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1em;">Branch</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Soviet_Army" title="Soviet Army">Soviet Army</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Size</th><td class="infobox-data">two or more <a href="/wiki/Rifle_corps_(Soviet)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rifle corps (Soviet)">Rifle corps</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Part of</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Transcaucasian_Military_District" title="Transcaucasian Military District">Transcaucasian Military District</a> (1950s–1990s)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Garrison/HQ</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Baku" title="Baku">Baku</a> (c. 1945–1991)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em;">Engagements</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa" title="Operation Barbarossa">Operation Barbarossa</a>, others</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Military unit</div> <p>The <b>4th Army</b> was a <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet</a> <a href="/wiki/Field_army" title="Field army">field army</a> of World War II that served on the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Front_(WWII)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Front (WWII)">Eastern front of World War II</a> and in the Caucasus during the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>. It was disbanded after the fall of the Soviet Union, with its divisions being withdrawn to Russia and disbanded. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="World_War_II">World War II</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=4th_Army_(Soviet_Union)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: World War II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="First_Formation">First Formation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=4th_Army_(Soviet_Union)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: First Formation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Fourth Army was created in August 1939 in the <a href="/wiki/Belorussian_Special_Military_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Belorussian Special Military District">Belorussian Special Military District</a> from the Bobruisk Army Group as an independent army.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In September 1939, the Fourth Army took part in the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland_(1939)" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet invasion of Poland (1939)">Soviet invasion of Poland</a> commanded by the future Marshal of Soviet Union <a href="/wiki/Vasily_Chuikov" title="Vasily Chuikov">V.I. Chuykov</a>, the defender of <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad" title="Battle of Stalingrad">Stalingrad</a>. Its order of battle in that operation is listed <a href="/wiki/Soviet_order_of_battle_for_invasion_of_Poland_in_1939" title="Soviet order of battle for invasion of Poland in 1939">here</a>. Elements of the army, apparently 4th Battalion, 29th Light Tank Brigade, took part in the <a href="/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_military_parade_in_Brest-Litovsk" title="German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk">German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk</a> on September 22, 1939. </p><p>When the German invasion of the Soviet Union commenced on 22 June 1941, the Army was part of the <a href="/wiki/Western_Front_(Soviet_Union)" title="Western Front (Soviet Union)">Western Front</a> and had the <a href="/wiki/28th_Rifle_Corps" title="28th Rifle Corps">28th Rifle Corps</a> (<a href="/wiki/6th_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)" title="6th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)">6th Rifle Division</a> and <a href="/wiki/42nd_Motor_Rifle_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="42nd Motor Rifle Division">42nd Rifle Division</a>), <a href="/wiki/14th_Mechanized_Corps_(Soviet_Union)" title="14th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union)">14th Mechanised Corps</a>, and <a href="/wiki/49th_Rifle_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="49th Rifle Division">49th</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=75th_Rifle_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="75th Rifle Division (page does not exist)">75th Rifle Divisions</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as the 62nd <a href="/wiki/Fortified_Region" class="mw-redirect" title="Fortified Region">Fortified Region</a>. General Colonel Pavlov, Commander of the Western Front, had decided to redeploy some of 4th Army’s troops early in 1941, and John Erickson wrote that <a href="/wiki/12th_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)" title="12th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)">12th Rifle Division</a> was accordingly moved into <a href="/wiki/Brest,_Belarus" title="Brest, Belarus">Brest</a>, and HQ <a href="/wiki/14th_Mechanized_Corps_(Soviet_Union)" title="14th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union)">14th Mechanised Corps</a> to <a href="/wiki/Kobrin" class="mw-redirect" title="Kobrin">Kobrin</a>, which in Erickson’s words, ‘deprived 4th Army simultaneously of its reserve and its second echelon.’<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It should be clearly understood that <a href="/wiki/John_Erickson_(historian)" title="John Erickson (historian)">John Erickson (historian)</a> was writing in the pre-1990 period when formation designations could be unclear, sometimes to the point of deliberate deception (Soviet 'maskirovka'). According to Sharp the 12th Rifle Division was identified by the Germans on the Western Front, but the unit was assigned to the Far East for the entire war.