Soviet Army - Armies
The list shows all the armies that existed in the period from May 1945 until the collapse of the USSR.
Tank (mechanized) armies
1st Guards Red Banner Tank Army (1 Guards TA)the entire post-war period was in Germany, with headquarters in Dresden. The army constantly consisted of units from the time of the war, namely 2 guard divisions - the 11th TD (formerly the 11th TC) and the 20th MSD (formerly the 8th MK), as well as the 9th TD (the former TC). Between 1947 and the end of the 1970s the army included the 47th Guards TD (the former guards 47th SD, then the 19th MD and 26th TD). As part of this, the army was withdrawn to Smolensk and disbanded in 1995.
2nd Guards Red Banner Tank Army (2 Guards TA)had a similar fate with the 1st fate, being all the time in Germany with headquarters in Fürstenberg. But only the 16th Guards TD (the former 9th Guards TC) remained in the army from the time of the war. Although until the 1970s. it included “native” formations - the 12th Guards TD (the former TK of the same name) and the 35th MSD (the former 1st MK), not counting the 25th TD that arrived in 1946. But the last 3 divisions were replaced in the late 1970s. 3 motorized rifle divisions - 94th Guards, 21st and 207th. In this composition, the army was withdrawn to the territory of the Volga region (to Samara), disbanded and re-established.
3rd Guards Red Banner Mechanized Army (3 Guards MA)until 1979, it was delayed in Germany, retaining to this period 2 formations of the times of war - the 6th and 7th Guards TDs (former TCs of the same name). Its third compound, the 82nd MSD (also known as the 9th MD, former 9th MK), was withdrawn to the territory of the country in 1958 and disbanded, and the 14th Guards MD (former guards 9th B) was included in its place Poison, briefly referred to as the 116th SD). Due to the reduction of the group of forces in the Western theater of operations, the army command, which was called the command of the 18th guards combined arms (18th Guards A) since 1957, was withdrawn to Belarus in 1979, where it was disbanded (only the 6th remained from the army Guards TD). In the late 1940s. bore the status of a cadre tank division.
4th Guards Red Banner Mechanized Army (4 Guards MA).renamed together with the 3rd Guards TA in the 20th Guards Combined Arms (20 Guards A.), repeated the fate of the 1st and 2nd armies. By the time of the withdrawal from Germany, only one compound of the times of the war remained - the 90th Guards TD (formerly the 6th Guards MK, then the 6th MSD). Until the late 1970s the army included its "native" 10th Guards TD (former TK). The 5th and 7th Guards MD (formerly of the same name MK) that were in the army departed for the Union, and instead of them the 25th TD, the 35th and 14th Guards MSD (the former 1st and 14th Guards MD), the last of which in 1982 became the 32nd Guards TD. The army was withdrawn to Voronezh and became the 20th Guards Tank. In the late 1940s. bore the status of a cadre tank division.
5th Guards Red Banner Tank Army (5th Guards TA) the entire post-war period was stationed in Belarus and all these years had an almost unchanged composition of 3 armored divisions - the 8th Guards and 29th (the former TK of the same name), as well as the 193rd (the former 193rd SD, then the 22nd MD and 36th TD). The 12th MD (formerly the 63rd cavalry), which initially became part of the army and became the 5th heavy tank in 1957, was disbanded after 3 years. In the late 1940s. bore the status of a cadre tank division.
6th Guards Red Banner Tank Army (6th Guards TA)stayed in Mongolia after the war for almost 15 years, having in its composition the guard divisions that had passed with her during the war years — the 5th armored and 9th mechanized divisions (the former 5th and 9th corps). To them were added the divisions that were constantly in Transbaikalia — the 14th MD (formerly 284th SD) and 16th TD (formerly 111th). The then friendship with China and Khrushchev’s reductions in the army changed the fate of the army’s management - it was relocated to Dnepropetrovsk, uniting the 4 Guards TDs located there, the 14th heavy, the 22.42.37th. By the end of the 1980s 3 guard divisions remained in the division - the 17th (former 20th SD, it is also the 35th MD then the 37th TD), 42nd (former 42nd SD) and 75th (former 75th SD , she is the 25th MD and the 14th heavy TD).
7th Red Banner Tank Army (7 TA) was created in 1946 on the territory of Poland from the 65th OA and in 1947 was withdrawn to Belarus. At this moment, it consisted of the 3rd Guards and 10th TDs (former TKs), as well as the 27th and 7th Guards MDs (formerly the 37th Guards SDs and 7th MKs). This composition of the army has not actually changed over its entire existence. Only the last of the divisions, reorganized into the 11th Guards MSD, went down in Transbaikalia. The numbering of 2 more divisions was changed: the 10th became the 34th TD, and the 27th Guards MD first became the 39th, and then in 1965 the 37th TD. In the late 1940s. bore the status of a cadre tank division.
