United Slavic/Soviet Socialist Republics

History
In post-revolutionary Russia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is established, comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation (divided in 1936 into the Georgian, Azerbaijan, and Armenian republics). Also known as the Soviet Union, the new communist state was the successor to the Russian Empire and the first country in the world to be based on Marxist socialism.

During the Russian Revolution of 1917 and subsequent three-year Russian Civil War, the Bolshevik Party under Vladimir Lenin dominated the soviet forces, a coalition of workers’ and soldiers’ committees that called for the establishment of a socialist state in the former Russian Empire. In the USSR, all levels of government were controlled by the Communist Party, and the party’s politburo, with its increasingly powerful general secretary, effectively ruled the country. Soviet industry was owned and managed by the state, and agricultural land was divided into state-run collective farms.

Culture
The culture of the Soviet Union passed through several stages during the Soviet Union's 69-year existence. It was contributed to by people of various nationalities from every single one of fifteen union republics, although a majority of the influenced was made by Russians. The Soviet state supported cultural institutions, but also carried out strict censorship.

The main feature of communist attitudes towards the arts and artists in the years 1918–1929 was relative freedom, with significant experimentation in several different styles in an effort to find a distinctive Soviet style of art. In many respects, the NEP period was a time of relative freedom and experimentation for the social and cultural life of the Soviet Union. The government tolerated a variety of trends in these fields, provided they were not overtly hostile to the regime. In art and literature, numerous schools, some traditional and others radically experimental, proliferated. Communist writers Maxim Gorky and Vladimir Mayakovsky were active during this time, but other authors, many of whose works were later repressed, published work lacking socialist political content. Film, as a means of influencing a largely illiterate society, received encouragement from the state; much of cinematographer Sergei Eisenstein's best work dates from this period.

Education, under Commissar Anatoliy Lunacharskiy, entered a phase of experimentation based on progressive theories of learning. At the same time, the state expanded the primary and secondary school system, and introduced night schools for working adults. The quality of higher education was affected by admissions policy that preferred entrants from the proletarian class over those from bourgeois backgrounds, regardless of the applicants' qualifications.

Under NEP, the state eased its active persecution of religion begun during war communism but continued to agitate on behalf of atheism. The party supported the Living Church reform movement within the Russian Orthodox Church in hopes that it would undermine faith in the church, but the movement died out in the late-1920s.

In family life, attitudes generally became more permissive. The state legalised abortion, and it made divorce progressively easier to obtain, whilst public cafeterias proliferated at the expense of private family kitchens.

Arts during the rule of Joseph Stalin were characterised by the rise and domination of the government-imposed style of Socialist realism, with all other trends being severely repressed, with rare exceptions. For many notable Mikhail Bulgakov's works were not repressed, although the full text of his The Master and Margarita was published only in 1966. Many writers were imprisoned and killed, or died of starvation, examples being Daniil Kharms, Osip Mandelstam, Isaac Babel and Boris Pilnyak. Andrei Platonov worked as a caretaker and was not allowed to publish. The work of Anna Akhmatova was also condemned by the regime, although she notably refused the opportunity to escape to the West. During the time when the Party was trying to make Soviet regime more palatable to Ukrainians, a great deal of national self-determination and cultural development was tolerated. After this short period of the renaissance of Ukrainian literature ended more than 250 Ukrainian writers died during the Great Purge, for example Valerian Pidmohylnyi (1901–1937), in the so-called Executed Renaissance. Texts of imprisoned authors were confiscated by the NKVD and some of them were published later. Books were removed from libraries and destroyed.

In addition to literature, musical expression was also repressed during the Stalin era, and at times the music of many Soviet composers was banned altogether. Dmitri Shostakovich experienced a particularly long and complex relationship with Stalin, during which his music was denounced and prohibited twice, in 1936 and 1948 (see Zhdanov decree). Sergei Prokofiev and Aram Khachaturian had similar cases. Although Igor Stravinsky did not live in the Soviet Union, his music was officially considered formalist and anti-Soviet.

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Art
The birth of the Soviet Art was preceded throughout the 1920s by an era of intense ideological competition between different artistic groupings each striving to ensure their own views would have priority in determining the forms and directions in which Soviet Art was to develop, seeking to occupy key posts in cultural institutions and to win the favour and support of the authorities.

This struggle was made even more bitter by the growing crisis of radical leftist art. At the turn of the 1930s, many avant-garde tendencies that had appeared back in the 1910s had exhausted themselves and began depicting real-life objects, as it attempted to return to the traditional system of painted images. That is what occurred with the leading Jack of Diamonds artists. In the early 1930s Kazimir Malevich returned to figurative art.

Military
The Soviet Union only had Ground Forces, Air Forces, and the Navy in 1945. The two Narkomats, one supervising the Ground Forces and Air Forces, and the other directing the Navy, were combined into the Ministry of the Armed Forces in March 1946. A fourth service, the Troops of National Air Defence, was formed in 1948.The Ministry was briefly divided into two again from 1950 to 1953, but then was amalgamated again as the Ministry of Defence. Six years later the Strategic Rocket Forces were formed. The VDV, the Airborne Forces, were also active by this time as a Reserve of the Supreme High Command. Also falling within the Soviet Armed Forces were the Tyl, or Rear Services, of the Armed Forces, the Troops of Civil Defence, and the Border and Internal Troops, neither of which came under command of the Ministry of Defence.

Men within the Soviet Army dropped from around 13 million to approximately 2.8 million in 1948. In order to control this demobilisation process, the number of military districts was temporarily increased to thirty-three, dropping to twenty-one in 1946. The size of the Army throughout most time of the Cold War remained between 4 million and 5 million, according to Western estimates. Soviet law required all able-bodied males of age to serve a minimum of 2 years. As a result, the Soviet Army remained the largest active army in the world from 1945 to 1991. Soviet Army units which had taken over the countries of Eastern Europe from German rule remained in some of them to secure the régimes in what became satellite states of the Soviet Union and to deter and to fend off pro-independence resistance and later NATO forces. The greatest Soviet military presence was in East Germany, in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, but there were also smaller forces elsewhere, including the Northern Group of Forces in Poland, the Central Group of Forces in Czechoslovakia, and the Southern Group of Forces in Hungary. In the Soviet Union itself, forces were divided by the 1950s among fifteen military districts, including the Moscow, Leningrad, and Baltic Military Districts.

The trauma of the devastating German invasion of 1941 influenced the Soviet Cold War military doctrine of fighting enemies on their own territory, or in a buffer zone under Soviet hegemony, but in any case preventing any war from reaching Soviet soil. In order to secure Soviet interests in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Army moved in to quell anti-Soviet uprisings in the German Democratic Republic (1953), Hungary (1956) and Czechoslovakia (1968). As a result of the Sino-Soviet border conflict, a sixteenth military district was created in 1969, the Central Asian Military District, with headquarters at Alma-Ata. To improve capabilities for war at a theatre level, in the late 1970s and early 1980s four high commands were established, grouping the military districts, groups of forces, and fleets. The Far Eastern High Command was established first, followed by the Western and South-Western High Commands towards Europe, and the Southern High Command at Baku, oriented toward the Middle East.

The Red Army (Ground forces)
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, frequently shortened to Red Army, was the army and the air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The army was established immediately after the 1917 October Revolution. The Bolsheviks raised an army to oppose the military confederations (especially the various groups collectively known as the White Army) of their adversaries during the Russian Civil War. Beginning in February 1946, the Red Army, along with the Soviet Navy, embodied the main component of the Soviet Armed Forces; taking the official name of "Soviet Army", until its dissolution in December 1991.

The Red Army provided the largest land force in the Allied victory in the European theatre of World War II, and its invasion of Manchuria assisted the unconditional surrender of Imperial Japan. During operations on the Eastern Front, it accounted for 75–80% of casualties the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS suffered during the war and ultimately captured the Nazi German capital, Berlin.

The Soviet Union's Red Army raised divisions during the Russian Civil War, and again during the interwar period from 1926. Few of the Civil War divisions were retained into this period, and even fewer survived the reorganization of the Red Army during the 1937–1941 period. During the Second World War 400 'line' rifle divisions (infantry), 129 Soviet Guards rifle divisions, and over 50 cavalry divisions as well as many divisions of other combat support arms were raised in addition to the hundreds of divisions that existed in the Red Army before Operation Barbarossa. Almost all the pre-war mechanized and tank divisions were disbanded during the war. There were also Red Air Force aviation divisions, and the NKVD divisions which also took part in fighting.

The territorial principle of manning the Red Army was introduced in the mid-1920s. In each region able-bodied men were called up for a limited period of active duty in a territorial unit, which comprised about half the Army's strength, each year, for five years. The first call-up period was for three months, with one month a year thereafter. A regular cadre provided a stable nucleus. By 1925 this system provided 46 of the 77 infantry divisions and one of the eleven cavalry divisions. The remainder consisted of regular officers and enlisted personnel serving two-year stints. The territorial system was finally abolished, with all remaining formations converted to the other 'cadre' divisions, in 1937 and 1938.

The Red Army formed at least 42 "national" divisions during the Second World War which had substantial ethnic majorities in their composition derived from location of initial formation rather than intentional "nationalization" of the divisions, including four Azeri, five Armenian, and eight Georgian rifle divisions and a large number of cavalry divisions in the eastern Ukraine, Kuban region, and Central Asia, including five Uzbek cavalry divisions.

Airborne Divisions

 * 1st Guards Airborne Division (ex 4th Airborne Corps at Tejkovo Dec 1942). Fought at Vyazma, Demyansk, Staraya Russa, Kremenchug, near Krivoi Rog, Budapest, Brno, and in Manchuria. With 53rd Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front May 1945. Became 124th Guards Rifle Division in December 1945 while with 18th Guards Rifle Corps, Eastern Siberian Military District.
 * 2nd Guards Airborne Division – established at Zvenigorod Dec 1942. Fought at Ponyri, Kursk, Korsun, and in the Carpathians. With 1st Guards Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front 5.45. Disbanded, after temporary loss of its divisional colours, soon after war ended.
 * 3rd Guards Airborne Division (ex 8th Airborne Corps at Shchelkovo Dec 1942). Fought at Demyansk, Ponyri, Kiev, Zhitomir, Debrecen, Budapest, and Vienna. With 27th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front 5.45. Became 125th Guards Rifle Division December 1945.
 * 4th Guards Airborne Division (ex 1st Airborne Corps at Moscow Dec 1942). Fought at Kursk, Orel, Zhitomir, Korsun, Targul Frumos, Debrecen, Budapest, Bratislava and Prague. With 7th Guards Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45. Became 111th Guards Rifle Division 28 June 1945 while with 25th Guards Rifle Corps, 7th Guards Army.
 * 5th Guards Airborne Division – established at Kirshatsch Dec 1942. Fought at Demyansk, Voronezh, Korsun, on the Dniester River, and at Budapest. With 4th Guards Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front 5.45. Became 112th Guards Rifle Division 28 June 1945 while serving with 20th Guards Rifle Corps, 4th Guards Army.
 * 6th Guards Airborne Division (ex 6th Airborne Corps at Noginsk Dec 1942). Fought at Staraya Russa, Kursk, on the Dnieper River, and at Korsun, Targul Frumos, Debrecen, Budapest, Bratislava, and Prague. With Seventh Guards Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front May 1945. Became 113th Guards Rifle Division 28 June 1945.
 * 7th Guards Airborne Division – established at Ramenskoye Dec 1942. Fought at Demyansk, Voronezh, Korsun, on the Dnieper River, and at Targul Frumos and Budapest. With 4th Guards Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front 5.45. The first formation of the 7th Guards Airborne Division was retitled as the 115th Guards Rifle Division. The 115th Guards Division was disbanded in 1953 in Kiev.
 * 8th Guards Airborne Division – established in Moscow MD Dec 1942. Fought at Demyansk, Voronezh, Kirovograd, Targul Frumos, near Budapest, Vienna, and Prague. Became 107th Guards Rifle Division 12.44.
 * 9th Guards Airborne Division (ex 1st Airborne Corps in Moscow MD Dec 1942). Fought at Demyansk, Staraya Russa, Kursk, Poltava, Kremenchug, Kirovograd, Sandomir, and in the Berlin Operation. with 5th Guards Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front 5.45. Became 116th Guards Rifle Division, June 1945.
 * 10th Guards Airborne Division – established at Dimitrov Dec 1942. Fought at Demyansk, on the Dniester River, and in Hungary. With 57th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front 5.45. Became 126th Guards Rifle Division, December 1945.
 * 11th Guards Airborne Division – became 104th Guards Rifle Division Dec 1944.
 * 12th Guards Airborne Division – became 105th Guards Rifle Division Dec 1944.
 * 13th Guards Airborne Division – became 103rd Guards Rifle Division Dec 1944.
 * 14th Guards Airborne Division – became 99th Guards Rifle Division Jan 1944, reformed Sep 1944, 2nd formation became 114th Guards Rifle Division
 * 15th Guards Airborne Division – became 100th Guards Rifle Division Jan 1944.
 * 16th Guards Airborne Division – became 106th Guards Rifle Division December 1944. Now 106th Guards Airborne Division of the Russian Airborne Troops.

