The Order of Lenin Moscow Military District () is a

military district Military districts (also called military regions) are formations of a state's armed forces (often of the Army) which are responsible for a certain area of territory. They are often more responsible for administrative than operational matters ...

of the

Armed Forces of the Russian Federation The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, commonly referred to as the Russian Armed Forces, are the military of Russia. They are organized into three service branches—the Ground Forces, Navy, and Aerospace Forces—two independent comba ...

. Originally it was a district of the

Imperial Russian Army The Imperial Russian Army () was the army of the Russian Empire, active from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was organized into a standing army and a state militia. The standing army consisted of Regular army, regular troops and ...

until the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughl ...

's collapse in 1917. It was then part of the

Soviet Armed Forces The Armed Forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, also known as the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, the Red Army (1918–1946) and the Soviet Army (1946–1991), were the armed forces of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republi ...

. The district was awarded the

Order of Lenin The Order of Lenin (, ) was an award named after Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the October Revolution. It was established by the Central Executive Committee on 6 April 1930. The order was the highest civilian decoration bestowed by the Soviet ...

in 1968. In 2010, it was merged with the

Leningrad Military District The Order of Lenin Leningrad Military District () is a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The district was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1968. In 2010, it was merged with the Moscow Military District, the Northern ...

to form the new

Western Military District The Western Military District () was a Military districts of Russia, military district of Russia, in existence from 2010 until its abolishment as a unitary military command on February 26, 2024, succeeded by the newly reconstituted Moscow Mil ...

. In December 2022,

Defense Minister A ministry of defence or defense (see spelling differences), also known as a department of defence or defense, is the part of a government responsible for matters of defence and military forces, found in states where the government is divid ...

Sergey Shoigu Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu; , . (born 21 May 1955) is a Russian politician and military officer who has served as secretary of the Security Council since 2024. He served as Minister of Defence of Russia from 2012 to 2024. Shoigu has served ...

proposed to reestablish it along with the

, a decision confirmed in June 2023 by Deputy Chief of the General Staff Yevgeny Burdinsky. The district was formally reconstituted on 26 February 2024 by a Presidential Decree №141, after the Western Military District was split. Colonel General Sergey Kuzovlev took over as the new district's commander on 15 May 2024. The Moscow Military District is one of the smallest military districts in

Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...

by geographic size. It is one of two

s of the

Russian Armed Forces The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, commonly referred to as the Russian Armed Forces, are the military of Russia. They are organized into three service branches—the Russian Ground Forces, Ground Forces, Russian Navy, Navy, and Russi ...

, with its jurisdiction primarily within the western central region of

European Russia European Russia is the western and most populated part of the Russia, Russian Federation. It is geographically situated in Europe, as opposed to the country's sparsely populated and vastly larger eastern part, Siberia, which is situated in Asia ...

. The Moscow Military District contains 20

federal subjects The federal subjects of Russia, also referred to as the subjects of the Russian Federation () or simply as the subjects of the federation (), are the constituent entities of Russia, its top-level political divisions. According to the Cons ...

of Russia:

Belgorod Oblast Belgorod Oblast () is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (an oblast) of Russia. Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Belgorod. , the population is 1,540,486. History During the Princely ...

Bryansk Oblast Bryansk Oblast (), also known as Bryanshchina (, ), is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Bryansk. As of the 2021 Census, its population was 1,169,161. Geography Bryansk Oblast lies in weste ...

Ivanovo Oblast Ivanovo Oblast () is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It had a population of 927,828 as of the Russian Census (2021), 2021 Russian Census. Its three largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, cities are Ivanovo (the administrat ...

Kaluga Oblast Kaluga Oblast () is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Kaluga. The Russian Census (2021), 2021 Russian Census found a population o ...

Kostroma Oblast Kostroma Oblast () is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Kostroma and its population as of the Russian Census (2021), 2021 Census i ...

Kursk Oblast Kursk Oblast (, ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Kursk. As of the 2021 Russian census, 2021 census, Kursk Oblast had a pop ...

Lipetsk Oblast Lipetsk Oblast () is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Lipetsk. As of the Russian Census (2021), 2021 Census, its population was&n ...

Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...

Moscow Oblast Moscow Oblast (, , informally known as , ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). With a population of 8,524,665 (Russian Census (2021), 2021 Census) living in an area of , it is one of the most densely populate ...

Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Nizhny Novgorod Oblast () is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Nizhny Novgorod. It has a population of 3,119,115 as of the 2021 Ru ...

Oryol Oblast Oryol Oblast (), also known as Orlovshchina (), is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Oryol. Population: Geography It is loc ...

Ryazan Oblast Ryazan Oblast (, ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Ryazan, which is also the oblast's largest city. Geography Ryazan Oblast ...

Smolensk Oblast Smolensk Oblast (), informally also called Smolenshchina (), is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative centre is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Smolensk. As of the 2021 Russ ...

Tambov Oblast Tambov Oblast () is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Tambov. As of the Russian Census (2010), 2010 Census, its population was&n ...

Tver Oblast Tver Oblast (, ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Tver. From 1935 to 1990, it was known as Kalinin Oblast (). Population: Tver Oblast is a region of lakes, such as Seliger and Brosno. Much o ...

Tula Oblast Tula Oblast () is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (an Oblasts of Russia, oblast) of Russia. It is geographically located in European Russia and is administratively part of the Central Federal District, covering an area of . It has a ...

Vladimir Oblast Vladimir Oblast () is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Vladimir, which is located east of Moscow. As of the 2010 Census, the oblast's population was 1,443,693. The UNESCO World Heritage L ...

Vologda Oblast Vologda Oblast (, ; ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is Vologda. The oblast has a population of 1,202,444 (Russian Census (2010), 2010 Census). The largest city is Cherepovets, t ...

Voronezh Oblast Voronezh Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Voronezh. Its population was 2,308,792 as of the Russian Census (2021), 20 ...

Yaroslavl Oblast Yaroslavl Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast), which is located in the Central Federal District, surrounded by the Tver Oblast, Tver, Moscow Oblast, Moscow, Ivanovo Oblast, Ivanovo, Vladimir Oblast, Vlad ...

. It lies in the

Central Federal District The Central Federal District ( rus, Центральный федеральный округ, p=tsɨnˈtralʲnɨj fʲɪdʲɪˈralʲnɨj ˈokrʊk) is one of the federal districts of Russia, eight federal districts of Russia. Geographically, the di ...

. Military units of the internal troops of the

Ministry of Internal Affairs An interior ministry or ministry of the interior (also called ministry of home affairs or ministry of internal affairs) is a government department that is responsible for domestic policy, public security and law enforcement. In some states, the i ...

, the

FSB Border Service of Russia The Border Service of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation ( BS of the FSB of the RF, ) is a branch of the Federal Security Service of Russia tasked with patrol of the Russian border. The terms Border Service of Russia () and ...

, as well as units of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and other ministries and departments of the Russian Federation performing tasks on the territory of the district are under its operational subordination.

History

Russian Empire (1864–1917)

In the beginning of the second half of the 19th century Russian officials realized the need for re-organization of the

to meet new circumstances. During May 1862, the War Ministry, headed by

Army General Army general or General of the army is the highest ranked general officer in many countries that use the French Revolutionary System. Army general is normally the highest rank used in peacetime. In countries that adopt the general officer fou ...

Dmitry Milyutin Count Dmitry Alekseyevich Milyutin (; – ) was a Russian Military history, military historian and politician who served as the Ministry of War of the Russian Empire, minister of war from 1861 to 1881. He was also the last Russian Field marshal ...

, introduced to Tsar

Alexander II of Russia Alexander II ( rus, Алекса́ндр II Никола́евич, Aleksándr II Nikoláyevich, p=ɐlʲɪˈksandr ftɐˈroj nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ; 29 April 181813 March 1881) was Emperor of Russia, Congress Poland, King of Poland and Grand Du ...

proposals for the reorganization of the army, which included the formation of fifteen military districts. A tsarist edict of 6 August 1864, announced in a Defence Minister’s order on 10 August of the same year, established ten military districts, including

. The District’s territory then comprised 12

provinces A province is an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman , which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions outside Italy. The term ''provi ...

Vladimir Vladimir (, , pre-1918 orthography: ) is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, widespread throughout all Slavic nations in different forms and spellings. The earliest record of a person with the name is Vladimir of Bulgaria (). Etymology ...

Vologda Vologda (, ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on the river Vologda (river), Vologda within the watershed of the Northern Dvina. Population: The city serves as ...

Kaluga Kaluga (, ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Kaluga Oblast, Russia. It stands on the Oka River southwest of Moscow. Its population was 337,058 at the 2021 census. Kaluga's most famous residen ...

Kostroma Kostroma (, ) is a historic city and the administrative center of Kostroma Oblast, Russia. A part of the Golden Ring of Russian cities, it is located at the confluence of the rivers Volga and Kostroma. In the 2021 census, the population is 267, ...

Nizhniy Novgorod Nizhny Novgorod ( ; rus, links=no, Нижний Новгород, a=Ru-Nizhny Novgorod.ogg, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj ˈnovɡərət, t=Lower Newtown; colloquially shortened to Nizhny) is a city and the administrative centre of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast an ...

Ryazan Ryazan (, ; also Riazan) is the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and administrative center of Ryazan Oblast, Russia. The city is located on the banks of the Oka River in Central Russia, southeast of Moscow. As of the 2010 C ...

Smolensk Smolensk is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River, west-southwest of Moscow. First mentioned in 863, it is one of the oldest cities in Russia. It has been a regional capital for most of ...

Tambov Tambov ( , ; rus, Тамбов, p=tɐmˈbof) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Tambov Oblast, Central Federal District, central Russia, at the confluence of the Tsna River (Moksha basin), Tsna ...

Tver Tver (, ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative centre of Tver Oblast, Russia. It is situated at the confluence of the Volga and Tvertsa rivers. Tver is located northwest of Moscow. Population: The city is ...

, Tula, and

Yaroslavl Yaroslavl (; , ) is a city and the administrative center of Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located northeast of Moscow. The historic part of the city is a World Heritage Site, and is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Kotorosl rivers. ...

. The District was intended as a reinforcement source for troops and equipment, being some distance from the frontier, rather than an operational area. The District dispatched five infantry and a cavalry division south to the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–8, as well as sending another division to the

Caucasus The Caucasus () or Caucasia (), is a region spanning Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is situated between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, comprising parts of Southern Russia, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. The Caucasus Mountains, i ...

area. This force totaled around 30,000 men and 20,000 horses. Over 80,000 men were also called into reserve units. The District also housed 21,000 Turkish prisoners of war. During the

First World War World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...

over a million men were stationed in the district. Much of the garrison was involved in the

October Revolution The October Revolution, also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution (in Historiography in the Soviet Union, Soviet historiography), October coup, Bolshevik coup, or Bolshevik revolution, was the second of Russian Revolution, two r ...

of 1917, and consequent establishment of a

Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

regime in the cities of

Bryansk Bryansk (, ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Bryansk Oblast, Russia, situated on the Desna (river), Desna River, southwest of Moscow. It has a population of 379,152 at the 2021 census. Bryans ...

, Vladimir,

Voronezh Voronezh ( ; , ) is a city and the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast in southwestern Russia straddling the Voronezh River, located from where it flows into the Don River. The city sits on the Southeastern Railway, which connects wes ...

, Kaluga,

Orel Orel (meaning ''eagle'' in some Slavic languages; also a common first name in Israel meaning ''Light of God'' in Hebrew) may refer to: People *Orel Hershiser (born 1958), American baseball pitcher * Orel Mangala (born 1998), Belgian footballer ...

, Tver, Yaroslavl. By a resolution of the

Moscow Military Revolutionary Committee Moscow Military Revolutionary Committee () was an illegal body of the Moscow Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, controlled by the RSDLP(b), for the leadership of the Moscow Bolshevik Uprising. After the victory of the uprising, it acted ...

on , Corps Commander N.I. Muralov was assigned as the new commander of the district.