8th Order of the Red Star Tank Army (8 TA) was created in 1946 in Ukraine from the departments of the 52nd and 18th OA and included 4 divisions: the 23rd and 31st TDs (formerly named TCs), the 11th and 32nd Guards MD ( former guards 13th cavalry and 117th rifle divisions). Army formations participated in the suppression in 1956 of an armed uprising in Hungary. By the time of the collapse of the USSR, 2 TDs remained in the army: the 23rd and 30th Guards (transformed from the 11th Guards MD). Her 31st TD remained in Czechoslovakia after the well-known events, and the 32nd Guards MD transformed in 1957. The 41st Guards TD then became the 117th training.
9th mechanized army (9 MA) was created in 1946 in Primorye from the 35th OA. It consisted of 4 divisions - the 2nd and 3rd (former 66th and 264th SD) TD, 3rd Guards and 10th MD (former MK of the same name). Apparently, the army was disbanded in 1947-1948.
10th Special Mechanized Army (10 OMA) was established in Bulgaria in 1946 on the basis of the management of the 37th OA in 3 corps (9 divisions). It is noteworthy that from the 37th OA survived until the end of the 1980s. both of its corps are the 66th and 82nd SK and some divisions (28th and 92nd Guards SD). The new army included 5 divisions: 19th TD (formerly 19th TK) and 4 MD - 4th and 33rd Guards, 19th and 20th (former 4th Guards MK and 49th Guards 78th, 21st SD). After the liquidation of the South Ossetian Army, which included the army, it was renamed Special and deployed in Romania. Army formations (its 33rd Guards MD) participated in the suppression of an armed uprising in Budapest. Withdrawn to Ukraine, the army and its 2 divisions (19th TD and 33rd Guards MD) were disbanded. The 20th MD ceased to exist even earlier.
Combined Arms
1st Guards Order of Lenin Combined Arms Army (1 Guards OA). where the Kiev district (Chernihiv city) was determined to be located, for all the post-war years, it had almost no divisions with which it ended the war, since the army command was in the command of the KVO for some time as a task force. But on the other hand, the army did become a guard in composition, in contrast to the last year of the war. It almost always consisted of the guards 25th and 72nd MSD 41st TD (formerly 41st SD, then 18th MD and 17th TD), not counting the 163rd MSD (named before 1957 25th MD).
1st Red Banner Combined Arms Army (1 OA) (see 35th Red Banner Combined Arms Army).
The 1st Shock Army (1 UA) after the war was sent, along with a number of its formations, to Central Asia, where its command in July 1945 was turned to staff the command of the Turkestan district. As part of the army, 2 42 rifle corps (6 divisions) arrived, with the 306th and 376th SD becoming mountain rifle. It is noteworthy that almost all of these compounds (except the 306th) were preserved until the end of the 1980s, however, the numbers of most of them changed. After the war, the 2nd Guards Combined Arms Army (2 Guards OA) was withdrawn to the territory of the Moscow District as part of the administrations of 2 Guards Corps (6 divisions).
2nd Red Banner Combined Arms Army (2 OA) (see 35th Red Banner Combined Arms Army).
2nd Shock Army (2 UA)Until January 1946, it remained in the north-east of Germany (headquarters - Schwerin), after which it was withdrawn in full force to the Union, where its administration was turned to create the Arkhangelsk district. At that time, it consisted of 3 rifle corps (9 divisions). Of these, with the command of the army, the 116th SK and its divisions left for Arkhangelsk, the 109th SK (101st Guards, 46th and 372nd) ended up in the North Caucasus, and the 134th (102nd Guards, 90 and 272nd SD) - in the Voronezh district.
3rd Guards Combined Arms Army (3 Guards OA). All formations of this army (with the exception of the 76th Special Forces consisting of the 287th and 389th SD) were disbanded in the summer of 1945, and the directorate itself went to the understaffing of the Volga Military District.
3rd Combined Arms Army (3 OA. I Formation).After the war, this army was withdrawn to the territory of Belarus, where its command understaffed the management of the Belarusian-Lithuanian district. Its structure by this time included 3 SK (9 divisions). Subsequently, almost all of them, except the 120th, were disbanded.
