The Volga–Ural Military District was a

military district Military districts (also called military regions) are formations of a state's armed forces (often of the Army) which are responsible for a certain area of territory. They are often more responsible for administrative than operational matters, and ...

of the

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, formed on 1 September 2001 by the amalgamation of the

Volga Military District The Volga Military District (PriVO) was a military district of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation that existed from 1918 to 1989 and 1992 to 2001. The district headquarters was located at Kazan, Saratov and Kuibyshev (Samara) at different ...

and the Ural Military District. The headquarters of the Ural Military District, located at

Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg ( ; rus, Екатеринбург, p=jɪkətʲɪrʲɪnˈburk), alternatively romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( rus, Свердло́вск, , svʲɪrˈdlofsk, 1924–1991), is a city and the administra ...

became the new headquarters of the merged district. In 2010 the District was merged with part of the

Siberian Military District The Siberian Military District was a Military district of the Russian Ground Forces. The district was originally formed as a military district of the Russian Empire in 1864. In 1924 it was reformed in the Red Army. After the end of World War II the ...

to form the new

Central Military District The Central Military District (Russian: Центральный военный округ) is a military district of Russia. It is one of the five military districts of the Russian Armed Forces, with its jurisdiction primarily within the c ...

Origins

The new merged district draws upon the history of the former Ural, Volga, and Kazan Military Districts. The

Kazan Military District The Kazan Military District was a Military district of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, which existed between 1864—1918 and 1945–1946. History The Kazan Military District was originally formed as a military district of the Russian Emp ...

was first to be formed in the Volga province of the Russian Empire, by order of the Defence Minister of 6 August 1864, as one of fifteen military districts being formed. Each district was intended to command combat formations, as well as act as a military-administrative organ on a regional scale - 'the War Ministry on a local level'. The Kazan Military District, with its headquarters in

Kazan Kazan ( ; rus, Казань, p=kɐˈzanʲ; tt-Cyrl, Казан, ''Qazan'', IPA: ɑzan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka rivers, covering a ...

, took in the

Orenburg Orenburg (russian: Оренбу́рг, ), formerly known as Chkalov (1938–1957), is the administrative center of Orenburg Oblast, Russia. It lies on the Ural River, southeast of Moscow. Orenburg is also very close to the Kazakhstan-Russia bor ...

, and

Ufa Governorate Ufa Governorate (russian: Уфи́мская губе́рния, ba, Өфө губернаһы, ''Öfö gubernahı'') was a governorate of the Russian Empire with its capital in the city Ufa. It was created in 1865 by separation from Orenburg Go ...

s, part of the

Perm Governorate Perm Governorate (russian: link=no, Пермская губерния) was an administrative unit of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union from 1781 to 1923. It was also known as the ''government of Perm''. It was located on both slopes of t ...

, and the Ural and Turgay regions. In 1911, the

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and 24th Army Corps were formed in the district, and just before the

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

, the district's staff was reorganised as the 4th Army. Following the October Revolution, the staff of the old imperial military districts hindered the creation of the new Soviet

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...

, and to surmount this, a new structure was established on 31 March 1918, including the creation of the new Volga and Ural Military Districts. Much of the fighting in the

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took place on the districts' territory. The official Russian Defence Ministry site notes the combat actions of the 20th, 21st, 24th, 25th, 26th, and 27th Rifle Divisions which took place on the eastern front of the war, as well as other formations and units. After the end of the Civil War the armed forces were reduced and the Ural Military District disbanded, on 21 April 1922. Its territory and troops were transferred to the West Siberian, Volga, Moscow and Petrograd military districts. The Ural Military District was recreated on 17 May 1935 with its staff located at Sverdlovsk, amid the international tensions caused by the Nazis' rise to power in Germany and the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. The 57th Rifle Division of the Volga District and the

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from the Urals were involved in the

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with the Japanese in 1939.