Soviet Russia & Soviet Union (1917–1991)

In the period of the

Russian Civil War The Russian Civil War () was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the 1917 overthrowing of the Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future. I ...

and military intervention in Russia 1917 - 22 the District prepared military personnel for all the fronts and supplied the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union. The army was established in January 1918 by a decree of the Council of People ...

with different forms of armament and allowances. From June to the middle of September 1919 the District conducted 33 callups totalling more than 500,000 people. In Moscow the 1 Moscow Rifle Division,

Warsaw Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...

revolutionary infantry regiment, and 2nd revolutionary infantry regiment were formed, and

Latvia Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the three Baltic states, along with Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the south. It borders Russia to the east and Belarus to t ...

n forces were brought to the Latvian Rifles Division. In Voronezh two cavalry divisions were formed, two rifle divisions and two rifle regiments in

, and the

16th Rifle Division The 16th Rifle Division (; ; ) was a formation in the Red Army created during World War II. The division was formed twice, and was given the title 'Lithuanian' during its second formation. It was originally established at Tambov in May 1918. It ...

in Tambov. Artillery units too were also being raised in the capital area. After the end of Civil War in the troops of region were demobilized, as a result of which their number was reduced from 580,000 (at the end of 1920) to 85,000 in January 1923, and the District was reorganised on a peacetime basis. In the 1920s the District had 10 rifle divisions: the 1st Moscow Proletariat Red Banner Rifle Division (first formed either in December 1924 or at the beginning of 1927), the 6th Oryol; the 14th Vladimir; the 17th Nikhegorodskaya; the 18th Yaroslavskaya; the 19th Voronekhskaya; the 48th Tverskaya; the 55th Kurskaya; the 81st Kaluga; and the 84th Tula. Autumn maneuvers began to be conducted yearly here in the district. The

2nd Rifle Corps The 2nd Rifle Corps was an infantry corps of the Red Army during the interwar period and World War II, formed twice. First formation It was formed in September 1922 as the 2nd Army Corps in accordance with orders dated 10 June, 18 July, and 12 ...

was stationed in the district from 1922 to 1936. In the beginning of the 1930 tanks started to be introduced, including the MS or T-18,

T-26 The T-26 tank was a Soviet light tank used during many conflicts of the Interwar period and in World War II. It was a development of the British Vickers 6-Ton tank and was one of the most successful tank designs of the 1930s until its light ...

T-27 The T-27 was a tankette produced in the 1930s by the Soviet Union. It was based on the design of the Carden Loyd tankette, bought under license from the United Kingdom in 1930. Design The Soviets were not fully satisfied with the Carden Loyd des ...

, BT,

T-28 T28 may refer to: Aircraft * Enstrom T-28, an American helicopter * North American T-28 Trojan, an American trainer * Slingsby T.28, a British glider Armoured land vehicles * T-28 (medium tank), a Soviet tank * T28 super-heavy tank, an ...

, and the heavy

T-35 The T-35 was a Soviet multi- turreted heavy tank of the interwar period and early Second World War that saw limited service with the Red Army. Often called a land battleship, it was the only five-turreted heavy tank in the world to reach product ...

. In 1930 the first mechanized infantry brigade in the Soviet Army was formed in the district. Russian Ground Forces - Moscow Military District Map

The

Russian Ground Forces The Russian Ground Forces (), also known as the Russian Army in English, are the Army, land forces of the Russian Armed Forces. The primary responsibilities of the Russian Ground Forces are the protection of the state borders, combat on land, ...

' official site notes that the first tactical parachute landing took place in the District on 2 August 1930. In World War II the District formed three fronts, 23

armies An army, ground force or land force is an armed force that fights primarily on land. In the broadest sense, it is the land-based military branch, service branch or armed service of a nation or country. It may also include aviation assets by ...

, 128 divisions of all arms, and 197 brigades of all arms, an approximate total of 4.5 million men. In 1944–5 alone the District sent to the front 1,200,000 soldiers. From summer 1945 to summer 1946, in order to supervise the demobilisation process, the District was subdivided into four: the Moscow,

(1949–60),

Gorki Gorki may refer to: *Maxim Gorki (1868–1936), Russian author * Gorki Águila (b. 1968), Cuban rock musician *Gorki (band) Gorki was a Belgian rock group, in its most recent line-up consisting of Luc De Vos (lead singer and guitarist), L ...

(1945—1947, 1949—1953) (where the 324th Rifle Division was probably demobilised), and Smolensk Military Districts ( 33rd Army, home from Germany, formed Smolensk MD headquarters in late 1945). General

Kirill Moskalenko Kirill Semyonovich Moskalenko (; , romanized: ''Kyrylo Semenovych Moskalenko''; 11 May 1902 – 17 June 1985) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union. A member of the Soviet Army who fought in both the Russian Civil War and World War II, he later served ...

took command of the District in 1953 and would later be a Marshal of the Soviet Union after leaving his post. The Voronezh Military District was reactivated in 1949 and was active until 1960. In January 1954 the district's forces comprised the 1st Guards Rifle Corps (including the 62nd Guards Mechanised Division and the

60th Rifle Division 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics A six-sided polygon is a hexagon, one of the three regular polygons capable of tiling the plane. A hexagon a ...

); the

11th Guards Rifle Corps In music theory, an eleventh is a compound interval consisting of an octave plus a fourth. A perfect eleventh spans 17 and the augmented eleventh 18 semitones, or 10 steps in a diatonic scale. Since there are only seven degrees in a diaton ...

(

272nd Rifle Division 7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube (algebra), cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has symbolic associations in religion, myt ...

and 23rd Guards Mechanized Division), the

13th Guards Rifle Corps In music or music theory, a thirteenth is the Musical note, note thirteen scale degrees from the root (chord), root of a chord (music), chord and also the interval (music), interval between the root and the thirteenth. The thirteenth is m ...

( 38th Guards Rifle Division and the 66th Guards Mechanised Division),

38th Guards Airborne Corps The 38th Guards Airborne Corps was an airborne corps of the Soviet airborne. It was activated during World War II in August 1944 and became a rifle corps in December of that year. The corps fought in the Vienna Offensive and the Prague Offensive ...

(13th Guards, 105th Guards Vienna Airborne Division and 106th Airborne Division) and the

4th Guards Kantemirovskaya Tank Division The 4th Guards Tank Division is a Guards armoured division of the Russian Ground Forces. The division is named after Yuri Andropov. The division has the Military Unit Number 19612 and is one of the key formations of the Moscow Military District ...

. Among the 1957 reorganisations was the creation of the 23rd Guards Motor Rifle Division from the 23rd Guards Mechanized Division. On 22 February 1968, for the large contribution to the cause of strengthening the defense of the state, for its successes in combat and political training, and in view of the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Army plus its important role in the 2nd World War, the District was awarded with the Order of Lenin. In 1979 Scott and Scott reported the HQ address as being Moscow, A-252, Chapayevskiy Per., Dom 14.

Post-Soviet era (1991–2010)

With the collapse of the

USSR The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

the District became for the first time in its history a boundary district and thus a new priority was put on building up combat forces within it, rather than the training and capital garrison focus of the Soviet period. In the early 1990s the District received the headquarters of the First Guards Tank Army from the

Group of Soviet Forces in Germany The Western Group of Forces (WGF), previously known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany (GSOFG) and the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (GSFG), were the troops of the Soviet Army in East Germany. The Group of Soviet Occupation ...

. It was relocated to

, and consisted of the 4th Guards Tank Division and

144th Guards Motor Rifle Division The 144th Guards Yelnya Red Banner Order of Suvorov Motor Rifle Division () is a motorized infantry division of the Russian Ground Forces, reestablished in 2016 with its headquarters at Yelnya, Smolensk Oblast. History Formation & World War I ...

(at

Yelnya Yelnya () is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia. ;Urban localities * Yelnya, Yelninsky District, Smolensk Oblast, a town in Yelninsky District of Smolensk Oblast; administratively incorporated as Yelninskoye Urban Settlement ;Ru ...

). In July 1992 the 336th Independent Helicopter Regiment returned from Germany to Oreshkovo airfield and was placed under the Moscow Military District. The regiment then came under 1st Guards Tank Army from 31 December 1992. The 1st Guards Tank Army's headquarters disbanded later in the 1990s, along with the 144th Guards MRD. In addition, the 6th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade was withdrawn from Germany and restationed at

Kursk Kursk (, ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Kursk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kur (Kursk Oblast), Kur, Tuskar, and Seym (river), Seym rivers. It has a population of Kursk ...

. The 22nd Army Headquarters was reformed from 13th Army Corps in the early 1990s, to control the new 3rd Motor Rifle Division among other formations. The 22nd Army had previously been inactive for a long period; it was last operational immediately after the war (when it participated in the

Second Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive Operation Mars (Russian: Операция «Марс»), also known as the Second Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive Operation (Russian: Вторая Ржевско-Сычёвская наступательная операция), was the codename f ...

in late 1942) when its HQ along with the 109th Rifle Division arrived in the South Ukraine in May 1945. In the Northern summer of 1945, together with the headquarters of the

Separate Coastal Army The Separate Coastal Army (), also translated to English as Independent Coastal Army, was an army-level unit in the Red Army that fought in World War II. It was established on July 18, 1941, by the order of the Southern Front from the forces of ...

, located in the Crimea, it was reorganised as the new but short-lived

Tavria Military District The Taurida Military District was a military district of the Soviet Union. It was formed from the headquarters of the Separate Coastal Army and the 22nd Army in the summer of 1945. The military district controlled troops on the territory of the ...

. On 1 June 1997 the

59th Guards Motor Rifle Division The 59th Guards Kramatorsk Order of Red Banner, Order of Suvorov, Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Motor-Rifle Division of the Soviet Union's Red Army was initially formed near Krasnodar in March 1942 as the 197th Rifle Division (2nd formation). On t ...

in Transdnestr, Moldova, was reorganised as the 8th Guards Independent Motor-Rifle Brigade with four motor-rifle battalions, one tank battalion, two artillery battalions, and an anti-tank battalion plus other combat support and support units. After several years reporting directly to the General Staff, the

Operational Group of Russian Forces The Operational Group of Russian Forces in Transnistria (OGRF; , ; , ) is a sizable overseas military task force of the Russian Armed Forces. It serves as part of the tri-lateral Joint Control Commission (JCC) in the region with around 350 soldi ...

in Moldova was realigned under the command of the Moscow Military District in 1998. Previously the

14th Guards Army The 14th Guards Combined Arms Army () was a field army of the Red Army, the Soviet Ground Forces, and the Russian Ground Forces, active from 1956 to 1995. By the 1990s, according to sources within the 14th Army, the majority of its troops came fro ...

(it was renamed in April 1995), forces and individuals from this command played a major part in the early 1990s in establishing and maintaining the Transnistrian separatists of the

Transnistria Transnistria, officially known as the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic and locally as Pridnestrovie, is a Landlocked country, landlocked Transnistria conflict#International recognition of Transnistria, breakaway state internationally recogn ...

as a viable ''de facto'' state. In 1994 the

16th Air Army The 16th Red Banner Air Army () was the most important formation of the Special Purpose Command. Initially formed during the Second World War as a part of the Soviet Air Force, it was from its 2002 reformation to its 2009 disbandment the tactical ...

took over most air forces from the Air Forces of the Moscow Military District. In 2010, the district was merged with the

to form the new

Recreation (2024–present)

On 21 December 2022, citing the influx of conscripts from the

2022 Russian mobilization On 21 September 2022, seven months into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia declared a partial mobilization of Reservist, military reservists. The decision was made a day after the announcement of 2022 annexation referendums in Russian-occ ...

, Russian Minister of Defence

Sergei Shoigu Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu; , . (born 21 May 1955) is a Russian politician and military officer who has served as secretary of the Security Council since 2024. He served as Minister of Defence of Russia from 2012 to 2024. Shoigu has served a ...

announced that the Moscow Military District was being re-established, alongside the Leningrad Military District. On 20 March 2024, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced formation of the new 69th Motor Rifle Division and renewed

34th Guards Artillery Division The 34th Guards Artillery Perekop Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division () was an artillery division of the Soviet Ground Forces and the Russian Ground Forces. It was formed after the Second World War in Potsdam as the 34th Artillery Division and s ...

as part of the Moscow Military District.

Cold war

Order of battle c. 1989

C0214-Kstovo-Military-engineering-school

Units directly subordinated to the District HQ

District Command and Headquarters (''Управление командующего и штаб'') -

, RSFSR * 367th Separate Staff Security and Supply Battalion (''367-й отдельный батальон охраны и обеспечения штаба'') - Moscow * 1st Separate Rifle Brigade for Security of the Ministry of Defence premises (''1-я отдельная стрелковая бригада охраны МО'') - Moscow (Feskov et al 2013, p505). Activated 1 October 1967 in Moscow, Moscow Oblast, from the 4th independent Regiment for Protection. * 154th Separate Commandant's Regiment (''154-й отдельный комендантский полк'') - Moscow (

Lefortovo District Lefortovo District ( rus, райо́н Лефо́ртово, a=Ru-Lefortovo.ogg, p=lʲɪˈfortəvə) is a district of South-Eastern Administrative Okrug of the federal city of Moscow, Russia. Its area is . Population: History The Lefortovo Dis ...

) * 11th Separate Cavalry Regiment (''11-й отдельный кавалерийский полк'') -

Alabino Alabino () is a rural locality in the Moscow Oblast of Russia. With a population of over 600 people, it is part of the urban settlement of Selyatino. Until 2006, Alabino was part of the Petrovsky Rural District. One of the main attractions in the ...

, Moscow Oblast, RSFSR (the regiment was a horse-riding display unit actually formed in 1962 at the suggestion of film director

Sergei Bondarchuk Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk (25 September 192020 October 1994) was a Soviet and Russian actor and filmmaker of Ukrainian origin who was one of the leading figures of Soviet cinema in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. He is known for his sweeping p ...

for the filming of historical dramas) * 16th Separate SpezNaz Brigade (''16-я отдельная бригада специального назначения'') -

Chuchkovo, Ryazan Oblast Chuchkovo () is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Chuchkovsky District of Ryazan Oblast, Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and depende ...

