List of armies of the Soviet Union 1991

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List of armies of the Armed Forces of the USSR (1989–1991) – list of armies part of Soviet Armed Forces as of 1989–1991 and their status in the Former Soviet Union as of 2018.

• Note:

1. Due to inconsistencies in various sources, the list may contain inaccuracies;
2. A dash in the column "Predecessor" means that the army was a newly created formation;
3. A dash in the column "1992 Transfer to jurisdiction" means that the army was disbanded without being under the jurisdiction of any of the former USSR states;
4. In all sections in the column "Year of creation" the year in which the formation received the given full name is indicated;

This section includes armies subordinated to the Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces.

Complete list of the combined arms armies (21 formations) that existed in the Ground Forces in the period from 1989 to 1991.^[1]

• Note:

1. Guards – Guards;
2. MSD – motorized rifle division;
3. pulad – machine gun-artillery division;
4. td – tank division;
5. UR – fortified area.

Initially a list of tank armies that existed in the Ground Forces in the period from 1989 to 1991.^[1]

Air armies (18 formations) that existed in the Soviet Air Forces in the period from 1989 to 1991.^[4]

• Note: abbreviations

1. adib/apib – fighter-bomber aviation division / fighter-bomber aviation regiment;
2. bad/bap – bomber aviation division / bomber aviation regiment;
3. VVS – air force (as applied to a military district or group of troops);
4. vtap – military transport aviation regiment;
5. tbad – heavy bomber aviation division.
6. uap – training aviation regiment;

• List of Soviet Army divisions 1989–1991
• ru:Список армий Вооружённых Сил СССР (1989—1991)

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