Odessa Red Banner Military District

Одесский Краснознаменный военный округ

Military Unit: 00000

Commanders:

• Colonel-General Ivan Grigorevich Zakharkin, 23.3.44 - 15.10.44
• Major-General Aleksey Nikolaevich Pervushin (acting), 17.10.44 - 28.10.44
• Colonel-General Vasiliy Aleksandrovich Yushkevich, 28.10.44 - 2.6.46
• Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgiy Konstantinovich Zhukov, 3.6.46 - 10.2.48
• Colonel-General Nikolay Pavlovich Pukhov, 11.2.48 - 28.11.51
• Colonel-General Kyzma Nikitovich Galitskiy, 29.11.51 - 27.5.54
• Colonel-General Aleksey Ivanovich Radzievskiy, 31.5.54 - 3.6.59
• Colonel-General Amazasp Khachaturovich Babadzhanyan, 3.6.59 - 22.9.67
• Colonel-General Mikhail Vasilevich Lugovtsev, 22.9.67 - 29.12.67
• Colonel-General Aleksandr Georgievich Shurupov, 23.4.68 - 24.4.74
• Colonel-General Ivan Makarovich Voloshin, 25.4.74 - 22.4.82
• Colonel-General Aleksandr Sidorovich Elagin, 23.4.82 - 15.12.86
• Colonel-General Ivan Sergeevich Morozov, 16.12.86 - 1.92
• Lieutenant-General Vitaliy Grigorevich Radetskiy, 1.92 - 10.93

Activated 23.3.44 in Kirovograd, Kirovograd Oblast, from the HQ Baltic Military District (2nd formation).

9.7.45 new HQ activated from the old HQ Odessa Military District and HQ 2nd Ukrainian Front.

4.56 absorbed the disbanded Tauride Military District.

Organisation 1960:

• 14th Combined Arms Army (Kishinev, Moldovian SSR)
• 45th Army Corps (Simferopol, Crimean Oblast)
• 28th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Chernomorskoye, Odessa Oblast)
• 92nd Guards Training Motorised Rifle Division (Nikolayev, Nikolayev Oblast)
• 48th Air Army (Odessa, Odessa Oblast)

In 3.67 the 45th Army Corps was transferred to the Far East, and was replaced by the 32nd Army Corps.

In 11.67 the 14th Combined Arms Army was renamed 14th Guards Combined Arms Army.

22.2.68 awarded the Red Banner.

Organisation 1970:

• 14th Guards Combined Arms Army (Kishinev, Moldovian SSR)
• 32nd Army Corps (Simferopol, Crimean Oblast)
• 28th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Chernomorskoye, Odessa Oblast)
• 92nd Guards Training Motorised Rifle Division (Nikolayev, Nikolayev Oblast)
• 5th Air Army (Odessa, Odessa Oblast)

In 1973 the 55th Artillery Division was activated.

Organisation 1980:

• 14th Guards Combined Arms Army (Kishinev, Moldovian SSR)
• 32nd Army Corps (Simferopol, Crimean Oblast)
• 28th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Chernomorskoye, Odessa Oblast)
• 92nd Guards Training Motorised Rifle Division (Nikolayev, Nikolayev Oblast)
• 55th Artillery Division (Zaporoshye, Zaporoshye Oblast)
• 5th Air Army (Odessa, Odessa Oblast)

In 1984 the 71st Artillery Division (mobilisation) was activated - 12.87 renamed 714th Territorial Training Center.

Organisation 1988:

• 14th Guards Combined Arms Army (Tiraspol, Moldavian SSR)
• 32nd Army Corps (Simferopol, Crimean Oblast)
• 28th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Chernomorskoye, Odessa Oblast)
• 150th Guards District Training Center (Nikolayev, Nikolayev Oblast)
• 55th Artillery Division (Zaporoshye, Zaporoshye Oblast)
• 714th Territorial Training Center (Zaporoshye, Zaporoshye Oblast)
• 5th Air Army (Odessa, Odessa Oblast)

1.92 taken over by Ukraine.

Territory:

• 7.45 - 4.56: Odessa Oblast, Nikolayev Oblast, Izmail Oblast (15.2.54 aborbed by the Odessa Oblast) and Moldavian SSR
• 4.56 - 1.92: Odessa Oblast, Nikolayev Oblast, Crimean Oblast, Kherson Oblast, Zaporoshye Oblast and Moldavian SSR

Headquarters:

• Kirovograd, Kirovograd Oblast, 23.3.44 - 10.44
• Odessa, Odessa Oblast, 10.44 - 1.92 [46 27 53N, 30 44 50E]

Subordination:

• General Staff RKKA, 3.44 - 2.46
• General Staff Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, 2.46 - 4.92