Editing Lokot Autonomy (section)

{{Short description|1942–1943 autonomous government in German-occupied Russia}}
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{{Rough translation| Russian|date=August 2022}}
{{Infobox country
| native_name            = {{native name|ru|Локотское самоуправление}}<br>{{small|Локотская республика}}
| conventional_long_name = Lokot Autonomy
| common_name            = Lokot
| status                 = {{nowrap|[[Semi-autonomous territory]]<ref name="scribd1">{{cite web |url= https://www.scribd.com/doc/3116523/AFTER-THE-BLITZKRIEG |title= After the Blitzkrieg |access-date= 2013-11-23 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131203003529/http://www.scribd.com/doc/3116523/AFTER-THE-BLITZKRIEG |archive-date= 2013-12-03 }}</ref>}}
| empire                 = Germany
| status_text            = [[Semi-autonomous]] area <br> in Wehrmacht's [[Korück|Army Rear Area]] 532<ref name="scribd1"/>
| era                    = [[World War II]]
| event_start            = 
| year_start             = 1941
| date_start             = 15 November
| event_end              = 
| year_end               = 1944
| date_end               = 26 August
| p1                     = Soviet Union
| flag_p1                = Flag of the Soviet Union (1936-1955).svg
| s1                     = Soviet Union
| flag_s1                = Flag of the Soviet Union (1936-1955).svg
| image_flag             = Flag of Russian Liberation People's Army.svg<!--Please do not change this image. It indicates the de facto flag usage of the period and [[WP:CONSENSUS]] as per a straw poll [on talkpage?].-->
| flag_type              = [[Flag of Russia#History|Flag]]<ref>NSPR flag (described in the NSPR Manifesto), which also became the flag of RONA and LAO</ref>
| image_coat             = Emblem of Lokot Autonomy.svg
| symbol_type            = Emblem<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://img11.nnm.me/0/d/8/0/a/15fa57fb8e54cae4db27b702cdf.jpg |title=Seal of Lokotsky self-government and personal signature of Kaminsky |access-date=2016-11-12 |archive-date=2016-11-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161113032358/http://img11.nnm.me/0/d/8/0/a/15fa57fb8e54cae4db27b702cdf.jpg }}</ref>
| national_anthem        = От края и до края<br/>''Ot kraja i do kraja''<br/>("From land to land")<br/>{{center|[[File:Локотское самоуправление.ogg]]}}
| image_map              = Lokot republic map.png
| capital                = [[Lokot, Bryansk Oblast]]
| area_km2               = 10280
| population_estimate    = 600,000<ref>{{Cite book |last=Borowiec |first=Andrew |url=https://www.google.pl/books/edition/Warsaw_Boy/Cwl7AgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Lokot+Autonomy+insurgency&pg=PT228&printsec=frontcover |title=Warsaw Boy: A Memoir of a Wartime Childhood |date=2014-07-03 |publisher=Penguin UK |isbn=978-0-241-96404-0 |language=en}}</ref>-1,000,000<ref name="Littlejohn 1994 309">{{Cite book|last=Littlejohn|first=David|title=Foreign Legions of the Third Reich.|year=1994|isbn=0-912138-36-X|volume=4 (Poland, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania, India, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Russia)|location=United States of America|pages=309}}</ref>
| currency               = [[Soviet ruble]], [[Reichsmark]]
| title_leader           = ''[[Starosta]]''
| leader1                = [[Konstantin Voskoboinik]]
| year_leader1           = 1941&ndash;1942
| title_representative   = ''Ober-[[Burgomeister]]''
| representative1        = [[Bronislav Kaminski]]
| year_representative1   = 1942&ndash;1943
| common_languages       = [[Russian language|Russian]]
| demonym                = 
| area_rank              = 
| GDP_PPP                = 
| GDP_PPP_year           = 
| HDI                    = 
| HDI_year               = 
| today                  = 
}}

The '''Lokot Autonomy''' ({{langx|ru|Ло́котское самоуправле́ние|Lókotskoye samoupravléniye}}) or '''Lokot Republic''' ({{langx|ru|Ло́котская республика|Lókotskaya respublika}}, {{langx|de|Republik Lokot}}) was an autonomous republic in the occupied territories of the [[Bryansk Oblast|Bryansk]], [[Oryol Oblast|Oryol]] and [[Kursk Oblast|Kursk]] Oblasts of the [[Soviet Union]], formed by [[Wehrmacht|German Nazi troops]], and more specifically by [[Heinz Guderian|Guderian]]'s [[2nd Panzer Army]] during [[World War II]].{{Sfn|Haslinger|Tönsmeyer|2021|p=775}}

The [[Wehrmacht]] entered the area in October 1941 and were forced out in August 1943.{{Sfn|Haslinger|Tönsmeyer|2021|p=775}} A local administration and police were appointed by German occupation authorities in November 1941.<ref name="ReferenceA" /> The autonomous republic was established in July 1942, when six [[Districts of Russia|districts]] were added to the Lokot district.{{Sfn|Haslinger|Tönsmeyer|2021|p=775}} The autonomy's name was derived from the region's administrative center, the [[urban-type settlement]] of [[Lokot, Bryansk Oblast|Lokot]] in [[Oryol Oblast]] (now located in [[Bryansk Oblast]]). The autonomy covered the area of eight [[raion]]s (the present-day [[Brasovsky District|Brasovsky]], [[Dmitriyevsky District|Dmitriyevsky]], [[Dmitrovsky District, Oryol Oblast|Dmitrovsky]], [[Komarichsky District|Komarichsky]], [[Navlinsky District|Navlinsky]], [[Sevsky District|Sevsky]], [[Suzemsky District|Suzemsky]] and [[Zheleznogorsky District|Zheleznogorsky]] districts) now divided between Bryansk, Oryol and [[Kursk Oblast]]s.<ref>Cf. German order № 1023-42 July 17, 1942, p. 173. Theo J. Schulte, [https://books.google.com/books?id=0vhmAAAAMAAJ ''The German Army and Nazi Policies in Occupied Russia''], New York: [[St. Martin's Press]], 1989</ref>

The Lokot Autonomy was ruled by a Russian civil administration led by [[Bronislav Kaminski]] and [[Konstantin Voskoboinik]].{{Sfn|Haslinger|Tönsmeyer|2021|p=775}} The German authorities established the Autonomy to serve as a test case for a Russian [[Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy|collaborating]] government under the [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] in the proposed [[Reichskommissariat Moskowien]].<ref>De Cordier (2010), [https://web.archive.org/web/20120402212656/http://kms1.isn.ethz.ch/serviceengine/Files/ISN/116265/ichaptersection_singledocument/4cf1f652-d6fe-4d95-9ab8-e524e9d9fde1/en/4.pdf The Fedayeen of the Reich: Muslims, Islam, and Collaborationism During World War II], p. 34 China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, 2010.</ref>