Commander of the 3rd Army. Rating of the great war. who are they the best commanders of the red army? As part of the active army

During the Great Patriotic War, the combined arms and tank armies as part of the Red Army were large military formations designed to solve the most complex operational tasks.
In order to effectively manage this army structure, the commander had to have high organizational skills, to know well the features of the use of all branches of the army that make up his army, but of course to have a strong character.
In the course of hostilities, various commanders were appointed to the post of army commander, but only the most trained and talented of them remained on it until the end of the war. Most of those who commanded armies at the end of the Great Patriotic War occupied lower positions before it began.
So, it is known that over the years of the war, 325 military leaders in total were in the position of commander of the combined arms army. And the tank armies were commanded by 20 people.
In the beginning, there was a frequent change of tank commanders, for example, the commanders of the 5th Tank Army were Lieutenant General M.M. Popov (25 days), I.T. Shlemin (3 months), A.I. Lizyukov (33 days, before his death in battle on July 17, 1942), 1st commanded (16 days) artilleryman K.S. Moskalenko, 4th (within two months) - cavalry officer V.D. Kryuchenkin and the least of all commanded the TA (9 days) - combined arms commander (PI Batov).
Later, the commanders of tank armies during the war years were the most stable group of military leaders. Almost all of them, starting to fight as colonels, successfully commanded tank brigades, divisions, tank and mechanized corps, and in 1942-1943. led the tank armies and commanded them until the end of the war. http://www.mywebs.su/blog/history/10032.html

Of the general military commanders who ended the war as an army commander, 14 people commanded corps before the war, 14 - divisions, 2 - brigades, one - a regiment, 6 were on teaching and team work in educational institutions, 16 officers were staff commanders of different levels, 3 were deputy division commanders and 1 deputy corps commander.

Only 5 generals commanding the armies at the start of the war finished it in the same position: three (N.E.Berzarin, F.D. Gorelenko and V.I.Kuznetsov) - on the Soviet-German front and two more (M. F. Terekhin and L.G. Cheremisov) - on the Far Eastern Front.

In total, during the war, 30 military leaders from among the army commanders died, including:

22 people died or died from wounds received in battle,

2 (K. M. Kachanov and A. A. Korobkov) were repressed,

2 (M.G. Efremov and A.K.Smirnov) committed suicide in order to avoid captivity,

2 people died in air (S. D. Akimov) and car accidents (I. G. Zakharkin),

1 (P.F.Alferyev) went missing and 1 (F.A.Ershakov) died in a concentration camp.

For their successes in planning and carrying out combat operations during the war and immediately after its end, 72 military leaders from among the army commanders were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, 9 of them - Twice. After the collapse of the USSR, two generals were posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.

During the war years, the Red Army consisted of about 93 combined-arms, guards, shock and tank armies, of which were:

1 seaside;

70 combined arms;

11 guards (from 1 to 11);

5 drums (from 1 to 5);

6 tank guards;

In addition, the Red Army had:

18 air armies (from 1 to 18);

7 air defense armies;

10 sapper armies (from 1 to 10);

In the Independent Military Review of 30.04.2004. The rating of the commanders of the Second World War was published, below is an extract from this rating, an assessment of the combat activities of the commanders of the main combined arms and tank armies of the Soviet armies:

3. Commanders of combined arms armies.

Chuikov Vasily Ivanovich (1900-1982) - Marshal of the Soviet Union. From September 1942 - Commander of the 62nd (8th Guards) Army. Particularly distinguished himself in the Battle of Stalingrad.

Batov Pavel Ivanovich (1897-1985) - army General. Commander of the 51st and 3rd armies, assistant to the commander of the Bryansk front, commander of the 65th army.

Beloborodov Afanasy Pavlantievich (1903-1990) - army General. Since the beginning of the war - the commander of a division, a rifle corps. Since 1944 - commander of the 43rd, in August-September 1945 - the 1st Red Banner armies.