<sup id="cite_ref-Sharp12RD_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sharp12RD-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The formation that appears to have been moved into Brest Fortress was 42nd Rifle Division. </p><p>Facing the 4th Army across the <a href="/wiki/Bug_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Bug River">Bug River</a> was deployed the German <a href="/wiki/4th_Army_(Wehrmacht)" title="4th Army (Wehrmacht)">Fourth Army</a>, with twelve infantry divisions and a cavalry division, as well as <a href="/wiki/Panzer_Group_2" class="mw-redirect" title="Panzer Group 2">Panzer Group 2</a>. Some units faced several difficulties; when General Major A.A. Khorobkov, the army commander, saw his officers on 10 June, General Major <a href="/wiki/Stepan_Oborin" title="Stepan Oborin">Stepan Oborin</a>, <a href="/wiki/14th_Mechanized_Corps_(Soviet_Union)" title="14th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union)">14th Mechanised Corps</a> commander, emphasized that more than half his soldiers were untrained recruits, that his artillery had received guns for which there was no ammunition, and that he only had enough lorries to make a quarter of the corps mobile – the rest would have to march.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the eve of the attack, 4th Army suffered, as did many Soviet formations, from German communication sabotage. Units lost telephone connections, electrical power, and the <a href="/wiki/Brest_Fortress" title="Brest Fortress">Brest Fortress</a> lost its water supply. From about 5 am on 22 June fierce fighting began around the Brest fortress, but the seven battalions around the fortress, from 28th Rifle Corps, were undermanned, disorganized, and slow off the mark to man the defences. Despite these deficiencies the final German reduction of the fortress took some time in the face of determined Soviet resistance. By 1600 hours on 22 June, 4th Army HQ was back at Zapruda, whereupon Front HQ ordered that 14th Mechanised Corps be launched in an attack to clear Brest and reach the frontier line. However the Army staff felt the plan had no chance of success, and so it proved; when the attack was launched the next day, only insignificant progress was made.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Three days later Western Front ordered a general withdrawal to try to keep the frontier armies out of threatened German encirclement; 4th Army was directed to fall back on a line from Bytin to <a href="/wiki/Pinsk" title="Pinsk">Pinsk</a>. Further instructions came through from Pavlov after a chance meeting later the same day; to cover the concentration of reserve armies on the Dnieper, 4th Army was to hold the Shchara, the <a href="/wiki/Slutsk" title="Slutsk">Slutsk</a> ‘<a href="/wiki/Fortified_district" title="Fortified district">fortified district</a>,’ and the Sluch river line. However the Slutsk fortified district, as the district commander reminded Khorobkov, had long ago been instructed to dispatch all its weapons to the <a href="/wiki/Brest_fortress" class="mw-redirect" title="Brest fortress">Brest fortress</a> (which was continuing to hold). The planned defence was thus practically non-existent, and <a href="/wiki/Slutsk" title="Slutsk">Slutsk</a> fell on 27 June.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Army took part in the defenses of the area around <a href="/wiki/Babruysk" title="Babruysk">Babruysk</a>. </p><p>At the end of July 1941, the Fourth Army began to dissolve. The Fourth Army's staff members were absorbed into the general staff of the <a href="/wiki/Central_Front_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Front (Soviet Union)">Central Front</a>, and the troops were absorbed into other armies. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Composition_on_22_June_1941">Composition on 22 June 1941</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=4th_Army_(Soviet_Union)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Composition on 22 June 1941"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Source:<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2013)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Commander <b>Lieutenant General </b> <a href="/wiki/Aleksandr_Korobkov" title="Aleksandr Korobkov">Aleksandr Korobkov</a> </p> <dl><dd><b><a href="/wiki/28th_Rifle_Corps_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="28th Rifle Corps (Soviet Union)">28th Rifle Corps</a></b> – Major General <b><a href="/wiki/Vasily_Popov_(Soviet_general)" title="Vasily Popov (Soviet general)">V.S. Popov</a></b> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/6th_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)" title="6th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)">6th Rifle Division</a> – Col. M. A. Popsiu-Shapko</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/42nd_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)" title="42nd Rifle Division (Soviet Union)">42nd Rifle Division</a> – Maj. Gen. <a href="/wiki/Ivan_Sidorovich_Lazarenko" title="Ivan Sidorovich Lazarenko">I. S. Lazarenko</a> (According to Sharp the 12th RD was identified by the Germans on the Western Front, but the unit was assigned to the Far East for the entire war. 42nd RD was assigned to Brest Fortress at the beginning of Operation Barbarossa.)<sup id="cite_ref-Sharp12RD_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sharp12RD-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/49th_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)" title="49th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)">49th Rifle Division</a> – Col. C. F. Vasil’ev</dd> <dd><a href="/w/index.php?title=75th_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="75th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) (page does not exist)">75th Rifle Division</a> – Col. Nedwigin</dd></dl></dd> <dd><b><a href="/wiki/14th_Mechanized_Corps_(Soviet_Union)" title="14th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union)">14th Mechanized Corps</a></b> – Major General <b><a href="/wiki/Stepan_Oborin" title="Stepan Oborin">S. I. Oborin</a></b> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/22nd_Tank_Division_(Soviet_Union)" title="22nd Tank Division (Soviet Union)">22nd Tank Division</a> – Maj. Gen. V. P. Puganov</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/30th_Tank_Division_(Soviet_Union)" title="30th Tank Division (Soviet Union)">30th Tank Division</a> – Col. <a href="/wiki/Semen_Bogdanov" class="mw-redirect" title="Semen Bogdanov">Semen