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 ...

of the

Russian Ground Forces The Russian Ground Forces (), also known as the Russian Army in English, are the Army, land forces of the Russian Armed Forces. The primary responsibilities of the Russian Ground Forces are the protection of the state borders, combat on land, ...

, 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 differen ...

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

Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg (, ; ), alternatively Romanization of Russian, romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( ; 1924–1991), is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia. The ci ...

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 Order of the Red Banner Central Military District () is a Military districts of Russia, military district of Russia. It is one of the five military districts of the Russian Armed Forces, with its jurisdiction primarily within the centr ...

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 Em ...

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; , IPA: Help:IPA/Tatar, ɑzanis the largest city and capital city, capital of Tatarstan, Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka (river), Kazanka Rivers, covering an area of , with a population of over 1. ...

, took in the

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, and

Ufa Governorate Ufa Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit ('' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire with its capital in the city of Ufa. It was created in 1865 by separation from Orenburg Governorate. On June 14, 1922 the governorate was transformed i ...

s, part of the

Perm Governorate Perm Governorate (), also known as the Governorate of Perm, was an administrative-territorial unit ('' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR from 1781 to 1923. It was located on both slopes of the Ural Mountains, and its admi ...

, 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

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, 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, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union. The army was established in January 1918 by a decree of the Council of People ...

, 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,

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, 24th, 25th,

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, and

27th Rifle Division The 27th Rifle Division () was a tactical unit in the Red Army of Soviet Russia and then the Soviet Union, active between 1918 and 1945. First formed during the Russian Civil War on November 3, 1918, as part of 5th Red Army. Commanded by Vitov ...

s 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

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, amid the international tensions caused by the Nazis' rise to power in Germany and the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. The

57th Rifle Division The 57th Red Banner Ural-Khingan Rifle Division () was an infantry division of the Red Army and the Soviet Army. The division was originally formed in late 1920 as the 24th Rifle Division of the Internal Service Troops (VNUS) in the closing sta ...

of the Volga District and the

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from the Urals were involved in the

Battle of Khalkhin Gol The Battles of Khalkhin Gol (; ) were the decisive engagements of the undeclared Soviet–Japanese border conflicts involving the Soviet Union, Mongolia, Japan and Manchukuo in 1939. The conflict was named after the river Khalkhin Gol, which p ...

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

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. During the war, the city of Kuybyshev (now

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) 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

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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

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, 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

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, effectively 'exiled' from more important commands. In 1954 the Ural MD controlled the

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(

91st Rifle Division The 91st Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army and Soviet Army, formed twice. The division was first formed in 1939, fought in the Winter War, and was destroyed in the Vyazma Pocket during the Battle of Moscow. It was reformed in ...

(

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194th Rifle Division The 194th Rifle Division was a Red Army division active from 1939 to 1946 under several designations. It was first formed as a motorized rifle division in the autumn of 1939, part of the first group of such divisions created by the Red Army. After ...

( 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

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(

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), 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

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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

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. 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 Kuibyshev (Samara).

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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 wa ...

, 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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. 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. It was converted from the 126th Motor Rifle ...

. 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 The 28th Motor Rifle Brigade (Military Unit Number 61423) is a brigade of the Russian Ground Forces. The brigade was formed in 2009 from the 34th Motor Rifle Division. The brigade, originally based in Yekaterinburg, moved to Klintsy in 2016, wher ...

. *

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, Dushanbe, Tajikistan * 15th Independent Motor Rifle Brigade (which took part in the command post peacekeeping Exercise Normandie-Nieman 07 in April 2007 with the

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) *2nd Guards Red Banner Combined Arms Army,

(formerly headquarters Ural Military District)(history closely associated with

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) **

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(

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) *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

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

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. 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

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

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(

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

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

Sverdlovsk Oblast Sverdlovsk Oblast ( rus, Свердловская область, Sverdlovskaya oblastʹ, p=svʲɪrdˈlofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia located in the Ural Federal District. Its administrative center is the c ...

) : 31st Guards Separate Airborne Brigade, in

Ulyanovsk Ulyanovsk,, , known as Simbirsk until 1924, is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Volga River east of Moscow. Ulyanovsk has been the only Russian UNESCO Ci ...

(under command of the

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(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 (

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) equipped with the

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* 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

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, the Republic of Mari El, the Republic of

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, the

Republic of Tatarstan Tatarstan, officially the Republic of Tatarstan, sometimes also called Tataria, is a Republics of Russia, republic of Russia located in Eastern Europe. It is a part of the Volga Federal District; and its capital city, capital and largest city i ...

, the

Udmurt Republic Udmurtia, officially the Udmurt Republic, is a republic of Russia located in Eastern Europe. It is administratively part of the Volga Federal District. Its capital is the city of Izhevsk. It was established as the Udmurt (until 1931 — Vots ...

