Byelorussian Military District

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Byelorussian Military District (BVO)
Russian: Белорусский военный округ (БВО)
The territory of the Byelorussian Military District in 1991.
Active	28 November 1918 – 6 May 1992
Country	Russian SFSR (1918–1920)  Byelorussian SSR (1920–1991)  Soviet Union (1922–1991)  Belarus (1991–1992)
Type	Military district
Headquarters	Minsk
Engagements	World War II
Decorations	Order of the Red Banner
Commanders
Notable commanders	Aleksandr Petrovich Chumakov Anatoly Kostenko Semyon Timoshenko

The Byelorussian Military District (Russian: Белорусский военный округ, romanized: Belorusskiy Voyenyi Okrug; alternatively Belarusian; Belarusian: Беларуская ваенная акруга, romanized: Belaruskaya vayennaya akruha) was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces. Originally formed just before World War I as the Minsk Military District out of the remnants of the Vilno Military District and the Warsaw Military District, it was headed by the Russian General Eugen Alexander Ernst Rausch von Traubenberg.

With the outbreak of the Russian Civil War it was reorganized into the Western Front and in April 1924 it was renamed to the Western Military District. In October 1926 it was redesignated the Belorussian Military District, with its staff in Smolensk. And in July 1940 it was renamed the Western Special Military District. It covered the territory of the Byelorussian SSR and the western part of the RSFSR (including Smolensk area, Bryansk area, and parts of Kaluga area).