3rd Red Banner Combined Arms Army (3 OA. II formation) dates back to the 3rd Shock Army during the war, which was called in the 1950s. Assault. The army was indeed an assault force in the 1960s and 1980s, although in the late 1940s. its composition was not such. At that time, there were 4 divisions in its 2 corps: in the 9th - 94th Guards SD and 18th MD (formerly 416th SD), and in 79th Berlin - 207th SD and 15th MD (formerly 230th SD). Another division - the 11th TD - made up the reserve. It is noteworthy that not one of these divisions remained in the army by the end of the 1980s. - The 11th tank and 15th mechanized were disbanded in the mid-1950s, and the rest were transferred to other armies. The divisions who had joined the army were already all guards TD-7,10,12,47th. With them, the army met the beginning of the 1990s.
4th Guards Combined Arms Army (4th Guards OA) after the war she remained on the territory of Austria and Hungary, being a part of the Central Troops and having 3 Guards SKs (9 divisions). Its management was disbanded in 1947, and its member guards SK - the 20th Budapest (guards 16th MD and 112th SD) and the 21st (guards 69th, 115th SD and 18- I MD) were withdrawn to the KVO, and its 17th Guards MD - to the Carpathian.
4th Combined Arms Army (4 OA) remained in the Transcaucasian District after the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Iran in 1946 and the simultaneous abolition of the Baku District. True, from the wartime divisions in the army by the end of the 1980s. only the 60th MSD remained. Marshal of the Soviet Union F.I. Tolbukhina (former 296th, then 6th SD). The remaining 3 MSDs (all took part in the war) arrived and became part of it at the end of the 1940s: 23rd Guards (former 7th Guards KK, converted to 31st Guards MD then MSD), 151st (former 349th, then 53rd SD) and 295th (former 295th, then 49th SD).
4th Shock Army (4 U A)from the Baltic states in the summer of 1945 she was sent to Northern Kazakhstan, where her administration formed the administration of the new Steppe District. Together with the army, 2 rifle corps (6 divisions) arrived, and its 19th IC was "delayed" in the Kharkov district.
5th Guards Combined Arms Army (5th Guards OA) in 1946-1947 arrived from Austria to the territory of Western Ukraine, where it was disbanded, unlike some of its divisions, including those remaining in Austria (guards 13th MD and 95th SD). By the time of the withdrawal, it had 3 guards rifle corps (9 divisions). Of these, only the 14th Guards MD (the former 116th SD, also the 9th VDD) departed for Germany.
5th Red Banner Combined Arms Army (5 OA) remained in the Far East after the victory over Japan and remained the most powerful army in this region for the entire post-war period. After the 39th Army was withdrawn from Port Arthur, the 9th MA and 25th OA were disbanded, its composition was replenished with a number of divisions - the 2nd TD (created from the 66th SD, then the 32nd and 66th TD and, finally, the 277th MRD) and the 3rd (then 46th) TD of the 3rd Guards MD 7th and 10th MD (in the future, the 47th Guards, 144th and 84th MSD) , 17th Guards SD (then the 123rd Guards SD). However, a number of its native compounds also persisted for a long time, for example, the 7th (former 72nd) and 45th SC, 63rd and 40th (former SD), 121st (former 159th SD and 4th TD). In the 1970-1980s. the 81st Guards MSD 135th and 199th MSD (the former 39th and 215th SD) were included in the army. In the army there were several UR (13.15, 17, 20th), which in 1989
Since the days of May 1945, the 5th Shock Army (5 UA) has been a part of the GSOVG (headquarters - Potsdam) for the next 2 years, where it was disbanded, unlike a number of its divisions. At that time, it consisted of 2 rifle corps - the 26th Guards (24th Guards MD former 89th SD, as well as the 94th Guards SD and 266th SD) and 9th (16th, former 171st SD, as well as the 248th and 301st SD).
The 6th Combined Arms Army (6th OA. I formation) after the war departed from Germany to the Oryol District, where the army command and its command formed the command of the new Voronezh okrug. All its formations during the war were disbanded in the summer of 1945. 6th Guards Combined Arms Army (6th Guards OA)after the war she remained in the Baltic States, having 4 rifle corps (12 divisions) in it, and was disbanded in 1947. By this time, it had 2 guards SK-2 (guards 26th MD and 71st SDs) ) and the 23rd (51st and 67th SD Guards), of which 3 divisions were preserved for a long time, and the 71st was disbanded with the army.
