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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.
Leaders
edit| Name and surname | Nom de guerre | Since | Till |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leonas Taunys | Kovas | 1945 August | 1945 October |
| Zigmas Drunga | Mykolas | 1946 October | 1946 June |
| Antanas Baltūsis | Žvejas | 1946 July | 1948 February |
| Jonas Aleščikas | Rimantas | 1948 April | 1948 August |
| Aleksandras Grybinas | Faustas | 1948 August | 1949 September |
| Viktoras Vitkauskas | Saidokas | 1949 October | 1951 February |
| Juozas Jankauskas | Demonas | 1951 April | 1952 June |
Structure of Lithuanian partisans' organisation
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| Western Lithuania (Jūra) region | Southern Lithuania (Nemunas) region | Eastern Lithuania (King Mindaugas) region | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Žemaičiai military district | Prisikėlimas military district | Kęstutis military district | Tauras military district | Dainava military district | Algimantas military district | Vytautas military district | Vytis military district | Didžioji Kova military district | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alka | Maironis | Vaidotas | Vytautas | Dzūkai | Žalioji | Tigras | Krikštaponis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Šatrija | Duke Žvelgaitis | Birutė | Žalgiris | Šarūnas | Šarūnas | Liūtas | Briedis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kardas | Juozapavičius | Butageidis | Geležinis vilkas | Kazimieraitis | Duke Margiris | Lokys | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lietuvos žalioji | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
References
edit- ^ "The partisan military districts of the Lithuanian freedom fighters". genocid.lt. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
External links
edit- Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania
- The partisan military districts of the Lithuanian freedom fighters
- Vienui Vieni ("Utterly Alone") 2004 film about the Lithuanian Forest Brothers, based on the real life events of Juozas Lukša aka Juozas L. Daumantas
- War Chronicle of the Partisans Archived 2012-05-31 at the Wayback Machine – Chronicle of Lithuanian partisans, June 1944 – May 1949, prepared by Algis Rupainis
- Forest Brothers – Fight for the Baltics – official YouTube channel of NATO, 2017