68th Army Corps
Identification
This record matches Russia’s 68th Army Corps, now the 68th Guards Army Corps, an Eastern Military District formation headquartered in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and responsible for forces on Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. The Guards title was publicly reported on 16 April 2025. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/obschestvo/23704637?utm_source=openai))
Mission
Open-source exercise reporting indicates the corps’ core peacetime role is island and coastal defense. On Sakhalin, corps motor-rifle units rehearsed repelling an amphibious landing at the Taranai/Uspenovsky training area; on Kunashir and Iturup, corps machine-gun/artillery troops trained for anti-landing defense with UAV and electronic-warfare support during Vostok-2022. ([tass.com](https://tass.com/defense/1355155?utm_source=openai))
Subordinate site
The supplied placemark is consistent with a subordinate garrison rather than the corps HQ. Ministry/TASS reporting in January 2026 identified the 39th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade as part of the 68th Guards Army Corps, and an open registry entry for military unit 35390 places that unit in the Khomutovo planning district of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Armeyskaya Street, matching the placemark description more closely than the corps headquarters record. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/26119767?utm_source=openai))
Leadership
The metadata naming Lieutenant General Dmitry Glushenkov is not corroborated by the most recent open reporting. TASS identified Glushenkov in 2024-2025 in acting or deputy command roles in the Central Military District, while a Murmansk regional government report in February 2025 named Major General Sergey Pelipay as commander of the 68th Army Corps, and TASS in September 2025 referred to Guards Colonel Andrei Grechka as acting commander at the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk parade. As of 12 March 2026, the corps commander is therefore not stably confirmed in open sources. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/19823913?utm_source=openai))
Force posture
The corps is not a purely static island garrison. Ministry/TASS reporting from 2023 onward placed 68th Army Corps personnel in combat on the South Donetsk axis, and by late 2025 to early 2026 TASS releases specifically identified 39th Brigade and artillery/drone elements of the 68th Guards Army Corps operating on the Krasnoarmeysk direction under the Group of Forces Center. This indicates expeditionary employment of Sakhalin-based forces in parallel with the corps’ standing territorial-defense role. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/18871045?utm_source=openai))