List of armies of the Soviet Union 1991

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


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.


 * Note:
 * 1) Guards – Guards;
 * 2) MSD – motorized rifle division;
 * 3) pulad – machine gun-artillery division;
 * 4) td – tank division;
 * 5) UR – fortified area.

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.

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


 * Note: abbreviations
 * 1) adib/apib – fighter-bomber aviation division / fighter-bomber aviation regiment;
 * 2) bad/bap – bomber aviation division / bomber aviation regiment;
 * 3) VVS – air force (as applied to a military district or group of troops);
 * 4) vtap – military transport aviation regiment;
 * 5) tbad – heavy bomber aviation division.
 * 6) uap – training aviation regiment;