Military orchestra of the Ministry of Defense conductor. A new commander has been appointed in the central military district. Central Military District

A military district is a combined arms formation located in a certain territory. In many states, it is customary to divide the country's territory into districts for conducting various military activities. Russia adheres to the same division. New military districts of the Russian Federation are being formed to optimize management

History of military districts

In the Russian Empire, districts appeared in 1862-1864. At first there were fifteen of them. In the nineteenth century, after serfdom was abolished, the period of military service was reduced to six years. And those who were released from service were enlisted in the militia. The structure of the military districts consisted of a council, headquarters, quartermaster department, artillery, engineering and military medical departments, and inspection of military hospitals.

By the First World War, the number of military districts was reduced to thirteen, in the RSFSR - to eleven. In the USSR at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, there were sixteen Baltic, Kiev and Leningrad fronts transformed into the Western, Northern, Northwestern and Southwestern Front. In other districts, mobilization work was carried out. Already in August 1941, two hundred and ninety-one divisions and ninety-four brigades from internal formations were sent to the army. The number of military districts changed during the war years, as some of them were also transformed into fronts.

After the war, the fronts were again transformed into military districts. In addition to the existing ones, new ones were created. There were a total of thirty-two districts immediately after the war. However, by 1948 their number again decreased significantly. In 1983, there were sixteen of them again in the USSR.

The military districts of the Russian Federation were reduced to five, and in 2010 - to four. Now they are called: Southern, Western, Eastern and Central. Let's take a closer look at the latter.

Central Military District

During the reform carried out in 2008-2010, by Presidential Decree of September 20, 2010, a Central Military District was formed in the territories of the Volga region, the Urals and Siberia.
It is the largest Russian military district, located on an area of seven million sixty thousand square kilometers, representing more than forty percent of Russia's territory, with a population of about sixty million people (thirty-nine percent of the population).

History of the Central Military District

On December 1, 2010, the Central Military District was formed. Yekaterinburg became the city where his headquarters were located. The Central Military District included troops of the Volga-Ural and Siberian military districts, as well as the Second Air Force and Air Defense Command. The Central Military District troops are located in three federal districts: the Ural, Volga and part of the Siberian.

The Central Military District is subordinate to all branches of Russia, except for space and strategic missile forces. Also subordinate to him are other departments, such as the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Border Service, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and other departments and ministries that perform certain tasks in the district.

Headquarters

The headquarters of the Central Military District is located in the Sverdlovsk region in the city of Yekaterinburg. Headquarters address: Yekaterinburg, Lenin Street, building 71, index - 620219.

Central Military District Command

From the beginning of the formation of the Central Military District, Lieutenant General V.V. Chirkin was appointed acting Commander, and from the next year he became Commander of the Central Military District.
In 2012, three people were replaced in this position:

Gerasimov V.V., Colonel General (since April).
Dvornikov A.V., Major General (acting since November).
Bogdanovsky N.V., Colonel General (since December).

The commander of the Central Military District is currently Colonel General V.B. Zarudnitsky. He was born in 1958 in the city of Abinsk, Krasnodar Territory, graduated from the combined arms command school in Vladikavkaz, the Military Academy named after M.V. Frunze and the Military Academy of the General Staff. He went through the path of platoon commander, regimental reconnaissance chief, regiment commander, chief of staff and reached the position of deputy chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. He has been Commander of the Central Military District since June 12, 2014.

Zarudnitsky V.B. replaced Colonel General N.V. Bogdanovsky, who held this position since the end of 2012. By the way, N.V. Bogdanovsky did not resign, but, on the contrary, took the newly restored position of Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation.

Structure of the Central Military District

The Central Military District combines combined arms armies (consisting of the Second Guards Red Banner Combined Arms Army and the Forty-First Combined Arms Army), combined arms formations (the Second Command of the Air Force and Air Defense), military units and comprehensive support organizations (the two hundred and first Gatchina Order of Zhukov, twice Red Banner military base and Kant airbase in Kyrgyzstan).

