User:Buckshot06/List of armies of the Soviet Union (1989-91)

List of armies of the Armed Forces of the USSR (1989-1991) - list armies as 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;
 * 5) The list of common conditional abbreviations used is given at the end of the article.

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.

Air Forces
Air armies (18 formations) that existed in the USSR Air Force 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) Guards is short for Guards;
 * 6) drap/orap - long-range reconnaissance aviation regiment / separate reconnaissance aviation regiment;
 * 7) iad/iap - fighter aviation division / fighter aviation regiment;
 * 8) oap - separate aviation regiment;
 * 9) ovp - separate helicopter regiment;
 * 10) osap - separate mixed aviation regiment;
 * 11) otvp - separate transport helicopter regiment;
 * 12) oshap - separate assault aviation regiment;
 * 13) tbad - heavy bomber aviation division.
 * 14) uap - training aviation regiment;