Transbaykal order of Lenin Military District

Забайкальский ордена Ленина военный округ

Military Unit: 23284

Commanders:

• Marshal of the Soviet Union Radion Yakovlevich Malinovskiy, 30.9.45 - 20.5.47
• Colonel-General Konstantin Apollonovich Koroteev, 21.5.47 - 12.49
• Colonel-General Dmitriy Nikolaevich Gusev, 12.49 - 15.5.53
• Colonel-General Efim Grigorevich Trotsenko, 16.5.53 - 5.1.56
• Colonel-General Dmitriy Danilovich Lelyushenko, 6.1.56 - 24.1.58
• Colonel-General Yakov Grigorevich Kreyzer, 25.1.58 - 5.60
• Colonel-General Dmitriy Fyodorovich Alekseev, 16.6.60 - 17.8.66
• General of the Army Petr Alekseevich Belik, 18.8.66 - 27.12.78
• General of the Army Grigoriy Ivanovich Salmanov, 28.12.78 - 19.1.84
• General of the Army Stanislav Ivanovich Postnikov, 20.1.84 - 4.2.87
• Colonel-General Anatoliy Vladimirovich Betekhtin, 5.2.87 - 30.8.88
• Colonel-General Vladimir Magomedovich Semyonov, 31.8.88 - 30.8.91
• Colonel-General Valeriy Stepanovich Tretyakov, 31.8.91 - 9.96
• Colonel-General Nikolay Viktorovich Kormiltsev, 9.96 - 3.01
• Colonel-General Vladimir Anatolevich Boldyrev, 28.3.01 - 18.12.02
• General of the Army Nikolay Egorovich Makarov, 18.12.02 - 19.4.07
• Colonel-General Aleksandr Nikolaevich Postnikov, 19.4.07 - 11.1.10
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Valentinovich Chirkin, 11.1.10 - 9.7.10
• Admiral Konstantin Semyonovich Sidenko, 9.7.10 - 9.10.13
• Colonel-General Sergey Vladimirovich Surovikin, 9.10.13 - today

Activated 30.9.45 in Changchun, China, as the Transbaykal-Amur Military District, from HQ Transbaykal Front.

10.7.47 renamed Transbaykal Military District - new HQ activated from HQ Transbaykal-Amur Military District and HQ 36th Army.

15.1.74 awarded the order of Lenin.

In 1976 the 87th Motorised Rifle Division (mobilisation) was activated.

In 6.79 the 202nd Motorised Rifle Division was activated.

Organisation 1980:

• 29th Combined Arms Army (Ulan-Ude, Buryatskaya ASSR)
• 36th Combined Arms Army (Borzya, Chita Oblast)
• 39th Combined Arms Army (Ulan-Bator, Mongolia)
• 49th Training Tank Division (Chita, Chita Oblast)
• 150th Training Motorised Rifle Division (Borzya, Chita Oblast)
• 202nd Motorised Rifle Division (Chistye Kluychi, Irkutsk Oblast)
• 87th Motorised Rifle Division (mobilisation) (Gusinoozersk, Buryatskaya ASSR)

1.12.81 the 110th Motorised Rifle Division (mobilisation) was activated.

In 5.82 the 12th Artillery Division arrived from Kalinin, Kalinin Oblast.

In 1984 the 30th Artillery Division (mobilisation) was activated.

Organisation 1988:

• 29th Combined Arms Army (Ulan-Ude, Buryatskaya ASSR)
• 36th Combined Arms Army (Borzya, Chita Oblast)
• 39th Combined Arms Army (Ulan-Bator, Mongolia)
• 212th District Training Center (Chita, Chita Oblast)
• 213th District Training Center (Borzya, Chita Oblast)
• 12th Artillery Division (Chistye Klyuchi, Irkutsk Oblast)
• 30th Artillery Division (mobilisation) (Divizionnaya, Buryatskaya ASSR)
• 976th Territorial Training Center (Bratsk, Irkutsk Oblast)
• 977th Territorial Training Center (Chistye Klyuchi, Irkutsk Oblast)
• 978th Territorial Training Center (mobilisation) (Gusinoozersk, Buryatskaya ASSR)

In 1989 the 978th Territorial Training Center was disbanded.

30.11.98 united with the Siberian Military District, and renamed Siberian Military District.

20.9.2010 united with the Far Eastern Military District, and renamed Eastern Military District.

Territory:

• 9.45 - 7.47: Chita Oblast, Amur Oblast, Buryatskaya ASSR, Yevreyskaya ASSR and parts of Khabarovsk Kray
• 7.47 - 6.53: Chita Oblast and Buryatskaya ASSR
• 6.53 - 11.98: Irkutsk Oblast, Chita Oblast, Yakutskaya ASSR and Buryatskaya ASSR

Headquarters:

• Changchun, China, 9.45 - 12.45
• Khabarovsk, Khabarovsk Kray, 12.45 - 7.47
• Chita, Chita Oblast, 7.47 - today [52 01 56N, 113 29 58E]

Subordination:

• General Staff RKKA, 9.45 - 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