Bogdanov</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/205th_Rifle_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="205th Rifle Division">205th Motorized Division</a> – Col. F. F. Kudjurov</dd></dl></dd></dl> <p><a href="/wiki/Order_of_Battle_for_Operation_Barbarossa#4th_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Order of Battle for Operation Barbarossa">Order of Battle for Operation Barbarossa</a> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Second_Formation">Second Formation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=4th_Army_(Soviet_Union)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Second Formation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At the end of September 1941, the Fourth Army was formed for the second time, retaining its Independent status until December while remaining in the <a href="/wiki/Reserve_of_the_Supreme_High_Command" title="Reserve of the Supreme High Command">Reserve of the Supreme High Command</a> (RVGK, the Stavka Reserve). The field staffs of the <a href="/wiki/52nd_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="52nd Army (Soviet Union)">52nd</a> and <a href="/wiki/54th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="54th Army (Soviet Union)">54th Armies</a> were used to fill the command contingent of the Army. The new formation was made up of the <a href="/wiki/285th_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="285th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)">285th</a>, <a href="/wiki/292nd_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="292nd Rifle Division (Soviet Union)">292nd</a>, and <a href="/wiki/311th_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)" title="311th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)">311th Rifle Divisions</a> along with the <a href="/w/index.php?title=27th_Cavalry_Division_(Soviet_Union)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="27th Cavalry Division (Soviet Union) (page does not exist)">27th Cavalry Division</a>, a Tank brigade, the 2nd Reserve aviation group, and other artillery and support units. </p><p>The Fourth Army participated in the defense and attack of <a href="/wiki/Tikhvin" title="Tikhvin">Tikhvin</a> from October to December 1941. On December 17, 1941, the Fourth Army was allocated to the <a href="/wiki/Volkhov_Front" title="Volkhov Front">Volkhov Front</a>. From January 1942 to November 1943, the Fourth Army fought on the front in <a href="/wiki/Volkhov" title="Volkhov">Volkhov</a> and <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Leningrad" title="Siege of Leningrad">Leningrad</a> while also doing many rear-area duties. Unlike in other parts of the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Front_(WWII)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Front (WWII)">Eastern Front</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a> was not making significant gains in the north by 1943. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Third_Formation">Third Formation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=4th_Army_(Soviet_Union)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Third Formation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The 4th Army was disbanded in November 1943 and set up again in January 1944 as part of the <a href="/wiki/Transcaucasus_Front" title="Transcaucasus Front">Transcaucasus Front</a>. The staff of the 4th Army was formed from the staff of the <a href="/wiki/34th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="34th Army (Soviet Union)">34th Army</a>. The 4th Army was stationed in <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> until August 1945 in accordance with the <a href="/wiki/Soviet-Iranian_treaty_of_1921" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet-Iranian treaty of 1921">Soviet-Iranian treaty of 1921</a>. </p><p>In February 1944, the 4th Army consisted of:<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dd><a href="/w/index.php?title=58th_Rifle_Corps&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="58th Rifle Corps (page does not exist)">58th Rifle Corps</a> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/68th_Mountain_Rifle_Division" title="68th Mountain Rifle Division">68th Mountain Rifle Division</a></dd> <dd><a href="/w/index.php?title=75th_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="75th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) (page does not exist)">75th Rifle Division</a></dd> <dd>89th Rifle Brigade</dd> <dd>90th Rifle Brigade</dd></dl></dd> <dd><a href="/w/index.php?title=15th_Cavalry_Corps_(Soviet_Union)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="15th Cavalry Corps (Soviet Union) (page does not exist)">15th Cavalry Corps</a> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/1st_Mountain_Cavalry_Division_(Soviet_Union)" title="1st Mountain Cavalry Division (Soviet Union)">1st Cavalry Division</a> (second formation, ex 1st Mountain Cavalry Division)</dd> <dd><a href="/w/index.php?title=23rd_Cavalry_Division_(Soviet_Union)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="23rd Cavalry Division (Soviet Union) (page does not exist)">23rd Cavalry Division</a></dd> <dd><a href="/w/index.php?title=39th_Cavalry_Division_(Soviet_Union)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="39th Cavalry Division (Soviet Union) (page does not exist)">39th Cavalry Division</a></dd> <dd>1595th AT Regiment</dd> <dd>15th Independent AT Battalion</dd> <dd>17th Mortar Battalion</dd></dl></dd> <dd>28th Anti-Aircraft Battery</dd> <dd>492nd Assault Aviation Regiment</dd> <dd>167th Fighter Aviation Regiment</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Commanders_During_World_War_II">Commanders During World War II</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=4th_Army_(Soviet_Union)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Commanders During World War II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Aleksandr Korobkov 4th Army (1st formation) (1939 – 8 July 1941)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonid_Sandalov" title="Leonid Sandalov">Leonid Sandalov</a> 4th Army (1st formation) (8–23 July 