the Soviet Union, a military district (Russian: вое́нный о́круг, voyenny okrug) was a territorial association of military units, formations, military...
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After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia maintained a diminishing number of former Soviet Armed Forces military districts. Leningrad Military District...
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The Northern Military District (Russian: Северный военный округ) was a Military District in the Soviet Union that existed from June 29, 1951, to March...
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The Soviet Armed Forces, also known as the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, the Red Army (1918–1946) and the Soviet Army (1946–1991), were the armed...
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was the second-highest military rank of the Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin wore the uniform and insignia of Marshal after World War II. The rank of Marshal...
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after the division of the Central Asian Military District into the Turkestan and Steppe Military Districts. The new Turkestan and Steppe districts were...
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The Soviet Union maintained a system of foreign military bases against the United States during the Cold War. At different times, various Soviet Army contingents...
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The Moscow Military District is one of the smallest military districts in Russia by geographic size. It is one of two military districts of the Russian Armed...
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into the Soviet Union. It was disbanded by being redesignated as a Group of Forces in the early 1990s, after the Soviet Union collapsed. The military district...
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The Order of Lenin Leningrad Military District (Russian: Ленингра́дский вое́нный о́круг) is a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation...
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