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29-868: First established in 1864 in the Russian Empire as part of reforms of the military administrative system, the district was disbanded and its territory transferred to the Kiev Military District and the Moscow Military District in 1888. The district was reestablished by the Red Army during the Russian Civil War in January 1919, but disbanded in September after its territory was taken over by White troops. It

58-560: A military district ( Russian : вое́нный о́круг , voyenny okrug ) was a territorial association of military units , formations , military schools , and various local military establishments. This territorial division type was utilized to provide a more efficient management of army units, their training and other operations activities related to combat readiness . In the Imperial Russian Army , military districts were first formed by Dmitry Milyutin in 1862–64 to replace

87-561: The 110th , 163rd , and the 324th Rifle Divisions . On 5 February the district was reorganized as a territorial military district and subordinated to the Kiev Military District, before being disbanded on 6 May. Its troops joined the Kiev Military District. The following officers commanded the district between 1943 and 1946: Military districts of the Russian Empire In the Imperial Russian Army ,

116-614: The 14th Guards Rifle Corps arrived in Dnipropetrovsk from Vyborg , with the 11th and 288th Rifle Divisions . The 44th Rifle Division at Pavlograd joined the corps in November. The corps' three divisions disbanded by February 1946, and were replaced by the 86th , 321st , and the 326th Rifle Divisions from the 116th Rifle Corps . The 69th Rifle Corps was also withdrawn to the Lugansk area, and disbanded on 6 May with

145-606: The Kiev Military District , excluding Voronezh and Oryol Governorates, which became part of the Moscow Military District . The following Imperial Russian Army officers commanded the district in the Russian Empire period between 1864 and 1888: The Kharkov Military District was established for a second time by Order No. 39 of the military department of the Provisional Workers' and Peasants' Government of Ukraine , dated 27 January 1919. It controlled troops on

174-538: The uprising of Nykyfor Hryhoriv 's Red Army troops, Kliment Voroshilov took temporary command of the district's troops until 25 May, when the uprising was defeated. In June the district's territory was taken over by the White Armed Forces of South Russia , and the advance of the Volunteer Army on Kharkov forced the headquarters to flee the city before it was captured. Retreating in the face of

203-538: The Crimean ASSR. Chernigov Oblast was only briefly part of the district, being transferred to the reestablished Kiev Military District on 15 October. The district was tasked with forming new units and preparing march units to reinforce the front. Its engineer units were involved in demining and the cleanup of unexploded ordnance. On 18 December 1944, the Crimean ASSR was transferred to the reestablished Odessa Military District. By an NKO order of 9 July 1945, after

232-981: The German invasion of the Soviet Union in World War II , began. A series of German victories resulted in the Soviet retreat from the district's territory, and it was disbanded in late November. After Soviet troops recaptured the region in the Battle of the Dnieper , the Kharkov Military District was reestablished in late September 1943. After the end of the war it was downgraded to a territorial military district in February 1946 and disbanded several months later, with its territory being transferred to

261-514: The Kiev Military District. The Kharkov Military District was first established on 22 August [ O.S. 10 August] 1864 as part of Dmitry Milyutin 's reform of the military administrative system. Its headquarters was in Kharkov , and it controlled troops on the territory of Voronezh , Kursk , Oryol , Poltava , Kharkov , and Chernigov Governorates . The district was abolished on 31 October 1888, with most of its territory being transferred to

290-710: The Kiev and Kharkov Military Districts. It initially included Dnipropetrovsk , Donetsk , and Kharkov Oblasts , as well as the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (ASSR). On 21 August 1937, district commander Komandarm 2nd rank Ivan Dubovoy was arrested during the Great Purge . In October 1939, when the Odessa Military District was created, the Crimean ASSR and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast transferred to

319-709: The Southwestern Military District, which soon became the Ukrainian Military District . The following commanders led the district military commissariat between 1919 and 1920: The following commanders led the district between 1920 and 1922: The district was reestablished by Order No. 079 of the People's Commissariat of Defense (NKO), dated 17 May 1935, which split the Ukrainian Military District into

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348-671: The White advance, the district military commissariat was successively located in Sumy , Romny , and Bryansk . On 1 September it moved to Moscow , and was disbanded on 16 September. After the White retreat from its territory, the district was reestablished by Order No. 118/23 of the Revolutionary Military Council dated 23 January 1920, controlling troops on the territory of Yekaterinoslav, Donets , Poltava, Taurida , and Kharkov Governorates. The military commissariat of

377-573: The control of the commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Crimea , Mikhail Frunze , on 3 December, after the defeat of the last White troops in Crimea . Nikolayev Governorate and Odessa Governorate became part of the district in May 1921. The troops of the district fought Ukrainian anti-Soviet partisans during this period, and on 21 April 1922 it was merged with the Kiev Military District to form

406-633: The disbanded Yaroslavl Military District was used to man the new district military commissariat, and it was subordinated to the Revolutionary Military Council of the Southwestern Front . On 23 February, the staff of the Ukrainian Reserve Army was merged with the district headquarters, and the latter's commander became commander of the district military commissariat. The district was transferred to

435-502: The district on 18 December 1940. After the invasion, the Kharkov Military District mobilized conscripts and formed new units, including the 18th Army , formed from parts of the district headquarters under Smirnov's command. The 18th Army was sent to the Southern Front on 25 June. In October, as German troops approached Kharkov after a series of victories, the district headquarters moved to Voroshilovgrad and then Stalingrad . It