, RSFSR * 53rd Separate Radio-technical Brigade OsNaz (''53-я отдельная радиотехническая бригада ОсНаз'') -

, Kaluga Oblast, RSFSR (GRU formation operationally attached to the district) * 312th Separate Radio-technical Regiment OsNaz (''312-й отдельный радиотехнический полк ОсНаз'') -

, Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (GRU formation operationally attached to the district) * 225th Separate Radio-electronic Warfare Regiment (''225-й отдельный полк РЭБ'') - Novomoskovsk, Tula Oblast, RSFSR (EW Directorate of the General Staff's (Управление РЭБ ГШ СССР) unit operationally attached to the district) * 227th Separate Radio-electronic Warfare Regiment (''227-й отдельный полк РЭБ'') -

, Kursk Oblast, RSFSR (EW Directorate of the General Staff's (Управление РЭБ ГШ СССР) unit operationally attached to the district) * 1384th Separate Radio-electronic Warfare Battalion (''1384-й отдельный батальон РЭБ'') Kursk (EW Directorate of the General Staff's (Управление РЭБ ГШ СССР) unit operationally attached to the district) * 106th Guards, awarded the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of Kutuzov Airborne Landing Division (''106-я гвардейская воздушно-десантная Краснознамённая, ордена Кутузова дивизия'') - Tula, Tula Oblast, RSFSR ( VDV division operationally attached to the district) * 9th Separate Nuclear Blast Detection and Reconnaissance Regiment (''9-й отдельный ордена Красной Звезды полк засечки и разведки ядерных взрывов'') - Bobrov, Voronezh Oblast, RSFSR * ? Signals Nod (''?-й узел связи'') - Moscow * 1st Separate ''Sevastopolskaya, awarded the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of Alexander Nevsky and the Order of the Red Star'' Signals Brigade of the Supreme Command (''1-я отдельная Севастопольская Краснознамённая, орденов Александра Невского и Красной Звезды бригада связи ВГК'') -

Khimki Khimki (, ) is a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located approximately northwest from central Moscow, and is part of the Moscow metropolitan area. History Origins and formation Khimki was initially a railway station that had existed sin ...

, Moscow Oblast, RSFSR * 14th Separate Signals Brigade of the Supreme Command (''14-я отдельная бригада связи ВГК'') -

Podolsk Podolsk ( rus, Подольск, p=pɐˈdolʲsk) is an industrial city, center of Podolsk Urban Okrug, Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Pakhra River (a tributary of the Moskva River). Population: History The first mentions of the vill ...

, Moscow Oblast, RSFSR * 111th Separate Signals Brigade (''111-я отдельная бригада связи'') - Golitsino (possibly in

Odintsovsky District Odintsovsky District () is an administrativeLaw #11/2013-OZ and municipalLaw #64/2005-OZ district (raion), one of the thirty-six in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located in the western central part of the oblast and borders with the federal city of ...

), Moscow Oblast, RSFSR * 112th Separate Signals Brigade for the Rear Services (''112-я отдельная бригада связи тыла'') -

Yegoryevsk Yegoryevsk () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town and the administrative center of Yegoryevsky District, Moscow Oblast, Yegoryevsk Urban Settlement in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the bank of the Guslitsa River southeast of ...

, Moscow Oblast, RSFSR * 90th Separate Signals Regiment (''90-й отдельный полк связи'') - Kalinin, Kalinin Oblast, RSFSR * 27th Separate ''Guards Sevastopolskaya, awarded the Order of the Red Banner'' Motor Rifle Brigade (''27-я отдельная гвардейская мотострелковая Севастопольская Краснознамённая бригада'') (г. Видное) - Vidnoye, Moscow Oblast, RSFSR (rear area security formation) * 95th Ballistic Missile Brigade (''95-я ракетная бригада'') -

Shuya, Ivanovo Oblast Shuya (, ) is the third largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in Ivanovo Oblast, Russia. The town is built on the high left bank of the navigable Teza (river), Teza river, a tributary of the Klyazma river, with two suburbs on t ...

, RSFSR * 126th Ballistic Missile Brigade (''126-я ракетная бригада'') - Kobyakovo, Vologda Oblast, RSFSR * 228th High Power nowiki/>2S7 Pion">2S7_Pion.html" ;"title="nowiki/>2S7 Pion">nowiki/>2S7 PionArtillery Brigade (''228-я артиллерийская бригада большой мощности'') - Shuya * 235th Guards Gun Artillery Brigade (''235-я гвардейская пушечная артиллерийская бригада'' - Skopin, Ryazan Oblast, RSFSR * 45th Artillery Brigade (''45-я артиллерийская бригада'') - Tambov">Skopin, Russia">Skopin, Ryazan Oblast, RSFSR * 45th Artillery Brigade (''45-я артиллерийская бригада'') - Tambov, Tambov Oblast, RSFSR * 167th Gun Artillery Brigade (''167-я пушечная артиллерийская бригада'') - Kalinin * 236th Gun Artillery Brigade (''236-я пушечная артиллерийская бригада'') - Tambov * 349th Anti-Tank Artillery Brigade (''349-я противотанковая артиллерийская бригада'') - Skopin * 806th Multiple Rocket Launcher Artillery Regiment (''806-й реактивный артиллерийский полк'') - Skopin * 987th Artillery Reconnaissance Regiment (''987-й разведывательный артиллерийский полк'') - Skopin * 1st Separate Guards Combat Engineer Regiment (''1-й отдельный гвардейский инженерно-сапёрный Кёнигсбергско-Городокский Краснознамённый полк'') (Ростов) * 7th Guards Combat Engineer Regiment (''7-й гвардейский инженерно-сапёрный полк'') (Белев) * 79th Separate Engineer Camouflage Construction Regiment (''79-й отдельный инженерно-маскировочный батальон'') (Ногинск) - Noginsk, Moscow Oblast, RSFSR * 2nd Chemical Defence Brigade of the Chemical Troops of the USSR (''2-я бригада химической защиты'') - Teykovo, Ivanovo Oblast, RSFSR * 3rd Chemical Defence Brigade of the Chemical Troops (''3-я бригада химической защиты'') -

Kineshma Kineshma (), the second-largest town in Ivanovo Oblast in Russia, sprawls for along the Volga River, 335 kilometers north-east of Moscow. Population: Etymology From a substrate Finno-Ugric language (cf. ('kine', < Proto-Finno-Permic ''*kän� ...

, Ivanovo Oblast, RSFSR * 26th Chemical Defence Brigade of the Chemical Troops (''26-я бригада химической защиты'') - Ryazan * 27th Chemical Defence Brigade of the Chemical Troops (''27-я бригада химической защиты'') - Kursk * 347th Separate Aerodrome Engineer Battalion of the Ground Forces (''347-й отдельный инженерно-аэродромный батальон сухопутных войск'') - Tula * 17th Engineering Road and Bridge Construction Brigade (''17-я инженерная дорожно-мостовая бригада'') -

Kashira Kashira () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town and the administrative center of Kashirsky District, Moscow Oblast, Kashirsky District in Moscow Oblast, located on the Oka River south of Moscow. Population: History It was first ...

, Moscow Oblast, RSFSR * 190th Pontoon Bridging Brigade (''190-я понтонно-мостовая бригада'') (Новозыбков) -

Novozybkov Novozybkov (; ) is a historical town in Bryansk Oblast, Russia with a population, in 2021, of 38,680. The city is home to a branch of the Bryansk State University. History It was founded in 1701 and was granted town status in 1809. Novozybkov ...

, Bryansk Oblast, RSFSR * 86th Separate Pontoon Bridging Battalion (''86-й отдельный понтонно-мостовой батальон'') -

Murom Murom (, ) is a historical types of inhabited localities in Russia, city in Vladimir Oblast, Russia, which sprawls along the west bank of the Oka River. It borders Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and is situated from the administrative center Vladimir, ...

, Vladimir Oblast, RSFSR (or possibly

Balakhna Balakhna () is a town and the administrative center of Balakhninsky District in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Volga River, north of Nizhny Novgorod, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: 33, ...

, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, RSFSR) * 15th Road Traffic Control Brigade (''15-я дорожно-комендантская бригада'') -

Reutov Reutov ( ) is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located east of Moscow. Population: History The exact date of Reutov's foundation is unknown; however, most historians believe that it was founded between 1492 and 1495. In the 17th-18th centurie ...

, Moscow Oblast, RSFSR * 19th Road Traffic Control Brigade (''19-я дорожно-комендантская бригада'') -

, Voronezh Oblast, RSFSR * 467th Guards Moskovsko-Tartuskiy Red Banner District Center for Junior Specialists (''467-й гвардейский окружной учебный Московско-Тартуский Краснознамённый центр подготовки младших специалистов'') -

, Vladimir Oblast, RSFSR (From October 3, 1987 on. Until then the 26th Guards Moskovsko-Tartuskaya Red Banner Tank Training Division (''26-я гвардейская учебная танковая Московско-Тартуская Краснознамённая дивизия'')) ** 475th Separate ''Guards'' Signals Training Battalion (''475-й отдельный учебный гвардейский батальон связи'') ** 419th ''Guards'' Training Motor Rifle Regiment (''419-й учебный гвардейский мотострелковый полк'') ** 123rd ''Guards'' Artillery Training Regiment (''123-й учебный гвардейский артполк'') ** 422nd Air Defence Artillery Training Regiment (''422-й учебный зенитный артполк'') ** 84th Separate Ballistic Missile Training Battalion (''84-й отдельный учебный ракетный дивизион'') ** Separate Reconnaissance Training Battalion (''отдельный учебный разведывательный батальон'') ** 105th Separate Medical Training Battalion (''105-й отдельный учебный медицинский батальон'') ** 852nd Separate Automobile Training Battalion (''852-й отдельный учебный автомобильный батальон'') * 468th District Training Center (''468-й окружной учебный центр'') - Mulino, Gorkiy Oblast, RSFSR (previously the 20th Artillery Training Division, the sole artillery training division of the Soviet Ground Forces) ** 1685th Separate Signals Training Battalion (''1685-й отдельный учебный батальон связи'') ** 922nd Artillery Training Regiment (''922-й учебный артиллерийский полк'') ** 280th Anti-Tank Artillery Training Regiment (''280-й учебный противотанковый артиллерийский полк'') ** 932nd Artillery Reconnaissance Training Regiment (''932-й учебный разведывательный артиллерийский полк'') * 63rd Material Support Brigade (''63-я бригада материального обеспечения'') (Серпухов) -

Serpukhov Serpukhov ( rus, Серпухов, p=ˈsʲerpʊxəf) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Oka River, Oka and the Nara (Oka), Nara Rivers, 99 kilometers (62 miles) south fro ...

, Moscow Oblast, RSFSR * 6450th Repair and Overhaul Base (''6450-я ремонтно-восстановительная база'') -

Kubinka Kubinka () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in Odintsovsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Setun River, west of Moscow. Population: __TOC__ History Kubinka, founded in the 15th century, may have been named ...

* 6451st Repair and Overhaul Base (''6451-я ремонтно-восстановительная база'') -

Naro-Fominsk Naro-Fominsk () is a town and the administrative center of Naro-Fominsky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Nara River, southwest from Moscow. History The Fominskoye village was first mentioned in Russian chronicles under the ...

, Moscow Oblast, RSFSR * divisions directly subordinated to the district: ** 2nd ''Guards Tamanskaya, awarded the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of Suvorov'' Motor Rifle Division, ''named after'' '' M. I. Kalinin'' (''2-я гвардейская мотострелковая Таманская Краснознамённая, ордена Суворова дивизия имени М. И. Калинина'') -

Kalininets Kalininets () is an types of inhabited localities in Russia, urban locality (a Urban-type settlement, work settlement) in the Naro-Fominsky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia. The town's name is a derivative form an unofficial name for a soldier of ...

(near Naro-Fominsk), Moscow Oblast, RSFSR (not to be confused with the 32nd ''Guards'' Tamanskaya MRD) ** 4th ''Guards Kantemirovskaya, awarded the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of Lenin'' Tank Division, ''named after'' '' Y. B. Andropov'' (''4-я гвардейская танковая Кантемировская ордена Ленина, Краснознамённая дивизия имени Ю. В. Андропова'' - Naro-Fominsk ** 32nd ''Guards Tamanskaya, awarded the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of Suvorov'' Motor Rifle Division (''32-я гвардейская мотострелковая Таманская Краснознамённая, ордена Суворова дивизия'') (converted into the 5210th ''Guards'' Armament and Equipment Storage Base (''5210-я гвардейская БХВТ'') in October 1989, disbanded 1993) - Kalinin (not to be confused with the 2nd ''Guards'' Tamanskaya MRD) ** 149th Motor Rifle Division adred(''149-я мотострелковая дивизия кадра'') -

Klintsy Klintsy () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in Bryansk Oblast, Russia, located on the Turosna River, southwest of Bryansk. Population: 60,000 (1972). Administrative and municipal status Within the subdivisions of Russia# ...

