Siberian Military District


The Siberian Military District was a Military district of the Russian Ground Forces. The district was originally formed as a military district of the Russian Empire in 1864. In 1924 it was reformed in the Red Army. After the end of World War II the district was split into the Western and Eastern Siberian Military Districts. In 1956 the western district's name was changed back to Siberian Military District, and in 1998 the Transbaikal Military District was merged into it. In 2010 it was divided between the two newly formed Central and Eastern Military Districts.

History

The Siberian Military District was originally formed in 1864, as the Western Siberian Military District, being one of the ten original military districts of the Russian Empire. It was renamed the Omsk Military District in 1882, until renamed again Western Siberian Military District in 1918-1919.
The Siberian Military District was created in June 1924 with the consolidation of the Western, Central and Eastern Siberian Military Districts, which had become the Imperial Military Districts in the area. In June 1941 the District was host to the 24th Army, under Lieutenant General Stepan Kalinin, which comprised two Rifle Corps, the 52nd and 53rd. The 52nd, with its headquarters in Novosibirsk along with the 133rd Rifle Division, additionally had the 166th Rifle Division at Barabinsk and the 178th Rifle Division at Omsk. The 53rd Rifle Corps at Krasnoyarsk, where the 119th Rifle Division was stationed, also included the 107th Rifle Division at Barnaul and the 91st Rifle Division at Achinsk.
Among the many, many formations the district raised during the Second World War was the 75th Cavalry Division, formed in September and October 1941.
Immediately after the end of World War II, on July 9, 1945, to facilitate the demobilisation process, the Siberian Military District was divided into the Western and Eastern Siberian Military Districts.

On January 4, 1956 the Western Siberian Military District was again renamed the Siberian Military District.
In 1959 the 74th Temryukskaya Red Banner Motor Rifle Division at Krasnoyarsk was disbanded, with two units joining the 85th Motor Rifle Division.
In 1968 the 33rd Army Corps was transferred into the district from the Turkestan Military District, establishing its headquarters at Kemerovo. The 13th Motor Rifle Division at Biysk was assigned to it. Among the mobilisation divisions formed in the district from the late 1970s was the 167th Motor Rifle Division, whose equipment storage area was co-located with the barracks of the 13th MRD.
The 242nd Motor Rifle Division was established at Abakan in 1972.
In 1974 for their great contributions to the cause of strengthening the defence of the Soviet State and its armed protection, successes in combat and political training, the Transbaikal Military District was rewarded with the Order of Lenin, and the Siberian Military District with the Order of the Red Banner.
The 33rd Army Corps disbanded in July 1991 and its personnel and assets were absorbed by the arriving 28th Army Corps from Czechoslovakia. General Major Nikolai Loktionov remained in command of the merged formation, having been appointed as the 33rd Army Corps commander in June 1991.
In August 1992, the 21st Motor Rifle Division, withdrawn from the 2nd Guards Tank Army in East Germany, was moved to Omsk. In October 1992, the 300th Guards Parachute Regiment of the 98th Guards Airborne Division at Kishinev in the Odessa Military District was split out of the division and sent to Abakan. In the city of Abakan, four years later, the 300th Guards Parachute Regiment was reorganised as the 100th independent Guards Airborne Brigade, but was then disbanded circa 1998.
In 1998, seven years after the fall of the Soviet Union, the District absorbed most of the territory and responsibilities of the former Transbaikal Military District, retaining the name Siberian Military District, but on their merger gave up the vast Sakha Republic to the expanded Far Eastern Military District.

District forces in 1990

The Siberian Military District has traditionally been a source for creating new wartime reserves, as demonstrated by the crucial role the Siberian rifle divisions have played in the Battle of Moscow during the Second World War. For that reason by the end of the Cold War the Siberian MD's land forces were modest by Soviet standards and air forces were non-existent. The 33rd Guards Berlislavsko-Khinganskaya, twice awarded the Order of the Red Banner and awarded the Order of Suvorov Strategic Missile Army of the Strategic Rocket Forces with its HQ in Omsk and the 14th independent Red Banner Air Defence Army of the Air Defence Forces with its headquarters in Novosibirsk were based in the Siberian Military District's area of responsibility, but were independent operational formations.

Formations and units under direct district subordination

District Command and Headquarters - Novosibirsk

Divisions under direct district subordination

  • 33rd Army Corps - Kemerovo
  • * 5349th Weaponry and Equipment Storage Base in Biysk since 1989. Previously the 1010th Territorial Training Center itself formed on the base of the 167th Motor Rifle Division in 1987.
  • * 5351st Weaponry and Equipment Storage Base in Biysk since 1989. Previously the 13th Motor Rifle Division. In July 1992 took over the traditions, honors and awards from the disbanded 23rd Guards Motor Rifle Division, and was renamed 13th Guards Motorised Rifle Division.
  • * 5352nd Weaponry and Equipment Storage Base in Omsk since 1989. Previously the 62nd Motor Rifle Division - Itatka village
  • 85th Leningradsko-Pavlovskaya Red Banner Motor Rifle Division - Novosibirsk
  • 5350th Weaponry and Equipment Storage Base since Dec. 1, 1989. Previously the 242nd Motor Rifle Division in Abakan under the 33rd Army Corps
  • 95th Motor Rifle Division - Stepnoy village
  • 190th Motor Rifle Division - Berdsk
  • 218th Motor Rifle Division - Biysk
  • 227th Motor Rifle Division - Svetliy village
  • 261st Motor Rifle Division - Stepnoy village
  • 241st Rear Area Security Division - Novosibirsk
  • 84th Deep Reserve Artillery Division - Taskino village
  • 67th Deep Reserve Tank Division - Shilovo village
  • 68th Deep Reserve Tank Division - Topchikha village
  • 71st Deep Reserve Tank Division - Omsk

