2016: 8.
  10. ^ Holm, Michael (2015-01-01). "Barnaul Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots named for Chief Marshal of Aviation K.A. Vershinin". Soviet Armed Forces 1945-1991. Retrieved 2022-03-09.
  11. IISS
    , The Military Balance 2006, p. 160
  12. ^ Michael Holm, 2nd Guards Tank Division, 2015.
  13. ^ Taganrogskaya Red Banner order of Suvorov. See also http://www.ww2.dk/new/army/msd/21msd.htm.
  14. ^ Vad777's Siberian Military District page (Russian language), late July 2007, see Army article for link
  15. ^ "Sib". Archived from the original on 2008-05-13. Retrieved 2010-03-18., accessed March 2010
  16. ^ http://www.zabmedia.ru/?page=news&rubr=8&text=13721, accessed March 2010
  17. ^ "5th Guards Tank Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2017-06-24.
  18. ^ "Гарнизон Ясная. Забайкальский край - Здесь будет размещена информация о 131 мсд".
  19. ^ Holm
  20. ^ See http://www.ww2.dk/new/army/td/49td.htm and "Сибирский военный округ | Новости". Archived from the original on 2009-09-10. Retrieved 2010-04-18.

References

  • Greg Austin and Alexey Muraviev, The Armed Forces of Russia in Asia, Tauris, 2000
  • Feskov, V.I.; Golikov, V.I.; Kalashnikov, K.A.; Slugin, S.A. (2013). Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской [The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II: From the Red Army to the Soviet: Part 1 Land Forces] (in Russian). Tomsk: Scientific and Technical Literature Publishing.
    ISBN 9785895035306
    .

Further reading

  • V Plameni I Slave: Ocherki Istorii Sibirskogo Voyennogo Okruga. [In Fire and Glory: An Outline History of the Siberian Military District], (Novosibirsk: Zapadno-Sibirskoye Knizhizdat, 1969.

External links

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