Ministry of National Defence
Total personnel: Approximately 5.400.000
Foreign Deployments: At least 1.464.500
Organisation: Ground Forces, Air Force, Navy, Anti-Air Defence Forces, Airborne Assault Troops, Rear Services, Civil Defence.
Role: Regular armed forces, construction and civil support.

Ministry of Internal Affairs
Total personnel: Approximately 340.000
Organisation: MVD Interior Troops
Role: Advanced police role, security, support armed force.

Ministry of State Security
Total personnel: Approximately 280.000
Organisation: MGB Border Troops, MGB Security Troops
Role: Border control, coast guard, state security, support armed force.

To be redone and expanded.

Project 1111.1 Orlan

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Sovietskii Soyuz class Aircraft-carrying Cruiser

Builders: Shipyard No. 198, Nikolayev; Shipyard No. 444, Nikolayev.
Operators: Soviet Navy
Preceded by: None
Followed by: ?
Launched: September 1951?
Commissioned: January 1952?
Ships in class: 6
Ships under construction: SFS Sovietskii Soyuz, SFS Sovyetskaya Rossiya, SFS Sovyetskaya Ukrayina, SFS Sovyetskaya Byelorossiya, SFS Admiral Kuznetsov, SFS Admiral Isakov.

Displacement: 80,000 tons
Length: 326 m
Beam: 40 m
Draft: 11.2 m

Propulsion and power: 280,000 shp Steam turbines
Speed: 34 knots
Complement: 4,378
Armament: 12 naval guns in turrets, 8 dual purpose guns
Aircraft carried: Up to 90
Aviation facilities: 326 x 77 m flight deck

Class information: Coming soon.