At the end of the Second World War most of the remaining Guards Airborne Divisions were redesignated Guards Rifle Divisions. At the end of June 1945 this has happened to the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 9th, which became respectively the 111, 112, 113, 115, and 116th Guards Rifle Divisions. In November, it happened to the 1st, 3rd, and 10th Airborne Divisions, which became the 124th, 125th, and 126th Guards Rifle Divisions.


 * 7th Guards Cherkassy Airborne Division (Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR)
 * 21st Guards Airborne Division (Valga, Karelian ASSR)
 * 31st Guards Airborne Division (Novohrad-Volynskyi, Ukrainian SSR)
 * 76th Guards Chernigov Airborne Division (Pskov, RSFSR)
 * 98th Guards Svir Airborne Division (Bolgrad & Kishinev, Moldovan SSR)
 * 103rd Guards Airborne Division (Vitebsk, Belorussian SSR)
 * 104th Guards Airborne Division (Kirovabad, Azerbaijan SSR)
 * 106th Guards Tula Airborne Division (Tula, RSFSR)
 * 114th Guards Airborne Division (Borovukha, Belorussian SSR)
 * 242nd District Training Centre of the Airborne Forces (Gaižiūnai/Jonava, Lithuanian SSR) created from the 44th Training Airborne Division, 1987.

NKVD Divisions
Banner of the 175th Rifle Regiment, Internal Troops, NKVD Not intended for front line combat, NKVD Internal Troops were used to guard borders, secure railways, and combat elements such as the Ukrainian Insurgent Army that posed threats to the rear areas and supply convoys of the Red Army. Notwithstanding the original intent of these units, many saw at least some front line combat, several were converted to regular divisions of the Red Army, and others were grouped into a field NKVD army that was later re-numbered as the 70th Army. There were different types of divisions: Rifle Division (abbreviated to RD in this list), Railroad Security Division (RSD), Special Installation Security Division (SISD), and Convoy Forces Security Division (CFSD).

This list is primarily drawn from David Glantz, Companion To Colossus Reborn: Key Documents And Statistics, University Press of Kansas, 2005.


 * 1st Rifle Division NKVD (RD) – established 9.41 at Mga, with Northwestern Front and Leningrad Front. On 9.8.42 became 46th Rifle Division (third formation) of the Red Army.
 * 1st Motor Rifle Division NKVD – established 23.6.38 at Moscow as Separate NKVD Motorized RD, with Western Front and 56th Army. Still exists in the Russian MVD Internal Troops.
 * 2nd NKVD Railroad Security Division (RSD) – established 8.3.39 at Leningrad, with Leningrad and Special Baltic Military Districts. 11.2.42 became 23rd NKVD RSD.
 * 2nd Motor Rifle Division NKVD – 7.41 at Moscow, in Leningrad and Baltic regions. 10.45 disbanded.
 * 3rd NKVD RSD – 8.3.39 at Mogilev. Wiped out twice in 1941, with the Western and Bryansk Fronts. 11.2.42 became the 24th NKVD RSD.
 * 3rd Rifle Division NKVD – 1.42 at Leningrad, 8.42 disbanded.
 * 3rd NKVD RD – 9.42 at Tbilisi as the Tbilisi Division. With Trans-Caucasian Front. 6.44 renamed 3rd NKVD RD, with 2nd Far Eastern Front in Manchuria in 1945. Disbanded 1946.
 * 4th NKVD RSD – Established 8 March 1939 in Kiev. 6.41 in the Odessa Military District and later with Southern Front. 11.2.42 became the 25th NKVD RSD.
 * 4th NKVD RD – 9.41 in the Crimea. With 51st Army and the Separate Coastal Army. In October 1941 became the 184th Rifle Division (second formation) of the Red Army.
 * 4th NKVD Motor RD – 1.42 at Leningrad, 8.42 disbanded.
 * 4th NKVD Rifle Division – 10.10.43 at Moscow. In Baltic regions, 12.8.51 disbanded.
 * 5th NKVD RSD – *8.3.39 at Kharkov. With Southwestern Front. 11.2.42 became the 26th NKVD RSD.
 * 5th NKVD RD – *11.1.42 at Tikhvin. In Leningrad and Baltic regions. 15.9.51 disbanded.
 * 6th NKVD RSD – *8.3.39 at Khabarovsk. In the Far East. Became the 37th NKVD RSD 11.2.42.
 * 6th NKVD Motor RD – *11.41 behind Southwestern Front. Became the 8th NKVD Motor RD 11.2.42.
 * 6th NKVD RD – *1.42 at Kalinin. With Kalinin and 2nd Baltic Fronts and later in the Belorussian Military District. 10.45 disbanded.
 * 7th NKVD RSD – 8.3.39 at Svobodnyi. 11.2.42 became the 28th NKVD RSD.
 * 7th NKVD Motor RD – 4.42 at Orel and Tula. With the Western, Bryansk, Central, Belorussian, and 1st Belorussian Fronts. Later in the Belorussian Military District. 13.9.51 disbanded.
 * 8th NKVD RSD – 8.3.39 in Chita. 11.2.42 became the 29th NKVD RSD.
 * 8th Motor Rifle Division NKVD – Formed January 1942 at Voronezh from the 6th NKVD Motor RD. 7.42 became the 63rd RD of the Red Army, which then became the 52nd Guards RD 11.43.
 * 8th NKVD Motor RD – 1.42 at Voronezh (? see above) and 5.42 renumbered as the 13th NKVD Motor RD.
 * 9th NKVD RSD – *8.3.39 in Vilnius. With Special Baltic and Western Special Military Districts. Wiped out 1941, 25.9.41 disbanded.
 * 9th NKVD Motor RD – *1.42 in Rostov. 8.42 became the 31st RD of the Red Army.
 * 9th NKVD RD – *22.8.42 in Ordzhonikidze as NKVD RD with same name. Fought with Trans-Caucasian front during latter part of 1942. 5.44 became the 9th NKVD RD in Krasnodar. 10.44 disbanded.
 * 10th NKVD RSD – *14.11.39 at L'vov. With Southwestern Front. Wiped out at Kiev and 10.41 disbanded.
 * 10th Rifle Division NKVD – 7.42 at Saratov and Stalingrad. With Stalingrad Front. 10.42 became the 181st RD (third formation) of the Red Army and assigned to the NKVD Army which later was renamed the 70th Army.
 * 10th NKVD RD – *26.3.42 at Rostov as the 41st NKVD RSD. 9.42 renamed at Sukhumi as NKVD RD with same name. With 46th Army of the Transcaucasian Front. 4.44 became the 10th NKVD RD at Sarny. With Central, Belorussian, and 1st Belorussian Fronts, and then in the Belorussian Military District. June 1946, disbanded.
 * 11th NKVD RD – *1.42 at Nalchik and Krasnodar. With Crimean and Trans-Caucasus Fronts. 12.42 disbanded.
 * 11th NKVD SISD – *6.11.39 at Moscow. 31.1.42 merged with 12th NKVD SISD to become 15th NKVD SISD.
 * 12th NKVD SISD – *25.8.41 at Moscow. 31.1.42 merged with 11th NKVD SISD to become 15th NKVD SISD.
 * 12th NKVD Mountain RD – *29.6.41 at Saratov. 7.41 became the 268th RD of the Red Army.
 * 12th NKVD RD – *1.42 at Moscow. 9.42 converted to 22nd NKVD Rifle Brigade.
 * 13th NKVD CFSD – *11.39 at Kiev. With Southern and Southwestern Fronts until wiped out 9.41. Remnants became the 35th NKVD CFSD 2.42.
 * 13th Motor Rifle Division NKVD – *5.42 near Moscow from elements of the 8th NKVD Motor RD. With Voronezh Front. 8.42 became the second formation of the 95th Rifle Division of the Red Army.
 * 14th NKVD CFSD – *9.40 near Moscow. 2.42 became the 36th NKVD CFSD.
 * 14th Railway Facilities Protection Division NKVD – 3.8.44 at Vilnius. 15.5.51 disbanded.
 * 15th NKVD Mountain RD – *29.6.41 at Moscow. With Southern Front. 7.42 became the 257th RD of the Red Army.
 * 15th NKVD SISD – *31.1.42 at Moscow. Formed by merger of 11th and 12th NKVD SISD. 15.5.51 disbanded.
 * 16th NKVD Mountain RD – *29.6.41 at Moscow. 7.42 became the 262nd RD of the Red Army.
 * 16th NKVD SISD – *31.1.42 at Moscow. 30.5.50 disbanded.
 * 17th NKVD SISD – *31.1.42 at Gorki. 15.5.51 disbanded.
 * 18th NKVD RSD – *24.6.41 at Tbilis. 11.2.42 became 30th NKVD RSD.
 * 18th NKVD SISD – *22.6.41 at Sverdlovsk as the 25th NKVD SISD. 31.1.42 became the 18th NKVD SISD. 15.5.51 disbanded.
 * 19th NKVD SISD – *1.42 at Vorishilovgrad. With Southern and Trans-Caucasus Fronts. 10.11.42 reformed as the 8th NKVD Brigade.
 * 19th NKVD Special Installation and Railroad Security Division – *24.6.41 at Gorki. 26.3.42 became the 31st NKVD SIRSD.
 * 19th NKVD RD – *8.42 near Grozni. With Trans-Caucasus Front, fought at Grozni.
 * 20th NKVD SIRSD – *24.6.41 at Leningrad. 5.9.41 became the 20th NKVD RD.
 * 20th NKVD RD – *5.9.41 at Tikhvin from the 20th NKVD SIRSD. With 8th and 23rd Armies. 8.42 became the 92nd RD of the Red Army.
 * 20th NKVD SISD – *10.11.42 at Novosibirsk and Kuibyshev. 15.5.51 disbanded.
 * 21st NKVD Motor RD – *6.41 at Leningrad. With 42nd Army. 1.9.41 became the 21st NKVD RD. 8.42 21st NKVD RD became the 109th RD of the Red Army.
 * 21st NKVD SISD – 28.7.43 at Novosibirsk. 22.11.45 converted to 54th NKVD Brigade.
 * 22nd Motor Rifle Division NKVD – 23.6.41 in Northwestern Front area. After 30 June 1941, had to operate as a part of 10th Rifle Corps, but it had no organic artillery, engineer, or logistical support. 8.41 wiped out and disbanded 1.42.
 * 22nd NKVD RSD – *29.2.44 at Kuibyshev. 25.5.46 disbanded.
 * 23rd NKVD Motor RD – *6.41 in Kiev Special Military District. With Southwestern Front, 1.42 became the 8th NKVD Motor RD.
 * 23rd NKVD RSD – *11.2.42 at Leningrad. Fought in Leningrad area. 15.5.51 disbanded.
 * 24th NKVD RSD – *11.2.42 at Moscow (was the 3rd NKVD RSD). 21.12.46 disbanded.
 * 25th NKVD RSD – *11.2.42 at Saratov (was the 4th NKVD RSD). With Southwestern and 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts. 15.5.51 disbanded.
 * 25th NKVD SISD – *22.6.41 at Sverdlovsk. Became the 18th NKVD SISD 31.12.42.
 * 26th NKVD RSD – *11.2.42 at Liski (was the 5th NKVD RSD). 21.12.46 disbanded.
 * 26th NKVD Mountain RD – *29.6.41 at Moscow. 7.41 assigned to Red Army.
 * 27th NKVD RSD – *11.2.42 at Khabarovsk (was the 6th NKVD RSD). 15.5.51 disbanded.
 * 28th NKVD RSD – *11.2.42 at Svobodnyi (was the 7th NKVD RSD). 29.2.44 became the 32nd NKVD RS Brigade.
 * 29th NKVD RSD – *11.2.42 at Chita (was the 8th NKVD RSD). 21.12.46 disbanded.
 * 30th NKVD RSD – *11.2.42 at Tbilisi (was the 18th NKVD RSD). 16.12.46 disbanded.
 * 31st NKVD RSD – *26.3.42 at Gorki (was the 19th NKVD RSD). 25.5.46 disbanded.
 * 32nd NKVD RSD – *26.3.42 at Voroshilov. With Voronezh, Central, Belorussian, and 1st Ukrainian Fronts. 15.5.51 disbanded.
 * 33rd NKVD RSD – *26.3.42 at Kuibyshev. 8.1.47 disbanded.
 * 34th NKVD RSD – *26.3.42 at Sverdlovsk. 21.12.46 disbanded.
 * 35th NKVD CFSD – *2.42 near Voronezh (was the 13th NKVD CFSD). With Stalingrad and Central Asian Military Districts. 7.51 disbanded.
 * 36th NKVD CFSD – *2.42 near Krasnoiarsk (was the 14th NKVD CFSD). With Ukrainian Military District. 1.48 disbanded.
 * 37th NKVD CFSD – *3.42 near Volodarsk. With Western and 1st Belorussian Fronts. 7.51 disbanded.
 * 38th NKVD CFSD – *3.42 at Novosibirsk. 7.51 disbanded.
 * 39th NKVD CFSD – *8.43 at Sverdlovsk. 7.51 disbanded.
 * 41st NKVD RSD – *26.3.42 at Rostov. Successively renamed the Sukhumi Division and the 10th NKVD RD.
 * 45th NKVD CFSD – *8.44 at Beltsy. With 2nd Ukrainian Front. 9.55 disbanded.
 * 46th NKVD CFSD – *8.44 at Moscow. 9.55 disbanded.
 * 47th NKVD CFSD – *5.45 at Leningrad.
 * 48th NKVD CFSD – *5.45 at Riga.
 * 49th NKVD CFSD – *5.45 at Odessa.
 * 50th NKVD CFSD – *5.45 at Voronezh.
 * 51st NKVD CFSD – *5.45 at Kharkov.
 * 52nd NKVD CFSD – *5.45 at Voroshilovgrad.
 * 53rd NKVD CFSD – *5.45 at Rostov.
 * 56th NKVD CFSD – *5.45 at Alma-Ata.
 * 57th NKVD RD – *18.1.45 at Gaizhunai. With 3rd Belorussian Front. 10.45 disbanded.
 * 58th NKVD RD – *1.45 at Slonim. With 1st Belorussian Front. 6.45 disbanded.
 * 59th NKVD RD – *1.45 at L'vov. With 1st Ukrainian Front. 10.45 disbanded.
 * 60th NKVD RD – *22.2.45 at Vinnitsa. With 2nd Ukrainian Front. 4.10.46 disbanded.
 * 61st NKVD RD – *2.45 at Beltsy. With the Ukrainian fronts. 12.45 disbanded.
 * 62nd NKVD RD – *12.44 at Belgrade. With 3rd Ukrainian Front. 9.51 disbanded.
 * 63rd NKVD RD – *1.45 at Białystok. With 2nd Belorussian Front. 12.46 disbanded.
 * 64th NKVD RD – *10.44 at Lublin as the NKVD Composite Division. 12.44 became the 64th NKVD RD at Lvov. With 1st Ukrainian Front. 6.48 disbanded.
 * 65th NKVD RD – *23.1.45 at Stanisław. With 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts in Hungary. 18.7.46 disbanded.
 * 66th NKVD RD – *1.45 at Sibiu. With 3rd Ukrainian Front in Romania. 10.45 disbanded.
 * Grozny NKVD RD – *15.8.42 at Grozny. In combat with Trans-Caucasus Front until 12.42 and subsequently on security duties. 18.4.44 disbanded.
 * Makhachkala NKVD RD – *8.42 at Makhachkala. Fought with Red Army until 11.42. 1.43 disbanded.
 * Siberian NKVD RD – *10.42 in Siberia. 1.43 became the 140th Rifle Division of the Red Army and assigned to the 70th (NKVD) Army.
 * Central Asian NKVD RD – *10.42 in Siberia. 1.43 became the 161st Rifle Division of the Red Army and assigned to the 70th (NKVD) Army.
 * Far Eastern NKVD RD – *10.42 in Siberia. 1.43 became the 102nd Rifle Division of the Red Army and assigned to the 70th (NKVD) Army.
 * Trans-Baikal NKVD RD – *10.42 in Siberia. 1.43 became the 106th RD of the Red Army and assigned to the 70th (NKVD) Army.
 * Ural NKVD RD – *10.42 in Siberia. 1.43 became the 175th RD of the Red Army and assigned to the 70th (NKVD) Army.

