Eastern Military District

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Eastern Military District
Восточный военный округ
VVO Russia medium emblem.svg
Emblem of the Eastern Military District
Founded October 21, 2010
Country  Russian Federation
Type Military district
Part of Banner of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (obverse).svg Russian Armed Forces
Headquarters Serysheva 15, Khabarovsk
Decorations Order of the Red Banner
Commanders
Colonel General Sergey Surovikin

The Eastern Military District (Russian: Восточный военный округ) is one of the four operational strategic commands of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The district was formed in Presidential Decree №1144 signed on September 20, 2010.[1] It absorbed the territories of the former Far East Military District and part of the former Siberian Military District with headquarters at Khabarovsk.

Eastern Military District HQ, Khabarovsk

The federal subjects that are part of the district include Buryatia, the Sakha Republic, the Zabaykalsky Krai, the Kamchatka Krai, the Primorsky Krai, the Khabarovsk Krai, the Amur Oblast, the Magadan Oblast, the Sakhalin Oblast, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.[1]

Colonel General Sergey Surovikhn has commanded the district since October 2013.[2]

District forces

This is an incomplete listing Note: C3 Brigade is synonymous with headquarters brigade.

  • 104th Cluj Headquarters Brigade in Khabarovsk
  • 106th Communications Brigade (Territorial), Dalnerechensk
  • 14th Separate Guards Baranovichi Red Banner Order of the Red Star Engineering Brigade in Vyatka
  • 17th Separate Electronic Warfare Brigade in Khabarovsk
  • 7th Separate Red Banner Railway Brigade in Komsomolsk-on-Amur
  • 50th Separate Railway Brigade in Svobodny
  • 118th Separate Pontoon-Bridge Railway Battalion in Khabarovsk
  • 392nd Pacific Red Banner Order of Kutuzov District Training Center for junior specialists (Motorized troops) in Khabarovsk
  • 212th Guards Vienna Orders of Lenin and Kutuzov District Training Center for junior specialists (Tank troops) in Chita, Voyenygorodok Peschanka - established 3 October 1987 from previous 49th Tank Training Division[3]
  • 51st Training Detachment of the Pacific Fleet in Vladivostok
  • 7th Regional Training Center for NCOs in Knyaz-Volkonskoye

29th Army in Chita

  • 101st Khingan Headquarters Brigade (Chita)
  • 36th Separate Guards Lozovskaya Red Banner Motor Rifle Brigade (Borzya)
  • 200th Artillery Brigade (Military Unit No. 48271) (Gorniy settlement (Drovyanaya garrison), Uletovskiy raion, Zabaykalsky Krai)[4]
  • 140th Borisov Order of Kutuzov Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade (Domna) - Armed with Buk-M1 SAM

5th Army in Primorie, Ussuriysk

68th Corps (Russia)

35th Army in Belogorsk

36th Army in Ulan Ude

Air and Air Defence Forces

Russian Navy Forces

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 20 сентября 2010 года № 1144 «О военно-административном делении Российской Федерации»
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  4. The brigade consists of a howitzer divizion (towed 2A65 ‘Msta-B’ howitzers), rocket artillery divizion (‘Uragan’ MRLs), anti-tank divizion (AT artillery battery, 2 AT missile system batteries), an artillery reconnaissance divizion, and a combat support unit. Russian Soldier from the 200th Brigade Disclosed his Unit's Position in Syria, 7 March 2016, and Holm, 200th Artillery Brigade of High Power
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