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...

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

carried out by the Soviet Union and its armed forces. They include acts which were committed by the Red Army (later called the Soviet Army) as well as acts...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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 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...

Afterwards, the Soviet Army deployed around 120,000–160,000 troops in Central Asia, a force similar to the peak strength of the Soviet intervention in...

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...

The Song of the Soviet Army (Russian: Песня о Советской Армии, tr. Pesnya o Sovetskoj Armii) or Invincible and Legendary (Несокрушимая и легендарная)...

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...

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...

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...

1st Panzer Army and a reconstituted 6th Army, were by August too weak to repulse a Soviet attack on their own front, and when the Red Army hit them they...

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 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...

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

reinstated in 2017 as a successor to the 8th Guards Army of the Soviet Union's Red Army (later Soviet Army), which was formed during World War II and was disbanded...

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

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...

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...

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...

troops east. In 1919, while the Soviet Red Army was still preoccupied with the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922, the Polish Army moved into territories regarded...

The defeat of Japan's Kwantung Army helped bring about the Japanese surrender and the end of World War II. The Soviet entry into the war was a significant...

advancing Allied armies, although a majority of scholars agree that the records show that a majority of the rapes were committed by Soviet occupation troops...