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Eastern Order of Battle

Soviet Union
Central Asian Military District
Kazakh, Tajik and Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic

By the end of the sixties the Chinese-Soviet relations hit the bottom. In 1969 the Turkestan Military District was divided into two parts. The Central Asian Military District was formed on the territory of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan SSR. Its mission was to protect the Soviet-Chinese border. Order of Battle in the early seventies:

    1st Army Corps, Semipalatinsk
      -155th Mechanized Infantry Divisions
      -203rd Mechanized Infantry Divisions
      -78th Tank Division

    17th Army Corps, Frunze
      -8th Guard Mechanized Infantry Divisions
      -68th Mechanized Infantry Divisions

    73rd Tactical Air Army, Alma-Ata
      -10th Mixed Air Division
      -24th Mixed Air Division

 

Many Soviet T-34 tank were dug into the ground along the Sino-Soviet border. These independent machine gun and artillery battalions were subordinate to the Central Asian Military District.

After the Sino-Vietnamese conflicts of 1979, the Central Asian Military District received a new Mechanized Infantry Division and reorganized the  1st Army Corps into the 32nd Army.

In 1984 the Turkestan Military District became the subordinate of the General Command - Southern Theatre. In 1989, after the war in Afghanistan, the Soviet Turkestan Military District and the Central Asian Military District has been merged again.

Soviet Central Asian Military District's Air Force

 

Soviet 73rd Tactical Air Army in 1973

 

27th Fighter Air Regiment early years

 

Soviet 73rd Tactical Air Army in 1978

 

MiG-21bis Fishbed-L tactical fighters at Usharal AB in the seventies

 

905th regiment's pilots at Taldy Kurgan in 1975-1977

 

Soviet Central Asian Military District's Tactical Air Force in January 1, 1983

 

MiG-27 Flogger armed with eighteen bombs in Soviet-Chinese border.

 

Soviet 27th Fighter Air regiment in Afghanistan between 1981 and 1982

 

Soviet Central Asian Military District's Tactical Air Force in January 1, 1988

 

Soviet 381st independent Reconnaissance Air Regiment in Chimkent in the eighties

 

5th Training Center and the improvement of Aviation Personnel.

 

Soviet 5th Training Center in Frunze Between 1956 and 1992

 

Mig-23 Flogger conversion training school at Lugovoy. Part One.

 

MiG-21 Fishbed basic training at the 5th Center

 

Foreign students helicopter training in the mid-seventies

 

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Союз Советских Социалистических Республик, СССР, Военно-воздушные силы, Холодная война, Среднеазиатский военный окру, 73-й ВА САВО, САВО, 73-я воздушная армия, 73-я ВА, 73-я Среднеазиатский ВО. Главное командование Южного направления, ГКЮН, Туркестанского военного округа, Туркестанского ВО, ТуркВО