Grechko Andrey Antonovich (1903-1976) - Marshal of the Soviet Union. Since April 1942 - Commander of the 12th, 47th, 18th, 56th Armies, Deputy Commander of the Voronezh (1st Ukrainian) Front, Commander of the 1st Guards Army.

Krylov Nikolay Ivanovich (1903-1972) - Marshal of the Soviet Union. From July 1943 he commanded the 21st and 5th armies. He had a unique experience in the defense of besieged large cities, being the chief of staff for the defense of Odessa, Sevastopol and Stalingrad.

Moskalenko Kirill Semenovich (1902-1985) - Marshal of the Soviet Union. From 1942 he commanded the 38th, 1st Tank, 1st Guards and 40th Armies.

Pukhov Nikolay Pavlovich (1895-1958) - Colonel General. In 1942-1945. commanded the 13th Army.

Chistyakov Ivan Mikhailovich (1900-1979) - Colonel General. In 1942-1945. commanded the 21st (6th Guards) and 25th armies.

Gorbatov Alexander Vasilievich (1891-1973) - army General. From June 1943 - Commander of the 3rd Army.

Kuznetsov Vasily Ivanovich (1894-1964) - Colonel General. During the war, he commanded the troops of the 3rd, 21st, 58th, 1st Guards armies since 1945 - commander of the 3rd Shock Army.

Luchinsky Alexander Alexandrovich (1900-1990) - army General. Since 1944 - Commander of the 28th and 36th armies. Especially distinguished himself in the Belarusian and Manchurian operations.

Lyudnikov Ivan Ivanovich (1902-1976) - Colonel General. During the war he commanded a rifle division, a corps, in 1942 he was one of the heroic defenders of Stalingrad. Since May 1944 - Commander of the 39th Army, which took part in the Belarusian and Manchurian operations.

Galitsky Kuzma Nikitovich (1897-1973) - army General. Since 1942 - Commander of the 3rd Shock and 11th Guards Armies.

Zhadov Alexey Semenovich (1901-1977) - army General. From 1942 he commanded the 66th (5th Guards) Army.

Glagolev Vasily Vasilievich (1896-1947) - Colonel General. He commanded the 9th, 46th, 31st, in 1945 - the 9th Guards armies. Distinguished himself in the Battle of Kursk, the battle for the Caucasus, during the crossing of the Dnieper, the liberation of Austria and Czechoslovakia.

Kolpakchi Vladimir Yakovlevich (1899-1961) - army General. He commanded the 18th, 62nd, 30th, 63rd, 69th armies. He acted most successfully in the Vistula-Oder and Berlin operations.

Pliev Issa Alexandrovich (1903-1979) - army General. During the war years - the commander of the guards cavalry divisions, corps, the commander of the mechanized cavalry groups. He was especially distinguished by his bold and daring actions in the Manchurian strategic operation.

Fedyuninsky Ivan Ivanovich (1900-1977) - army General. During the war years, he was the commander of the 32nd and 42nd armies, the Leningrad front, the 54th and 5th armies, the deputy commander of the Volkhov and Bryansk fronts, the commander of the 11th and 2nd shock armies.

Belov Pavel Alekseevich (1897-1962) - Colonel General. He commanded the 61st Army. He was distinguished by decisive maneuvering actions during the Belorussian, Vistula-Oder and Berlin operations.

Shumilov Mikhail Stepanovich (1895-1975) - Colonel General. From August 1942 until the end of the war he commanded the 64th Army (from 1943 - the 7th Guards), which together with the 62nd Army heroically defended Stalingrad.

Berzarin Nikolay Erastovich (1904-1945) - Colonel General. Commander of the 27th and 34th armies, deputy commander of the 61st and 20th armies, commander of the 39th and 5th shock armies. He was especially distinguished by his skillful and decisive actions in the Berlin operation.