Tank Divisions
The Red Army tank divisions of the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945) were short-lived. In the face of the German invasion of 1941, many poorly maintained vehicles were abandoned, and those that did meet the Germans in battle were defeated by the superior training, doctrine, and radio communications of the Panzertruppe. The magnitude of the defeat was so great that the mechanized corps parent headquarters of the tank divisions were either inactivated or destroyed by July 1941. Most of the tank divisions facing the Germans had met a similar fate by the end of 1941. The Soviets opted to organize more easily controlled tank brigades instead, eventually combining many of these into three-brigade tank corps in 1942, an organizational structure that served them until the end of the war. Until late in the war, two tank divisions remained in the Far East, serving in the Transbaikal Military District.


 * 1st Tank Division – with 1st Mechanised Corps in Jun 1941.
 * 2nd Tank Division – formed June–July 1940. With 3rd Mechanised Corps in Jun 1941.
 * 3rd Tank Division – with 1st Mechanised Corps in Jun 1941.
 * 4th Tank Division – with 6th Mechanised Corps in Jun 1941.
 * 5th Tank Division – formed June–July 1940. With 3rd Mechanised Corps in Jun 1941.
 * 6th Tank Division – with 28th Mechanised Corps in June 1941. 6th Tank Division was part of the Transcaucasian Front when the Front moved into Iran, but was withdrawn from Iran in September 1941, whereas in November it was deployed by Novocherkassk with the 56th Army.
 * 7th Tank Division – with 6th Mechanised Corps in June 1941.
 * 8th Tank Division – with 4th Mechanized Corps in Jun 1941.
 * 9th Tank Division – with 27th Mechanised Corps in June 1941. Quickly separated from 27th Mechanised Corps and re-designated 104th Tank Division.
 * 10th Tank Division – with 15th Mechanised Corps in June 1941. Ground down to a strength of 20 vehicles while serving with 40th Army. Broken up August–September 1941 and reorganised as 131st and 133rd Tank Battalions.
 * 11th Tank Division – with 2nd Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 12th Tank Division – with 8th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 13th Tank Division – with 5th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 14th Tank Division – with 7th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 15th Tank Division – with 16th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 16th Tank Division – with 2nd Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 17th Tank Division – with 5th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 18th Tank Division – with 7th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 19th Tank Division – with 22nd Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 20th Tank Division – with 9th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 21st Tank Division – with 10th Mechanized Corps in June 1941, with 201 or 217 tanks. By 1 October 1941, part of 54th Army but had no tanks remaining.
 * 22nd Tank Division – with 14th Mechanized Corps in Jun 1941.
 * 23rd Tank Division – with 12th Mechanized Corps in June 1941, disbanded by August 1941.
 * 24th Tank Division – with 10th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 25th Tank Division – with 13th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 26th Tank Division – with 20th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 27th Tank Division – with 17th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 28th Tank Division – with 12th Mechanized Corps in June 1941. With 27th Army on 1 November 1941, not listed in BSSA next month.
 * 29th Tank Division – with 11th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 30th Tank Division – with 14th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 31st Tank Division – with 13th Mechanized Corps in June 1941. (in Shchuchyn area 1941)
 * 32nd Tank Division – with 4th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 33rd Tank Division – with 11th Mechanized Corps, 3rd Army in Jun 1941.
 * 34th Tank Division – with 8th Mechanized Corps in June 1941. On disbandment, elements reorganised as 16th Tank Brigade, which was later transferred bodily from the Red Army to the Polish Armed Forces in the East. See pl:16 Dnowsko-Łużycka Brygada Pancerna.
 * 35th Tank Division – with 9th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 36th Tank Division – with 17th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 37th Tank Division – with 15th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 38th Tank Division – with 20th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 39th Tank Division – with 16th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 40th Tank Division – with 19th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 41st Tank Division – with 22nd Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 42nd Tank Division – with 21st Mechanized Corps in June 1941, disbanded by August 1941.
 * 43rd Tank Division – with 19th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 44th Tank Division – with 18th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 45th Tank Division – with 24th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 46th Tank Division – with 21st Mechanized Corps in June 1941, disbanded by August 1941.
 * 47th Tank Division – with 18th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 48th Tank Division – with 23rd Mechanized Corps in June 1941. Reorganised as 17th and 18th Tank Brigades in September 1941.
 * 49th Tank Division – with 24th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 50th Tank Division – with 25th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 51st Tank Division – with 23rd Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 52nd Tank Division – with 26th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 53rd Tank Division – with 27th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 54th Tank Division – with 28th Mechanized Corps in June 1941.
 * 55th Tank Division – with 25th Mechanized Corps in June 1941. Destroyed August 1941 at Chernigov and remnants became 8th and 14th Separate Tank Battalions.
 * 56th Tank Division – formed from two cavalry divisions. With 26th Mechanized Corps in June 1941. Formed the basis of 102nd Tank Division in mid-July 1941.
 * 57th Tank Division – with Transbaikal Military District in June 1941.
 * 58th Tank Division – with 30th Mechanized Corps in Far East in June 1941. Became 58th Tank Brigade on 31 December 1941.
 * 59th Tank Division – with 2nd Red Banner Army in Far East in Jun 1941.
 * 60th Tank Division – with 30th Mechanized Corps in Far East in June 1941. Became 60th Tank Brigade on 20 January 1942.
 * 61st Tank Division – with 17th Army, Transbaikal Military District in June 1941, and still there in May 1945.
 * 101st Tank Division – formed after July 1941; with Western Front in August 1941.
 * 102nd Tank Division – formed after July 1941 from 56th Tank Division. With Reserve Front in August 1941. Became 144th Separate Tank Brigade on 10 September 1941. (ru:102-я танковая дивизия (СССР))
 * 104th Tank Division – formed 15 July 1941 by re-designation of 9th Tank Division; with Western Front in August 1941. Disbanded by being redesignated as a tank brigade 6 September 1941.
 * 105th Tank Division – formed after July 1941; with Reserve Front in August 1941.
 * 107th Tank Division – formed after July 1941; with Western Front in August 1941. Became 107th Motor Rifle Division 16 September 1941, and, three months after that, 2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division on 12 January 1942.
 * 108th Tank Division – formed after July 1941, possibly redesignation or split of 69th Mechanised Division. with Reserve Front in August 1941. Becomes 108th Tank Brigade on 2 December 1941.
 * 109th Tank Division – formed after July 1941; with Central Front in August 1941.
 * 110th Tank Division – formed after July 1941; with Reserve Front in August 1941. On July 21, the commander of 30th Army disbanded the 110th Tank Division and distributed its battalions to his rifle divisions; the battalion reassigned to the 250th Rifle Division was supposed to consist of two companies, one of ten T-34s and one of ten BT of T-26 light tanks, plus a command tank.
 * 111th Tank Division – formed 15 July 1941. With the Transbaikal Front in May 1945. By November 1945 was at Nalaykh, Mongolia. Redesignated 4 March 1955 as 16th Tank Division, disbanded July 1957.
 * 112th Tank Division – formed in August 1941 in Primorsky Krai on the basis of 112th Tank Regiment, 239th Mechanised Division, 30th Mechanized Corps, under Colonel Andrei Getman. With the Far Eastern Front in Sept 1941. Becomes 112th Tank Brigade on 3 January 1942.

