The Baltic Military District (Russian: Прибалтийский военный округ (ПрибВО)) was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces in the Baltic states,...
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Western districts Arkhangel Military District Belomorsky Military District Leningrad Military District Baltic special military district Kalinin Military District...
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The Baltic Fleet (Russian: Балтийский флот, romanized: Baltiyskiy flot) is the fleet of the Russian Navy in the Baltic Sea. Established 18 May 1703, under...
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Military districts (also called military regions) are formations of a state's armed forces (often of the Army) which are responsible for a certain area...
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was merged with the Moscow Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District. In December 2022, Defense...
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Latvian National Armed Forces (redirect from Latvia/Military)
republics, it is one of the military forces in the Baltic states that were not formed from the Baltic Military District. From the beginning, the reconstituted...
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Russian Navy (redirect from Military Maritime Fleet of the Russian Federation)
those of the Baltic Fleet. With Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania declaring independence at the end of the Soviet Union the Baltic Military District practically...
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– formed from Leningrad Military District on 24 June 1941 Northwestern Front – formed from Baltic Special Military District on 22 June 1941 Orel Front...
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List of MiG-27 operators (category Lists of military units and formations by aircraft)
fully retired. As of 2023, the MiG-27 has been fully retired from active military service. The Belarusian Air Force inherited a small number of MiG-27s of...
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List of Soviet Army divisions 1989–1991 (category Lists of Russian and Soviet military units and formations)
Caucasus Military District 149th Artillery Division, Kaliningrad, Baltic Military District. 67th Artillery Division, Malynivka (Chuhuiv), Kiev Military District...
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compelled the much smaller Baltic states to conclude mutual assistance pacts which gave the Soviets the right to establish military bases there. Following...
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Valentin Bondarenko (category Military personnel from Kharkiv)
Lieutenant, and served in the Soviet Air Force's PribVO (the former Baltic Military District). He was promoted to Senior Lieutenant in December 1959. On 28...
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15th Air Army (redirect from Air Forces of the Baltic Military District)
August 1946. In the post-war period, the army was part of the Baltic Military District. The 15th Air Army was renamed the 30th Air Army between 20 February...
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The occupation of the Baltic states was a period of annexation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union from 1940 until its dissolution in...
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2006 Soviet war documents declassification (category Military history of the Soviet Union during World War II)
and put five questions about the preparedness of the Baltic, Kiev and Belorussian military districts. The questions concerned the receipt of the border...
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List of Soviet armies (category Lists of Russian and Soviet military units and formations)
subordinated to a front. In peacetime, an army was usually subordinated to a military district. There were large variations in structure and size. For example, in...
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was a military formation of the Soviet Air Forces, active in two periods. From 1949-68 the Frontal Aviation forces in the Baltic Military District, formerly...
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Military District, removing Arkhangelsk Oblast, Murmansk Oblast, Komi Republic, and the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, as well as the Russian Navy's Baltic...
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the Baltic Military District, 37 in the Western Special Military District, one in the Kiev Military District and eight in the Odessa Military District for...
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The timeline of the occupation of the Baltic states lists key events in the military occupation of the three countries – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania...
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Soviet Army (redirect from Soviet military equipment)
extent military districts in 1990 were: Leningrad Military District Belorussian Military District Baltic Military District Carpathian Military District Kiev...
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Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic (redirect from Kyrgyzstan/Military)
Division was the main military force in the country. In 1967 the division had been moved to Bishkek from the Baltic Military District, where it had previously...
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Ministry of Defence (Latvia) (category Military of Latvia)
27 September 1940, and its building taken over by the HQ of the Baltic Military District of the Soviet Army until August 1994. On 13 November 1991, the...
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in the border military districts of the Soviet Union. The Leningrad Military District had 164, 135 were in the Baltic Military District, 233 in the Western...
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Ivan Chernyakhovsky (category Soviet military personnel of World War II from Ukraine)
1941 he became the commander of the 28th Tank Division in the Baltic Military District. Chernyakhovsky left the 28th Tank Division in late August, but...
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Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (category Occupation of the Baltic states)
000 soldiers of the Baltic Military District, an unknown number of border and interior ministry troops were stationed in the Baltics. In 1994 the departing...
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Aleksandr Loktionov (category Occupation of the Baltic states)
after the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states, Loktionov was appointed commander of the Special Baltic Military District. In June 1941, he was arrested...
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self-propelled artillery regiment until 1986 and then from 1986 in the Baltic Military District. He served from 1990 as the chief of staff of Soviet missile and...
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Valery Gerasimov (category Military personnel from Kazan)
Military Armored Forces Academy in 1984 for advanced officer training. Graduating with honors in 1987, he was posted to the Baltic Military District,...
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successor to both the military and reserve forces of the First Republic and republican formations under the Baltic Military District and Baltic Fleet of the Soviet...
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