Nigel Thomas, Germany's Eastern Front Allies (2): Baltic Forces, Osprey, 5. However, since much of the Russian material crossing this route is military, Lithuania had raised objections to a treaty extension. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. In 2012, a decision was made to create the 11th Army Corps.  When Russia insisted on maintaining Kaliningrad as a heavily armed garrison, it aroused considerable international criticism, especially from Poland. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. script.setAttribute("src", "//www.npttech.com/advertising.js"); It appears that the new regiment received 30 tanks in 2018 and will receive another 30 this year. The 11th Guards Army transferred to the Bryansk Front on 30 July and continued the offensive to the south and southwest, contributing to the defeat of the German troops south of Oryol. First of all, the size of the purge is unprecedented, with around 50 high ranking officers being removed, including squadron and brigade commanders. The district was disbanded on 23 March 1944, and was used to form the headquarters of the Odessa Military District.[1]. — Riga: Авотс, 1981. This comes in addition to other military projects like the expansion of Chkalovsk air base. K�nigsberg was awarded to the Soviet Union under the Potsdam Accord in 1945, but the Russian Federation holds no legal title to the enclave. At the same time, the district headquarters developed a plan for responding to a German invasion, and ordered that troops be brought to combat readiness on 18 June. Kaliningrad Special Region (Russian: Калининградский особый район) (also known as the Kaliningrad Defensive Area (Russian: Калининградский оборонительный район)) (Russian: КОР) was a military district of the Russian Armed Forces from 1997 to 2010. It already had a tank battalion with 40 tanks as part of the 79th Motorized Guards Brigade, but now it also has a separate 11th Tank Regiment. So in little more than a year the number of tanks in Kaliningrad has increased from 40 to 100. When the war broke out, it included six rifle corps in the 8th, 11th, and 27th Armies, the 5th Airborne Corps, the 3rd and 12th Mechanized Corps, and six fortified regions. Don’t call them Arabs – And Noah begat 3 sons, Revue de presse – Purge dans la marine russe – L'INFO RUSSE, The Puzzle of Russian Behavior in Deir al-Zour, The Puzzle Of Russian Behavior In Deir Al-Zour – To Inform is to Influence, The Puzzle of Russian Behavior in Deir al-Zour | Isenberg Institute of Strategic Satire, Russia and Collective Security: Why CSTO Is No Match for Warsaw Pact, An Emerging Strategic Partnership: Trends in Russia-China Military Cooperation, New CNA reports on Russia’s strategy for escalation management, New CNA reports on Russia’s strategy for escalation management. �We are planning to increase the length of the runway to 3,500 meters at the airfield in Chkalovsk so that it would be able to receive any kind of aircraft, including Boeings and Airbuses,� Chirkov said. Zoopark-1 counter-battery radars will be delivered as well, to facilitate the use of the self-propelled howitzers in the counter-battery fire role. In the spring of 1957, all of the army's Guards Rifle Divisions and the 30th Guards and 71st Mechanized Divisions were redesignated as motor rifle divisions, retaining their numbers except for the 71st, which became the 119th. The district troops closely cooperated with the Baltic Fleet. The money that was allocated to these tasks was spent elsewhere or embezzled and the command proved to be unprepared to take in the additional troops. Clearly, for the purge to be so large and so open, the misconduct in the Baltic Fleet had to be very serious and very widespread. Significant amounts of Soviet equipment was transferred there during the dissolution of forces in Eastern Europe. Калининградский особый район, Российская газета.