World War II

During World War II the two districts dispatched over three thousand units to the front, totaling two million men. Five armies, 132 divisions, and over 300 regiments and battalions were established. In formation in the Volga Military District alone on 1 September 1941 were the 334th, 336th, 338th, 340th, 342nd, 344th, 346th, 348th, 350th, 352nd, 354th, 356th, 358th, and

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s, plus the 46th, 89th, and 91st Cavalry Divisions. Among the formations formed during the war was the 153rd Ural Rifle Division, which for its combat record in Belorussia and Smolensk was ranked among the Guards' on 18 September 1941 as the

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. Also formed in the Ural District, with the tremendous effort of factory workers there, was the 30th Ural Tank Corps, later to become the 10th Urals-Lvov Tank Corps, today the 10th Guards Uralsko-Lvovskaya Tank Division. During the war, the city of Kuybyshev (now

Samara Samara ( rus, Сама́ра, p=sɐˈmarə), known from 1935 to 1991 as Kuybyshev (; ), is the largest city and administrative centre of Samara Oblast. The city is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Samara (Volga), Samara rivers, with ...

) served as the alternate capital of the Soviet Union, and the Urals area became the biggest arsenal in the country, with many factories relocated from the west. The 3rd Guards Army arrived from Germany and was redesignated as the new Volga MD headquarters in late 1945. As part of the massive demobilisation exercise of 1945-6 the Kazan Military District was briefly reformed, encompassing the

Tatar The Tatars ()Tatar
in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different

, Udmurt, Mari and Chuvash ASSRs. It was disbanded in May 1946. During the Cold War the district's air forces included the Chelyabinsk Higher Military Aviation School for Navigators.

Postwar

Russian Ground Forces - Volga-Ural Military District Map

The Ural Military District was commanded between 1948 and 1953 by Marshal

Georgi Zhukov Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov ( rus, Георгий Константинович Жуков, p=ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj kənstɐnʲˈtʲinəvʲɪtɕ ˈʐukəf, a=Ru-Георгий_Константинович_Жуков.ogg; 1 December 1896 – ...

, effectively 'exiled' from more important commands. In 1954 the Ural MD controlled the 10th Rifle Corps (

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(

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194th Rifle Division 194th may refer to: *194th Armored Brigade (United States), assigned to the US Army's Combat Developments Command to test new materiel at Fort Ord, California *194th Battalion (Edmonton Highlanders), CEF, a unit in the Canadian Expeditionary Force ...

( Kirov) and 65th Mechanised Division (Perm)), and the

63rd Rifle Corps The 63rd Rifle Corps was a corps of the Red Army during World War II, formed twice. First formation The corps headquarters was first formed during September 1939 in the Volga Military District. It was part of the 21st Army in June 1941, with th ...

(77th Rifle Division (Sverdlovsk) and 417th Rifle Division (

Chebarkul Chebarkul (russian: Чебарку́ль) is a town in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located on the shores of Lake Chebarkul, west of Chelyabinsk, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: Etymology The name of the town derives from t ...

), 61st Mechanised Division (

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). In June 1957 the 4th Rifle Division at Buzuluk (at that time in the South Urals MD) was converted into the 4th Motor Rifle Division, but along with numerous other new motor rifle divisions, it was disbanded later, in 1959. That same month the 44th Tank Division was formed from the 61st Mechanised Division at

in the Ural Military District. In 1962 the 44th Tank Division became the 44th Tank Training Division. Meanwhile, in the Volga Military District, the 123rd Rifle Corps had been redesignated the 40th Army Corps in 1955. After the rifle to motor rifle changes of 1957, it included the 43rd Motor Rifle Division (Kuybyshev, Kuybyshev Oblast) and the 110th Motor. Rifle Division (Shikhany, Saratov Oblast). It became the 40th Army Corps that year also, but was disbanded in 1960. By a Decree of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 15 January 1974, for their large contributions to the strengthening the defence power of the state and its armed protection both the Volga and Ural military districts were rewarded with the

Order of the Red Banner The Order of the Red Banner (russian: Орден Красного Знамени, Orden Krasnogo Znameni) was the first Soviet military decoration. The Order was established on 16 September 1918, during the Russian Civil War by decree of th ...

