- Service ensign · official · carried by Ground Forces
- State affiliation · Russia
- Vigil category device · not official insignia
Identity provenance
Service ensign: Flag of the Russian Ground Forces — carried by Ground Forces, not issued to this record. The service flag of the Ground Forces, adopted 2004. The design itself is not an object of copyright: Article 1259(6) of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation excludes official symbols and signs. The file shipped is the Wikimedia Commons SVG "Flag of the Russian Ground Forces.svg", released under PD-RU-exempt on that basis, so no attribution or share-alike obligation attaches. Optimised for web display; geometry unaltered.
State affiliation: Russia.
The smaller square mark is a Vigil category device, drawn from this record’s own domain, echelon and role — not an official insignia.
In brief
Military district spanning the Volga, Urals and Siberia; peacetime parent of the 2nd and 41st armies.
- Scope
- Structure, role, lineage and links. 2 subordinate records published.
- Subordination
- Subordination confirmed
- Sources
- 4 on the record
- Record state
- Partial
- Broad area of activity
- From the Volga to western Siberia, including the Urals defence-industrial belt and the Central Asian border. Its formations have fought in Ukraine from the first day. Nothing about dispositions is authored.
- Notable history
- Created in the 2010 reform from the Volga–Urals and part of the Siberian districts, the largest district by territory and the one that holds the Urals arms industry — Nizhny Tagil's tank plant, the missile and ammunition works of the Volga — and the training areas the mobilisation of 2022 filled. Its peacetime armies, the 2nd Guards Combined Arms and the 41st, deployed to Ukraine's north-east and Donbas; the district has since been the administrative home of a large share of the mobilised and contract force and of the refineries and plants the Ukrainian deep-strike campaign reached in 2025–26.
- Strengths
- Industrial depth no other district approaches, a mobilisation base far from the front, and the Central Asian direction's only command.
- Limitations
- Distance: its formations fight a thousand kilometres from their home stations, and its industrial base is now within reach of a campaign that struck Nizhnekamsk in August 2026. Structure below the armies is not authored.
Subordinate formations
2nd Guards Combined Arms ArmyArmy · subordination reported41st Combined Arms ArmyArmy · subordination reportedRows are layout only — position and order carry no hierarchy, importance, sequence or strength. Every record shown is an immediate subordinate of the selected organisation.
Lineage & institutional history
Related locations
Nizhny Tagil (Uralvagonzavod): The tank-plant city in the district's Urals industrial base; association is structural, not positional.
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Assessed as of — 2026-07 Last reviewed — 2026-09-14
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