The Western Military District isMilitary-administrative unit of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation 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 homeland - St. Petersburg.
The main administrative unit of the Armed Forcesforces is the district. Since December 1, 2010, according to the President's Decree, four such units have been formed in Russia: the Central, Eastern, Western and Southern Districts. The first two are the largest in the occupied territory, and the last - the smallest. Military-administrative reform consisted of several stages. So, according to the first of them, from September 1, 2010, five basic units were created: the North Caucasus, the Volga-Urals, the Siberian, the Far East and the West Military Districts. However, this division did not last long. On December 1 of the same year, a second Annex to the presidential decree came into force, according to which only four administrative units remained.
This administrative unit included in itsRepublic of Altai, the Republic of Mari El, the Republic of Bashkortostan, the Republic of Mordovia, the Republic of Tuva, the Republic of Tatarstan, the Udmurt Republic, the Chuvash Republic, the Republic of Khakassia, the Altai, Perm, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Kirov, Kurgan, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Penza, Samara, Orenburg, Saratov, Sverdlovsk, Tyumen, Ulyanovsk, Chelyabinsk, Tomsk regions, the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area - Yugra and the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District.
This administrative unit included in itsborders of the Republic of Sakha, the Republic of Buryatia, Zabaikalsky, Kamchatsky, Khabarovsk, Primorsky Krai, Amur, Sakhalin, Magadan regions, as well as the Jewish Autonomous Region and the Chukotka Autonomous District.
This administrative unit included in itsthe Republic of Adygea, the Republic of Ingushetia, the Republic of Dagestan, the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, the Republic of Kalmykia, the Chechen Republic, the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories, Rostov, Volgograd and Astrakhan regions.
This administrative unit included in itsThe Republic of Komi, the Republic of 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 regions, the cities of St. Petersburg and Moscow, as well as the Nenets Autonomous District.
This administrative military unit,formed during the reform of 2008-2010, united two military districts - Leningrad and Moscow. In addition, the Baltic Air Force and the Northern Fleet, as well as the First Air Defense and Air Force Command, were part of the ZVO.
The ZVO became the first administrative unit,formed in the course of this new division system. The troops of the Western Military District consist of two and a half thousand military units and formations. Their total number exceeds four hundred thousand troops - about forty percent of the total strength of the Russian Armed Forces. The commander of the Western Military District is responsible for all military formations of all kinds and types of troops deployed on this territory. The exception is the Space and Strategic Missile Forces. In addition, his operational subordination includes the following formations: Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Border Guard Service of the Federal Security Service, parts of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, as well as other ministries and departments of the Russian Federation that perform tasks in the territory of this district.
The Western Military District includes fourpart of the airborne forces. This: a separate Guards Regiment special. appointed in Moscow, two Guards air assault divisions (in Tula and Pskov) and one Guards airborne division (in Ivanovo). It also includes parts of the Coast Guard and marines: a separate motorized rifle regiment (located in Kaliningrad), a separate motorized rifle brigade (in Gusev), the Marine Guards Brigade (in Baltiysk and Mechnikovo), two coastal missile brigades (in Donskoy, in Kaliningrad and Chernyakhovsk), an artillery brigade (in Kaliningrad), a separate regiment of marines (in the village of Sputnik, Murmansk region). In addition, it included two special-purpose brigades. The commander of the Western Military District is responsible for the Baltic and Northern Fleet, the Aviation of these fleets, the first command of the air defense and the air force, and also the air defense command post.
The ZVO has a sixth combined-armsThe Red Banner Army (motorized rifle, artillery, anti-aircraft and engineering brigades), the 20th Guards Army of the Red Banner Army (motorized rifle, tank, missile, artillery and rocket artillery brigades). The Office of the Western Military District also extends to parts of the district subordination, which includes an operational group of Russian troops stationed in the Transnistrian region (Republic of Moldova), and a separate guards motorized rifle Sevastopol brigade.
The headquarters of this military-administrative unitis located on the Palace Square in the city. The chief of the Western Military District, Lieutenant-General A. Sidorov (in this position - since December 24, 2012), in the period from October 2010 to November 2012, Colonel-General A. Bakhin was in charge of the post of chief. The chief of staff - the first deputy commander is Admiral N. Maximov. Head of the organizational and mobilization department - Deputy Chief of Staff - Major-General E. Burdingsky. Deputy commander of troops - Major-General I. Buvaltsev.
The military reform affected not onlythe administrative division of the army, but also implies the modernization of the technical base and armament, for the better, the combat training has changed - not only officers and contract employees, but also a conscripted soldier. Now much attention is paid to conducting field exercises and exercises.
Modern soldiers get acquainted with military equipmentin real field conditions, and not according to methodological recommendations. So, during the period from May 27 to June 5, planned exercises with shooting from modern Iskander-M missile systems were held in the ZVO. The exercises were part of the verification of the combat capabilities of the Russian Armed Forces equipped with high-precision weapons. During this event, the military worked out the issues of organizing a combined destruction of air and ground-based weapons of especially important targets of the alleged enemy. In the exercises, one missile unit of the Western District was deployed, with long-range aircraft and Iskander-M missile systems in service.
During this event, the missile unitIt marched in a combined way, its length was more than two thousand kilometers. The soldiers worked out reconnaissance issues along the route of the complex, concealed deployment, occupation of firing positions. At the final stage, together with the long-range aviation units, the missilemen conducted combat training firing to defeat the conventional target by air-borne and ground-based cruise missiles at the maximum possible distance. To assess the effectiveness of the results, the latest unmanned aerial vehicles of domestic production were used.
No sooner had the soldiers returned to their units, butthe leadership of the Okrug to conduct a "debriefing" based on the results of the exercises, as new, even larger ones were launched, which involved the following federal administrative districts: part of Privolzhsky, Central and North-Western. The military district raised in the "gun" seven regiments of air defense and five regiments of aviation. During these events, radio and anti-aircraft missile forces repelled a massive raid of the aircraft of the alleged enemy, protecting strategically important targets from air strikes.
As you can see, today defenders of the fatherland are not bored. The leadership of the country is concerned about the army's fighting capacity and is doing everything to raise it to a qualitatively new level.
