Red Army
Soviet army and air force from 1918 to 1946
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| May 2024 | The 138th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade was expanded into the 69th Guards Motor Rifle Division. |
| May 17 2024 | Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Harbin and lays flowers at the monument during his state visit to China. |
| August 2023 | Lieutenant General Andrey Peryazev becomes commander of the army |
| 2022 | The 6th Combined Arms Army participated in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, engaging in the Northeastern Ukraine offensive around Kharkiv, ultimately failing to capture the city. |
| March 2022 | Lieutenant General Yershov, the army's commander, was dismissed and placed under house arrest at the end of March. |
| March 2022 | Lieutenant General Vladislav Nikolaevich Yershov is dismissed from command |
| February 27 2022 | The National People's Congress approved a new regulation changing the military rank from Master sergeant fourth class to Staff sergeant first class, updating the ranking system for other ranks personnel in the People's Liberation Army Ground Force. |
| 2020 | Armenian veterans received combat flags of the six Armenian national divisions in a ceremony preceding the Shushi Liberation Day and Victory Day parade in Yerevan, with the flags being taken from the Mother Armenia Military History Museum and then transported to the airport for a flypast. |
| 2019 | During the 75th anniversary commemorations of the Jassy–Kishinev Offensive, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu ceremonially returned military flags of two all-Moldovan regiments to the Moldovan Defense Minister at the Capul de pod Șerpeni Memorial Complex. |
| February 2019 | Lieutenant General Vladislav Nikolaevich Yershov assumes command of the army |
| February 2016 | Lieutenant General Andrei Vladimirovich Kuzmenko becomes commander of the army |
| May 2013 | Lieutenant General Sergei Vasilyevich Kuralenko takes command of the army |
| 2011 | The Glory Memorial honoring the 416th Azerbaijani Division was restored. |
| 2011 | The monument undergoes comprehensive repairs, with parts repainted and damaged sections completely replaced. |
| January 2 2011 | Lieutenant General Yevgeny Alekseyevich becomes commander of the army |
| 2010 | The monument is declared as Harbin's fourth batch of first-class historical buildings. |
| 2010 | The 6th Combined Arms Army was reformed as part of the creation of the Western Military District, with headquarters established in Agalatovo, Leningrad Oblast. |
| July 21 2010 | Georgia's parliament unanimously declared February 25 as Soviet Occupation Day to commemorate the 1921 Red Army invasion. |
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Red Army invasion of Georgia, National military formations of the Red Army, 6th Combined Arms Army, 31st Army (Soviet Union), Ranks of the People's Liberation Army Ground Force & Soviet Red Army Monument, Harbin, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.