Military District

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MILITARY DISTRICT (MD) of St. Petersburg (1864-1914), Petrograd (1914-24), Leningrad (from 1924), highest military-administrative unit of the armed forces, exercising control over troops, institutions, organisations, enterprises and property of the military authorities on the North-West territory of Russia. The Military District Staff (Headquarters) has its seat in the edifice of the General Staff (6-10 Dvortsovaya Square). The St. Petersburg Military District was set up in 1864, in 1870 it was integrated with the Riga Military District. In 1877-78 and 1914-17 ensured mobilisation and recruitment of forces, sent to active duty. In 1918 the District raised troops for the Red Army, including the 7th Army, which played a major role in repulsing the offensive of General N.N. Yudenich's army (1919) and suppressing the Kronstadt insurrection (1921). In October 1939 it was put under martial law (and virtually transformed into a front), orchestrated military operations of the Soviet Army during the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-40, and in the summer of 1940, during the occupation of Estonia and Latvia by Soviet troops. On 24.6.1941 deployed to the Northern Front, divided on August 23 into the Leningrad Front and the Karelian Fronts. Re-established in July 1945 on the basis of the Command of the Leningrad Front. In 2003 the Military District was comprised of the territories of St. Petersburg, the Republic of Karelia, Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Kaliningrad, Leningrad, Murmansk, Novgorod, and Pskov regions and the Nenets Autonomous District.

References: История ордена Ленина Ленинградского военного округа. 3-е изд., испр. и доп. М., 1988; Лурье В. М., Каленов П. А. Командующие войсками округа и фронта, 1864-2002 // Руководители Санкт-Петербурга. СПб.; М., 2003. С. 391-548.

G. V. Kalashnikov. Yudenich Nikolay Nikolaevich
Dvortsovaya Square/Saint Petersburg, city, house 10
Dvortsovaya Square/Saint Petersburg, city, house 6
Dvortsovaya Square/Saint Petersburg, city, house 8
История ордена Ленина Ленинградского военного округа. 3-е изд., испр. и доп. М., 1988 Kronstadt Rebellion of 1921
Leningrad Front