Ural Red Banner Military District

Уральский Краснознаменный военный округ

Military Unit: 12678

Commanders:

• Colonel-General Fyodor Isidorovich Kuznetsov, 2.45 - 11.2.48
• Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgiy Konstantinovich Zhukov, 12.2.48 - 20.3.53
• General of the Army Mikhail Ilich Kazakov, 21.3.53 - 6.1.56
• General of the Army Nikolay Ivanovich Krylov, 13.1.56 - 16.11.57
• General of the Army Dmitriy Danilovich Lenyushenko, 25.1.58 - 12.6.60
• Colonel-General Yakov Grigorevich Kreyzer, 13.6.60 - 21.7.61
• Colonel-General Ivan Vasilevich Tutarinov, 22.7.61 - 28.9.65
• Colonel-General Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Egorovskiy, 6.10.65 - 30.4.70
• Colonel-General Nikolay Kuzmich Silchenko, 4.5.70 - 4.5.80
• Colonel-General Mikhail Aleksandrovich Tyagunov, 5.5.80 - 13.12.83
• Colonel-General Ivan Andreevich Gashkov, 23.12.83 - 11.84
• Colonel-General Nikolay Fyodorovich Grachyov, 11.84 - 8.7.87
• Colonel-General Nikolay Grigorevich Madudov, 9.7.87 - 4.1.89
• Colonel-General Albert Mikhaylovich Makashov, 5.1.89 - 1.9.89
• Colonel-General Yuriy Pavlovich Grekov, 16.7.92 - 12.97
• Colonel-General Vyacheslav Valentinovich Tikhomirov, 12.97 - 22.1.00
• General of the Army Aleksandr Ivanovich Baranov, 24.1.00 - 19.7.04
• General of the Army Vladimir Anatolevich Boldyrev, 19.7.04 - 31.7.08
• Colonel-General Arkadiy Viktorovich Bakhin, 31.7.08 - 9.7.10
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Valentinovich Chirkin, 9.7.10 - 20.9.10

Activated 17.5.35 in Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast.

9.7.45 new HQ activated from the old HQ Ural Military District and HQ 51st Combined Arms Army.

Organisation 1960:

• 63rd Army Corps (Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast)
  • 44th Tank Division (Kamyshlov, Sverdlovsk Oblast)
  • 78th Motorised Rifle Division (Cherbakul, Chelyabinsk Oblast)
  • 126th Motorised Rifle Division (Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast)
• VVS Ural Military District (Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast)

In 8.60 the 63rd Army Corps was disbanded.

In 4.62 the 44th Tank Division and 78th Motorised Rifle Division became training divisions.

In 1967 the 65th Motorised Rifle Division (mobilisation) was activated.

Organisation 1970:

• 34th Motorised Rifle Division (Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast)
• 78th Training Motorised Rifle Division (Cherbakul, Chelyabinsk Oblast)
• 65th Motorised Rifle Division (mobilisation) (Perm, Perm Oblast)
• 44th Training Tank Division (Kamyshlov, Sverdlovsk Oblast)
• VVS Ural Military District (Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast)

15.1.74 awarded the Red Banner.

In 1975 the 163rd Motorised Rifle Division (mobilisation) were activated.

In 1978 the 248th Motorised Rifle Division was activated.

In 1979 the 260th Motorised Rifle Division was activated.

Organisation 1980:

• 34th Motorised Rifle Division (Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast)
• 78th Training Motorised Rifle Division (Chebarkul, Chelyabinsk Oblast)
• 260th Motorised Rifle Division (Shadrinsk, Kurgan Oblast)
• 65th Motorised Rifle Division (mobilisation) (Perm, Perm Oblast)
• 248th Motorised Rifle Division (mobilisation) (Chebarkul, Udmurtskaya ASSR)
• 44th Training Tank Division (Kamyshlov, Sverdlovsk Oblast)
• VVS Ural Military District (Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast)

Organisation 1988:

• 34th Motorised Rifle Division (Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast)
• 260th Motorised Rifle Division (Shadrinsk, Kurgan Oblast)
• 65th Motorised Rifle Division (mobilisation) (Perm, Perm Oblast)
• 471st District Training Center (Chebarkul, Chelyabinsk Oblast)
• 473rd District Training Center (Kamyshlov, Sverdlovsk Oblast)
• 1060th Territorial Training Center (Sarapul, Udmurtskaya ASSR)
• VVS Ural Military District (Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast)

1.9.89 united with the Volga Military District, and HQ was renamed HQ 43rd Combined Arms Army.

7.7.92 re-activated from parts of the Volga Military District, and HQ from HQ 43rd Combined Arms Army.

24.3.01 united with the Volga Military District, and renamed Volga-Ural Military District.

20.9.2010 disbanded, and absorbed by the new Central Military District.

Territory:

• 7.45 - 1.58: Sverdlovsk Oblast, Molotov (from 1957 Perm) Oblast, Chelyabinsk Oblast and Kurgan Oblast
• 1.58 - 3.60: Sverdlovsk Oblast, Perm Oblast, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Kurgan Oblast and Bashkirskaya ASSR
• 3.60 - 9.89 and 7.92 - 3.2001: Sverdlovsk Oblast, Perm Oblast, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Kurgan Oblast, Bashkirskaya ASSR, Komi ASSR and Nenetskiy Autonomous Okrug
• 3.2001 - 9.2010: Kuybyshev Oblast, Ulyanovsk Oblast, Penza Oblast, Kuybyshev Oblast, Orenburg Oblast, Kirov Oblast, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Perm Oblast, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Kurgan Oblast, Tatarskaya ASSR, Udmurtskaya ASSR, Mariyskaya ASSR, Bashkirskaya ASSR, Komi ASSR, Chuvashskaya ASSR and Nenetskiy Autonomous Okrug

Headquarters:

• Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, 5.35 - 9.10 [56 50 30N, 60 37 27E] - from 1992 Yekaterinburg, Yekaterinburg Oblast

Subordination:

• General Staff RKKA, 6.41 - 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 - 9.10