Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Colonel General Alexander Lapin headed the Leningrad Military District, Colonel General Sergei Kuzovlev - the Moscow Military District. The positions are given in the list of participants in the meeting with President Vladimir Putin, published on May 15 on the Kremlin website.
Lapin previously served as first deputy chief of staff of the Ground Forces.
Kuzovlev previously headed the Southern Military District.
As Regnum reported, on February 26, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the re-establishment of the Moscow and Leningrad military districts. 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, Oryol, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tambov, Tver, Tula and Yaroslavl regions, as well as Moscow became part of the Moscow Military District.
In December 2022, 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 March 1, 2024, Shoigu announced at a meeting of the department’s board that the Moscow and Leningrad military districts had begun to carry out tasks.
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