, Bryansk Oblast, RSFSR ** 196th Motor Rifle Division adred(''196-я мотострелковая дивизия кадра'') -

, Kursk Oblast, RSFSR ** 206th Motor Rifle Division adred(''206-я мотострелковая дивизия кадра'') - Kalinin ** 16th Artillery Division adred(''16-я артиллерийская дивизия кадра'') (converted into the 1874th Armament and Equipment Storage Base (Artillery Hardware Storage) (''1874-я БХВТ (БХИ-А)'') in the autumn of 1989) - Kalinin ** 17th Artillery Division adred(''17-я артиллерийская дивизия кадра'') (converted into the 1875th Armament and Equipment Storage Base (Artillery Hardware Storage) (''1875-я БХВТ (БХИ-А)'') in the autumn of 1989) -

, Tambov Oblast, RSFSR ** 228th Rear Area Defence Division adred(''228-я дивизия охраны тыла кадра'') - Moscow ** 65th Deep Reserve Tank Division adred(''65-я запасная танковая дивизия кадра'') - Ryazan ** 255th Deep Reserve Motor Rifle Division adred(''255-я запасная мотострелковая дивизия кадра'') - Kursk

Land Forces

In addition to the ground forces divisions directly subordinated to the district HQ, the Moscow MD had the 13th Guards Army Corps as its main ground forces formation: * 13th Guards ''Kyonigsbergskiy, awarded the Order of the Red Banner'' Army Corps (''13-й гвардейский армейский Кенигсбергский Краснознамённый корпус''). In 1990 this corps was under the command of General Fyodor Reut. **Corps Command and HQ (''Управление корпуса'') - Gorkiy, Gorkiy Oblast, RSFSR **785th Separate Staff Security and Supply Company (''785-я отдельная рота охраны и обеспечения'') - Gorkiy, Gorkiy Oblast, RSFSR **779th Signals Nod (''779-й узел связи'') - Gorkiy, Gorky Oblast, RSFSR **72nd Separate ''Guards'' Signals Battalion (''72-й отдельный гвардейский батальон связи'') - Pyra, Gorkiy Oblast, RSFSR **635th Separate Radio Relay and Cable Communications Battalion (635-й отдельный радиорелейно-кабельный батальон) - Mulino, Gorkiy Oblast, RSFSR **298th Separate Radio Intercept and ELINT Battalion (''298-й отдельный батальон засечки и разведки'') - Gorkiy, Gorkiy Oblast, RSFSR **88th Air Defence Radar Battalion (''88-й отдельный радиотехнический батальон ПВО'') - Pyra, Gorkiy Oblast, RSFSR **50th Ballistic Missile Brigade (''50-я ракетная бригада'') -

, RSFSR **876th Separate Guards Combat Engineer Battalion (''876-й отдельный гвардейский инженерно-сапёрный батальон'') -

, Gorkiy Oblast, RSFSR **385th Separate Road and Bridge Construction Engineer Battalion (''385-й отдельный инженерный дорожно-мостовой батальон'') - Balakhna, Gorkiy Oblast, RSFSR ** 60th Sevsko-Varshavskaya, awarded the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of Suvorov'' Tank Division (''60-я танковая Севско-Варшавская Краснознамённая ордена Суворова дивизия''), Gorkiy, Gorkiy Oblast, RSFSR (former 60th Rifle Div. then briefly 65th Mech Div. and 43rd Tank Div. before becoming 60th Tank Div. in 1965; transformed on March 9, 1989 into the 5409th Armament and Equipment Storage Base (''5409-я БХВТ''), the 5409th AESB itself disbanded on February 13, 1990, as formations from the

Western Group of Forces The Western Group of Forces (WGF), previously known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany (GSOFG) and the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (GSFG), were the troops of the Soviet Army in East Germany. The Group of Soviet Occupation ...

, such as the 47th Guards Tank Division and the 31st Tank Division transferred to the 13th ''Guards'' Army Corps, which in turn expanded into the 22nd ''Guards'' Combined Arms Army) (Division HQ in Gorkiy, the whole division based in Dzerzhinsk, Gorkiy Oblast, RSFSR) ***Division HQ ***509th Separate Signals Battalion (''509-й отдельный батальон связи'') ***14th ''Guards

Zhytomyr Zhytomyr ( ; see #Names, below for other names) is a city in the north of the western half of Ukraine. It is the Capital city, administrative center of Zhytomyr Oblast (Oblast, province), as well as the administrative center of the surrounding ...

sko- Shepetovskiy, awarded the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of Suvorov and the Order of Kutuzov'' Tank Regiment (''14-й гвардейский танковый Житомирско-Шепетовский Краснознамённый, орденов Суворова и Кутузова полк'') ***142nd Tank Regiment (''142-й танковый полк'') ***272nd Tank Regiment (''272-й танковый полк'') ***422''nd Awarded the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of Suvorov, the Order of Kutuzov and the Order of Alexander Nevsky'' Motor Rifle Regiment (''422-й мотострелковый орденов Суворова, Кутузова и Александра Невского полк'') ***863rd '' Prazhskiy, awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky'' Artillery Regiment (''863-й артиллерийский Пражский ордена Александра Невского полк'') ***? Air Defence Artillery Regiment (''зенитный артиллерийский полк'') ***? Separate Ballistic Missile Battalion (''отдельный ракетный дивизион'') ***? Separate Reconnaissance Battalion (''отдельный разведывательный батальон'') ***696th Separate Combat Engineer Battalion (''696-й отдельный инженерно-сапёрный батальон'') ***Separate Chemical Defence Company (''отдельная рота химической защиты'') ***? Separate Repair and Overhaul Battalion (отдельный ремонтно-восстановительный батальон) ***491st Separate Medical Battalion (491-й отдельный медицинский батальон) ***? Separate Material Supply Battalion (отдельный батальон материального обеспечения) **5347th Armament and Equipment Storage Base (''5347-я БХВТ'') -

, Tambov Oblast, RSFSR (formerly the 89th Motor Rifle Division adred(''89-я мотострелковая дивизия кадра''), transformed in the autumn of 1987 into the 1042nd Territorial Training Center (''1042-й ТУЦ'') and later in the autumn of 1989 into the 5347th AESB) **225th Motor Rifle Division adred(''225-я мотострелковая дивизия кадра'') - Mulino, Gorkiy Oblast, RSFSR

Air Forces of the Moscow Military District

In the last days of the Soviet Union there was a considerable

Soviet Air Defence Forces The Soviet Air Defence Forces (; ) was the air defence branch of the Soviet Armed Forces. Formed in 1941, it continued being a service branch of the Russian Armed Forces after 1991 until it was merged into the Air Force in 1998. Unlike Western ...

presence, and a smaller Air Forces presence, in the Moscow Military District. The Air Forces of the Moscow Military District consisted of a reconnaissance regiment, the 47th Guards Separate Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment at

Shatalovo Shatalovo () is the name of several rural localities in Russia: * Shatalovo, Pskov Oblast, a village in Pustoshkinsky District of Pskov Oblast * Shatalovo, Smolensk Oblast, a village in Shatalovskoye Rural Settlement of Pochinkovsky District of ...

flying Su-24MPs, and the 9th Fighter Aviation Division (9 iad), at

, with three regiments. The division incorporated the 32nd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, also at Shatalovo, with MiG-23MLDs, the 234th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment at

with MiG-29s, and the 274th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment at

Migalovo Migalovo (also given as Tver Migalovo, Kalinin) is an air base in Tver Oblast, Russia located 10 km west of Tver. It is a large military airlift base. It currently houses all of Russia's remaining Antonov An-22 fleet. It is an Ilyushin Il-7 ...

(274 apib) with Su-17s. Also part of the force was a ground signals regiment, the 131st. There was also a transport squadron, an independent helicopter regiment, and an independent helicopter squadron for electronic warfare. 32nd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment served in Cuba as part of '

Operation Anadyr Operation Anadyr () was the code name used by the Soviet Union for its Cold War secret operation in 1962 of deploying ballistic missiles, medium-range bombers, and a division of mechanized infantry to Cuba to create an army group that would be a ...

' during the

Cuban Missile Crisis The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis () in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis (), was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of Nuclear weapons d ...

of 1963. The regiment was temporarily renamed 213th Fighter Aviation Regiment while in Cuba. It was disbanded in 1989. In October 1990 the 1080th Red Banner Training Aviation Center for retraining of personnel im. V.P. Chkalov was activated in

Borisoglebsk Borisoglebsk () is a town in Voronezh Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Vorona River near its confluence with the Khopyor. Population: 65,000 (1969). History Borisoglebsk was founded in 1646 and was named for the Russian s ...

, Voronezh Oblast, from the 796th Center for Preparation of Officers for Fighter and Fighter-Bomber Aviation, and the Borisoglebsk Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots. It came under the command of the Air Forces of the Moscow Military District. It comprised four instructor aviation regiments, the fourth being the 343rd Fighter Aviation Regiment at Sennoy with MiG-29s. Joseph Stalin's son

Vasily Stalin Vasily Iosifovich Stalin Dzhugashvili ( ka, ვასილი იოსების ძე სტალინი ჯუღაშვილი, ; 21 March 1921 – 19 March 1962) was the youngest son of Joseph Stalin, born from his second wife, ...

commanded the Moscow district air forces from June 1948 to August 1952. He was succeeded by General Colonel

Stepan Krasovsky Stepan Akimovich Krasovsky (; ; – 21 April 1983) was a Soviet Air Force marshal of the aviation. Early life, World War I and Russian Civil War Born on 20 August 1897 to a peasant family in the village of Glukhi, Mogilev Governorate, Kraso ...

(1952–53), Lieutenant General Stepan Rybanov (June 1953 – 1959), and, later, Lieutenant General

Igor Dmitriev Igor Borisovich Dmitriev () (29 May 1927 – 26 January 2008) was a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actor who specialized in playing aristocratic characters in costume productions (e.g., Rosencrantz in Grigori Kozintsev's ''Hamlet''). Igor ...

( :ru:Дмитриев, Игорь Михайлович) (1983–1989) and Nikolai Antoshkin ( :ru:Антошкин, Николай Тимофеевич) (1989–93). Also part of the Moscow District air forces was the

4th Centre for Combat Employment and Retraining of Personnel The 4th Centre for Combat Employment and Retraining of Personnel VVS of the Russian Aerospace Forces is a research, training, and instructional centre. It was formed at Tambov (air base) on 19 April 1953. In 1954 it was transferred to Voronezh Mal ...

Lipetsk Lipetsk (, ), also Romanization of Russian, romanized as Lipeck, is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Lipetsk Oblast, Russia, located on the banks of the Voronezh (river), Voronezh River in the Do ...

. Air Forces of the Moscow Military District (''ВВС Московского военного округа'')(formerly the 78th Air Army) Command and Headquarters (''Командование и штаб ВВС МВО'') - Moscow, RSFSR * 131st Separate Signals and Automatized Command and Control Systems Regiment (''131-отдельный полк связи и АСУ'') - Donino village (near Ramenskoye), Moscow Oblast, RSFSR * (''378-я отдельная смешанная авиационная эскадрилья'' (''378-я осаэ'')) -

, Moscow Oblast, RSFSR - Tu-134, An-12 An-26, Mi-8, An-2 * 297th Separate Helicopter Squadron for Radio-Electronic Warfare (''297-я отдельная вертолётная эскадрилья радиоэлектронной борьбы'' (''297-я овэ рэб'')) -

, Moscow Oblast, RSFSR - Mi-8/9 * 9th ''Red Banner'' Fighter Aviation Division (''9-я Краснознамённая истребительная авиационная дивизия'') - Kubinka, Moscow Oblast, RSFSR (designated Fighter Aviation Division for historic reasons, not due to its composition) ** 234th ''Guards

Proskurov Khmelnytskyi (, ) is a city in western Ukraine. Located on the Southern Bug, it serves as the administrative centre of Khmelnytskyi Oblast as well as Khmelnytskyi Raion within the oblast. With a population of Khmelnytskyi is the second-largest ...

skiy, awarded the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of Kutuzov and the Order of Alexander Nevsky'' Fighter Aviation Regiment (''234-й гвардейский истребительный авиационный Проскуровский Краснознамённый орденов Кутузова и Александра Невского полк'' (''234-й гвиап'')) - Kubinka - Su-27, MiG-29, MiG-23, Su-24M, Su-17M, Su-25, L-39 (although designated a combat aviation regiment, its main task was air display of Soviet-produced combat aircraft for foreign dignitaries and official delegations and for that reason in 1989 its designation was changed to the more fitting 237th ''Guards'' Center for Display of Aircraft Types (''237-й гвардейский центр показа авиационной техники'' (''237 ЦПАТ'')) ** 274th Aviation Regiment of Fighter-Bombers (''274-й авиационный полк истребителей-бомбардировщиков'' (''274-й апиб'')) -

(

), Tver Oblast, RSFSR - Su-17M4 ** (940th Aviation Regiment of Fighter-Bombers (''940-й авиационный полк истребителей-бомбардировщиков'' (''940-й апиб'')) -

Rzhev Rzhev ( rus, Ржев, p=ˈrʐɛf) is a town in Tver Oblast, Russia, located southwest of Staritsa and from Tver, on the highway and railway connecting Moscow and Riga. It is the uppermost town situated on the Volga River. Population: Hist ...