6th Red Banner Combined Arms Army (6 OA. I Formation)The post-war formation was created in 1960 (with administration in Petrozavodsk) after the unification of the Leningrad and Northern military districts into a single Leningrad district. She inherited from the 131st SK (from 1957 - the 41st AK) passed the Order of the Red Banner. The army consisted only of divisions, all of which participated in the Great Patriotic War: the 54th, 71,111,116,131th MSD (the former 341,71,367,67,45th SD). This composition did not actually change until the end of the 1980s. (only in 1960 was the 116th division disbanded). Moreover, in these divisions instead of tank regiments by this time there were separate battalions.
7th Guards Combined Arms Army (17th Guards OA) until 1946, was registered in the Central Group of Forces, having 3 Guard ICs (9 divisions), and then was redeployed to Ukraine and the North Caucasus (23rd SC -19, 252, 303rd SD). At the same time, the administration of the 25th Guards SD and the 113th Guards SD were in the Tauride District, the 111th Guards SD in Romania, and the 25th, 42nd, 81st Guards SDs in the Kiev District. The army’s command itself was transferred to Yerevan, but without its divisions. In Transcaucasia, the army’s command combined the divisions, both located there (75th and 261st SD), and arrived from other districts and groups (26th MD, 89th and 164th SD). True, there were no guard units among them, and the army almost consisted of 4, but motorized rifle divisions, of which the 261st changed the numbering — became 127th, and the 15th and 164th were at one time called the 100th and the 146th.
The 8th Guards Order of Lenin Combined Arms Army (8th Guards OA) deployed in the south of Germany all the post-war period, in the late 1940s. had 5 divisions combined in 2 guards SK: the 28th Lublin Red Banner Order of the Suvorov as part of the Guard 39th SD and the 20th MD (former 79th SD) and the 29th Lodzinsky as part of the Guard 57th and 82nd SD and 21st MD (formerly 27th SD). The management of its 4th Guards SK, after the dissolution of its divisions (35.74, 88th Guards SD), was withdrawn to the Baltic region. This composition almost did not change until the withdrawal of troops. Only the 82nd Guards SD was disbanded, the 20th Guards MD became first the 27th, and then the 79th TD and the 21st Guards MD, which became a motorized infantry, its number was returned - 27. In total, there were 4 divisions in the army - 1 tank and 3 motorized rifle. The 9th Combined Arms Army (8 OA) in the summer of 1945 arrived from the Baltic States to Siberia, where her management merged with the administration of the district, forming the new West Siberian district. Together with the army command, the 122nd SK (56th, 85th, 198th SD) arrived.
After the end of the war, the 9th Guards Combined Arms Army (9th Guards Army) was withdrawn to the Moscow District, where in 1946 its command was transformed into the Airborne Forces Directorate, and all its formations became the Guards airborne assault forces - 37.38, 39th corps and 98, 99, 100,103, 104, 105,106,107,114th VDD.
The 9th Order of Kutuzov, the combined-arms army (9 OA), is the direct successor to the 76th Special Forces that existed during the war, arrived there simultaneously with the administration of the 7th Guards OA and, presumably in 1960, reorganized into the army. Since the 1950s almost constantly consisted of 4 MSD: 10th Guards, 145, 147,152th (during the war, respectively, 10th Guards, 89, 414, 402nd SD). In the 1970-1980s. it either became the 31st AK, or again turned into the army.
After the war, the 10th Guards Red Banner Combined Arms Army (10th Guards Army) remained in the Baltic States (Estonia), subordinating to the Leningrad District and having 4 Guards SKs in it. Until the early 1950s numbered there, having in the composition of the 1st machine gun and artillery division (it is also the marines), and the guard divisions - 36th MD (formerly 29th SD), 7th, 8th, 118,122th SD (some of them became teams).
11th Guards Red Banner Combined Arms Army (11th Guards OA)very briefly remained in the status of the Special Military District in Kaliningrad, and already in 1946 she was returned the number of times of war. By this time, its composition of the times of the war left the management of the 8th Guards SK, which transferred to the Airborne Forces, and the 11th, 83rd, 84th Guards SDs were disbanded. Other changes have occurred. In the 1950s it included the 1st TD (former TK) and all other guards - the 2nd SK (3rd SD and 28th MD), the 16th Koenigsberg Red Banner SK (1st and 26th SD, 29 MD) and the 36th Neman red banner SK (5th and 16th SD, 30 MD). Subsequently, the composition of the army changed insignificantly, and the entire post-war period consisted of the 40th Guards TD (formerly the 2nd Guards KK, then the 28th Guards MD) and the 1st Tank, 1st and 26th Guards MSD (former diabetes). In 1960, the 5th Guards MSD (former SD) was disbanded in 1968.
