Soviet Ground Forces

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army land warfare branch

The Soviet Ground Forces were the land-based military branch of the Soviet Armed Forces, responsible for large-scale ground operations and defense throughout the existence of the USSR.

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All labels observed (11)

Label	Occurrences
Soviet Ground Forces canonical	48
Red Army ground forces	10
Ground forces of the Soviet Union	4
Soviet Army	3
Soviet ground forces	3
Ground Forces of the Soviet Union	2
Ground Forces of the Red Army	1
Soviet Army (late Cold War)	1
Soviet Red Army formations	1
Soviet Red Army ground forces	1
Сухопутные войска СССР	1

Statements (73)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	army ⓘ land warfare branch ⓘ
allegiance	Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ
conflict	Cold War ⓘ Hungarian Revolution of 1956 ⓘ Korean War ⓘ Prague Spring ⓘ Sino–Soviet border conflict ⓘ surface form: Sino-Soviet border conflict Soviet–Afghan War ⓘ World War II ⓘ
controlledBy	Ministry of Defense of the USSR ⓘ surface form: Ministry of Defence of the USSR
country	Soviet Union ⓘ
dissolved	1991 ⓘ
doctrine	Deep operation ⓘ Operational maneuver group ⓘ
followedBy	Ground forces of other post-Soviet states ⓘ Russian Ground Forces ⓘ Ukrainian Armed Forces ⓘ surface form: Ukrainian Ground Forces
garrison	Central Group of Forces ⓘ Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany ⓘ surface form: Group of Soviet Forces in Germany Northern Group of Forces ⓘ Southern Group of Forces ⓘ
headquartersLocation	Moscow ⓘ
highestCommand	Soviet High Command ⓘ surface form: General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR
ideology	Marxism–Leninism ⓘ
inception	1946 ⓘ
militaryBranchOf	Soviet armed forces ⓘ surface form: Soviet Armed Forces
motto	For the Motherland ⓘ
nativeName	Soviet Ground Forces self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Сухопутные войска СССР
notableCommander	Dmitry Yazov ⓘ Georgy Zhukov ⓘ Ivan Konev ⓘ Rodion Malinovsky ⓘ
partOf	Soviet armed forces ⓘ surface form: Soviet Armed Forces
peakPersonnelStrength	millions of personnel ⓘ
precededBy	Red Army ⓘ surface form: Workers' and Peasants' Red Army
recruitment	conscription ⓘ
role	ground defense of the USSR ⓘ land warfare ⓘ large-scale offensive ground operations ⓘ
standardServiceRifle	AK-47 ⓘ AK-74 ⓘ AKM ⓘ
subdivision	air defense units ⓘ airborne units under separate command ⓘ artillery units ⓘ chemical troops ⓘ combined arms armies ⓘ engineer troops ⓘ logistics units ⓘ motor rifle divisions ⓘ rifle divisions ⓘ signal troops ⓘ tank armies ⓘ
trainingDoctrine	mass conscript army ⓘ
usedEquipment	air defense systems ⓘ armored fighting vehicles ⓘ infantry small arms ⓘ multiple rocket launchers ⓘ self-propelled artillery ⓘ surface-to-surface missiles ⓘ tanks ⓘ towed artillery ⓘ
usedLanguage	Russian ⓘ
usedScript	Cyrillic ⓘ
usedVehicle	MLI-84 infantry fighting vehicle ⓘ surface form: BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicle ⓘ BTR series armored personnel carriers ⓘ T-54 tank ⓘ surface form: T-54/55 tank T-62 tank ⓘ T-64 tank ⓘ T-72 tank ⓘ T-80 tank ⓘ

Referenced by (75)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Soviet High Command → exercisedAuthorityOver → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

Soviet 60th Army → partOf → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

1st Baltic Front → militaryBranch → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ground forces of the Soviet Union

Soviet offensive of February 1940 → militaryBranch → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

this entity surface form: Red Army ground forces

Soviet Voronezh Front → militaryBranch → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

subject surface form: Voronezh Front

this entity surface form: Ground forces of the Soviet Union

Ivan Konev → militaryBranch → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

this entity surface form: Soviet Army

Battle of the Dnieper → involvedBranch → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

Soviet Steppe Front → branch → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy → operatedBy → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

Voronezh–Kastornoye offensive → militaryBranch → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

this entity surface form: Red Army ground forces

North Caucasus offensive operations → involvedForce → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

this entity surface form: Soviet Red Army ground forces

Nationale Volksarmee Landstreitkräfte → trainingDoctrineInfluencedBy → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

this entity surface form: Soviet Army

Leningrad Front (Soviet Union) → branch → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

this entity surface form: Red Army ground forces

Soviet Ground Forces → nativeName → Soviet Ground Forces self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Сухопутные войска СССР

57th Army (Red Army) → militaryBranch → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

this entity surface form: Red Army ground forces

Stalingrad strategic defensive operations (flank sector) → conductedBy → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

this entity surface form: Soviet Red Army formations

6th Army (Red Army) → service → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

this entity surface form: Red Army ground forces

Upper Silesian Offensive → involvedBranch → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

this entity surface form: Red Army ground forces

Dmitry Yazov → serviceBranch → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

this entity surface form: Soviet Army

Frontal Aviation → coordinationWith → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

Military Transport Aviation → supportedUnit → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

Central Front → militaryBranch → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

322nd Rifle Division → militaryBranch → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

Red Army Reserve Front → militaryBranch → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ground forces of the Soviet Union

R-11 → usedBy → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

R-300 Elbrus → operatedBy → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany → militaryBranch → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

Chernigov–Pripyat Offensive → militaryBranchInvolved → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

Russian Ground Forces → predecessor → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

Kalinin Front → militaryBranch → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

Memel offensive → militaryBranch → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

this entity surface form: Red Army ground forces

4th Ukrainian Front → branch → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

7th Guards Army → partOf → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

Gumbinnen–Goldap offensive → militaryBranchSide1 → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

this entity surface form: Red Army ground forces

6th Guards Army → partOf → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

40th Army → partOf → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

40th Army → militaryBranch → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

Soviet 18th Separate Rifle Corps → service → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

Soviet field armies → usedBy → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

Operation Danube → groundComponent → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

Soviet internal military districts → appliesTo → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

Rostov defensive operations → militaryBranch → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

Main Logistics Directorate → appliesTo → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

Main Directorate of Combat Training → appliesTo → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

Main Artillery Directorate → associatedWith → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

Ukrainian Military District → militaryBranch → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ground Forces of the Soviet Union

KOVO → militaryBranch → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ground Forces of the Red Army

Soviet 18th Army → branch → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

52nd Army (Red Army) → militaryBranch → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ

4th Tank Army → militaryBranch → Soviet Ground Forces ⓘ