The 69th Army (Russian: 69-я армия) was a field army established by the Soviet Union's Red Army during the Second World War. The army was formed in February...

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...

This article deals with the history and development of tanks of the Soviet Union and its successor state, the Russian Federation; from their first use...

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

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

and Hero of the Soviet Union Nikanor Zakhvatayev became the army commander. Zaytsev was still a major general and became the army's deputy commander...

The 69th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army and later the Soviet Army, formed twice. It was first formed in 1936 from the 3rd Kolkhoz...

1st Formation) of the Soviet Red Army was first formed from Soviet forces in the north-eastern Caucasus in 1918. The 12th Army (Russian Civil War 2nd...

The 28th Army was a field army of the Red Army and the Soviet Ground Forces, formed three times in 1941–42 and active during the postwar period for many...

military district). During the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, the 11th Army included the 16th Rifle Corps (which included the 5th,...

the German invasion of the Soviet Union, on 22 June 1941, a directive dated 25 June transferred the 59th Tank and 69th Motorized Divisions by rail to...

East, capitalizing on the outbreak of the Soviet–German War in June 1941. Involving seven Japanese armies and a major portion of the empire's naval and...

and Soviet Army, later part of the Russian Ground Forces of the Russian Federation. The army was originally formed in early 1943 as the 2nd Tank Army. It...

Guards Army made contact with the US 69th Infantry Division of the First Army near Torgau, Germany at the Elbe river. On 29 and 30 April, as the Soviet forces...

Army is a field army of the Russian Ground Forces and previously the Soviet Army. In the opening weeks of Operation Barbarossa, the Soviet Red Army sustained...

The 50th Army was a Soviet field army during World War II. It was formed in mid-August, 1941 and deployed on the southwest approaches to Moscow. Partly...

September] 1901 – 25 December 1979) was an army general of the Soviet Army and a Hero of the Soviet Union. After serving as an ordinary soldier in the...

Khasan. On the eve of the invasion of the Soviet Union by Germany, the Front comprised: 1st Red Banner Army[citation needed] 26th Rifle Corps 21st Rifle...

it was proposed to Joseph Stalin that the Soviet armies (13th Army, 19th Army, 20th, 21st Army, and 22nd Army) would defend the line going through the...

Tank Army (Russian: 3-я гвардейская танковая армия) was a tank army established by the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II. The 3rd Tank Army was...

69th Army, in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, which had been formed the day before. However, the corps along with the remainder of 69th Army was...

The 69th Guards Rifle Division was reformed as an elite infantry division of the Red Army in February 1943, based on the 2nd formation of the 120th Rifle...

1942 and April 1943, Participating in the 1943 Battles of Rzhev, and the 69th Army from April 1944 to May 1945, participating in the Lublin-Brest Offensive...

the Soviet Union 1917–1957. It lists infantry divisions in the Soviet Union from the Russian Revolution to the reorganization of the Soviet Army in the...

The 42nd Army was a field army of the Soviet Union's Red Army, created in 1941. Created on 5 August 1941. Formed on the basis of the 50th Rifle Corps under...

69th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division (Russian: 69-я зенитная артиллерийская дивизия) was an anti-aircraft artillery division of the Soviet Union's Red...

The 4th Guards Army was an elite Guards field army of the Soviet Union during World War II and the early postwar era. On April 16, 1943, the Supreme Command...

January] 1900 – 18 March 1982) was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union. He is best known for commanding the 62nd Army which saw heavy combat...

69th Army and the remnants of the 3rd Tank Army. Between 8–9 March, the SS Panzer Corps completed its drive north, splitting the 69th and 40th Soviet...

those forces in the pocket. On the afternoon of April 25, the Soviet 3rd, 33rd and 69th Armies, as well as the 2nd Guards Cavalry Corps (which was a formation...