1941)</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vsevolod_Yakovlev&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vsevolod Yakovlev (page does not exist)">Vsevolod Yakovlev</a>, 4th Army (2nd formation) (26 September – 9 November 1941)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kirill_Meretskov" title="Kirill Meretskov">Kirill Meretskov</a>, 4th Army (2nd formation) (9 November – 16 December 1941)</li> <li>Pyotr Ivanov, 4th Army (2nd formation) (16 December 1941 – 3 February 1942)</li> <li>Pyotr Lyapin, 4th Army (2nd formation) (3 February – 25 June 1942)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Gusev" title="Nikolai Gusev">Nikolai Gusev</a>, 4th Army (2nd formation) (26 June 1942 – 30 October 1943)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivan_Sovetnikov" title="Ivan Sovetnikov">Ivan Sovetnikov</a>, 4th Army (3rd formation) (1944–1945)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Postwar_service">Postwar service</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=4th_Army_(Soviet_Union)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Postwar service"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the years after World War II the Fourth Army was stationed in the <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_SSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Azerbaijan SSR">Azerbaijan SSR</a> within the <a href="/wiki/Transcaucasus_Military_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Transcaucasus Military District">Transcaucasus Military District</a> until the fall of the Soviet Union. It was headquartered at <a href="/wiki/Baku" title="Baku">Baku</a>, and after it arrived from Iran in 1946 the Baku Military District was abolished. Most of the divisions listed below joined the Army's forces in the Baku region toward the end of the 1940s. From its wartime divisions, toward the end of the 1980s only the <a href="/w/index.php?title=60th_Motor_Rifle_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="60th Motor Rifle Division (page does not exist)">60th Motor Rifle Division</a> 'named for Marshal of the Soviet Union F.I. Tolbukhin' (the former 296th, then <a href="/wiki/6th_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)" title="6th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)">6th Rifle Division</a>) remained. The army was disbanded on 14 August 1992. Most of its equipment went to the armed forces of newly independent Azerbaijan.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFeskov_et_al2013531–532_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFeskov_et_al2013531–532-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1988_Order_of_Battle">1988 Order of Battle</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=4th_Army_(Soviet_Union)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 1988 Order of Battle"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4_1960_%D0%B3._6_%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B0.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4_1960_%D0%B3._6_%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B0.jpg/220px-%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4_1960_%D0%B3._6_%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B0.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="118" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4_1960_%D0%B3._6_%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B0.jpg/330px-%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4_1960_%D0%B3._6_%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B0.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4_1960_%D0%B3._6_%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B0.jpg/440px-%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4_1960_%D0%B3._6_%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B0.jpg 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="515" /></a><figcaption>Troops of the 4th Army during a parade in <a href="/wiki/Baku" title="Baku">Baku</a> in 1960.</figcaption></figure> <p>In the late 1980s the 4th Army was composed of:<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFeskov_et_al2013531–532_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFeskov_et_al2013531–532-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/23rd_Guards_Motor_Rifle_Division" title="23rd Guards Motor Rifle Division">23rd Guards Motor Rifle Division</a>, Kirovabad (Gyandzha (<a href="/wiki/Ganja_(city)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ganja (city)">Ganja</a>) from 1989)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=60th_Motor_Rifle_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="60th Motor Rifle Division (page does not exist)">60th Motor Rifle Division</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lenkoran" class="mw-redirect" title="Lenkoran">Lenkoran</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=75th_Motor_Rifle_Division&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="75th Motor Rifle Division (page does not exist)">75th Motor Rifle Division</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nakhchivan_(city)" title="Nakhchivan (city)">Nakhichevan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nakhichevan_Autonomous_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic">Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic</a> (<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/75-%D1%8F_%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%8F" class="extiw" title="ru:75-я мотострелковая дивизия">ru:75-я мотострелковая дивизия</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Commanded by Colonel (later General-Major) <a href="/wiki/Vasily_Shakhnovich" title="Vasily Shakhnovich">Vasily Shakhnovich</a> (August 1961 – November 1964). In November 1988 <a href="/wiki/Lev_Rokhlin" title="Lev Rokhlin">Lev Rokhlin</a> became commander of the 75th Motor Rifle Division. In early 1990 the division was transferred to the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Border_Troops" title="Soviet Border Troops">Soviet Border Troops</a> of the <a href="/wiki/KGB" title="KGB">KGB</a>, and Rokhlin was promoted to major-general in February of the same year.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Disbanded July 1992.