Vilno Military District (Russian Empire)
Military Districts of the Russian Empire, 1913
Vilno Military District (Russian: Ви́ленский вое́нный о́круг) was a Russian military district of the Imperial Russian Army.
In the Russian Empire, military districts were first formed by Dmitry Milyutin in 1862–64 to replace the pre-existing Military Inspectorates. The military districts were organised to include civilian administration regions of gubernyas and uyezds.
The Vilno Military District comprised the following gubernyas:
- Vilno
- Grodno
- Kovno
- Kurland
- Livonia (without Pernov, Fellinskiy, Valkskiy and Verrosskiy uyezds)
- Vitebsk
- Mogilev
- Minsk
- Suwałki (without the Shchuchinsk uyezd)
The corps headquarters were in Riga.
Units based at Vilno Military District at the outbreak of the First World War:
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