Land Forces of the USSR

Land Forces (Suchoputnye woiska - SW)
Army emblem - 1973
active	1946 to 1991
Country	Soviet Union
Armed forces	Armed Forces of the Soviet Union
Armed forces	army
Type	Military branches s. u.
Strength	1,400,000 in 1991
Insinuation	Ministry of Defense / General Staff
Most famous commander in chief
Marshal of the Soviet Union	Zhukov

The land forces of the USSR , in the sense of the Army of the USSR (original name in Russian Сухопутные войска СССР (СВ СССР) / Suchoputnye woiska SSSR (SW SSSR) ) were, with effect from February 25, 1946, an independent part of the Soviet army's largest part of the armed forces Armed Forces of the Soviet Union included. From 1950 to the 1980s, the Soviet land forces had the following main branches of service:

• Motorized rifle troops (until May 12, 1957 - riflemen, in the sense of infantry / motorized infantry)
• Armored troops
• Missile Forces and Artillery - RTA (until 1952 artillery )
• Army air forces
• Intelligence troops, in the sense of telecommunications troops
• Engineer troops
• Air defense (including radar command troops)
• Army NBC defense
• Logistics , transport and supply troops

With the dissolution of the USSR, this branch of the armed forces received the name Russian Army in 1992 and was restructured according to the changed situation.

Commander in chief

• 1946: GK Zhukov , Marshal of the Soviet Union
• 1946–1950: IS Konew , Marshal of the Soviet Union
• 1955–1956: IS Konew, Marshal of the Soviet Union
• 1956–1957: RJ Malinowski , Marshal of the Soviet Union
• 1957–1960: AA Grechko , Marshal of the Soviet Union
• 1960–1964: VI Tschuikow , Marshal of the Soviet Union
• 1967–1980: Iwan G. Pawlowski , Army General
• 1980–1985: WI Petrow , Marshal of the Soviet Union
• 1985–1989: JF Iwanowski , Marshal of the Soviet Union
• 1990–1991: VI Warennikow , Army General
• 1991–1996: WM Semjonow, Army General

In the period from March 26, 1950 to March 13, 1955 and from March 7, 1964 to May 5, 1967, the post of Commander-in-Chief Army remained open as a result of structural changes and was therefore not filled. During this time, the tasks were carried out in personal union by the Defense Minister of the USSR and the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR .

See also

• Ranks of the Soviet armed forces 1943–1955
• Ranks of the Soviet Armed Forces 1955–1992

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Attachment No. 1 to Order No. 250 of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR from 1973 regarding the way of wearing the uniform. Part III. - How to wear uniform components. Chapter 1 - Headgear. Archived under credit: May 30, 2013.
2. ^ "La force mécanisée du Pacte", Ligne de Front, no 3H, janvier-février 2008, p.
3. ↑ Феськов В.И., Голиков В.И., Калашников К.А., Слугин С.А. Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй мировой войны: от Красной армии к Советской (советской (часле) / часыкой (ус. ред. В.И. Голикова. - Томск: Изд-во НТЛ, 2013. С. 118.