Tauras military district (also Tauras partisans military district) is a military district of

Lithuanian partisans Lithuanian partisans () were partisans who waged guerrilla warfare in Lithuania against the Soviet Union in 1944–1953. Similar anti-Soviet resistance groups, also known as Forest Brothers and cursed soldiers, fought against Soviet rule in E ...

which operated in 1945–1951 in the

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ethnographic region – counties of

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and in the left bank of the

Nemunas Neman, Nemunas or Niemen is a river in Europe that rises in central Belarus and flows through Lithuania then forms the northern border of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia's western exclave, which specifically follows its southern channel. It drains ...

river in counties of

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and

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. One of the most important partisan districts. It is named after

aurochs The aurochs (''Bos primigenius''; or ; pl.: aurochs or aurochsen) is an extinct species of Bovini, bovine, considered to be the wild ancestor of modern domestic cattle. With a shoulder height of up to in bulls and in cows, it was one of t ...

- ''tauras'' in Lithuanian.

Leaders

Structure of Lithuanian partisans' organisation

References

External links

Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of LithuaniaThe 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

{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120531080543/http://www.spauda.lt/voruta/kronika/chronicl.htm , date=2012-05-31 – Chronicle of Lithuanian partisans, June 1944 – May 1949, prepared by Algis Rupainis
Forest Brothers – Fight for the Baltics
– official ''YouTube'' channel of NATO, 2017 Military districts of Lithuanian partisans Guerrilla organizations