Airborne Troops (VDV)

Воздушно-Десантные Войска (ВДВ)

Military Unit: 25953

Commanders:

• Major-General Vasiliy Afanasevich Glazunov, 29.8.41 - 6.43
• Major-General Aleksandr Grigorevich Kapitokhin, 7.6.43 - 9.8.44
• Major-General Ivan Ivanovich Zatevakhin, 8.44 - 3.46
• Colonel-General Vasiliy Vasilevich Glagolev, 4.46 - 9.47
• Lieutenant-General Aleksandr Fedorovich Kazankin, 10.47 - 12.48
• Colonel-General Sergey Ignatevich Rudenko, 12.48 - 9.49
• Lieutenant-General Aleksandr Fedorovich Kazankin, 10.49 - 3.50
• Colonel-General Aleksandr Vasilevich Gorbatov, 3.50 - 31.5.54
• Colonel-General Vasiliy Filippovich Margelov, 1.6.54 - 14.3.59
• Lieutenant-General Ivan Vasilevich Tutarinov, 14.3.59 - 22.7.61
• General of the Army Vasiliy Filippovich Margelov, 22.7.61 - 9.1.79
• General of the Army Dmitriy Semenovich Sukhorukov, 9.1.79 - 7.87
• Colonel-General Nikolay Vasilevich Kalinin, 8.87 - 1.89
• Colonel-General Vladislav Alekseevich Achalov, 1.89 - 12.90
• Colonel-General Pavel Sergeevich Grachev, 30.12.90 - 31.8.91
• Colonel-General Evgeniy Nikolaevich Podkolzin, 31.8.91 - 12.96
• Colonel-General Georgiy Ivanovich Shpak, 4.12.96 - 9.03
• Colonel-General Aleksandr Petrovich Kolmakov, 8.9.03 - 11.07
• Lieutenant-General Valeriy Evgenevich Evtukhovich, 19.11.07 - 6.5.09
• Lieutenant-General Nikolay Ivanovich Ignatov (acting), 6.5.09 - 24.5.09
• Colonel-General Vladimir Anatolevich Shamanov, from 24.5.09

Activated 29.8.41 in Moscow, Moscow Oblast.

10.6.46 new HQ activated from HQ 9th Guards Combined Arms Army.

Organisation 1962:

• 196th independent Communications Regiment (Moscow, Moscow Oblast)
• 44th Training Airborne Division (Gayzhunay, Lithuanian SSR)
• 7th Guards Airborne Division (Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR)
• 76th Guards Airborne Division (Pskov, Pskov Oblast)
• 98th Guards Airborne Division (Belogorsk, Amur Oblast)
• 103rd Guards Airborne Division (Vitebsk, Vitebsk Oblast)
• 104th Guards Airborne Division (Gyandzha, Azerbaizhan SSR)
• 105th Guards Airborne Division (Fergana, Fergana Oblast)
• 106th Guards Airborne Division (Tula, Tula Oblast)

Organisation 1970:

• 196th independent Communications Regiment (Moscow, Moscow Oblast)
• 58th independent Military-Transport Aviation Squadron (Ryazan, Moscow Oblast)
• Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School (Ryazan, Moscow Oblast)
• 44th Training Airborne Division (Gayzhunay, Lithuanian SSR)
• 7th Guards Airborne Division (Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR)
• 76th Guards Airborne Division (Pskov, Pskov Oblast)
• 98th Guards Airborne Division (Bolgrad, Odessa Oblast)
• 103rd Guards Airborne Division (Vitebsk, Vitebsk Oblast)
• 104th Guards Airborne Division (Gyandzha, Azerbaizhan SSR)
• 105th Guards Airborne Division (Fergana, Fergana Oblast)
• 106th Guards Airborne Division (Tula, Tula Oblast)

Organisation 1980:

• 196th independent Communications Regiment (Moscow, Moscow Oblast)
• 58th independent Military-Transport Aviation Squadron (Ryazan, Moscow Oblast)
• Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School (Ryazan, Moscow Oblast)
• 44th Training Airborne Division (Gayzhunay, Lithuanian SSR)
• 7th Guards Airborne Division (Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR)
• 76th Guards Airborne Division (Pskov, Pskov Oblast)
• 98th Guards Airborne Division (Bolgrad, Odessa Oblast)
• 103rd Guards Airborne Division (Kabul, Afghanistan)
• 104th Guards Airborne Division (Gyandzha, Azerbaizhan SSR)
• 106th Guards Airborne Division (Tula, Tula Oblast)
• 345th independent Guards Parachute Regiment (Bagram, Afghanistan)

Organisation 1990:

• 196th independent Communications Regiment (Moscow, Moscow Oblast) - 55 52 45N, 37 58 15E
• 58th independent Military-Transport Aviation Squadron (Ryazan, Moscow Oblast)
• Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School (Ryazan, Moscow Oblast)
• 1029th Central Military Hospital VDV (Tula, Tula Oblast)
• 242nd Training Center for Airborne Forces (Gayzhunay, Lithuanian SSR)
• 7th Guards Airborne Division (Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR)
• 76th Guards Airborne Division (Pskov, Pskov Oblast)
• 98th Guards Airborne Division (Bolgrad, Odessa Oblast)
• 104th Guards Airborne Division (Gyandzha, Azerbaizhan SSR)
• 106th Guards Airborne Division (Tula, Tula Oblast)
• 387th independent Guards Parachute Regiment (Fergana, Fergana Oblast)

Organisation 2000:

• 38th independent Communications Regiment (Moscow, Moscow Oblast) - 55 52 45N, 37 58 15E
• 58th independent Military-Transport Aviation Squadron (Ryazan, Moscow Oblast)
• Ryazan Airborne Troops Institute (Ryazan, Moscow Oblast)
• 332nd Ensign School (Moscow, Moscow Oblast)
• 242nd Training Center for Airborne Forces (Omsk, Omsk Oblast)
• 7th Guards Airborne Division (Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Kray)
• 76th Guards Airborne Division (Pskov, Pskov Oblast)
• 98th Guards Airborne Division (Ivanovo, Ivanovo Oblast)
• 106th Guards Airborne Division (Tula, Tula Oblast)
• 11th indpendent Airborne Brigade (Sosnovyy Bor, Buryatskaya ASSR)
• 31st independent Guards Airborne Brigade (Ulyanovsk, Ulyanovsk Oblast)
• 45th independent Reconnaissance Regiment (Moscow, Moscow Oblast)
• Repair and Supply Center for Airborne Forces (Naro-Fominsk, Moscow Oblast)
• Central Storage Base for Airborne Forces (Kolomna, Moscow Oblast)

HQ:

• Moscow, Moscow Oblast, 8.41 - today [55 47 05N, 37 41 25E]