Volga–Ural Military District
Volga–Ural Military District | |
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Приволжско-Уральский военный округ | |
Russian Federation (2001–present) | |
Branch | Russian Ground Forces |
Type | Military district |
Headquarters | Yekaterinburg |
Decorations | Order of the Red Banner |
The Volga–Ural Military District was a military district of the Russian Ground Forces, formed on 1 September 2001 by the amalgamation of the Volga Military District and the Ural Military District. The headquarters of the Ural Military District, located at Yekaterinburg became the new headquarters of the merged district. In 2010 the District was merged with part of the Siberian Military District to form the new Central Military District.
Origins
The new merged district draws upon the history of the former Ural, Volga, and Kazan Military Districts.
Following the October Revolution, the staff of the old imperial military districts hindered the creation of the new Soviet
After the end of the Civil War the armed forces were reduced and the Ural Military District disbanded, on 21 April 1922. Its territory and troops were transferred to the West Siberian, Volga, Moscow and Petrograd military districts.
The Ural Military District was recreated on 17 May 1935 with its staff located at
World War II
During World War II the two districts dispatched over three thousand units to the front, totaling two million men. Five armies, 132 divisions, and over 300 regiments and battalions were established.
In formation in the Volga Military District alone on 1 September 1941 were the
During the war, the city of Kuybyshev (now
During the Cold War the district's air forces included the Chelyabinsk Higher Military Aviation School for Navigators.
Postwar
The Ural Military District was commanded between 1948 and 1953 by Marshal
In June 1957 the
Meanwhile, in the Volga Military District, the
By a Decree of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 15 January 1974, for their large contributions to the strengthening the defence power of the state and its armed protection both the Volga and Ural military districts were rewarded with the Order of the Red Banner. In 1979 Scott and Scott reported the HQ address of the Ural Military District as Sverdlovsk, K-75, Ulitsa Pervomayskaya, Dom 27, which also housed the officers' club.
On 1 September 1989 the Districts were merged with the new headquarters in Kuibyshev (Samara).
From 1992 the two districts received large numbers of units and formations returning from the former groups of forces (including the
In 2009, the Ulyanovsk arms depot explosion happened just before a visit from President Dmitry Medvedev.[9] Four military officers, including the deputy commander of the Volga–Ural Military District for armaments, General Major V. G. Khalitov, were dismissed for 'lack of control' and 'criminal negligence.'[10]
In 2006-07 the district's troops comprised:[11]
- 28th Motor Rifle Brigade.
- Russian 201st Motor Rifle Division, Dushanbe, Tajikistan
- 15th Independent Motor Rifle Brigade (which took part in the command post peacekeeping Exercise Normandie-Nieman 07 in April 2007 with the 1st Mechanised Brigade (France))[13]
- 2nd Guards Red Banner Combined Arms Army, 2nd Guards Tank Army)
- 5th Air and Air Defence Forces Army (Russian Air Force)
- 473rd District Training Centre
Subordinate Units
Red Banner Volga–Ural Military District 2010:[14][15]
- Combat formations:
- 7th Separate Guards Orenbug Cossack Tank Brigade, in Chebarkul
- 15th Separate Guards Berlin Motor Rifle Brigade, in Roshchinsky, Samara Oblast equipped with BTR.[16] Military Unit # 90600. Honorifics Berlin Red Banner Order of Kutuzov. Specialised 'peacekeeping' unit. Address: 443539, Samara distr, Roschinskyy. Formed from 589th Separate Motor Rifle Regiment on February 1, 2005.[17] In turn, the 589 Guards MRR was formed in late 1991 from the amalgamation of the 27 GMRD's 243 GMRR with the 213th Motor Rifle Division's 691st MRR.[18]2005: 100% contract service. 04.2008 visited by Japanese defence minister. 08.2008 one unit took part in war in South Ossetia.
- BMP
- 23rd Separate Guards Petrokov Motor Rifle Brigade, in Kryazh equipped with BTR
- BMP
- 201st Gatchina Military Base in Dushanbe (Tajikistan)
- 3rd Guards Warsaw-Berlin Spetsnaz Brigade, in Roshchinsky, Samara Oblast
- 473rd District Training Center, in Yelansky (just west of Kamyshlov in Sverdlovsk Oblast)
- Russian Airborne Troops(VDV) Command in Moscow)
- Missile and Artillery formations:
- Air-defence formations:
- 297th Air-defence Missile Brigade, in Alkino-2 (Ufa) equipped with the Buk missile system
- Radar formations:
- 40th Independent Radio Technical Brigade, in Marks
- 173rd Independent Radio Technical Battalion, in Samara
- Engineering formations:
- NBC-defence formations:
- 29th Independent NBC-defence Brigade, in Yekaterinburg
- 319th Independent NBC-defence Battalion, in Chpayevsk
- Signal formations:
- 59th (Communications Hub) Signal Brigade "Sivashskaya", in Yekaterinburg
- 179th (Territorial) Signal Brigade
- 191st Independent Signal Regiment, in Samara
- 153rd Independent (Rear) Signal Battalion
- 836th Independent Signal Battalion
- 1583rd Independent Electronic Warfare Battalion
Today the District comprises the
In 2009, on the basis of the 295th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment, the 7th Independent Guards Tank Brigade was created. It was reported that the District was dissolved on September 1, 2010, with most of its area of responsibility combined with the Siberian Military District as part of the new Central Operational-Strategic Command, while its western part joined the Southern Operational-Strategic Command (formerly the North Caucasus Military District).
