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Soviet Union

Historical union state, Eastern Europe and Northern Asia (1922-1991)

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from its formation in 1922 until its dissolution in 1991. It was the world's third-most populous country, the largest by area, and bordered twelve other countries. A diverse multinational state, it was organized as a federal union of national republics, with the largest and most populous being the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (SFSR). Its capital and largest city was Moscow.

Facts
Capital
Moscow 1
Population
293,047,571 1
Area (sq km)
22,402,200 1
Independence or Founding Year
1922 1
Dissolution or End Year
1991 1
Classification
Sovereignty Status
Historical or Dissolved State 1
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Source Alexander Yakovlev (engineer) (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality
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was a Soviet aeronautical engineer.

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Source Mikhail Yangel (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality
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was a Soviet engineer born in Irkutsk

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Source Valentin Turchin (Wikipedia)Lead section
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was a Soviet and American physicist

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Source Vladimir Levenshtein (Wikipedia)Lead section
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was a Russian and Soviet scientist

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Source Aleksei Leontiev (Wikipedia)intro of the article
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Aleksei Nikolayevich Leontiev (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Лео́нтьев, IPA: [lʲɪˈonʲtʲjɪf]; February 18, 1903 – January 21, 1979), was a Soviet Russian developmental psychologist and philosopher and a founder of activity theory.

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Sergei Leonidovich Rubinstein (Russian: Сергей Леонидович Рубинштейн; 18 June [O.S. 6 June] 1889 – 11 January 1960) was a Soviet psychologist and philosopher and one of the founders of the Marxist tradition in Soviet psychology.

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Source Boris Dyozhkin (Wikipedia)Lead
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was a Soviet animator, animation and art director

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10 November [O.S. 28 October] 1902 – September 4, 1980) was a Soviet and Russian actor, director and screenwriter.

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Source Rustam Khamdamov (Wikipedia)Lead paragraph [nationality]
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is a Soviet and Russian film director and artist

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Source Yuri Ozerov (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality
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was a Soviet-Russian film director and screenwriter

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Source Mil Mi-10 Harke (GlobalSecurity.org)Introduction
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The Mil Mi-10 (NATO reporting name Harke) was a Soviet military transport helicopter of flying crane configuration, developed in 1962 from the Mi-6.

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Source Mi-18 (GlobalSecurity.org)Closing paragraph, programme outcome
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The period of perestroika (restructuring) set in, the Soviet Government demanded that radically new types of hardware be introduced instead of upgrading existing ones.

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Source Mil Mi-2 Hoplite (GlobalSecurity.org)Introduction, design bureau
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The Mi-2 is a single pilot, light transport type helicopter designed by the Mil Design Bureau of the former USSR and built in Poland by WSK-PZL Swidnik.

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Source Mil Mi-22 (1965) (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality
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was a 1960s Soviet project to develop a military transport helicopter.

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Source Mil Mi-22 (1975) (Wikipedia)Lead, user
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is a helicopter that was developed for use as an airborne command post for the Soviet Army in the mid 1970s.

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Source Mil Mi-24 (Aviastar)Programme paragraph, first fire support helicopter in the USSR
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Development began second half of 1960s, as first fire support helicopter in former USSR, with accommodation for eight armed troops

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Source Mil Mi-26 Halo (GlobalSecurity.org)Development
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Indeed, the Soviet motor mechanics having succeeded in developing more powerful engines, the selected formula had become interesting.

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Source Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant (GlobalSecurity.org)Introduction
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Ninety-five percent of the helicopters in the former Soviet Union were built to Mil designs.

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Source Mil Mi-3 (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality
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The Mil Mi-3 was a Soviet light-utility helicopter originally designed in the 1960s as a heavier and larger version of the Mil Mi-2 helicopter.

