| Eastern Military District Восточный военный округ |
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| Founded | October 21, 2010 |
| Country | Russian Federation |
| Type | Military district |
| Part of | Armed Forces of the Russian Federation |
| Headquarters | Khabarovsk |
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| Current commander |
Admiral Konstantin Sidenko |
The Eastern Military District (Russian: Восточный военный округ) is one of the four operational strategic commands of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The district was formed in Presidential Decree № 1144 signed on September 20, 2010.[1] It absorbed the territories of the former Far East Military District and part of the former Siberian Military District with headquarters at Khabarovsk.
The federal subjects that are part of the district include Buryatia, the Sakha Republic, Забайкальский, Камчатский, Приморский, Khabarovsk Krai, Amur Oblast, Магаданская, Сахалинская области, Еврейская автономная область, and the Чукотский автономный округ.[1]
Vice Admiral Konstantin Sidenko is its commanding officer while the District Chief of Staff is Major General Anatoly Sidorov.
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Vice Admiral Konstantin Sidenko is the former commander of the Pacific Fleet. He graduated from the Makarov Pacific Higher Naval School (1970-1975), the Supreme Special Officer Classes of the Soviet Navy (1982-1983), the Marshal Grechko Naval Academy (1987–1989), and the General Staff Academy (1992-1994).
He served within a ship's operations department (BCh-3) (1975-1981), senior assistant to the submarine commander (1981-1982), the submarine crew commander, submarine commander(1983-1987), deputy commander (1989-1992), commander (1994-1996) 45th submarine flotilla. During his command of the 45th Submarine flotilla, he was promoted to kontr-admiral (one star) (05.05. 1995). His next post was chief of staff of the 2nd Submarine squadron (11. 1996 -05.1998), Chief of Staff of the 16th submarine task group (05.1998-08.1999), chief of staff (08.1999-06.2000), Commander (06.2000-12.2001) Northeastern Group of Troops and Forces. During his command of the NEGTF, he was promoted to vitze-admiral (two stars) (09.06. 2001. Chief of Staff of the Pacific Fleet (05.12. 2001-06.05.2006), commander of the Baltic Fleet (06.05.2006-06.12.2007) Commander Pacific Fleet (06.12.2007-29.10.2010). He was promoted to Vice-Admiral (Russian: Admiral, three-star equivalent) on 12.06. 2010.
On 29 October 2010, he was named the first commander of the Eastern Military District.
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