7th Guards Army
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| 7th Guards Army | |
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Soviet Ground Forces | |
| Type | Army |
| Garrison/HQ | Yerevan (April 1946 – August 1992) |
| Engagements | World War II
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The 7th Guards Army was a field army of the Red Army during World War II and of the Soviet Army during the Cold War.
History
The 7th Guards Army was formed from the 64th Army on April 16, 1943.
64th Army had originally been formed from 1st Reserve Army in July 1942, and alongside the 62nd Army, fought the German offensive during the Battle of Stalingrad to a standstill, for which it was raised to Guards status. General Lieutenant M.S. Shumilov, who had commanded the 64th Army, continued to command 7th Guards Army through the rest of the war, though he was promoted to General Colonel in October 1943.
It included the
The 7th Guards Army was stationed in
In the late 1980s the Army consisted of:
- 15th Motor Rifle Division (MRD)(former Kirovakan
- 75th Motor Rifle Division (former 75th Rifle Division) – Nakhichevan, Category "C" with 5–10% manning[3]
- Leninakan, Armenia
- 164th Motor Rifle Division (former 164th Rifle Division) – Yerevan
In November 1988 Colonel
The army was disbanded on August 14, 1992 in accordance with Directive of the General Staff of the Russian Federation No. 314/03/0772.[5] Some units were transferred to Armenia. Russia received the entire 127th Motor Rifle Division and some other smaller units.
Lieutenant General
Commanders
- Mikhail Shumilov (April 1943 - February 1946)
- Yakov Kreizer (April 1946 - April 1948)
- Ivan Fedyuninsky (April 1948 - November 1951)
- Filipp Cherokmanov (November 1951 - July 1955)
- Ivan Pavlovsky (July 1955 - April 1958)
- Sergey Maryakhin (May 1958 - May 1960)
- David Dragunsky (May 1960 - June 1965)
- Anatoly Gribkov (June 1965 - December 1968)
- Alexey Klyuyev (December 1968 - November 1971)
- Vasily Shakhnovich (November 1971 - August 1975)
- Stanislav Postnikov (September 1975 - June 1977)
- Konstantin Kochetov (June 1977 - 1979)
- Bronislav Omelichev (1979 - May 1982)
- Yury Shatalin (May 1982 - August 1984)
- Mikhail Kolesnikov (August 1984 - February 1987)
- Nikolay Pishchev (1989 - 1990)
- Yevgeny Meshcheryakov (1990 - May 1991)
- Fyodor Reut (May 1991 - August 1992)
Notes
- ISBN 5-7511-1819-7.
- Combat composition of the Soviet Armyvia tashv.nm.ru.
- ^ a b "THE EMERGING ARMY IN AZERBAIJAN by Patrick Gorman".
- ISBN 504001676X, 9785040016761
- ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 534.
- ^ Feskov et al 2013, p. 535.
- ^ Holm/Feskov 2015, 15th Motor Rifle Division
- 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.
References
- From Volga up to Prague", Moscow, 1966
- Shumilov, M., "Guardsmen", in the book "Kursk Fight", 3rd edition, Voronezh, 1982.
- Narod.ru 7th Guards Army (in Russian)
- Narod.ru 64th Army (in Russian)
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