4. Commanders of tank armies.

Katukov Mikhail Efimovich (1900-1976) - Marshal of the armored forces. One of the founders of the Tank Guard was the commander of the 1st Guards Tank Brigade and the 1st Guards Tank Corps. Since 1943 - Commander of the 1st Tank Army (since 1944 - Guards).

Bogdanov Semyon Ilyich (1894-1960) - Marshal of the armored forces. From 1943 he commanded the 2nd (from 1944 - the Guards) Tank Army.

Rybalko Pavel Semenovich (1894-1948) - Marshal of the armored forces. From July 1942 he commanded the 5th, 3rd and 3rd Guards Tank Armies.

Lelyushenko Dmitry Danilovich (1901-1987) - army General. From October 1941 he commanded the 5th, 30th, 1st, 3rd Guards, 4th Tank (from 1945 - Guards) armies.

Rotmistrov Pavel Alekseevich (1901-1982) - Chief Marshal of the Armored Forces. He commanded a tank brigade, corps, distinguished himself in the Stalingrad operation. From 1943 he commanded the 5th Guards Tank Army. Since 1944 - Deputy Commander of the Armored and Mechanized Forces of the Soviet Army.

Kravchenko Andrey Grigorievich (1899-1963) - Colonel General of Tank Forces. Since 1944 - Commander of the 6th Guards Tank Army. He showed an example of highly maneuverable, swift actions during the Manchurian strategic operation.

It is known that this list included the commanders of the armies who had been in their posts for a relatively long time and had shown rather high military leadership abilities.

Formed in September 1812 as a result of the connection Danube Army admiral Chichagova and 3rd Western Observational Army general Tormasova.

At the end of August 1812, the troops of the Danube army (33 thousand people) arrived in Volhynia, where the army of Tormasov (about 25,000 people) took up defense. They were opposed Austrian corps Schwarzenberg(26,000 people) near Lutsk, and the Saxon corps Reignier(9000 people) at Vladimir-Volynsky; 17th Polish Division Dombrovsky(12,000 people) was located near Bobruisk against the 2nd corps of the general. F. F. Ertel.

By order of Alexander I, Tormasov was recalled to the main apartment of MI Kutuzov to command the 2nd Western Army instead of the wounded general. P.I. Bagration... On September 10 (22), Chichagov took over command of the united army, which received the name of the 3rd Western Army, and on September 18 (30). Tormasov and Gen. E. I. Markov departed for Ch. Kutuzov's apartment.

According to the plan of the imp. Alexander I, the army of Chichagov was supposed to reach the border of the r. Berezin, take Mr. Borisov, to cut the retreat path of the Great Army. 15 (27) Oct. The 3rd Western Army began a march towards Minsk. The vanguard of Lambert defeated the detachment of the gene. F.K. Kosetskiy at Novo-Sverzhene and Kaidanov and on November 4 (16) took Minsk, where he captured huge supplies of food and equipment. On November 9 (21), Lambert's vanguard took Borisov, defeating the Dombrowski division. On November 10 (22), all the forces of Chichagov gathered in the city, but after the defeat of the Russian. avant-garde November 11 (23) under Loshnitsa The 3rd Western Army left Borisov, concentrating along the right bank of the Berezina, blocking the French route of retreat, hoping that Napoleon would break through to Minsk, Chichagov concentrated his main forces in Borisov and south of it, where the French began to prepare the crossing.

However, a real crossing was built north of Borisov and Chichagov could not prevent the passage of the Great Army across the Berezina. On November 16 (28), his army fought heavy battles on the right bank with the enemy who had crossed. Then the 3rd Western Army vigorously pursued the remnants of the Great Army until Vilna which took on November 28 (December 10). After a short rest, the army continued to move to the border, then took part in hostilities in the territory of the Duchy of Warsaw. On February 1 (13), 1813 Chichagov, offended by the accusations that he had "missed" Napoleon at Berezina, surrendered the command of the 3rd Western Army to General M. B. Barclay de Tolly... Under his command, the army besieged Thorn, participated in the battles at Konigswart and Bautzen, and then became part of the allied Silesian army.

