Vytautas military district explained

Vytautas military district (also Vytautas partisan military district) is a military district of Lithuanian partisans which operated in 1945–1951 in the counties of Švenčionys, Utena and Rokiškis. It is named after the Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas.^[1]

Leaders

Name and surname	Nom de guerre	Since	Till	Comments
Jonas Kimštas	Dėdė, Dobilas, dėdė Jonas, Aukštaitis, Žalgiris, Žygūnas	1945 August	-
Vladas Mikulėnas	Lubinas	1945 September	1945 December	died in the line of duty
Bronius Zinkevičius	Artojas	1945 December	1946 October	died in the line of duty
Jonas Kimštas	Dėdė, Dobilas, dėdė Jonas, Aukštaitis, Žalgiris, Žygūnas	1946 October	1947 June
Vincas Kaulinis	Miškinis	1947 June	1949 March	died in the line of duty
Bronius Kalytis	Siaubas	1949 June	1951 December

External links

• 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 – Chronicle of Lithuanian partisans, June 1944 – May 1949, prepared by Algis Rupainis
• «Forest Brothers – Fight for the Baltics» – official YouTube channel of NATO, 2017

Notes and References

1. Web site: The partisan military districts of the Lithuanian freedom fighters . genocid.lt . 16 September 2019.