Military districts of the Russian Empire

This territorial division type was utilized to provide a more efficient management of army units, their training and other operations activities related to combat readiness.

The military districts were organised to include civilian administration regions of gubernyas and uyezds.

In some regions the military district commander was simultaneously the local Governor-General.

Control of military district included the military-district council and functional district staff and the administrations of artillery, engineers, commissariat and military medical service.

However by the beginning of the First World War there were 12 military districts remaining: Dvinsk, Irkutsk, Caucasus, Kazan, Kiev, Minsk, Moscow, Odessa, Omsk, Petrograd, Amur and Turkestan.