2nd Guards Army
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2nd Guards Army | |
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Rifle Corps | |
Engagements | Operation Little Saturn |
Commanders | |
Notable commanders | Rodion Malinovsky Georgy Zakharov Porfiry Chanchibadze |
The 2nd Guards Army was a field army of the Soviet Union's Red Army that fought in World War II, most notably at Stalingrad.
History
The 2nd Guards Army was formed according to the order of the Staff of the Supreme High Command (
By the time of the
In December 1942, plans for Operation Saturn had to be altered. The
After Operation Wintergewitter had ended, Soviet forces in the
Until late 1943, the
The 2nd Guards Army made a very significant contribution to the Soviet halt of Operation Wintergewitter and the successful counter-attacks that followed.
In February 1944, the Army relocated to the area of the
On 1 December 1944 the 2nd Guards Army, part of the
During the
Post War
After the war ended, 2nd Guards Army, numbering six rifle divisions in two corps, was withdrawn to the Moscow Military District where it was disbanded in September 1945.
Commanders
- Major General (from February 1943 – Lieutenant General) Yakov Kreizer (October–November 1942 and February–July 1943)
- Lieutenant General Rodion Malinovsky (November 1942 – February 1943)
- Lieutenant General Georgy Zakharov(July 1943 – June 1944)
- Lieutenant General Porfiry Chanchibadze (June 1944 – until the end of the war)
Notes
- ^ "Боевой состав Советской Армии на 1 ноября 1942 г." www.teatrskazka.com. Retrieved 2017-06-15.
- ISBN 0-7607-5557-4.
- ^ "Боевой состав Советской Армии на 1 May 1944". www.teatrskazka.com. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
- ^ tashv.nm.ru, Combat composition of the Soviet Army, 1 December 1944 Archived 10 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine, accessed October 2011
References
- Beevor, Antony. Stalingrad the Fateful Siege: 1942–43. London: Penguin Books, 1998.
- 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.