The Ministry of Defense was a government ministry in the Soviet Union, which supervised the Soviet Armed Forces. The first Minister of Defense was Nikolai Bulganin, starting in 1953.
Organisation of the Ministry of Defence of the Soviet Union, 1988
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The Armed Forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, also known as the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, the Red Army and the Soviet Army, were the armed forces of the Russian SFSR and the Sov
Ministry of Defense (Soviet Union)
…The Ministry of Defense (Minoboron; Russian: Министерство обороны СССР) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union, which supervised the Soviet Armed Forces. The first Minister of Defense was Nikolai Bulganin, starting in 1953. The Ministry of Defence has been renamed several times…
A Red Army parade in Moscow, 1922
A soldier of the Red Army, 1926, wearing the budenovka
A mosaic in the Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces commemorating the Soviet Armed Forces and some of its most important World War II battles – Defense of Brest Fortress, Battle of Smolensk and Battle of Moscow
Soviet war poster, 1941