Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)

Index Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)

The Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union refers to the head of the Ministry of Defence who was responsible for defence of the communist Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1917 to 1922 and the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1991. [1]

47 relations: Admiral of the fleet of the Soviet Union, Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Andrei Grechko, Anti-Party Group, Army Commissar of 1st rank, Chief of the General Staff (Russia), College of War, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Council of People's Commissars on War and Navy Affairs (Soviet Russia), Dmitry Ustinov, Dmitry Yazov, General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Generalissimus of the Soviet Union, Georgy Zhukov, Ivan Yumashev, Joseph Stalin, Junker mutiny, Kliment Voroshilov, Komandarm 1st rank, Leon Trotsky, List of heads of the military of Imperial Russia, Marshal of the Soviet Union, Mathias Rust, Mikhail Frinovsky, Mikhail Frunze, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ministry of Defence (Russia), Ministry of Defense (Soviet Union), Ministry of War of the Russian Empire, Nikita Khrushchev, Nikolai Bulganin, Nikolai Krylenko, Nikolai Podvoisky, Nikolay Kuznetsov (officer), Pavel Dybenko, Petersburg Military District (Russian Empire), Pyotr Smirnov, Red Army, Rodion Malinovsky, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Semyon Timoshenko, Sergey Sokolov (commander), Soviet Union, State Committee on the State of Emergency, Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko, Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt.

Admiral of the fleet of the Soviet Union

An admiral of the fleet of the Soviet Union (translit), was the highest naval rank of the Soviet Union.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Admiral of the fleet of the Soviet Union · See more »

Aleksandr Vasilevsky

Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Vasilevsky (September 30 1895 – December 5, 1977) was a Russian career officer in the Red Army who was promoted to the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1943.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Aleksandr Vasilevsky · See more »

Andrei Grechko

Andrei Antonovich Grechko (– 26 April 1976) was a Soviet general, Marshal of the Soviet Union and Minister of Defense.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Andrei Grechko · See more »

Anti-Party Group

The Anti-Party Group (r) was a group within the leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union that unsuccessfully attempted to depose Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Party in June 1957.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Anti-Party Group · See more »

Army Commissar of 1st rank

Army commissar 1st rank (Армейский комиссар 1-го ранга), was a political rank in the Soviet Red Army, equivalent to the military rank of Komandarm 1st rank, and comparable to NATO OF-9.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Army Commissar of 1st rank · See more »

Chief of the General Staff (Russia)

The Chief of the General Staff (Начальник Генерального штаба / Nachal'nik General'nogo shtaba) is the chief of staff of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Chief of the General Staff (Russia) · See more »

College of War

The College of War (sometimes War Collegium, or similar, but not to be confused with other institutions of the same name) was a Russian executive body (or collegium), created in the government reform of 1717.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and College of War · See more »

Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the founding and ruling political party of the Soviet Union.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Communist Party of the Soviet Union · See more »

Council of People's Commissars on War and Navy Affairs (Soviet Russia)

Council of People's Commissars on War and Navy Affairs (Совет Народных Комиссаров по Военным и Морским Делам, Soviet Narodnykh Kommissarov po voyenym i morskim dyelam) was the very first military government agency of the Soviet Russia initially named as the Committee on affairs of War and Navy.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Council of People's Commissars on War and Navy Affairs (Soviet Russia) · See more »

Dmitry Ustinov

Dmitriy Fyodorovich Ustinov (Дмитрий Фёдорович Устинов; 30 October 1908 – 20 December 1984) was Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union from 1976 until his death.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Dmitry Ustinov · See more »

Dmitry Yazov

Dmitry Timofeyevich Yazov (Дми́трий Тимофе́евич Я́зов; born 8 November 1924) was the last Marshal of the Soviet Union to be appointed before the collapse of the Soviet Union (on 28 April 1990).

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Dmitry Yazov · See more »

General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (Генеральный штаб Вооружённых сил Российской Федерации, Генштаб – Genshtab) is the military staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation · See more »

Generalissimus of the Soviet Union

Generalissimus of the Soviet Union (Генералиссимус Советского Союза; Generalissimus Sovyétskogo Soyuza) was a proposed military rank created on 27 June 1945, following the tradition of the Imperial Russian Army (the rank in question only ever having been held by Count Aleksandr Vasiliyevich Suvorov who served during the reign of Catherine II the Great.). It was granted to Joseph Stalin following World War II; however, Stalin refused to officially approve the rank and died with the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Generalissimus of the Soviet Union · See more »

