68th Army Corps (Russia)

The 68th Army Corps (Russian: 68-й армейский корпус) is an army corps of the Russian Ground Forces' Eastern Military District, stationed in Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, with its headquarters at Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. The corps was first formed in 1993 from the 51st Army and disbanded in 2010. It was reformed in 2014.

68th Army Corps
Active
  • 1993–2010
  • 2014–present
CountryRussia
BranchRussian Ground Forces
Part ofEastern Military District
Garrison/HQYuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Commanders
Current
commander		Major General Dmitry Glushenkov
Notable
commanders		Major General Valery Asapov

History

The 68th Army Corps was first formed on 11 October 1993 from the 51st Army at Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, part of the Far Eastern Military District.[1][2] It included the 33rd Motor Rifle Division at Khomutovo,[3] the 18th Machine Gun Artillery Division at Goryachiye Klyuchi,[4] and the 31st Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade at Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.[5] In 1997, its commander, Lieutenant General Gennady Anoshin, died of heart failure on a plane flight just before he was scheduled to retire from active duty.[6] In 2002, the 31st Brigade was disbanded.[5] Sources differ on the date of the corps' disbandment. According to Aleksey Gayday, in Russia's New Army, the corps was disbanded on 1 December 2006.[7] A 2014 news report cited the date of the corps' disbandment as 2010.[8] On 1 June 2009, as part of the reform of the Russian Armed Forces, the 33rd Division was downsized into the 39th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade.[3]

A MT-LB of the 39th Motor Rifle Brigade during Exercise "Vostok-2014" on Sakhalin

In April 2014, the corps was reinstated on the basis the units already stationed in Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands: the 18th Machine Gun Artillery Division and the 39th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade,[8] under the command of Major General Valery Asapov. The 676th Separate Engineer Battalion was formed later that year.[9] In July 2015, Major General Alexander Peryazev took command after Asapov transferred to the Southern Military District.[10] The corps moved to a full contract manning system from August 2016.[11] In February 2017, Major General Dmitry Glushenkov became commander of the corps, replacing Peryazev, who became commander of the 20th Guards Army.[12]

Organisation

In 2019 the corps structure was altered into the following:[13]

References

Citations
  1. Holm, Michael. "51st Combined Arms Army". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  2. Feskov et al 2013, p. 131.
  3. Holm, Michael. "33rd Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  4. Holm, Michael. "18th Machine-Gun Artillery Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  5. Holm, Michael. "31st Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  6. "Биографии". memoriesnorth.narod.ru. Retrieved 2017-03-18.
  7. Barabanov, Mikhail, ed. (2011). Russia's New Army (PDF). Moscow: Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies. p. 14. ISBN 978-5-9902620-3-4.
  8. Mukhin, Vladimir (21 April 2014). "КАРТ-БЛАНШ. Курилам придают военно-стратегический облик" [Carte Blanche: Kuriles get strategic military character]. Nezavisimaya Gazeta (in Russian). Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  9. "В российских инженерных войсках в 2015 году появятся роботы-саперы" [Robots to join Russian Engineering Troops in 2015]. TASS (in Russian). 22 December 2014. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  10. Semenova, Kseniya (31 July 2015). "В 68 армейском корпусе, дислоцированном в Сахалинской области, сменится командование" [68th Army Corps in Sakhalin Oblast changes command]. Sakhalin.info (in Russian). Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  11. Gorbunov, Vadim (31 August 2016). "68-й армейский корпус перейдет на контрактную систему комплектования" [68th Army Corps to move to contract manning system]. Moskovsky Komsomolets (in Russian). Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  12. Yasko, Kirill (3 February 2017). "Десантник Дмитрий Глушенков возглавит сахалинский 68-й армейский корпус" [Paratrooper Dmitry Glushenkov takes command of Sakhalin's 68th Army Corps]. Sakhalin.info (in Russian). Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  13. "20th Army gains new commander". Коммерсантъ. Retrieved 2020-04-01.

Bibliography
  • Feskov, V.I.; Golikov, Valery; Kalashnikov, Konstantin; Slugin, Sergei (2013). Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской [The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II: From the Red Army to the Soviet: Part 1 Land Forces] (in Russian). Tomsk: Scientific and Technical Literature Publishing. ISBN 9785895035306.
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