6th Guards Tank Army
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Iassy-Kishinev Offensive |
The 6th Guards
World War II
Initially commanding the
The 6th Guards Tank Army was then moved to the
Cold War
It was stationed in Mongolia, reporting to the Transbaikal Military District, for 15 years after the war. It still included the 5th Guards Tank Division (First Formation, "Stalingrad-Kiev").
The friendship with China of those days and the
On 11 November 1990, following the disbandment of the 22nd and the 75th Guards Tank Divisions, the reorganisation of the 42nd Guards Tank Division as the 6299th Base for Storage of Weapons and Equipment, and the arrival of the 93rd Guards Motor Rifle Division from the
Formation in 1985[7] | Formation in 1987[8] | Formation in 1989[9] | Formation in 1991-2 (Ukraine)[10] |
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17th Guards Tank Division
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22nd Guards Tank Division | Disbanded in 1990 | ||
42nd Guards Tank Division | Renamed 6299th Base for Storage of Weapons and Equipment in 1990[11] / Disbanded in 1991 | ||
75th Guards Tank Division
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Renamed 5362nd Weapons and Equipment Storage Base | Disbanded in 1990[12] | |
52nd Tank Division (Mob.) | Renamed 722nd Territorial Training Center | Renamed 5359th Weapons and Equipment Storage Base | Disbanded in 1991 |
58th Reserve Tank Division (Mob.) | Renamed 747th Territorial Training Center | Renamed 5361st Weapons and Equipment Storage Base | Disbanded in 1990 |
64th Reserve Tank Division (Mob.) | Renamed 5360th Weapons and Equipment Storage Base | Disbanded in 1991 |
Ukrainian service
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it became part of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. In March 1992 Major General Volodymyr Shkidchenko returned home to become the army's commander.[13] He was promoted to lieutenant general by Edict 642/92 of 31 December 1992.[14] Shkidchenko was released from command of the 6th Guards Tank Army by Presidential Edict No. 220/93 June 19, 1993, to be appointed to another post.[15] The first reference to the 6th Army Corps, the successor formation, appears in Ukaz N 350/93 of the President of Ukraine on 21 August 1993. Thus it appears the 6th Guards Tank Army was disbanded by redesignation sometime between June and August 1993.
The
Commanders
The army was commanded by the following officers during its existence.[16]
- Colonel General Andrei Kravchenko(20 January 1944 – June 1947)
- Lieutenant General Vladimir Zhdanov (June 1947 – 30 April 1949)
- Lieutenant General Ivan Dremov (30 April 1949 – 27 February 1958)
- Lieutenant General Evgeniy Fominykh (27 February 1958 – May 1960)
- Lieutenant General Gennady Obaturov(May 1960 – 13 July 1966)
- Lieutenant General Vladimir Makarov (13 July 1966 – 13 June 1969)
- Lieutenant General Gennady Zakharov (13 June 1969 – 26 February 1971)
- Lieutenant General Pyotr Shkidchenko (26 February 1971 –17 August 1973)
- Lieutenant General Yuriy Terentev (17 August 1973 – May 1978)
- Lieutenant General Vladimir Osipov (May 1978 – 6 January 1981)
- Lieutenant General Valery Sokolov (6 January 1981 – December 1983)
- Lieutenant General Sergey Karsakov (December 1983 – September 1985)
- Lieutenant General Vladlen Tsvetkov (September 1985 – May 1988)
- Lieutenant General Valentin Boriskiy (May 1988 – July 1989)
- Colonel General Vasily Sotkov (July 1989 – 2 May 1991)
- Lieutenant General Vitaly Radetsky (3 May 1991 – April 1992)
Notes
- ^ a b Glantz (Companion), p. 66.
- ^ БОЕВОЙ СОСТАВ ВОЙСК НА 1 МАЯ 1945 г. and Ustinov, Map 151.
- ^ a b "Leavenworth Papers No. 7 (August Storm: The Soviet 1945 Strategic Offensive in Manchuria)". cgsc.leavenworth.army.mil. Archived from the original on 23 July 2011.
- ^ Orbat.com/Niehorster, 6th Guards Tank Army, 9 August 1945
- ^ Glantz, p.280
- ^ A.G. Lenskii, M.M. Tsybin, The Soviet Ground Forces in the last years of the USSR, St Petersburg, 1991.
- ^ "6th Guards Tank Army". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
- ^ "6th Guards Tank Army". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
- ^ "6th Guards Tank Army". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
- ^ "6th Guards Tank Army". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
- ^ Holm, Michael. "42nd Guards Prilukskaya order of Lenin Red Banner order of Bogdan Khmelnitskiy Tank Division". Retrieved 4 May 2017.
- ^ "75th Guards Tank Division".
- ^ (Edict No 161 March 18, 1992)
- ^ "NAU-Online -> Про присвоєння військових звань". Archived from the original on 19 April 2013.
- ^ "NAU-Online -> Про звільнення В. Шкідченка з посади командуючого 6 гвардійською танковою армією". Archived from the original on 19 April 2013. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
- ^ Holm, Michael. "6th Guards Red Banner Tank Army". Retrieved 4 May 2017.
References
- Feskov et al., The Soviet Army in the Period of the Cold War, Tomsk University Press, 2004
- David M. Glantz, Companion to Colossus Reborn, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005. ISBN 0-7006-1359-5.
- David M. Glantz, When Titans Clashed, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995. ISBN 0-7006-0899-0.