The Red Banner Central Asian Military District was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces, which existed in 1926–1945 and 1969–1989, with its headquarters at Tashkent (1926–1945) and Almaty (1969–1989). By USSR Order No.304 of 4 June 1926, the Turkestan Front was renamed the Central Asian Military District.
1st Formation On 22 June 1941 the Central Asian Military District included the 4th Cavalry Corps (18th, 20th, and 21st Mountain Cavalry Divisions), the 27th Mechanised Corps (9th and 53rd Tank Divisions and 221st Mechanised Division), the 58th Rifle Corps (68th, 83rd, 194th Mountain Rifle Divisions), and the independent 238th Rifle Division, and district troops, as well as the Air Forces of the Central Asian Military District. Under General Major M.P. Kharitonov, the Air Forces of the CAMD including 4th Aviation Brigade with 34th Bomber Aviation Regiment (SBs) (Tashkent) and 116th Regiment (I-153s) at Stalinabad).
As part of the Central Asian Military District, 53rd Army invading Iran was described by the Combat composition of the Soviet Army as including 58th Rifle Corps (68th and 83rd Mountain Rifle Divisions, 389th Rifle Division), 4th Cavalry Corps (18th, 20th, 39th Cavalry Divisions), 44th Cavalry Division, and 72nd Independent Mountain Rifle Regiment (огсп) on 1 October 1941.
The 74th and 75th (later to become the 27th Guards Rifle Division) Naval Rifle Brigades were formed in the district after a November–December 1941 People's Commissariat for Defence resolution.
On 9 July 1945, the district was split into the Turkestan and Steppe Military Districts.
2nd Formation
In August 1964, the headquarters of the 18th Guards Army was relocated to Alma-Ata, where it became the operational group of the Turkestan Military District.
Five months after the fighting on Damansky Island, a similar situation repeated on a smaller scale in East Kazakhstan Region Kazakh SSR at Lake Zhalanashkol (see Sino-Soviet border conflict). The Chinese side lost 19 people killed. Two Soviet border guards were killed.Armed border conflict in the area of Lake Zhalanashkol ( August 1969)
For this purpose, the leadership of the USSR Armed Forces took the following measures:Feskov V.I., Kalashnikov K.A., Golikov V.I. Soviet Army during the Cold War (1945-1991) In the Kazakh SSR and in the Far East in the 1960s, new military formations were established in the Long-Range Aviation and Strategic Rocket Forces Formations and units of the 39th Combined Arms Army were introduced into the Mongolian People's Republic With the Chinese threat growing, a new district was established. The operational group was converted back into the 18th Army (without the Guards designation) on 4 March 1969, but was used to activate the headquarters of the Central Asian Military District on 24 June 1969.
Most of the forces in the district were deployed in the border areas with China. On sections of the border where the natural terrain facilitated the possible advance of the enemy, Fortified Regions were created, which were formations of machine-gun and artillery battalions in stationary positions.
In 1988 the CAMD included the 32nd Army and 17th Army Corps, and troops directly subordinate to district command. The 73rd Air Army provided air support, and air defence duties were carried out by the 12th and 14th Air Defence Armies. The 32nd Army (headquartered in Semipalatinsk) included a tank and three motor rifle divisions, anti-aircraft and missile brigades, artillery and rocket regiments, separate Flame-tank regiment, and others. The 17th Army Corps (headquartered in Frunze) included the 8th Guards Motor Rifle Division (Frunze), the 68th Motor Rifle Division (Sary Ozek), the 134th Motor Rifle Division (Dushanbe), the 68th Independent Motor Rifle Brigade (Osh), a mountain unit, and the 30th independent Motor Rifle Regiment (Kurdai in Dzhambulskaya Oblast). District units included the 80th Guards Training Motor Rifle Division and cadre artillery, rear defence, and motor-rifle divisions, 5th, 107th, and 108th communications brigades, and the 126th Rocket Brigade of surface-to-surface missiles.
In addition, the 57th Air Assault Brigade was based at Aktogay.
Air units of the district were deployed to Afghanistan.