The 13th Red Banner Combined Arms Army (13 OA) throughout the post-war period was in the Lviv and Carpathian districts, having 3 rifle corps (9 divisions). Not a single division remained from its composition during the war, but almost all the newly subordinate MSDs were glorified guards: 17th, 51st, 97th (former 40th, 15th, 97th rifle). And only the 24th (later transferred to the subordination of the district) and 161st (former SD) did not bear the title of guard, but were no less famous.
14th Guards Combined Arms Army (14th Guards OA)It should have the honorary name of Budapest, since it was created in the Odessa district after its unification in 1956 with Tauride on the basis of the 10th Budapest Guards SK. It included: the administration of the 25th (82nd) ??SK and 4 MSD, which retained the numbering of the times of the war - the 28th, 59th, 86th Guards, 48th and 180th (the last in 1945-1965. More than once changed number). This composition was unchanged almost all the time, only in 1968 did the 48th MSD go to Czechoslovakia.
14th Combined Arms Army (14 OA) after Finland came out of the war, she remained on the Kola Peninsula, being part of the White Sea District and having 2 rifle corps. Presumably in 1947, during the command of the Primorsky District, K.A. Meretskov, the command of the army came to his disposal, combining some of the units stationed in Primorye, for example, the 121st (former 126th light mountain SK) and the 1222nd cannon artillery regiment. According to some reports, it was planned for deployment in Chukotka and landing in the event of a war in Alaska. It was probably disbanded in the mid-1950s.
15th Combined Arms Army (15 OA)immediately after the war, it was relocated to Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands, its composition after the defeat of Japan changed significantly - it included 2 infantry corps (8 divisions) and 2 UR. Moreover, 4 divisions (345, 101, 361, 388th) and both UR in 1946 were transformed into 4 machine gun and artillery divisions (5, 6,14,23rd). Only 20 years later, the army command returned to Khabarovsk. And by the end of the 1980s. all its divisions, although they existed during the war years, were previously part of other armies. So, the 31st Guards MSD (the former SD and the 29th Guards MD) arrived in 1968 from the Baltic states (9 years later reorganized into the 21st Guards TD), the 135th MSD (the former 39th SD) moved from 5th Army, and the 194th and 270th MSD arrived from the west.
16th Combined Arms Army (16 OA)after the victory over Japan, she remained on Sakhalin and on the coast of the Tatar Strait, having at her disposal 2 rifle corps (6 divisions and 3 brigades), as well as 2 UR. In 1946, her SD and brigades were transformed into machine gun and artillery divisions - the 11th and 20th. Apparently, it was disbanded in 1947, although it may have remained in the form of the 56th (16th) SC (79,258,342th SD, 20th PULAD).
The 17th Combined Arms Army (17 OA) ceased to exist 4 months after the war with Japan.
18th Combined Arms Army (18 OA)after the war, in fact, it turned into a mountain army, having 3 corps (127th light and 3rd mountain rifle, 17th guards rifle) and located in the territory of Transcarpathia and Northern Bukovina, where it was disbanded (part of its command served as the basis to create the 8th MA).
19th Combined Arms Army (19 OA) after the war, she remained on the territory of Poland, where she ended her existence in 1947, having 2 divisions of the SK Guard consisting of 6 divisions, many of which significantly outlived their army. So, the 27th SD was registered in Poland in the 1950s, and the 90th Guards SD, having undergone numerous reorganizations, was withdrawn to the Moscow Military District only in 1992 as the 6th Guards SD. There, at the beginning of 1946, the 40th Guard SK was withdrawn, and its guard divisions survived until the 1990s. - The 76th became the airborne landing, the 10th ended up in Transcaucasia, and the 38th - in Transbaikalia.
The 21st Combined Arms Army (21 OA) immediately after the war arrived in the Kharkiv District, where its command was turned to staff the management of this okrug. All its compounds ceased to exist in the summer of 1945.
22nd Combined Arms Army (22 OA), whose command already in May 1945 arrived in southern Ukraine, where in summer, together with the command and troops of the Separate Maritime Army located in the Crimea, they formed a new Tauride District. The 109th SK, who arrived with the army, combined the divisions in the Crimea since 1944 with the -315,392,414th.
The 23rd Combined Arms Army (23 OA) was a part of the Leningrad District until the end of the 1950s, covering Leningrad from Finland on the Karelian Isthmus. After the war, it consisted of 2 rifle corps and the 22nd SD (hereinafter - the 22nd PULAD). It was disbanded during the cuts, although its 30th Guards SK and all its divisions remained.
