18th Army (Soviet Union)

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18th Army
Active1941–1946
Country 
Prague Offensive

The 18th Army of the

Kiev
Special Military District.

The Army's commander in 1941 was General-Lieutenant Andrey Smirnov. The Army composition on the beginning of the war was:

It was caught soon after the start of

6th Army and 12th Armies. This encirclement was part of the Battle of Uman. A further formation was shattered during the Battle of the Sea of Azov
in September–October 1941.

On 1 October 1943 the army consisted of

414th Rifle Divisions, 107th Rifle Brigade, 255th Naval Infantry Brigade, 10th Guards Separate Antitank Battalion, artillery, armoured forces, and engineers.[4]

As part of Southern, North-Caucasian,

Desant Army (Russian: 18-я десантная армия) for amphibious operations, between 15 February and 5 April 1944 around Malaya Zemlya
.

For this operation the Army included:[5]

  • 10th Guards Rifle Corps
  • 16th Rifle Corps
  • 176th Rifle Division
  • 318th Rifle Division
  • 5th Guards Tank Brigade
  • also two artillery regiments of the High Command Reserve, a regiment of Guards mortars (multiple rocket launchers), desant detachment of Major Kunikov, and elements of the 255th and 83rd Naval Infantry Brigades, elements of 107th and 165th Rifle Brigades, 31st Desant Regiment, machine gun battalion and 29th Tank Destroyer Regiment, all under command of Army Operational Group Grechkin (commanding officer General-Major А.А. Grechkin).

The Army reverted to its previous designation for the clearing of right-bank Ukraine, Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia. For much of this period the

Fortified Region.[6]

After

1st Guards Mechanized Division came under the army's control while in Iran from September 1945 to June 1946.[7] This army was disbanded in May 1946. Some of its elements, along with parts of the 52nd Army
were used to form the 8th Mechanised Army.

Commanders

  • Andrey Smirnov (June - October 1941), Lieutenant General, killed in action
  • Vladimir Kolpakchi (October - November 1941), Major General
  • Fyodor Kamkov (November 1941 - February 1942 and April - October, 19th 1942), Major General
  • Ilya Smirnov
    (February - April 1942), Lieutenant General
  • Andrei Grechko (October 1942 - January, 5th 1943), Major General
  • Aleksandr Ryzhov
    (January - February, 11th 1943), Major General
  • Konstantin Koroteyev
    (February - March, 16th 1943), Major General
  • Konstantin Leselidze (March 1943 - on February, 6th 1944), Lieutenant General promoted to Colonel General in October 1943
  • Yevgeny Zhuravlev (February - November 1944), Lieutenant General
  • Anton Gastilovich (November 1944 - May 1945), Major General, since January 1945 Lieutenant General

Sources and references

  1. ^ a b c "Том VIII - Книга памяти Украины". Archived from the original on 4 February 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2008.
  2. ^ samsv.narod.ru
  3. ^ Aberjona Press, Slaughterhouse
  4. ^ BSSA
  5. ^ "ВОВ-60 - 18-я армия". Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 15 January 2008.
  6. ^ "Боевой состав Советской Армии на 1 мая 1945 г". Archived from the original on 26 December 2013. Retrieved 30 November 2007.
  7. ^ Holm, Michael (1 January 2015). "100th Guards Training Motorised Rifle Division".

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