Volga–Ural Military District

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Volga–Ural Military District
Приволжско-Уральский военный округ
Russian Federation (2001–present)
BranchRussian Ground Forces
TypeMilitary district
HeadquartersYekaterinburg
DecorationsOrder of the Red Banner 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.

First World War, the district's staff was reorganised as the 4th Army
.

Following the October Revolution, the staff of the old imperial military districts hindered the creation of the new Soviet

27th Rifle Divisions which took place on the eastern front
of the war, as well as other formations and units.

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

Battle of Khalkhin Gol
with the Japanese in 1939.

World War II

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

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

356th, 358th, and 360th Rifle Divisions, plus the 46th, 89th, and 91st Cavalry Divisions.[2] Among the formations formed during the war was the 153rd Ural Rifle Division, which for its combat record in Belorussia and Smolensk was ranked among the Guards' on 18 September 1941 as the 3rd Guards Rifle Division. Also formed in the Ural District, with the tremendous effort of factory workers there, was the 30th Ural Tank Corps, later to become the 10th Urals-Lvov Tank Corps, today the 10th Guards Uralsko-Lvovskaya Tank Division
.

During the war, the city of Kuybyshev (now

3rd Guards Army arrived from Germany and was redesignated as the new Volga MD headquarters in late 1945. As part of the massive demobilisation exercise of 1945-6 the Kazan Military District was briefly reformed, encompassing the Tatar, Udmurt, Mari and Chuvash ASSRs. It was disbanded in May 1946.[3]

During the Cold War the district's air forces included the Chelyabinsk Higher Military Aviation School for Navigators.

Postwar

Volga–Ural Military District
Volga–Ural Military District headquarters

The Ural Military District was commanded between 1948 and 1953 by Marshal

Georgi Zhukov, effectively 'exiled' from more important commands. In 1954 the Ural MD controlled the 10th Rifle Corps (91st Rifle Division (Sarapul), 194th Rifle Division (Kirov) and 65th Mechanised Division (Perm)), and the 63rd Rifle Corps (77th Rifle Division (Sverdlovsk) and 417th Rifle Division (Chebarkul), 61st Mechanised Division (Kamyshlov).[4]

In June 1957 the

44th Tank Training Division
.

Meanwhile, in the Volga Military District, the

43rd Motor Rifle Division (Kuybyshev, Kuybyshev Oblast) and the 110th Motor. Rifle Division (Shikhany, Saratov Oblast). It became the 40th Army Corps that year also, but was disbanded in 1960.[6]

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).

Colonel General Albert Makashov
was appointed commander of the district. However, in July 1992 the Ural District was reformed, as the region had become a near-boundary area with the new states of Central Asia. The decision on restoration of the two separate Volga and Ural military districts was promulgated in Presidential Decree No. 757 of 7 July 1992 and the Order of the Minister of Defence of 25 July 1992.

From 1992 the two districts received large numbers of units and formations returning from the former groups of forces (including the

90th Guards Tank Divisions from the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany) and the ex-Soviet republics, the reception of which required enormous effort on behalf of the District HQs and the regional administrations. Many of these units were subsequently disbanded, including the 15th Guards Tank Division, withdrawn from the Central Group of Forces, which appears to have disbanded at Chebarkul in 1999.[8]

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]

Subordinate Units

Structure and units of the Volga - Ural Military District 2010

Red Banner Volga–Ural Military District 2010:[14][15]

Russian Airborne Troops
(VDV) Command in Moscow)
  • Missile and Artillery formations:
    • 92nd Missile Brigade, in Kamenka
    • 119th Missile Brigade, in Elanskyy
    • 385th Guards Artillery Brigade "Odessa", in Bershet
    • 950th MLRS Regiment, in Buzuluk
    • Artillery Reserve Base, in Buzuluk
    • 581st Independent Artillery Reconnaissance Battalion
  • Air-defence formations:
  • Radar formations:
    • 40th Independent Radio Technical Brigade, in Marks
    • 173rd Independent Radio Technical Battalion, in
      Samara
  • Engineering formations:
    • 56th Engineer Regiment, in Alkino
    • 774th Independent Engineer Battalion, in Chebarkul
    • 7025th Engineer Reserve Base
  • NBC-defence formations:
  • 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

Yamalo-Nenets
Autonomous Okrugs.
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

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

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  3. ^ Holm, Michael. "Kazan Military District". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-05-18.
  4. ^ Feskov et al 2013, 512.
  5. ^ Michael Holm, 4th Motor Rifle Division, 2015.
  6. ^ Holm, http://www.ww2.dk/new/newindex.htm; V.I. Feskov et al 2013.
  7. ^ "specnaz". specnaz.pbworks.com. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  8. ^ "Чебаркульский гарнизон - историческое место дислокации воинских частей". PUTI-shestvuy. Retrieved 2022-05-29.
  9. ^ Lucien Kim, Russian Army Reclaims 'Abandoned' Tanks After Internet Exposure, Bloomberg.com 28 February 2010
  10. ^ Medvedev fires military officials after Ulyanovsk arms depot blasts, 24 November 2009 and http://www.webground.su/tema/2009/11/25/6/
  11. ^ See Vad777 (2008-05-13). "Prevolga-Urals Military District [ПРИВОЛЖСКО-УРАЛЬСКИЙ ВОЕННЫЙ ОКРУГ]". Archived from the original on 2008-05-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ Holm, Michael. "34th Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-05-18.
  13. ^ French Army, Terre Information Magazine, No.185, June 2007, p.7
  14. ^ "Официальный портал органов власти Чувашской Республики » Карта сайта". gov.cap.ru. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  15. ^ http://gov.cap.ru/list4/news/rec.aspx?gov_id=657&pos=1&id=971618
  16. ^ "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.
  17. ^ "15 миротворческая бригада | Воинская часть". voinskaya-chast.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  18. ^ "27th Guards Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2017-06-25.