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| commander1 = [[Colonel General]] [[
| start_date = 21 October 2010
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| website = {{URL|https://eng.mil.ru/en/structure/okruga/east/news.htm|Official website}}
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[[File:Military districts of Russia 2016.svg|thumb|300px|right|The Eastern Military District, shown in yellow, on a map of the five Russian military districts.]]
{{Russian military}}
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It is one of the five [[military district]]s 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 Russian military reform|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]].<ref name="autogenerated1">[http://graph.document.kremlin.ru/page.aspx?1;1298267 Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 20 сентября 2010 года № 1144 «О военно-административном делении Российской Федерации»] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331181836/http://graph.document.kremlin.ru/page.aspx?1%3B1298267 |date=2012-03-31 }}</ref> 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 {{convert|7000000|km2|sp=us}}. The district contains
The district commander may direct all the formations of the Armed Forces within the district's territory, with the exception of the [[Strategic Rocket Forces]] and [[Russian Aerospace Forces]]. In addition, operational subordination of the formations of the [[National Guard of Russia|National Guard Troops]], the [[Border Service of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation|Border Service of the FSB]], as well as units of the [[Ministry of Emergency Situations (Russia)|Ministry of Emergency Situations]] and other ministries and departments performing tasks in the district.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://structure.mil.ru/structure/okruga/east/history.htm|title=Восточный военный округ|publisher=mil.ru|date=31 March 2018}}</ref>
The Eastern Military District is headquartered in [[Khabarovsk]], and its current district commander is Colonel General [[Rustam Muradov]], who has held the position since October
== History ==
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From 11 to 17 September 2018, the [[Vostok 2018]] military exercise took place in the district.
By the end of January 2022, the headquarters of the Eastern Military District reportedly deployed to [[Belarus]] against the backdrop of a [[2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis|new flare-up of the crisis over Ukraine]]. Combat units drawn from the district's [[5th Combined Arms Army]], [[29th Combined Arms Army]], [[35th Combined Arms Army]], [[36th Combined Arms Army]], [[68th Army Corps (Russia)|68th Army Corps]] and the [[Pacific Fleet (Russia)|Pacific Fleet's]] 155th Naval Infantry Brigade were also reported to have deployed to Belarus.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.gfsis.org/russian-monitor/view/3121 |title=Rondeli Russian Military Digest: Issue 118, 24 January – 30 January 2022|publisher=[[Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies|Rondeli Foundation]] |date=30 January 2022|access-date=11 February 2022|archive-date= |archive-url=
== Component units ==
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* 51st Training Detachment of the Pacific Fleet ([[Vladivostok]])
* 7th Regional Training Center for NCOs (Knyaz-Volkonskoye, Khabarovsk Krai)
* [[338th Guards MRL Brigade]] (Novosysoevka) (rocket artillery; [[BM-27 Uragan]])▼
'''[[29th
* 101st Khingan Headquarters Brigade (Chita)
* [[36th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade|36th Independent Guards Motor Rifle Brigade]] ([[Borzya]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ww2.dk/new/army/msd/38gvmsd.htm|title=38th Guards Motorised Rifle Division|website=www.ww2.dk|access-date=2017-06-18}}</ref>
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* [[140th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade]] (Domna, Zabaykalsky Krai)
'''[[5th
* 57th Motor Rifle Brigade ([[Bikin]])
* [[127th Motor Rifle Division (Russia)|127th Motor Rifle Division]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://regnum.ru/news/society/2589136.html|title=В Приморье появилась новая мотострелковая дивизия|website=regnum.ru|access-date=2019-03-12}}</ref>
* 60th Motor Rifle Brigade ([[Sibirtsevo]] and Lipovtsy)
* [[20th Guards Rocket Brigade]] ([[Spassk-Dalny]])<ref>{{Cite web
| url = http://www.ww2.dk/new/army/rbr/20gvrbr.htm
| title = 20th Guards Missile Brigade
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* 305th Artillery Brigade (Ussuriysk)▼
▲*[[338th Guards MRL Brigade]] (Novosysoevka) (rocket artillery; [[BM-27 Uragan]])