I. N. Vasiliev. (Based on the materials of the Encyclopedia "1812")

3rd Western Army

Commander-in-Chief - Admiral P.V. Chichagov

Chief of Staff of the Army - General I. V. Sabaneev

Quartermaster General - Colonel (from 2.12.1812 - Major General) R.E. Rennie

Chief of artillery - Colonel G.P. Veselitsky

Commandant of the Main Apartment - Colonel V. D. Rykov

Duty General - Colonel (from 2.12.1812 - Major General) KF Oldekop.

Corps of Infantry General of Count A.F. Langeron,

Corps of Lieutenant General A.I. Voinov,

Corps of Lieutenant General P.K. Essen,

Corps of Lieutenant General Baron F.V. Osten-Sacken (left in the Brest-Litovsk area against the troops of Schwarzenberg and Reynier to cover the movement of the army towards the Berezina)

Reserve corps of Lieutenant General I. V. Sabaneev

General Ertel's Reserve Corps.

Vanguards E.I. Chaplitz a and K.O. Lambert a

1. Rifle troops.

Rifle corps

management, headquarters, OPPA

2-3 sd (gsd)

heavy mouth guard (1 250 pers.)

Cap (900 people)

backward (24 76-mm ZP, 6 zen.machine guns)

Ae (16 self.)

Rifle division

back (12 RFP)

optdn (18 op.)

Mountain rifle division

optbat (6 op.)

Rifle brigade

zen. batr (4 op.)

Rifle regiment (3182 people)

batr 45mm guns (6)

min. batr (4 120 mm)

air defense company (9 quadruple launchers)

batr of 76 mm guns (4)

2 explosive reconnaissance.

Rifle battalion

3 rifle companies

machine gun company

mortar company (6 82 mm M)

PT platoon (2 45-mm PTO)

Infantry Division Reconnaissance Battalion

tank company

company of armored vehicles

motorized rifle cavalry company squadron

sapper station

2. Cavalry.

3. Airborne troops

4. Armored troops

Mechanized Corps

Office headquarters

Motorcycle regiment

omib (664 people)

Communications battalion

air squadron

Panzer division

PMB (832 people)

Motorized division

optdn both

Lib (402 people)

updn oatb

Tank regiment of a tank division

heavy tank battalion

2 tank battalions

light flamethrower tank battalion

sapper company

communications platoon

Motorized rifle regiment TD and MD

3 motorized rifle battalions

art. battery

Motor transport battalion

communications company

sapper company

Panzer regiment of motorized division

3 tank battalions

sapper company

reconnaissance company

communications platoon

Reconnaissance battalion of a tank division

Light Tank Company

Rota BA-10

Rota BA-20

motorcycle. company

art. battery

Communications platoon

Platoon control

Sapper platoon

Backpack Flamethrower Platoon

Commandant

platoon

5. Artillery

Anti-tank artillery brigade		2 anti-tank artillery regiments				mine-sapper battalion		motor transport battalion
Anti-tank artillery regiment	headquarters and staff battery	ADN 107 mm guns (3 batrs, 4 guns each)	2 adn 76 mm cannons (3 batrs in 4 guns)		2 ADN 85 mm ZP (3 batrs, 4 guns each)	anti-aircraft battalion (2 batrs of 4 37mm ZP and 1 zpr in 36 DShK)	Junior Command School	Support divisions
Howitzer artillery regiment BM RGK (24 guns)	headquarters and staff battery	4 artillery battalions with 3 batteries in 2 203mm howitzers				Reconnaissance artillery battalion	support units
Howitzer (cannon) artillery regiment RGK (48 guns)	headquarters and staff battery	4 artillery battalions with 3 batteries in 4 guns (howitzers or cannons)				Reconnaissance artillery battalion	support units
Corps artillery regiment (36 guns)	headquarters and staff battery	2 battles with 3 batrs each (24 107-mm guns)		1 ad in 3 batr (12 152 mm howitzers)		support units
Heavy corps artillery regiment (30 guns)	headquarters and staff battery	2 battles with 3 batrs each (24 152 mm howitzers)		1 ad in 3 batrs of 2 152 mm howitzer-cannons		support units
Mortar battalion (48 mortars)	4 companies of 12 120-mm mortars					artillery division OM (6 guns)	3 batteries, 2 guns each

