35th Combined Arms Army
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35th Combined Arms Army | |||||
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35-я общевойсковая армия | |||||
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Country | Combined Arms | ||||
Size | Army | ||||
Part of | Eastern Military District | ||||
Garrison/HQ | Belogorsk, Amur Oblast | ||||
Engagements | World War II
2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine
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Commanders | |||||
Current commander | Lieutenant General Aleksandr Semyonovich Sanchik | ||||
Notable commanders | Nikanor Zakhvatayev | ||||
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The 35th Combined Arms Red Banner Army is a field army of the Russian Ground Forces. The army was first formed in July 1941 with the Far Eastern Front. After spending most of World War II guarding the border in Primorsky Krai, the army fought in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in August 1945, and was disbanded shortly after the end of the war. Reformed at Belogorsk when Sino-Soviet tensions rose in the late 1960s in the Far East, the army became part of the Eastern Military District in 2010.
World War II
The 35th Army was formed from the
During the Harbin-Kirin Offensive, the army was tasked with attacking from positions southwest of
Commanders
- Major General Vladimir Zaytsev (June 1941 – June 1945);
- Lieutenant General Nikanor Zakhvatayev (June–September 1945).
Cold War 1969 reformation
In June 1969 the
On 16 May 1977, the 31st Guards Motor Rifle Division became the 21st Guards Tank Division. In February 1980, the 67th Motor Rifle Division was transferred to the army from the Leningrad Military District.[9]
In 1988 the 35th Army consisted of the:[10]
Headquarters 35th Red Banner Army (Belogorsk, Amur Oblast):
- 21st Guards Tank Division (Belogorsk): 2nd Guards Tank Regiment, 125th Guards Tank Regiment (Ekaterinoslavka), 111th Guards Tank Regiment, 277th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment, 64th Guards Artillery Regiment, 1064th Guards Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment
- 67th Мotor Rifle Division (Skovorodino): 422nd Tank Regiment, 1212th Motor Rifle Regiment, 1216th Motor Rifle Regiment, 1217th Motor Rifle Regiment, 1302nd Artillery Regiment, 1042nd Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment
- 192nd Motor Rifle Division (Blagoveshchensk): 371st Tank Regiment (Svobodnyy), 190th Motor Rifle Regiment (Shimanovsk), 684th Motor Rifle Regiment (Svobodnyy), 679th Motor Rifle Regiment (Blagoveshensk), 1219th Artillery Regiment (Svobodnyy), 1414th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment (Blagoveshchensk)
- 265th Мotor Rifle Division (Vozzhaevka (Belogorsk-15), Belogorsky District): 373rd Tank Regiment, 212th, 421st and 695th Motor Rifle Regiments, artillery regiment, anti-aircraft rocket regiment[10]
- 266th Мotor Rifle Division (Raychikhinsk/Raichikhinsk): 376th Tank Regiment, 155th, 430th, 785th Motor Rifle Regiments, artillery regiment, anti-aircraft rocket regiment[10]
- 12th Fortified Area (Blagoveshchensk)
- Army Troops
- 768th Separate Protection and Security Company (Belogorsk)
- 49th Separate Tank Regiment (Belogorsk)
- 827th Separate Spetsnaz Company (Belogorsk)
- 153rd Rocket Brigade (Belogorsk)
- 178th Separate Helicopter Squadron (Belogorsk)
- Separate Unmanned Reconnaissance Squadron (Belogorsk)
- 54th Separate Communications Regiment (Belogorsk)
- 668th Communications Center (Belogorsk)
- Separate Chemical Defense Battalion (Belogorsk)
- 14th Separate Armored Train (Magdagachi)
- 15th Separate Armored Train (Svobodny)
- 16th Separate Armored Train (Arkhara)
- 165th Machine Gun Artillery Brigade (Nikolskoye)
- 38th Reactive Artillery Regiment (Berezovka)
- Reconnaissance Artillery Regiment (Berezovka)
- 1983rd Separate Engineer-Sapper Battalion (Berezovka)
- 396th Separate Reconnaissance Artillery Battalion (Nikolskoye)
- 71st Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade (Srednebelaya)
- Separate Pontoon-Bridge Battalion (Dzhalinda)
- 318th Separate Radiotechncial Regiment of Special Designation (OsNaz) (Ledyanaya)
- Separate Electronic Warfare Battalion (Ledyanaya)
- 1719th Separate Radio Relay and Cable Battalion (Pozdeyevka)
- 1899th Separate Radiotechnical Battalion PVO (Panino)
- 43rd Materiel Support Brigade (Tomichi)
- 6508th Repair and Restoration Base (Vozzhayevka)
Russian Federation
The 35th Army is still stationed in the Eastern Military District with its headquarters at Belogorsk.
Until the
In 2009, the 128th Machine-Gun Artillery Division became the 69th Separate Fortress Brigade.[11] In 2010, the 270th Motor Rifle Division became the 243rd Weapons and Equipment Storage Base.[12] The 21st Guards Motor Rifle Division appears to have become the 38th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade.
