Ministry of Defense of the USSR

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defence ministry government ministry

The Ministry of Defense of the USSR was the central government body responsible for directing and administering the Soviet Union’s armed forces and overall military policy.

Aliases (12)

Statements (66)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	defence ministry → government ministry →
continent	Asia → Europe →
coordinatedWith	Warsaw Pact Joint Command →
country	Soviet Union →
governmentBranch	executive branch of the Soviet Union →
hasHead	Minister of Defense of the USSR →
hasPart	General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR → Main Armored Directorate → Main Artillery Directorate → Main Construction Directorate → Main Directorate of Combat Training → Main Directorate of Communications → Main Engineering Directorate → Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) → Main Logistics Directorate → Main Medical Directorate → Main Operations Directorate → Main Organizational-Mobilization Directorate → Main Personnel Directorate → Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Navy → Main Rocket and Artillery Directorate → Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR →
headquartersLocation	General Staff Building, Arbat Square, Moscow → Moscow →
jurisdiction	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics →
language	Russian →
nativeName	Министерство обороны СССР →
officeHolder	Andrei Grechko → Dmitry Ustinov → Dmitry Yazov → Georgy Zhukov → Marshal of the Soviet Union Andrei Grechko → Marshal of the Soviet Union Dmitry Ustinov → Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov → Nikolai Bulganin → Rodion Malinovsky NERFINISHED → Sergey Sokolov NERFINISHED →
participatedIn	Warsaw Pact military structure →
partOf	Council of Ministers of the USSR →
precededBy	People's Commissariat of Defense of the USSR →
primaryRole	direction and administration of the Soviet Union's armed forces → formulation of Soviet military doctrine → implementation of Soviet defense policy →
replacedBy	Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation →
responsibleFor	Soviet Air Defense Forces → Soviet Air Forces → Soviet Armed Forces → Soviet Army → Soviet Navy → Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces → military planning → military procurement → military training and education → mobilization planning → operational command of the armed forces → overall military policy of the Soviet Union →
sector	defence →
shortName	MO USSR →
subordinateTo	Communist Party of the Soviet Union → Council of Ministers of the USSR → Supreme Soviet of the USSR →
timePeriod	Cold War →
typeOfOrganization	central government body →
usedScript	Cyrillic →

Referenced by (26)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Gagarin Air Force Academy ("Ministry of Defence of the USSR") → Soviet Navy ("Ministry of Defence of the Soviet Union") → Soviet military officers → VVS ("Ministry of Defence of the Soviet Union") →	governedBy
Frontal Aviation ("Soviet Ministry of Defence") → Soviet Air Defense Forces ("Ministry of Defence of the USSR") → Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces ("Ministry of Defence of the Soviet Union") → Soviet armed forces ("Ministry of Defence of the Soviet Union") →	subordinateTo
Soviet High Command ("People's Commissariat of Defense") → Soviet High Command → Stavka ("People's Commissariat of Defense") →	hasPart
Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy ("Soviet Ministry of Defense") → Frunze Military Academy ("Ministry of Defence of the USSR") →	affiliation
Baltic Fleet (Soviet Union) → Soviet Ground Forces ("Ministry of Defence of the USSR") →	controlledBy
Georgy Zhukov ("Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union") → Semyon Timoshenko ("People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR") →	positionHeld
Order of the Red Star ("USSR Ministry of Defense") →	awardedBy
Nikolai Ogarkov ("Ministry of Defence of the Soviet Union") →	employer
Ministry of Defense of the USSR ("Министерство обороны СССР") →	nativeName
Voroshilov General Staff Academy ("Soviet Ministry of Defence") →	operatedBy
Ministry of Defense of the USSR ("People's Commissariat of Defense of the USSR") →	precededBy
Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation ("Ministry of Defence of the USSR") →	predecessor
People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs of the RSFSR ("People's Commissariat of Defence of the USSR") →	replacedBy
Supreme Commander-in-Chief (Soviet Union) ("Soviet Ministry of Defense") →	supervises
Sergei Akhromeyev ("Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union") →	workedFor