6. Air Defense Forces

Air defense formation	Covered items	The composition of the units and subdivisions of the formations	Caliber guns	Anti-aircraft machine guns	Spotlights	Balloons
Air defense formation	Covered items		middle	Anti-aircraft machine guns	Spotlights	Balloons
1st building		6 zap, 2 zadn, 1 zpp, 2 p AC, 1 p VNOS, 2 pro, 2 both
2nd building	Leningrad	6 zap, 2 zadn, 1 zpp, 3 p AC, 1 p VNOS, 2 pro, 2 both
3rd building		4 zap, 4 zadn, 1 zpp, 1 p AC, 1 p VNOS, 1 zap, 2 progb, 2 both
3rd, 4th division	Kiev, Lviv	2 zap, 1 zapadn, 1 zpp, 2 progb, 1 division of the AU, 2 battalions of VNOS
8 brigades (7-10, 12-15th)	Minsk, Batumi, Khabarovsk, Riga, Kaunas, Grodno, Vilno, Odessa	1 zap (or 5 back), 1 zpb, 1 progb, 1 division of the AU, 1 battalion of VNOS
1st brigade (11th)	Drohobych	1 zap, 1 zpb, 1 progb, 1 division of the AU, 1 battalion of VNOS
	Zaporizhzhia, Dnepropetrovsk, Tbilisi, Komsomolsk-on-Amur	3 back, 3 zpr, 3 prozhr, 1 company VNOS
	Large industrial and military facilities	2 back, 2 zpr, 2 prozhr, 1 platoon VNOS
109 divisions	Railway stations and nodes, industrial facilities	4 batteries, 1 anti-aircraft machine gun company
113 divisions	Military warehouses and bases	3 batteries

7. Air Force

Air division	Control	2-5 regiments of the same type or different types		Airbase (attached)
Aviation brigade	Control	2-3 regiments or 1-2 regiments and 2-3 squadrons		Airbase (attached)
Aviation regiment	Management (2 aircraft)	4-5 squadrons of the same type, 3 flights each in 3 aircraft		Airfield Service Battalion (attached)
Air base	Control	Battalions by the number of regiments in a division (brigade)	Engineering and aerodrome subdivisions	Subdivisions	Aviation garrison commandant's office	Aerodrome technical company

8. Engineering troops and communications troops

Engineer regiment		technical battalion (4 companies - electrical, electrical, hydraulic, camouflage)					Engineer battalion	light park school junior NPL command staff
Pontoon bridge regiment		career pontoon bridge battalion			2 skadrovny pontoon bridge battalions		technical company	set of park Н2П
A separate sapper battalion (SK) - 901 people.		3 sapper companies	technical company (5 platoons - road position, pavement, logging, electrical, field water supply)						ferry yard
A separate sapper battalion (SD) - 521 people.		3 sapper companies			technical platoon	technical support and supply platoon			ferry yard
Separate communications regiment	headquarters and support team	radio battalion (2 companies)		telephone and telegraph battalion (2 companies of 3 platoons, telegraph and telephone exchanges)		cable-telegraph motorized company (3 cable-telegraph and 1 telegraph-building platoon)			company of mobile communications (FPS platoon, PSS platoon, expedition, VNOS post)
Separate communications battalion (SD)		headquarters company (3 platoons - radio, telephone, mobile communications)				2 telephone companies			Support divisions