District forces in 1989 The district was disestablished and its territory incorporated into the Turkestan Military District from 5 January 1989 on.Holm, www.ww2.dk At that time it had the following structure:
Formations and units under direct district subordination District Command and Headquarters (Управление командующего и штаб) – Alma Ata, Kazakh SSR
Separate Staff Security and Support Battalion (отдельный батальон охраны и обеспечения штаба) – Alma Ata 141st Separate Radio-technical Brigade OsNaz (141-я отдельная радиотехническая бригада ОсНаз) – Chengeldy (GRU formation operationally attached to the district) 27th Radio Intercept Regiment (27-й полк засечки и разведки) – Tselinograd (EW Directorate of the General Staff's (Управление РЭБ ГШ СССР) unit operationally attached to the district) 5th Separate Signals Brigade of the High Command (5-я отдельная бригада связи ВГК) – Alma Ata 108th Separate Signals Brigade (108-я отдельная бригада связи) – Taldıqorğan 107th Separate Signals Brigade (107-я отдельная бригада связи) – Burunday Separate Signals Battalion for Rear Services Communications (отдельный батальон связи тыла) – Burunday 57th Separate Landing Assault Brigade (57-я отдельная десантно-штурмовая бригада) – Aktogay 126th Ballistic Missile Brigade (126-я ракетная бригада) – Sary-Ozek 400th Gun Artillery Brigade (400-я пушечная артиллерийская бригада) – Akhtyubinsk 401st Anti-Tank Artillery Brigade (401-я противотанковая артиллерийская бригада) Artillery Reconnaissance Regiment (разведывательный артиллерийский полк) – Jambyl 75th Separate Radio-technical Brigade of the Land Forces' Air Defence (75-я отдельная радиотехническая бригада ПВО СВ) – Taldıqorğan 56th Separate Radio-technical Brigade of the Land Forces' Air Defence (56-я отдельная радиотехническая бригада ПВО СВ) – Shymkent 111th Engineer Sapper Brigade (111-я инженерно-сапёрная бригада) – Kapchagay 12th Chemical Defence Brigade (12-я бригада химической защиты) – Burunday Material Supply Brigade (бригада материального обеспечения) – Jambyl Repair and Overhaul Base (ремонтно-восстановительная база) – Alma Ata 2030th Separate Battalion for Field Water Supply (2030-й отдельный батальон полевого водоснабжения) – Kapchagay 210th Guards Military District Training Center (210-й гвардейский окружнный учебный центр), until 1988 the 80th Guards Training Motor Rifle Division (80-я гвардейская учебная мотострелковая дивизия) – Otar (Gvardeyskiy) (all the units, except for the 66th Training MRR, are based in Otar) Commandant's Company [MP] (комендантская рота) 112th Separate Guards Training Signals Battalion (112-й отдельный гвардейский учебный батальон связи) 55th Guards Venskiy, awarded the Order of Kutuzov III degree and the Order of Alexander Nevsky Training Motor Rifle Regiment (55-й гвардейский учебный мотострелковый Венский орденов Кутузова III степени и Александра Невского полк) 66th awarded the Order of Kutuzov and the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Training Motor Rifle Regiment (66-й учебный орденов Кутузова и Богдана Хмельницкого мотострелковый полк) – Arys 372nd Guards Kishinyovskiy, awarded the Order of Suvorov and the Order Kutuzov III degree Training Motor Rifle Regiment (372-й гвардейский учебный мотострелковый Кишинёвский орденов Суворова и Кутузова III степени полк) 127th Guards Ropshinskiy, awarded the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of the Red Star Training Tank Regiment (127-й гвардейский учебный танковый Ропшинский Краснознамённый ордена Красной Звезды полк) 171st Guards Kishinyovskiy, awarded the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky II degree Training Artillery Regiment (171-й гвардейский учебный артиллерийский Кишинёвский ордена Богдана Хмельницкого II степени полк) Separate Training Surface-to-Surface Missile Battalion (отдельный учебный