. In 1979 Scott and Scott reported the HQ address of the Ural Military District as Sverdlovsk, K-75, Ulitsa Pervomayskaya, Dom 27, which also housed the officers' club. On 1 September 1989 the Districts were merged with the new headquarters in Samara.

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Albert Makashov Colonel General Albert Mikhailovich Makashov (russian: Альберт Михайлович Макашóв; born 12 June 1938) is a Russian officer and a nationalist- communist politician. Biography Makashov was born in Levaya Rossosh, Voronezh ...

was appointed commander of the district. However, in July 1992 the Ural District was reformed, as the region had become a near-boundary area with the new states of Central Asia. The decision on restoration of the two separate Volga and Ural military districts was promulgated in Presidential Decree No. 757 of 7 July 1992 and the Order of the Minister of Defence of 25 July 1992. From 1992 the two districts received large numbers of units and formations returning from the former groups of forces (including the Second Guards Tank Army, and the

and 90th Guards Tank Divisions from the

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) and the ex-Soviet republics, the reception of which required enormous effort on behalf of the District HQs and the regional administrations. Many of these units were subsequently disbanded, including the

15th Guards Tank Division The 15th Guards Mozyr Red Banner Order of Suvorov Tank Division (15 ''gv. td'') () was a tank division of the Soviet Army during the Cold War that became part of the Russian Ground Forces after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The division ...

, withdrawn from the

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, which appears to have disbanded at

in 1999. In 2009, the Ulyanovsk arms depot explosion happened just before a visit from

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Dmitry Medvedev Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev ( rus, links=no, Дмитрий Анатольевич Медведев, p=ˈdmʲitrʲɪj ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ mʲɪdˈvʲedʲɪf; born 14 September 1965) is a Russian politician who has been serving as the dep ...

. Four military officers, including the deputy commander of the Volga–Ural Military District for armaments, General Major V. G. Khalitov, were dismissed for 'lack of control' and 'criminal negligence.' In 2006-07 the district's troops comprised: *

34th Motor Rifle Division The 34th Simferopol Red Banner Order of Suvorov Motor Rifle Division named after S. Ordzhonikidze (Military Unit Number 45463) was a unit of the Soviet Ground Forces and later the Russian Ground Forces. History It was formed by the order of the ...

. Military Unit No. 45463. Includes elements of the former 15th Guards Mozyr Tank Division. Structure in 1989-90 included the 341st TR, 105, 276, 324 MRR, and the 239 Arty Regt. Until 1955 the division was designated the 77th Rifle Division; 1957 became 126th MRD; 1965 became 34th MRD. On 1 March 2009 renamed 28th Motor Rifle Brigade. * Russian 201st Motor Rifle Division, Dushanbe, Tajikistan * 15th Independent Motor Rifle Brigade (which took part in the command post peacekeeping Exercise Normandie-Nieman 07 in April 2007 with the

1st Mechanised Brigade (France) The 1st Mechanised Brigade (french: 1 Brigade Mécanisée, 1 BM) was one of the mechanized units of the Commandement des Forces Terrestres of the French Army. Created on 1 July 1999, as heir to the 1st Armored Division, the brigade was dissol ...

) *2nd Guards Red Banner Combined Arms Army,

(formerly headquarters Ural Military District)(history closely associated with 2nd Guards Tank Army) ** 27th Guards Motor Rifle Division,

Totskoye Totskoye (russian: То́цкое) is a rural locality (a '' selo'') and the administrative center of Totsky District of Orenburg Oblast, Russia. Population: During World War I, it was the site of a prisoner-of-war camp that became notorious ...

