often referred to as the Soviet Army. Until 25 February 1946, it was known as the Red Army. In Russian, the term armiya (army) was often used to cover...

Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union. The army was established...

forces. They include acts which were committed by the Red Army (later called the Soviet Army) as well as acts which were committed by the country's secret...

of various countries, including the Soviet Union. This article serves a central point of reference for Soviet armies without individual articles, and explains...

Federation and Ukraine have been largely adopted from the Soviet system. The early Red Army abandoned the institution of a professional officer corps...

40th Army (Russian: 40-я общевойсковая армия, 40-ya obshchevoyskovaya armiya, "40th Combined Arms Army") of the Soviet Ground Forces was an army-level...

and has been used by the Polish Army, the Red Army, the Soviet Army, and Turkey. It is roughly equivalent to an army group in the military of most other...

The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. The war...

the resultant withdrawal of Soviet units in Germany, the army was relocated to Smolensk, and disbanded in 1999. The army was reformed in 2014 as part...

Red Army during the war. Three were reactivated in 1941 for use in the Battle of Stalingrad. In January 1918, the Red Army established the Soviet of Armored...

The Soviet Armed Forces, also known as the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, the Red Army (1918–1946) and the Soviet Army (1946–1991), were the armed...

The Soviet Ground Forces, successor to the Red Army, the title changing in 1945, employed a wide range of different military formations. The Soviets used...

The Winter War was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak...

also known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in modern Germany and Ukraine, was a theatre...

Army general (Russian: генерал армии, romanized: general armii) was a rank of the Soviet Union which was first established in June 1940 as a high rank...

east of the Urals in 1991. The Soviet Union had about 28,000 Infantry fighting vehicles in 1991 By 1991 the Soviet army had over 50,000 armored personnel...

"Song of the Soviet Army", also known as the "Song of the Russian Army" or by the refrain's opening line "Invincible and Legendary", is a Soviet patriotic...

Combined Arms Army (abbreviated 8th GCAA) was an army of the Soviet Army, as a successor to the 62nd Army of the Soviet Union's Red Army, which was formed...

Directorate of the Workers-Peasants Red Army Air Forces on 1 January 1925. After the creation of the Soviet state many efforts were made in order to...

The Ukrainian Soviet Army was a field army of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War, which existed between November 30, 1918 and June 1, 1919. It was...

and social cohesion, the Soviet army was bureaucratic. Because of this, mujahideen could significantly weaken the Soviet army by the elimination of a field...

army shoulder boards stood for Советская Аpмия (Sovetskaya Armiya) and was the symbol of adherence to the Soviet Army. The letter imprint on Soviet navy...

with an area of 23.75 km2 (9.17 sq mi), were also occupied by the Soviet Army. The Soviet Union had planned to accomplish the annexation with a full-scale...

After the Munich Agreement, the Soviet Union pursued a rapprochement with Nazi Germany. On 23 August 1939 the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact...

Kalashnikov, V.I. Golikov, The Soviet Army in the Years of the Cold War 1945–91, Tomsk University Publishing House, Tomsk, 2004 (for Soviet era list of CGSs). Official...

Supreme Soviet" of 15 February 1943 Mollo 1981, p. 177. Rosignoli 1983, Plates 12–13. Vedomosti 1945. References Barker, A. J. (1976). Soviet Army Uniforms...

15 January 2016. US Army, FM 100-2-3 The Soviet Army: Troops, Organization and Equipment, 4–3 US Army, FM 100-2-3 The Soviet Army: Troops, Organization...

The 1st Guards Army was a Soviet Guards field army that fought on the Eastern Front during World War II. On August 6, 1942, the army formed from the 2nd...

Army in 1960 within the Soviet Ground Forces) is a field army. In 1991, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the army became part of the Russian...

Air Army (49th Air Army to 1989) Turkestan Military District, and in others – 12th Independent Air Defence Army. Sources: List of armies of the Soviet Union...