South Ural Military District
The South Ural Military District was a military administrative division of the Soviet Armed Forces. It existed from 1 December 1941 to 15 January 1958.History
According to the directive № 0444 of People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR Josef Stalin on November 26, 1941, established the South Ural Military District in Bashkir, Headquarters of the Military District was in Chkalov, appointed Lieutenant General Vladimir Nikolaevich Kurdyumov as commander. The management of YuUrVO was formed on the basis of Headquarters Orel Military District. The district included the territory of Chkalov Oblast, Bashkir ASSR and West Kazakh.
The 193rd Rifle Division was reformed at Sorochinsk, within the District's boundaries, from December 1941 to 3 January 1942.
During the Khrushchev reduction of 1958, the South Ural Military District was disbanded, and its territory was assigned to the Volga and the Turkestan Military District.Commanders
- Vladimir Nikolaevich Kurdyumov, Lieutenant-General
- Fedor Nikititch Remezov, Lieutenant-General
- Matvei Timofeevich Popov, Major-General
- Nikolai Ivanovich Dementyev, Major-General
- Max Reyter, Colonel-General
- Georgiy Zakharov, General of the Army
- Semyon Timoshenko, Marshal of the Soviet Union
- Pavel Alekseevich Belov, Colonel-General
- Yakov Kreizer, Colonel-General
