The Order of Lenin Moscow Military District is a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Originally it was a district of the Imperial Russian Army until the Russian Empire's collapse in 1917. It was then part of the Soviet Armed Forces. The district was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1968. In 2010 it was merged with the Leningrad Military District to form the new Western Military District.
Entrance to a military engineering school in Kstovo, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
The Western Military District was a military district of Russia, in existence from 2010 until its abolishment as a unitary military command on February 26, 2024, succeeded by the newly reconstituted Moscow Military District and Leningrad Military District.
Western Military District HQ at the Saint Petersburg General Staff Building
Russia's Comprehensive Security System Center in Saint Petersburg
The bands of the Western Military District in their various uniforms.
Colonel General Yevgeny Nikiforov, commander of the Western Military District since December 2022