List of Soviet Union military bases abroad

The Soviet Union maintained a system of foreign military bases against the United States during the Cold War.

Army bases

At different times, various Soviet Army contingents were deployed in different regions of the world:

• In Eastern Europe:
• Northern Group of Forces (Poland)
• Central Group of Forces (Austria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia)
• Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (German Democratic Republic)
• Southern Group of Forces (Romania and Hungary)
• (Hungary; 1955–1956)
• Special Mechanized Army (Romania; 1947–1957)
• North-West Group of Forces in the Baltic republics of the USSR (15 November 1991 until the collapse of the USSR)
• in Afghanistan (The 40th Army under the command of the Turkestan Military District; 1979–1989)
• Soviet Forces in Mongolia (under the command of the Transbaikal Military District)
• 5th Army (1921–1924)
• 17th Army (1940–1946)
• 39th Army (1945–1946; 1970–1992)
• 39th Army in China (1945)
• Group of Soviet Military Specialists in China (1948–1961)
• in Cuba (1962–1991)
• in Vietnam (1961–1991)

Naval bases

Air force bases

See also

• List of Russian military bases abroad
• List of countries with overseas military bases

References