Eastern Military District
The Eastern Military District is a military district of Russia.
It is one of the five military districts of the Russian Armed Forces, with its jurisdiction within the Far Eastern Federal District of the country. The Eastern Military District was created as part of the 2008 military reforms, and founded by Presidential Decree №1144 signed on September 20, 2010, to replace the Far East Military District with the addition of the Transbaikal section of the Siberian Military District. The district began operation on October 21, 2010, under the command of Admiral Konstantin Sidenko.
The Eastern Military District is the second largest military district in Russia by geographic size at. The district contains 12 federal subjects of Russia: Amur Oblast, Buryatia, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Kamchatka Krai, Khabarovsk Krai, Magadan Oblast, Primorsky Krai, Sakha Republic, Sakhalin Oblast, Zabaykalsky Krai.
The Eastern Military District is headquartered in Khabarovsk, and its current district commander is Colonel General Gennady Zhidko, who has held the position since November 2018.Component units
This listing of formation and units is not complete. A Command, control, and communications brigade is synonymous with a headquarters brigade.
29th Army
5th Red Banner Army
- 57th Motor Rifle Brigade
- 127th Motor Rifle Division
- 60th Motor Rifle Brigade
- 70th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
- 20th Guards Rocket Brigade
- 338th Guards MRL Brigade
- 305th Artillery Brigade
- 8th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade
- 80th C3 Brigade
- 16th Independent NBC Defence Brigade
68th Army Corps
35th Army
- 38th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
- 64th Motor Rifle Brigade
- 69th Covering Brigade in
- 107th Rocket Brigade
- 165th Artillery Brigade
- 71st Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade
- 54th C3 Brigade
- 37th Engineer Regiment
- 135th Independent NBC Defence Battalion
36th Army
- 5th Independent Guards Tank Brigade
- 37th Independent Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
- 103rd Rocket Brigade
- 1723rd Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment
- 75th C3 Brigade
- 11th Air and Air Defence Forces Army
- Aviation of the Pacific Fleet
- Pacific Fleet
- * Pacific Coast Flotilla
- * Kamchatka Flotilla/Northeastern Group of Troops and Forces
- * Other naval units, ships and submarines
- * 155th Guards Red Banner Naval Infantry Brigade
- * 3rd Naval Infantry Regiment
- * 165th Independent Naval Infantry Brigade
List of Commanders of the Eastern Military District
- Admiral Konstantin Sidenko
- Colonel-General Sergey Surovikin
- Colonel-General Aleksandr Zhuravlyov
- Lieutenant-General Gennady Zhidko
