Lokot Autonomy

Локотское самоуправление

Semi-autonomous territory in
Army Rear Area 532 of Nazi Germany

1941–1943


Flag	Coat of arms

Capital

Lokot, Bryansk Oblast

Languages

Russian

Political structure

Semi-autonomous territory

Starosta

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1941–1942

Konstantin Voskoboinik

Ober-Burgomeister

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1942–1943

Bronislav Kaminski

Historical era

World War II

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Established

15 November 1941

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Disestablished

26 August 1943

Succeeded by

Soviet Union

The Lokot Autonomy (Russian: Локотскoe самоуправление) was a semi-autonomous region in Nazi German-occupied Central Russia led by Bronislav Kaminski's administration from July 1942 to August 1943. The name is derived from the region's administrative center, the urban-type settlement of Lokot in Oryol Oblast (now located in Bryansk Oblast). The "Autonomy" covered the area of eight raions (the present-day Brasovsky, Dmitriyevsky, Dmitrovsky, Komarichsky, Navlinsky, Sevsky, Suzemsky and Zheleznogorsky districts) now divided between Bryansk, Oryol and Kursk Oblasts. The autonomy was to serve as a test case for a Russian collaborationist government under the SS in Reichskommissariat Moskowien.

In October 1941, the Nazi German military advance into Soviet Union from Operation Barbarossa reached the Lokot area near the city of Bryansk, and was captured by the Germans on October 6, 1941. In November 1941 Bronislav Kaminski (an engineer at a local distillery) and Konstantin Voskoboinik (a local technical school teacher) were approached the German military administration with proposals to assist them in establishing a civil administration and local police. Voskoboinik was designated by Germans as starosta of the "Lokot volost". Kaminski became Voskoboinik's deputy. Other deputies appointed were Stepan Mosin and Roman Ivanin (the head of the local militia), both former prisoners.

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