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- Popular pages
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- Kiev Strategic Offensive Operation (October 1943) • Siege of Leningrad • Effect of the Siege of Leningrad on the city
- Requested articles
- Rus'-Cuman wars • Battle of Uhtua-Kiestinki • Battles of Repola-Rukajärvi • Battle of Siiranmäki • Battle of Chrobrze • Siege of Bely • Siege of Tsarovo • Siege of Mozhaysk • First Siege of Moscow • Second Siege of Moscow • Battle of Berezno • Battle of Dziunków • Kiev Strategic Offensive Operation (November 1943) • Battle of Miedwiedówka • Battle of Minsk (1920) • Battle of Mironówka • Battle of Nowochwastów • Battle of Okuniew • Battle of Olszanica • Battle of Puchówka • Battle of Serock • Battle of Spiczyn • Battle of Spiczyniec • Battle of Wasylkowce • Lvov-Chernovitsy Strategic Defensive Operation • Battle of Zazime • Battle of Zboiska • Battle of Zelwa • Battle of Żywotów • Circassian horsemen • Glavnoye Upravleniye Ministerstvo Oborony • Stasys Guiga • Standing Consultative Commission • STRATUS IVY • Soviet military engineering • First Pechenga expedition • Second Pechenga expedition • Insurgency 1920s–1930s in Chechnya • Military uniforms of the Soviet Union • Russia–United States proxy conflict • Commander of the Strategic Rocket Forces • List of Ukrainian Heroes of the Soviet Union • List of missing topics (many redlinks)
- Expansion needed
- Operation Schamil • Military history of Russia • Battle of Kollaa • Battle of Rymnik • Battle of Suursaari • Battle of Mir • Dead Hand • Gregori Kulik • Alexander Konstantinovich Abramov • Uniforms of the Russian Armed Forces • 62nd Rifle Division (Soviet Union) • 323rd Rifle Division (Soviet Union) • Ural Army • Battle of Krupczyce • Central Powers intervention in the Russian Civil War
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- Titov Main Test and Space Systems Control Centre
- Merging needed
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- Battle of Moscow (1612) • Battle of Demyansk (1943) • 88th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) • Kamensk-Uralsky (air base) • Kamchatka (ship) • Nikolai Vatutin • Mikhail Shumilov
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- 18 Sep 2024 – Oleksandr Mykhailovych Vasylynyuk (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mccapra (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
- 09 Sep 2024 – Pontic uprising (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Insanityclown1 (t · c) was closed as delete by Liz (t · c) on 17 Sep 2024; see discussion (5 participants; relisted)
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Featured article candidates
- 23 Aug 2024 – The Motherland Calls (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Joeyquism (t · c); see discussion
- 18 Aug 2024 – German atrocities committed against Soviet prisoners of war (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Buidhe (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 21 Jul 2024 – 170th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Kges1901 (t · c); see discussion
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Requested moves
- 27 Aug 2024 – T48 Gun Motor Carriage (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to T48 gun motor carriage by Dicklyon (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 29 Aug 2024 – Russian Liberation Army (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia by Opostylov (t · c); see discussion
- 29 Aug 2024 – Yakovlev Corporation (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Yakovlev by Rosbif73 (t · c); see discussion
- 11 Aug 2024 – Islamic State insurgency in Deir ez-Zor (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Talk:Deir ez-Zor campaign (2017–2019) by Longhornsg (t · c); see discussion
- 10 Aug 2024 – Georgia Train and Equip Program (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Georgian involvement in the Iraq War by Longhornsg (t · c); see discussion
- 09 Aug 2024 – 87th Rifle Regiment (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to 1st Army Corps (Russia) by Scu ba (t · c); see discussion
- 04 Aug 2024 – Polish–Swedish War (1626–1629) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Polish–Swedish War (1621–1625) by Czekan pl (t · c); see discussion
- 04 Aug 2024 – Polish–Swedish War (1621–1625) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Polish–Swedish War (1626–1629) by Czekan pl (t · c); see discussion
- 21 May 2024 – Battle of Enerhodar (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Southern Ukraine campaign by SaintPaulOfTarsus (t · c); see discussion
- 21 May 2024 – Battle of Lebedyn (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Northern Ukraine campaign by SaintPaulOfTarsus (t · c); see discussion
- 17 May 2024 – Second battle of Lyman (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive by SaintPaulOfTarsus (t · c); see discussion
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Articles to be split
- 28 Jan 2024 – Belarusian and Russian partisan movement (2022–present) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Charles Essie (t · c); see discussion
- 23 Oct 2023 – Russian-occupied territories in Georgia (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Daask (t · c); see discussion
- 14 Oct 2023 – 209th Rifle Division (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Le Petit Chat (t · c); see discussion
- 19 May 2022 – Spetsnaz (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Mzajac (t · c); see discussion
- 05 Jul 2019 – Victory parade (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by KolbertBot (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 01 Aug 2024 – Draft:Motor Rifle Troops (Soviet Union) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Harrytone (t · c)
Resources
Books
- David Glantz, Colossus series, including David Glantz, Companion to Colossus Reborn: Key Documents and Statistics, Lawrence, Kansas, University Press of Kansas, 2005
- Hartlet, Janet M., Keenan, Paul, Lieven, Dominic. War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850: Russia and the Napoleonic Wars.