9. Field administrations of the front, army and their headquarters

Divisions of management	Number of people in management	Headquarters divisions	Number of people in the headquarters
Divisions of management		Headquarters divisions
War Council		Command
		Operations department
Artillery control		Intelligence department
ABTV management		Topographic department
Engineering department (department)		Department of manning, device and service of troops
Communications department (department)		Supply and road service department
Air Defense Directorate (department)		Administrative department
Chemical management (department)		Financial part
Combat Training Directorate (department)		Department of military communications
Airborne Service Division		Commandant's office
Human Resources Department
Rear organs
Total people / including civilians

Note. In addition, the management of fronts and armies included political directorates and departments, directorates and departments of the Air Force command, special departments, which were contained in their own states.

Army 3 was formed on September 1, 1939 as part of the Belarusian Special Military District on the basis of the Vitebsk Army Group of Forces.
In September-October 1939, the 3rd army took part in the Polish campaign of the Red Army.

With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the army (4th rifle and 11th mechanized corps, 68th fortified area, 7th artillery brigade of anti-tank defense, a number of artillery and other units) as part of the Western Front fought heavy defensive battles in the regions of Grodno, Lida , Novogrudok. At the end of June 1941, numerically superior enemy forces managed to break through to the Minsk region and cut off its troops from other forces of the front. Until the beginning of July, formations and units of the army fought heroically behind enemy lines, holding down significant forces. Subsequently, most of the army's troops fought out of the encirclement, some of its units remained in the rear of the enemy, where they conducted partisan actions. On the night of July 1, 1941, the remnants of the army management, headed by the commander, Lieutenant General V.I. Kuznetsov managed to break through to the area east of Minsk, but only on July 28, 1941, they managed to break out of the encirclement north of Rogachev, together with a detachment of the 204 motorized division and the 274 rifle regiment of the 24 Samara-Ulyanovsk Iron Division. In the order of the Headquarters of the Supreme Command of the USSR No. 270 of August 16, 1941, "On the responsibility of servicemen for surrendering and leaving weapons to the enemy," it was said that the commander of the 3rd Army, Lieutenant General Kuznetsov and a member of the Military Council, Army Commissar of the 2nd rank, Biryukov, were fought out of the encirclement 498 armed Red Army men and commanders of units of the 3rd army and organized the exit from the encirclement of 108 and 64 rifle divisions ...

After leaving the encirclement, the 3rd army from July 5, 1941 was at the disposal of the Supreme Command Headquarters, was replenished and on August 1, 1941 was included in the Central Front. V.I.Kuznetsov was left in command of the army, Major General A.S. Zhidova; the headquarters was located in the area west of Kalinkovichi. The army was transferred to the subordination of the 66th rifle corps, the Mozyr fortified area, as well as the 75th rifle division.

In the second half of August 1941, the Central Front was defeated and disbanded. The 3rd army was forced to leave Mozyr, after a many-kilometer march it transferred its troops to 21 armies, and its headquarters was moved to the junction of the 50 and 13 armies, subordinating to the headquarters of the Bryansk front. Major General Ya.G. Kreiser was appointed commander of the army. Former army commander Lieutenant General V.I. Kuznetsov was appointed commander of the 21st army, and after its defeat in the Kiev cauldron he led the 58th army.

3rd army took part in the battle of Smolensk, Orel-Bryansk defensive operation.

In November 1941, its formations and units as part of the Southwestern Front (from November 11) continued to conduct defensive battles and by December 5 withdrew to the line southeast of Bogoroditsk, east of Efremov. With the transition of the Red Army troops to a counteroffensive near Moscow, the 3rd Army took part in the Yelets operation and the liberation of the city of Efremov (December 13, 1941). Continuing to develop the offensive as part of the Bryansk Front of the 2nd formation (from December 24), by the end of December it reached the right bank of the river. Zusha east of Orel, where it went on the defensive.

