Northern Section of the Screen Detachments

Northern Section of the Screen Detachments
Active5 March 1918 – 11 September 1918
Country Russian SFSR
BranchRed Army
TypeCurtain forces
Garrison/HQThe northern section of the demarcation line with the Imperial German Army
EngagementsWorld War I
Russian Civil War
Commanders
First commanderAlexey Schwartz (March 11 – May 26, 1918)
Second commanderDmitri Parsky (May 26 – August 8)
Third commanderVladimir Gittis (Aug. 8 – Sept. 11)

The Northern Section of the Screen Detachments (Russian: Северный участок отрядов завесы; NSCD) was a part of the Red Army's curtain forces created to protect Petrograd after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. It existed from March to September 1918.