, Tver Oblast, RSFSR - MiG-27))(disbanded in 1988) ** (32nd ''Guards Vilenskiy, awarded the Order of Lenin and the Order of Kutuzov'' Fighter Aviation Regiment (''32-й гвардейский истребительный авиационный Виленский орденов Ленина и Кутузова полк'' (''32 гвиап'')) -

, Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR - MiG-23MLD)(disbanded in 1989) * 47th Separate Guards Borisovskiy, awarded the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of Suvorov Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (''47-й отдельный гвардейский разведывательный авиационный Борисовский Краснознаменный ордена Суворова полк'' (''47-й огврап'')) - Shatalovo, SMolensk Oblast, RSFSR - Su-24MR (also Su-17M3R from November 1989 on, upgraded to the Su-17M4R variant in 1991) * 269th Separate Helicopter Regiment (''269-й отдельный вертолётный полк'' (''269-й овп'')) - Malino, Moscow Oblast, RSFSR - Mi-24, Mi-8, Mi-2 * '' Borisoglebskoye, awarded the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of Lenin'' Higher Military School for Pilots, ''named after V. P. Chkalov'' (''Борисоглебское ордена Ленина Краснознамённое военное авиационное училище лётчиков имени В. П. Чкалова'') -

Borisoglebsk (air base) Borisoglebsk (also Borisoglebsk East) is an air base in Voronezh Oblast, Russia located 6 km east of Borisoglebsk. It is a small military airfield. , the base was home to 160th Training Aviation Regiment which flies the Sukhoi Su-25 and Yakovle ...

, Voronezh Oblast, RSFSR ** 160th Instructor Fighter Aviation Regiment (''160-й инструкторский истребительный авиационный полк'' (''160-й ииап'')) - Borisoglebsk - MiG-21 ** 186th Training Aviation Regiment (''186-й учебный авиационный полк'' (''186-й уап'')) -

Buturlinovka Buturlinovka () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in Voronezh Oblast, Russia, on the Ossered River, a tributary of the Don River (Russia), Don. It serves as the administrative center of Buturlinovsky District. Its population as ...

, Voronezh Oblast, RSFSR - MiG-21 ** 123rd Training Aviation Regiment (''123-й учебный авиационный полк'' (''123-й уап'')) - Zherdyovka, Voronezh Oblast, RSFSR - L-39 (disbanded in 1990) * ''Tambovskoye'' Higher Military School for Pilots, ''named after'' ''M. M. Raskova'' (''Тамбовское военное авиационное училище лётчиков имени М. М. Расковой'') -

, Tambov Oblast, RSFSR ** 127th Training Aviation Regiment (''127-й учебный авиационный полк'' (''127-й уап'')) -

Ryazhsk Ryazhsk () is a town and the administrative center of Ryazhsky District in Ryazan Oblast, Russia, located south of Ryazan, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: 26,000 (1974). History It has been known to exist since 1502. I ...

(Atashovo) - L-39 ** 643rd Training Aviation Regiment (''643-й учебный авиационный полк'' (''643-й уап'')) - Tula, Tula Oblast, RSFSR - L-39 (disbanded in 1990) ** 644th Training Aviation Regiment (''644-й учебный авиационный полк'' (''644-й уап'')) - Michurinsk - L-29 ** 652nd Training Aviation Regiment (''652-й учебный авиационный полк'' (''652-й уап'')) - Tambov - Tu-134UBL ** Aircraft Storage Base (''обаз'') - Tambov - stored MiG-23 * ''Tambovskoye, awarded the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of Lenin'' Higher Military Aviation Engineering School, ''named after F. E. Dzerzhinsky'' (''Тамбовское высшее военное авиационное инженерное ордена Ленина Краснознаменное училище имени Ф. Э. Дзержинского'') - Tambov In addition the following formations, units and establishments were based within the Moscow Military District, but were outside the control of the district's Air Forces: * 8th Aviation Division of Specific Purpose (''8-я авиационная дивизия особого назначения'' (''8-я ад он'')) - Chkalovsky - subordinated directly under the Ministry of Defence. The transport aviation regiments provided airlift for high ranking government officials and repositioning of troops at very short notice. The separate squadron provided command and control. ** 353th Aviation Regiment of Specific Purpose (''353-й авиационный полк особого назначения'' (''353-й ап он'')) - Chkalovsky - Il-62, Tu-154, Tu-134, Il-18, Il-76, An-72 ** 354th Aviation Regiment of Specific Purpose (''354-й авиационный полк особого назначения'' (''354-й ап он'')) - Chkalovsky - Il-76, Il-22, An-12, An-26, An-24 ** (355th Aviation Regiment of Specific Purpose (''355-й авиационный полк особого назначения'' (''355-й ап он'')) - Chkalovsky - disbanded in 1989 and absorbed into the 353rd Aviation Regiment along with its Tu-134 and Tu- 154 aircraft) ** Separate Composite Aviation Squadron (''отдельная смешанная авиационная эскадрилья'' (''осаэ'')) - Chkalovsky - Il-80 (4 aircraft), Il-76RT (2 aircraft) (attached to the 8th ADSP for air traffic control, ground support and maintenance, but reporting directly to the Ministry of Defence. The Il-80 was the airborne command center variant of the

Il-86 The Ilyushin Il-86 (; NATO reporting name: Camber) is a retired short- to medium-range wide-body jet airliner that served as the USSR's first wide-bodied aircraft. Designed and tested by the Ilyushin design bureau in the 1970s, it was certified ...

and the Soviet counterpart to the E-4. The four Il-80 received command task force of officers detailed from the Ministry of Defence when on airborne duty. The two Il-76RT were relay aircraft (RT - 'retranslator') and had no command task force on board. They provided

Ultra high frequency Ultra high frequency (UHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one tenth of a meter ...

link between the Soviet nuclear triad and the command centers and were equipped with drag antennae array, which could extend to a total length of 6 kilometers. The Navy's SSBNs and the Air Force's Long Range Aviation normally used alternative communications channels, so the main task for the Il-76RTs remained to provide a link to the

Strategic Rocket Forces The Strategic Rocket Forces of the Russian Federation or the Strategic Missile Forces of the Russian Federation (RVSN RF; ) is a military branch, separate combat arm of the Russian Armed Forces that controls Russia's land-based intercontinenta ...

. The command and control system was designated "Chain Link" (''"Звено"'') and included the Il-80s, the Il-76RTs, the underground silo-based '''Perimetr''' and the railway-based '''Gorn command alert missiles.) * 12th ''Mginskaya Red Banner'' Military Transport Aviation Division,

, RSFSR - part of the

Military Transport Aviation The Military Transport Aviation Command ( — '' Komandovaniye voyenno-transportnoy aviatsii (VTA)'') was a major component of the former Soviet Air Forces, active from the Cold War period, through the dissolution of the Soviet Union, to 1998–1 ...

branch of the Air Force ** 566th ''

Solnechnogorsk Solnechnogorsk (, lit. ''sunny mountain town'') is a town and the administrative center of Solnechnogorsky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Moscow–St. Petersburg Highway and the Moscow–St. Petersburg railway, on ...

iy, awarded the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of Kutuzov'' Military Transport Aviation Regiment (''566-й Солнечногорский Краснознаменный ордена Кутузова военно-транспортный авиационный полк''), Seshta (near

), RSFSR -

Antonov An-124 The Antonov An-124 Ruslan (; ; NATO reporting name: Condor) is a large, strategic airlift, four-engined aircraft that was designed in the 1980s by the Antonov design bureau in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (USSR). The An-124 is the ...

** 978th Military Transport Aviation Regiment (''978-й военно-транспортный авиационный полк''), Seshta (near

), RSFSR -

(2 squadrons),

Ilyushin Il-76 The Ilyushin Il-76 (; NATO reporting name: Candid) is a multi-purpose, fixed-wing, four-engine turbofan strategic airlifter designed by the Soviet Union's Ilyushin design bureau as a commercial freighter in 1967, to replace the Antonov An-1 ...

(1 squadron) ** 8th Military Transport Aviation Regiment (''8-й военно-транспортный авиационный полк''), Tver, RSFSR -

Antonov An-22 The Antonov An-22 "Antei" (; ; NATO reporting name: "Cock") is a heavy military transport aircraft designed by the Antonov Design Bureau in the Soviet Union. Powered by four turboprop engines, each driving a pair of contra-rotating propellers, ...

** 81st Military Transport Aviation Regiment (''81-й военно-транспортный авиационный полк''), Ivanovo - Severny -

* 4th Center for Combat Training and Re-qualification of Flight Personnel (''4-й Центр боевого применения и переучивания лётного состава'') -

, Lipetsk Oblast, RSFSR - MiG-25RB, MiG-29, MiG-27, Su-24, Su-17М, Su-25 - fighter pilot training and re-qualification * 1046th Training Aviation Center (''1046-й учебный авиационный центр'') - Shatalovo, Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR - MiG-25RB, Su-24MR, Su-17M3R - training pilots for the reconnaissance aviation * HQ 37th Air Army of the High Command (Strategic Purpose) (''штаб 37-й воздушной армии ВГК СН'') - Moscow, RSFSR - strategic aviation * HQ 46th ''Red Banner'' Air Army of the High Command (Strategic Purpose) (''штаб 46-й воздушной армии ВГК СН'') - Smolensk, SMolensk Oblast, RSFSR - strategic aviation

''Order of Lenin'' Moscow Air Defence District

Unlike the Air Forces of the Moscow Military District, which were part of the district, the units and formations of the

Air Defence Forces An atmosphere () is a layer of gases that envelop an astronomical object, held in place by the gravity of the object. A planet retains an atmosphere when the gravity is great and the temperature of the atmosphere is low. A stellar atmosphere ...

were kept separate, reporting to their own Main Staff. The Moscow MD came under the air defence umbrella of the Moscow Air Defence District (''Московский ордена Ленина округа ПВО''), which was the sole such district within the ADF. * District Command and Staff (''Командование и штаб округа'') - Moscow, RSFSR * 118th District Communications Nod (''118-й узел связи округа'') - Moscow * 436th Separate Transport Aviation Regiment (''436-й отдельный транспортный авиационный полк'') - Stupino, Moscow Oblast, RSFSR - An-12, An-26, An-24, Mi-8 * 1082nd Separate Automobile Battalion of the Moscow District of Air Defence, awarded the Order of Lenin (''1082-й отдельный ордена Ленина Московского Округа ПВО автомобилный батальон'') * 1st ''Red Banner'' Air Defence Army of Specific Purpose ( ''1-я Краснознамённая армия ПВО особого назначения'') -

Balashikha Balashikha ( rus, Балашиха, p=bəlɐˈʂɨxə) is a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Pekhorka River east of the Moscow Ring Road. Population: Etymology In Finno-Ugric languages, ''Bala-shika'' means ''land of celebration ...

, Moscow Oblast, RSFSR ** 1082nd Command Post (''1082-й командный пункт'') - Balashikha ** 9th Communications Nod (''9-й узел связи'') - Balashikha ** 2366th Separate Cable Communications Battalion (''2366-й отдельный батальон кабельной связи'') -

Mytishchi Mytishchi ( rus, Мыти́щи, p=mɨˈtʲiɕːɪ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Mytishchinsky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia, which lies 19 km northeast of Russia's capital Moscow o ...

, Moscow Oblast, RSFSR ** 1081st Separate Automobile Battalion (''1081-й отдельный автомобилный батальон'') ** 1092nd Separate Automobile Battalion (''1092-й отдельный автомобилный батальон'') ** 669th Separate Equipment Service and Overhaul Battalion (''669-й отдельный батальон по обслуживанию и восстановлению техники'') - Istra, Moscow Oblast, RSFSR ** - 26 S-300 missile air defence regiments between the four divisions - ** 52nd Radio-Technical Brigade (''52-я отдельная радиотехническая бригада'') - Mytishchi *** 4 separate radio-technical battalions (sing. ''отдельный радиотехнический батальон''): **** 2317th (Kashira), 2318th (

Kosteryovo Kosteryovo () is a town in Petushinsky District of Vladimir Oblast, Russia, located on the Lipnya River (Klyazma's tributary), west of Vladimir, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: History It was founded as a settlement servin ...

), 2319th (

Savyolovo Savyolovo () is a microdistrict of the town of Kimry in Tver Oblast, Russia. It lies on the right bank of the Volga River and is connected to the left-bank part of Kimry by a bridge over the Volga (the longest bridge in Tver Oblast). The exp ...