, the

Chuvash Republic Chuvashia, officially known as Chuvash Republic — Chuvashia, is a republics of Russia, republic of Russia located in Eastern Europe. It is the homeland of the Chuvash people, a Turkic languages, Turkic ethnic group. Its capital city, capital i ...

, Kirov,

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, and

Chelyabinsk Oblast Chelyabinsk Oblast; , is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (an oblast) of Russia in the Ural Mountains region, on the border of Europe and Asia. Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Chel ...

s, and the Komi-Permyak,

Khanty-Mansiysk Khanty-Mansiysk (, lit. ''Khanty-Mansi Town''; Khanty: , ''Jomvoćś''; Mansi: , ''Abga'') is a city in west-central Russia. Technically, it is situated on the eastern bank of the Irtysh River, from its confluence with the Ob, in the oil-ri ...

, and

Yamalo-Nenets The Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (; ) also known as Yamalia () is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia and an autonomous okrugs of Russia, autonomous okrug of Tyumen Oblast. Its administrative center is the types of inhabite ...

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

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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

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Commanders

Ural Military District

1918–1922

*1918 - 1918 :

Filipp Goloshchyokin Filipp Isayevich Goloshchyokin () (born Shaya Itsikovich Goloshchyokin) () ( – October 28, 1941) was a Jewish-Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician, and party functionary. A member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party s ...

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

Sergei Mrachkovsky Sergei Vitalevich Mrachkovsky (; 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 the Great Purge. Career Mrachkovky was born in a family of Russia ...

1935–1989

*May 1935 - May 1937 : Corps Commander

Ilya Garkavyi Ilya Ivanovich Garkavy (; ; 1888–1937) was a Soviet Union, Soviet komkor (corps commander) and organizer of Red Guards detachments in Tiraspol. He fought in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I before going over to the Bolsheviks in the ...

, *May 1937 - May 1937 : Corps Commander

Boris Gorbachyov Boris Sergeevich Gorbachyov (19 August 1892 – 3 July 1937) was a Soviet komkor (Russian for a corps commander). 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 t ...

, *May 1937 - Aug 1937 : Corps Commander

Yan Gaylit Yan Petrovich Gaylit (, ; 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 Bolsheviks in the subsequent civil war. He was a recipient of the O ...

, *Aug 1937 - Jul 1938 : Corps Commander

Georgy Sofronov Georgy Pavlovich Sofronov (; 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 Army during the subsequent Civil War. He was made a Kombrig ...

, *Jul 1938 - Jun 1941 : Corps Commander, from June 1940 Lieutenant General

Filipp Yershakov Filipp Afanasyevich Yershakov (; – 9 June 1942) was a Red Army lieutenant general who held field army command during World War II. Yershakov led the 22nd Army (Soviet Union), 22nd Army during the Battle of Smolensk (1941), Battle of Smolensk an ...

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

Georgy Zhukov Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov ( 189618 June 1974) was a Soviet military leader who served as a top commander during World War II and achieved the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union. During World War II, Zhukov served as deputy commander-in-ch ...

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

Mikhail Kazakov Mikhail Ilyich Kazakov (; – 25 December 1979) was an 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 a political commissar durin ...

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

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, *Jun 1960 - Jul 1961 : Colonel General

Yakov Kreizer Yakov Grigorevich Kreizer (; 4 November 1905, Voronezh – 29 November 1969, Moscow) was a Soviet field commander. Before the war Kreizer's Jewish parents were granted permission to live outside the Jewish pale of settlement because his gr ...

, *Jul 1961 - Sep 1965 : Colonel General

Ivan Tutarinov Ivan Vasilyevich Tutarinov (Russian: Иван Васильевич Тутаринов; 19 June 1904 – 19 June 1978) was a Red Army colonel general who commanded the Soviet airborne from 1959 to 1961. Tutarinov fought in World War II as the comma ...

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

Alexander Ivanovich Baranov Aleksandr Ivanovich Baranov (; 13 May 1946 – 12 March 2025) was a Russian Ground Forces army general who commanded the Volga–Ural Military District from 2001 to 2004 and the North Caucasus Military District from 2004 to 2008. He served in ...

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 Anatoly Ipatovich Sergeyev (Russian: Анатолий Ипатович Сергеев; born 6 November 1940), is a Russian military leader who was commander of the Volga–Ural and the Volga Military Districts from 1991 to 2001. He reached the ra ...

(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 Vladimir Anatolyevich Boldyrev (; born 5 January 1949) is a retired Russian general of the army who served as the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces from 2008 to 2010. His other major commands included the 6th Army, the Siberian ...

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

Arkady Bakhin Arkady Viktorovich Bakhin () 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. He graduated from the Moscow Higher Command School named ...

(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/5kjJdJKIb?url=http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/9059/RussianArmedForces.html *See als
VUMD at Warfare.ru
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