Artillery Divisions

 * 1st (Tank) destroyer artillery division - 25 May 1942 with South-Western Front
 * 2nd (Tank) destroyer artillery division - 25 May 1942 with Bryansk Front
 * 3rd (Tank) destroyer artillery division - 25 May 1942 with Western Front
 * 4th (Tank) destroyer artillery division - 6 June 1942 with Kalinin Front
 * 5th (Tank) destroyer artillery division - 6 June 1942 with Stalingrad Military District
 * 1st Breakthrough Artillery Division – with 70th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 1st Guards Glukhovshchinskaya Order of Lenin, Red Banner Znameni, Orders of Suvorov (II), Kutuzov (II), and Bogdan Khmelnitskiy (II) Artillery Division – formed from 1st Artillery Division 1 March 1943 and fought with the Voronezh, later 1st Ukrainian Fronts.
 * 2nd Breakthrough Artillery Division – with 5th Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 2nd Guards Perekop Red Banner Order of Suvorov (II) Artillery Division created on 1 March 1943 from the 4th Artillery Division and fought with the Southern, 4th Ukrainian, 1st Baltic and 2nd Baltic Fronts.
 * 2nd Guards Breakthrough Artillery Division – with 3rd Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 3rd Breakthrough Artillery Division – with 5th Guards Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front 5.45.
 * 3rd Guards Breakthrough Artillery Division – with 3rd Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 4th Breakthrough Artillery Division – with 1st Ukrainian Front 5.45.
 * 4th Guards Heavy Gun Artillery Division – with 3rd Belorussian Front May 1945. Became 43rd Guards Rocket Division of the SRF?
 * 5th Breakthrough Artillery Division – with 3rd Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 5th Guards Breakthrough Artillery Division – with 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
 * 6th Breakthrough Artillery Division – with 47th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 6th Guards Breakthrough Artillery Division – with 1st Shock Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945. In Manchuria Aug 1945.
 * 7th Breakthrough Artillery Division – with 3rd Ukrainian Front May 1945. See ru:7-я артиллерийская дивизия прорыва.
 * 8th Gun Artillery Division – with Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
 * 9th Breakthrough Artillery Division – with 3rd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
 * 10th Breakthrough Artillery Division – with 3rd Belorussian Front May 1945. In August 1959, on the basis of the disbanded 10th Breakthrough Artillery Division, the formation of an organizational group of 46 Training Artillery Range (Military Unit No.43176) temporarily located in Mozyr, Gomel Oblast, Byelorussian SSR, was begun. 46 Training Artillery Range later became 27th Guards Rocket Army.
 * 11th Artillery Division – with 53rd Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
 * 12th Breakthrough Artillery Division – with 3rd Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 13th Breakthrough Artillery Division – with 60th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front 5.45.
 * 14th Breakthrough Artillery Division – with 5th Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 15th Breakthrough Artillery Division – with 2nd Shock Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 16th Breakthrough Artillery Division – with 7th Guards Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
 * 17th Artillery Division – with 13th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front 5.45.
 * 18th Breakthrough Artillery Division – with 8th Guards Army of the 1st Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 19th Breakthrough Artillery Division – with 3rd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
 * 20th Breakthrough Artillery Division – Fought at Kursk, and in East Prussia and Kurland. With 1st Shock Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
 * 21st Breakthrough Artillery Division – Fought in East Prussia and Kurland; with Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
 * 22nd Breakthrough Artillery Division – with 33rd Army of the 1st Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 23rd Breakthrough Artillery Division – with 49th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 24th Breakthrough Artillery Division – with 38th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front 5.45.
 * 25th Breakthrough Artillery Division – with 28th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front 5.45.
 * 26th Artillery Division – with 65th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 27th Artillery Division – with 1st Shock Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) 5.45.
 * 28th Breakthrough Artillery Division – Fought in Kurland; with Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
 * 29th Breakthrough Artillery Division – with 8th Guards Army of the 1st Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 30th Breakthrough Artillery Division – with 2nd Ukrainian Front May 1945.
 * 31st Breakthrough Artillery Division – with 1st Ukrainian Front 5.45.
 * 34th Artillery Division, Potsdam, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (formed 25 June 1945 to July 9, 1945 in Germany)

Guards Rocket Artillery Divisions
All Guards Rocket Artillery Divisions were disbanded between August and September 1945.


 * 1st Guards Rocket Krasnoselsk Red Banner Artillery Division – Formed Sep 1942 at Moscow Military District; with ? Front Jan 1945.
 * 2nd Guards Rocket Gorodokskaya Red Banner Order of Alexander Nevskiy Artillery Division – Formed Sep 1942; with 1st Baltic Front Jan 1945.
 * 3rd Guards Rocket Kiev Red Banner Orders of Kutuzov (2nd class) and Bogdan Khmelnitskiy (II) Artillery Division – Formed Sep 1942; with 1st Ukrainian Front Jan 1945.
 * 4th Guards Rocket Sivashskaya Order of Alexander Nevskiy Artillery Division – Formed Sep 1942; with 2nd Belorussian Front Jan 1945.
 * 5th Guards Rocket Kalinkovichskaya Red Banner Order of Suvorov (2nd class) Artillery Division – Formed Jan 1943; with 1st Belorussian Front Jan 1945.
 * 6th Guards Rocket Bratislava Artillery Division – Formed Jan 1943; with 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
 * 7th Guards Rocket Kovenskaya Red Banner Orders of Suvorov (2nd class) and Kutuzov (2nd class) Artillery Division – Formed Feb 1943; with 3rd Belorussian Front May 1945.

Antiaircraft Divisions
Further information on organization of anti-aircraft divisions: Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division (Soviet Union)


 * 1st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division – with 21st Army, Don Front and South-Western Front before renamed into 2nd Guards AA Division
 * 1st Guards Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division was a part of the Soviet Air Defence Forces (PVO Strany).
 * 2nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division – with the 3rd Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 2nd Guards Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division – with 5th Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 3rd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division – with the 3rd Ukrainian Front May 1945.
 * 3rd Guards AA Division – with Eighth Guards Army of the 1st Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 4th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division – with the 3rd Ukrainian Front May 1945.
 * 4th Guards AA Division – with 1st Guards Tank Army of the 1st Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 5th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division – with Seventh Guards Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front May 1945.
 * 5th Guards AA Division – with 9th Guards Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front May 1945.
 * 6th AA Division – with 5th Guards Tank Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 6th Guards AA Division – with 4th Guards Tank Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front May 1945.
 * 7th AA Division – with 8th Army of the Leningrad Front May 1945.
 * 9th AA Division – with the 3rd Ukrainian Front May 1945.
 * 10th AA Division – with 13th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front May 1945.
 * 11th AA Division – with 46th Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front May 1945.
 * 12th AA Division – with 65th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 14th AA Division – with 10th Guards Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
 * 17th AA Division – with 51st Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
 * 18th AA Division – with 69th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 19th AA Division – with 3rd Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 20th AA Division – with 61st Army of the 1st Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 21st AA Division – with 52nd Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front May 1945.
 * 22nd AA Division – with the 3rd Ukrainian Front May 1945.
 * 23rd AA Division – with the 1st Ukrainian Front May 1945.
 * 24th AA Division – with 2nd Guards Tank Army of the 1st Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 25th AA Division – with 1st Guards Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front May 1945.
 * 26th AA Division – with 7th Guards Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front May 1945.
 * 27th AA Division – with 53rd Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front May 1945.
 * 28th AA Division – with 70th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 29th AA Division – with 5th Guards Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front May 1945.
 * 30th AA Division – with the 2nd Ukrainian Front May 1945.
 * 31st AA Division – appears to have been with 47th Army in January 1945, with four anti-aircraft artillery regiments (BSSA). With 3rd Army of the 1st Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 33rd AA Division – with the 3rd Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 34th AA Division – with 11th Guards Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 35th AA Division – with 37th Army in Bulgaria May 1945.
 * 36th AA Division – with 1st Shock Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
 * 37th AA Division – with 21st Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front May 1945.
 * 38th AA Division – with the 2nd Ukrainian Front May 1945.
 * 39th AA Division – with 6th Guards Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
 * 40th AA Division — with 14th Army near Kirkenes May 1945.
 * 41st AA Division – with Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
 * 42nd AA Division – with 42nd Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
 * 43rd AA Division – with 60th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front May 1945.
 * 44th AA Division – with 67th Army of the Leningrad Front May 1945.
 * 45th AA Division – with the 3rd Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 46th AA Division – with 51st Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
 * 47th AA Division – with the 2nd Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 48th AA Division – with the 3rd Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 49th AA Division – with 49th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 50th - 63rd AA Divisions were of the air defense forces (PVO Strany).Companion To Colossus Reborn: Key Documents And Statistics
 * 64th AA Division – with 33rd Army of the 1st Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 65th AA Division – with the 2nd Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 66th AA Division – with 48th Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 67th AA Division – with the 3rd Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 68th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division – became 6th Guards Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division March 1945
 * 69th AA Division – with the 3rd Guards Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front May 1945.
 * 70th AA Division – with Kiev Military District May 1945.
 * 71st AA Division – with the 1st Ukrainian Front May 1945.
 * 72nd AA Division – in RVGK reserve of the Stavka May 1945.
 * 73rd AA Division – with 4th Shock Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
 * 74th AA Division – with 47th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 76th AA Division – with 38th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front May 1945.

