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Welcome to the Russian, Soviet and CIS military history task force. If you have any questions about articles or are generally seeking advice, you're encouraged to ask at the main military history talk page, or you can directly approach one of the task force participants below. The coordinators of the Military history WikiProject can be contacted here. ContentsScope[edit]This task force covers everything that can be legitimately considered to be Russian military history, as well as the military history of the Soviet Union and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) states after 1991. However, the military histories of the other pre-Soviet states are not included if they cannot be considered Russian; in particular, the Baltic states military history task force focuses on military affairs in the area of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding |
Participants[edit]
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- AyodeleA1 (talk · contribs) (mostly former Central Asian, Eastern European, and Caucasus Soviet Republics)
- Brandmeister (talk · contribs) (mainly Eastern Front of WWII and some modern warfare-related stuff)
- Buckshot06 (talk · contribs) (Current Russian military and former Soviet military)
- Catlemur (talk · contribs)
- TheMightyGeneral (talk · contribs) (Georgians in imperial Russian service, Russo-Turkish & Crimean Wars, Soviet-Georgian related)
- Elfalem (talk · contribs)
- Janisterzaj (talk · contribs) (Russian army during the reign of Stalin)
- Kenmore (talk · contribs) (Napoleonic Wars and Crimean War)
- Kges1901 (talk · contribs) (WWII)
- Mzajac (talk · contribs) (Ukrainian military history, armoured fighting vehicles)
- Romanov loyalist (talk · contribs) (Russian imperial army)
- ryan.opel (talk · contribs) )(Soviet Military, WW2 through Cold War)
- Vecrumba (talk · contribs) (Kievan Rus', partitions of Poland, Bessarabia, Russia in WWI, USSR in WWII)
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Open tasks[edit]
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- ...to referencing and citation (3,408) • ...to coverage and accuracy (2,742) • ...to structure (930) • ...to grammar (340) • ...to supporting materials (856)
- Popular pages
- Full list
- Cleanup needed
- Kiev Strategic Offensive Operation (October 1943) • Siege of Leningrad • Effect of the Siege of Leningrad on the city
- Requested articles
- Rus'-Cuman wars • Kalev Arro • 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 Kuhmo • Battle of the Berezina (1920) • Battle of Berezno • Battle of Dziunków • Kiev Strategic Offensive Operation (November 1943) • Battle of Krupczyce • 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 • Voronezh-Kharkov Strategic Offensive Operation • 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 • Revolt of the Ingrian Finns • Second Pechenga expedition • Insurgency 1920s–1930s in Chechnya • List of missing topics (many redlinks) • West Siberian revolt
- Expansion needed
- Operation Schamil • Military history of Russia • Battle of Kollaa • Battle of Rymnik • Battle of Trebia (1799) • Battle of Peregonovka (Perehonivka) • Nikolai Voronov • Battle of Suursaari • Battle of Mir • Dead Hand • Gregori Kulik • Alexander Konstantinovich Abramov • 62nd Rifle Division (Soviet Union) • 323rd Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
- Images needed
- Titov Main Test and Space Systems Control Centre
- Merging needed
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- Battle of Moscow (1612)
- Translation needed
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Article alerts[edit]
Featured article candidates
- 26 Oct 2018 – Emanuel Moravec (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Chetsford (t · c); see discussion
A-Class review
- 09 Sep 2018 – Soviet cruiser Admiral Oktyabrsky (talk · edit · hist) was put up for A-Class review by Kges1901 (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 14 Nov 2018 – NMS Mărășești (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Sturmvogel 66 (t · c); start discussion
- 14 Nov 2018 – NMS Mărăști (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Sturmvogel 66 (t · c); start discussion
- 01 Apr 2018 – Shmerke Kaczerginski (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Copper Dreamer (t · c); see discussion
Requests for comments
- 21 Oct 2018 – Leo Tolstoy (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by AveTory (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 11 Nov 2018 – Sambo (martial art) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved by Tomcat7 (t · c); see discussion
Resources[edit]
Books[edit]
- David Glantz, Colossus series, including David Glantz, Companion to Colossus Reborn: Key Documents and Statistics, Lawrence, Kansas, University Press of Kansas, 2005
- John Erickson's works
- Viktor Suvorov, Inside the Soviet Army online text, useful if you take it with a grain of salt
- 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[edit]
- 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...
- [1] 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[edit]
Documents[edit]
- Pamyat Naroda - Declassified documents from the Central Archives of the Russian Ministry of Defence pertaining to the 1941-1945 period
- Soviet Documents at Russian Archives - Files of the State Defense Committee 1941-1945 and Council of People's Commissars 1918-1991. Need Russian or Belarusian IP address to access images online.
- 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. Links on cloud.mail.ru as it cannot be found anywhere else on the internet.
- 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
Websites[edit]
- [2] Combat activity of Red Army in the Great Patriotic War
- [3] War heroes (site dedicated to heroes of USSR and RF)
- [4] Aviators of the Second World War (in Russian) by Vasily Valer'yevich Kharin
- [5] 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[edit]
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