* 8th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade (Razdolnoye, [[Primorsky Krai]])
▲*305th Artillery Brigade (Ussuriysk)
*
*
'''[[68th Army Corps (Russia)|68th Army Corps]]''' ([[Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3207955|title=20-я армия нашла командующего на Сахалине|last=Mukhin|first=Oleg|date=3 February 2017|work=Kommersant|access-date=18 March 2017|language=ru|trans-title=20th Army finds commander on Sakhalin}}</ref>
* 137th Independent Headquarters Battalion (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk)
* [[39th Motor Rifle Brigade|39th Independent Motor Rifle Brigade]] ([[Khomutovo]])
* 312th Independent Multiple-Launch Artillery Battery ([[Dachnoye, Sakhalin Oblast|Dachnoye]])
* 676th Independent Engineer Battalion (Dachnoye)
* [[18th Machine Gun Artillery Division]] (Goryachie Klyuchi, [[Sakhalin Oblast]])
** 46th Machinegun Artillery Regiment (Lagunnoe)
** 49th Machinegun Artillery Regiment
'''[[35th Army (Soviet Union)|35th Army]]''' ([[Belogorsk, Amur Oblast|Belogorsk]])
* [[38th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade]] (Belogorsk-Ekaterinoslavka)
* [[64th Motor Rifle Brigade]] (Khabarovsk)
* [[69th Covering Brigade (Russia)|69th Covering Brigade]] in ([[Babstovo]], Jewish Autonomous Oblast)
* [[107th Rocket Brigade (Russia)|107th Rocket Brigade]] ([[Birobizhan]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ww2.dk/new/army/rbr/23rbr.htm|title=23rd Missile Brigade|website=www.ww2.dk|access-date=2017-06-13}}</ref>
* 165th Artillery Brigade (Belogorsk)
* 71st Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade (Srednebelaya, Amur Oblast)
* 54th C3 Brigade (Belogorsk)
* 37th Engineer Regiment (Berezovka, Amur Oblast)
* 135th Independent NBC Defence Battalion (Khabarovsk)
'''[[36th Combined Arms Army|36th Army]]''' ([[Ulan Ude]])
* [[5th Separate Guards Tank Brigade|5th Independent Guards Tank Brigade]] (Ulan Ude)
* [[37th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade|37th Independent Guards Motor Rifle Brigade]] ([[Kyakhta]])
* 103rd Rocket Brigade (Ulan-Ude)
* 1723rd Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment (Jida)
* 75th C3 Brigade (Ulan Ude)
'''Airborne Troops'''
* [[11th Guards Air Assault Brigade]]
* [[83rd Guards Air Assault Brigade]]
=== Air and Air Defence Forces ===
* [[11th Air and Air Defence Forces Army]]
* [[Pacific Fleet (Russia)#Naval Aviation|Aviation of the Pacific Fleet]]
* [[326th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division]]
=== Russian Naval Forces ===
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==Leadership==
[[File:
===Commanders===
* Admiral [[Konstantin Sidenko]] (October 2010 – October 2013)
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* Colonel-General [[Gennady Zhidko]] (November 2018 – November 2021)
* Colonel-General [[Aleksandr Chaiko]] (November 2021<ref>{{cite web|title=В Восточном военном округе сменился командующий|url=http://www.debri-dv.ru/article/29453/v_vostochnom_voennom_okruge_smenilsya_komanduyushchiy|access-date=16 November 2021}}</ref> – June 2022)
* Lieutenant General [[Rustam Muradov]] (October 2022 - 3 April 2023)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Times |first=The Moscow |date=2023-04-03 |title=Top Russian General Dismissed After Vuhledar Defeat |url=https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/04/03/top-russian-general-dismissed-after-vuhledar-defeat-a80690 |access-date=2023-04-19 |website=The Moscow Times |language=en}}</ref>
* Lieutenant General [[
* Lieutenant General [[Andrey Kuzmenko (general)|Andrey Kuzmenko]] (20 April 2023 - )
===Chiefs of Staff - First Deputy Commanders===
* Lieutenant General [[Sergey Surovikin]] (October 2012 – 2013)
* Lieutenant General [[Aleksandr Lapin (general)|Aleksandr Lapin]] (2014 – April 2017)
* Lieutenant General
* Colonel General Sergey Kuralenko (October 2018 – February 2020)
* Lieutenant General [[Yevgeny Nikiforov]] (February 2020 – December 2022) The [[Armed Forces of Ukraine]] reported on December 26, 2022 that that Nikiforov was appointed as commander, [[Western Military District]], and commander of the Russian western grouping of forces in Ukraine.<ref>{{cite web|author1=Kateryna Stepanenko |author2=Karolina Hird |author3=George Barros |author4=Frederick W. Kagan | title=Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 26|url=https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-december-26}}</ref>
===Deputy Commanders===
* Vice Admiral Alekminsky Gavrilovich (2014 – July 2019)
* Lieutenant General Sergei Sevryukov (July 2019 – present)
* Lieutenant General [[Mikhail Nosulev]] (January 2020 – present)
==See also==
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