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Troops of the Russian 102nd Military Base at Republic Square, Yerevan during the 2016 Armenian Independence Day military parade. This article lists military bases of Russia abroad. The majority of Russia's military bases and facilities are located in former Soviet republics; which in Russian political parlance is termed the "near abroad".
The Democracy Index classifies many of the forty-five current non-democratic U.S. base hosts as fully "authoritarian governments". [4] Military bases in non-democratic states were often rationalized during the Cold War by the U.S. as a necessary if undesirable condition in defending against the communist threat posed by the Soviet Union.
47th Tank Division 288th Artillery Brigade 26th Tank Regiment Unknown exact location: Nizhny Novgorod Oblast HQ, 6th Motor Rifle Division 72nd Motor Rifle Brigade 17th High-Power Artillery Brigade 27th Artillery Regiment 54th Motor Rifle Regiment 55th Motor Rifle Regiment 10th Tank Regiment Sormovo Nizhny Novgorod Oblast 96th Recon Brigade
Russia is running artillery factories “24/7” on rotating 12-hour shifts, the NATO official said. About 3.5 million Russians now work in the defense sector, up from somewhere between 2 and 2.5 ...
240th Reserve Base (90th Independent Motor-Rifle Brigade), in Belogorsk; 243rd Reserve Base (92nd Independent Motor-Rifle Brigade), in Khabarovsk; 261st Reserve Base (95th Independent Motor-Rifle Brigade), in Mokhovaya Pad; 18th Machine Gun Artillery Division, in Goryachie Klyuchi. 46th Machine Gun-Artillery Regiment; 49th Machine Gun-Artillery ...
The Southern Military District is the smallest military district in Russia by geographic size. The district contains 13 federal subjects of Russia: Adygea, Astrakhan Oblast, Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Kalmykia, Karachay-Cherkessia, Krasnodar Krai, North Ossetia-Alania, Rostov Oblast, Stavropol Krai and Volgograd Oblast.
Most US states do not have active Marine Corps bases; however, many do have reserve bases and centers. In addition, the Marine Corps Security Force Regiment maintains Marines permanently at numerous naval installations across the United States and abroad.
In December 1989, the 77th Guards Motor Rifle Division Moscow-Chernigov was transformed into a coastal defense division of the same name, and the 69th Sevsk Motor Rifle Division in Vologda was transformed into the 5189th Base for Storage of Weapons and Equipment (Russian acronym VKhVT). Accordingly, in 1991, the 26th ("Arkhangelsk") Army Corps ...