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 (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.
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