Military districts of Russia

The Russian Federation maintains a number of military districts.

List of military districts

1998-07-27

Military districts according to Decree of the President of Russia № 900 (27 July 1998).^[1]

2001-09-01

Military districts of Russia in 2001—2010

Volga Military District and Urals Military District was merged in Volga-Urals Military District according to Decree of the President of Russia № 337с (24 March 2001).^[2]

Decree of the President of Russia № 1764 (12 December 2008)^[3] changed names of regions after federal subjects mergers.

2010-09-01

Military districts of Russia as of 2010-09-01

2010-12-01

Military districts of Russia as of 2010-12-01

4 Military Districts and Joint Strategic Commands since с 1 December 2010 according to Decree of the President of Russia № 1144 (20 September 2010).^[4]^[5]

Western Military District with headquarters in Saint Petersburg
Southern Military District with headquarters in Rostov-on-Don
Central Military District with headquarters in Ekaterinburg
Eastern Military District with headquarters in Khabarovsk

2014-04-02

Military districts of Russia as of 2014-04-02

Southern Military District was enlarged to include disputed territories:

2014-12-15

Military districts of Russia as of 2016

According to Decree of the President of Russia since Dec 15 2014, Northern Fleet was removed from Western Military District. Boundaries of responsibility of fleet was expanded. Headquarters of the Northern Fleet reformed to Joint Strategic Command.^[6]

References

Federal subjects

Republics	Adygea Altai Bashkortostan Buryatia Chechnya Chuvashia Crimea¹ Dagestan Ingushetia Kabardino-Balkaria Kalmykia Karachay-Cherkessia Karelia Khakassia Komi Mari El Mordovia North Ossetia-Alania Sakha Tatarstan Tuva Udmurtia

Krais	Altai Kamchatka Khabarovsk Krasnodar Krasnoyarsk Perm Primorsky Stavropol Zabaykalsky

Oblasts	Amur Arkhangelsk Astrakhan Belgorod Bryansk Chelyabinsk Irkutsk Ivanovo Kaliningrad Kaluga Kemerovo Kirov Kostroma Kurgan Kursk Leningrad Lipetsk Magadan Moscow Murmansk Nizhny Novgorod Novgorod Novosibirsk Omsk Orenburg Oryol Penza Pskov Rostov Ryazan Sakhalin Samara Saratov Smolensk Sverdlovsk Tambov Tomsk Tula Tver Tyumen Ulyanovsk Vladimir Volgograd Vologda Voronezh Yaroslavl

Federal cities	Moscow St. Petersburg Sevastopol¹

Autonomous oblast	Jewish

Autonomous okrugs	Chukotka Khanty-Mansi² Nenets³ Yamalo-Nenets²

¹Claimed by Ukraine and considered by most of the international community to be part of Ukraine ²Administratively subordinated to Tyumen Oblast ³Administratively subordinated to Arkhangelsk Oblast

Internal additional non-constitutional divisions by different institutions

Economic regions (by Ministry of Economic Development) Military districts (by Ministry of Defence) Federal districts (by President) Judicial districts (by law "On arbitration courts")

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