) and 2320th (Goretovo, Moscow Oblast) ** 86th Air Defence Division of Specific Purpose (''86-я дивизия ПВО специального назначения'') - Vidnoye *** 499th Separate Signals Battalion (''499-й отдельный батальон связи'') - Vidnoye *** 6 missile air defence regiments (sing. ''зенитный ракетный полк''): **** 635th ( Stepanshchino village), 628th (Torbeyevo), 705th (Nizhnee Shakhlovo), 16th (Fenino), 614th (Pestovo) and 549th ( Klyonovo) *** 9th Radio-Technical Regiment (''9-й радиотехнический полк'') - Kashira *** 1486th Missile Technical Base (''1486-я ракетная техническая база'') - Tolbino *** 225th Technical Base (''225-я техническая база'') - Belye Stolby ** 87th Air Defence Division of Specific Purpose (''87-я дивизия ПВО специального назначения'') - Balashikha *** 501st Separate Signals Battalion (''501-й отдельный батальон связи'') - Balashikha *** 6 missile air defence regiments: **** 674th (Yakovlevo), 799th (Dubky), 654th (Kashino), 756th (Novoye), 629th (Kablukovo) and 606th (Zakharovo) *** 14th Radio-Technical Regiment (''14-й радиотехнический полк'') -

*** 1488th Missile Technical Base (''1488-я ракетная техническая база'') - Makarovo *** 194th Technical Base (''194-я техническая база'') - Fryazevo ** 88th Air Defence Division of Specific Purpose (''88-я дивизия ПВО специального назначения'') -

Dolgoprudny Dolgoprudny (, ) is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located about north of Moscow city center. The town's name is derived from Russian "" (''dolgy prud'', lit. "long pond")—a long and narrow pond situated in the northeastern part of the town. ...

*** 187th Separate Signals Battalion (''187-й отдельный батальон связи'') - Dolgoprudny *** 7 missile air defence regiments: **** 789th (Vvedyonskoye (Klin-7 military encampment)), 17th (Borozda (Klin-9 military encampment)), 658th (Maloye Rogachyovo), 722nd (Kovrigino), 748th (Yeryomino), 584th (Maryno) and 566th (Dubrovka) *** 21st Radio-Technical Regiment (''21-й радиотехнический полк'') - Savyolovo *** 1491st Missile Technical Base (''1491-я ракетная техническая база'') - Trudovaya ** 89th Air Defence Division of Specific Purpose (89-я дивизия ПВО специального назначения) -

Odintsovo Odintsovo ( rus, Одинцово, , ɐdʲɪnˈtsovə) is a city and the administrative center of Odintsovsky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia. Western suburb of Moscow. Population: History The village of Odintsovo was established in the la ...

*** 250th Separate Signals Battalion (''250-й отдельный батальон связи'') - Odintsovo *** 7 missile air defence regiments: **** 791st (Vorsino), 662nd (Nesteryovo), 650th (Denkovo), 6th (Arkhangelskoye), 709th (Lyskovo), 612th (Glagolevo) and 625th (Funkovo) *** 25th Radio-Technical Regiment (''25-й радиотехнический полк'') - Goretovo *** 1494th Missile Technical Base (''1494-я ракетная техническая база'') - Istra *** 190th Technical Base (''190-я техническая база'') - Golitsyno * 2nd Air Defence Corps (''2-й корпус ПВО'') -

, Tver Oblast, RSFSR ** Corps Command and Staff (''управление корпуса'') ** Corps Command Post (''командный пункт корпуса'') ** Corps Automatised Command and Control Systems Center (''центр АСУ корпуса'') ** 4 fighter aviation regiments *** 28th ''Guards Leningradskiy, awarded the Order of Kutuzov'' Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Air Defence Forces (''28-й гвардейский истребительный авиационный Ленинградский ордена Кутузова полк ПВО'') -

Krichev Krychaw or Krichev (, ; , , ) is a town in Mogilev Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Krychaw District. It is situated on the Sozh River. In 2009, its population was 27,202. As of 2024, it has a population of 23,264. H ...

, Mogilyov Oblast, Belarus SSR - MiG-25P/U (not to be confused with the 28th FAR) *** 790th ''Awarded the Order of Kutuzov'' Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Air Defence Forces (''790-й истребительный авиационный ордена Кутузова полк ПВО'') - Khotilovo (Noviy), Tver Oblast, RSFSR - MiG-25P/U *** 28th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Air Defence Forces (''28-й истребительный авиационный полк ПВО'') -

Andreapol Andreapol () is a town and the administrative center of Andreapolsky District in Tver Oblast, Russia, located on the Valdai Hills on the left bank in the upper course of the Western Dvina. Population: 12,000 (1968). Paleontology Fossils of ...

, Tver Oblast, RSFSR - MiG-23P/UB (not to be confused with the 28th ''Guards'' FAR) *** 401st Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Air Defence Forces (''401-й истребительный авиационный полк ПВО'') -

(Severniy), Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR - MiG-23P/UB ** 6 missile air defence regiments: *** 242nd ''Guards'' (

Mozhaysk MozhayskAlternative transliterations include ''Mozhaisk'', ''Mozhajsk'', ''Mozhaĭsk'', and ''Možajsk''. (, ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town and the administrative center of Mozhaysky District, Moscow Oblast, Mozhaysky Distri ...

), 47th (Turginovo), 195th ( Valday), 210th ''Red Star'' (Dubrovka), 713th (Narynka (Klin-10 military encampment),

Klinsky District Klinsky District () is an administrativeLaw #11/2013-OZ and municipalLaw #80/2005-OZ district (raion), one of the thirty-six in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northwest of the oblast and borders with Tver Oblast in the north, Lotoshi ...

) and 1281th (

Toropets Toropets () is a town and the administrative center of Toropetsky District in Tver Oblast, Russia, located where the Toropa River enters Lake Solomennoye. Population: History In 1074, when the town was first mentioned in chronicles, Torop ...

) ** 3rd Radio-Technical Brigade (''3-я радиотехническая бригада'') - Rzhev ( Port (Rzhev-3) military encampment), Tver Oblast, RSFSR * 3rd Air Defence Corps (''3-й корпус ПВО'') - Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Oblast, RSFSR ** Corps Command and Staff (''управление корпуса'') ** Corps Command Post (''командный пункт корпуса'') ** Corps Automatised Command and Control Systems Center (''центр АСУ корпуса'') ** 124th Communications Nod (''124-й узел связи'') - Yaroslavl ** 114th Separate Radio-Relay Battalion (''114-й отдельный радио-релейный батальон'') ** 380th Separate Electronic Warfare Battalion (380-й ''отдельный батальон'' РЭБ) ** 2 fighter aviation regiments *** 415th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Air Defence Forces (''415-й истребительный авиационный полк ПВО'') - Tunoshna (Yaroslavl), Yaroslavl Oblast, RSFSR - MiG-23P *** 611th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Air Defence Forces (''611-й истребительный авиационный полк ПВО'') - Dorokhovo (Bezhetsk), Tver Oblast, RSFSR - Su-15 ** 79th ''Guards'' Missile Air Defence Brigade (''79-я гвардейская зенитно-ракетная бригада'') - Pitino village (near

Cherepovets Cherepovets ( rus, Череповец, p=tɕɪrʲɪpɐˈvʲets) is a city in Vologda Oblast, Russia, located in the west of the oblast on the banks of the Sheksna River (a tributary of the Volga River) and on the shores of the Rybinsk Reservoir. ...

), Vologda Oblast, RSFSR ** 7 missile air defence regiments: *** 48th (Yaroslavl), 164th (Kimry), 380th (Verkhnehovolskiy), 474th (Ogarkovo), 485th (?), 488th (Susanino) and 1257th (Pereslavl-Zalesskiy) ** 6th ''Red Banner'' Radio-Technical Brigade (''6-я радиотехническая Краснознамённая бригада'') -

, Yaroslavl Oblast, RSFSR ** 66th Radio-Technical Regiment (''66-й радиотехнический полк'') -

, Vologda Oblast, RSFSR (disbanded on 22.02. 1989 and absorbed into the 6th RTBde) * 7th Air Defence Corps - (7-й корпус ПВО) -

, Bryansk Oblast, RSFSR ** Corps Command and Staff (''управление корпуса'') ** Corps Command Post (''командный пункт корпуса'') ** Corps Automatised Command and Control Systems Center (''центр АСУ корпуса'') ** 208th Communications Nod (''208-й узел связи'') - Bryansk ** 2 fighter aviation regiments *** 191st Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Air Defence Forces (''191-й истребительный авиационный полк ПВО'') - Yefremov - MiG-23P/UB *** 472nd Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Air Defence Forces (''472-й истребительный авиационный полк ПВО'') - Kursk (Vostochny), Kursk Oblast, RSFSR - MiG-23P/UB ** 8 missile air defence regiments: *** 80th ''Guards'' (Stukalovo village near Tula), 493rd ''Guards Venskiy, awarded the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of Kutuzov and the Order of Alexander Nevsky'' (Ryazan), 108th ''Tulskiy'' (Shilovo village near Voronezh), 260th ''Red Banner'' (Bryansk), 326th (Podolsk), 559th (?), 791st (?) and 1284th (Yerdenyovo village near

Maloyaroslavets Maloyaroslavets () is a town and the administrative center of Maloyaroslavetsky District in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Luzha River ( Oka's basin), northeast of Kaluga, the administrative center of the oblast. Pop ...

) ** 41st Radio-Technical Brigade (''41-я радиотехническая бригада'') -

Oryol Oryol ( rus, Орёл, , ɐˈrʲɵl, a=ru-Орёл.ogg, links=y, ), also transliterated as Orel or Oriol, is a Classification of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Oryol Oblast, Russia, situated on the Oka Rive ...

* 16th Air Defence Corps - (''16-й корпус ПВО'') - Gorky, Gorky Oblast, RSFSR ** Corps Command and Staff (''управление корпуса'') ** Corps Command Post (''командный пункт корпуса'') ** Corps Automatised Command and Control Systems Center (''центр АСУ корпуса'') ** 101st Communications Nod (''101-й узел связи'') - Gorky ** 904th Separate Radio-Relay Signals Battalion (''904-й отдельный радиорелейный батальон'') - Gorky ** 412th Separate Electronic Warfare Battalion (''412-й отдельный батальон'' ''РЭБ'') - Gorky ** 2 fighter aviation regiments *** 153rd Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Air Defence Forces (''153-й истребительный авиационный полк ПВО'') -

Morshansk Morshansk () is a town in Tambov Oblast, Russia, located on the Tsna River ( Oka's basin) north of Tambov. Population: 44,000 (1970). History The exact origins of Morshansk are unknown; however, documents mention a populated place in this ...

, Tambov Oblast, RSFSR - Su-15 (converted to MiG-31 in 1990) *** 786th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Air Defence Forces (''786-й истребительный авиационный полк ПВО'') - Pravdinsk,

Gorky Oblast Nizhny Novgorod Oblast () is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Nizhny Novgorod. It has a population of 3,119,115 as of the 2021 Census. From 1932 to 1990 it was known as Gorky Oblast (). The oblast ...

, RSFSR - MiG-31 ** 72nd Missile Air Defence Brigade (''72-я зенитно-ракетная бригада'') - Gorodets, Gorky Oblast, RSFSR ** 4 missile air defence regiments: *** 371st ''Guards Bobruysko-Berlinskiy, awarded the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of Alexander Nevsky, the Order of Kutuzov and the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky'' (Kosteryovo, Vladimir Oblast), 291st (Neya village, Kostroma Oblast), 356th (Sharya, Kostroma Oblast) and 387th (

Arzamas 16 Sarov () is a closed town in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. It was known as Gorkiy-130 (Горький-130) and Arzamas-16 (), after a (somewhat) nearby town of Arzamas,SarovLabsCreation of Nuclear Center Arzamas-16/ref> from 1946 to 1991. Un ...

)(often mentioned as the most secretive closed city within the USSR) ** 9th Radio-Technical Brigade (''9-я радиотехническая бригада'') - Gorky ** 65th Radio-Technical Regiment (''65-й радиотехнический полк'') -

Post-Cold war

Order of battle c. 2006

The District had around 75,000 troops assigned and consisted of the following formations. The entire Ground Forces began to go through a major reorganisation (the

2008 Russian military reform The 2008 Russian military reform (), often referred to as the Serdyukov reform () after its originator, Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, was a major structural reorganisation of the Russian Armed Forces that began in 2009. Significant refo ...

), which apparently began in March 2009, in which armies become operational commands and divisions were redesignated brigades. *1st Separate Rifle Brigade for Security of the Ministry of Defence premises (1-я отдельная стрелковая бригада охраны МО) - Moscow. Disbanded 2008, and absorbed by the 27th independent Guards Motor Rifle Brigade. * 2nd ''Tamanskaya'' Guards Motor Rifle Division * 34th Guards Perekop Red Banner Order of Suvorov Artillery Division, Mulino (Gorokhovets) * 27th Guards Sevastopol Motor Rifle Brigade, Tyoply Stan (or possibly Mosrentgen as the two districts are adjacent, hugging the border between Moscow city and Moscow Oblast at the time) * 112th Guards Rocket Brigade ( Shuya) (Tochka SSM) *

20th Guards Army The 20th Guards Combined Arms Army (originally designated as the 4th Tank Army, 4th Guards Tank Army in 1945, 4th Guards Mechanised Army in 1946, and the 20th Guards Army in 1960 within the Soviet Ground Forces) is a field army. In 1991, after th ...

