This record matches the re-established Moscow Military District (MMD), not the former Western Military District. Presidential Decree No. 141 of February 26, 2024 restored the MMD effective March 1, 2024 and assigned it 18 oblasts plus the city of Moscow; Russian reporting later confirmed that the Western Military District legal entity was dissolved through reorganization. ([usnwc.edu](https://usnwc.edu/_images/portals/0/NWCDepartments/Russia-Maritime-Studies-Institute/20240226_ENG_RUS_Decree_MilDistricts_FINALba94.pdf))
Open sources place the district headquarters in Moscow. In February-March 2024, the Russian MoD said it was preparing the restored historic headquarters building on Kosmodamianskaya Embankment for the MMD command; Shoigu said the roughly 16,000 sq. m. facility received modern protected communications and situation-display systems. MoD reporting carried by TASS on July 16, 2024 again stated that the district headquarters is in Moscow. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/20067177?utm_source=openai))
Russian MoD statements summarized by TASS say the MMD is deployed across two federal districts and 19 federal subjects and structurally includes a combined-arms army, a tank army, and spetsnaz, electronic-warfare, and NBC-defense formations. Spring 2024 conscription reporting said the district planned to send more than 41,000 conscripts to the armed forces, indicating a major administrative and force-generation role in central and western Russia. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/21371857))
TASS, citing a Kremlin participant list, identified Colonel General Sergey Kuzovlev as commander of the Moscow Military District on May 15, 2024. Separately, on February 5, 2025, TASS reported that Russian military districts lost their "interservice" status: Navy and Aerospace Forces units were removed from district subordination, military police were subordinated to districts, and the former joint strategic commands were replaced by "directorates." ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/20806481))
The supplied placemark set appears to mix current MMD data with legacy Western Military District holdings. The 2024 boundary decree places St. Petersburg, Pskov, Kaliningrad, Novgorod, Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Karelia, Komi, and the Nenets area in the Leningrad Military District, while the Western Military District itself was later dissolved; accordingly, St. Petersburg- or Kaliningrad-based placemarks in the metadata are better treated as legacy or transitional unless newer OSINT shows reassignment. ([usnwc.edu](https://usnwc.edu/_images/portals/0/NWCDepartments/Russia-Maritime-Studies-Institute/20240226_ENG_RUS_Decree_MilDistricts_FINALba94.pdf))