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Welcome to the Russian, Soviet and CIS military history task force. If you have any questions about articles or are generally seeking advice, you're encouraged to ask at the main military history talk page, or you can directly approach one of the task force participants below.

The coordinators of the Military history WikiProject can be contacted here.

Scope

This task force covers much of the military history of the post-Soviet states and territories formerly part of the Soviet Union and the Russian Empire.

It covers twelve Soviet successor states Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan, and also the nearby state of Mongolia.

However, the military affairs in the area of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are the subject of the Baltic states military history task force, Finland’s military history is covered by the Nordic military history task force, and Poland’s military history has the Polish military history task force.

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Participants

If you approach anyone from this list for advice or help, please check their contributions first to check if they've edited recently. This list may contain people who have not edited Wikipedia in a long time.

  1. AyodeleA1 (talk · contribs) (mostly former Central Asian, Eastern European, and Caucasus Soviet Republics)
  2. Brandmeister (talk · contribs) (mainly Eastern Front of WWII and some modern warfare-related stuff)
  3. Buckshot06 (talk · contribs) (Current Russian military and former Soviet military)
  4. Catlemur (talk · contribs)
  5. TheMightyGeneral (talk · contribs) (Georgians in imperial Russian service, Russo-Turkish & Crimean Wars, Soviet-Georgian related)
  6. Elfalem (talk · contribs)
  7. Janisterzaj (talk · contribs) (Russian army during the reign of Stalin)
  8. Kenmore (talk · contribs) (Napoleonic Wars and Crimean War)
  9. Kges1901 (talk · contribs) (WWII)
  10. Mzajac (talk · contribs) (Ukrainian military history, armoured fighting vehicles)
  11. RadioactiveBoulevardier (talk · contribs) (Individual military units post-1945, CE and other cleanup)
  12. Romanov loyalist (talk · contribs) (Russian imperial army)
  13. ryan.opel (talk · contribs) (Soviet Military, WW2 through Cold War)
  14. Vecrumba (talk · contribs) (Kievan Rus', partitions of Poland, Bessarabia, Russia in WWI, USSR in WWII)

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A list of the top 500 most popular articles within our scope, as well as the number of page views each article received over the past month, can be found here.

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    'One of the wards in the hospital at Scutari'. Wellcome M0007724 - restoration, cropped
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    2008 South Ossetia war en
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    2020-09-16 165855 Soviet submarine B-515
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    Field Marshall Keitel signs German surrender terms in Berlin 8 May 1945 - Restoration
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    Russian Fleet (1892) il. 12 Dvenadsat Apostolov - Restoration, cropped
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    The Illustration of The Siberian War, No. 16. The Japanese Army Occupied Vragaeschensk
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    William Simpson - Attack on the Malakoff
  • William Simpson - Charge of the light cavalry brigade, 25th Oct. 1854, under Major General the Earl of Cardigan
    William Simpson - Charge of the light cavalry brigade, 25th Oct. 1854, under Major General the Earl of Cardigan
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    William Simpson - Crimean War - Huts and Warm Clothing for the Army
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    Yalta Conference (Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin) (B&W)
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    Yuri Gagarin (1961) - Restoration
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