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55th Naval Infantry Division
The 55th Naval Infantry Division (, Military Unit Number 30926) was an infantry division of the Soviet Navy and Russian Navy's Naval Infantry, established in 1968 and disestablished in 2009. It draws its Second World War history from the 55th Rifle Division which became a naval garrison division after the end of the Continuation War with Finland. In the middle of 1967, the leadership of the USSR Armed Forces decided to create a naval infantry formation as part of the Pacific Fleet. In the period from August 1968 to December 1, 1968, on the basis of the 390th Separate Naval Infantry Regiment of the Pacific Fleet, the 55th Naval Infantry Division was formed. Later, by order of the Minister of Defence of the USSR No. 007 dated February 22, 1971, December 1 was declared the "Day of the unit" of the 55th DNI. Following the practice adopted in the Soviet Armed Forces on preserving the honorary traditions and continuity of honorary titles received by formations during the Great ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Marines Put On A Hand-to-hand Combat Demonstration, 1991
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk (Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |