57th Army (Soviet Union)
| 57th Army | |
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| Active |
October 1941 - February 1943 April 1943 - 1947 |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Allegiance | Red Army |
| Branch | Infantry |
| Type | Combined Arms |
| Size | Army |
| Engagements |
Battle of Kharkov Belgrade Offensive Battle of the Transdanubian Hills Vienna Offensive |
The 57th Army was a field army of the Soviet Union's Red Army that was created in 1941, and then disbanded and created a second time in 1943. The 57th Army was employed by the Soviets in the fight against Germany during World War II.
History
First formation
The 57th Army was formed in October 1941 and subordinated to the Reserve of the Supreme High Command (RVGK).[1] Still under RVGK control in December 1941, the 57th Army was made up of the following units.
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During the May 1942 Battle of Kharkov, the army was surrounded and practically destroyed.[2] Attempting to break out, General Podlas, the army commander, was killed in action. Slowly rebuilt, by December 1942, the army was part of the Stalingrad Front. The 57th Army was disbanded in February 1943 to form the headquarters of the 68th Army.[3]
Second formation
The 57th Army was formed a second time in April 1943 and subordinated to the Southwestern Front. The 68th Rifle Corps first appears in Soviet OOB 1 August 1943, as part of the 57th Army, Southwestern Front. Subordinate divisions at this time were the 19th, 52nd, and 303rd Rifle Divisions. The army subsequently fought in the Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Hungary until the end of the war. During the final months of the war, the army occupied the southernmost position of the Soviet front line; to the south of 57th Army on the eastern front were Bulgarian (including the Bulgarian First Army) and Yugoslavian forces. At war's end, the 57th Army was subordinated to the 3rd Ukrainian Front, and commanded the following forces.
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Engineer units
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The 57th Army became part of the Southern Group of Forces when it was formed in June 1945. It was stationed in Romania with its headquarters at Craiova. On 10 June 1946 the 57th Army became the 9th Mechanized Army. It included the 19th Tank Division, 20th Mechanized Division, 24th Guards Mechanized Division, and the 6th Guards Rifle Corps. In December the 6th Guards Rifle Corps was disbanded, along with two of its divisions. In early 1947 the 19th Tank Division was moved back to the Soviet Union, where it was disbanded. On 15 July 1947 the army itself was disbanded, along with the 24th Guards and 20th Mechanized Divisions. [4]
Commanders
- 10.41 - 02.42 D. I. Riabyshev
- 02.42 - 05.42 K. P. Podlas
- 05.42 - 06.42 A. G. Batiunia
- 06.42 - 07.42 D. N. Nikishev
- 07.42 - 01.43 F. I. Tolbukhin
- 05.43 - 10.44 N. A. Gagen
- 10.44 - 05.45 M. N. Sharokhin
- June 1946-February 1947 Colonel General Issa Pliyev
- February 1947-15 July 1947 Colonel General Nikolai Gusev
Notes
References
- Keith Bonn, Slaughterhouse: The Handbook of the Eastern Front, Aberjona Press, Bedford, PA, 2005
- 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.
- David Glantz, Companion to Colussus Reborn, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 2005
- Jean-Luc Marchand, Order of Battle Soviet Army World War 2, 24 volumes, The Nafziger Collection
- Samuel J. Newland and Clayton K. S. Chun, The European Campaign: Its Origins and Conduct, U.S. Army War College SSI, Carlisle, PA, 2011 - Online version
External links
- http://samsv.narod.ru/Arm/arm.html - (Russian)
- Combat Composition of the Soviet Army via tashv.nm.ru
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