Odessa Military District

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Odessa Military District
Boundaries of the Odessa Military District (in red) on 1 January 1989
Active	1862 - 1998
Country	Russian Empire (1862 - 1918)  Soviet Union (1939 - 1941), (1944 - 1991) Ukraine (1991 - 1998)  Moldova (1991 - 1992)
Type	Military district
Headquarters	Odessa (now Odesa)
Engagements	Invasion of Poland (selected units), Invasion of Romania, World War II
Commanders
Notable commanders	Georgy Zhukov (06/1946 - 02/1948)

The Odessa Military District (Russian: Одесский военный округ, ОВО; Ukrainian: Червонопрапорний Одеський військовий округ, romanized: Chervonoprapornyi Odeskyi viiskovyi okruh, lit. 'Red Banner Odesa Military District', abbreviated ОдВО, OdVO) was a military administrative division of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This district consisted of Moldavia and five Ukrainian oblasts of Odesa (then spelled Odessa), Mykolaiv, Kherson, Crimea and Zaporizhzhia. In 1998 most of its territory was transformed into the Southern Operational Command.

The district was originally established by the Soviet Armed Forces, and then was inherited by Ukraine. As the Soviet Union dissolved, the district's 14th Guards Army was split three ways. The army headquarters and some of its forces, stationed in Transnistria, as well as the 59th Guards Motor Rifle Division, came under the jurisdiction of Russia - the rest were divided between Ukraine and the Armed Forces of Moldova.^[1]

An earlier district of the same name was established in 1864 by the Imperial Russian Army.