TheSpecial Far Eastern Army, later theSpecialRed Banner Far Eastern Army (Russian:Осо́бая Краснознамённая Дальневосто́чная а́рмия (ОКДВА),romanized: Osóbaya Krasnoznamonnaya Dal'nevostóchnaya ármiya (OKDVA)) was amilitary formation of the Red Army, active from 1929 to 1938 and under command ofVasily Blyukher.
It was activated on 6 August 1929, originally with the18th and19th Rifle Corps assigned, in response to theSino-Soviet border conflict regarding the ownership of theChinese Eastern Railway.
Following the Soviet victory in the Civil War the Soviet forces in the Far East became the Special Far Eastern Army of theFar Eastern Republic. Circa 1932 the3rd Kholkoz Rifle Division OKDVA was established, and the57th Rifle Division joined the army.
The District was first briefly formed in 1935 from those forces, but then reverted to the title Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army (OKDVA), underMarshal of the Soviet UnionVasily Blyukher, while still functioning as a military district.[1] The Army became theSoviet Far East Front in June 1938,[2] after Blyukher's torture and death at the hands of theNKVD during theGreat Purge. It was reportedly disestablished on 30 June 1938.
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