Modernization of the Russian Armed Forces

In 2011, the State Armament Program for 2011-2020 was adopted. A large-scale replacement of outdated equipment with modern equipment and its updating is being carried out. The military districts of the Russian Federation have already received a significant amount of modern military equipment and this work will continue.

However, due to the economic and political crisis, the program to re-equip the Russian Armed Forces may take longer than previously planned. Both the President and the Prime Minister have already spoken about this. According to V.V. Putin, the period for implementing the program will have to be increased, and D.A. Medvedev stated that the defense budget in 2015 would be reduced by five percent and that in general the expenditures of more than twenty trillion rubles declared in the state program must be adjusted.

However, despite the complexity of the situation, the state program continues to function and all military districts receive updated modern equipment, including the Central Military District of the Russian Federation. In 2014, the ground forces acquired 294 repaired and modernized tanks, 296 repaired and new armored vehicles, and almost five thousand vehicles. The missile units received two Iskander-M missile systems and two S-300V4 anti-aircraft systems.

The Air Force now has 142 aircraft and 135 helicopters of various types in service. Three new submarines were delivered to the Navy: the missile carrier Vladimir Monomakh, the nuclear submarines Severodvinsk and Novorossiysk. In the coming years, five ships and ten combat boats will be commissioned.

Naval strategic nuclear forces received the Yuri Dolgoruky nuclear-powered missile submarine and R-30 Bulava ballistic missiles. In total, last year the fleet was replenished with 22 missiles for submarines. New launch sites were built at the Plesetsk cosmodrome by the VKO troops. They also put two radar stations on combat duty. The other two began experimental combat duty.

The strategic ones were replenished with three regiments, which are armed with the Yars rocket launcher. The Strategic Missile Forces built sixteen intercontinental missiles.
In 2015, the Airborne Forces, after military tests of the previous year, will receive sixty-four BMD-4M and twenty BTR-MDM armored personnel carriers.

The equipment in service is constantly being repaired and modernized.
The military department is creating types of equipment with similar characteristics to those purchased abroad, thanks to which it is planned to significantly reduce the costs of re-equipping the army.

Modernization of Central Military District

By the spring of 2015, the Central Military District had already received new electronic warfare training systems, modernized navigators and the latest thermal imagers for reconnaissance officers, the latest Tachyon drones, the Pereselenets digital communications complex, 1P63 collimator sights, and UAZ Patriot vehicles.

Events in military districts in 2014

Last year, on the orders of the Commander-in-Chief, surprise combat readiness checks continued. They affected the Western, Eastern and Central military districts.
Their main goal is to check the condition of the troops and their combat readiness.

The inspection focused on preparing battalion tactical groups and command and control units to perform tasks in unfamiliar terrain.
During inspections, the Air Force increased the flight time of pilots, and the Navy increased the number of sailors.
The number of parachute jumps in the Airborne Forces has increased by sixty percent.
One hundred twenty-five competitions for tank crews and eighty-five for pilots were held within the framework of the Tank Biathlon and Aviadarts project. More than six hundred tanks and five hundred aircraft were involved in them. In total, eighty-seven thousand people took part in all sporting events and competitions.

The work of the National Defense Control Center, designed to track and control troops, began. This Center is capable of managing individual units of the Russian Armed Forces, interdepartmental and even international groups.
In each of the military districts, similar control centers began to function, interacting with the main Center and troops. Such an organization ensures high combat effectiveness of troops, based on correct and timely adoption of the necessary decisions.

Central Military District exercises in 2015

The main exercises of the Russian army in 2015 will be the Center-2015 exercises, which will take place on the territory of the Central Military District. Troops of the Central Military District and military personnel from various security agencies will take part in it. In total, the number of military personnel will be tens of thousands.

The events will take place in unfamiliar areas. In some regions, the mobilization task will be practiced. All types of the latest weapons will be used, during the use of which research issues will also be resolved. Commanders must use all possible forces and means, reducing, as far as possible, the time for making decisions.

Lieutenant General Alexander Lapin, who headed the headquarters of the group of Russian troops in Syria, took up the post of commander of the troops of the Central Military District (CMD), replacing Colonel General in this post Vladimir Zarudnitsky, the official representative of the Central Military District said yesterday Yaroslav Roshchupkin.

