The 68th Army Corps is an association of the Eastern Military District of Russia, located on Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. The headquarters is located in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk . The corps was first formed in 1993 from the 51st Army and disbanded in 2010. The building was recreated in 2014.
| 68th Army Corps | |
|---|---|
| Years of existence | 1993—2010 2014 - n. at. |
| A country |  Russia |
| Subordination | ground troops |
| Included in | Eastern Military District |
| Type of | army corps |
| Function | coastal defense |
| Dislocation | Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk |
| Commanders | |
| Current commander | Lieutenant General Dmitry Glushenkov [1] |
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History
The 68th Army Corps was formed on October 11, 1993 from the 51st Army in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, which was part of the Far Eastern Military District . [2] [3] It included the 33rd motorized rifle division in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk [4] , the 18th machine gun and artillery division in Goryachie Klyuchi [5] and the 31st anti-aircraft missile brigade in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk [6] . In 1997, the corps commander, Lieutenant General Gennady Anoshin, died of heart failure in an airplane [7] . In 2002, the 31st anti-aircraft missile brigade was disbanded [6] . Sources differ on the dates of the dissolution of the corps. According to Alexei Gaidai, the corps was disbanded on December 1, 2006 [8] . The 2014 Nezavisimaya Gazeta report indicated the date of the dissolution of the corps in 2010 [9] . On June 1, 2009, as part of the reform of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the 33rd Motorized Rifle Division was reorganized into the 39th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade . [four]
In April 2014, the corps was recreated from units already deployed on Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands: the 18th machine gun and artillery division and the 39th separate motorized rifle brigade [9] under the command of Major General Valery Asapov . In 2014, the 676th separate engineering battalion was formed [10] . In July 2015, Major General Alexander Peryazev was appointed corps commander after Major General Valery Asapov was sent on a business trip to the Southern Military District [11] . The corps switched to a contract picking system from August 2016 [12] . In February 2017, Major General Dmitry V. Glushenkov was appointed commander of the corps, replacing Major General Alexander Peryazev, who was appointed commander of the 20th Guards Army of the Western Military District [13] .
Composition
The composition of the corps in 2019: [14]
- 137th Separate Management Battalion ( Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk )
- 18th Machine Gun and Artillery Division ( Hot Keys )
- 39th Separate Motorized Rifle Red Banner Brigade (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk)
- 312nd Separate Jet Artillery Division ( Dachnoe )
- 676th Separate Engineering Battalion ( Summer )
- 327 separate battalion of electronic warfare ( Dachnoe )
- 1336 command and intelligence center (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk)
- 431 air defense command post (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk)
Notes
- ↑ Paratrooper Dmitry Glushenkov will head the Sakhalin 68th Army Corps . Sakhalin.info (February 3, 2017). Date of contact May 31, 2017.
- ↑ Holm, Michael 51st Combined Arms Army . www.ww2.dk. Date of treatment March 18, 2017.
- ↑ Feskov et al, 2013 , p. 131.
- ↑ 1 2 Holm, Michael 33rd Motorized Rifle Division . www.ww2.dk. Date of treatment March 18, 2017.
- ↑ Holm, Michael 18th Machine-Gun Artillery Division . www.ww2.dk. Date of treatment March 18, 2017.
- ↑ 1 2 Holm, Michael 31st Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade . www.ww2.dk. Date of treatment March 18, 2017.
- ↑ Biographies . memoriesnorth.narod.ru . Date of treatment March 18, 2017.
- ↑ Russian New Army . - Moscow: Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, 2011. - P. 14. - ISBN 978-5-9902620-3-4 .
- ↑ 1 2 Mukhin, Vladimir . CARTE BLANCHE. The Kuril Islands are given a military-strategic look (Rus.) , Nezavisimaya Gazeta (April 21, 2014).
- ↑ In 2015, Russian engineer troops will see robotic sappers (Rus.) , TASS (December 22, 2014).
- ↑ Semenova, Kseniya . The 68th Army Corps stationed in the Sakhalin Region will be replaced by the command (Russian) , Sakhalin.info (July 31, 2015).
- ↑ Gorbunov, Vadim . The 68th Army Corps will switch to a contract picking system (Russian) , Moskovsky Komsomolets (August 31, 2016).
- ↑ Yasko, Kirill . Paratrooper Dmitry Glushenkov will head the Sakhalin 68th Army Corps (Russian) , Sakhalin.info (February 3, 2017).
- ↑ Mukhin, Oleg . The 20th Army found a commander in Sakhalin (Russian) , Kommersant (February 3, 2017).
Literature
- Feskov, VI Armed forces of the USSR after the Second World War: from the Red Army to the Soviet: [ Russian ] / VI Feskov, Valery Golikov, Konstantin Kalashnikov ... [and others. ] . - Tomsk: Scientific and Technical Literature Publishing, 2013 .-- ISBN 9785895035306 .