Baltic Red Banner Military District

Прибалтийский Краснознаменный военный округ

Military Unit: 00000

Commanders:

• Marshal of the Soviet Union Ivan Khristoforovich Bagramyan, 9.7.45 - 31.5.54
• General of the Army Aleksandr Vasilevich Gorbatov, 31.5.54 - 17.4.58
• General of the Army Pavel Ivanovich Batov, 17.4.58 - 17.11.59
• Colonel-General Iosef Iraklievich Gusakovskiy, 17.11.59 - 14.3.63
• General of the Army Georgiy Ivanovich Khetagurov, 25.6.63 - 8.6.71
• Colonel-General Vladimir Leonidovich Govorov, 8.6.71 - 17.7.72
• General of the Army Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Mayorov, 17.7.72 - 4.8.80
• Colonel-General Stanislav Ivanovich Postnikov, 4.8.80 - 20.1.84
• Colonel-General Anatoliy Vladimirovich Betekhtin, 20.1.84 - 5.2.87
• Colonel-General Viktor Ivanovich Grishin, 5.2.87 - 5.1.89
• Lieutenant-General Fyodor Mikhaylovich Kuzmin, 5.1.89 - 25.8.91
• Lieutenant-General Valeriy Ivanovich Mironov, 25.8.91 - 16.7.92
• Colonel-General Leonid Sergeevich Mayorov, 16.7.92 - 1.9.94

Activated 9.7.45 in Riga, Latvian SSR, from HQ 1st Baltic Front.

Organisation 1960:

• 11th Guards Combined Arms Army (Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast)
• 3rd Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Klaypeda, Lithuanian SSR)
• 8th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Klooga, Estonian SSR)
• 29th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR)
• 119th Motorised Rifle Division (Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR)
• 24th Training Tank Division (Dobele, Latvian SSR)
• 30th Air Army (Riga, Latvian SSR)

In 8.67 the 8th Guards Motorised Rifle Division was transferred to Frunze, Frunze Oblast - replaced by the 144th Guards Motorised Rifle Division.

In 7.68 the 265th Motorised Rifle Division was transferred to the Far East - replaced by the 107th Motorised Rifle Division.

In 11.68 the 74th Motorised Rifle Division was activated, to replace the 18th Guards Motorised Rifle Division, which had moved to Czechoslovakia.

In 8.69 the 31st Guards Motorised Rifle Division was transferred to the Far East.

Organisation 1970:

• 11th Guards Combined Arms Army (Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast)
• 3rd Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Klaypeda, Lithuanian SSR)
• 74th Motorised Rifle Division (Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad Oblast)
• 107th Motorised Rifle Division (Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR)
• 144th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Tallin, Estonian SSR)
• 24th Training Tank Division (Dobele, Latvian SSR)
• 15th Air Army (Riga, Latvian SSR)

In 1972 the 153rd Motorised Rifle Division (mobilisation) was activated.

15.1.74 awarded the Red Banner.

In 1974 the 149th Guards Artillery Division was activated.

Organisation 1980:

• 11th Guards Combined Arms Army (Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast)
• 3rd Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Klaypeda, Lithuanian SSR)
• 74th Motorised Rifle Division (Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad Oblast)
• 107th Motorised Rifle Division (Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR)
• 144th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Tallin, Estonian SSR)
• 153rd Motorised Rifle Division (mobilisation) (Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR)
• 24th Training Tank Division (Dobele, Latvian SSR)
• 149th Guards Artillery Division (Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast)
• 15th Air Army (Riga, Latvian SSR)

Organisation 1988:

• 11th Guards Combined Arms Army (Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast)
• 3rd Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Klaypeda, Lithuanian SSR)
• 107th Motorised Rifle Division (Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR)
• 144th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Tallin, Estonian SSR)
• 153rd Motorised Rifle Division (Pabrade, Lithuanian SSR)
• 54th District Training Center (Dobele, Latvian SSR)
• 000 Territorial Training Center (Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad Oblast)
• 149th Guards Artillery Division (Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast)
• 15th Air Army (Riga, Latvian SSR)

In 7.89 the 153rd Motorised Rifle Division was reduced to an equipment storage base.

In 10.89 the 3rd Guards Motorised Rifle Division was transferred to the Baltic Fleet.

15.11.91 renamed Northwestern Group of Forces.

1.9.94 disbanded.

Territory:

• 7.45 - 2.46: Lithuanian SSR and Latvian SSR
• 2.46 - 1.54: Lithuanian SSR, Latvian SSR and Kaliningrad Oblast
• 1.54 - 11.91: Lithuanian SSR, Latvian SSR, Estonian SSR and Kaliningrad Oblast

Headquarters:

• Riga, Latvian SSR, 9.7.45 - 1.9.94 [56 57 23N, 24 06 52E] [US designation: Riga Army Barracks AL 24]

Subordination:

• General Staff RKKA, 7.45 - 2.46
• General Staff Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, 2.46 - 7.5.92
• General Staff Armed Forces the Russian Federation, 7.5.92 - 1.9.94