Subsequently, defending the occupied line, until the summer of 1943, it periodically undertook offensive actions with limited goals and improved its position in a number of sectors. On March 13, 1943, the army was included in the Central Front of the 2nd formation, on March 27 - in the Oryol Front (from March 28, the Bryansk Front of the 3rd formation).

In June 1943, Lieutenant General A.V. Gorbatov, who commanded her until the end of the war.

In July-August 1943, the army participated in the Oryol strategic offensive operation, in September - early October - in the Bryansk offensive operation, at the end of which it reached the left bank of the river. Sozh near the town of Propoisk (Slavgorod). On October 8, it was transferred to the Central (from October 20, Belorussian, from February 24, 1944, the 1st Belorussian) front and, as part of them, fought in Gomel-Rechitskaya (November 1943) and in Rogachevsko-Zhlobinskaya (February 1944. ) offensive operations.

On April 6, the army was included in the Byelorussian Front of the 2nd Formation, on April 17 of the 1st Belorussian Front of the 2nd Formation, on July 5 of the 2nd Belorussian Front of the 2nd Formation.

In the second half of 1944, army troops took part in the liberation of Belarus and the eastern regions of Poland, in the Bobruisk, Minsk and Bialystok offensive operations. We fought over 500 km and liberated the cities of Novogrudok (July 8), Volkovysk (July 14), Bialystok (July 27), Ostrolenka (September 6) and Lomzha (September 13). Narev and took up defense on the Ostrolenka-Ruzhany line.

In January 1945, during the Mlavsko-Elbing operation, the army advanced as part of the front's strike grouping from the Ruzhany bridgehead in the direction of Willenberg (Velbark), Melzak (Penenzhno).

On February 10, she entered the 3rd Belorussian Front, as part of which in March she took part in the liquidation of the East Prussian enemy grouping south-west of Konigsberg (Kaliningrad).

In early April, the 3rd Army was withdrawn to the front reserve, redeployed to the area southeast of Kustrin, on April 16 it was included in the 1st Belorussian Front of the 2nd formation and participated in the Berlin operation as part of it.

In August 1945, the army was disbanded, its headquarters was sent to form the headquarters of the Minsk military district.

Commanders: Lieutenant General V.I. Kuznetsov (June 1939 - August 1941); Major General Kreizer J.G. (August-December 1941); Lieutenant General Pshennikov P.S. (December 1941); Lieutenant General Batov P.I. (December 1941 - February 1942); Major General Zhmachenko F.F. (February-May 1942); Lieutenant General P.P. Korzun (May 1942 - June 1943); Lieutenant General, since June 1944 Colonel General A.V. Gorbatov (June 1943 - until the end of the war).

Members of the Military Council: Army Commissar 2nd Rank N.I. Biryukov (April-August 1941); Divisional Commissioner F.I. Shlykov (August 1941 - April 1942); Brigadier Commissar, from December 1942 Major General, from November 1944 Lieutenant General I.P. Konov (April 1942 - until the end of the war).

Chiefs of Staff: Major General A.K. Kondratyev (September 1939 - July 1941); Major General Zhadov A.S. (August 1941 - May 1942); Major General, since September 1944 Lieutenant General M.V. Ivashechkin (May 1942 - until the end of the war).

Subordination:
Belarusian Special Military District
Western front
Central front
Bryansk front
Southwestern Front
Oryol front
Belarusian front
1st Belorussian Front
2nd Belorussian Front
3rd Belorussian Front

Plan:

Introduction

1.1 Polish campaign of the Red Army 1.2 Occupation of the Baltic States 1 Command 1.4 Combat strength 1.5 Military operations 1.6 Combat losses

August 1, 1941

December 1, 1941

3.1 Command 3.2 Combat strength of the army as of 1988

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Introduction

Combined arms armies of the USSR
	3rd Army

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Actions of the 3rd Army during the occupation of the Baltic States. June 1940

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Map of the conduct of battles of the 3rd army in the Grodno region

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Commander of the 3rd Army Major General

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Commander of the 3rd Army Colonel General

Third Army (3 A)- a combined-arms army as part of the Armed Forces of the USSR during the Red Army campaign against Poland in 1939, the German-Soviet war and a component of the occupation forces of the Soviet army in the post-war period on German territory as part of the GSVG.