Divisions Disbanded 1945–89

 * Disbanded 1958(?)← 1957 7th MRD<-7th Mech Div <-1946/55← 7th Mech Corps
 * 343 (55) Rifle Division 1946–55, 136 MRD 1957, Disbanded 1958
 * Disbanded 1958←137 MRD 1957 ←345 (57) RD 1946–55
 * Disbanded 1959←138 MRD 1957 ←358 (59) RD 1946–55
 * Disbanded 1960←139 MRD 1957 ←349 (60) RD 1946–55
 * Disbanded 1959←140 MRD 1957 ←374 (70) RD 1946–55
 * Disbanded 1958←142 Mtn RD 1957 ←376 (72) RD 1955
 * Disbanded 1960←143 Gds MRD 1957←72G Mech Div 1946(1955) ←110 GRD
 * Disbanded 1958<144 MRD 1957<97 RD 1946 (1955)

1–10

 * 1st Moscow Proletarian Rifle Division – two formations, 1924 or 1926 (1st formation), and formed again in August 1939 (2nd formation). Became motorized again in January 1940. Division has a complicated history from that point, first becoming the 1st Guards Moscow MRD in September 1941 (see 'Motor Rifle Divisions' below), then the 1st Guards Rifle Division in January 1943 (see 'Guards Rifle Divisions' below), then becoming the 1st Guards Moscow MRD (again) in 1957.
 * 1st Rifle Division First and second formations were part of the organisation that eventually became 1st Guards Rifle Division (see immediately above.) Third and fourth formations were formed mid-1942 and January 1944 respectively. Disbanded in the summer of 1945 with the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany.
 * 2nd Rifle Division (1st formation) – With 50th Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front May 1945. Disbanded 30 December 1945 in the Kiev Military District.
 * 3rd Rifle Division—with 2nd Red Banner Army of the Far Eastern Front 5.45. Disbanded 30 August 1946 in the Transbaikal Military District.
 * 4th Rifle Division—with 69th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front 5.45. Disbanded in the summer of 1945 with the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany. Reformed 1955 from 179th Rifle Division, became 4th Motor Rifle Division 1957.
 * 5th Vitebsk Rifle Division (1938–1940; 1st formation) – Western Military District, Baltic Special Military District. Took part in Soviet invasion of Eastern Poland 1939 with Third Army. Renamed 44th Guards Rifle Division 5 Oct 1942.
 * 5th Oryol Rifle Division (2nd formation) – Reformed at Yefremov Oct 1942. Fought at Oryol and in East Prussia. With 3rd Army of the 1st Belorussian Front May 1945. Disbanded June 1946 in the Minsk Military District.
 * 6th Rifle Division First formation 1938. Second formation 1939; With 28th Rifle Corps of Fourth Army, Soviet Western Front, from June 1941. Fought at Ochkino, near Stalingrad, at Oryol and Yasy. With 1st Guards Cavalry-Mechanized Group of the 2nd Ukrainian Front May 1945. Disbanded in the fall of 1945 in the Transbaikal Military District.
 * 7th Motor Rifle Division—First formed Sept 1918 at Vladimir in the Moscow Military District. Apparently formed up to four times in total (not in 1955–57, according to Feskov et al. 2013).
 * 8th Rifle Division- formed 1918, 1941, 1941 again (as Third Formation).
 * 9th Mountain Rifle Division—formed May (Bonn, 2005) or September 1918, as the Kursk Infantry Division. Became 9th Motor Rifle Division around 1957.
 * 10th Rifle Division — existed 1920. Fought around Leningrad. Disbanded summer 1945.

11–20

 * 11th Rifle Division — Leningrad Military District, Baltic Special MD. Established during Civil War and fought in 1919. Used to form 11th Mechanized Corps in 1932. Recreated at Kingisepp in 1936. Fought in northern Russia and Baltic States. With 42nd Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
 * 12th Amurskaya Rifle Division —Siberian Military District, Soviet Far East Front—with 2nd Red Banner Army, Far Eastern Front 5.45;
 * 13th Rifle Division—North Caucasus Military District, Western Special Military District by 1941. Fought near Leningrad. Disbanded in the summer of 1945 with the Central Group of Forces.
 * 14th Rifle Division—Formed at Moscow, Moscow Military District in 1922. September 1939 was in Leningrad Military District. Fought in the Winter War and later in the far north.
 * 15th Mechanised Division- Kiev Special Military District, Odessa Military District. Established as 15th Rifle Division at Ulyanovsk in 1918. Became a motor rifle division in Sep 1939. Took part in Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina. Reorganized as rifle division Aug 1941. Fought at Voronezh, Kursk, Ternopol, and in Belorussia, Pomerania, and near Stettin and Rostock. With 65th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 16th Rifle Division—Leningrad Military District, Baltic Military District. Established at Novgorod Oct 1939. formed again near Malechna in December 1941, and in 1955 briefly.
 * 17th Rifle Division — Moscow MD, Western Special MD. Established at Gorki around 1920. Fought in Winter War with Finland. Wiped out at Vyazma Oct 1941. Recreated from 17th Moscow People's Militia Rifle Division around Oct 1941. Fought in Belorussia, East Prussia, and Kurland. With 48th Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front May 1945. Became 1st Rifle Brigade 1946, disbanded 1947.
 * 18th Rifle Division—established at Kazan Nov 1939. Fought in Winter War with Finland, and at Battle of Moscow. Became 11th Guards Rifle Division Jan 1942. Recreated at Ryazan in Apr 1942. Fought at Kletskaya and Danzig. With 19th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front May 1945. Disbanded in June 1946 with the Northern Group of Forces.
 * 19th Rifle Division—formed 1922 as a territorial formation in the Moscow Military District, also in ОрВО. Fought at Battle of Moscow, Sichevka, Kharkiv, in the Ukraine, and at Bratislava. With Seventh Guards Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front in Czechoslovakia 5.45.
 * 20th Mountain Rifle Division—Transcaucasus Military District (former 3rd Caucasus) Formed as 20th Infantry Division 1919 (Ruwiki). Fought at Krasnodar, Novorossiysk, Krimskaya, and near Berlin. With 28th Army (Soviet Union) of the 1st Ukrainian Front May 1945.

21–30

 * 21st Rifle Division—Siberian Military District, Soviet Far East Front. Established at Spassk before 1935. Fought on Finnish front and in Hungary. With 26th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
 * 22nd Rifle Division—North Caucasus Military District, Soviet Far East Front— (eventually became 22nd MRD), formed reportedly 1919.
 * 23rd Rifle Division—established in North Caucasus Military District before August 1932. On 17 May 1935 the division was part of the Kharkov Military District. On 1 July 1935 it was part of the 14th Rifle Corps. The division took part in the Polish campaign in September–October 1939 as part of the Ukrainian Front. On 02.10.1939 was part of the 49th Rifle Corps, 12th Army. Part of 11th Army on 22.6.41, wiped out 7.41. Recreated at Dunaburg before 12.41, fought at Stalingrad and became the 71st Guards Rifle Division 1.3.43. Created again at Voroshilov 5.43, fought at Kursk, Kiev, Zhitomir, and Riga. With 61st Army of the 1st Belorussian Front May 1945. Disbanded in the summer of 1945 with the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany.
 * 24th Rifle Division Formed 1922, 1942, 1945.
 * 25th Rifle Division— fought in Civil War; reestablished 1925, 1942, and for a third time.
 * 26th Rifle Division—established at Vorishilov in 1935. Fought near Tilsit in Oct 1944. With 43rd Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 27th Rifle Division—Created 1920 and fought in Russian Civil War. Created again in Vitebsk before June 1941 with 132nd, 239th, and 345th Rifle Regiments. Fell in battle on Svisloch river line 25 June 1941. Was disbanded Sept 19, 1941. Recreated Aug 1941 at Arkhangelsk. (Was renamed from Rebolsky Direction Division on Sept 24, 1941) Fought near Danzig in 1945. With 19th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front May 1945. Disbanded in the summer of 1945 with the Northern Group of Forces.
 * 28th Mountain Rifle Division— The history of the division dates from the 2nd Consolidated Rifle Division, which took part in the Civil War, and was then renamed the 28th Rifle Division. In the 1930s the 28th Rifle Division was renamed the 28th Highland Mountain Division, which became on 28 September 1936, the 28th Highland Mountain Division 'named for S. Ordzhonikidze' and then on 16 July 1940, the 28th Red Banner Mountain Division named for S. Ordzhonikidze. (see ru:28-я горнострелковая дивизия) With the North Caucasus Military District in July 1941. Wiped out during Battle of Kiev, September 1941. Recreated at Archangelsk. Fought at Kiev, Velikiye Luki, and Targul Frumos. With 22nd Army of the RVGK 5.45.
 * 29th Rifle Division—established at Omsk in 1920 as 4th Rifle Division, became 29th Rifle Division that year. As 29th Motorised Division, wiped out near Minsk in July 1941. Recreated July 1941, October 1941, and 1943 (after having become 72nd Guards Rifle Division. With 6th Guards Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945. 10th Rifle Brigade 1946, 63rd Mechanised Division 1953, 110th Motor Rifle Division 1957, then 29th Motor Rifle Division in 1964.
 * 30th Rifle Division—established 1918. Became 55th Guards Rifle Division in Dec 1942. Recreated at Rossosh in Apr 1943. Fought at Rostov, Kiev, Zhitomir, and in the Carpathians. With 38th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front 5.45. Disbanded with the Northern Group of Forces in the summer of 1945. Reformed 1955 from the 203rd Rifle Division, became 102nd Motor Rifle Division 1957.

31–40

 * 31st Rifle Division—Formed at Stalingrad in 1925. With 52nd Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front in May 1945. Disbanded July 1946.
 * 32nd Rifle Division–raised in 1920 in the Saratov area. With 4th Shock Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945. Disbanded by summer of 1946, reformed 1955 from 207th Rifle Division, became 32nd Motor Rifle Division 1957.
 * 33rd Rifle Division—The division was formed in June 1922 from a cadre from a rifle brigade in the Volga Military District as a territorial rifle division, and received the designation 'Samara'. With 16th Rifle Corps of 11th Army on 22 June 1941. Fought vicinity Stalingrad and Berlin. With 3rd Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front May 1945. Disbanded 1946, reformed briefly in Far East by redesignation of 215th RD 1955.
 * 34th Rifle Division—established 1923. With Far East Military District during World War II, specifically with 15th Army of the Far Eastern Front in May 1945. Fought in Manchurian campaign in 1945. Became 11th Machine Gun Artillery Division 1948, reformed 1955 from 216th Rifle Division, and disbanded 1956.
 * 35th Rifle Division—established at Kazan in 1919. Served in Far East Military District during World War II and part of the 5th Rifle Corps there in May 1945. Disbanded in the fall of 1945, reformed 1955 from the 255th Rifle Division, became 125th Motor Rifle Division 1957.
 * 36th Rifle Division—established 1919, became 36th Motorized Division 1937, then 36th Motor Rifle Division 1940. Became 36th Rifle Division again in 1946, then disbanded 1956.
 * 37th Rifle Division—North Caucasus Military District. Established at Novocherkassk in 1922. Fought at Molodechno and Riga. With 22nd Army of the RVGK 5.45. Disbanded October 1945, reformed 1955 from 261st Rifle Division, became 127th Motor Rifle Division 1957.
 * 38th Rifle Division—North Caucasus Military District. Established at Azov in 1920 as 2nd Don Rifle Division, became 9th Don Rifle Division 1922, then 38th Rifle Division 1936, wiped out at Vyazma 10.41. Recreated at Alma Ata 1.42 fought at Stalingrad and became 73rd Guards Rifle Division 3.43. Created again at Kutaisi 4.43, fought on the Dnieper River and at Targul Frumos. With 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45. Disbanded with the Southern Group of Forces in the summer of 1945.
 * 39th Rifle Division—Soviet Far East Front. Established 1922. Fought at Lake Khasan 8.38. With the 1st Red Banner Army of the independent coastal group in the Far East May 1945. Fought in Manchurian campaign Aug 1945. Became 129th Motor Rifle Division in 1957.
 * 40th Rifle Division—Kiev Special MD, Soviet Far East Front. 22 June 1941 with 25th Army's 39th Rifle Corps along with 32nd and 92nd Rifle Divisions. With the 25th Army of the independent coastal group in the Far East 5.45. Fought in Manchurian campaign 1945. Became 40th Motor Rifle Division 1957.

