The military districts in Russia serve as administrative divisions for the Russian Armed Forces.
Each has a headquarters administering the military formations within the Russian federal subjects that it includes.
As of March 2024, there are five military districts in Russia: Leningrad, Moscow, Central, Eastern, and Southern.
On 15 December 2014, the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy was removed from the Western Military District and the boundaries of its jurisdiction expanded to form the Northern Fleet Joint Strategic Command.
[9] Russian authorities announced that the Moscow and Leningrad Military Districts would be reactivated in the course of 2023.