Kiev Special Military District

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The Kiev Special Military District was a pre–World War II Soviet military-administrative region in Ukraine that served as the organizational basis for the later Soviet Southwestern Front.

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Kiev Special Military District canonical 4
Kiev Military District 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Soviet military district
abbreviation KOVO
bordered Hungary
Poland
Romania
conflictContext World War II
controlledForcesType air forces
ground forces
country Soviet Union
followedBy Southwestern Front
garrisonCity Kyiv
hasCapital Kyiv
languageOfName Russian
Ukrainian
locatedIn Ukraine
Soviet Ukraine
surface form: Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
militaryBranch Red Army
surface form: Workers' and Peasants' Red Army
namedAfter Kyiv
partOf Western border military districts of the USSR
partOfTheater Western Theater of Military Operations
precededBy Ukrainian Military District
primaryOpponentInPlanning Nazi Germany
role military-administrative region
operational-strategic command
servedAsOrganizationalBasisFor Southwestern Front
subdivisionOf Red Army
task border defense planning
mobilization preparation
training of Red Army units
timePeriod pre–World War II

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Soviet Southwestern Front formedFrom Kiev Special Military District
Southwestern Front predecessor Kiev Special Military District
Mikhail Kirponos militaryUnit Kiev Special Military District
Soviet internal military districts includesExample Kiev Special Military District
this entity surface form: Kiev Military District
KOVO fullName Kiev Special Military District
Soviet military districts notableExample Kiev Special Military District
this entity surface form: Kiev Military District