Georgy Zhukov

Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (– 18 June 1974) was a Soviet Red Army General who became Chief of General Staff, Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Minister of Defence and a member of the Politburo.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Georgy Zhukov · See more »

Ivan Yumashev

Ivan Stepanovich Yumashev (Иван Степанович Юмашев) (– September 2, 1972) was a Soviet Navy admiral, Hero of the Soviet Union (September 14, 1945), and Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Naval Forces from January 1947 to July 1951.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Ivan Yumashev · See more »

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Georgian nationality.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Joseph Stalin · See more »

Junker mutiny

The Junker mutiny (Юнкерский мятеж) was a counterrevolutionary mutiny of military school cadets in Petrograd against the Bolsheviks in October 1917.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Junker mutiny · See more »

Kliment Voroshilov

Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov (Kliment Jefremovič Vorošilov; Климент Охрімович Ворошилов, Klyment Okhrimovyč Vorošylov), popularly known as Klim Voroshilov (Клим Вороши́лов, Klim Vorošilov) (4 February 1881 – 2 December 1969), was a prominent Soviet military officer and politician during the Stalin era.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Kliment Voroshilov · See more »

Komandarm 1st rank

Komandarm 1st rank is the meaning of commanding (officer/general) of the Army 1st rank (Командующий армией; literal: Commander of the Army / Army commander), and was a military rank in the Soviet Armed Forces of the USSR in the period from 1935 to 1940.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Komandarm 1st rank · See more »

Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky (born Lev Davidovich Bronstein; – 21 August 1940) was a Russian revolutionary, theorist, and Soviet politician.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Leon Trotsky · See more »

List of heads of the military of Imperial Russia

The Russian College of War (or War Collegium) was created in the course of Government reform of Peter I 11 December 1717.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and List of heads of the military of Imperial Russia · See more »

Marshal of the Soviet Union

Marshal of the Soviet Union (Маршал Советского Союза) was the highest military rank of the Soviet Union, below Generalissimus of the Soviet Union.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Marshal of the Soviet Union · See more »

Mathias Rust

Mathias Rust (born 1 June 1968) is a German aviator known for his illegal landing near Red Square in Moscow on 28 May 1987.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Mathias Rust · See more »

Mikhail Frinovsky

Mikhail Petrovich Frinovsky (January 1898 - February 4, 1940) served as a deputy head of the NKVD in the years of the Great Purge and, along with Nikolai Yezhov, was responsible for setting in motion the Great Purge.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Mikhail Frinovsky · See more »

Mikhail Frunze

Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze (2 February 1885 – 31 October 1925) was a Bolshevik leader during and just prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Mikhail Frunze · See more »

Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, GCL (born 2 March 1931) is a Russian and former Soviet politician.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Mikhail Gorbachev · See more »

Ministry of Defence (Russia)

The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Министерство обороны Российской Федерации, Минобороны России, informally abbreviated as МО, МО РФ or Minoboron) exercises administrative and operational leadership of the Russian Armed Forces.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Ministry of Defence (Russia) · See more »

Ministry of Defense (Soviet Union)

The Ministry of Defense (Minoboron; Министерство обороны СССР) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Ministry of Defense (Soviet Union) · See more »

Ministry of War of the Russian Empire

Ministry of War of the Russian Empire, (Военное министерство, Military Ministry) was an administrative body in the Russian Empire from 1802 to 1917.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Ministry of War of the Russian Empire · See more »

Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (15 April 1894 – 11 September 1971) was a Soviet statesman who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Nikita Khrushchev · See more »

Nikolai Bulganin

Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin (– 24 February 1975) was a Soviet politician who served as Minister of Defense (1953–1955) and Premier of the Soviet Union (1955–1958) under Nikita Khrushchev, following service in the Red Army and as defense minister under Joseph Stalin.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Nikolai Bulganin · See more »

Nikolai Krylenko

Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko (p; May 2, 1885 – July 29, 1938) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Nikolai Krylenko · See more »

Nikolai Podvoisky

Nikolai Ilyich Podvoisky (Николай Ильич Подвойский) (February 4 (16), 1880 – July 28, 1948) was a Russian revolutionary.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Nikolai Podvoisky · See more »

Nikolay Kuznetsov (officer)

Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov (Никола́й Гера́симович Кузнецо́в; July 24, 1904 – December 6, 1974) was a Soviet naval officer who achieved the rank of Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union and served as People's Commissar of the Navy during The Second World War.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Nikolay Kuznetsov (officer) · See more »

Pavel Dybenko

Pavel Efimovich Dybenko (Павел Ефимович Дыбенко), (February 16, 1889 – July 29, 1938) was a Soviet revolutionary and a leading officer.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Pavel Dybenko · See more »

