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At the time of the German invasion, there were nine regular cavalry divisions and four mountain cavalry divisions in the Red Army. The rapid destruction of Soviet mechanized forces in the summer and autumn of 1941 resulted in a rapid expansion of cavalry units to provide the Red Army a mobile, if not armored, force.
Sixteen districts remained from the mid-1970s to the end of the USSR (see table). Yet, the greatest Soviet Army concentration was in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, which suppressed the anti-Soviet Uprising of 1953 in East Germany.
List of Soviet Army divisions 1989–1991. This article is an (incomplete) listing of Soviet Ground Forces divisions in 1990, and corresponding information about their later status in 2006. The Soviets maintained their units at varying degrees of readiness in peacetime, and divided their ground units into two broad readiness categories:
16 maj 2023 · In the Armed Forces of Russia and in the Armed Forces of the USSR, individual battalions and divisions, regiments and brigades (whose battalions and divisions do not have general military...
In 1975, the Soviet Army had 50 tank divisions, 107 motor rifle divisions and 8 airborne divisions. Each division was placed in a category to indicate its war readiness. Category 1 meant that the division was fully operational and ready to fight without a delay.
This article is an (incomplete) listing of Soviet Ground Forces divisions in 1990, and corresponding information about their later status in 2006. The Soviets maintained their units at varying degrees of readiness in peacetime, and divided their ground units into two broad readiness categories...
At the time of the Nazi assault on the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Red Army had 303 divisions and 22 brigades (4.8 million troops), including 166 divisions and 9 brigades (2.9 million troops) stationed in the western military districts.