Commanders
Ural Military District
1918–1922
- 1918 - 1918 : Filipp Goloshchyokin,
- 1918 - 1919 : Anuchin, Sergei Andreevich,
- 1919 - 1920 : Semashko, Adam Yakovlevich,
- 1920 - 1921 : Dukat, Julius Ivanovich,
- 1921 - 1922 : Sergei Mrachkovsky.
1935–1989
- May 1935 - May 1937 : Corps Commander Ilya Garkavyi,
- May 1937 - May 1937 : Corps Commander Boris Gorbachyov,
- May 1937 - Aug 1937 : Corps Commander Yan Gaylit,
- Aug 1937 - Jul 1938 : Corps Commander Georgy Sofronov,
- Jul 1938 - Jun 1941 : Corps Commander, from June 1940 Lieutenant General Filipp Yershakov,
- Jun 1941 - Nov 1941 : Colonel Ilya Alexandrovich Zhernakov (interim),
- Nov 1941 - Feb 1945 : Lieutenant General Alexander Vasilievich Katkov,
- Feb 1945 - Feb 1948 : Colonel General Fyodor Kuznetsov,
- Feb 1948 - Mar 1953 : Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov,
- May 1953 - Jan 1956 : General of the Army Mikhail Kazakov,
- Jan 1956 - Nov 1957 : General of the Army Nikolai Krylov,
- Jan 1958 - Jun 1960 : General of the Army Dmitry Lelyushenko,
- Jun 1960 - Jul 1961 : Colonel General Yakov Kreizer,
- Jul 1961 - Sep 1965 : Colonel General Ivan Tutarinov,
- Oct 1965 - Apr 1970 : Colonel General Alexander Alexandrovich Egorovsky,
- May 1970 - May 1980 : Colonel General Nikolai Kuzmich Silchenko,
- May 1980 - Dec 1983 : Colonel General Mikhail Alexandrovich Tyagunov,
- Dec 1983 - Nov 1984 : Colonel General Ivan Andreevich Gashkov,
- Nov 1984 - Jul 1987 : Colonel General Nikolai Fedorovich Grachev,
- Jul 1987 - Jan 1989 : Colonel General Nikolai Grigorievich Madudov,
- Jan 1989 - Sep 1989 : Colonel General Albert Makashov
1992–2001
- Jul 1992 - Dec 1999 : Colonel-General Yuri Pavlovich Grekov,
- Dec 1999 - Jan 2000 : Colonel General Vyacheslav Valentinovich Tikhomirov,
- Mar 2000 - Jul 2001 : Colonel General Alexander Ivanovich Baranov.
Volga Military District
see : Volga Military District
Volga–Ural Military District Commanders
The following officers commanded the district during its existence:
1989–1992
- Colonel General Albert Makashov (1 September 1989 – 31 August 1991)
- Colonel General Anatoly Sergeyev (31 August 1991 – 7 July 1992)
2001–2010
- Colonel General (General of the Army from June 2004) Alexander Baranov(19 July 2001 – 19 July 2004)
- General of the Army Vladimir Boldyrev (19 July 2004 – 1 August 2008)
- Lieutenant General (promoted to Colonel General June 2010) Arkady Bakhin (3 December 2008 – 22 July 2010)
References
- ^ Official Russian Defence Ministry website, www.mil.ru
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- ^ Holm, Michael. "Kazan Military District". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-05-18.
- ^ Feskov et al 2013, 512.
- ^ "4th Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
- ^ Holm, http://www.ww2.dk/new/newindex.htm; V.I. Feskov et al 2013.
- ^ "specnaz". specnaz.pbworks.com. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
- ^ "Чебаркульский гарнизон - историческое место дислокации воинских частей". PUTI-shestvuy. Retrieved 2022-05-29.
- ^ Lucien Kim, Russian Army Reclaims 'Abandoned' Tanks After Internet Exposure, Bloomberg.com 28 February 2010
- ^ Medvedev fires military officials after Ulyanovsk arms depot blasts, 24 November 2009 and Tema
- ^ See Vad777 (2008-05-13). "Prevolga-Urals Military District [ПРИВОЛЖСКО-УРАЛЬСКИЙ ВОЕННЫЙ ОКРУГ]". Archived from the original on 2008-05-13.
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- ^ "Официальный портал органов власти Чувашской Республики » Карта сайта". gov.cap.ru. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
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- ^ "В/Ч 90600 - 15 отдельная мотострелковая бригада (бывшая миротворческая)" [V/H 90600 - 15th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade (Former peacekeepers)]. www.roshinskiy.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 24 January 2010. Retrieved 2016-05-18.
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- Scott and Scott, The Armed Forces of the USSR, Westview Press, Boulder, Co., 1979
- Feskov, V.I.; K.A. Kalashnikov; V.I. Golikov (2004). The Soviet Army in the Years of the 'Cold War' (1945-1991). ISBN 5-7511-1819-7.
- 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.
- https://fas.org/irp/world/russia/fbis/VolgaMD.htm
- https://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/9059/RussianArmedForces.html&date=2009-10-22+23:33:20
- See also VUMD at Warfare.ru