The ranks and rank insignia of the Red Army and Red Navy between 1940 and 1943 were characterised by continuing reforms to the Soviet armed forces in...

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(1918–1935) Military ranks of the Soviet Union (1935–1940) Military ranks of the Soviet Union (1940–1943) Military ranks of the Soviet Union (1943–1955) Ranks and...

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...

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of the Soviet Union which was first established in June 1940 as a high rank for Red Army generals, inferior only to the marshal of the Soviet Union....

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 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...

1940, the Soviet Union occupied Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, following an ultimatum made to Romania on 26 June 1940 that threatened the use of force...

nations, the highest military ranks are classed as being equivalent to, or are officially described as, five-star ranks. However, a number of nations have...

of the Soviet Union (1935–1940) Military ranks of the Soviet Union (1940–1943) Military ranks of the Soviet Union (1943–1955) Military ranks of the Soviet...

by the Soviet Union in 1940, continued for three years by Nazi Germany after it invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, and finally resumed by the Soviet Union...

The military ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) were established in March 1992, when Ukraine adopted the Law on Military Duty and Military Service...

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...

The military history of the Soviet Union began in the days following the 1917 October Revolution that brought the Bolsheviks to power. In 1918 the new...

Marshal of the Soviet Union from 1943 to 1957. He also served as Chief of the General Staff, Minister of Defence, and was a member of the Presidium of the Communist...

The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in modern Germany and...

Modern Russian military ranks trace their roots to the Table of Ranks established by Peter the Great. Most of the rank names were borrowed from existing...

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Soviet Union from 1940 to 1955 and second-highest from 1962 to 1991. It was first created by a Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in 1940 as...

was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. It was the largest...

the Soviet Union. The army was established in January 1918 by Leon Trotsky to oppose the military forces of the new nation's adversaries during the Russian...

and was a military rank in the Soviet Armed Forces of the USSR from 1935 to 1940. It was also the designation to military personnel appointed to command...

of war were captured by the Soviet Union during World War II, most of them during the great advances of the Red Army in the last year of the war. The...

Mordvinov (1940—1941) Lieutenant General Yevgeny Shilovsky (1941—1942) Colonel General Fyodor Kuznetsov (1942—1943) Marshal of the Soviet Union Boris Shaposhnikov...

Stalingrad in the Soviet Union. Key setbacks in 1943—including German defeats on the Eastern Front, the Allied invasions of Sicily and the Italian mainland...

various forms of military occupations by the Soviet Union resulting from both the Soviet pact with Nazi Germany (ahead of World War II), and the ensuing Cold...

Germany, and the Soviet Union, 1940–1941: The Petsamo Dispute. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299051402. Institute of Military Science (Finland)...