5th Air and Air Defence Forces Army The 5th Army of VVS and PVO (''5-я Краснознамённая армия военно-воздушных сил и противовоздушной обороны'') was the Russian Air Force's smallest Air Army, with the headquarters located ...

(

Russian Air Force " Air March" , mascot = , anniversaries = 12 August , equipment = , equipment_label = , battles = , decorations = , bat ...

) *473rd District Training Centre

Subordinate Units

Russian Ground Forces - Volga - Ural Military District Structure

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'' Volga–Ural Military District 2010: * Combat formations: ** 7th Separate Guards Orenbug Cossack Tank Brigade, in

** 15th Separate Guards Berlin Motor Rifle Brigade, in

Roshchinsky, Samara Oblast Roshchinsky (russian: Ро́щинский) is an types of inhabited localities in Russia, urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Volzhsky District, Samara Oblast, Volzhsky District of Samara Oblast, Russia. Population: 11,920 (Russian Cens ...

equipped with BTR. Military Unit # 90600. Honorifics Berlin Red Banner

Order of Kutuzov The Order of Kutuzov (russian: орден Кутузова ''orden Kutuzova'') is a military decoration of the Russian Federation named after famous Russian Field Marshal Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov (1745–1813). The Order was established du ...

. Specialised 'peacekeeping' unit. Address: 443539, Samara distr, Roschinskyy. Formed from 589th Separate Motor Rifle Regiment on February 1, 2005. In turn, the 589 Guards MRR was formed in late 1991 from the amalgamation of the 27 GMRD's 243 GMRR with the 213th Motor Rifle Division's 691st MRR. 2005: 100% contract service. 04.2008 visited by Japanese defence minister. 08.2008 one unit took part in war in South Ossetia. ** 21st Separate Guards Omsk-Novy Bug Motor Rifle Brigade, in

equipped with BMP ** 23rd Separate Guards Petrokov Motor Rifle Brigade, in

Kryazh Samara Kryazh (also Kryazh) is an air base in Samara Oblast, Russia located 10 km south of Samara Samara ( rus, Сама́ра, p=sɐˈmarə), known from 1935 to 1991 as Kuybyshev (; ), is the largest city and administrative centre of Sam ...

equipped with BTR ** 28th Separate Simferopol Motor Rifle Brigade, in Yekaterinburg equipped with BMP ** 201st Gatchina Military Base in

Dushanbe Dushanbe ( tg, Душанбе, ; ; russian: Душанбе) is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 863,400 and that population was largely Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe (r ...

(

Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...

) ** 3rd Guards Warsaw-Berlin Spetsnaz Brigade, in

** 473rd District Training Center, in Yelansky (just west of

Sverdlovsk Oblast Sverdlovsk Oblast ( rus, Свердловская область, Sverdlovskaya oblast) is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia located in the Ural Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Yekaterinburg, formerly known as S ...

) : 31st Guards Separate Airborne Brigade, in

Ulyanovsk Ulyanovsk, known until 1924 as Simbirsk, is a city and the administrative center of Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Volga River east of Moscow. Population: The city, founded as Simbirsk (), was the birthplace of Vladimir Lenin (born ...

(under command of the

Russian Airborne Troops The Russian Airborne Forces (russian: Воздушно-десантные войска России, ВДВ, Vozdushno-desantnye voyska Rossii, VDV) are the airborne forces branch of the Russian Armed Forces. It was formed in 1992 from units of ...

(VDV) Command in Moscow) * Missile and Artillery formations: ** 92nd Missile Brigade, in Kamenka ** 119th Missile Brigade, in Elanskyy ** 385th Guards Artillery Brigade ''"Odessa"'', in Bershet ** 950th MLRS Regiment, in Buzuluk ** Artillery Reserve Base, in Buzuluk ** 581st Independent Artillery Reconnaissance Battalion * Air-defence formations: ** 297th Air-defence Missile Brigade, in Alkino-2 (

Ufa Ufa ( ba, Өфө , Öfö; russian: Уфа́, r=Ufá, p=ʊˈfa) is the largest city and capital of Bashkortostan, Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Belaya and Ufa rivers, in the centre-north of Bashkortostan, on hills forming the ...

