Western Military District is a military administrative unit of the Russian Armed Forces in the north-west of the country.It is designed to protect the western borders of Russia.The headquarters of the Western Military District is located in the "cultural capital" of our country - St. Petersburg.
military-administrative division of the Russian Federation
basic administrative unit of the Armed Forces is a county.On December 1, 2010, according to Presidential Decree in Russia were formed of four units: Central, East, West and South County.The first two are the largest of the occupied territory, and the latter - the smallest.Military and administrative reform consisted of several stages.Thus, according to the first of them, from 1 September 2010, it was created five main units: the North Caucasus, the Volga-Ural, Siberian, Far East and the Western Military District.However, this division did not last long.First of December of the same year came a second application to the presidential decree, according to which only four administrative units.
Central Military District
This administrative unit is included in its borders of the Republic of Altai, the Republic of Mari El, the Republic of Bashkortostan, the Republic of Mordovia, Republic of Tyva, Tatarstan, Udmurtia, Chuvashia Republic, the Republic of Khakassia, Altai, Perm,Krasnoyarsk Territory, Irkutsk, Kirov, Kurgan, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Penza, Samara, Orenburg, Saratov, Sverdlovsk, Tyumen, Ulyanovsk, Chelyabinsk, Tomsk region, the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug - Yugra and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District.
East Military District
This administrative unit is included in its borders of the Republic of Sakha, Republic of Buryatia, Trans-Baikal, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Primorsky Krai, Amur, Sakhalin, Magadan region, as well as the Jewish Autonomous Region and the Chukotka Autonomous District.
Southern Military District
This administrative unit is included in its borders of the Republic of Adygea Republic of Ingushetia, the Republic of Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkess Republic, the Republic of Kalmykia, the Chechen Republic, the Republic of North Ossetia - Alania, Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories,Rostov, Volgograd and Astrakhan region.
Western Military District
This administrative unit is included in its borders of the Republic of Komi, Karelia, Arkhangelsk, Belgorod, Vladimir, Vologda, Bryansk, Voronezh, Ivanovo, Kaluga, Kostroma, Kaliningrad, Kursk, Leningrad, Moscow, Murmansk, Lipetsk,Nizhny Novgorod, Novgorod, Pskov, Ryazan, Orel, Smolensk, Tambov, Tula, Yaroslavl, Tver region, the city of St. Petersburg and Moscow, and the Nenets Autonomous District.
composition of the Western Military District
This administrative military unit formed during the reform of 2008-2010, joined the two military districts - Leningrad and Moscow.Furthermore, in the secondary cooling zone includes Baltic and Northern fleets, as well as the first Air Force and Air Defense Command.
ZVO became the first administrative unit, formed in the course of this new system of division.Troops of the Western Military District, made up of two and a half thousand military units and formations.Their total number exceeds four thousand troops - about forty percent of the total number of the Russian Armed Forces.Commander of the Western Military Region is responsible for all deployed on the territory of military units of genera and species of troops.The exception is the Space and Strategic Missile Forces.In addition, it includes the operational control of the following form: Interior Ministry troops, Border Guard Service, part of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, as well as other ministries and departments of the Russian Federation, who perform tasks in the territory of the district.
Organization and troop: Airborne, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force and Air Defense
Western Military Region includes four of the Airborne Forces.This separate Guards spec.destination, located in Moscow, two Guards air assault division (in Tula and Pskov), and a Guards Airborne Division (Ivanovo).Also, it includes part of the Coast Guard and Marines separate motorized infantry regiment (located in Kaliningrad), a separate motorized rifle brigade (Gusev), Guards Marine Brigade (in the Baltic Sea and the village Mechnikovo), two coastal missile brigade (Donskoy inKaliningrad and Chernyakhovsk), an artillery brigade (Kaliningrad), separate regiment of marines (Sputnik in the settlement of the Murmansk region).In addition, it was composed of two brigades of special purpose.Commander of the Western Military Region is responsible for the Baltic and the North Sea, Air these fleets, the first command of the Air Force and Air Defense, as well as USC EKR.
ground forces
ZVO incorporates sixth Combined Arms Red Banner Army (infantry, artillery, anti-aircraft and engineering teams), the twentieth Red Banner Guards Combined Arms Army (infantry, tank, missile, artillery and rocket-artillery brigade).Management of the Western Military District also covers part of the district subordination, including the operational group of Russian troops stationed in the Transnistrian region (Moldova), and a separate Guards Motorised Brigade Sevastopol.
commander of the district
headquarters of the military-administrative unit is located in the Palace Square in the city.Head of the Western Military District, Lieutenant-General Alexander Sidorov (in this capacity - since December 24, 2012), from October 2010 to November of 2012 as chief was Colonel-General A. Bakhin.Chief of Staff - First Deputy Commander Admiral Nikolai Maksimov is.Head of Organizational and Mobilization Department - Deputy Chief of Staff - Major General E. Burdingsky.Deputy Commander - Major General I. Buvaltsev.
Teaching in ZVO
Military reform has affected not only the administrative division of the army, but the means and modernize equipment and weapons, the better change and combat training - not only the officers and employees under contract, and conscripts.Now, a lot of attention is paid to field training and exercises.
Modern soldiers acquainted with combat equipment under real field conditions and not on the guidelines.Thus, in the period from May 27 to June 5 in ZVO underwent routine exercises with the shooting of the modern missile systems "Iskander-M".The exercises were held in the framework of the test the combat capabilities of the Russian armed forces equipped with precision weapons.During the event, the military perfected the organization of the combined destruction of weapons of air and land-based critical facilities of the alleged enemy.The exercises were involved in one rocket Connect the Western District, which are armed with long-range aviation aircraft and missile systems, "Iskander-M".
The event missile units to march in a combined way, its length was more than two thousand kilometers.Soldiers practiced intelligence matters on the route of the complex, hidden deployment exercises firing positions.At the final stage, together with parts of the long-range aircraft missile troops conducted combat training of shooting at goal defeat conventional cruise missiles and ground-based air at the maximum possible distance.To evaluate the effectiveness of the results using the latest unmanned aerial vehicles of domestic production.
Conclusion
No sooner had the soldiers to return to their units, and the management of the county to hold a "debriefing" on the results of the exercise is to develop new, even more ambitious, which involves the following federal district: a part of the Volga, Central and NorthWest.Military District raised in the "shotgun" seven regiments air defense regiments and five aircraft.During these events, radio and anti-aircraft missile troops reflect a massive air raid alleged enemy, realizing the protection of strategically important facilities from air strikes.
As you can see, today, the defenders of the fatherland do not give a miss.The country's leadership is concerned about the fighting capacity of the army and doing everything to raise it to a qualitatively new level.