Air Forces of the Siberian Military District

Air Forces of the Siberian Military District - Novosibirsk

District forces c. 2009–2010

The 41st Army was formed from the headquarters of the former Siberian Military District at Novosibirsk while the new district’s headquarters were established at Chita. It is likely safe to assume that the 41st Army controls all the field formations of the previous Siberian Military District.
The IISS listed the district in 2006 as having a total of one tank, two motor-rifle and one machine-gun artillery divisions, two motor-rifle and one air assault brigades. The 2nd Guards Tank Division, previously active in Mongolia with the 39th Army, disbanded in 2005 having been stationed at Strugi Mirnaya/Bezrechnaya in Chita Oblast. Also, while the 21st 'Tagenrog' Motor Rifle Division, withdrawn from Germany to the former Siberian Military District, was apparently partially re-equipped with the T-90 MBT in the mid-1990s, in 2000 it was apparently disbanded.
The 29th Army at Ulan-Ude was seemingly disbanded in the course of 2007.

Subordinate units

Order of Lenin Siberian Military District 2010:
  • Combat formations:
  • * 36th Army, Ulan Ude
  • ** 5th Guards Independent Tank Brigade "Don-Budapest", in Divizionaya equipped with T-90
  • ** 36th Guards Independent Motor-Rifle Brigade "Lozovskaya", in Borzya equipped with BMP-3 and T-72
  • ** 37th Guards Independent Motor-Rifle Brigade "Tachinskaya", in Kyakhta equipped with BMP
  • ** 187th Reserve Base in Nizhneudinsk
  • ** 227th Reserve Base in Divizionaya
  • * 41st Army, Novosibirsk
  • ** 32nd Independent Motor-Rifle Brigade "Leningrad-Pavlovskaya", in Shilovo equipped with BTR and T-90
  • ** 35th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade "Volgograd-Kiev", in Aleysk equipped with BMP-2 and T-72
  • ** 74th Guards Independent Motor-Rifle Brigade "Zvenigorod-Berlin", in Yurga equipped with BMP-3 and T-72
  • ** 103rd Reserve Base, in Shilovo
  • ** 104th Reserve Base, in Aleysk
  • ** 225th Reserve Base, in Yasnaya
  • * 11th Independent Airborne Brigade, in Sosnovyy Bor, Ulan-Ude – formed 1968
  • * 24th Spetsnaz Brigade, in Irkutsk
  • * 212th Guards District Training Center, in Chita
  • Missile and Artillery formations:
  • * 103rd Rocket Brigade in Ulan-Ude
  • * 232nd MLRS Brigade in Shelekhov
  • * 120th Artillery Brigade in Shelekhov
  • * 200th Artillery Brigade in Drovnaya
  • * 7018th Artillery Reserve Base in Drovnaya
  • * 7019th Artillery Reserve Base in Shelekhov
  • Air-defence formations:
  • * 36th Army
  • ** 140th Air-defence Missile Brigade in Telemba
  • ** 792nd Air-defence Command Center
  • * 41st Army
  • ** 61st Air-defence Missile Brigade
  • ** 868th Air-defence Command Center
  • Engineering formations:
  • * 27th Engineer Regiment in Yasnaya
  • * 60th Engineer Regiment in Novosibirsk
  • * 457th Independent Engineer Battalion
  • NBC-defence formations:
  • * 11th Independent Flamethrower Battalion in Drovyanaya
  • * 126th Independent NBC-defence Battalion in Borzya
  • * 254th Independent NBC-defence Battalion in Topchinkha
  • Signal formations:
  • * 50th Signal Brigade
  • * 101st Signal Brigade "Khinganskaya" in Chita
  • * 1271st Electronic Warfare Center in Divizionaya
  • * 175th Independent Signal Regiment in Borzya
  • * 235th Independent Signal Regiment in Kochenevo
  • * 154th Independent Signal Battalion
  • Logistic formations:
  • * 53rd Material Support Regiment in Chita

Commanders

West Siberian MD

  • Infantry General Alexander Osipovich Dyugamel;
  • Infantry General Alexander Petrovich Khrushchev;
  • Infantry General Nikolai Gennadievich Kaznakov;
  • Lieutenant General Grigory Vasilyevich Mescherinov.

Omsk MD

  • General of Infantry Kolpakovsky, Gerasim Alekseevich;
  • Lieutenant General Babkov, Ivan Fedorovich ;
  • General of the Cavalry Taube, Maxim Antonovich;

Siberian MD

  • General of the Cavalry Taube, Maxim Antonovich;
  • Lieutenant General Aleksander F. Karpov
  • Lieutenant General Nikolay N. Sukhotin

Omsk MD

  • Lieutenant General Ivan Nadarov;
  • General of the cavalry Schmitt, Evgeny Ottovich;
  • General of the Cavalry Nikolai Alexandrovich Sukhomlinov;
  • Major General Dumbadze, Samson Antonovich;
  • Major General G.V. Grigoriev;
  • Lieutenant General Taube, Alexander Alexandrovich;
  • Colonel MP Predinsky; -
  • Ensign P. N. Polovnikov;
  • Captain M. I. Telitsyn;
  • Major General Aleksei Matkovsky.

Siberian MD

Eastern Siberian MD

Western Siberian MD

Siberian MD