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'''GRU''' stands for '''Glavnoe razvedyvatel’noe upravlenie''', or '''Main Intelligence Directorate'''. Since 1942, except for a few brief periods, GRU has been the acronym for the [[Soviet]] (now [[Russian]]) military intelligence service. Since its inception in 1918, this service has had a series of names, the best-known of which are listed here:
*Razvedupr [Razvedyvatel'noe upravlenie shtaba RKKA - The Intelligence Directorate of the Staff of the Worker and Peasant Red Army], 1921-1924;
*IV upravlenie [Chetvertoe upravlenie shtaba RKKA - IV Directorate of the Staff of the Worker and Peasant Red Army], 1926-1934;
*Razvedupr [Razvedyvatel'noe upravlenie RKKA - The Intelligence Directorate of the Worker and Peasant Red Army), 1934-1939;
*Pyatoe upravlenie [5-e upravlenie NKO - The Fifth Directorate of the People's Commissariat of Defense], 1939-1940;
*RU GSh [Razvedyvatel'noe upravlenie General'nogo shtaba KA - The Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Red Army], 1940-February 1942; 1943-June 1945;
*GRU [Glavnoe razvedyvatel'noe upravlenie General'nogo shtaba krasnoi armii - The Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Red Army], February-September, 1942; June 1945-1946;
*GRU VS [Glavnoe razvedyvatel'noe upravlenie vooruzhennykh sil - The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Armed Forces], 1946-1947; 1949-1950;
*From 1947 to early 1949, military intelligence was part of the short-lived Committee of Information (KI) at the Council of Ministers of the USSR.
*GRU GSh SA [Glavnoe razvedyvatel'noe upravlenie General'nogo shtaba Sovetskoi Armii - The Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Soviet Army], 1950-1955;
*GRU VS SSSR [Glavnoe razvedyvatel'noe upravlenie vooruzhennykh sil SSSR - The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Armed Forces of the USSR], 1955-1991;
*GRU VS RF [Glavnoe razvedyvatel'noe upravlenie vooruzhennykh sil Rossiiskoi Federatsii - The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation], 1991 - present.
==Source==
*[http://www.agentura.ru/dossier/russia/gru/story/ The History of Military Intelligence], Agencies of the military intelligence