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[Regnum] Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the re-establishment of the Moscow and Leningrad military districts. The decree was published on the official legal information portal.
The Leningrad Okrug included the Republic of Karelia, the Komi Republic, Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Kaliningrad, Leningrad, Murmansk, Novgorod and Pskov regions, the city of St. Petersburg, as well as the Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
Belgorod, Bryansk, Vladimir, Voronezh, Ivanovo, Kaluga, Kostroma, Kursk, Lipetsk, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Orel, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tambov, Tver, Tula and Yaroslavl regions, as well as the city of Moscow, became part of the Moscow Military District.
As Regnum reported, in December 2022, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu stated that due to the expansion of NATO in Russia, it is necessary to create new strategic territorial associations of the Russian Armed Forces - the Moscow and Leningrad military districts.
On June 22, 2023, he reported to the president that the Russian Armed Forces were completing the formation of the reserve army and army corps. In July 2023, the minister informed that, as part of increasing the number of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the governing bodies of the Moscow and Leningrad military districts, a combined arms army and an army corps were being formed.
On February 23, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and Shoigu inspected the historical headquarters building of the Moscow Military District on Kosmodamianskaya Embankment after restoration. The Moscow Military District was created on August 6, 1864. The historical headquarters building, built in 1778–1780 at the address Kosmodamianskaya embankment, building 24, building 1, is a cultural heritage site of federal significance. Its area is over 15.7 square meters. m.
From 1933 to 2010, various military departments operated in the building. At the end of the 1990s, renovation work began here, but was not completed. About two-thirds of the building has not been used for more than 10 years. Restoration began in October 2023.
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Putin included the Northern Fleet in the Leningrad Military District
Russian President Vladimir Putin included the Northern Fleet into the Leningrad Military District. The corresponding decree of the head of state was published on February 26 on the official portal of legal information.
“Establish the following military-administrative division of the Russian Federation: Leningrad Military District - within the administrative boundaries of the Republic of Karelia, the Komi Republic, the Arkhangelsk Region, the Vologda, Kaliningrad, Leningrad, Murmansk, Novgorod and Pskov Regions, St. Petersburg, the Nenets Autonomous Okrug,” - the document says.
Previously, the Northern Fleet had the status of a military district. It included the Arkhangelsk and Murmansk regions, the Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the Komi Republic.
As IA Regnum previously reported, on October 8, 2023, the Russian Ministry of Defense proposed to deprive the Northern Fleet of the status of an interspecific strategic territorial association and stop applying to it the regulations on the military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation of April 19, 2017.
On February 26, Putin signed a decree on the re-establishment of the Moscow and Leningrad military districts. In addition, by the same decree, the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), Lugansk People's Republic (LPR), Zaporozhye and Kherson regions were included in the Southern Military District (SMD).
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Putin included the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions in the Southern Military District
Russian President Vladimir Putin included the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), Lugansk People's Republic (LPR), Zaporozhye and Kherson regions into the Southern Military District (SMD). This is stated in the corresponding decree published on the legal information website.
"Southern Military District - within the administrative boundaries of the Republic of Adygea, the Republic of Dagestan, the Donetsk People's Republic, the Republic of Ingushetia, the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, the Republic of Kalmykia, the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, the Republic of Crimea, the Lugansk People's Republic, the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, the Chechen Republic, Krasnodar and Stavropol territories, Astrakhan, Volgograd, Zaporozhye, Rostov and Kherson regions, Sevastopol,” says the text of the decree, which comes into force on March 1.
The same decree recreates the Moscow and Leningrad military districts.
As Regnum reported, last September it became known that new regions of Russia will be included in the borders of the Southern Military District from March 1, 2024.
Before this, on the updated map of military districts on the website of the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Lugansk and Donetsk people's republics, as well as the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, entered the zone of responsibility of the Southern Military District.
On September 30, 2022, in the St. George Hall of the Kremlin, agreements were signed on the admission of the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions to the Russian Federation and the formation of new entities. Four new regions became part of Russia as a result of referendums held there on September 23–27.
99.23% of participants voted for joining the DPR, 98.42% in the LPR, 87.05% in the Kherson region, and 93.11% in the Zaporozhye region.
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