of Lenin Red Banner was disbanded on 10 March 1960, and its personnel transferred to the 29th Guards Rocket Division. In 1969 the 8th Guards Motor Rifle Division was moved from the District to the Central Asian Military District and arrived eventually at Frunze. In 1979 Scott and Scott reported the HQ address of the District as PriBVO, Riga-Center, Ulitsa Merkelya (), Dom (house no.) 13, with the officers' club in the same location. Commanders of the Baltic Military District 1940 General Colonel Aleksandr Loktionov 1940–1941 General Colonel Fyodor Kuznetsov 1943–1945: General Major Nikolai Biasi 1945–1954: General of the Army Hovhannes Bagramyan 1954–1958: General of the Army Aleksandr Gorbatov 1958–1959: General of the Army Pavel Batov 1959-63: General of the Army Iosif Gusakovsky 1963-71: General of the Army Georgy Khetagurov 1971-72: General Colonel Vladimir Govorov 1972-80: General Colonel Aleksandr Mayorov 1980–1984: General Colonel Stanislav Postnikov 1984–1987: General Colonel А. V. Bekhtenin 1987: General Colonel Viktor Grishin 1987-91: General Lieutenant Fyodor Kuzmin 1991: General Lieutenant Valery Mironov Forces at the end of the 1980s Toward the end of the 1980s the District's forces consisted of: 3rd Guards Motor Rifle Division, Klaipėda (which transferred to the Baltic Fleet as a coastal defence division in 1989) 18th Guards Motor Rifle Division, Gusev, Kaliningrad Oblast. Began arriving from Mlada Boleslav, Czechoslovakia, in October 1990, and completed the move in March 1991. 24th Tank Training Division, Riga (Formed 9 June 1956, Kubinka, as 24th Heavy Tank Division. Reorganised 25 June 1957 as 24th Tank Division. Moved headquarters about the same time to Dobele, Baltic Military District. August 1960 renamed 24th Tank Training Division. On 14 September 1987 became 54th District Training Centre. 13th Guards Training Motor Rifle Regiment detached in September 1992, reorganised as the 25th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, but remained in Ādaži until 11.11.93, when it left for Strugi Krasnye (Vladimirsky Lager), Pskov Oblast. The training centre was disbanded in 1995. 107th Motor Rifle Division, Vilnius (withdrawn to Solnechnogorsk, 1993) 144th Guards Motor Rifle Division, Tallinn (the former 29th Guards Rifle Division) This division had for some time a regiment named for Alexander Matrosov. Withdrawn February 1993 to Yelnaya, Moscow Military District. 11th Guards Army 1st Tank Division, Kaliningrad 1st Guards Motor Rifle Division, Kaliningrad 26th Guards Motor Rifle Division, Gusev, Kaliningrad Oblast - September 1989 became 5190th Guards Base for Storage of Weapons and Equipment 40th Guards Tank Division, Sovetsk 37th Air