219:. Most of the district's senior command personnel when the purge began were executed or sentenced to imprisonment, including the chief of staff and his successor, political commissar, the chief of the political department, deputy commander, the assistant commander for the air force and his successor, and the assistant commander for logistical support, chief of armored and mechanized forces, chief of staff of the air force, and chief of artillery. Repression affected all levels of senior command with almost all of the district's corps, division, and brigade commanders executed, sentenced to imprisonment, or arrested.
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489:Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation
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806:Transbaikal Military District June 22, 1941
384:in 1969. In 1988 the District included the
1080:Centre for Russian Studies. Archived from
988:- History of Transbaikal Military District
884:"13th Red Banner Motorised Rifle Division"
487:№ 900 of 27.07.1998, and the order of the
178:Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1044:"Two Generals Killed in Helicopter Crash"
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133:Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
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1011:ПОСЛЕДНИЕ БРОНЕПОЕЗДА СОВЕТСКОЙ АРМИИ
479:Russian Ground Forces and disbandment
469:112th Independent Helicopter Regiment
418:212th Guards District Training Centre
274:were active in the District in 1941.
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532:14th Air and Air Defence Forces Army
986:http://yasnay.ru/news/2009-06-05-19
519:battle for the 23rd Air Army is at
422:150th Training Motor Rifle Division
174:Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army
16:Soviet and Russian military command
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528:50th Independent Air Defence Corps
414:122nd Guards Motor Rifle Divisions
284:Transbaikal-Amur Military District
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543:Stepan Mikhailovich Seryshev 1921
368:. Among these formations was the
370:11th Guards Motor Rifle Division
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831:"Transbaykal Military District"
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355:9th Guards Motor Rifle Division
320:East Siberian Military District
286:, following the success of the
42:May 17, 1935 – December 1, 1998
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296:Transbaikal Military District
113:Transbaikal Military District
22:Transbaikal Military District
288:Soviet invasion of Manchuria
256:Transbaikal Fortified Region
254:), 93rd Rifle Division, the
622:Marshal of the Soviet Union
402:245th Motor Rifle Divisions
121:Забайкальский военный округ
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446:91st Motor Rifle Divisions
436:, 51st Tank Division, and
170:Japanese invasion of China
164:Formation and World War II
153:Siberian Military District
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818:13th Motor Rifle Division
450:44th Mixed Aviation Corps
382:Battle of Damansky Island
331:13th Motor Rifle Division
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394:5th Guards Tank Division
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473:1986 Chernobyl disaster
465:36th Combined Arms Army
804:Orbat.com/Niehorster,
546:Albert Lapin 1921-1922
351:Kiev Military District
224:battle of Khalkhin Gol
1033:, accessed 3 May 2010
201:11th Mechanized Corps
538:Commanders 1921-1996
357:was disestablished.
343:Soviet Ground Forces
339:6th Guards Tank Army
252:94th Rifle Divisions
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707:General Lieutenant
700:General Lieutenant
688:Stanislav Postnikov
632:Konstantin Koroteev
598:Lieutenant general
591:Lieutenant general
556:Komandarm 2nd rank
501:Great Patriotic War
485:Presidential Decree
272:61st Tank Divisions
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129:Soviet Armed Forces
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870:Feskov et al. 2013
820:, 2015, for 61 TD
816:See Michael Holm,
653:Dmitry Lelyushenko
618:(July 1941 - 1945)
524:Air Defense Forces
463:helicopter of the
215:and his successor
702:Vladimir Semyonov
695:Anatoly Betekhtin
625:Rodion Malinovsky
607:Andrey Yeryomenko
572:Vsevolod Yakovlev
558:Mikhail Velikanov
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217:Mikhail Velikanov
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674:Pyotr Belik
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495:Air Forces
454:Choybalsan
430:Ulan-Bator
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238:, Air and
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581:1939-1940
574:1938-1939
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406:36th Army
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