Tauras military district

Tauras military district (also Tauras partisans military district) is a military district of Lithuanian partisans which operated in 1945–1951 in the Suvalkija ethnographic region – counties of Marijampolė, Šakiai, Vilkaviškis and in the left bank of the Nemunas river in counties of Alytus and Kaunas.

[1] One of the most important partisan districts.

It is named after aurochs - tauras in Lithuanian.

A monument to partisans of Tauras military district in Šilavotas
Partisans of the district in 1945