Russian Armed Forces - a military state organization, which is intended to reflect the possible aggression against Russia to protect its territory and integrity and to perform tasks in accordance with international treaties, one side of which is Russia.
its eastern borders to protect the Eastern Military District, which will be discussed in this article.
the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
in the Russian Armed Forces, according to the magazine Business Insider, can be mobilized sixty nine million people.This is the second, after the United States, according to the same magazine, the world's population.
Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is the Russian President.Ministry of Defense - is the organ of the Armed Forces.A General Staff - this is the main body of military and operational management of Armed Forces.
the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - is the foundation of defense and state security.It is impossible to overestimate the importance of a reliable army for the country, especially in such a difficult time for our country.
Therefore, in recent years significantly increased the number of military exercises, and takes place in the present time the modernization of troops and supply them with modern military equipment showed the Russian army in an entirely different capacity.Especially when compared to the fact that a Russian all over the world used to say in the nineties and early two thousandth.
Russian Federation Armed Forces are divided geographically, they are composed of four military districts: Central, West, South and East.
East Military District: basic information
TSB (Eastern Military District) - a military-administrative unification of the Armed Forces, formed as a result of the reform in 2008-2010, when based on the former military districts formed four new ones.
East Military District formed on the basis of the Far East, which included part of the Siberian Military District, as well as the Trans-Baikal.It also includes the Pacific Fleet, the Air Force and Air Defense.
Territory TSB
This district takes about forty-four per cent of the land area and almost one hundred and fifty million square miles in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.It is located in Buryatia, Yakutia, the Kamchatka, the Trans-Baikal, Khabarovsk and Primorsky Territories, the territory Sahatinskoy, Magadan, Amur regions, Chukotka Autonomous District, as well as the Jewish Autonomous Region.
On its territory there are three military educational institutions.It Suvorov military school in Primorsky Krai in the city of Ussuriysk, Far Eastern Military Institute in Vladivostok and the Pacific Naval Institute, also located in Vladivostok.
History TSB
Far IN was founded thirty-first of July 1918, when the Red Army defeated the Ussuri Front Whites.However, in August the Soviet regime was overthrown, and until 1920 was conducted guerrilla warfare.In 1920, this territory was created by the Far Eastern Republic, and since 1922, after the Civil War, the Soviet power is fully restored.
force at the time of the revolutionary army was renamed the Fifth Red Banner Army, whose headquarters is located in Chita.And in 1924, all military units and institutions that function on the territory included in the Siberian Military District.In 1929, the troops of the Far East received independence and began to carry the name of the Special Far Eastern Army.
In 1938, the danger of an attack on the territory of the Soviet Union from Japan increased significantly, Army transformed into Far Eastern Front, whose struggle has shown the power of the Russian spirit and true valor during the conflict.
During the Great Patriotic War, fought the troops of the Far East in many strategic battles and hundreds of thousands were awarded for military merits before Fatherland.
Far Eastern Front after the war was transformed into military districts: Zabaykalo-Amur, Primorye and Far East.In the post-war period of the military district in the area has undergone a number of qualitative changes.
Throughout the history of this eastern outpost of the Soviet Union had a special significance.In the Russian Federation, the value was not less.Despite the fact that the main task is the protection of the eastern territory of the Far Eastern military forces participated in the Chechen wars, for which more than a thousand soldiers were awarded.
Currently, the military districts were transformed into one and became known as the Eastern Military District.
structure
BBO BBO (Eastern Military District) consists of ground forces, airborne troops, marines, air force, navy and air defense.
ground forces, airborne troops and marines consist of:
- formations and units of district subordination.
- twenty-ninth and thirty-sixth field armies.
- fifth and thirty-fifth Red Banner of combined arms armies.
- Sixty-Eighth Army Corps.
- Airborne as eighty-third and eleventh individual air assault brigades.
- Intelligence connections.
- marine units, coastal defense.
commander of the Eastern Military District
From July 2010 to October 2013 was commander Admiral Konstantin Sidenko, who is now retired.
He was born in 1953, studied at the Naval Academy, he served on a submarine.Over the years, his service was appointed division commander, chief of staff, commander of the Baltic and then the Pacific Fleet.
rose to the rank of Admiral and in 2013 resigned.
Since October 2013 the commander of the Eastern Military District became Colonel-General Sergei Surovikin.