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/295th_Motor_Rifle_Division" title="295th Motor Rifle Division">295th Motor Rifle Division</a>, Baku</li> <li>Other smaller formations and units: <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=136th_Guards_Rocket_Brigade&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="136th Guards Rocket Brigade (page does not exist)">136th Guards Rocket Brigade</a> (SS-1 Scud), (<a href="/wiki/Perekishkyul" class="mw-redirect" title="Perekishkyul">Perekishkyul</a>, Azerbaijani SSR, 1981–1992)<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=117th_Anti-Aircraft_Rocket_Brigade&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="117th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade (page does not exist)">117th Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade</a>, Baku</li> <li>714th Independent Reconnaissance Battery (отдельный разведывательный артдивизион, a <i>divizion</i>), Baku</li> <li>two artillery units at <a href="/wiki/Qobu" title="Qobu">Qobu</a>:<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <ul><li>215th Guards Gun Dniproderzhynsk Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Artillery Regiment (24 <a href="/wiki/2A36" class="mw-redirect" title="2A36">2A36</a> <i>Giatsint-B</i>, 36 <a href="/wiki/152_mm_towed_gun-howitzer_M1955_(D-20)" class="mw-redirect" title="152 mm towed gun-howitzer M1955 (D-20)">D-20</a>)</li> <li>941st Reactive Artillery Regiment (36 <a href="/wiki/BM-21" class="mw-redirect" title="BM-21">BM-21</a> <i>Grad</i> multiple rocket launchers);</li></ul></li> <li>and two helicopter-equipped aviation units: <ul><li>the 121st Independent Mixed Aviation Squadron (5 Mi-8, 1 Mi-6), <a href="/wiki/Q%C4%B1z%C4%B1la%C4%9Fac,_Masally" title="Qızılağac, Masally">Kyzyl-Agach</a><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>and the 381st Independent Helicopter Squadron (13 Mi-24, 4 Mi-8), Nakhichevan<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cold_War-era_commanders">Cold War-era commanders</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=4th_Army_(Soviet_Union)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Cold War-era commanders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Colonel General <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Luchinsky" title="Alexander Luchinsky">Alexander Luchinsky</a> (25 December 1945 – 19 February 1947)</li> <li>Colonel General <a href="/wiki/Ivan_Managarov" title="Ivan Managarov">Ivan Managarov</a> (19 February 1947 – 1 April 1949)</li> <li>Colonel General <a href="/wiki/Issa_Pliyev" title="Issa Pliyev">Issa Pliyev</a> (1 April 1949 – 27 June 1955)</li> <li>Lieutenant General <a href="/wiki/Sergey_Bobruk" title="Sergey Bobruk">Sergey Bobruk</a> (27 June 1955 – 12 December 1957)</li> <li>Lieutenant General <a href="/wiki/Konstantin_Provalov" title="Konstantin Provalov">Konstantin Provalov</a> (28 January 1958 – 6 March 1959)</li> <li>Lieutenant General Mikhail Lugovtsev (6 March 1959 – 25 February 1961)</li> <li>Lieutenant General Antatoly Andrushchenko (25 February 1961 – 4 December 1964)</li> <li>Lieutenant General Ivan Tretyak (4 December 1964 – 21 September 1967)</li> <li>Lieutenant General Andrey Bolibrukh (22 September 1967 – 19 January 1973)</li> <li>Lieutenant General <a href="/wiki/Dmitry_Yazov" title="Dmitry Yazov">Dmitry Yazov</a> (19 January 1973 – 20 May 1974)</li> <li>Lieutenant General Vasily Kirilyuk (20 May 1974 – November 1978)</li> <li>Lieutenant General Alexander Kovtunov (December 1978 – June 1981)</li> <li>Lieutenant General <a href="/wiki/Viktor_Samsonov" title="Viktor Samsonov">Viktor Samsonov</a> (May 1985 – May 1987)</li> <li>Lieutenant General Anatoly Shapovalov (May 1987 – February 1989)</li> <li>Lieutenant General Vladimir Sokolov (February 1989 – December 1991)</li> <li>Major General Nikolay Popov (December 1991 – August 1992)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=4th_Army_(Soviet_Union)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citations">Citations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=4th_Army_(Soviet_Union)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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Kalashnikov; V.I. Golikov. (2004). <i>The Soviet Army in the Years of the 'Cold War' (1945-1991)</i>. <a href="/wiki/Tomsk" title="Tomsk">Tomsk</a>: Tomsk University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/5-7511-1819-7" title="Special:BookSources/5-7511-1819-7"><bdi>5-7511-1819-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Soviet+Army+in+the+Years+of+the+%27Cold+War%27+%281945-1991%29&rft.place=Tomsk&rft.pub=Tomsk+University+Press&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=5-7511-1819-7&rft.aulast=Feskov&rft.aufirst=V.I.&rft.au=K.A.+Kalashnikov&rft.au=V.I.+Golikov.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A4th+Army+%28Soviet+Union%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFeskov_et_al2013" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-script cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Feskov, V.I.; Golikov, V.I.; Kalashnikov, K.A.; Slugin, S.A. (2013). <bdi lang="ru">Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской</bdi> [<i>The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II: From the Red Army to the Soviet: Part 1 Land Forces</i>] (in Russian). Tomsk: Scientific and Technical Literature Publishing. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9785895035306" title="Special:BookSources/9785895035306"><bdi>9785895035306</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5+%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8B+%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A0+%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B5+%D0%92%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B9+%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9+%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9%D0%BD%D1%8B%3A+%D0%BE%D1%82+%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B9+%D0%90%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%B8+%D0%BA+%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B9&rft.place=Tomsk&rft.pub=Scientific+and+Technical+Literature+Publishing&rft.date=2013&rft.isbn=9785895035306&rft.aulast=Feskov&rft.aufirst=V.I.