Allied-Administered Germany Soviet Occupation Zones of Germany
1945 — 1949
Occupation zones in Germany (1945)
Status	Military occupation
Capital	Berlin (de jure)
Governors (1945)
• Soviet zone	Marshal Zhukov
• 1953-55	Georgy Maksimovich Pushkin
Historical era	Cold War
• Surrender	May 8, 1945
•	July 5, 1945 1945
• West Germany	23 May, 1949
•	7 October, 1949 1949
• Final Settlement¹	September 12, 1990
ISO 3166 code	DE
Preceded by Succeeded by Third Reich East Germany East Berlin
¹ German reunification took place on October 3, 1990. The four sectors of Allied occupation in Berlin

The Soviet Occupation Zone (German: Sowjetische Besatzungszone (SBZ) or Ostzone Russian: Советская зона Германии, Sovetskaya zona Germanii, "Soviet Zone of Germany") was the area of eastern Germany occupied by the Soviet Union from 1945 on, at the end of World War II. It became East Germany.

American forces first occupied some of the area. The Americans withdrew in July 1945 to the agreed occupation zone boundaries.