41–50

 * 41st Rifle Division — Kharkov MD, Kiev Special MD; established at Kryvyi Rih in 1940. With 6th Rifle Corps, 6th Army of the Soviet Southwestern Front from 22 June 1941. Wiped out at Kiev Sept 41. Recreated at Chapayevsk Mar 42, wiped out at Izyum May 42. Recreated again in Oct 42 at Verchovye from 118th Rifle Brigade, fought at Kursk and in Poland. With 69th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front, May 45. Disbanded in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany during the summer of 1945. Reformed 1955 from 264th Rifle Division, became 41st Motor Rifle Division 1957.
 * 42nd Rifle Division — Leningrad Military District, Western Special MD. Established at Terijok Feb 1940. Fought in Winter War with Finland. With 28th Rifle Corps of 4th Army, Soviet Western Front in Jun 1941 and parts of the division defended the Brest Fortress until wiped out in Jul 1941. The remainder of the division fought at Smolensk and was surrounded and finally destroyed during the battle of Kiev in Sep 42. Recreated at Volsk in Jan 1942. Fought at Lenino, Mogilev, Grodno, and Danzig. With 49th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front, May 1945. Disbanded in the summer of 1945 with the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany.
 * 43rd Rifle Division – formed 1924–25, fought at Siege of Leningrad With Leningrad Front, May 1945.
 * 44th Mountain Rifle Division— Kiev Special Military District. Fought in Civil War and destroyed during Winter War with Finland. Reformed twice in 1940 and 1941. Reformed 1955 and converted to motor rifle division 1957.
 * 45th Rifle Division – Began war in the Kiev Special Military District. With 15th Rifle Corps of 5th Army 22 June 1941. With 14th Army in northern Norway, May 1945.
 * 46th Rifle Division — Initially established during the Civil War. Wiped out at Yelnaya in July 1941. Recreated at Ufa post-July 1941. Wiped out at Volkhov Pocket June 1942. Recreated from 1st NKVD Division at Vaskelevo. Fought at Lutsk and Danzig. With 2nd Shock Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front, May 1945.
 * 47th Mountain Rifle Division – Established at Kutaisi, Transcaucasian Military District before 1932. Georgian SSR national formation. Gained the Order of the Red Banner and the title on 'behalf of Comrade Stalin.' Fought at Poltava and wiped out at Izyum in May 42. Recreated from 21st Rifle Brigade in 1942, fought at Nevel and became regular rifle division in 1945. With 22nd Army of the RVGK, May 45.
 * 48th Rifle Division—Moscow Military District, Kalinin Military District, Baltic Military District. Established at Kalinin in 1939. Fought near Leningrad. With 22nd Army of the RVGK, May 1945.
 * 49th Rifle Division—Leningrad Military District, Western Special Military District. Established at Kostroma in 1918. Fought in Winter War with Finland. Mutinied 8 Jan 1940. Fought at Brest and destroyed at Minsk in 1941. Recreated Ivanovo Nov 1941. Fought at Stalingrad, Kursk, Roslaval, Mogilev, and near Berlin. With 33rd Army of the 1st Belorussian Front, May 45. Disbanded in the summer of 1945 with the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany.
 * 50th Rifle Division— Western Special Military District. Established at Polotsk before 1939, fought at Yelnaya, Mozhaisk, Kursk, Targul Frumos, and in the Berlin Operation. With 52nd Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front in May 1945.

51–60

 * 51st Rifle Division— Fought with Blyukher during the Civil War. 1st formation at Odessa in the Odessa Military District before 1941. With 9th Army, Kiev Special Military District on the outbreak of war. Wiped out at Vyazma Oct 1941. 2nd formation from Eighth Moscow People's Militia Division subsequent to Oct 1941. Fought in Caucasus, Belorussia, and Kurland. With 50th Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front May 1945. Disbanded by May 1946.
 * 52nd Rifle Division — Formed in 1935 in the Moscow Military District. Was in the invasion of Poland in 1939 and the Winter War with Finland. Renamed 10 Guards RD December 1941. Recreated Kolomna in January 1942, fought in the Ukraine and Hungary. With 53rd Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
 * 53rd Rifle Division — formed Saratov, Volga Military District, October 1939, fought at Yelnaya, on the Dnieper River, at Uman and Targul Frumos. With 46th Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
 * 54th Mountain Rifle Division — formed in Leningrad Military District. With 7th Army (Soviet Union) on 22 June 1941. Fought near Leningrad. With 31st Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front 5.45. Disbanded in the summer of 1945 with the Central Group of Forces.
 * 55th Rifle Division — Moscow Military District, Orel MD, Western Special MD. Established at Kursk 9.38, fought at Velikiye Luki and wiped out at Kiev 9.41. Recreated at Kuybyshev 12.41. The division became the 1st Naval Infantry Division of the Baltic Fleet on 1 December 1944.
 * 56th Rifle Division — established Pleskau before 1930. Fought vicinity Leningrad and Riga. With 42nd Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
 * 57th Motor Rifle Division — Ural, Transbaikal MD- 'Ural-Khingan Red Banner' active by 1924 as a territorial division in the Ural MD. Fought at Khalkhin Gol 1938. With 17th Army of the Transbaikal Front 5.45. Fought with 6th Guards Tank Army in Manchuria August 1945. Rifle Division June 1946, became 55th Separate Rifle Regiment January 1947.
 * 58th Mountain Rifle Division — Kiev Special Military District; established at Cherkassy 1932, fought in Uman Pocket, at Lenino, Korsun, and in Poland. With 3rd Guards Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front May 1945. See also Battle of Peregonovka (1919) and Kiev Offensive (1920). Goff, 1998, has a note saying the 431st Rifle Division, formed 11 December 1941 in the Volga MD, became the 58th Rifle Division ((First?) Formation), on 25 December 1941. Disbanded in the summer of 1945 with the Central Group of Forces.
 * 59th Rifle Division — established at Iman before 1941. With the 1st Red Banner Army of the independent coastal group in the Far East 5.45. Fought in Manchurian campaign Aug 1945. Disbanded 30 August 1946.
 * 60th Rifle Division — established at Ovruch before 1941. Disbanded Aug 1941. Recreated from 1st Moscow Militia Rifle Division in Aug 1941. Fought at Moscow, Kursk, and Warsaw. With 47th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front May 1945.

61–70

 * 61st Rifle Division — established at Balschov before 1933. Fought in southern Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, and the Berlin Operation. With 28th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front 5.45.
 * 62nd Rifle Division — established Fastov in Sep 1939. With 15th Rifle Corps of 5th Army 22 June 1941. Disbanded Nov 1942. Recreated Apr 1943. Fought at Stalingrad and Kursk. With 31st Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front 5.45. Disbanded in the summer of 1945 with the Central Group of Forces.
 * 63rd Mountain Rifle Division — established Tbilisi before 1941, originally as 2nd Georgian Infantry Division. The Division was a Georgian national formation with honour titles including 'of the Order of the Red Star Frunze.' Became rifle division 1938, disbanded June 1942 after being wiped out at Kerch. The 63rd Rifle Division was formed in June 1942 from the 8th Motor Rifle Division NKVD, became 52nd Guards Rifle Division November 1942. Recreated at Kaluga from the 45th and 86th Rifle Brigades in May 1943. Fought at Stalingrad, Kursk, and in the Belorussian Offensive. With 5th Army of the RVGK in May 1945.
 * 64th Rifle Division — established Smolensk before Feb 1939. Became 7th Guards Rifle Division Sep 1941. Recreated Mar 1942. Mutinied near Stalingrad Aug 1942. Fought at Minsk and Stalingrad. With 3rd Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front May 1945. Disbanded in the summer of 1945 with the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany.
 * 65th Rifle Division — established at Chita Feb 1941. Fought near Leningrad and in the Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation. Became the 102nd Guards Rifle Division in Dec 1944.
 * 66th Rifle Division—traces its origins as a division to 1932. Fought in Far East in 1945.
 * 67th Rifle Division — established in the Leningrad area in the 1920s. Fought on Finnish front. With 14th Army in northern Norway May 1945.
 * 68th Mountain Rifle Division — Redesignated from 3rd Turkestan Mountain Rifle Division 1936. With 4th Army of the Transcaucasus Front in 5.45. Disbanded 1946.
 * 69th Rifle Division — established Blagoveshchensk in 1936 from the 3rd Kolkhoz Rifle Division. Reorganized as 69th Motorized Division March 1941. Erroneously listed as fighting with 28th Army. It appears now that (citing Soviet documents) that 69th Motorized Division became 107th Tank Division on 17 July 1941. Recreated at Tashkent in Dec 1941. Fought at Kursk, Stettin, and in the Belorussian Operation. With 65th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 70th Rifle Division — established 1934 at Kuybishev; fought in the Winter War with Finland, at Leningrad and Novgorod. Renamed 45th Guards Rifle Division October 1942. Recreated at Kaluga from 47th and 146th Rifle Brigades in April 1943. Fought at Kursk and in Belorussia. Tatyana Baramzina gained the Hero of the Soviet Union while fighting with this division in July 1944; awarded posthumously. With 43rd Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front May 1945. Disbanded in the Northern Group of Forces in January 1947.

71–80

 * 71st Rifle Division — established Kemerovo before Jun 1941. With 7th Army (Soviet Union) on 22 June 1941. Fought near Leningrad and Kursk, and in Vistula-Oder Operation. With 70th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front May 1945. See ru:71-я стрелковая дивизия. Disbanded in the summer of 1945 with the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany.
 * 72nd Rifle Division — established Leningrad before Jun 1941. Wiped out vicinity Tiraspol Jul 1941. Recreated near Leningrad Dec 1941 from 7th Naval Infantry Brigade. In Leningrad Military District postwar in 1945. With 21st Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front 5.45. Disbanded in the summer of 1945 with the Central Group of Forces.
 * 73rd Rifle Division—established Omsk in Jul 1940. Wiped out at Vyazma Oct 1941. Recreated Feb 1942 at Ordzhonikidze. Fought near Stalingrad, Kursk, and in the Belorussian and Berlin Operations. With 48th Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 74th Rifle Division — established Krasnodar before Jun 1941. Fought vicinity of Kursk, Kiev, and Poznań. With 26th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
 * 75th Mountain Rifle Division – established Lubny May 1939. On 15 May 1939 the 75th Rifle Division was transferred from the 14th Rifle Corps (Kharkov Military District) and arrived in the Leningrad Military District. Fought in Winter War with Finland. With 4th Army, Western Front, from June 1941. Wiped out vicinity Kiev Aug 1941. Recreated by January 1942 from 473rd Rifle Division, which became 75 RD (II Formation). With 4th Army of the Transcaucasus Front in May 1945.
 * 76th Rifle Division—formed at least twice, first time as an Armenian national formation which was converted into 51st Guards Rifle Division. With 47th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front May 1945. Disbanded in the summer of 1945 with the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany.
 * 77th 'Simferopolskaya Red Banner, Order of Suvorov Division Sergo Ordzhonikidze' Mountain Rifle Division — established Baku 1930 originally as the Azerbaijan Infantry Division. Converted to rifle division June 1942. Azerbaijani national formation. Fought in Caucasus and Crimea and vicinity Riga and Memel. With 51st Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945. Became 126 MRD in 1957, and the 34th Motor Rifle Division in 1965.
 * 78th Rifle Division—established Khabarovsk in 1940. Became 9th Guards Rifle Division in Nov 1941. Recreated Samarkand Mar 1942. Fought near Targul Frumos, Iasi-Kishinev, and Debrecen. With 27th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
 * 79th Mountain Rifle Division — formed 1939 from Sakhalin Rifle Division, became regular division 1940, with 16th Army of the Far Eastern Front 5.45. Occupied Sakhalin Island Aug 1945. Became Motor Rifle Division 1957.
 * 80th Rifle Division – Formed 1923 and destroyed at Uman in September 1941. Second formation September 1941 from 1st Guards Leningrad People's Militia Division. Fought at Leningrad, Operation Iskra, Leningrad-Novgorod Offensive, Baltic, Vistula-Oder, Lower Silesian, Upper Silesian and Prague Offensives. Disbanded in the summer of 1945 with the Central Group of Forces.

