In September 1937 he was designated the Central Asian Military District's chief of staff.

It was formed in Mary, Turkmenistan, Central Asian Military District in the summer of 1940.

Then it was recalled to Frunze, Kyrgyzstan and assigned to the 33rd Corps of the Central Asian Military District.

On 25 March 1936, Momyshuly was again called for military service, becoming a platoon commander in the Central Asian Military District's 315th Regiment.

In 1969 the 8th Guards Motor Rifle Division was moved from the District to the Central Asian Military District and arrived eventually at Frunze.

As a result of the Sino-Soviet border conflict, a sixteenth military district was created in 1969, the Central Asian Military District, with headquarters at Alma-Ata.

As part of the Central Asian Military District the division participated in the invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979, when it entered Afghanistan with the 40th Army.

The District was re-created on 9 July 1945 after the division of the Central Asian Military District into the Turkestan and Steppe Military Districts.

In August 1940 he was appointed Chief of Staff of the North Caucasus, from January 1941 to the position of Commander of the Central Asian Military District.

About 300 Join Group "Personally, I welcome it," said Lieut. Col. Nikolai S. Petrushenko, a member of Parliament and a political officer in the Central Asian Military District.

He was made Chief Political Officer of the Central Asian Military District in 1925 and in 1931-32 he was made Chief Political Officer of the Siberian Military District.

The Third Formation of the 8th Rifle Division traces its origins to the 458th Rifle Division, which was formed in Semipalatinsk and Ayaguz in the Central Asian Military District on 25 December 1941.

From 1979 to 1981, General Yazov was commander of Soviet forces in Czechoslovakia, and in 1981 he took over command of the Central Asian Military District, which includes the Soviet Central Asian republics that border Afghanistan.

However from June 1, 1989, the Central Asian Military District was disbanded and its territory again incorporated into the Turkestan Military District, as part of the unilateral reductions which Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev had announced at the United Nations on 7 December 1988.