5th Army (RSFSR)
The 5th Army was a field army of the
History
First formation
On March 17, 1918, the Second All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets decided to create armed forces to counter foreign and contra-revolutionary forces. Five armies of some 3,000 -3,500 men were created. In fact, these armies were only brigades with limited combat capabilities.
Second formation
In the middle of April 1918, the 5th Army was created a second time from the detachments of the group of
Third formation
The 5th Army was created a third time on August 16, 1918, from the troops in the Kazan area. It was part of the Eastern Front. On January 15, 1920, it became directly subordinate to the Revolutionary Military Council, and from 20 April 1920 to the Siberian Military District.
It fought in the district of Kazan against White Guards and the Czechoslovak Legion and took Kazan on September 10, 1918. In the autumn–winter of 1918 the enemy's troops were pursued in the direction of Chistopol, Bugulma and Menzelinsk, and Ufa was taken on December 31, 1918. In March–May 1919, during the
In May 1920, the army was transferred to the Assistant commander in chief of the armed Forces of the Republic of Siberia, and later became part of the East Siberian Military District. On October 1, 1920, the chief of staff of the operational department, Semyon Mikhailovich Sharangovich, was sent from Irkutsk to Kharkiv with half of the army headquarters to replenish the headquarters of the Southern Front.
The 5th Army participated in the
Fourth Formation
Оn 20 July 1922, the 104th Balagansk Rifle Brigade was reorganized into the
The fourth time, the 5th Army was created by order of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the RSFSR of November 16, 1922 by renaming the People's Revolutionary Army of the Far Eastern Republic. The 1st Transbaikal Rifle Division stayed under command of the new 5th Army (fourth formation). The 1st Transbaikal Rifle Division was based at Vladivostok. In honor of its defeat of White troops on the shores of Pacific and basing on the Pacific coast, the division was redesignated the 1st Pacific Rifle Division (Russian: 1-я Тихоокеанская стрелковая дивизия) on 22 November 1922.[2][3]
The troops of the 5th Army served to guard and defend the Soviet Far Eastern borders, and, together with the border guards, fight against the White Guard troops of
In June 1924 the army was disbanded, and its units and institutions were transferred to the recruitment of the 18th and 19th Rifle Corps of the Siberian Military District.[1]
The 1st Transbaikal Rifle Division shifted into the 19th Rifle Corps of the Siberian Military District in June 1929.
Commanders
Commanders
- Pēteris Slavens (August 16 – October 20, 1918),
- Jan Blumbergs(October 20, 1918 – April 5, 1919),
- Mikhail Tukhachevsky (5 April – 25 November 1919),
- Genrich Eiche (25 November 1919 – 21 January 1920),
- Gavril Kutyrev (Acting, 24 January – 3 February 1920),
- Vilhelm Garf (Acting, 3–8 February 1920)
- Mikhail Matiyasevich (February 8, 1920 – August 27, 1921),
- Ieronim Uborevich (August 27, 1921 – August 14, 1922),
- Vladimir Lyubimov (Acting, August 14 – 24, 1922)
- Kasyan Chaykovsky (24 August – 6 September 1922)
- Ieronim Uborevich (November 22, 1922 – June 1924).[1]
Members of the Revolutionary Military Council include
Sources
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4422-5281-3.
- ^ "39-я Тихоокеанская Краснознаменная стрелковая дивизия". Rkka.ru. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
- ^ "Историческая справка" [Historical Reference] (PDF) (in Russian). Council of Veterans of the 392nd District Training Centre. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
- ^ See Vol I.
Further reading
- Affairs Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union (1967a). Сборник приказов РВСР, РВС СССР, НКО и Указов Президиума Верховного Совета СССР о награждении орденами СССР частей, соединениий и учреждений ВС СССР. Часть I. 1920 - 1944 гг [Collection of orders of the RVSR, RVS USSR and NKO on awarding orders to units, formations and establishments of the Armed Forces of the USSR. Part I. 1920–1944] (PDF) (in Russian). Moscow. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-03-27. Retrieved 2021-09-28.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - В боях рожденная. 1918-1920. Боевой путь 5 армии: Сборник документов [Born in battles, 1918–1920: Combat path of the 5th Army] (in Russian). Irkutsk: Vostochno-Sibirskoye knizhnoye izdatelstvo. 1985.
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