Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union

Military districts

June 21, 2023

ORDER

State Committee on the State of Emergency of the USSR as a State military-political body of Special Composition and Special Presence Conference with expanded powers in the Country Sovereign — Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, on the basis of

the Constitution of the USSR (Fundamental Law) of 1977, Chapter 5. "Defense of the Socialist Fatherland" Art. 59, 62, Chapter 7 "Fundamental Rights, Freedoms and Duties of Citizens of the USSR", Legislation of the USSR,

Orders:

To restore military districts on the territory of the RSFSR/USSR taking into account the geopolitical situation of modern realities, as well as bodies of executive military-field and civil authority of the USSR, for ensuring the legal regime by military-field civil institutions and military-field committees, an integral legal phenomenon in the conditions of an emergency situation and martial law regime on the territory of the USSR.

By this order, the list of military districts is established on the

territory of the RSFSR, which are subordinate to the GKChP USSR and the Committee

of Defense of the USSR:
1. Moscow Military District,
2. Leningrad Military District,
Z. North Caucasus Military District,
4. Volga Military District,

5. Ural Military District,
6. Siberian Military District,

7. Transbaikal Military District,
8. Far Eastern Military District,
9. Southern Naval Operational Command (YuBOK)
The designation of the numbers of military units and district headquarters shall be counted from number No. V/Ch 23... and not more than five-digit numbers, with the assignment of a field post number, A-military units and K-Cossack formations.