) equipped with the

Buk missile system The Buk (russian: link=no, "Бук"; "beech" (tree), ) is a family of self-propelled, medium-range surface-to-air missile systems developed by the Soviet Union and its successor state, the Russian Federation, and designed to counter cruise mis ...

* Radar formations: ** 40th Independent Radio Technical Brigade, in

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** 173rd Independent Radio Technical Battalion, in

* Engineering formations: ** 56th Engineer Regiment, in Alkino ** 774th Independent Engineer Battalion, in

** 7025th Engineer Reserve Base * NBC-defence formations: ** 29th Independent NBC-defence Brigade, in

** 319th Independent NBC-defence Battalion, in Chpayevsk * Signal formations: ** 59th (Communications Hub) Signal Brigade ''"Sivashskaya"'', in

** 179th (Territorial) Signal Brigade ** 191st Independent Signal Regiment, in

** 153rd Independent (Rear) Signal Battalion ** 836th Independent Signal Battalion ** 1583rd Independent Electronic Warfare Battalion Today the District comprises the

Republic of Bashkortostan The Republic of Bashkortostan or Bashkortostan ( ba, Башҡортостан Республикаһы, Bashqortostan Respublikahy; russian: Республика Башкортостан, Respublika Bashkortostan),; russian: Респу́блик� ...

, the Republic of Mari El, the Republic of

Mordovia The Republic of Mordovia (russian: Респу́блика Мордо́вия, r=Respublika Mordoviya, p=rʲɪsˈpublʲɪkə mɐrˈdovʲɪjə; mdf, Мордовия Республиксь, ''Mordovija Respublikś''; myv, Мордовия Рес ...

, the

Republic of Tatarstan The Republic of Tatarstan (russian: Республика Татарстан, Respublika Tatarstan, p=rʲɪsˈpublʲɪkə tətɐrˈstan; tt-Cyrl, Татарстан Республикасы), or simply Tatarstan (russian: Татарстан, tt ...

, the

Udmurt Republic Udmurtia (russian: Удму́ртия, r=Udmúrtiya, p=ʊˈdmurtʲɪjə; udm, Удмуртия, ''Udmurtija''), or the Udmurt Republic (russian: Удмуртская Республика, udm, Удмурт Республика, Удмурт � ...

, the

Chuvash Republic Chuvashia (russian: Чувашия; cv, Чӑваш Ен), officially the Chuvash Republic — Chuvasia,; cv, Чӑваш Республики — Чӑваш Ен is a republic of Russia located in Eastern Europe. It is the homeland of the Chuv ...

, Kirov,

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Penza Penza ( rus, Пе́нза, p=ˈpʲɛnzə) is the largest city and administrative center of Penza Oblast, Russia. It is located on the Sura River, southeast of Moscow. As of the 2010 Census, Penza had a population of 517,311, making it the 38th-l ...

Perm Perm or PERM may refer to: Places *Perm, Russia, a city in Russia ** Permsky District, the district **Perm Krai, a federal subject of Russia since 2005 **Perm Oblast, a former federal subject of Russia 1938–2005 **Perm Governorate, an administra ...

, Sverdlovsk,

Tyumen Tyumen ( ; rus, Тюмень, p=tʲʉˈmʲenʲ, a=Ru-Tyumen.ogg) is the administrative center and largest city of Tyumen Oblast, Russia. It is situated just east of the Ural Mountains, along the Tura River. Fueled by the Russian oil and gas indu ...

, and

Chelyabinsk Oblast Chelyabinsk Oblast (russian: Челя́бинская о́бласть, ''Chelyabinskaya oblast'') is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia in the Ural Mountains region, on the border of Europe and Asia. Its administrative center is the city ...

s, and the Komi-Permyak,

Khanty-Mansiysk Khanty-Mansiysk ( rus, Ха́нты-Манси́йск, Khánty-Mansíysk, lit. ''Khanty-Mansi Town''; Khanty language, Khanty: , ''Jomvoćś''; Mansi language, Mansi: , ''Abga'') is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the admini ...

