Southern Military District

Southern Military District
Южный военный округ
Founded October 20th, 2010 - present
Country  Russia
Type Military district
Part of Russian Armed Forces
Headquarters Budennovsky prospekt 43, Rostov-on-Don[1]
Decorations Order of the Red Banner
Commanders
General Colonel Aleksandr Galkin

The Southern Military District (Russian: Южный военный округ) is one of the four operational strategic commands of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The district was formed in accordance with Presidential Decree №1144 signed on September 20, 2010.[2] The district includes the territory of former North Caucasus Military District, the Black Sea Fleet and Caspian Flotilla.

History

The Southern Military District was formed on October 22, 2010.[3] According to Presidential Decree of 20 September 2010 № 1144 "On the Military Administrative Division Of the Russian Federation" the Southern Military District was created, encompassing the administrative borders of the Republic of Adygea, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria Republic, the Republic of Kalmykia, Karachay-Cherkessia, Republic of North Ossetia - Alania, Chechen Republic, Krasnodar, Stavropol, Astrakhan, Volgograd and Rostov regions.

The Southern Military District also comprises two military bases in the Republic of Armenia: the 102nd Military Base in Gyumri and the civil-military Erebuni Airport in the capital Yerevan, home to the 3624th Air Base and under the joint control of Armenian and Russian authorities.

By order of then Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, on July 22, 2010, interim commanders were named for the new military districts. Thus, the new position of commander of the Southern Military District, was Lt. Gen. Aleksandr Galkin, former Commander of the North Caucasus Military District, with Maj. Gen. Nikolai Pereslegin as the chief of staff for the district. Galkin was later promoted to Colonel General.

In April 2014, Crimea and Sevastopol were added to the Southern Military District.

District organization

As part of the larger reorganisation, the 49th Army appears to have reformed with its headquarters seemingly in the former Institute of Communications of the Strategic Rocket Forces at Stavropol.[4] According to warfare.ru, 49th Army (listed at Stavropol/Maikop) has under control the 4th Guards and 7th Military Bases (South Ossetia and Abkhazia) and the 8th (former Taman Guards Motor Rifle Division), 33rd and 34th separate Mountain Motor Rifle Brigades (Borzoi, Chechniya, Maikop, and Storozhevaya-2), as well as the 66th Communications Brigade.[5]

There are also three Spetsnaz brigades (the 100th, 10th, and 22nd), plus two Russian Airborne Troops units also stationed in the district (the 7th Guards Airborne Division at Novorossiysk and the 56th Guards Air Assault Brigade at Kamyshin).[6] The Russian Air Force has the 4th Air and Air Defence Forces Command in the district. Also under the district's control are the Navy's Black Sea Fleet and Caspian Flotilla, including their respective air and Naval Infantry components.

District units

External images
IISS estimate of major unit dispositions in the Southern Military District, 20 March 2014

58th Army in Vladikavkaz

49th Army in Stavropol/Maikop

102nd Military Base in Gyumri, Armenia

Airborne Troops

Spetsnaz/Reconnaissance

Air Force units

Naval Forces

References

  1. ↑ http://eng.mil.ru/en/structure/okruga/south/contacts.htm
  2. ↑ УКАЗ Президента РФ от 20.09.2010 N 1144 "О ВОЕННО - АДМИНИСТРАТИВНОМ ДЕЛЕНИИ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ"
  3. ↑ http://www.ryadovoy.ru/forum/index.php/topic,2479.0.html
  4. ↑ http://russiandefpolicy.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/more-appointments-dismissals-etc/, accessed January 2011, and http://www.ryadovoy.ru/forum/index.php/topic,2479.0.html
  5. ↑ Warfare.ru, Southern Military District, accessed September 2011
  6. ↑ Michael Holm, 56th independent Guards Landing-Assault Brigade, accessed January 2014.
  7. ↑ "В Новочеркасск из Майкопа переведена 33-я горная мотострелковая бригада". bloknot-novocherkassk.ru. Retrieved 2016-02-07.
  8. ↑ "Ukraine says Russian Marines ring coast guard base". Huffington Post. Associated Press. 28 March 2014. Retrieved 23 March 2014.

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