By the end of the sixties the Chinese-Soviet relations hit the bottom. In 1969 the Turkestan Military District was divided into two parts. The Central Asian Military District was formed on the territory of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan SSR. Its mission was to protect the Soviet-Chinese border. Order of Battle in the early seventies:

1st Army Corps, Semipalatinsk
  -155th Mechanized Infantry Divisions
  -203rd Mechanized Infantry Divisions
  -78th Tank Division

17th Army Corps, Frunze
  -8th Guard Mechanized Infantry Divisions
  -68th Mechanized Infantry Divisions

73rd Tactical Air Army, Alma-Ata
  -10th Mixed Air Division
  -24th Mixed Air Division

Many Soviet T-34 tank were dug into the ground along the Sino-Soviet border. These independent machine gun and artillery battalions were subordinate to the Central Asian Military District.

Soviet 73rd Tactical Air Army in 1973

27th Fighter Air Regiment early years

Soviet 73rd Tactical Air Army in 1978

MiG-21bis Fishbed-L tactical fighters at Usharal AB in the seventies

905th regiment's pilots at Taldy Kurgan in 1975-1977

Soviet Central Asian Military District's Tactical Air Force in January 1, 1983

MiG-27 Flogger armed with eighteen bombs in Soviet-Chinese border.

Soviet 27th Fighter Air regiment in Afghanistan between 1981 and 1982

Soviet Central Asian Military District's Tactical Air Force in January 1, 1988

Soviet 381st independent Reconnaissance Air Regiment in Chimkent in the eighties

Soviet 5th Training Center in Frunze Between 1956 and 1992

Mig-23 Flogger conversion training school at Lugovoy. Part One.

MiG-21 Fishbed basic training at the 5th Center

Foreign students helicopter training in the mid-seventies