25th Combined Arms Army (25 OA)It was part of the Primorsky District until 1955 (headquarters in the village of Shkotovo), covering the border with Korea and China, when it was disbanded. Immediately after the war with Japan, it was subordinated to 2 rifle corps (6 divisions) and 8 UR, and all of them were converted in 1946 into machine gun and artillery divisions.
The 16th combined-arms army (26 OA) after the war was on the territory of Romania, being part of the Southern Group of Forces and having 3 rifle corps (9 divisions). It was disbanded in 1947, along with most of its formations - only the 25th Guards and 23rd MD, withdrawn to Ukraine, were preserved.
27th Combined Arms Army (27 OA)after the war, it was located on Northern Bukovina, having 3 rifle corps (9 divisions). At the beginning of 1946, its administration was turned to the understaffing of the Tbilisi district, and only the 66th Guards SD remained in the Carpathian region. The 6th and 25th MDs (former 78th and 163rd SDs) left for the Kiev District (the former 78th and 163rd SDs), the 206th SDs went to Voronezh District, and all the rest were disbanded.
28th Red Banner Combined Arms Army (28 OA)Since the summer of 1945 she has been constantly in Belarus. Initially, before the reductions of 1947, it consisted of 3 corps and divisions remaining from the time of the war: the 3rd Red Banner Guards SK (50, 54, 96th Guards SD), the 9th Brest Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Guards SK, combined with the 20th SK (48th and 55th Guards, 20th SD) and 128th Gumbinnensky SK (61, 130, 152nd SD), as well as a number of MD created from cavalry divisions, - 12 the guards, 11, 12, 13th. In 1947 and until the mid-1950s. the 9th Guards SK (the 48th and 54th Guards SDs of the 8th MD - the former 8th MK) and the 128th SK (Guards 50th and 55th SDs, the 12th MD remained in the army - the former 15th cavalry), the 12th MD (the former 63rd cavalry) and the 15th Guards MD (former 6th Guards SD) that arrived from Poland. It was the 128th SK (without the 55th Guards SD) of this army that participated in the Totsk "atomic" exercises. By 1957, all rifle corps departments, the 48th and 54th Guards SDs ceased to exist, and the 15th Guards, 8th and 12th MDs became the 33rd (then 15th) Guards, 28th and 5th heavy TD. After the entry of troops into Czechoslovakia, 2 guard divisions remained there on a permanent basis - the 30th (formerly 55th) SD and 15th TD. Instead of the last in 1968, the 76th TD was created, and after the liquidation of the 18th Guards OA withdrawn from Germany in 1979, the 6th Guards TD entered the army. This composition (3 tank - the 6th Guards, 28th, 76th and 50th Guards MSDs) remained until the end of the 1980s.
29th Combined Arms Army (29 OA). was created in 1968-1969. during the period of aggravation of relations with China on the basis of the 44th AK relocated in Transbaikalia from Arkhangelsk. It united the divisions located and newly arrived in Transbaikalia - the 5th Guards TD, the 52nd and 245th SD. It was transformed into the 47th AK on February 28, 1988.
31st Combined Arms Army (31 OA) in the summer of 1945 arrived in northwestern Ukraine, where its command was turned to re-equip the Lviv District. All its compounds in the summer of 1945 were disbanded.
The 32nd Combined Arms Army (32 OA. I formation) whose combat activity was completed in November 1944, until August 1945 was in the reserve of the Headquarters, when its command was disbanded.
The 32nd Combined Arms Army (32 OA. II Formation) was re-created in Semipalatinsk in 1969 on the basis of the 1st AK transferred from Ashkhabad almost simultaneously with the creation of the Central Asian District as a result of worsening relations with China. The Office combined the 167th MSD that arrived from Ukraine, the 155th MSD (formerly the 16th MD, then the 15th TD) and 78th TD (the former 78th SD, then the 19th MD and 15th relocated from Turkmenistan) th TD), located in eastern Kazakhstan, the 203rd MSD (the former 203rd and 30th SD, then the 102nd MSD). This composition remained unchanged until the early 1980s, when it was called the 1st AK, from September 24, 1981 to February 28, 1988, and then again the army, which changed its number to 40 from June 4, 1991.
33rd Combined Arms Army (33 OA)after the war she was withdrawn to Smolensk, where her administration formed a new eponymous district. All its 3 SKs and divisions were disbanded, with the exception of the 89th SD, which had gone to the Caucasus. 35th Combined Arms Army (35 OA. I formation) (see 9th Mechanized Army).