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Source Mil Mi-30 Vintoplan (GlobalSecurity.org)Introduction
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For the Soviet military, the potential advantages of a tilt-rotor were self-evident

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Source Mil Mi-32 (GlobalSecurity.org)Origin, country of origin
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In the 1970's the fuel-energy and raw-material base of the USSR began to be moved from the European USSR into the regions of Siberia, extreme north and Far East

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Source Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant (GlobalSecurity.org)Introduction
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Ninety-five percent of the helicopters in the former Soviet Union were built to Mil designs.

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Source Mil Mi-36 Light Helicopter (GlobalSecurity.org)Introduction, country of origin
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In the second-half the 70's the helicopter park of the Soviet Air Force in essence composed the helicopters Mi-8, Mi-24 and Mi-6

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Source Mil Mi-42 (GlobalSecurity.org)Introduction, outcome
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The entire Mi-40 program, including the Mi-42 program, was cancelled because of the Soviet Union's Collapse.

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Source Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant (GlobalSecurity.org)Introduction
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Ninety-five percent of the helicopters in the former Soviet Union were built to Mil designs.

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Source Mil Mi-6 Hook (GlobalSecurity.org)Introduction, country of origin
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The Mil-6 was built for the Soviet Air forces and Aeroflot.

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Source Mil Mi-12 V-12 Homer (GlobalSecurity.org)Introduction, manufacturer
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The Mil Mi-12, known as V-12 in the Soviet Union, and by the NATO reporting name Homer, is so far the only helicopter produced by the Mil bureau to depart from the single main rotor plus tail rotor formula.

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Source Mil V-16 Mi-12M (GlobalSecurity.org)Introduction, country of origin
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In 1961, the Commission for Aviation Equipment of the USSR approved the task of developing

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Source Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant (GlobalSecurity.org)Introduction
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Ninety-five percent of the helicopters in the former Soviet Union were built to Mil designs.

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Source Mir (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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first by the Soviet Union and later by the Russian Federation

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Source Molniya-M (Wikipedia)Lead
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was a Soviet and Russian launch vehicle

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Source Myasishchev DB-108 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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The Myasishchev DB-108 was a 1940s Soviet experimental development

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Source Wikipedia: Myasishchev M-55M-17 Stratosphera section, country of origin
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the M-17 prototype (regn CCCP 17401) was soon allocated the NATO reporting name Mystic-A

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Source Myasishchev M-18 (Wikipedia)Lead, country
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was a design for a Soviet supersonic bomber with a variable-sweep wing

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Source Myasishchev M-4 (Wikipedia)Lead, country
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manufactured by the Soviet Union in the 1950s

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Source Myasishchev M-50 (Wikipedia)Lead section
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is a Soviet prototype four-jet

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Source Myasishchev M-60 (Wikipedia)Lead, country
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was a Soviet design for a nuclear-powered bomber

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Source RSS-40 Buran (Wikipedia)Lead
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was a Soviet intercontinental cruise missile by Myasishchev

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Source Myasishchev VM-T (Wikipedia)Lead, Soviet programme
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the Soviet space shuttles of the Buran program

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Source N1 (rocket) (Wikipedia)Lead, body style
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was a super heavy-lift launch vehicle of the Soviet space program

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Source Orlets (Wikipedia)Lead
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was a series of Russian, and previously Soviet photoreconnaissance satellites

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Source Petlyakov Pe-2 - WikipediaLead section
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was a Soviet twin-engine dive

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Source Polikarpov I-15 (Wikipedia)Lead
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is a Soviet biplane fighter aircraft of the 1930s

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Source Polikarpov I-153 (Wikipedia)Lead
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is a late 1930s Soviet sesquiplane fighter

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Source Polikarpov I-16 (Wikipedia)Lead
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is a Soviet single-engine single-seat fighter aircraft

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Source Polyus (spacecraft) (Wikipedia)Lead
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was a prototype Soviet orbital weapons platform designed to destroy Strategic Defense Initiative satellites with a megawatt carbon-dioxide laser.