(to operational command) **

, (to brigade) **

10th Guards Uralsko-Lvovskaya Tank Division The 10th Russian Guards, Guards ''Uralsko-Lvovskaya'' Volunteer Tank Division, also known as the Ural-Lvov Tank Division, is a armoured division, tank division of the Russian Ground Forces and part of the Moscow Military District's 20th Guards A ...

, гвардейская танковая Уральско-Львовская дивизия (to brigade) **397th MRL Regiment (Skopin) **

448th Rocket Brigade The 448th Rocket Brigade named for S.P. Nepobedimy is a tactical ballistic missile brigade of the Russian Ground Forces. Based in Kursk, the brigade is part of the 20th Guards Army. History The brigade was formed in September 1987 at Born in Ea ...

(

) (Tochka SSM) **4944th Base for Storage of Weapons and Equipment (

)(former 144 Guards MRD) **other units * 22nd Army, 22-я армия,

Nizhni Novgorod Nizhny Novgorod ( ; rus, links=no, Нижний Новгород, a=Ru-Nizhny Novgorod.ogg, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj ˈnovɡərət, t=Lower Newtown; colloquially shortened to Nizhny) is a city and the administrative centre of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast an ...

(appears to be disbanding) ** 3rd ''Vislenskaya'' Motor Rifle Division, Mulino, мотострелковая Вислянская дивизия (splitting into two brigades) ** 5th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade (Shuya) **50th Rocket Brigade (Shuya) (Tochka SSM) **211th Artillery Brigade (Mulino) **918th Multiple Rocket Launcher Regiment (Mulino) ** Base for Storage of Weapons and Equipment (Tver) (ex 166th Motor Rifle Brigade) **other units *

Moldova Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova, is a Landlocked country, landlocked country in Eastern Europe, with an area of and population of 2.42 million. Moldova is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. ...

(

Tiraspol Tiraspol (, ; also /; , ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Transnistria, a breakaway state of Moldova, where it is the third-largest city. The city is located on the eastern bank of the Dniester River. Tiraspol is a regional hub of cul ...

) (formerly 14th Guards Army) **(two?) separate battalions, formerly from the 8th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade * 16th Spetsnaz Brigade, 16-я бригада спецназа * 467th Guards District Training Centre (Kovrov) (included 44th Guards Tank Training Regiment, Vladimir) *

*other formations and units In addition to normal units, the district was home at least until 2001 to the 11th Separate Cavalry Regiment ( :ru:11-й отдельный кавалерийский полк), a unit used for producing war films. The unit was based at Kobyakovo.

''
Order of Lenin The Order of Lenin (, ) was an award named after Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the October Revolution. It was established by the Central Executive Committee on 6 April 1930. The order was the highest civilian decoration bestowed by the Soviet ...
'' Moscow Military District 2010

Russian Ground Forces - Moscow Military District Structure

* Combat formations: ** 4th Guards Independent Tank Brigade ''"Kantemir"'', in

** 5th Guards Independent Motor-Rifle Brigade ''"Taman"'', in Kalininec equipped with BTR ** 6th Independent Tank Brigade ''"Chentokhovskaya"'', in Mulino ** 9th Guards Independent Motor-Rifle Brigade, in

Nizhny Novgorod Nizhny Novgorod ( ; rus, links=no, Нижний Новгород, a=Ru-Nizhny Novgorod.ogg, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj ˈnovɡərət, t=Lower Newtown; colloquially shortened to Nizhny) is a city and the administrative centre of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast an ...

equipped with BMP ** 16th Independent

Spetsnaz SpetsnazThe term is borrowed from rus, спецназ, p=spʲɪtsˈnas; abbreviation for or 'Special Purpose Military Units'; or () are special forces in many post-Soviet states. Historically, this term referred to the Soviet Union's Spet ...

Brigade, in (

) ** 27th Guards Sevastopol Motor Rifle Brigade, in Vidnoye equipped with BMP **

(in

) ** 99th Reserve Base (13th Independent Motor-Rifle Brigade), in

** 262nd Reserve Base (1st Independent Tank Brigade), in

Boguchar Boguchar () is a town and the administrative center of Bogucharsky District in Voronezh Oblast, Russia, located on the Boguchar River (a tributary of the Don River), south of Voronezh, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: H ...

** 467th Guards District Training Centre, in

Kovrov Kovrov () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city in Vladimir Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Klyazma River, a tributary of the Oka River, Oka. Kovrov's population as of the Russian Census (2021), 2021 Census was 132,4 ...

* Missile and Artillery formations: ** 45th Heavy Artillery Brigade ''"Svir"'', in

** 79th Guards MLRS Brigade, in

** 112th Guards Missile Brigade, in Shuya ** 288th Artillery Brigade ''"Warsaw-Brandenburg"'', in Mulino ** 448th Missile Brigade, in Durnevo ** 7015th Artillery Reserve Base, in Mulino * Air-defence formations: ** 53rd Air-defence Missile Brigade, in

equipped with the

Buk missile system The Buk (; "beech" (tree), ) is a family of self-propelled anti-aircraft weapon, self-propelled, medium-range surface-to-air missile systems developed by the Soviet Union and its successor state, the Russian Federation, and designed to counter ...

** 886th Air-defence Command Center * Radar formations: ** 70th Independent Radio Technical Brigade, in

** 51st Independent Radio Technical Battalion, in Dmitriev-Lgovskyy * Engineering formations: ** 7th Independent Engineer Regiment, in

Belev Belyov () is a town and the administrative center of Belyovsky District in Tula Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Oka River. Population: 13,180 (2018); History As is the case with many other towns in the former Upper Oka Principal ...

** 841st Independent Engineer Battalion * NBC-defence formations: ** 27th Independent NBC-defence Brigade, in

** 465th Independent NBC-defence Battalion, in

* Signal formations: ** 1st Signal Brigade ''"Sevastopol"'', in Selyatino ** 16th Independent Electronic Warfare Brigade ** 119th Signal Brigade, in Selyatino ** 147th Independent (Rear) Signal Battalion Formations of the

Airborne Forces Airborne forces are ground combat units carried by aircraft and airdropped into battle zones, typically by parachute drop. Parachute-qualified infantry and support personnel serving in airborne units are also known as paratroopers. The main ...

, including the 98th Guards Airborne Division and 106th Guards Airborne Division ''"Tula"'', also are based within the District's boundaries, but report directly to VDV headquarters. Army General Vladimir Bakin was the former chief of staff – first deputy commander-in-chief of forces of the Volga-Ural Military District.

Component units in 2024

Direct reporting units and formations

in the Transnistrian region of the

Republic of Moldova Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, with an area of and population of 2.42 million. Moldova is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The unrecognised ...

(

) **82nd Motorized Rifle Battalion **113th Motorized Rifle Battalion **540th Separate Command Battalion * (1st) Semyonovsky Regiment (Zyuzino Selo) *29th (

), 34th (

) and 38th Railway Brigades of the

Russian Railway Troops Railway Troops of the Russian Armed Forces ()См. сведения о постоянных корреспондентах газеты «Красная звезда» в выходных данных на С. 2. каждого еженедель� ...

* 1st Guards Engineer Brigade (

) *45th Guards Berlin Engineering Brigade,

Russian Engineer Troops The Engineer Troops of the Russian Federation () are a Combat arms, Combat Arm and Corps#Administrative Corps, military administrative corps of the Russian Ground Forces of the Russian Federation designed to perform military engineering operations ...

(

) *27th Brigade,

Russian NBC Protection Troops __NOTOC__ The Troops of Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defence of the Russian Armed Forces () are an organisation designed to reduce the losses of the Russian Ground Forces, Ground Forces and ensuring their combat tasks assigned during ope ...

(

Shikhany Shikhany, also spelled Shikhansky () is a closed town in Saratov Oblast, Russia, north of Saratov on the right bank of the Volga River Population: . It has been a closed town since 1997, but lost this status on 1 January 2019. The town is 2 kil ...

) *28th Guards Pontoon-Bridge Brigade (Murom) *45th High-Power Artillery Brigade "Svir" (

) * 79th Guards Rocket Artillery Brigade (

) *15th Electronic Warfare Brigade ( Stroitel) *16th Electronic Warfare Brigade (Plavsk, says Galeotti 2017, Kursk-MZS, says Muzyka 2020) *82nd Separate Radio Technical Special Purpose Brigade (

Vyazma Vyazma () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town and the administrative center of Vyazemsky District, Smolensk Oblast, Vyazemsky District in Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Vyazma River, about halfway between Smolensk, the ...

) *146th Special Purpose Radio Engineer Brigade ( Bugry) * 5th Repair and Restoration Regiment (Zaraisk) *45th Separate Engineer-Camouflage Regiment (HQ in Inzhenernyy,

; formation in June 2017 * 100th Separate Support Regiment (Alabino,

) *22nd Central Base for Reserve Tanks (

Buy, Kostroma Oblast Buy () is a town in Kostroma Oblast, Russia, which stands on the Kostroma River. Population: History Buy was originally a trading post and protected by a hill fortress of Finno-Ugrian Meri people c. 400–500 CE. Its original M ...

) * 210th Guards Interspecific Regional Training Kovel Red Banner Center (engineering troops) (

Kstovo Kstovo () is a town and the administrative center of Kstovsky District in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, earlier Sowjetunion / since 1991 Russia, located on the right bank of the Volga River, southeast of Nizhny Novgorod, the administrative center ...

) * 467th Guards District Training Centre (

) *333rd Combat Training Center of the Ground Forces, Airborne Forces and Coastal Forces of the Navy (Gorokhovets Artillery Range) * 1084th Interspecific Center for Training and Combat Use of Electronic Warfare Troops (Tambov)

Ground forces

;

1st Guards Tank Army The 1st Guards Tank Red Banner Army () is a tank army of the Russian Ground Forces (Military Unit Number 73621). The army traces its heritage back to the 1st Tank Army, formed twice in July 1942 and in January 1943 and converted into the 1st ...

2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division The 2nd Guards Mikhail Kalinin, M. I. Kalinin Taman Motor Rifle Division is a Russian Guards, Guards Mechanized infantry, mechanised infantry Division (military), division of the Russian Ground Forces. Its Military Unit Number is 23626. The 2nd ...

(в/ч 23626) **

1st Guards Motor Rifle Regiment The 1st Guards Motorized Rifle Sevastopol Red Banner Order of Alexander Nevsky Regiment named after the 60th Anniversary of the USSR is a tactical formation of the Russian Ground Forces. Its Military Unit Number is 31135 (military unit 31135). Ab ...

(в/ч 31135) **

15th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment The 15th Guards Motorized Rifle Shavlinsky Order of Lenin, Red Banner Regiment (15 Guards MSP), () is a motor rifle regiment of the Russian Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Its Military Unit Number is 31134. It is base ...

(в/ч 31134) **

1st Guards Tank Regiment The 1st Guards Tank Chertkov Twice Order of Lenin Red Banner Orders of Suvorov, Kutuzov, and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Regiment named for Marshal of Armed Forces M. E. Katukov (1 ''gv. tp'') (; Military Unit Number 58198) is a highly decorated tank reg ...

(в/ч 58198) ** 136th Reconnaissance Battalion (в/ч 51387) ** 147th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment (в/ч 73966) ** 1174th Anti-Tank Battalion (в/ч 51381) ** 1117th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (в/ч 51382) *

4th Guards Tank Division The 4th Guards Tank Division is a Russian Guards, Guards armoured division of the Russian Ground Forces. The division is named after Yuri Andropov. The division has the Military Unit Number 19612 and is one of the key formations of the Moscow Mil ...

(в/ч 19612) ** 12th Guards Tank Regiment (в/ч 31985) ** 13th Guards Tank Regiment (в/ч 32010) ** 423rd Motor Rifle Regiment (в/ч 91701) ** 137th Reconnaissance Battalion (в/ч 54919) ** 275th Self Propelled Artillery Regiment (в/ч 73941) **

49th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade The 49th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade () (; Military Unit Number 21555) is a surface-to-air missile brigade of the air defense troops of the Russian Ground Forces. Part of the 1st Guards Tank Army, it is stationed in Krasny Bor, part of the cit ...

(в/ч 21555) ** 538th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (в/ч 51383) *

47th Tank Division 47th Division may refer to: Infantry divisions * 47th Reserve Division (German Empire) * 47th Landwehr Division (German Empire) * 47th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) * 47th Volksgrenadier Division (Wehrmacht) * 47th Infantry Division Bari (Kingdom ...

