Belarussian Military District
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The Belarussian Military District was a military district of the Military of the Soviet Union, activated in the 1920s, active as the Western Special Military District just before Operation Barbarossa, reformed in 1943 initially at Smolensk, with its HQ moved to Minsk in 1944, and disbanded after the fall of the Soviet Union in May 1992. It included the 5th and 7th Guards Tank Armies during most of the postwar period.
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- Feskov et al, The Soviet Army in the Period of the Cold War, 1945-89
