10th Army (Soviet Union)
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The 10th Army of the Soviet Union's Red Army was a field army active from 1939 to 1944.
History
The Army was formed in September 1939, in the
On 22 June 1941, at the onset of
By late June, the German Army Group Centre surrounded the 3rd, 4th and the 10th Armies in the Battle of Białystok–Minsk. In the end, all the formations and units of the 10th Army were defeated. On 30 June, while trying to cross the highway Minsk-Baranovichi, the army headquarters was destroyed, coming out of the remnants of the environment were addressed by fitting of the 4th Army. The headquarters was officially disbanded on 5 July 1941. The commander of the 10th Army, Major General KD Golubev, and the army artillery commander, Major General M. Barsukov, escaping from the encirclement in a consolidated group with the August 86th Border Detachment of the NKVD, in late July Golubev was appointed commander of 13th Army, which participated in the Battle of Smolensk.
It was formed three times in 1941, next in October in the Southern Front, but its formation 'was halted due to severe battle conditions'.[3]
It was then reformed in November 1941 in the
The 10th Army headquarters with associated units was withdrawn from the Western Front to the Stavka Reserve in early April (General Staff's directive of 7.04.44). From 10 April, it was moved to Roslavl, where it was to take control of the 81st and 103rd Rifle Corps (total 5 divisions). That same month, the army was disbanded and its headquarters formed the basis of Headquarters
Commanders
- Lieutenant-General Ivan Zakharkin (08.1939 – 10.1939)
- Major-General Aleksandr Chernikov (10.1939 – 26.07.1940),
- Lieutenant-General Vladimir Zakharovich Romanovsky (07.1940 – 03.1941)
- Major-General Konstantin Golubev (03.1941 – 5.07.1941), army disbanded
- Lieutenant-General Mikhail Yefremov (01.10.1941 – 17.10.1941), army disbanded
- Lieutenant-General Filipp Golikov (01.11.1941 – 01.02.1942),
- Lieutenant-General Vasily Popov (02.02.1942 – 04.1944),
- Lieutenant-General Vasily Kryuchenkin(04.1944 – 23.04.1944), army disbanded.
References and sources
- ^ Steven Zagola, Poland 1939, Osprey Books.
- ^ Orbat.com/Niehorster 10th Army Order of Battle, 22 June 1941, accessed April 2008
- ^ Keith E. Bonn (ed)., 'Slaughterhouse: The Handbook of the Eastern Front,' Aberjona Press, Bedford, PA, 2005, p.313
- ^ F.I. Golikov, 'V Moskovskoi bitve,' (In the Moscow battle), Moscow, Nauka, 1967, pp. 8–51, in William J. Spahr, 'Zhukov: The Rise and Fall of a Great Captain,' Presidio Press, Novato, CA., 1993, pp. 89–91
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