Petersburg Military District (Russian Empire)

The Petersburg Military District (Питербургский вое́нный о́круг) was a Military District of the Russian Empire originally created in August 1864 following Order B-228 of Dmitry Milyutin, the Minister of War of the Russian Empire.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Petersburg Military District (Russian Empire) · See more »

Pyotr Smirnov

Pyotr Alexandrovich Smirnov (Пётр Александрович Смирнов; 1897–1939) was a Soviet Commissar, Deputy Minister of Defence and Commander of the Soviet Navy.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Pyotr Smirnov · See more »

Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Рабоче-крестьянская Красная армия (РККА), Raboche-krest'yanskaya Krasnaya armiya (RKKA), frequently shortened in Russian to Красная aрмия (КА), Krasnaya armiya (KA), in English: Red Army, also in critical literature and folklore of that epoch – Red Horde, Army of Work) was the army and the air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, and, after 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Red Army · See more »

Rodion Malinovsky

Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky (Родио́н Я́ковлевич Малино́вский; – 31 March 1967) was a Soviet military commander in World War II, Marshal of the Soviet Union, and Defense Minister of the Soviet Union in the late 1950s and 1960s.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Rodion Malinovsky · See more »

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR; Ru-Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика.ogg), also unofficially known as the Russian Federation, Soviet Russia,Declaration of Rights of the laboring and exploited people, article I or Russia (rɐˈsʲijə; from the Ρωσία Rōsía — Rus'), was an independent state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest, most populous, and most economically developed union republic of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1991 and then a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with priority of Russian laws over Union-level legislation in 1990 and 1991.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic · See more »

Semyon Timoshenko

Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko (Семён Константи́нович Тимоше́нко, Semën Konstantinovič Timošenko; Семе́н Костянти́нович Тимоше́нко, Semen Kostiantynovych Tymoshenko) (– 31 March 1970) was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Semyon Timoshenko · See more »

Sergey Sokolov (commander)

Sergey Leonidovich Sokolov (Серге́й Леони́дович Соколо́в; 1 July 191131 August 2012) was a Soviet military commander, Hero of the Soviet Union, and served as Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union from 22 December 1984 until 30 May 1987.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Sergey Sokolov (commander) · See more »

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Soviet Union · See more »

State Committee on the State of Emergency

The State Committee on the State of Emergency, abbreviated as SCSE, American publicist Georges Obolensky also called it the Gang of Eight, was a group of eight high-level Soviet officials within the Soviet government, the Communist Party, and the KGB, who attempted a coup d'état against Mikhail Gorbachev on 19 August 1991.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and State Committee on the State of Emergency · See more »

Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko

Vladimir Alexandrovich Antonov-Ovseyenko (Владимир Александрович Антонов-Овсеенко; Володимир Антонов-Овсєєнко; 9 March 1883 – 10 February 1938), real surname Ovseyenko, party aliases the 'Bayonet' (Штык) and 'Nikita' (Ники́та), a literary pseudonym A. Gal (А. Га́льский), was a prominent Ukrainian Bolshevik leader and diplomat.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko · See more »

Yevgeny Shaposhnikov

Yevgeny Ivanovich Shaposhnikov (Евгений Иванович Шапошников; born 3 February 1942) is a Russian military leader and business figure, Marshal of Aviation (1991).

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and Yevgeny Shaposhnikov · See more »

1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt

The 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, also known as the August Coup (r "August Putsch"), was an attempt by members of the Soviet Union's government to take control of the country from Soviet President and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev.

New!!: Minister of Defence (Soviet Union) and 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt · See more »

Redirects here:

Defence Minister of the Soviet Union, Defense Minister of the Soviet Union, List of Ministers of Defence of the Soviet Union, List of Ministers of Defense of the Soviet Union, Minister of Defence of Soviet Union, Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union, Minister of Defense (Soviet Union), Minister of Defense (USSR), Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union, Minister of Defense of the USSR, People's Commissar for Defense of the Soviet Union, People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs, People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs of the Soviet Union, People's Commissar for Military and Sea Affairs of the Soviet Union, People's Commissar for War, People's Commissar for the Defense of the Soviet Union, People's Commissar of Army and Navy Affairs of the Russian SFSR, People's Commissar of Defence, People's Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs of the Russian SFSR, Peoples Commissar of Defense, Soviet Defence Minister, Soviet Defense Minister, Soviet Minister of Defence, Soviet Minister of Defense, USSR Defence Minister, USSR Defense Minister.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_of_Defence_(Soviet_Union)

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »