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The Baltic Military District (Прибалтийский военный округ (ПБВО)) was a military district of the Soviet armed forces, formed briefly before the German invasion, and then reformed after World War II and disbanded after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. ==Pre-War and World War II== Initially the Baltic Military District was created by order of the USSR People's Commissar of Defence on 11 July 1940, and located in Riga. This was after the Soviet occupation of the Baltic States but before they were forcibly legally absorbed into the Soviet Union. On August, 17th, 1940 it became the Baltic Special Military District. Personnel of the Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian Armies were incorporated into the Red Army as the 22nd, 24th, and 29th Territorial Rifle Corps respectively. However they were notoriously unreliable and defected in large numbers to the Germans after June 1941.〔Nigel Thomas, Germany's Eastern Front Allies (2): Baltic Forces, Osprey, 5.〕 In 1941 the District (which became the North-Western Front on the outbreak of war) consisted of the: * 8th Army * 11th Army * 27th Army * 5th Airborne Corps * and other smaller formations and units.〔Orbat.com/Niehorster, (Baltic Special Military District Order of Battle June 22, 1941 )〕 3rd Mechanised Corps was also located within the district at Vilnius. The Baltic Military District was formed for a second time in accordance with the directive of the General Staff of the Red Army on 30 October 1943, at which point the territory of the county (Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian SSRs) were occupied by German troops. The district headquarters was in Vyshniy Volochek. The district was disbanded on March 23, 1944. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Baltic Military District」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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