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Source Progress (spacecraft) (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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Originally developed for the Soviet space program

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Source R-7 Semyorka (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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was a Soviet missile developed during the Cold War

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Source Salyut 1 (Wikipedia)Lead
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It was launched into low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on April 19, 1971.

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Source RKK Energia (Wikipedia)Lead
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the bureau designed the Voskhod and Soyuz spacecraft, interplanetary probes to the Moon, Venus, and Mars, and the first Soviet space stations

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Source Salyut 6 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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was a Soviet orbital space station

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Source Salyut 7 (Wikipedia)Lead
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launched on 19 April 1982 on a Proton-K rocket from Site 200/40 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Soviet Union

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Source Soyuz 7K-L1 (Wikipedia)Lead, country of origin
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in the context of the Soviet crewed Moon-flyby program in the Moon race.

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Source RKK Energia (Wikipedia)Lead
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the bureau designed the Voskhod and Soyuz spacecraft, interplanetary probes to the Moon, Venus, and Mars, and the first Soviet space stations

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Source RKK Energia (Wikipedia)Lead
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the bureau designed the Voskhod and Soyuz spacecraft, interplanetary probes to the Moon, Venus, and Mars, and the first Soviet space stations

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Source RKK Energia (Wikipedia)Lead
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the bureau designed the Voskhod and Soyuz spacecraft, interplanetary probes to the Moon, Venus, and Mars, and the first Soviet space stations

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Source RKK Energia (Wikipedia)Lead
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the bureau designed the Voskhod and Soyuz spacecraft, interplanetary probes to the Moon, Venus, and Mars, and the first Soviet space stations

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Source Soyuz-L (Wikipedia)Lead
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was a Soviet expendable carrier rocket

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Source Soyuz-M (Wikipedia)Lead
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was a Soviet expendable carrier rocket

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Source Soyuz-U2 (Wikipedia)Lead
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was a Soviet, later Russian, carrier rocket

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Source GAZ Chaika (Wikipedia)Lead, country
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is a luxury automobile from the Soviet Union

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Source Boris Lisunov (Wikipedia)Lead
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was a Soviet aerospace engineer

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Source Polikarpov (Wikipedia)Lead, Soviet bureau
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Polikarpov Design Bureau was a Soviet OKB (design bureau) for aircraft

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Source Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union (Wikipedia)Lead
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was created in 1924 by the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union as a court for the higher military and political personnel of the Red Army and Fleet

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Source Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (source article)Opening definition [country-or-jurisdiction]
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signed by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union on August 23, 1939

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Source Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (Wikipedia)Lead, third paragraph
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The PTBT was signed by the governments of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States in Moscow on 5 August 1963

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Source People's Court (Soviet Union) (Wikipedia)Lead, country
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A people's court in the late Soviet Union was a court of first instance

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Source Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (Wikipedia)Lead paragraph
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bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union

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Source Supreme Court of the Soviet Union (Wikipedia)Lead paragraph
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The Supreme Court of the Soviet Union, officially the Supreme Court of the USSR (Russian: Верховный Суд СССР) was the supreme judicial organ of the Soviet Union during its existence.

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Source Soviet Union-United States radio chess match of 1945 (Wikipedia)Lead [origin-region]
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a chess match between the United States and the USSR

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Source Dmitry Karbyshev (Wikipedia)Lead, nationality
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was a Red Army general, professor of the Soviet General Staff Academy

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Source Mikhail Tukhachevsky (Wikipedia)Lead, first sentence
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was a Soviet general

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Source Soviet Army (Wikipedia)Lead
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was the land warfare service branch of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1946 to 1992
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1. Wikidata: Soviet Union
  • Wikidata Q15180, historical-state QID for cross-atlas nationality mapping (w-bbfill-sport6-0927)
  • Wikidata P2046 (area), preferred/latest rank
  • Wikidata P1082 (population), preferred/latest rank
  • Wikidata Q15180, class allow-list match (Q3024240 historical country)
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Soviet Union (Wikipedia)
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The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from its formation in 1922 until its dissolution in 1991.

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