Eastern Military District

The Eastern Military District (Russian: Восточный военный округ) is a military district of Russia.

Eastern Military District
Восточный военный округ
Emblem of the Eastern Military District
FoundedOctober 21, 2010
Country Russian Federation
TypeMilitary district
Part of Russian Armed Forces
HeadquartersUlitsa Serysheva 15, Khabarovsk
DecorationsOrder of the Red Banner
Order of Lenin
Order of Suvorov
Commanders
Current
commander		Colonel General Gennady Zhidko

It is one of the five military districts of the Russian Armed Forces, with its jurisdiction within the Far Eastern Federal District of the country. The Eastern Military District was created as part of the 2008 military reforms, and founded by Presidential Decree №1144 signed on September 20, 2010, to replace the Far East Military District with the addition of the Transbaikal section of the Siberian Military District.[1] The district began operation on October 21, 2010, under the command of Admiral Konstantin Sidenko.

The Eastern Military District is the second largest military district in Russia by geographic size at 7,000,000 square kilometers (2,700,000 sq mi). The district contains 12 federal subjects of Russia: Amur Oblast, Buryatia, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Kamchatka Krai, Khabarovsk Krai, Magadan Oblast, Primorsky Krai, Sakha Republic, Sakhalin Oblast, Zabaykalsky Krai.[1]

The Eastern Military District is headquartered in Khabarovsk, and its current district commander is Colonel General Gennady Zhidko, who has held the position since November 2018.

Component units
The Khabarovsk Honour Guard.
District Headquarters, 2013

This listing of formation and units is not complete. A Command, control, and communications (C3) brigade is synonymous with a headquarters brigade.

  • 104th Cluj Headquarters Brigade (Khabarovsk)
  • Honour Guard Company of the Khabarovsk Garrison (formed 14 December 1971 and is led by Lieutenant Colonel Dmitri Zielinski)[2][3]
  • 106th Communications Brigade (Territorial) (Dalnerechensk)
  • 14th Independent Guards Baranovichi Red Banner Order of the Red Star Engineering Brigade (Vyatka, Khabarovsk Krai)
  • 17th Independent Electronic Warfare Brigade (Khabarovsk)
  • 7th Independent Red Banner Railway Brigade (Komsomolsk-on-Amur)
  • 50th Independent Railway Brigade (Svobodny)
  • 118th Independent Pontoon-Bridge Railway Battalion (Khabarovsk)
  • 392nd District Training Center for Junior Specialists (Motor Rifle Troops) (Khabarovsk)
  • 212th Guards Vienna Orders of Lenin and Kutuzov District Training Center for Junior Specialists (Tank Troops) (Chita)[4]
  • 51st Training Detachment of the Pacific Fleet (Vladivostok)
  • 7th Regional Training Center for NCOs (Knyaz-Volkonskoye, Khabarovsk Krai)

29th Army (Chita)

5th Red Banner Army (Ussuriysk)

68th Army Corps (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk)[9]

  • 137th Independent Headquarters Battalion (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk)
  • 39th Independent Motor Rifle Brigade (Khomutovo)
  • 312th Independent Multiple-Launch Artillery Battery (Dachnoye)
  • 676th Independent Engineer Battalion (Dachnoye)
  • 18th Machine Gun Artillery Division (Goryachie Klyuchi, Sakhalin Oblast)
    • 46th Machinegun Artillery Regiment (Lagunnoe)
    • 49th Machinegun Artillery Regiment

35th Army (Belogorsk)

36th Army (Ulan Ude)

  • 5th Independent Guards Tank Brigade (Ulan Ude)
  • 37th Independent Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Kyakhta)
  • 103rd Rocket Brigade (Ulan-Ude)
  • 1723rd Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment (Jida)
  • 75th C3 Brigade (Ulan Ude)

Air and Air Defence Forces

Russian Navy Forces
  • Pacific Fleet
    • Pacific Coast Flotilla
    • Kamchatka Flotilla/Northeastern Group of Troops and Forces
    • Other naval units, ships and submarines
    • 155th Guards Red Banner Naval Infantry Brigade
    • 3rd Naval Infantry Regiment
    • 165th Independent Naval Infantry Brigade (to be raised in 2018)

List of Commanders of the Eastern Military District
  • Admiral Konstantin Sidenko (October 2010 – October 2013)
  • Colonel-General Sergey Surovikin (October 2013 – November 2017)
  • Colonel-General Aleksandr Zhuravlyov (November 2017 – November 2018)
  • Lieutenant-General Gennady Zhidko (November 2018 – present)

References
  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. "Рота почетного караула | Лучшее в Хабаровске". www.bestmagazine.ru. Retrieved July 23, 2019.
  3. "Законодательство Хабаровского края: Постановление Администрации города Хабаровска от 09.10.2015 N 3490". mbpolyakov.ru. Retrieved July 23, 2019.
  4. Holm, Michael. "49th Training Tank Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-02-29.
  5. "38th Guards Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2017-06-18.
  6. Russian Soldier from the 200th Brigade Disclosed his Unit's Position in Syria, 7 March 2016, and Holm, 200th Artillery Brigade of High Power
  7. "В Приморье появилась новая мотострелковая дивизия". regnum.ru. Retrieved 2019-03-12.
  8. Holm, Michael. "20th Guards Missile Brigade". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-02-29.
  9. Mukhin, Oleg (3 February 2017). "20-я армия нашла командующего на Сахалине" [20th Army finds commander on Sakhalin]. Kommersant (in Russian). Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  10. "23rd Missile Brigade". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2017-06-13.

Further reading
  • Galeotti, Mark (2017). The Modern Russian Army 1992–2016. Elite 217. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 978-1-47281-908-6.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) - page 31 has a district order of battle

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