22nd Army Corps / 32nd Army Corps
The 11th Army Corps with a place of deployment in the Kaliningrad Region was formed as part of the ground and coastal forces of the Baltic Fleet. In Crimea, the 22nd Army Corps was formed as part of the Black Sea Fleet. An Army Corps is a combined arms unit designed to solve operational-tactical tasks. It may include two to four or more divisions. The size of the army corps can reach several tens of thousands of troops.
The 22nd Army Corps is a unit of the Coastal Forces of the Navy of the Russian Federation. The corps is located on the territory of the Crimean peninsula and includes units of the coastal forces of the Black Sea Fleet. The corps office is located in Simferopol . The corps includes, among other things, the 8th separate artillery regiment and the 126th coastal defense brigade. The task of the corps is to solve the whole range of coastal defense tasks, as well as to conduct, with the support of the fleet, naval landings. In December 2018, in order to implement the draft Decree of the President of the Russian Federation “On the Banner of the Military Unit”, the 22nd army corps of the Black Sea Fleet, which distinguished itself in the performance of combat missions, was awarded the Banner of the new standard.
In the Soviet years, the 32nd Army Corps of the Odessa Military District existed in Crimea, which, with the collapse of the country, came under the jurisdiction of Ukraine and was disbanded in 2003. The 32nd Army Corps located on the Crimean peninsula was revived as part of the ground forces of the Black Sea Fleet, a source familiar with the situation told Interfax on 12 November 2016. The Directorate of the 32nd Army Corps became operational as of December 1 when the new training year started in the Russian Armed Forces, the Agency’s interlocutor clarified. The source did not specify the composition of the re-established Army Corps.
According to available data, the Army Corps could include the 126th coastal defense brigade. The 32nd Army Corps was a unit of ground forces of the Soviet Army during the Soviet era. In 1992, the 32nd Army Corps was transferred to the jurisdiction of Ukraine and was disbanded in 2003. Earlier this year, the Directorate of the 11th Army Corps located in Kaliningrad region was formed as part of the ground forces of the Baltic Fleet.
On December 1, 2016, the administration of the 22nd Army Corps began to function in Crimea. It could include, in particular, the 126th coastal defense brigade. In Soviet times, the corps was an association of the Ground Forces. In 1992, it came under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, and in 2003 it was disbanded.
The 22nd Army Corps was formed on February 10, 2017. The 22nd Army Corps of the Black Sea Fleet in Crimea was formed and started combat training, Colonel-General Alexander Dvornikov, Commander of the Southern Military District, told reporters. "At present, the 150th motorized rifle division in the Rostov region, the 42nd motorized rifle division in the Chechen Republic, the 22nd army corps of the Black Sea Fleet in Crimea have been formed and have begun combat training, a squadron of Ka-52 attack helicopters in the Krasnodar Territory and several other military units, "said Dvornikov.
Earlier it was reported that the commander, as part of an inspection trip, checked the formations and military units of the Black Sea Fleet in the Crimea, and also familiarized himself with the construction of a new military camp for members of the anti-subversive forces. Dvornikov noted that the intensity of combat training of the Black Sea Fleet and the Caspian Flotilla in 2016 increased by 1.5 times compared to 2015. In the course of combat training, the naval crew successfully completed more than 800 combat exercises, including the use of high-caliber Caliber sea-based cruise missiles. The total flooding of the naval crews of the Black Sea Fleet and the Caspian Flotilla exceeded the planned figures by almost a third and amounted to more than 5 thousand days.
The management of the motorized rifle of the 150th Idritsko-Berlin Order of the Kutuzov II degree of the division was formed in the Rostov Region in December 2016. The compound received not only a number, but also an honorary name, as well as a military award from its famous predecessor, whose fighters - Junior Sergeant Mikhail Egorov and Sergeant Meliton Kantaria - were the first to hoist the Red Banner on the Reichstag in May 1945.
The forty-second Evpatorian Red Banner Guards Motor Rifle Division of the Southern Military District was also recreated at the end of 2016 on the basis of three motorized rifle brigades and is deployed in the Chechen Republic. The division is armed with Msta-S self-propelled artillery mounts, T-72B3, BTR-82A tanks, as well as the latest electronic warfare equipment.
The formation of the 22nd Army Corps was part of the general practice of forming army corps in the coastal forces of the Russian Navy in order to increase command and control effectiveness. In the Soviet years, the 32nd Army Corps of the Odessa Military District existed in Crimea, which, with the collapse of the country, came under the jurisdiction of Ukraine and was disbanded in 2003. The exercises of the corps units are held at Opuk training grounds near Cape Opuk and Angarsk near the village of Zarechnoye.
In Crimea, at the Opuk training ground, maneuvers of units and formations of the 22nd Army Corps recently deployed on the peninsula took place. According to the representative of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet), Captain 1st Rank Vyacheslav Trukhachev, as part of the final inspection of the corps, training and combat operations and firing of a separate coastal defense brigade, artillery regiment and artillery units of a separate marine corps were organized.
In early 2017, Colonel-General Alexander Dvornikov, the commander of the troops of the Southern Military District (Southeast Military District), spoke about the deployment of a combined arms association as part of the Black Sea Fleet. This time at the Opuk training ground, mainly defensive actions were organized with the participation of AK. Particularly active corps soldiers acted "in places of possible landing of a conditional enemy." These actions were accompanied by "counterattacks in collaboration with other AK units." First of all, using air defense forces and all types of artillery.
In addition to the coastal defense brigade (located in the village of Perevalnoye), the 22nd AK included a separate coastal missile and artillery brigade and a separate coastline cover artillery regiment, a separate anti-aircraft missile regiment (air defense missile regiment), and also combat and material support units. All these formations and units are located in Sevastopol, can be quickly deployed to the area of ??the Sevastopol Bay, and, in addition to other tasks of defending the peninsula, must carry out constant combat cover of the main naval base of the Black Sea Fleet in Crimea.
It is clear that in the event of large-scale aggression from Ukraine or from the sea, the forces of the 22nd AK are clearly not enough to repulse it. Therefore, at the Opuk training ground, questions of quick transfer of additional troops and weapons from other regions of the Russian Federation to the peninsula were also worked out earlier. The first large-scale exercises of the Airborne Forces in the history of the Russian army with the participation of the Aerospace Forces and the Black Sea Fleet began in Crimea on March 20. The Ministry of Defense reported that for participation in them from March 13 to 19, about 2.5 thousand paratroopers and more than 600 units of military equipment from three airborne units were simultaneously deployed from permanent deployment points on the peninsula, which were simultaneously raised on alert and put on full alert.
The actions of the units of the Novorossiisk Air Assault Division, The Kamyshinsky and Ulan-Ude separate airborne assault brigades were supported by the forces of the Black Sea Fleet and the 4th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Southern Military District. In parallel, the divisions of the anti-ship complexes Bastion and Bereg made a field exit to Cape Zhelezny Rog on the Taman Peninsula (Krasnodar Territory). They successfully completed real-life shooting and electronic missile launches "at targets simulating the ships of a conventional enemy and located at a considerable distance from the coast."
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