Groups of Soviet forces were large peacetime administrative units of the Soviet Army, stationed in Warsaw Pact countries. The Red Army ( Russian: Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия R aboche- K rest'yanskaya K rasnaya A rmiya The Warsaw Pact (see Nomenclature) was an organization of Communist states in Central and Eastern Europe. The equivalent entities within the Soviet Union were Soviet military districts. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 Military districts are formations of a state's armed forces (often of the Army which are responsible for a certain area of territory In wartime, a group of forces would provide support to one or more fronts raised as field formations. A Front (фронт was a major Military organization in the Soviet Army, roughly equivalent to an Army group in the military terminology of other countries
Soviet groups of forces:
- Central Group of Forces (Czechoslovakia)
- Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (Germany)
- Northern Group of Forces (Poland)
- Southern Group of Forces (Balkans)
See also Formations of the Soviet Army
The Central Group of Forces was a Soviet military formation used to control Soviet troops in Central Europe on two occasions in Austria and Hungary from 1945-55 and troops stationed The Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (1949&ndash88 (ГСВГ Группа советских войск в Германии also known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces The Northern Group of Forces was the military formation of the Soviet Army stationed in Poland from the end of Second World War in 1945 until 1993 when The Southern Group of Forces was a Soviet Army formation formed twice following the Second World War, most notably around the time of the Hungarian Revolution Formations are those military organisations which are formed from different speciality Arms and Services troop units to create balances combined combat force