Military district of Russian Federation
Military unit
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
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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
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The following list is mostly sourced from milkavkaz, 2017.
[8]
Ground forces
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- 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
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Airborne troops
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Aerospace Forces
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Joint-service ceremonial units
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Leadership
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Commanders
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Chiefs of Staff - First Deputy Commanders
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- Lieutenant General
Mikhail Teplinsky
(February 2019 ? June 2022) (Colonel General since 8 December 2021)
Deputy commanders
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- 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)
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See also
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References
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Citations
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Bibliography
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- Galeotti, Mark (2017).
The Modern Russian Army 1992?2016
. Elite 217. Oxford: Osprey.
ISBN
978-1-47281-908-6
.