Soviet Army

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

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

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 Outside of Russia, many units and formations were taken over by the post-Soviet states; some were withdrawn to Russia, and some dissolved amid conflict, notably in the Caucasus.

While the Ground Forces are commonly referred to in English language sources as the Soviet Army,^[a] in Soviet military parlance the term armiya (army) referred to the combined land and air components of the Soviet Armed Forces, encompassing the Ground Forces as well as the Strategic Rocket Forces, the Air Defence Forces, and the Air Forces.^{[3][better source needed]}

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