GRU (Soviet Union)

Main Intelligence Directorate (Russian: Главное разведывательное управление, tr. Glavnoye razvedyvatel'noye upravleniye, IPA: [ˈglavnəjə rɐzˈvʲɛdɨvətʲɪlʲnəjə ʊprɐˈvlʲenʲɪjə]), abbreviated GRU (Russian: ГРУ, IPA: [geeˈru]), was the foreign military intelligence agency of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces until 1991. For a few months it was also the foreign military intelligence agency of the newly established Russian Federation until 7 May 1992 when it was dissolved and the Russian GRU took over its activities.

This article is about the Soviet GRU. For the Russian GRU, see GRU (Russian Federation).

Main Intelligence Directorate
Glavnoje Razvedyvatel'noje Upravlenije
ГРУ СССР
Главное разведывательное управление
Agency overview
Formed5 November 1918
as Registration Agency; GRU since 1942
Preceding agencies
  • Fifth Department of the Russian Imperial Chief of Staff
  • Expedition for Secret Affairs
Dissolved7 May 1992
Superseding agency
Jurisdiction
HeadquartersMoscow
EmployeesClassified
Annual budgetClassified
Parent agencyMinistry of Defense
Child agencies
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