, and

Yamalo-Nenets The Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YaNAO; russian: Яма́ло-Не́нецкий автоно́мный о́круг (ЯНАО), ; yrk, Ямалы-Ненёцие автономной ӈокрук, ) or Yamalia (russian: Ямалия) is a fed ...

Autonomous Okrugs.
In 2009, on the basis of the 295th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment, the 7th Independent Guards Tank Brigade was created. It was reported that the District was dissolved on September 1, 2010, with most of its

area of responsibility Area of responsibility (AOR) is a pre-defined geographic region assigned to Combatant commanders of the Unified Command Plan (UCP), that are used to define an area with specific geographic boundaries where they have the authority to plan and cond ...

combined with the Siberian Military District as part of the new Central Operational-Strategic Command, while its western part joined the Southern Operational-Strategic Command (formerly the

North Caucasus Military District The North Caucasus Military District was a military district of the Russian Armed Forces, which became in 2010 the Southern Military District and lately also included the Black Sea Fleet and Caspian Flotilla. It comprised the Republic of Adygeya, ...

Commanders

Ural Military District

1918–1922

*1918 - 1918 :

Filipp Goloshchyokin Filipp Isayevich Goloshchyokin (russian: Филипп Исаевич Голощёкин) (born Shaya Itsikovich) (russian: Шая Ицикович) ( – October 28, 1941) was a Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician, and party functionar ...

, *1918 - 1919 : Anuchin, Sergei Andreevich, *1919 - 1920 : Semashko, Adam Yakovlevich, *1920 - 1921 : Dukat, Julius Ivanovich, *1921 - 1922 :

Sergei Mrachkovsky Sergei Vitalevich Mrachkovsky (Russian: Сергеий Витальевич Мрачковский; 15 June 1888 – 24 August 1936) was a Russian revolutionary, Red Army commander, and supporter of Leon Trotsky, who was executed at the start of th ...

1935–1989

*May 1935 - May 1937 : Corps Commander Ilya Garkavyi, *May 1937 - May 1937 : Corps Commander

Boris Gorbachyov Boris Sergeevich Gorbachyov (19 August 1892 – 3 July 1937) was a Soviet komkor. He was born in present-day Belarus. He fought in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I before going over to the Bolsheviks in the subsequent civil war. He was ...

, *May 1937 - Aug 1937 : Corps Commander

Yan Gaylit Yan Petrovich Gaylit (russian: Ян Петро́вич Га́йлит, lv, Jānis Gailītis; May 25, 1894 – August 1, 1938) was a Soviet Komkor of Latvian ethnicity. He fought in the Imperial Russian Army in World War I before going over to the ...

, *Aug 1937 - Jul 1938 : Corps Commander

Georgy Sofronov Georgy Pavlovich Sofronov (russian: Георгий Павлович Софронов; 19 April 1893 – 17 March 1973) was a Soviet general. He fought for the Imperial Russian Army during World War I and fought for the Workers and Peasants Red Ar ...

, *Jul 1938 - Jun 1941 : Corps Commander, from June 1940 Lieutenant General Filipp Yershakov, *Jun 1941 - Nov 1941 : Colonel Ilya Alexandrovich Zhernakov (interim), *Nov 1941 - Feb 1945 : Lieutenant General Alexander Vasilievich Katkov, *Feb 1945 - Feb 1948 : Colonel General

Fyodor Kuznetsov Fyodor Isidorovich Kuznetsov (russian: Фёдор Иси́дорович Кузнецо́в; 29 September 1898 – 22 March 1961) was a Colonel General and military commander in the Soviet Union. Biography Born to a peasant family in Mogilev G ...