In 2016, the army consisted of the following units:[13]
- 38th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (Belogorsk)
- 64th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade (Khabarovsk-41)
- 69th Covering Brigade (Babstovo)
- 107th Rocket Brigade (Birobidzhan/Semistochny)
- 165th Artillery Brigade (Nikolskoye, Amur Oblast)
- 71st Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade (Srednebeloye-2)
- 35th NBC Protection Regiment (Belogorsk) (MUN 59792)
- 54th Headquarters Brigade (Belogorsk)
- 553th Signal Battalion (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk)
- 668th Communication Center (Belogorsk)
- 103rd Logistic Support Brigade (Belogorsk)
- 240th Weapon Storage and Repair Base (Belogorsk)
- 243th Weapon Storage and Repair Base (Khabarovsk)
- 253th Special Purpose Battalion GRU
2022 invasion of Ukraine
In the context of the
In June 2022, Russian military bloggers reported that the 35CAA was routed in the battle of
In August 2022 the remnants of the 35CAA were reportedly sent to defend the occupied territory of
Commanders
Soviet era
The following officers commanded the 35th Army from 1969 to 1991.[9]
- Major/Lieutenant General Yury Zarudin (25 April 1967 – 8 February 1973)
- Lieutenant General Yury Potapov (9 February 1973 – 18 December 1975)
- Major/Lieutenant General Vyacheslav Dubinin (January 1976 – 1979)
- Major/Lieutenant General Ivan Morozov (1982 – September 1984)
- Major/Lieutenant General Fyodor Kuzmin (September 1984 – 5 February 1987)
- Major General V. I. Kotin (February 1987 – October 1988)
- Lieutenant General Vladimir Toporov (October 1988 – August 1989)
Russian Federation
- Lieutenant General Yevgeny Vysotsky (August 1989 – September 1991)
- Lieutenant General Evgeni Nikolaevich Malakhov (December 1993 – June 1996)
- Lieutenant General Anatoli Mikhailovich Nutrikhin (June 1996 – August 1999)
- Lieutenant General Aleksandr Vladimirovich Kutikov (August 1999 – June 2002)
- Lieutenant General Oleg Leonidovich Salyukov (June 2002 – November 2003)
- Lieutenant General Nikolai Vasilyevich Bogdanovski (November 2003 – June 2006)
- Lieutenant General Igor Nikolaevich Turchenyuk (June 2006 – March 2011)
- Lieutenant General Sergei Vitalyevich Solomatin (April 2011 – January 2017)
- Lieutenant General Sergei Valeryevich Chebotaryov (January 2017 – September 2020)
- Lieutenant General Aleksandr Semyonovich Sanchik (September 2020 – present)
References
Citations
- ^ "На войне в Украине погиб еще один российский генерал". The Moscow Times. 13 June 2023. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
- ^ "Russians Mourn 'Best' General as Ukraine Counteroffensive Gains Ground". 13 June 2023.
- ^ "Biography of Lieutenant-General Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zaitsev – (Владимир Александрович Зайцев) (1899–1955), Soviet Union". generals.dk. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
- ^ "Захватаев Никонор Дмитриевич" [Zakhvatayev Nikanor Dmitryevich]. warheroes.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 13 February 2016.
- ^ "ЗАЙЦЕВ Владимир Александрович" [Zaytsev Vladimir Alexandrovich]. myfront.in.ua (in Russian). Retrieved 13 February 2016.
- Combat composition of the Soviet Army, 1 May 1945
- ^ "35-я армия" [35th Army]. samsv.narod.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
- ^ "35-я армия" [35th Army]. victory.mil.ru (in Russian). Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation. Archived from the original on 1 December 2008. Retrieved 1 December 2008.
- ^ a b c Holm, 35th Combined Arms Army
- ^ a b c Feskov et al 2013, 594, Holm.
- ^ Holm, Michael. "272nd Motorised Rifle Division". ww2.dk. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
- ^ Holm, Michael. "270th Motorised Rifle Division". ww2.dk. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
- ^ Galeotti 2017, p. 31.
- ^ "Rondeli Russian Military Digest: Issue 118, 24 January – 30 January 2022".
- ^ "Institute for the Study of War Daily Update, 3 June 2022".
- ^ Masinski, Dmitri (3 June 2022). "Russian 35th combined-arms army (Izyum) is destroyed by its own command". WarTranslated – Dmitri Masinski. Retrieved 4 June 2022.
- ^ "Ukraine forces wipe out almost entire 35th Combined-Arms Russian Army in Izium". Ukrinform. 4 June 2022.
- ^ Kuczyński, Grzegorz (31 August 2022). "Ukraine Starts Counteroffensive in Country's South". Warsaw Institute.
Bibliography
- 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.
- Galeotti, Mark (2017). The Modern Russian Army 1992–2016. Elite 217. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 978-1-47281-908-6.
- http://samsv.narod.ru/Arm/a35/arm.html