ракетный дивизион) Separate Training Anti-Tank Battalion (отдельный учебный противотанковый дивизион) 759th Tarnopolskiy Training Air Defence Missile and Artillery Regiment (759-й учебный зенитный ракетно-артиллерийский Тарнопольский полк) Separate Reconnaissance Battalion (отдельный разведывательный батальон) 90th Separate Guards Training Sapper Battalion (90-й отдельный гвардейский учебный инженерно-сапёрный батальон) Separate Chemical Defence Battalion (отдельный батальон химической защиты) 445th Separate Repair and Overhaul Battalion (445-й отдельный ремонтно-восстановительный батальон) 589th Separate Medical Battalion (589-й отдельный медицинский батальон) 725th Separate Material Supply Battalion (725-й отдельный батальон материального обеспечения) 269th Motor Rifle Division [cadred] (269-я мотострелковая дивизия кадра) – Otar (Gvardeyskiy) 64th Artillery Division [cadred] (64-я артиллерийская дивизия кадра) – Burunday 236th Division of Rear Area Security [cadred] (236-я дивизия охраны тыла кадра) – Otar (Gvardeyskiy)
Ground Forces of the Central Asian Military District The Ground Forces of the military district consisted of the 32nd CA Army and the 17th Army Corps. At the time of the fusion of the CAMD into the Turkestan Military District in 1989 they consisted of:
32nd Combined Arms Army 32nd Combined Arms Army (32-я общевойсковая армия)
Army Command and Headquarters (Управление командующего и штаб) – Semipalatinsk
Separate Staff Security and Support Company (отдельная рота охраны и обеспечения) – Semipalatinsk 165th Separate SpetsNaz Company of the GRU (165-я отдельная рота спецназа ГРУ) – Ayagoz (GRU formation operationally attached to the army) Separate Radio Intercept Battalion (отдельный батальон засечки и разведки) – Ust-Kamenogorsk (EW Directorate of the General Staff's (Управление РЭБ ГШ СССР) unit operationally attached to the army) 210th Separate Signals Regiment (210-й отдельный полк связи) – Semipalatinsk 450th Separate Helicopter Regiment (450-й отдельный вертолётный полк) – Usharal 27th Separate Helicopter Squadron (27-я отдельная вертолётная эскадрилья) – Semipalatinsk 44th Ballistic Missile Brigade (44-я ракетная бригада) – Semipalatinsk 645th Gun Artillery Regiment (645-й пушечный артиллерийский полк) – Semipalatinsk 962nd Multiple Launch Rocket Regiment (962-й реактивный артиллерийский полк) – Ayagoz 935th Artillery Reconnaissance Regiment (935-й разведывательный артиллерийский полк) – Jambyl 272nd Missile Air Defence Brigade (272-я зенитно-ракетная бригада) – Ayagoz 2101st Separate Radio-technical Battalion of the Air Defence (2101-й отдельный радиотехнический батальон ПВО) – Semipalatinsk 750th Separate Engineer Sapper Battalion (750-й отдельный инженерно-сапёрный батальон) – Semipalatinsk Separate Mine-laying Engineer Battalion (отдельный инженерный батальон заграждений) – Ayagoz 634th Separate Engineer Road and Bridge Construction Battalion (634-й отдельный инженерный дорожно-мостовой батальон) – Talgar 77th Material Supply Brigade (77-я бригада материального обеспечения) – Semipalatinsk Repair and Overhaul Base (ремонтно-восстановительная база) – Ayagoz 78th Tank Division (78-я танковая дивизия) – Ayagoz 194th Separate Signals Battalion (194-й отдельный батальон связи) – Ayagoz 156th Tank Regiment (156-й танковый полк) – Ayagoz 180th Tank Regiment (180-й танковый полк) – Ayagoz 143rd Tank Regiment (143-й танковый полк) – Aktogay 369th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment (369-й гвардейский мотострелковый полк) – Usharal 1062nd Artillery Regiment (1062-й артиллерийский полк) – Usharal 1144th Missile Air Defence Regiment (1144-й зенитно-ракетный полк) – Aktogay 345th Separate Ballistic Missile Battalion (345-й отдельный ракетный дивизион) – Ayagoz 85th Separate Reconnaissance Battalion (85-й отдельный разведывательный батальон) – Ayagoz