Surovikin Sergey was born in 1966 in Novosibirsk.After the Military Command School, he was serving in the army.In 1991, during the execution of the job in Moscow that killed three young men, he was arrested and more than half are under investigation.But Yeltsin's personal orders, he was not only released from custody, but also promoted to the rank.
In 1995 he was involved in the purchase and sale of firearms, and in 2004 a lieutenant colonel accused of beating Tsibizova.But the guilt has been refuted, and the charges dropped.
Command TSB
commander of the Eastern Military District has in its operational control:
- Regional Interior Ministry troops.
- border management.
- Far Eastern Law Institute of the Ministry of Interior.
- centers of special communication FSO in the city of Khabarovsk, Chita and Ulan-Ude.
Address TSB
Staff Headquarters of the Eastern Military District is located in Khabarovsk Krai at the index of 680 038, the city of Khabarovsk, 38, Serysheva street, house 15.
Forces Modernization Program TSB
As in other military districts, BBO (Eastern Military District) runs a complete redesign, in which from 2011 to 2013, has been completely replaced old automotive engineering.
For service received new models of aircraft and helicopters Ka-52, Mi-8, AMTSH, Mi-26 and fighter generation "4 +" - the Su-30.Rearming on anti-aircraft missile systems S-400, "Thor" missile and gun "armor".
In general, the state defense order until 2020 in the Eastern Military District plans to deliver more than thirteen thousand units.Besides retooling of military formations and units are settling basic military camps and developed infrastructure.
teachings TSB
In recent years, due to the worsening situation of foreign policy in all districts of Russia increased the amount of the exercise.So, in 2014, the teachings of the Eastern Military District conducted jointly with Mongolia in its territory ("Selenge 2014"), as well as with China ("Peace Mission") in China.The past and the Russian-Indian exercises "Indra-2014" in the Pacific Ocean.
on the territory of the military district held strategic exercises "Vostok-2014".Russian forces have demonstrated a high level of combat readiness.It was noted an improved management of operational and combat training of military personnel in general.
In addition, the supreme commander in 2014 was declared a sudden checking of Russian troops, on the basis of which the Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu reported to President about the high level of training and improving the interaction of staff, commissioners and authorities, although it was recognized that some shortcomings which occurred, andearlier, still persists.
Thus, the administration of the Sakhalin area was not ready for mobilization at the call of the citizens from the stock, resulting in a problem has not been fully implemented and solved it by other subjects of the Russian Federation.
With the Western Military District were deployed in Sakhalin and Khabarovsk Krai battalion tactical groups and military equipment.
were deployed mobilization base in the Primorye, Kamchatka, the Trans-Baikal and Khabarovsk Territories, Sakhalin and Amur regions.
situation in TSB today
Some believe that the need to significantly change the grouping of troops and strengthen the Eastern Military District.The command should be carried out so that the soldiers were ready to fight for a long time without help, if you happen to aggression from neighboring countries.However, at the moment for such an eventuality TSB troops are not ready.
It is in this part of the military and political leadership of Russia should focus its core military capabilities.It has already publicly announced that the main area where you want to make all the efforts of the military, it is East Asia.The military potential of Japan and the United States are much higher, so the possible aggression of the countries of the region becomes vulnerable.As the military analyst Alexander Khramchikhin, you must remove all the bases, which houses the electronics, with the Russian-Chinese border.
Nevertheless, it is expected that in the coming years BBO equipment necessary equipment is reached.
According to head of tehobespecheniya TSB Colonel Victor Taraeva, the most important task now - is the realization of the program on arms until 2020.It is necessary to establish the requirements, the amount of equipment and the timing of its income to the SBI, to actively cooperate with the manufacturers and to plan delivery of ammunition.However, the entire personnel should be trained in working with the new equipment and repair specialists should also be properly prepared.Prepare and storage space for equipment.
addition to work on its territory, TSB is also involved in the restoration works of the military infrastructure that is located on the territory of the New Siberian Islands, and Yakutia.Together with the Western military district being built, expanded and lengthened the runway airfield "Temp" Boiler Island, which is part of the archipelago.
It should be noted the active participation of the Eastern Military District in the annual forest fires that destroy many hectares of forest.Military use at their liquidation special equipment and military transport aircraft.