(в/ч 54096) ** 26th Tank Regiment ** 153rd Tank Regiment ** 245th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment ** 272nd Motor Rifle Regiment ** 380th Motorized Rifle Regiment ** 4th Volunteer Assault Brigade (

Egyptian ''Egyptian'' describes something of, from, or related to Egypt. Egyptian or Egyptians may refer to: Nations and ethnic groups * Egyptians, a national group in North Africa ** Egyptian culture, a complex and stable culture with thousands of year ...

volunteers) ** 7th Reconnaissance Battalion * 27th Motorized Rifle Brigade (в/ч 61899) * 96th Reconnaissance Brigade (в/ч 52634) * 112th Missile Brigade (в/ч 03333) * 288th Artillery Brigade (в/ч 30683) ;

20th Guards Combined Arms Army The 20th Guards Combined Arms Army (originally designated as the 4th Tank Army, 4th Guards Tank Army in 1945, 4th Guards Mechanised Army in 1946, and the 20th Guards Army in 1960 within the Soviet Ground Forces) is a field army. In 1991, after th ...

3rd Motor Rifle Division The 3rd Vislenskaya Red Banner Order of Suvorov and Kutuzov Motor Rifle Division (), is a motorized infantry division of the Russian Ground Forces. The 3rd Motor Rifle Division was formed in 1997 from the amalgamation of the 31st and 47th ...

(в/ч 54046) (

Valuyki Valuyki () is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia. Urban localities *Valuyki, Belgorod Oblast, a town in Belgorod Oblast Rural localities * Valuyki, Moscow Oblast, a village in Teryayevskoye Rural Settlement of Volokolamsky Distric ...

) ** 252nd Motor Rifle Regiment (в/ч 91711) **

752nd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment The 752nd Guards Motor Rifle Petrokovsky twice Red Banner, Orders of Suvorov, Kutuzov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Volga Cossack Regiment, (; MUN 34670) is a mechanized infantry regiment of the Russian Ground Forces. The regiment is part of the 3rd Moto ...

(в/ч 34670) ** 237th Guards Tank Regiment (в/ч 91726) ** 84th Reconnaissance Battalion (в/ч 22263) ** 99th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment (в/ч 91727) ** 159th Separate Anti-Tank Battalion (в/ч 81989) ** 1143rd Separate Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (в/ч 48422) *

(в/ч 23060) (

) ** 254th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment (в/ч 91704) ** 488th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment (в/ч 12721) ** 59th Guards Tank Regiment (в/ч 94018) ** 148th Reconnaissance Battalion (в/ч 23872) ** 856th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment (в/ч 23857) ** 1259th Separate Anti-Tank Artillery Battalion ** 673rd Separate Anti-Aircraft Missile Battalion (в/ч 53821) * 236th Guards Artillery Brigade (в/ч 53195) (

Kolomna Kolomna (, ) is a historic types of inhabited localities in Russia, city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, situated at the confluence of the Moskva River, Moskva and Oka Rivers, (by rail) southeast of Moscow. Population: History Mentioned for the fir ...

) *

(в/ч 35535) (

) * 53rd Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade (в/ч 32406) (Kursk) * 99th Weapons and Equipment Storage Base (

) * 7015th Weapons and Equipment Storage Base (Mulino) * 152nd Logistic Support Brigade ( Liski) * 9th Guards Command Brigade (Voronezh) * Battalion of the 82nd Separate Radio Engineering Special Purpose Brigade

Commanders

Commanders (1864–1917)

*General of Infantry Alexander von Güldenstubbe; (August 10, 1864 - April 17, 1879) *Adjutant General, General of the Cavalry

Pontus Brevern-de la Gardie Pontus Alexander Ludwig Graf Brevern-de la Gardie (Born von Brevern; , Romanization of Russian, tr. ; ) was a Sweden, Swedish count, Baltic German nobleman, military officer and statesman of Germans, German, French people, French and Swedes, ...

; (April 17, 1879 - August 30, 1888) *Adjutant General, General of Artillery Apostol Kostanda; (August 1888 - May 1896) *Adjutant General, Lieutenant General,

Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (; 11 May 1857 – 17 February 1905) was the fifth son and seventh child of Emperor Alexander II of Russia. He was an influential figure during the reigns of his brother Emperor Alexander III of Russia a ...

; (May 1896 - February 4, 1905) *General of Infantry

Nikolai Nikolayevich Malakhov Nikolai Nikolayevich Malakhov (18274 April 1908) was a Russian military leader and infantry general (1895). Biography Malakhov was born on 6 (18) May 1827 (in the Petersburg's necrology - 1826) in Arkhangelsk, in the family of the customs manag ...

; (February 1905 - January 1906) *Lieutenant General

Sergei Konstantinovich Gershelman Sergey Konstantinovich Gershelman (; 26 June 1854 – 17 October 1910), was an Imperial Russian Army general of German descent, who fought in the Russo-Japanese War and served as the Governor-General of Moscow. Ancestry Although it has been clai ...

; (January 15, 1906 - March 17, 1909) *General of the cavalry Paul von Plehwe; (March 17, 1909 - July 19, 1914) *General of Infantry Alexander G. Sandetsky; (July 1914 - May 1915) *Adjutant General, Lieutenant General Prince Felix Felixovitch Soumarokov-Elston; (May 5, 1915 - June 19, 1915) *General of Infantry Petr. D. Olkhovsky; (July 1915 - September 1915) *General of Artillery Iosif Mrozovsky; (September 22, 1915 - March 1, 1917) *Lieutenant Colonel Alexander E. Gruzinov (March 1917 - April 1917) *Colonel

Aleksander Verkhovsky Aleksandr Ivanovich Verkhovsky (; November 27, 1886 – August 19, 1938) was a Russian military and political figure. He was briefly the Minister of War of the Provisional Russian Government in 1917. Biography Born into a noble family. He st ...

(May 31, 1917 - August 30, 1917) *Lieutenant Colonel Konstantin I. Ryabtsev (September 1917 - November 1917)

Commanders (1918–present)

Nikolay Muralov Nikolay Ivanovich Muralov (; 7 December 1877 – 1 February 1937) was a Bolshevik revolutionary leader and military commander in Russia, who after 1923 became a member of the Left Opposition. Muralov was a direct participant in both the Revolut ...

, (November 1917 - February 1919) *Sergey Natsarenus, (March 1919 - June 1919) *Aleksandr Burdukov, (June 1919 - December 1920) *Pavel Petryaev, (December 1920 - February 1921) *

, (March 1921 - April 1924) *

Kliment Voroshilov Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov ( ; ), popularly known as Klim Voroshilov (; 4 February 1881 – 2 December 1969), was a prominent Soviet Military of the Soviet Union, military officer and politician during the Stalinism, Stalin era (1924–195 ...

, (April 1924 - November 1925) *

Georgy Bazilevich Georgy Dmitrievich Bazilevich (26 January 1889 – 3 March 1939) was a Soviet Union, Soviet komkor (corps commander). He fought for the Imperial Russian Army during World War I before going over to the Bolsheviks in the subsequent Civil War. He w ...

, (November 1925 - May 1927) *

Boris Shaposhnikov Boris Mikhaylovich Shaposhnikov () ( – 26 March 1945) was a Soviet Union, Soviet military officer, Military theory, theoretician and Marshal of the Soviet Union. He served as the Chief of the General Staff (Russia), Chief of the General St ...

, (May 1927 - January 1928) *

Commandarm is the abbreviation of the , and was a military rank used in the Soviet Union. Between 1918 and 1935, it was a rank in the Red Army, roughly equivalent to Flotilla commander in the Red Fleet. In 1935, the rank was split in two, before being abo ...

August Kork August Ivanovich Kork (, also Аугуст Яанович Корк; 12 June 1937) was an Estonian Red Army commander ( Komandarm 2nd rank) who was tried and executed during the Great Purge in 1937. Kork became an officer of the Imperial Rus ...

(1930–1935) *

Comcor () is the syllabic abbreviation for corps commander (; ). It was a military rank in the Red Army and Red Army Air Force of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the period from 1935 to 1940. It was also the designation for officers appoi ...

Boris Gorbachyov Boris Sergeevich Gorbachyov (19 August 1892 – 3 July 1937) was a Soviet komkor (Russian for a corps commander). He was born in present-day Belarus. He fought in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I before going over to the Bolsheviks in t ...

(1935) * Commandarm 1st Rank Ivan Belov (1935–1937) *

Marshal of the Soviet Union Marshal of the Soviet Union (, ) was the second-highest military rank of the Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin wore the uniform and insignia of Marshal after World War II. The rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union was created in 1935 and abolished in ...

Semyon Budyonny Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny ( rus, Семён Миха́йлович Будённый, Semyon Mikháylovich Budyonnyy, p=sʲɪˈmʲɵn mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ bʊˈdʲɵnːɨj, a=ru-Simeon Budyonniy.ogg; – 26 October 1973) was a Russian and ...

(1937–1939) *

General of the Army Army general or General of the army is the highest ranked general officer in many countries that use the French Revolutionary System. Army general is normally the highest rank used in peacetime. In countries that adopt the general officer fou ...

Ivan Tyulenev Ivan Vladimirovich Tyulenev (; 28 January 189215 August 1978) was a Soviet military commander, one of the first to be promoted to the rank of General of the Army in 1940. Biography Tyulenvev was born into a soldier's family in the Simbirsk Go ...

(1939–1941) *

Colonel General Colonel general is a military rank used in some armies. It is particularly associated with Germany, where historically General officer#Old European system, general officer ranks were one grade lower than in the Commonwealth and the United States, ...

Pavel Artemyev Korni () is a Russian pop rock band. They rose to fame when they won best band on the show '' Star Factory-1''. The current band members include: Dmitry Pakulichev (vocal), Alexandr Berdnikov (vocal), and Alexey Kabanov (keyboards). History ...

(1944–1947) *Marshal of the Soviet Union

Kirill Meretskov Kirill Afanasievich Meretskov (; – 30 December 1968) was a Soviet Union, Soviet military commander. Having joined the Communist Party in 1917, he served in the Red Army from 1920. During the Winter War of 1939–1940 against Finland, he had t ...

(1947–1949) *Colonel General Pavel Artemyev (1949–June 1953) *General of the Army

(June 1953–October 1960) *Мarshal of the Soviet Union Nikolay Krylov (October 1960–4 March 1963) *General of the Army

Afanasy Beloborodov Afanasy Pavlantyevich Beloborodov (; – 1 September 1990) was a general in the Red Army during the Second World War who was twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. Between 1963 and 1968, he commanded the Moscow Military District. Ea ...

(5 March 1963 – 1968) *Colonel General

Yevgeny Ivanovsky Yevgeny Filippovich Ivanovsky (; 7 March 1918 – 22 November 1991) was a Soviet Army General who served in numerous high commands following the Second World War, including the command of the Moscow Military District from 1968 to 1972, command of ...

(1968–1972) *Colonel General (promoted to General of the Army October 1977)

Vladimir Govorov Vladimir Leonidovich Govorov (Russian: Владимир Леонидович Говоров; 18 October 1924 – 13 August 2006) was a Soviet General and military leader. He was the son of Soviet military commander Marshal Leonid Govorov. Early ...

(1972–1980) (son of the Soviet Marshal

Leonid Govorov Leonid Aleksandrovich Govorov (; – 19 March 1955) was a Soviet Union, Soviet military commander. Trained as an artillery officer, he joined the Red Army in 1920. He graduated from several Soviet military academies, including the Military Aca ...

) *General of the Army Petr Lushev (1980–June 1985) *Colonel General

Vladimir Arkhipov Vladimir Mikhailovich Arkhipov (Russian: Владимир Миха́йлович Архи́пов; 1 June 1933 – 27 October 2004) was a Soviet army general and politician. Military service In 1972 he graduated from the Military Academy of th ...

(June 1985–August 1988) *General of the Army Konstantin Kochetov (August 1988–May 1989) *Colonel General Nikolai Kalinin (May 1989–September 1991) *

Lieutenant General Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages, where the title of lieutenant general was held by the second-in-command on the battlefield, who was norma ...

Vladimir Toporov Vladimir Nikolayevich Toporov (; 5 July 1928 in Moscow5 December 2005 in Moscow) was a Russian philologist associated with the Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School. His wife was Tatyana Elizarenkova. He is also recognized as a prominent Balticist. ...

(September 1991–17 May 1992) *Colonel General

Leonty Kuznetsov Leonty Vasilyevich Kuznetsov (Russian: Леонтий Васильевич Кузнецов; born 13 August 1938) is a retired officer of the Soviet and later Russian Army who served as a Commander of the Moscow Military District from 1992 to 1 ...

(1992–1999) *Colonel General Igor Puzanov (1999–2001) *Colonel General Nikolai Makarov (2001, acting) *General of the Army Ivan Efremov (2001–2005) *General of the Army

Vladimir Bakin Vladimir Yuryevich Bakin (; born 25 November 1953) is a Russian military general who served among others as Commander of the Moscow Military District (2005–2009). Biography Born on November 25, 1953, in the village of Cheremkhovo, Ivanovsky D ...

(2005–2009) *Colonel General

Valery Gerasimov Valery Vasilyevich Gerasimov (born 8 September 1955) is a Russian Army general (Russia), army general serving as the Chief of the General Staff (Russia), Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces and First Deputy Ministry of Defen ...

(2009–2010) *Colonel General Sergey Kuzovlev (16 May 2024–)

References

Sources

* * * * (Rochan Consulting)