464-510: The end of the war, the district was shifted to peacetime strength. The former district headquarters and the 21st Army headquarters were merged to form a new headquarters for the district. By the same order, Sumy and Poltava Oblasts were transferred to the Kiev Military District, and Zaporizhia Oblast to the Taurida Military District . During the next several months the district demobilized troops on its territory. In August,

493-545: The gubernatorial seat was relocated from Luhansk to Bakhmut (which in 1924 was renamed Artemivsk). Following the retreat of White Guards from the region, Donets Governorate was visited by Leon Trotsky who on 19 November 1920 wrote to Lenin , Situation in Donbas is extremely difficult. Workers are starving, there is a lack of clothes. Despite the revolutionary Soviet mood, strikes erupt here and there. You have to be surprised that workers are working at all. To fight famine in

522-675: The guberniya was dissolved in summer of 1919 and its territory was part of the South Russia , the Russian White South. With the defeat of the Denikin's armies, the governorate was under special jurisdiction of Donets Gubernatorial Executive Committee, while revival of local economy was conducted by the Ukrainian Industrial Bureau. On 15 March 1920 new administrative border contours were confirmed by

551-585: The head of Ukrainian Soviet Labour Army, Iosif Stalin . On 23 March 1920 recreation of the region was confirmed by the Sovnarkom (Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR). In April 1920 the Donets Governorate was reestablished from the eastern portions of Yekaterinoslav and Kharkov Governorates as well as territories of the liquidated Don Republic . After defeat of Denikin, in

580-513: The military district was named Commanding troops of (name) military district (in the Petersburg military district – Commander-in-Chief who was the Tsar ), with all troops, military institutions and military ranks of the military region subordinated to them. In some regions the military district commander was simultaneously the local Governor-General . Control of military district included

609-569: The military-district council and functional district staff and the administrations of artillery, engineers, commissariat and military medical service . However by the beginning of the First World War there were 12 military districts remaining: Dvinsk , Irkutsk , Caucasus , Kazan , Kiev , Minsk , Moscow, Odessa , Omsk , Petrograd , Amur and Turkestan . Donets Governorate Donets Governorate ( Ukrainian : Донецька губернія , romanized :  Donetska huberniia )

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638-441: The new district, and the district boundaries changed to include only Voroshilovgrad , Poltava , Stalino (formerly Donetsk), Sumy , Kharkov, and Chernigov Oblasts . That year, the district began rearming and reorganizing its units, but the process was not fully completed when Operation Barbarossa , the German invasion of the Soviet Union in World War II , began on 22 June 1941. Lieutenant General Andrey Smirnov took command of

667-414: The pre-existing Military Inspectorates . The military districts were organised to include civilian administration regions of gubernyas and uyezds . By 1892 there were 13 Military Districts in the Russian Empire, and one region with the status of a military district: During World War I the remnants of occupied Vilno Military District were organized into two districts: Dvina and Minsk. The Commander of

696-512: The region were formed Bolshevik "ChON" detachments (special purpose detachments) of local Communist and Komsomol activists who fought against their former allied Makhno formations (so called "local banditry"). The struggle against so called " Makhnovshchina " continued until 1922. In the fall of 1920, White guards armies of Pyotr Wrangel were conducting some military operations against the Workers and Peasants Red Army (RKKA). During this period

725-713: The region, a big help was received from such international organizations like the American Relief Administration , the Fridtjof Nansen 's mission of the International Red Cross , and the Workers International Relief . Despite protests from the local gubernatorial administration, in February 1924 a big portion of the region's south including such cities like Taganrog and Shakhty was passed on to

754-483: The territory of Yekaterinoslav , Poltava, Kharkov, and Chernigov Governorates. The headquarters of the All-Ukrainian General Staff was used to form the district military commissariat (headquarters), and it was subordinated to the Revolutionary Military Council of the Southern Front on 8 June. The district was tasked with training reserve units for the front. On 10 May, in order to suppress to

783-583: Was a governorate of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukraine) that existed between 1919 and 1925. The governorate was originally created on 5 February 1919 on orders of People's Commissar of Internal Affairs Kliment Voroshylov and the same day confirmed by the Council of People's Commissars of Ukraine. It was created on eastern territories of Yekaterinoslav Governorate including counties of Bakhmut and Slovianoserbsk . Due to invasion of Anton Denikin troops

812-643: Was disbanded on 26 November 1941, with its headquarters used to form the Stalingrad Military District . The following officers commanded the district between 1935 and 1941: The district was reformed by an NKO order dated 25 September 1943, following the recapture of its territory in the Battle of the Dnieper and the Donbass Strategic Offensive . It included Voroshilovgrad, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia , Poltava, Stalino, Sumy, Kharkov, and Chernigov Oblasts, as well as

841-463: Was reestablished in January 1920 after its territory was recaptured by the Red Army, but was disbanded in 1922 and its troops subordinated to the Southwestern Military District, which soon became the Ukrainian Military District . In 1935, the district was reestablished when the Ukrainian Military District was split into the Kiev and Kharkov Military Districts. On 22 June 1941, Operation Barbarossa ,

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