81–90

 * 81st Rifle Division — established Lubny around 1936. As mechanised division, part of 4th Mechanised Corps, Southwestern Front, in June 1941. Fought at Voronezh and Kursk. With Soviet 1st Guards Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front in May 1945. Disbanded in the summer of 1945 with the Northern Group of Forces.
 * 82nd Rifle Division — established Perm in 1932. Sent to Far East, returned for Moscow counter-attack in Dec 1941.[citation needed] Was a motorized division until Mar 1942. Became 3rd Guards Motorized Rifle Division in Mar 1942 which unit later became the 6th Guards Mechanized Corps (and finally 90th Guards Tank Division many years later). Recreated Jul 1942. Fought in Poland 1945. With 47th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front May 1945. Disbanded in the summer of 1945 with the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany.
 * 83rd Mountain Rifle Division – From 01.07.35 established at Ashkabad as 83rd Turkestan mountain rifle division. Fought at Krasnodar and the Kuban. Became the 128th Guards Rifle Division in October 1943. Today is 128th Mechanized Brigade (Ukraine).
 * 83rd Rifle Division – Formed at Loutti in January 1944 as a regular rifle division. Fought in Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation and Karelia. With 14th Army in northern Norway in May 1945.
 * 84th Rifle Division — established at Tula before 1928. Fought near Stalingrad, Voronezh, Kursk, Kharkiv, Iasi, Targul Frumos, and Budapest. With 57th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front 5.45. Disbanded with the Southern Group of Forces in the summer of 1945.
 * 85th Rifle Division. With 42nd Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
 * 86th Rifle Division — established at Laurovo Feb 1941. Fought near Leningrad and Tartu, and in East Prussia. With 2nd Shock Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 87th Rifle Division — established at Sverdlovsk in 1937. Apparently wiped out summer 1941. Recreated Nov 1941 from 3rd Airborne Corps (Soviet Union); became 13th Guards Rifle Division (Soviet Union). Recreated at Citorol in May 1942. Fought at Stalingrad with less than 800 effectives. Fought in the Ukraine, Crimea, and in Kurland. With 51st Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
 * 88th Rifle Division — established at Archangelsk before Sep 1939. Fought in Winter War with Finland, and was in Archangelsk MD on 22 June 1941. Became 23rd Guards Rifle Division in Mar 1942. Recreated at Kisner in Apr 1942. Fought in Belorussia and East Prussia. With 31st Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front 5.45. See ru:88-я стрелковая дивизия (1-го формирования). Disbanded in the summer of 1945 with the Central Group of Forces.
 * 89th Rifle Division—established at Kursk before Jun 1941. Wiped out at Vyazma Oct 1941. Recreated Yerevan Jan 1942. Armenian national formation. Fought in Ukraine, Crimea, and Pomerania. Postwar in Georgia. Disbanded as 12th Military Base in 2008.
 * 90th Rifle Division — established at Leningrad in 1936. Fought at Leningrad and in Estonia and East Prussia. With 2nd Shock Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front May 1945.

91–100[edit]

 * 91st Rifle Division — established at Achinsk in Sep 1939. Wiped out at Vyazma Oct 1941. Recreated Mahachkala in Apr 1942. Fought at Stalingrad and Kursk, and in the Ukraine, Crimea, and Latvia. With 51st Army of the Kurland Group (Leningrad Front) May 1945.
 * 92nd Rifle Division — established at Barabash before Apr 1937. 22 June 1941 with 39th Rifle Corps, 25th Army, Soviet Far East Front. Wiped out at Volkhov Jun 1942. Recreated from 20th NKVD Division at Tikhvin post-6.42. With 59th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front 5.45. Disbanded in the summer of 1945 with the Central Group of Forces.
 * 93rd Rifle Division — established Chita in 1936. Became 26th Guards Rifle Division in Apr 1942. Recreated Dzerzhinsk Jul 1942. Fought in Ukraine and Yugoslavia. With 26th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front 5.45.
 * 94th Rifle Division — established Krasnoyarsk before 1941. Fought near Ternopol. With 36th Army of the Transbaikal Front 5.45.
 * 95th Rifle Division — established Kotoviki in 1940, and was with 9th Army in June 1941. Wiped out at Sevastopol May 1942. Recreated at Tula from units of 13th NKVD Motorized Rifle Division in Sep 1942. Fought at Stalingrad. Became 75th Guards Rifle Division March 1943. Recreated Kaluga Apr 1943. Fought near Kursk and in Belorussia. With 33rd Army of the 1st Belorussian Front May 1945. Disbanded in the summer of 1945 with the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany.
 * 96th Mountain Rifle Division — established Vinnitsa 1923. Converted to rifle division Oct 1941. Recreated Jul 1942. Fought at Stalingrad, in Belorussia, East Prussia, and near Berlin. With 48th Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 97th Rifle Division — established Zhmerinka before 1940. The 377th OTB of the 97th Rifle Division arrived at the front he Winter War on 28 January 1940 with 31 T-26s (including 11 twin-turreted) and 6 KhT-26 flame-throwing tanks. With 6th Rifle Corps, 6th Army of the Southwestern Front from 22 June 1941. (See ru:97-я стрелковая дивизия (1-го формирования)) Wiped out at Kiev Sep 1941. Recreated Divisionnaya Jan 1942. Became 83rd Guards Rifle Division Apr 1943. Recreated Belev May 1943. Fought near Vitebsk, Vilnius, and in Hungary. With 5th Army of the RVGK 5.45.
 * 98th Rifle Division — established Ishevsk Feb 1941. Wiped out at Vyazma Oct 1941. Recreated Spassk Oct 1941. Fought in Stalingrad. Became 86th Guards Rifle Division Apr 1943. Recreated at Leningrad from 250th Rifle Brigade. Fought vicinity Leningrad. With 59th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front 5.45. Disbanded in the summer of 1945 with the Central Group of Forces.
 * 99th Rifle Division—Established at Uman in 1924. Took part in Soviet invasion of Poland (1939) with the Ukrainian Front. Recognised as one of the best divisions in the Army under Andrey Vlasov's command in 1940. (Erickson, 1962, p. 554) Started Operation Barbarossa with 8th Rifle Corps, 26th Army, Southwestern Front. Wiped out at Izyum May 1942. Recreated Balachov Aug 1942. Fought at Stalingrad. Became 88th Guards Rifle Division Apr 1943. Recreated from 99th Rifle Brigade May 1943. Fought near Zhitomir and in Carpathians. With 46th Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front 5.45. Disbanded 1945–46. See also [2] See also ru:99-я стрелковая дивизия (2-го формирования)
 * 100th Rifle Division — established Berdichev Nov 1923. Fought in Winter War with Finland. Became 1st Guards Rifle Division Sep 1941. Recreated Vologda Mar 1942. Fought near Stalingrad, and in the Ukraine and Belorussia. With 60th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front 5.45. Disbanded in the summer of 1945 with the Northern Group of Forces.

101–110

 * 101st Motorized Rifle Division—Fought at Battle of Moscow 1941. On Sakhalin Island as the 101st Rifle Division May—Aug 1945, with the independent Sakhalin command.
 * 102nd Rifle Division—5,450 men (training camp 1 June 1941, Kharkov Military District). Disbanded Oct 1941. Recreated Chimkent Jan 1942. Again recreated from Far East NKVD Division at Khabarovsk June 1942, and joined 70th Army. Fought at Demyansk, Kursk, and in Belorussia. With 48th Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front May 1945.
 * 103rd Rifle Division—fought in Winter War with Finland 1940. Converted to motorized division Mar 1941. Wiped out at Vyazma Oct 1941. Recreated at Samarkand Jan 1942. Fought at Kharkiv, wiped out at Izyum May 1942. Recreated ?; with 2nd Rifle Corps in Transbaikal Front in January 1945; still part of 2RC on 9 Aug 1945 and part of 36th Army, Transbaikal Front.
 * 104th Rifle Division—established at Kandalaksha before 12.39, fought at Petsamo and on Kandalaksha axis. With 57th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front 5.45. Disbanded with the Southern Group of Forces in the summer of 1945.
 * 105th Rifle Division—established at Ussuriysk before June 1941, fought at Kharkiv in 1943 and stationed in the Far East. With the 25th Army of the independent coastal group in the Far East May 1945.
 * 106th Rifle Division—established at Zolotonosha before 6.41, and with 9th Rifle Corps, Odessa Military District, in June 1941. Wiped out at Vyazma 10.41. Recreated October 1941 and destroyed at Kerch 11.41. Recreated at Krasnodar 12.41 and wiped out in the Caucasus 8.42. Created again at Chita from the Transbaikal NKVD Division 11.42, fought at Demyansk, Kursk, on the Dnieper River, and at Berlin. With 3rd Guards Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front 5.45.
 * 107th Rifle Division—established at Moscow before 6.41, fought at Yelnaya and became 5th Guards Rifle Division in October 1941. Recreated at Tambov 3.42, fought in the Ukraine and at Kraków. With 60th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front 5.45. Disbanded in the summer of 1945 with the Northern Group of Forces.
 * 108th Rifle Division—established at Vyazma Mar 1941. Composed of the 407th, 444th, and 539th Rifle and 575th Artillery Regiments. Fought at Minsk, Smolensk, and Yartsevo in 1941. Later fought at Kursk and in Poland and Hungary. With 65th Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front May 1945. Disbanded June 1946 with the Northern Group of Forces.
 * 109th Rifle Division—established as a motorized division Jul 1940 in the Transbaikal region. Wiped out at Smolensk Aug 1941. Recreated at Samarkand in Aug 1941. Wiped out at Sevastopol May 1942. Recreated at Leningrad Aug 1942. With 8th Army of the Leningrad Front May 1945.
 * 110th Rifle Division—with 50th Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front May 1945.

Red Navy
The Soviet Navy (Russian: Вое́нно-морско́й флот СССР (ВМФ), tr. Voyénno-morskóy flot SSSR (VMF), lit. ' Military Maritime Fleet of the USSR') was the naval warfare uniform service branch of the Soviet Armed Forces. Often referred to as the Red Fleet (Russian: Красный флот, tr. Krasnyy flot), the Soviet Navy was a large part of the Soviet Union's strategic planning in the event of a conflict with the opposing superpower, the United States, during the cold war period between the two countries. The influence of the Soviet Navy played a large role in the events involving the Cold War (1945-1991), as the majority of conflicts centered with the American-led alliance in the Western Europe or power projection to maintain its sphere of influence in Eastern Europe.

The Soviet Navy's organizational structure was divided into four major fleets: the Northern, Pacific, Black Sea, and Baltic Fleets, which were under the separate command was the Leningrad Naval Base. In addition, Soviet Navy had a smaller fleet, Caspian Flotilla, operated in the Caspian Sea and followed by a larger fleet, 5th Squadron, in the Middle East. The Soviet Navy included the Naval Aviation, Naval Infantry, and the Coastal Artillery.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian Federation inherited the largest part of the Soviet Navy and reformed it into the Russian Navy, with smaller parts becoming the basis for navies of the newly independent post-Soviet states.

Corvettes
In the Soviet Navy were classed as small anti-submarine ships (MPK).


