27th Army (Soviet Union)
The 27th Army was a field army of the Soviet Union's Red Army, which fought in World War II.
First formation
The 27th Army was formed in May 1941, under the command of Major General
Baltic Strategic Defensive Operation
.
From June to October 1941 the 27th Army fought on the
Staraya Russa Offensive, and at Kholm and Demyansk. By 1 November 1941 the army's forces had been reduced to the 23rd and 33rd Rifle Divisions, the 613th Artillery Regiment of the Reserve of the Supreme High Command (RVGK), the 28th Tank Division, and three Battalions of engineers.[2]
In December 1941 the first formation of the army was renamed the 4th Shock Army.
Second formation
The army reformed in May 1942, within the
Vienna Offensive.[3]
After the end of the war, it was ordered withdrawn to Romania by 20 August 1945, and concentrated in the areas of
125th Guards Rifle Divisions). Shortly afterwards, the 27th Army was withdrawn to the Carpathian Military District.[4] There, its headquarters was disbanded on 4 August 1946,[5] and its three rifle corps were directly subordinated to the district headquarters.[6]
Commanders
- Major General Nikolai Berzarin (5 May – 25 December 1941)
- Major General Fyodor Ozerov (22 May 1942 – 29 January 1943)
- Lieutenant General Sergei Trofimenko (29 January 1943 – 9 July 1945), Colonel-General in September 1944
- Colonel General Ivan Boldin (9 July 1945 – 5 July 1946)
Notes
Citations
- ^ "Order of Battle, 27th Army, 22 June 1941". Orbat.com. Retrieved 21 March 2010. (Leo Niehorster)
- ^ "Combat Composition of the Soviet Army, 1 November 1941". Tashv.nm.ru. Archived from the original on 23 February 2008. Retrieved 21 March 2010.
- ^ Glantz et al. 2005, p. 318.
- ^ Feskov et al. 2013, pp. 421–422.
- ^ Feskov et al. 2013, p. 130.
- ^ Feskov et al. 2013, p. 463.
Bibliography
- Glantz, David; Rikmenspoel, Marc J.; McMichael, Scott R.; Foster, Hugh; Myers, Steven; Khonko, Uri; Khonko, Natalya; Bonn, Keith E. (2005). Slaughterhouse: The Handbook of the Eastern Front. ISBN 0-9717650-9-X.
- Feskov, V.I.; Golikov, V.I.; Kalashnikov, K.A.; Slugin, S.A. (2013). Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской [The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II: From the Red Army to the Soviet: Part 1 Land Forces] (in Russian). Tomsk: Scientific and Technical Literature Publishing. ISBN 9785895035306.