The Soviet Airborne Troops formed a number of Airborne Corps during World War II. Each airborne corps was to have 8020 soldiers in total, armed with:...

The 4th Airborne Corps was an airborne corps of the Red Army in World War II. It fought in the Vyazma airborne operation, an unsuccessful landing during...

The 1st Airborne Corps was an airborne corps of the Red Army during World War II. It fought in the Battle of Kiev, the Battle of Moscow and in the Battle...

2nd Airborne Corps was a corps of the Red Army during World War II. It fought in the Battle of Kiev. In the summer of 1942, the 2nd Airborne Corps became...

The 3rd Airborne Corps was an airborne corps of the Red Army in World War II. The corps was established near Kyiv. Formation of the corps began in spring...

largest airborne force in the world. The force was split after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, with the core becoming the Russian Airborne Forces...

1st Assault Aviation Corps 1st Cavalry Corps (Russian Empire) 1st Rifle Corps, Soviet Union I Corps (United Kingdom) I Airborne Corps (United Kingdom) 1st...

A rifle corps (Russian: стрелковый корпус, romanized: strelkovyy korpus) was a Soviet corps-level military formation during the mid-twentieth century...

Siberian Army Corps 2nd Army Corps (Armed Forces of South Russia), a unit in the white movement 2nd Airborne Corps (Soviet Union) 2nd Rifle Corps 2nd Guards...

Glantz, The Soviet Airborne Experience, 1984, 33, 167, citing Sukhorukov, Sovetskie vozdushno, 238–239. See also Airborne Corps (Soviet Union). K.E. Bonn...

Division (Ukraine) 1st Airborne Corps (Soviet Union) 1st Airborne Brigade (Japan) 1st Airborne Brigade (Soviet Union) 1st Airborne Brigade, part of the 1st Air...

Guards Airborne Corps was an airborne corps of the Soviet airborne. It was activated during World War II in August 1944 and became a rifle corps in December...

under Russian control following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Troops of the Russian Airborne Forces have traditionally worn a blue beret and blue-striped...

I Russian Corps. Soviet 1st Guards Mechanized Corps I Corps (South Korea) I Corps (South Vietnam) I Corps (United Kingdom) I Airborne Corps (United Kingdom)...

Marking the beginning of the protracted Afghan conflict, it saw the Soviet Union and the Afghan military fight against the rebelling Afghan mujahideen...

The Soviet forces failed to encircle the German troops and the fighting dragged on. Stavka decided to drop the main forces of the 4th Airborne Corps west...

was a Soviet lieutenant general, who was the first commander of the Soviet airborne forces (VDV). He was twice awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union. Vasily...

the Bryansk Front and the Soviet Southwestern Front. By 25 August 1941 the 135th and 293rd Rifle Divisions, 2nd Airborne Corps, 10th Tank Division, and...

II 4th Airborne Corps (Soviet Union) 4th Guards Army Corps 4th Guards Cavalry Corps 4th Cavalry Corps (Soviet Union) 4th Guards Mechanized Corps 4th Mechanized...

The Soviet Union's Red Army raised divisions during the Russian Civil War, and again during the interwar period in 1926. Only a few of the Civil War divisions...

Divisions), 47th Rifle Corps (55th, 121st, 143rd Rifle Divisions), 50th Rifle Division, 4th Airborne Corps (7th, 8th, 214th Airborne Brigades) commanded...

Operation Barbarossa was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and several of its European Axis allies starting on 22 June 1941, during World...

The military ranks of the Soviet Union were those introduced after the October Revolution of 1917. At that time the Imperial Russian Table of Ranks was...

units and formations in the Soviet Armed Forces that continue to exist in the Russian Armed Forces and other post-Soviet states. These units were awarded...

commander of the Soviet Airborne Forces (VDV) from 1954 to 1959 and from 1961 to 1979. Margelov modernized the VDV and was a Hero of the Soviet Union. Author Carey...

The 212th Airborne Brigade (Russian: 212-я воздушно-десантная бригада) was an airborne brigade of the Soviet Airborne Troops, formed twice. Formed in...

first major airborne assault. The Soviet Union maintained the world's largest airborne force during the Cold War, consisting of seven airborne divisions...

XVIII Airborne Corps; their lineages derive from three of the corps formed during World War I (I and III Corps) and World War II (XVIII Airborne Corps). On...

A tank corps (Russian: танковый корпус) was a type of Soviet armoured formation used during World War II. In Soviet Russia, the so-called armored forces...

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 forces...