Soviet Army

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Soviet Army
Советская армия
Soviet Army cockade
Founded	25 February 1946
Disbanded	14 February 1992
Country	Soviet Union (1946–1991)  CIS (1991–1992)
Type	Army
Role	Land warfare
Size	3,668,075 active (1991), peak 14,332,483 in 1945 4,129,506 reserve (1991), peak 17,383,291 in 1945
Nickname(s)	"Red Army"
Motto(s)	За нашу Советскую Родину! Za nashu Sovetskuyu Rodinu! "For our Soviet Motherland!"
Colors	Red and yellow
Equipment	About 55,000 tanks (1991)[1] Over 70,000 armored personnel carriers[1] 24,000 infantry fighting vehicles 33,000 towed artillery pieces 9,000 self-propelled howitzers
Engagements	Eastern European anti-Communist insurgencies Korean War Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Cuban Missile Crisis Vietnam War East German uprising of 1953 Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia War of Attrition Angolan Civil War Ogaden War Ethiopian Civil War Soviet–Afghan War Revolutions of 1989 Black January January Events 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt
Commanders
Notable commanders	Georgy Zhukov

Soviet Armed Forces
Components
General Staff Strategic Rocket Forces Red Army Soviet Army Air Defence Forces Air Forces Navy Airborne Forces
Ranks of the Soviet Military
Military ranks of the Soviet Union
History of the Soviet Military
Military history of the Soviet Union History of Russian military ranks
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The Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union (Russian: сухопутные войска, romanized: Sovetskiye sukhoputnye voyska)^[2] was the land warfare service branch of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1946 to 1992. In English it was often referred to as the Soviet Army.^[a]

Until 25 February 1946, it was known as the Red Army.^[3] In Russian, the term armiya (army) was often used to cover the Strategic Rocket Forces first in traditional Soviet order of precedence; the Ground Forces, second; the Air Defence Forces, third, the Air Forces, fourth, and the Soviet Navy, fifth, among the branches of the Soviet Armed Forces as a whole.^[4]

After the Soviet Union ceased to exist in December 1991, the Ground Forces remained under the command of the Commonwealth of Independent States until it was formally abolished on 14 February 1992. The Soviet Ground Forces were principally succeeded by the Ground Forces of the Russian Federation in Russian territory; beyond, many units and formations were taken over by the post-Soviet states; some were withdrawn to Russia, and some dissolved amid conflict, notably in the Caucasus.

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