The solemn ceremony of Vladimir Zarudnitsky handing over the personal standard of the commander of the Central Military District to his successor Alexander Lapin took place in Yekaterinburg on November 27. The Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, General of the Army, arrived in the capital of the Urals to participate in the ceremony Dmitry Bulgakov .

Dossier "OG"

Lapin Alexander Pavlovich born in 1964 in the city of Kazan. He began his military service as an ordinary soldier and subsequently graduated from the Kazan Higher Tank Command School, the Armored Academy and the Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. He served in various positions in the Leningrad, North Caucasus and Eastern military districts, as well as in the Northern Fleet.

He commanded a tank battalion, a regiment, a motorized rifle brigade, and a motorized rifle division. He served as deputy commander of the 58th Army (Vladikavkaz), chief of staff of the Eastern Military District, and headed the Military Training Research Center.

Until recently, Alexander Lapin served as chief of staff of the Russian Armed Forces group in Syria.

By decree of the President of Russia of November 22, 2017, he was appointed commander of the troops of the Central Military District.

Zarudnitsky Vladimir Borisovich born in 1958 in the city of Abinsk, Krasnodar Territory. He graduated from the Ordzhonikidze Higher Combined Arms Command School, the Combined Arms Military Academy named after M.V. Frunze, Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. He began his officer service in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany as a platoon commander, then as a company commander, and head of regiment intelligence. Later he commanded a regiment in the Far Eastern Military District, served as chief of staff of a division in the Volga-Ural Military District, and commander of a combined arms army in the Siberian Military District. Since June 2014 - as commander of the troops of the Central Military District.

Photo: Information Policy Department

November 22, 2017 President of Russia Vladimir Putin signed the Decree on the appointment of Colonel General V.B. Zarudnitsky. Head of the Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

Introducing the new head of the largest military formation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to the commanders of formations and units, officers of the headquarters and management of the Central Military District, Dmitry Bulgakov noted that Alexander Lapin is a major military leader and a skilled organizer with extensive experience in leading troops and the practical use of interspecific formations.

“Heading the headquarters of the Eastern Military District, the Military Training Scientific Center of the Ground Forces, Alexander Pavlovich showed his best leadership qualities,” said the Deputy Minister of Defense, opening the ceremony of presenting the commander of the Central Military District with a personal standard. “High moral and professional qualities allowed him to successfully command two operational groups in separate directions, and then serve as chief of staff of a group of troops in the Syrian Arab Republic.

Lieutenant General Alexander Lapin's predecessor as commander of the Central Military District, Colonel General Vladimir Zarudnitsky, was appointed head of the Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. He commanded the district's troops for more than three years, during which the level of combat training of the Central Military District steadily increased. Suffice it to say that in March 2017, after another sudden check of the combat readiness of units, the Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu stated that the combat power of the Central Military District has increased by almost a quarter over the past three years. In addition, over these years, for the first time, direct working ties of the Central Military District were established through international military cooperation with the states of Central Asia: Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. At the ceremony of handing over the standard, Vladimir Zarudnitsky wished his successor to preserve and enhance the traditions existing in the district.

Appointed commander of the troops of the Central Military District (CMD). He replaced Colonel General Vladimir Zarudnitsky in this post, who headed the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

The Central Military District (CMD) is a military-administrative unit of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The area of responsibility of the Central Military District includes the Siberian, Ural and Volga Federal Districts, a total of 29 subjects of the Federation. Total area - 7.06 million square meters. km.

It was formed in accordance with the decree of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev dated September 20, 2010 on the basis of the Volga-Ural Military District and part of the troops of the Siberian Military District. The Central Military District also included the 2nd Air Force and Air Defense Command.

Composition of the district

The Central Military District includes two combined arms armies: the 2nd Guards (headquarters in Samara) and the 41st (Novosibirsk), the 14th Air Force and Air Defense Army (created on the basis of the 2nd Command, Yekaterinburg). The district also includes the 90th Guards Tank Division (Chebarkul, Chelyabinsk region), the 119th separate missile brigade (Elan, Sverdlovsk region), the 30th separate motorized rifle brigade (Samara) and a number of other formations, military units and organizations (mobile brigade for radiation, chemical and biological protection, three railway brigades, etc.)