, *Feb 1948 - Mar 1953 : Marshal of the Soviet Union

Georgy Zhukov Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov ( rus, Георгий Константинович Жуков, p=ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj kənstɐnʲˈtʲinəvʲɪtɕ ˈʐukəf, a=Ru-Георгий_Константинович_Жуков.ogg; 1 December 1896 – ...

, *May 1953 - Jan 1956 : General of the Army

Mikhail Kazakov Mikhail Ilyich Kazakov (; – 25 December 1979) was an Army General (Soviet rank), army general of the Soviet Army and a Hero of the Soviet Union. After serving as an ordinary soldier in the final stages of the Russian Civil War, Kazakov became ...

, *Jan 1956 - Nov 1957 : General of the Army Nikolai Krylov, *Jan 1958 - Jun 1960 : General of the Army

Dmitry Lelyushenko Dmitry Danilovich Lelyushenko (russian: Дми́трий Дани́лович Лелюше́нко; ( – July 20, 1987) was a Soviet military commander, the highest rank achieved being that of an Army General (1959). Twice the Hero of the Soviet ...

, *Jun 1960 - Jul 1961 : Colonel General

Yakov Kreizer Yakov Grigorevich Kreizer (russian: Яков Григорьевич Крейзер; 4 November 1905, Voronezh – 29 November 1969, Moscow) was a Soviet field commander. Before the war Kreizer's Jewish parents were granted permission to l ...

, *Jul 1961 - Sep 1965 : Colonel General Ivan Tutarinov, *Oct 1965 - Apr 1970 : Colonel General Alexander Alexandrovich Egorovsky, *May 1970 - May 1980 : Colonel General Nikolai Kuzmich Silchenko, *May 1980 - Dec 1983 : Colonel General Mikhail Alexandrovich Tyagunov, *Dec 1983 - Nov 1984 : Colonel General Ivan Andreevich Gashkov, *Nov 1984 - Jul 1987 : Colonel General Nikolai Fedorovich Grachev, *Jul 1987 - Jan 1989 : Colonel General Nikolai Grigorievich Madudov, *Jan 1989 - Sep 1989 : Colonel General

1992–2001

*Jul 1992 - Dec 1999 : Colonel-General Yuri Pavlovich Grekov, *Dec 1999 - Jan 2000 : Colonel General Vyacheslav Valentinovich Tikhomirov, *Mar 2000 - Jul 2001 : Colonel General

Alexander Ivanovich Baranov Army General Alexander Ivanovich Baranov (russian: Александр Иванович Баранов; born 13 May 1946) is a Russian general, and was the Commander of the North Caucasus Military District from July 2004 to May 2008. He is a reci ...

Volga Military District

see :

Volga–Ural Military District Commanders

The following officers commanded the district during its existence:

1989–1992

*Colonel General

(1 September 1989 – 31 August 1991) *Colonel General Anatoly Sergeyev (31 August 1991 – 7 July 1992)

2001–2010

*Colonel General (General of the Army from June 2004) Alexander Baranov (19 July 2001 – 19 July 2004) *General of the Army

Vladimir Boldyrev General of the Army Vladimir Anatolyevich Boldyrev (Russian: Владимир Анатольевич Болдырев; born January 5, 1949) was Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces (2008–2010). Biography Boldyrev was born on 5 J ...

(19 July 2004 – 1 August 2008) *Lieutenant General (promoted to Colonel General June 2010)

Arkady Bakhin Arkady Viktotovich Bakhin (russian: Аркадий Викторович Бахин) is a retired military officer of the Russian Federation with the rank of General of the Army. Biography Bakhin was born 8 May 1956 in Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR. H ...

(3 December 2008 – 22 July 2010)

References

*Scott and Scott, The Armed Forces of the USSR, Westview Press, Boulder, Co., 1979 * * *https://fas.org/irp/world/russia/fbis/VolgaMD.htm *https://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/9059/RussianArmedForces.html&date=2009-10-22+23:33:20 *See als
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