The Byelorussian Military District (Russian: Белорусский военный округ, romanized: Belorusskiy Voyenyi Okrug; alternatively Belarusian; Belarusian: Беларуская ваенная акруга, romanized: Belaruskaya vayennaya akruha) was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces.

The People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs, Kliment Voroshilov, attended the exercises.

In 1932 it deployed from within the country the 4th Leningrad Cavalry Order of the Red Banner Voroshilov Division commanded by Georgy Zhukov.

After the Soviet/German invasion of Poland in September 1939, it took in most of the former Polish area and was redesignated the Belorussian Special Military District.

When the German invasion, Operation Barbarossa, began on 22 June 1941 the district was again redesignated the Western Front.

The district was reformed in October 1943 from the staff of the Moscow Zone of Defence (at Smolensk, which moved to Minsk in August 1944).

The basis for the formation of the division were components of the Moscow Air Defence Corps, relocated to Kuybyshev.

The corps defended airfields, railway junctions and the cities of Minsk, Borisov, Lida, Molodechno.

In July 1944 the corps units, in cooperation with fighter aviation, shot down 19 enemy aircraft.

The 11th Air Defence Corps was formed on 15 March 1960 in Baranovichi, Minsk Oblast, from the PVO's 39th Fighter Aviation Division.