35th Red Banner Combined Arms Army (35 OA. II formation).It traces its history from the 1st Red Banner OA, which did not change its place of deployment from the time of its creation until the disbandment, constantly being in the Far East. Its composition after the war with Japan (26th SK - 22, 59, 300th SD and 59th SK -39, 231, 365th SD) underwent significant changes, as the army was transferred to the Amur region, where it took its composition of the troops partially transferred to Kamchatka of the 15th OA and the troops of its pre-war twin-city - transformed into the 136th SC of the 2nd Red Banner OA. In the late 1950s. it was reorganized into an army corps in order to turn back into an army several years later - only with number 35. Therefore, this army has nothing to do with the army of the same name that existed there during the war. She combined the MSD both arriving from the European part of the country, and deployed there.
The 36th Combined Arms Army (36 OA) was stationed in Dauria both in wartime and after the war. But in the period 1947-1976. she was represented by the 86th Khingan AK (former SK). The Army Directorate itself was turned in 1947 to create the Directorate of the Trans-Baikal Military District. The composition of the army repeatedly changed, but almost all the time consisted of only motorized rifle and machine-gun artillery divisions (created on the basis of the UR). The only exception is the presence of the 13th (formerly 61st) TD, which was disbanded in the same year, before 1959. In 1989, the army was transformed into the 55th AK.
37th Combined Arms Army (37 OA) (see 10th Mechanized Army)
38th Red Banner Combined Arms Army (38 OA) after the war was relocated to the Carpathian region, where she was constantly. From the time of World War II to the beginning of the 1990s. retained in its composition 2 guards MSD - the 70th and 128th (former SD and GSD). All other divisions came and went from the army mainly due to the Hungarian and Czechoslovak events, in which the army was directly involved. So, the 66th Guards MSD and the 287th MSD of this army became district training submissions, the 13th Guards MD (former SD) became the 21st (in the future - 13th) Guards TD and together with the 27th MD ( the former 254th SD, then MSD) became part of the Southern Group of Forces in 1958 when the army itself left the territory of Hungary.
39th Combined Arms Army (39 About A. I Formation)during the war ended its existence in 1955 on the Liaodong Peninsula (headquarters in Port Arthur), having after the war 2 corps - the 5th Koenigsberg-Khingan Red Banner Guards SK (17th and 19th Guards SD) and The 113th Tilsit-Mukden Red Banner Special Forces (262, 338, 358th SD), as well as the 7th MD (formerly 7th MK) and the 25th Guards machine-gun and artillery division (the former 91st Guards SD). After the war with Japan, the 94th SK (124,192,221st SD) left its composition in Transbaikalia.
39th Combined Arms Army (39 OA. II Formation) was recreated in connection with the famous events on the border with China in the 1960s. as part of the Transbaikal District on the territory of Mongolia (also called the Group of Soviet Forces in Mongolia - GSVM). The army included 2 TDs (2nd Guards and 51st) that arrived from the European part of the country and were located in Transbaikalia and Mongolia (12, 41, 149th) After being withdrawn from Mongolia, it was disbanded on September 25, 1992, and some of its parts became part of the new 57th AK.
The 40th Combined Arms Army (40 OA. I Formation) ceased to exist in July 1945. The 40th Combined Arms Army (40 OA. II Formation)in post-war history, it became the “youngest” and perhaps the most famous army of the Soviet Armed Forces thanks to the Afghan events. Created in May 1979 to cover the borders with troubled Afghanistan as part of 3 MSD (5th Guards, 108th and 68th), the army was introduced into Afghanistan in December of the same year without the last division (it was transferred to Army 2 regiment). Instead of it, another division, the 201st division, joined its structure in January next year. Forming the basis of the OKSVA (Limited Contingent of Soviet Forces in Afghanistan), the army received at its disposal another 103rd Guards Airborne Forces and 3 separate brigades, creating 2 more motorized rifle brigades from 2 separate regiments. After the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989, it was reorganized into the 59th AK.
42nd Combined Arms Army (42 OA)ceased to exist in the summer of 1946, like most of its compounds, being part of the Special (then Baltic) district.
The 43rd Combined Arms Army (43 OA) ceased to exist in the summer of 1946, and only the 28th MD (the former 126th SD) remained from the army.
The 45th Combined Arms Army (45 OA) spent most of the war in Iran and ceased to exist in 1946 after returning to the country. True, both of its SK (12th and 13th), as well as a number of divisions (261, 296, 349, 392, 402, 406th SD) existed for a long time, and some up to the collapse of the USSR, but under other numbers.