The 31st Guards Separate Air Assault Brigade of the Airborne Forces (Ulyanovsk) and two separate special-purpose brigades are stationed on the territory of the Central Military District: the 3rd Guards (Tolyatti) and the 24th (Novosibirsk).

The Central Military District also includes the 201st Gatchina military base (Dushanbe, Tajikistan), the Kant airbase in Kyrgyzstan, as well as units in Kazakhstan.

The operational subordination of the commander of the Eastern Military District also includes formations of the Border Service of the FSB, units of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and other departments of the Russian Federation, performing tasks in the territory of the district. By decision of the President of the Russian Federation, formations and military units of the Russian Guard may be transferred to the operational subordination of the commander of the military district of the RF Armed Forces.

The headquarters of the Central Military District is located in Yekaterinburg.

Current state

According to information from the commander of the Central Military District, Vladimir Zarudnitsky, in 2016, the district units received more than 900 systems and models of weapons and special equipment. Tank units were re-equipped with T-72B3 tanks, anti-aircraft regiments received Pantsir-S self-propelled anti-aircraft missile and gun systems, and the 119th Missile Brigade received a set of the Iskandr-M operational-tactical missile system. In total, according to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, over the past three years, seven formations, two military units and 33 units have been completely re-equipped, which increased the combat power of the district by 24%.

In 2016, 52 organizational events were carried out in the district; the plan for recruiting contract military personnel was fulfilled 100%. In 2016, district personnel participated in eliminating the consequences of emergency situations: military personnel extinguished forest fires in the Baikal region and eliminated the consequences of an anthrax outbreak in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District.

The 2nd Guards Combined Arms Army was recognized as the best formation of the Central Military District in 2017.

Command

The first commander of the Central Military District in 2010-2012 was Lieutenant General Vladimir Chirkin (in 2012-2013 - Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces; in 2013 he was convicted on charges of fraud, in 2015 he was released after an appeal).

In April - November 2012, the district was commanded by Colonel General Valery Gerasimov (now the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces).

In 2012-2014 - Colonel General Nikolai Bogdanovsky (now First Deputy Chief of the General Staff).

Before Alexander Lapin, the Central Military District was headed by Colonel General Vladimir Zarudnitsky.

Central Military District- a military-administrative unit of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, uniting institutions, establishments, associations, formations, military units stationed in the Volga region, Siberia and the Urals (former PurVO and western Siberian Military District). The headquarters is in the city of Yekaterinburg.

Territory of the Central Military District

History of the Central Military District

The Central Military District (CMD) was formed on December 1, 2010 during the military reform of 2008-2010 on the basis of troops (forces) of the Volga-Ural Military District and the western part of the Siberian Military District. It also included the 2nd Air Force and Air Defense Command.
The Central Military District troops are deployed within the administrative boundaries of three federal districts (Volga, Ural and part of Siberian) on the territory of the following constituent entities of the Russian Federation: Republic, Republic of Bashkortostan, Republic of Mari El, Republic of Mordovia, Republic of Tatarstan, Republic of Tuva, Udmurt Republic, Republic of Khakassia, Chuvash Republic , Altai, Krasnoyarsk, Perm regions, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Kirov, Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Orenburg, Penza, Samara, Saratov, Sverdlovsk, Tomsk, Tyumen, Ulyanovsk, Chelyabinsk regions, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug - Ugra, Yamalo-Nenets autonomous region.

It also includes the 201st military base located in the Republic of Tajikistan.
The Central Military District is the largest military district in Russia: its area is 7.06 million km² (more than 40% of the territory of Russia), and its population is 54.9 million people (39%).

All formations of the branches and branches of the Russian Armed Forces deployed in the district are subordinate to the commander of the Central Military District, with the exception of the Strategic Missile Forces and the Space Forces. In addition, military formations of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Border Service, as well as units of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and other ministries and departments of Russia that perform tasks in the district are under its operational subordination.