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Limited Contingent of Soviet Troops in Afghanistan (The 40th Army under the command of the Turkestan Military District; 1979–1989) Soviet Forces in Mongolia (under the command of the Transbaikal Military District) 5th Army (1921–1924) 17th Army (1940–1946) 39th Army (1945–1946; 1970–1992) 39th Army in China (1945)
Troops of the Russian 102nd Military Base at Republic Square, Yerevan during the 2016 Armenian Independence Day military parade. This article lists military bases of Russia abroad. The majority of Russia's military bases and facilities are located in former Soviet republics; which in Russian political parlance is termed the "near abroad".
Pages in category "Military installations of the Soviet Union" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The number of military districts varied depending on the circumstances and with the evolution of the Soviet Army.Before the eastern campaign of 1941–45, there were 16 military districts and one front although this number fluctuated and as many as 25 military districts existed at different time before the war.
Following the Soviet victory in the Civil War the Soviet forces in the area became the Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army (OKDVA) of the Far Eastern Republic. The District was first briefly formed in 1935 from those forces, but then reverted to the title Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army, under Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasily Blyukher ...
Kubinka air base Moscow Oblast Su-30SM Su-35S Il-20M Naro-Fominsk Moscow Oblast 202nd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade S-300V4; Veretye air base Pskov Oblast Mi-28N Mi-24P Mi-35M Ka-52 Mi-8MT/MTV-2 Mi-26 Pskov air base Pskov Oblast Il-76MD Vladimirsky Lager Pskov Oblast 1544th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment S-400; Pantsir-S; Soltsy air base ...
The Soviet Armed Forces, [a] also known as the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, [b] the Red Army (1918–1946) and the Soviet Army (1946–1991), were the armed forces of the Russian SFSR (1917–1922) and the Soviet Union (1922–1991) from their beginnings in the Russian Civil War of 1917–1923 to the collapse of the USSR in 1991.
In terms of air forces, after the collapse of the Soviet Union the 76th Army of the Soviet Air Forces and the 6th Air Army of the Soviet Air Defence Forces, were left operating in the district. The two forces were merged as the 6th Army of VVS and PVO in 1998. [32] Leningrad Military District Map