&rft.au=Golikov%2C+V.I.&rft.au=Kalashnikov%2C+K.A.&rft.au=Slugin%2C+S.A.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A4th+Army+%28Soviet+Union%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>see also <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://samsv.narod.ru/Arm/a04/arm.html">http://samsv.narod.ru/Arm/a04/arm.html</a></li></ul> <div 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Union)">15th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/16th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="16th Army (Soviet Union)">16th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/17th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="17th Army (Soviet Union)">17th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/18th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="18th Army (Soviet Union)">18th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/19th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="19th Army (Soviet Union)">19th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/20th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="20th Army (Soviet Union)">20th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/21st_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="21st Army (Soviet Union)">21st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/22nd_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="22nd Army (Soviet Union)">22nd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/23rd_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="23rd Army (Soviet Union)">23rd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/24th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="24th Army (Soviet Union)">24th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/25th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="25th Army (Soviet Union)">25th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/26th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="26th Army (Soviet Union)">26th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/27th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="27th Army (Soviet Union)">27th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/28th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="28th Army (Soviet Union)">28th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/29th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="29th Army (Soviet Union)">29th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/30th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="30th Army (Soviet Union)">30th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/31st_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="31st Army (Soviet Union)">31st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/32nd_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="32nd Army (Soviet Union)">32nd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/33rd_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="33rd Army (Soviet Union)">33rd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/34th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="34th Army (Soviet Union)">34th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/35th_Army_(Russia)" class="mw-redirect" title="35th Army (Russia)">35th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/36th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="36th Army (Soviet Union)">36th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/37th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="37th Army (Soviet Union)">37th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/38th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="38th Army (Soviet Union)">38th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/39th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="39th Army (Soviet Union)">39th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/40th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="40th Army (Soviet Union)">40th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/41st_Army_(Russia)" class="mw-redirect" title="41st Army (Russia)">41st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/42nd_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="42nd Army (Soviet Union)">42nd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/43rd_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="43rd Army (Soviet Union)">43rd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/44th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="44th Army (Soviet Union)">44th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/45th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="45th Army (Soviet Union)">45th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/46th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="46th Army (Soviet Union)">46th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/47th_Army" title="47th Army">47th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/48th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="48th Army (Soviet Union)">48th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/49th_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="49th Army">49th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/50th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="50th Army (Soviet Union)">50th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/51st_Army_(Russia)" title="51st Army (Russia)">51st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/52nd_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="52nd Army (Soviet Union)">52nd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/53rd_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="53rd Army (Soviet Union)">53rd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/54th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="54th Army (Soviet Union)">54th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/55th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="55th Army (Soviet Union)">55th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/56th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="56th Army (Soviet