- John Erickson's works
- militera.lib.ru - has V.I. Feskov et al, The Soviet Army in the Period of the Cold War, Tomsk University Press, Tomsk, 2004, as well as other Russian military books. Feskov et al 2013 should be used in preference to Feskov et al 2004.
- Goldmine of information on soviet ground forces here: Link Google Books allows the full viewing!
- Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky's "KGB: The Inside Story of its foreign operations from Lenin to Gorbachev", 1990, Hodder and Stoughton, ISBN:0-340-48561-2
Forums
- Axis History forum Soviet, Eastern Front, and translation help sections - English-language forum home to users who are fluent in both English and Russian
- VIF2NE - Military History Forum, 2-nd version, Novik's edition - good place to talk and to listen...
- forum on the Red Army Guards and rifle divisions (relatively new) in Russian
- Soldat.ru forum - forum on Soviet Union/Russian Federation & CIS military history
Glossaries
- User:Ceriy/Military terms
- US Military Russian Military Dictionary: English-Russian, Russian-English, 1945
- Russian-English Dictionary of Operational, Tactical and General Military Terms, 1960
Documents
- Pamyat Naroda - Declassified documents from the Central Archives of the Russian Ministry of Defence pertaining to the 1941-1945 period
- Gwar.mil.ru, Памяти героев Великой войны 1914–1918 - Documents from World War I and Russian Civil War
- Soviet military documents digitized by Polish archives - contains documents pertaining to prewar Red Army organization, Soviet invasion of Poland, and creation of Polish People's Army
- Soviet Documents at Russian Archives - Files of the State Defense Committee 1941-1945 and Council of People's Commissars 1918-1991.
- БОЕВОЙ СОСТАВ СОВЕТСКОЙ АРМИИ за 1941-1945 гг.(Combat Composition of the Soviet Army 1941-45; Russian)
- Perecheni , lists of Soviet units in the active army 1941–1945
- Soviet Ministry of Defense compilation of orders awarding Soviet units decorations, recently declassified.
- Official Soviet Ministry of Defense list of commanding officers of corps, divisions and tank brigades 1941-1945. Note that dates refer to orders and may not reflect reality "on the ground".
- Archived soldat.ru files for downloading, listing honorifics awarded to Soviet units 1918-1945, based on archival documents
- NKO compilation of 1941–1944 orders awarding honorary titles to military units
- NKO compilation of 1941–1944 Guards unit conversion orders
- TsAMO Unit histories
Websites
- Combat activity of Red Army in the Great Patriotic War
- War heroes (site dedicated to heroes of USSR and RF)
- Aviators of the Second World War (in Russian) by Vasily Valer'yevich Kharin
- alphabetic index to equipment designation names (Russian)
- Podvig is a good source on Russian nuclear forces, including the history http://russianforces.org/ (English)
- Website on Soviet tank troops in World War II
- Red Army history website
- World War II history statistical materials
Official websites
Use with much caution as these are primary sources. Articles/pages can confirm existence of military units or lineage information.
- Russian Ministry of Defense
- Krasnaya Zvezda, official Russian MoD newspaper
- Voenno-istoricheskiy zhurnal, official military historical journal of the Russian MoD
- Belarusian Ministry of Defense
- Vo slavu rodiny, official Belarus MoD newspaper
- Ukrainian Ministry of Defense
- Narodnaya armiya, official Ukrainian MoD newspaper
- Viysko ukrainy, official Ukrainian MoD magazine
Photographs
- Russian Archives photograph & film collection for World War II period
- RGAKFD photograph archives
- Russian state photograph archives
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