High Command of the Southern Direction (GKVYuH)

Главное Командование Войск Южного Направления (ГКВЮН)

Military Unit: 25064

Commanders:

• General of the Army Yuriy Pavlovich Maksimov, 5.9.84 - 5.7.85
• General of the Army Mikhail Mitrofanovich Zaytsev, 6.7.85 - 4.1.89
• General of the Army Nikolay Ivanovich Popov, 5.1.89 - 30.6.92

Activated 5.9.84 in Baku, Azerbaizhan SSR.

Organisation 1984:

• 51st independent Communications Brigade (Rostov-na-Don, Rostov Oblast)
• 54th independent Communications Brigade (Baku, Azerbaizhan SSR)
• 300th independent Mixed Aviation Squadron (Kala, Azerbaizhan SSR)
• North Caucasus Military District (Rostov-na-Don, Rostov Oblast)
• Transcaucasus Military District (Tbilisi, Georgian SSR)
• Turkestan Military District (Tashkent, Tashkent Oblast)
• Caspian Sea Flotilla (Kaspiysk, Astrakhan Oblast)

In 10.86 the 128th independent Landing-Assault Brigade (mobilisation) joined the High-Command.

Organisation 1990:

• 128th independent Landing-Assault Brigade (mobilisation) (Stavropol, Krasnodar Kray)
• 51st independent Communications Brigade (Rostov-na-Don, Rostov Oblast)
• 54th independent Communications Brigade (Baku, Azerbaizhan SSR)
• 300th independent Mixed Aviation Squadron (Kala, Azerbaizhan SSR)
• North Caucasus Military District (Rostov-na-Don, Rostov Oblast)
• Transcaucasus Military District (Tbilisi, Georgian SSR)
• Turkestan Military District (Tashkent, Tashkent Oblast)
• Caspian Sea Flotilla (Kaspiysk, Astrakhan Oblast)

Disbanded 30.6.92.

Headquarters:

• Baku, Azerbaizhan SSR, 9.84 - 6.92 [40 21 57N, 49 48 51E]

Subordination:

• General Staff Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, 9.84 - 6.92