Leningrad order of Lenin Military District

Ленинградский ордена Ленина военный округ

Military Unit: 00000

Commanders:

• Marshal of the Soviet Union Leonid Aleksandrovich Govorov, 9.7.45 - 27.4.46
• Colonel-General Dmitriy Nikolaevich Gusev, 27.4.46 - 26.9.49
• Colonel-General Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Luchinskiy, 26.9.49 - 21.4.53
• General of the Army Matvey Vasilevich Zakharov, 21.4.53 - 16.11.57
• General of the Army Nikolay Ivanovich Krylov, 16.11.57 - 26.10.60
• General of the Army Mikhail Ilich Kazakov, 26.10.60 - 30.10.65
• General of the Army Sergey Leonidevich Sokolov, 30.1.65 - 7.5.67
• Colonel-General Ivan Egorovich Shavrov, 7.5.67 - 30.1.73
• Colonel-General Anatoliy Ivanovich Gribkov, 30.1.73 - 27.9.76
• Colonel-General Mikhail Ivanovich Sorokin, 27.9.76 - 30.10.81
• General of the Army Boris Vasilevich Snetkov, 30.10.81 - 26.11.87
• Colonel-General Viktor Fyodorovich Ermakov, 26.11.87 - 5.7.90
• Colonel-General Vladimir Nikolaevich Samsonov, 5.7.90 - 7.12.91
• Colonel-General Sergey Pavlovich Saleznyov, 7.12.91 - 17.12.96
• General of the Army Valentin Sergeevich Bobryshev, 17.12.96 - 9.3.05
• General of the Army Igor Evgenevich Puzanov, 9.3.05 - 11.12.07
• Colonel-General Valeriy Vasilevich Gerasimov, 11.12.07 - 5.2.09
• Lieutenant-General Nikolay Vasilevich Bogdanovskiy, 23.3.09 - 10.10
• Colonel-General Arkadiy Viktorovich Bakhin, 28.10.10 - 9.11.12
• Colonel-General Anatoliy Alekseevich Sidorov, 24.12.12 - today

Activated 9.7.45 in Leningrad, Leningrad Oblast, from HQ Leningrad Front.

Organisation 11.60:

• 6th Combined Arms Army (Petrozavodsk, Karelian ASSR)
• 44th Army Corps (Arkhangelsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast)
• 30th Guards Army Corps (Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast)
• 2nd Guards Artillery Division (Pushkin, Leningrad Oblast)
• 37th Guards Training Motorised Rifle Division (Sertolovo, Leningrad Oblast)

In 1967 the 44th Army Corps was transferred to the Far East, and was replaced by the new 26th Army Corps.

22.2.68 awarded the order of Lenin.

Organisation 1970:

• 6th Combined Arms Army (Petrozavodsk, Karelian ASSR)
• 26th Army Corps (Arkhangelsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast)
• 30th Guards Army Corps (Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast)
• 2nd Guards Artillery Division (Pushkin, Leningrad Oblast)
• 63rd Guards Training Motorised Rifle Division (Sertolovo, Leningrad Oblast)

Organisation 1980:

• 6th Combined Arms Army (Petrozavodsk, Karelian ASSR)
• 26th Army Corps (Arkhangelsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast)
• 30th Guards Army Corps (Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast)
• 2nd Guards Artillery Division (Pushkin, Leningrad Oblast)
• 63rd Guards Training Motorised Rifle Division (Sertolovo, Leningrad Oblast)

Organisation 1988:

• 6th Combined Arms Army (Petrozavodsk, Karelian ASSR)
• 26th Army Corps (Arkhangelsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast)
• 30th Guards Army Corps (Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast)
• 2nd Guards Artillery Division (Pushkin, Leningrad Oblast)
• 56th Guards District Training Center (Sertolovo, Leningrad Oblast)

20.9.2010 united with the Moscow Military District, and renamed Western Military District.

Territory:

• 7.45 - 1.54: Leningrad Oblast, Novgorod Oblast, Pskov Oblast and Estonian SSR
• 1.54 - 3.60: Leningrad Oblast, Novgorod Oblast and Pskov Oblast
• 3.60 - 9.2010: Leningrad Oblast, Novgorod Oblast, Pskov Oblast, Murmansk Oblast, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Vologda Oblast and Karelian ASSR

Headquarters:

• Leningrad, Leningrad Oblast, 9.7.45 - today [59 56 15N, 30 18 54E] - from 1991 known as Saint Petersburg

Subordination:

• General Staff RKKA, 7.45 - 2.46
• General Staff Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, 2.46 - 7.5.92
• General Staff Armed Forces the Russian Federation, 7.5.92 - today