4th Shock Army
| 4th Shock Army | |
|---|---|
| Active | 1941–1945 |
| Country | Memel Offensive Courland blockade |
| Commanders | |
| Notable commanders | Marshal of the Soviet Union Andrey Yeryomenko |
The 4th Shock Army was a combined arms army of the Soviet Armed Forces during World War II.
The Army was formed from the
360th
Rifle Divisions, 21st Rifle Brigade, a number of separate tank battalions, the 66th, 67th, 68th, and 69th separate ski battalions, artillery and other subunits.
History
The army defended the line along the eastern shore of lakes
Riga Offensive, and the Memel Offensive. The blockade of the Courland Pocket was its final combat operation. During the latter, the army was reassigned to the 2nd Baltic Front on 9 February 1945 and then to the Leningrad Front on 1 April 1945. From the Baltic in the summer of 1945, the army was dispatched to northern Kazakhstan, where its headquarters formed the basis of the new Steppe Military District (on 9 May 1945? – source Ruwiki). Two rifle corps and six rifle divisions arrived alongside the army.[1]
Battle composition
4th Shock Army Separate reserve battalion airfield services (4 March 1942 to 28 April 1942). Reformed as the 832nd Separate Battalion of Airfield Services 28 April 1942.[2]
- 320 separate ski-destroyer battalion
- 262 - 266 separate ski battalions (February to May 1942)[3]
Commanders
- Colonel-General Andrey Yeryomenko (December 1941 - February 1942)
- Lieutenant General Filipp Golikov (February - March 1942)
- Major-General, in May 1942, Lieutenant-General Vladimir Kurasov (March 1942 - April 1943)
- Major General Dmitry Seleznev (April - May 1943)
- Major-General, to October 1943, Lieutenant-General Vasily Shvetsov - May - December 1943
- Lieutenant General Pyotr Malyshev - (December 1943 – September 1945)[4]
The members of the Military Council
- Brigadier Commissioner Rudakov, Mikhail - December 1941 - November 1942
- Major General Tevchenkov, Alexander - November 1942 - April 1943
- Colonel, in September 1943, Major General Belik Trofim Ya - April 1943 - until the end of the war.
Chiefs of Staff
- Major General Kurasov, Vladimir V.- December 1941 - March 1942
- Colonel Viktor Portugalov - March–May 1942
- Major General Glinsky, Peter Yevstigneyevich - May 1942 - June 1943
- Major General Kudryashov, Alexander - June 1943 - before the end of the war.
References
- ^ Feskov et al. 2004, 42
- ^ Perecheny of the active army. Lists of troops. Individual units, squadron, logistics units and institutions of the Air Force. Separate battalions (separate reserve battalions) airfield services
- ^ "ОТДЕЛЬНЫЕ ЛЫЖНЫЕ БАТАЛЬОНЫ". Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2012.
- ^ "Biography of Lieutenant-General Petr Fedorovich Malyshev - (Петр Федорович Малышев) (1898 – 1972), Soviet Union". www.generals.dk. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
- Dudarenko ML, lists G., Eliseev T. et al. | title = liberation of the city: A Guide to the liberation of the city during World War II
- Еременко, Андрей Иванович, В начале войны (Eremenko, Andrei Ivanovich, In the beginning of the war)
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