# Tauras military district

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. One of the most important partisan districts. It is named after aurochs - tauras in Lithuanian.

## Leaders

| 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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