Soviet military officers

E6469
armed forces personnel military rank group social group

Soviet military officers were members of the armed forces of the Soviet Union, ranging from junior commanders to high-ranking generals, who played central roles in the Red Army’s organization, strategy, and political control.

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All labels observed (6)

Label Occurrences
Red Army officers 2
Red Army personnel 2
Soviet military advisers 2

Statements (99)

Predicate Object
instanceOf armed forces personnel ⓘ
military rank group ⓘ
social group ⓘ
awardedDecoration Hero of the Soviet Union ⓘ
Order of Alexander Nevsky ⓘ
Order of Kutuzov ⓘ
Order of Lenin ⓘ
Order of Suvorov ⓘ
Order of the Red Banner ⓘ
Order of the Red Star ⓘ
countryOfService Soviet Union ⓘ
endOfExistence 1991 ⓘ
governedBy Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ
Soviet High Command ⓘ
surface form: General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR

Ministry of Defense of the USSR ⓘ
hadOathTo Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ
surface form: Communist Party

Soviet people ⓘ
Soviet state ⓘ
hadPoliticalSupervisionBy Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Navy ⓘ
hadPurgeEvent Great Purge ⓘ
hadPurgePeakYear 1937 ⓘ
1938 ⓘ
hadRankStructureBasedOn Imperial Russian Army ⓘ
surface form: Imperial Russian Army ranks
hadRankStructureReformedIn 1940 ⓘ
1955 ⓘ
ideology Marxism–Leninism ⓘ
communism ⓘ
includedRank army general ⓘ
captain ⓘ
colonel ⓘ
colonel general ⓘ
lieutenant ⓘ
lieutenant colonel ⓘ
lieutenant general ⓘ
major ⓘ
major general ⓘ
marshal of the Soviet Union ⓘ
senior lieutenant ⓘ
notableConflictParticipation World War II ⓘ
surface form: Great Patriotic War

Hungarian Revolution of 1956 ⓘ
Korean War ⓘ
Prague Spring ⓘ
surface form: Prague Spring intervention

Russian Civil War ⓘ
Sino–Soviet border conflict ⓘ
Soviet–Afghan War ⓘ
Winter War ⓘ
World War II ⓘ
notableDoctrine combined arms warfare ⓘ
deep operation ⓘ
nuclear deterrence ⓘ
operational art ⓘ
notableMember Aleksandr Vasilevsky ⓘ
Boris Shaposhnikov ⓘ
Dmitry Yazov ⓘ
Georgy Zhukov ⓘ
Ivan Bagramyan ⓘ
Ivan Konev ⓘ
Kliment Voroshilov ⓘ
Konstantin Rokossovsky ⓘ
Leonid Brezhnev ⓘ
Mikhail Tukhachevsky ⓘ
Nikolai Ogarkov ⓘ
Pavel Batov ⓘ
Rodion Malinovsky ⓘ
Semyon Timoshenko ⓘ
Sergei Akhromeyev ⓘ
Vasily Chuikov ⓘ
partOf Soviet armed forces ⓘ
surface form: Armed Forces of the Soviet Union

KGB ⓘ
surface form: KGB troops

Soviet Air Defense Forces ⓘ
Soviet Air Forces ⓘ
Red Army ⓘ
surface form: Soviet Army

Soviet Internal Troops ⓘ
Soviet Navy ⓘ
Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces ⓘ
politicalRequirement adherence to party line ⓘ
loyalty to the CPSU ⓘ
requiredMembership Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ
requiredOrganization Komsomol ⓘ
selectionMethod conscription-based promotion from enlisted ranks ⓘ
graduation from military academies ⓘ
subjectTo party control ⓘ
political commissars ⓘ
state security surveillance ⓘ
subordinateTo Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ
surface form: Politburo of the CPSU

Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the USSR ⓘ
succeededBy Russian military officers ⓘ
Ukrainian military officers ⓘ
military officers of post-Soviet states ⓘ
timePeriod 1922–1991 ⓘ
trainingInstitution Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy ⓘ
Frunze Military Academy ⓘ
Gagarin Air Force Academy ⓘ
Kuznetsov Naval Academy ⓘ
Voroshilov General Staff Academy ⓘ
usedLanguage Russian ⓘ
usedScript Cyrillic ⓘ
woreInsigniaType collar tabs ⓘ
shoulder boards ⓘ

Referenced by (9)

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

Great Purge → targetedGroup → Soviet military officers ⓘ
Soviet High Command → commandedBy → Soviet military officers ⓘ
this entity surface form: Soviet Generals
Stalinist repressions → appliesToPopulation → Soviet military officers ⓘ
this entity surface form: Red Army officers
Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky → eligibility → Soviet military officers ⓘ
this entity surface form: Red Army officers
Mongolian People’s Army → receivedTrainingFrom → Soviet military officers ⓘ
this entity surface form: Soviet military advisers
Soviet invasion and occupation → ledBy → Soviet military officers ⓘ
this entity surface form: Red Army commanders
Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of July 29, 1942 → appliesTo → Soviet military officers ⓘ
this entity surface form: Red Army personnel
Kasernierte Volkspolizei → trainingProvidedBy → Soviet military officers ⓘ
this entity surface form: Soviet military advisers
Medal for the Defence of the Caucasus → eligibility → Soviet military officers ⓘ
this entity surface form: Red Army personnel