The South Ural Military District (Russian: Южно-Уральский военный округ, ЮжУрВО; tr.

Yuzhno-Uralsky Voyenny Okrug, YuzhUrVO) was a military administrative division of the Soviet Armed Forces that existed from 1 December 1941 to 15 January 1958.

0444 of People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR Josef Stalin on November 26, 1941, established the South Ural Military District in Bashkir, Headquarters of the Military District was in Chkalov, appointed Lieutenant General Vladimir Nikolaevich Kurdyumov as commander.

The management of YuzhUrVO was formed on the basis of Headquarters Orel Military District.

[1] The 193rd Rifle Division was reformed at Sorochinsk, within the District's boundaries, from December 1941 to 3 January 1942.