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Volga-Ural Military District |
 | | The Volga Military District, headquartered at Samara, is an interior district that includes the 2d Combined Arms Army, together with an airborne division that is operationally subordinate to the Ministry of Defense. |
 | | In the large garrisons of Volga military district infantry, machine-gun, cavalry, artillery, engineering and war economy command courses were opened, and three armies were formed to the autumn of 1919 in its territory, several individual divisions, parts and subdivisions. |
 | | During December 1997 in the composition of Volga military district the stationed in Tadzhikistan 201-4 motorized rifle division, which fulfills peacemaking functions in one of the unstable regions of central Asia, was included. |
| www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/russia/vo-volga-ural.htm (5984 words) |
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