Union)">56th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/57th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="57th Army (Soviet Union)">57th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/58th_Army_(Russia)" class="mw-redirect" title="58th Army (Russia)">58th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/59th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="59th Army (Soviet Union)">59th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/60th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="60th Army (Soviet Union)">60th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/61st_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="61st Army (Soviet Union)">61st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/62nd_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="62nd Army (Soviet Union)">62nd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/63rd_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="63rd Army (Soviet Union)">63rd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/64th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="64th Army (Soviet Union)">64th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/65th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="65th Army (Soviet Union)">65th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/66th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="66th Army (Soviet Union)">66th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/67th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="67th Army (Soviet Union)">67th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/68th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="68th Army (Soviet Union)">68th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/69th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="69th Army (Soviet Union)">69th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/70th_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="70th Army (Soviet Union)">70th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Separate_Coastal_Army" title="Separate Coastal Army">Separate Coastal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special_Red_Banner_Far_Eastern_Army" title="Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army">Special Red Banner Far Eastern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Banner_Caucasus_Army" title="Red Banner Caucasus Army">Red Banner Caucasus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Guards_unit_(Soviet_Union)" title="Guards unit (Soviet Union)">Guards</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1st_Guards_Army_(Soviet_Union)" title="1st Guards Army (Soviet Union)">1st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2nd_Guards_Army" title="2nd Guards Army">2nd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/3rd_Guards_Army_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="3rd Guards Army (Soviet Union)">3rd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4th_Guards_Army" title="4th Guards Army">4th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/5th_Guards_Army" title="5th Guards Army">5th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/6th_Guards_Army" title="6th Guards Army">6th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/7th_Guards_Army" title="7th Guards Army">7th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/8th_Guards_Army_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="8th Guards Army (Soviet Union)">8th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/9th_Guards_Army" title="9th Guards Army">9th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/10th_Guards_Army_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="10th Guards Army (Soviet Union)">10th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/11th_Guards_Army" title="11th Guards Army">11th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/14th_Guards_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="14th Guards Army">14th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/3rd_Guards_Tank_Army_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="3rd Guards Tank Army (Soviet Union)">18th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/20th_Guards_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="20th Guards Army">20th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/22nd_Guards_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="22nd Guards Army">22nd</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Tank/Mechanized</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1st_Tank_Army_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="1st Tank Army (Soviet Union)">1st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2nd_Tank_Army_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="2nd Tank Army (Soviet Union)">2nd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/3rd_Tank_Army_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="3rd Tank Army (Soviet Union)">3rd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4th_Tank_Army_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="4th Tank Army (Soviet Union)">4th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/5th_Tank_Army_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="5th Tank Army (Soviet Union)">5th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/6th_Tank_Army_(Soviet_Union)" class="mw-redirect" title="6th Tank Army (Soviet Union)">6th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/7th_Tank_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="7th Tank Army">7th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/8th_Tank_Army" title="8th Tank Army">8th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/9th_Mechanized_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="9th Mechanized Army">9th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/10th_Mechanized_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="10th Mechanized Army">10th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special_Mechanized_Army" title="Special Mechanized Army">Special</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Guards Tank/Mechanized</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a 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