Central Military District

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Central Military District
Центральный военный округ
Emblem of the Central Military District
Founded21 October 2010
Country Russian Federation
TypeMilitary district
Part ofRussian Armed Forces
HeadquartersYekaterinburg
DecorationsOrder of the Red Banner
WebsiteOfficial website
Commanders
Current
commander		Lieutenant General Andrey Mordvichev
Insignia
Flag
Military districts of Russia. The Central Military District is shown in green.
Russian Armed Forces
Staff
Services (vid)
Independent troops (rod)
Special operations force (sof)
Other troops
Military districts
History of the Russian military

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 military districts of the Russian Armed Forces, with its jurisdiction primarily within the central Volga, Ural and Siberia regions of the country and Russian bases in Central Asian post-Soviet states. The Central Military District was created as part of the 2008 military reforms, and founded by Presidential Decree No.1144 signed on September 20, 2010, as an amalgamation of the Volga–Urals Military District and a majority of the Siberian Military District. The district began operation on October 21, 2010, under the command of Lieutenant-General Vladimir Chirkin.[1]

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[edit]

It was reported that a new mountain motorised rifle brigade, the 55th, would be formed in Kyzyl, Tyva Republic, in 2015.[3] The brigade was formed in November 2015.[4]

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 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement on 9 November 2020, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that Russian peacekeepers would be deployed to Nagorno-Karabakh the following day for monitoring the cease-fire and the cessation of military actions in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone. The contingent will consist of 1,960 servicemen, 90 armored vehicles, 380 units of vehicles and special equipment mainly formed of units of the 15th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade of the Central Military District.[7]

Component units[edit]

The following list is mostly sourced from milkavkaz, 2017.[8]

Ground forces[edit]

  • 1311 Central Base for Storage and Repair of Weapons and Military Equipment (TsBHiRT) (Military Unit Number 42716, Verkhnyaya Pyshma), former 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[edit]

Airborne troops[edit]

Aerospace Forces[edit]

Joint-service ceremonial units[edit]

Leadership[edit]

The Central Military District headquarters building in Yekaterinburg

Commanders[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  • Lieutenant General Mikhail Teplinsky (February 2019 – June 2022) (Colonel General since 8 December 2021)

Deputy commanders[edit]

  • 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]
Members of the Military Police of the Central Military District on Red Square.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

Citations[edit]

  1. ^ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 20 сентября 2010 года № 1144 «О военно-административном делении Российской Федерации» Archived 2012-03-31 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Major General Linkov appointed interim commander of Russian army's 'Center' grouping in Ukraine". www.meduza.io. 3 November 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
  3. ^ "55 OMSBr (G)". 23 May 2014.
  4. ^ Ivanov, Ivan (9 February 2016). "Приказ быстро построиться" [Order to quickly build]. Rossiskaya Gazeta (in Russian). Retrieved 13 October 2016.
  5. ^ Russia and America: Toward a New Détente, National Interest, p. 5
  6. ^ "Soldat.ru • Просмотр темы - Новые-старые военные округи".
  7. ^ "Russia deploying peacekeeping forces to Karabakh". anadolu agency. 11 November 2020.
  8. ^ "ЦВО". Milkavkaz. 2021-05-22. Archived from the original on 22 May 2021. Retrieved 2022-05-30.
  9. ^ a b c d e Galeotti 2017, p. 30.
  10. ^ Dorofeyev, Viktor (18 October 2016). "Шойгу оставил Екатеринбург без генералитета" [Shoigu left Yekaterinburg without generals] (in Russian). URA.RU. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ a b Za Uralom
  13. ^ Michael Holm, 24th independent Special Forces Brigade, accessed January 2014.
  14. ^ "Commander of Russia's Central Military District dismissed". 29 October 2022.
  15. ^ "Major General Linkov appointed interim commander of Russian army's 'Center' grouping in Ukraine". Retrieved 6 November 2022.
  16. ^ 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[edit]

  • Galeotti, Mark (2017). The Modern Russian Army 1992–2016. Elite 217. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 978-1-47281-908-6.

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