High Command of the Southwestern Direction (GKVYuZH)

Главное Командование Войск Юго-Западного Направления (ГКВЮЗН)

Military Unit: 83392

Commanders:

• General of the Army Ivan Aleksandrovich Gerasimov, 5.9.84 - 5.1.89
• Colonel-General Vladimir Vasilevich Osipov, 5.1.89 - 30.6.92

Activated 5.9.84 in Kishinev, Moldavian SSR.

Organisation 1984:

• 2nd independent Communications Brigade (Kishinev, Moldavian SSR)
• 57th independent Communications Brigade (Dubossary, Moldavian SSR)
• 193rd independent Mixed Aviation Squadron (Kishinev, Moldavian SSR)
• 24th Air Army VGK ON (Vinnitsa, Vinnitsa Oblast)
• Southern Group of Forces (Budapest, Hungary)
• Kiev Military District (Kiev, Kiev Oblast)
• Odessa Military District (Odessa, Odessa Oblast)
• Black Sea Fleet (Sevastopol, Crimean Oblast)

In 9.86 the 23rd independent Landing-Assault Brigade joined the High-Command.

Organisation 1990:

• 23rd independent Landing-Assault Brigade (Kremenchug, Poltava Oblast)
• 2nd independent Communications Brigade (Kishinev, Moldavian SSR)
• 57th independent Communications Brigade (Dubossary, Moldavian SSR)
• 193rd independent Mixed Aviation Squadron (Kishinev, Moldavian SSR)
• 24th Air Army VGK ON (Vinnitsa, Vinnitsa Oblast)
• Southern Group of Forces (Budapest, Hungary)
• Kiev Military District (Kiev, Kiev Oblast)
• Odessa Military District (Odessa, Odessa Oblast)
• Black Sea Fleet (Sevastopol, Crimean Oblast)

Disbanded 30.6.92.

Headquarters:

• Kishinev, Moldavian SSR, 9.84 - 6.92 [possibly 47 00 14N, 28 49 57E]

Subordination:

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