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Country
  
Russia

Part of
  
Russian Armed Forces

Type
  
Military district

Southern Military District

Active
  
22 October 2010–present

Headquarters
  
Budennovsky prospekt 43, Rostov-on-Don

Decorations
  
Order of the Red Banner

Similar
  
Volga–Urals Military District, Far Eastern Military District, Moscow Military District

The Southern Military District (Russian: Южный военный округ) is one of the four operational strategic commands of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The district was formed in accordance with Presidential Decree №1144 signed on September 20, 2010. The district includes the territory of former North Caucasus Military District, the Black Sea Fleet and Caspian Flotilla.

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History

The Southern Military District was formed on October 22, 2010. According to Presidential Decree of 20 September 2010 № 1144 "On the Military Administrative Division Of the Russian Federation" the Southern Military District was created, encompassing the administrative borders of the Republic of Adygea, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria Republic, the Republic of Kalmykia, Karachay-Cherkessia, Republic of North Ossetia - Alania, Chechen Republic, Krasnodar, Stavropol, Astrakhan, Volgograd and Rostov regions.

The Southern Military District also comprises two military bases in the Republic of Armenia: the 102nd Military Base in Gyumri and the civil-military Erebuni Airport in the capital Yerevan, home to the 3624th Air Base and under the joint control of Armenian and Russian authorities.

By order of then Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, on July 22, 2010, interim commanders were named for the new military districts. Thus, the new position of commander of the Southern Military District, was Lt. Gen. Aleksandr Galkin, former Commander of the North Caucasus Military District, with Maj. Gen. Nikolai Pereslegin as the chief of staff for the district. Galkin was later promoted to Colonel General.

In April 2014, Crimea and Sevastopol were added to the Southern Military District.

On 20 September 2016, Colonel general Aleksandr Dvornikov became commander of the district.

In 2016, the District was 98 per sent staffed by contract servicemen.

District organization

As part of the larger reorganisation, the 49th Army appears to have reformed with its headquarters seemingly in the former Institute of Communications of the Strategic Rocket Forces at Stavropol. According to warfare.ru, 49th Army (listed at Stavropol/Maikop) has under control the 4th Guards and 7th Military Bases (South Ossetia and Abkhazia) and the 8th (former Taman Guards Motor Rifle Division), 33rd and 34th separate Mountain Motor Rifle Brigades (Borzoi, Chechniya, Maikop, and Storozhevaya-2), as well as the 66th Communications Brigade.

There are also three Spetsnaz brigades (the 100th, 10th, and 22nd), plus two Russian Airborne Troops units also stationed in the district (the 7th Guards Airborne Division at Novorossiysk and the 56th Guards Air Assault Brigade at Kamyshin). The Russian Air Force has the 4th Air and Air Defence Forces Command in the district. Also under the district's control are the Navy's Black Sea Fleet and Caspian Flotilla, including their respective air and Naval Infantry components.

District units

  • 175th Luninets-Pinsk Order of Alexander Nevsky Twice Red Star Headquarters Brigade (Aksai)
  • 176th Separate Communications Brigade (Territorial) (Rassvet)
  • 11th Separate Guards Kingisepp Red Banner Order of Alexander Nevsky Engineering Brigade (Kamensk-Shakhtinsky)
  • 28th Separate NBC Defence Brigade (Kamyshin)
  • 439th Rocket Artillery Brigade (Znamensk)
  • 1270th Separate Electronic Warfare Center (Kovalevka)
  • 37th Separate Railway Brigade (Volgograd)
  • 39th Separate Railway Brigade (Krasnodar)
  • 333rd Separate Railway Pontoon Bridge Battalion (Volgograd)
  • Mountain Training Center of the Armed Forces (Baksan)
  • 54th Training Center of Intelligence Units (Vladikavkaz)
  • 27th Training Center of Railway Troops (Volgograd)

    • 58th Army in Vladikavkaz

  • 4th Military Base [693rd Motor Rifle Brigade] in Dzhava-Tskhinval (South Ossetia)
  • 17th Motor Rifle Brigade in Shali
  • 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division in Khankala
  • 19th Motorized Brigade in Sputnik (Vladikavkaz)
  • 136th Motor Rifle Brigade in Dagestan
  • 205th Independent Motor Rifle Brigade in Budennovsk
  • 67th Air Defense Brigade in Volgograd
  • 34th C3 Brigade in Vladikavkaz

    • 49th Army in Stavropol/Maikop

  • 150th Motor Rifle Division in Novocherkassk
  • 8th Separate Guards Mountain Motor Rifle Brigade in Borzoi
  • 20th Motor Rifle Brigade in Volgograd
  • 33rd Motor Rifle Brigade (Mountain) in Novocherkassk
  • 34th Motorized Brigade (Mountain) in Storozhevaya-2
  • 66th C3 Brigade in Stavropol
  • 1st Guards Rocket Brigade in Krasnodar
  • 439th Guards Perekop Order of Kurozov Rocket Artillery Brigade (Znamensk) [MRL]
  • 291st Artillery Brigade in Troitskaya
  • 21st NBC Defense Brigade Kamyshin
  • 175th C3 Brigade in Aksai
  • 176th Communications Brigade in Novocherkassk
  • 154th ECM Brigade OSN in Izobilny
  • Logistics Brigade in Stavropol

    • 102nd Military Base in Gyumri, Armenia

  • 76th Motorized Brigade Gyumri, Armenia
  • 73rd Motorized Brigade Erevan (Armenia)
  • 988th Air Defense Regiment Gyumri (Armenia)

    • Airborne Troops

  • 56th Guards Air Assault Brigade in Kamyshin
  • 7th Guards Airborne Division at Novorossiysk

    • Spetsnaz/Reconnaissance

  • 100th Separate Reconnaissance Brigade (Experimental) (Mozdok-7)
  • 10th Spetsnaz Brigade in Krasnodar
  • 22nd Spetsnaz Brigade in Rostov

    • Air Force units

  • 4th Air and Air Defence Forces Command

    • Naval Forces

  • Black Sea Fleet
  • 22nd Army Corps
  • 810th Marine Brigade
  • 382nd Independent Marine Battalion
  • 11th Independent Coastal Defense Missile-Artillery Brigade
  • 126th Independent Coastal Defense Brigade
  • 1096th Fleet Independent Rocket Artillery Regiment (Coastal Defense)
  • 8th Independent Field Artillery Regiment (Coastal Defense)
  • 68th Fleet Independent Naval Engineers Regiment
  • 133rd Fleet Logistics and Materiel Regiment
  • 4th Fleet NBC Regiment
  • Caspian Flotilla
  • 414th and 727th Independent Marine Battalions
  • 46th Independent Coastal Defense Missile Artillery Battalion (Surface to Air)

    • References

    Southern Military District Wikipedia
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