29th Combined Arms Army

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29th Combined Arms Army
29-я общевойсковая армия
Great emblem of the 29th Combined Arms Army
Active	1941–1943; 1968–1988; 2010–present
Country	Soviet Union (to 1988)  Russia (2010–present)
Branch	Soviet Army (to 1988)   Combined Arms
Size	Army
Part of	Eastern Military District
Garrison/HQ	Chita
Engagements	World War II Battle of Smolensk Battle of Moscow Battle of Rzhev
Commanders
Current commander	Maj.Gen Ignatenko Aleksandr Nikolaevich[1][2]
Notable commanders	Ivan Maslennikov Andrei Kolesnikov Roman Berdnikov Alexander Romanchuk

The 29th Army is a field army of the Russian Ground Forces and previously the Soviet Army.

History

1941–1943

In the opening weeks of Operation Barbarossa, the Soviet Red Army sustained several painful defeats. The Wehrmacht's Army Group North (advancing through the Baltic) and Army Group Center (advancing through Belarus and northern Ukraine) had each defeated the Soviet defenders ahead of their sectors and forced large-scale Soviet withdrawals. As a result of the chaotic withdrawals, a gap started to open between the Soviet defenders in the northern and central sector. On 12 July 1941, the Soviet high command Stavka formed the 29th Army, with the intention to fill the gap in the Soviet defenses.^[3]: 116

The 29th Army was initially formed in July 1941 in the

1968–1988

In Arkhangelsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast, the 44th Special Rifle Corps was activated on 22 June 1956 from HQ

In 1988 the army consisted of the following elements:[5]

• 198th Motor Rifle Division (Divizionnaya, Buryatskaya ASSR)
• Gusinoozersk
  , Buryatskaya ASSR)
• 497th Territorial Training Center (Nizhneudinsk, Irkutsk Oblast)(ex 91 MRD)
• 978th Territorial Training Center (Nizhneudinsk, Irkutsk Oblast)
• 12th Fortified Area (Blagoveshchensk, Amur Oblast)

The 29th Army was disbanded by being redesignated 57th Army Corps on 28 February 1988. The corps was disbanded in 1993.

2004–2007

29th Army was then reformed from the 57th Army Corps at

Since 2010

9th Army was reformed once again around 2010/11, with confirmation coming with a Kremlin decree of 9 January 2011 naming the army's commander.

In 2022 it was reported that in the context of the

Deployed to fight in Ukraine, according to Ukrainian officials, the commander of the army, major general Andrei Kolesnikov, was killed on 11 March 2022,^[8] Kolesnikov was later confirmed in 2023 to be alive, having left 29 CAA in summer 2022.^[9] Lieutenant General Roman Kutuzov, Chief of Staff of 29th CAA was killed on 5 June 2022 during the battle for Sievierodonetsk–Lysychansk. 29 CAA has been actively engaged in fighting in Ukraine through 2022 and 2023.

Units subordinate to 29th Army

• 36th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Borzya
  ) ( в/ч 06705)
• 200th Artillery Brigade (Gorny) (в/ч 48271)
• 3rd Missile Brigade (Gorny) (MUN 33558)
• 140th Separate Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade (Domna
  ) (в/ч 32390)
• 101st Headquarters Brigade (Chita)
• 104th Separate Logistics Brigade (Chita)
• 19th Separate NBC Protection Regiment (Gorny) (MUN 56313)
• 225th Weapon Storage and Repair Base (Yasnaya)

Commanders

First formation:

• General-Lieutenant I. I. Maslennikov
  (July 4, 1941 – December 11, 1941)
• General-Major Vasily Shvetsov
  (December 12, 1941 – September 1942)
• General-Major Yevgeny Zhuravlev (September 1942 – January 1943)

Third formation:

• General-Lieutenant
  Aleksandr Vladimirovich Romanchuk
  (August 2010 – 2014)
• General-Lieutenant Aleksei Yuryevich Avdeyev (Juli 2014 – April 2017)
• General-Major Evgeniy Valentinovich Poplavskiy (April 2017 – November 2018)
• General-Lieutenant
  Roman Borisovich Berdnikov
  (November 2018 – November 2021)
• General-Major Andrei Borisovich Kolesnikov (December 2021 – unknown)
• Maj.Gen Ignatenko Aleksandr Nikolaevich (prior to 13 September 2022–present)^[1][2]