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List of armies of the Soviet Union 1991

List of armies of the Soviet Union 1991

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List of armies of the Armed Forces of the USSR (1989–1991) – list of armies part of Soviet Armed Forces as of 1989–1991 and their status in the Former Soviet Union as of 2018.

  • Note:
  1. Due to inconsistencies in various sources, the list may contain inaccuracies;
  2. A dash in the column "Predecessor" means that the army was a newly created formation;
  3. A dash in the column "1992 Transfer to jurisdiction" means that the army was disbanded without being under the jurisdiction of any of the former USSR states;
  4. In all sections in the column "Year of creation" the year in which the formation received the given full name is indicated;

Soviet Ground Forces

Conventional flag Ground Forces USSR Armed Forces

This section includes armies subordinated to the Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces.

Combined arms armies

Complete list of the combined arms armies (21 formations) that existed in the Ground Forces in the period from 1989 to 1991.[1]

  • Note:
  1. GuardsGuards;
  2. MSDmotorized rifle division;
  3. puladmachine gun-artillery division;
  4. tdtank division;
  5. URfortified area.
More information Army, Year of creation ...

Tank and mechanised armies 1945–91

Initially a list of tank armies that existed in the Ground Forces in the period from 1989 to 1991.[1]

More information Tank army (full name), Year of creation ...

Soviet Air Forces

Air armies (18 formations) that existed in the Soviet Air Forces in the period from 1989 to 1991.[4]

  • Note: abbreviations
  1. adib/apibfighter-bomber aviation division / fighter-bomber aviation regiment;
  2. bad/bapbomber aviation division / bomber aviation regiment;
  3. VVSair force (as applied to a military district or group of troops);
  4. vtapmilitary transport aviation regiment;
  5. tbadheavy bomber aviation division.
  6. uaptraining aviation regiment;
More information Air Army (full name), Year of creation ...

See also


References

  1. After the collapse of the USSR, HQ 14th Guards Army and the 59th Guards MRD went to Russia. The rest of the formations are divided between Ukraine and Moldova
  2. "39th Combined Arms Army".
  3. Drogovoz 2007, pp. 166, 448, 532–541.
  4. Alexander Dmitriev (5 August 2018). "Who guards the sky over Odessa?". www.odessa-life.od.ua. Retrieved 11 March 2019.

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