46th Combined Arms Army (46 OA)ceased to exist in the summer of 1945, and by the end of the year only the 10th Guards SK remained, which became part of the South Ossetian Army and had 3 divisions — the 86th Guards, 180th SDs and 33rd Guards MD (former 49th Guards SD).
The 47th All-Arms Army (47 OA) was stationed in Germany after the battles were completed (headquarters in the city of Galle), by 1947 having the 77th Sochachevsky Order of the Suvorov and Kutuzov SK (60, 185, 328th SD) and the 12th Guards Red Banner (Guards 23rd SD and 22nd MD, former 52nd SD). All of them (except for the 60th l 185th) were disbanded with the army after its withdrawal in the Moscow district. 48th Combined Arms Army (48 OA)in June 1945, he left Germany for the Volga region, where the Kazan district was deployed on the basis of its management. The 17th and 194th SD arrived with her, and the 73rd SD departed for the North Caucasus. 49th Combined Arms Army (49 OA). Its administration, like the 48th, in June 1945 departed from Germany to the Gorky Region, where the administration of the Gorky District was deployed on its basis.
The 50th Combined Arms Army (50 OA) in June 1945 departed from Germany to Eastern Siberia, where, on the basis of its command, the command of the eponymous district was deployed. Its 2 divisions — the 216th and 324th SD — ended up in Transcaucasia and the Urals District, respectively.
51st Combined Arms Army (51 OA) in June 1945 from the Baltic states with almost all of its formations (the 10th and 63rd SK - 77, 91, 279, 347, 417th SD) departed for the Urals. According to the authors, in 1953 the command of the army without troops was transferred to Sakhalin, where troops were combined on all islands, including the Kuril Islands. The management of the Far Eastern District (the former 2nd Far Eastern Front) was addressed to staff the department. In its composition in the 1970-1980s. 2 AKs were included: the 2nd (22nd, 33rd, 79th MSD) and the 25th (87th and 99th MSD), as well as the 18th machine gun and artillery division.
52nd Combined Arms Army (52 OA) (see 8th Mechanized Army).
53rd Combined Arms Army (53 OA)after the defeat of Japan, it was withdrawn to Siberia, where it suffered the fate of being disbanded in 1947. But then, for a long time, its corps and divisions existed. So, the 18th Guards SK as part of the 109th and 124th (formerly 1st 1st VDD) Guards and 227th SDs was located in Western Siberia, its 203rd SDs went to Kazakhstan, and the 57th SKs to The 110th Guards, 52nd and 243rd SDs ended up in the Baikal region.
57th Combined Arms Army (57 OA) was redeployed from Austria to Romania at the end of the war, where it became part of the UGV. It included corps from the 37th army: the 66th and 82nd SK. The 66th Corps included the 126th Guards (the former 10th VDD), the 73rd SD and the 35th MD (the former 93rd SD), and the 82nd Guards 28th SD and 34th I am MD (formerly 92nd SD). It was disbanded along with the South Ossetian Army in 1947.
59th Combined Arms Army (59 OA) command (without troops) arrived from Germany in the North Caucasus in June 1945, where the Stavropol District was deployed on its base and the 1st Guards Horse-Mechanized Group and its formations.
60th Combined Arms Army (60 OA). as in the 59th, the army command and its 9th SD arrived from Germany in the North Caucasus in June 1945, where the command was deployed to the command of the Kuban district.
61st Combined Arms Army (61 OA). Another administration, which arrived from Germany in the North Caucasus in June 1945, was turned to staff the North Caucasian Military District, which received the name Don. The 75th Guards SD (hereinafter the 64th Guards MD, also known as the 14th Heavy and 75th TDs) arrived with the army, declining in the 1960s. in KVO.
65th Combined Arms Army (65 OA) (see 7th Mechanized Army).
67th Combined Arms Army (67 OA) guarded the coast in the Baltic states from Tallinn and to the south until the end of the war, and in August 1945 it was disbanded, like all its formations.
The 69th Combined Arms Army (69 OA) arrived almost without troops from Germany in the Caucasus in June 1945, where its command was directed to the creation of a command of the Baku District.
The 70th Combined Arms Army (70 OA) arrived almost without troops from Germany in the Southern Urals in June 1945, where its command was turned to re-equip the eponymous district. Some of its divisions ended up in other districts, for example, the 38th and 76th Guards SDs in the MVO and LVO, respectively.