 * Grisha I class (project 1124.1), 37 ships built in 1966–1982
 * Nanuchka I class
 * Nanuchka II class
 * Grisha II class (project 1124P, P stands for pogranichnyi – on the border), 20 ships built in 1972–1988
 * Nanuchka III class
 * Nanuchka IV class
 * Tarantul I class
 * Grisha III class
 * Tarantul II class
 * Pauk I class
 * Dergach class
 * Pauk II class
 * Parchim II class
 * Grisha IV class
 * Tarantul III class
 * Grisha V class

Frigates

 * Burevestnik class
 * Bditelnyy, "Watchful" (1970)
 * Bodryy, "Brisk" (1971)
 * Svirepyy, "Fierce"(1971)
 * Storozhevoy, "Vigilant" (1972), involved in a mutiny in 1975, this incident inspired the novel The Hunt for Red October.
 * Razyashchiy, "Smashing" (1973)
 * Razumnyy, "Clever" (1974)
 * Druzhnyy, "Friendly" (1975)
 * Dostoynyy, "Virtuous" (1971)
 * Doblestnyy, "Valourous" (1973)
 * Deyatelnyy, "Active" (1973)
 * Zharkiy, "Torrid" (1975)
 * Bezzavetnyy "Serene" (1978)
 * Retivyy, "Ardent" (1976)
 * Leningradskiy Komsomolets (1976), renamed Legkiy, "Light" in 1992.
 * Letuchiy, "Flighty" (1977)
 * Pylkiy, "Fervent" (1979)
 * Zadornyy, "Passionate" (1979)
 * Bezukoriznennyy, Irreproachable (1980)
 * Ladny, "Harmonious" (1980)
 * Poryvistyy, "Squally" (1980)
 * Modified Burevestnik class
 * Burevestnik M class
 * Rezvyy, "Frisky" (1975)
 * Rezkiy, "Sharp" (1976)
 * Grozyashchiy, "Threatening" (1977)
 * Razitelnyy, "Striking" (1977)
 * Neukrotimyy, "Untamable" (1978)
 * Besmennyy, "Unchanging" (1979)
 * Gordelivyy, "Proud" (1979)
 * Gromkiy, "Loud" (1979)
 * Revnostnyy, "Zealous" (1980)
 * Ryanyy (1980)
 * Pytlivyy (1982)
 * Neustrashimyy class
 * Neustrashimyy (Fearless)
 * Yaroslav Mudryy
 * Tatarstan/Gepard class
 * Tatarstan
 * Dagestan

Guardships

 * Uragan-class
 * Yastreb-class

Gunboats

 * Krasnaya Abkhaziya
 * Krasnaya Armeniya
 * Krasnaya Gruziya
 * Krasnoye Znamya
 * Krasnyy Adzharistan

Destroyers

 * Aquila-class
 * Lovkiy (ex-Romanian)
 * Lyogkiy (ex-Romanian)
 * Kashin class
 * Komsomolets Ukrainy (1960)
 * Soobrazitelnyy – Adaptable (1961)
 * Provornyy – Agile (1962)
 * Obraztsovyy – Exemplary (1964)
 * Odarennyy – Gifted (1964)
 * Otvazhnyy – Courageous (1964)
 * Steregushchiy – Watchful (1966)
 * Krasnyy Kavkaz (1966)
 * Reshitelnyy – Decisive (1966)
 * Strogiy – Severe (1967)
 * Smetlivyy – Resourceful (1967)
 * Krasnyy Krym (1969)
 * Sposobnyy – Capable(1970)
 * Skoryy – Fast (1971)
 * Modified Kashin class
 * Ognevoy – Fiery (1963)
 * Slavnyy – Glorious (1965)
 * Stroynyy – Harmonious (1965)
 * Smyshlennyy – Humorous (1966)
 * Smelyy – Valiant (1968)
 * Sderzhannyy – Restrained (1972)
 * Rajput (built for Indian Navy) (1980)
 * Rana (built for Indian Navy) (1982)
 * Ranjit (built for Indian Navy) (1983)
 * Ranvir (built for Indian Navy) (1986)
 * Ranvijay (built for Indian Navy) (1988)
 * Gnevny class (Project 7 class)
 * Leningrad class
 * Novik
 * Derzky class
 * Orfey class
 * Izyaslav class
 * Fidonisy class
 * Ognevoy class (Project 30 class)
 * Soobrazitelny class (Project 7u class)
 * Regele Ferdinand class (ex-Romanian)
 * Likhoy
 * Letuchiy
 * Sovremennyy class
 * Sovremennyy – Modern (1980)
 * Otchayannyy – Foolhardy (1982)
 * Otlichnyy – Perfect (or Excellent) (1983)
 * Osmotritelnyy – Circumspect (1984)
 * Bezuprechnyy – Irreproachable (1985)
 * Boyevoy – Militant (1986)
 * Stoykiy – Steadfast (1986)
 * Okrylennyy – Inspiring (1987)
 * Burnyy – Fiery (1988)
 * Gremyashchiy – Thunderous (originally Vedushchiy) (1988)
 * Bystryy – Quick (1989)
 * Rastoropnyy – Prompt (1989)
 * Bezboyaznennyy – Intrepid (1990)
 * Bezuderzhnyy – Tenacious (1991)
 * Bespokoynyy – Restless (1992)
 * Nastoychivyy – Reliable (originally Moskovskiy Komsomolets) (1993)
 * Besstrashnyy – Fearless (1994)
 * Vazhnyy – Eminent (not completed)
 * Vdumchivyy – Thoughtful (not completed)
 * Town class (on loan 1944–1952 from the UK)
 * Deyatelny (HMS Churchill)
 * Derzkiy (HMS Chelsea)
 * Zhyostky (HMS Roxborough)
 * Dostoyny (HMS St Albans)
 * Druzhny (HMS Lincoln)
 * Zharkiy (HMS Brighton)
 * Zhguchi (HMS Leamington)
 * Zhivuchiy (HMS Richmond)
 * Doblestny (HMS Georgetown)
 * Udaloy I class
 * Udaloy – Bold(1980)
 * Vice-Admiral Kulakov (1980)
 * Marshal Vasilevskiy (1982)
 * Admiral Zakharov (1982)
 * Admiral Spiridonov (1983)
 * Admiral Tributs (1983)
 * Marshal Shaposhnikov (1985)
 * Severomorsk (1985)
 * Admiral Levchenko (1987)
 * Admiral Vinogradov (1987)
 * Admiral Kharlamov (1988)
 * Admiral Panteleyev (1990)
 * Udaloy II class
 * Admiral Chabanenko (1995)
 * Admiral Basistyy (not completed)
 * Admiral Kucherov (not completed)

Cruisers

 * Admiral Hipper class
 * Tallinn (ex-Petropavlovsk, ex-German Lützow) (1940–1960?)
 * Diana class (1898–1945?)
 * Aurora
 * Komintern, ex-Pamyat Merkuriya
 * Chervona Ukraina
 * Krasnyy Krym [Red Crimea] (Красный Крым), ex-Profintern
 * Krasnyi Kavkaz
 * Kirov class (1937–1974?)
 * Kirov (1937)
 * Voroshilov
 * Maxim Gorky
 * Molotov
 * Kalinin
 * Kaganovich
 * Omaha class
 * Murmansk (USS Milwaukee (CL-5) on loan 1944–1949 from the United States)
 * Chapayev class, an upgrade to the Kirov class (1939–1981)
 * Sverdlov class, an enlargement of the Chapayev class (1949–1991)
 * Sverdlov (Свердлов)
 * Dzerzhinskiy (Дзержинский)
 * Ordzhonikidze (Орджоникидзе)
 * Zhdanov (Жданов)
 * Aleksandr Nevskiy (Александр Невский)
 * Admiral Nakhimov (Адмирал Нахимов)
 * Admiral Ushakov (Адмирал Ушаков)
 * Admiral Lazarev (Адмирал Лазарев)
 * Aleksander Suvorov (Александр Суворов)
 * Admiral Senyavin (Адмирал Сенявин)
 * Dmitriy Pozharskiy (Дмитрий Пожарский)
 * Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya (Октябрьская Революция)
 * Murmansk (Мурманск)'
 * Mikhail Kutuzov (Михаил Кутузов)
 * Kynda class
 * Groznyy – Terrible (Грозный)
 * Admiral Fokin (Адмирал Фокин)
 * Admiral Golovko (Адмирал Головко)
 * Varyag (Варяг)
 * Kresta I class
 * Admiral Zozulya
 * Vitse-Admiral Drozd
 * Vladivostok
 * Sevastopol
 * Kresta II class
 * Kronshtadt
 * Admiral Isakov
 * Admiral Nakhimov
 * Admiral Makarov
 * Marshal Voroshilov
 * Admiral Oktyabrskiy
 * Admiral Isachenkov
 * Marshal Timoshenko
 * Vasily Chapayev
 * Admiral Yumashev
 * Kara class
 * Nikolayev (1969)
 * Ochakov (1972)
 * Kerch (1972)
 * Azov (1973)
 * Petropavlovsk (1974)
 * Tashkent (1975)
 * Vladivostok (1976)
 * Slava class – a non-nuclear, reduced-size version of the Kirov battlecruisers
 * Slava, renamed Moskva
 * Marshal Ustinov
 * Chervona Ukraina, renamed Varyag
 * Admiral Flota Lobov later taken over by Ukraine as Vilna Ukraina – incomplete

Coastal defence ships

 * Väinämöinen class
 * Vyborg (ex-Finnish Väinämöinen ceded as war reparations) (1947–1950s)

Amphibious assault

 * Alligator class
 * Ropucha class
 * Ivan Rogov class
 * Ivan Rogov
 * Polnocny-B class

Battlecruisers

 * Kirov class (1980–)
 * Kirov, later Admiral Ushakov (1977-)
 * Frunze, later Admiral Lazarev (1984–1994)
 * Kalinin, later Admiral Nakhimov (1988–1999)
 * Yuri Andropov, later Petr Velikiy (1996-)
 * Dzerzhinskiy (incomplete)

Battleships

 * Revenge class
 * Arkhangelsk, (HMS Royal Sovereign on loan 1944–1949 from the UK)
 * Conte di Cavour class
 * Novorossiysk (ex-Italian Giulio Cesare ceded as war reparations) (1949–1955)
 * Gangut class
 * Frunze formerly the Poltava (1914–1949)
 * Marat formerly the Petropavlovsk (1914–1955)
 * Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya formerly the Gangut (1914–1952)
 * Parizhskaya Kommuna formerly the Sevastopol (1914–1956)

Aircraft carriers/Aviation cruisers

 * Moskva class (1964–1991)
 * Moskva (1964–1991)
 * Leningrad (1968–1991)
 * Kiev class (1972–1997)
 * Kiev (1972–1993)
 * Minsk (1975–1993)
 * Novorossiysk (1978–1993)
 * Admiral Gorshkov (1982–1995)
 * Admiral Kuznetsov class (1985–)
 * Admiral Kuznetsov (1985–)
 * Varyag (incomplete)
 * Ulyanovsk class
 * Ulyanovsk (incomplete)
 * Unnamed

Submarines

 * List of Soviet and Russian submarine classes
 * D type
 * L type
 * ShCh type
 * P type
 * S type
 * M type
 * K type
 * A (AG) type
 * Kalev class (ex-Estonian)
 * Lembit
 * Kalev
 * Ronis class (ex-Latvian)
 * Ronis
 * Spidola
 * S class (on loan 1944 from the UK)
 * V-1 (HMS Sunfish)
 * U class (on loan 1944–1950 from the UK)
 * V-2 (HMS Unbroken)
 * V-3 (HMS Unison)
 * V-4 (HMS Ursula)
 * TS-1 (ex-Romanian NMS Rechinul)
 * TS-2 (ex-Romanian NMS Marsuinul)
 * TS-3 (ex-Romanian NMS Delfinul)
 * CB-class (ex-Italian, ex-Romanian)

SS/SSK

 * Zulu class
 * Whiskey class
 * Quebec class
 * Romeo class
 * Foxtrot class
 * B-37 (?-1962)
 * B-427 Scorpion (1971–1994)
 * Tango class
 * Bravo class
 * Kilo class
 * Losos class

Soviet Air Force
The Soviet Air Forces (Russian: Военно-воздушные силы, tr. Voyenno-Vozdushnye Sily (VVS), literally "Military Air Forces") were one of the air forces of the Soviet Union. The other was the Soviet Air Defence Forces. The Air Forces were formed from components of the Imperial Russian Air Service in 1917, and faced their greatest test during World War II. The groups were also involved in the Korean War, and dissolved along with the Soviet Union itself in 1991–92. Former Soviet Air Forces' assets were subsequently divided into several air forces of former Soviet republics, including the new Russian Air Force. "March of the Pilots" was its song.

Leader ship
the leader of the USSR is Mrgamer117