1. The first formation (Polish campaign of the Red Army)

1.1. Polish campaign of the Red Army

In November 1941, its formations and units as part of the Southwestern Front (from November 11) continued to conduct defensive battles and by December 5 withdrew to the line east of Bogoroditsk - to the east of Efremov.

With the transition of the Red Army troops to the counteroffensive near Moscow, the 3rd Army took part in the Yelets operation in December 1941) and in the liberation of Efremov (December 13). Continuing to develop the offensive as part of the Bryansk Front of the 2nd formation (from December 24), until the end of December, the army's troops reached the right bank of the Zusha River, to the east of Orel, where they went on the defensive.

Later, defending the occupied line until the summer of 1943, the army's troops periodically conducted offensive operations with limited goals and improved their position in a number of sectors.

In August 1945, the army was disbanded, its headquarters was sent to form the headquarters of the Minsk military district.

For courage, heroism and high military skill in battles, tens of thousands of its soldiers were awarded orders and medals, and 83 servicemen received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

2.1. Command

Commanders:

Lieutenant General of September 1 August 1941); Major General (August 25 - December 13, 1941); Lieutenant General December 1941) - died after being blown up by a mini; lieutenant general I. (28 chest 1 cruel 1942); Major General (11th fierce - 12th May 1942); Lieutenant General (12th May 1st 1943); lieutenant general, z 29 worm 1944 colonel general (worm 27 1lipnya 1945).

2.2. Formation at the warehouse of the army in rocky viyny

June 2.2, 1941 (at the warehouse of the Zakhid special Vyskovo district)

4th rifle corps (Major General Є.A. Ygorov, Grodno district)

27th Streltska Division (Major General, Avgustov District); 56th Streltska Division (Major General, Porechie District)

The 21st Streltsky Corps (Major General, Vitebsk> IVye) - located in another echelon of the army.

17th Army Division (Major General, Polotsk> Lida) 37th Army Division (Colonel A. Yu.Chaharin, Lepel, Vitebsk> Benyakone, Voronovo) 50th Army Division, P., Major General V. Polotsk> Krevo)

11th Mechanization Corps (Major General, Volkovisk)

29th Tank Division (Colonel YV, Grodno) 33rd Tank Division (Colonel, Sokulka) 204th Motorized Division (Colonel, Volkovisk)

Z "Adnannya that part of the army order:

85th rifle division (major general, Grodno) 24th rifle division (major general, Molodechno) 7th anti-tank artillery brigade (Mikhalovo village of Zabludovsky district) 68th Grodnenskiy Ukrainian district

Added parts

11-a zmіshana avіadivіzіya (commander - Colonel P. I. Ganichev; based in the regionі Grodno, Lida). There are two small aircraft regiments for I-15 bis, I-153, I-16 and one bombardment aviation regiment, which carried out the transfer of the aircraft from SB to the Pe-2, a total of 208 combat aircraft (of which 19 were unfair).

1 serpnya 1941 rock (at the warehouse of the Central Front)

66th Streltsky Corps:

75th Streltska Division; 232-a shooter division;

The 68th fortified area; 214th Airborne Brigade; 447th corps artillery regiment (Russian); okremiy artillery division PTO 18th tank regiment; 20th Motorcycle Regiment.

1 chest 1941 rock (at the warehouse of the Pivdenno-Zakhidny front)

6th Guards Streltska Division: 137th Streletska Division; 212th Infantry Division; 269th Streltska Division; 283rd shooting division; 29th Cavalry Division; 52nd cavalry division; 569th artillery regiment of PTO; 6th Guards Minor Regiment (without division); 42nd okremiy anti-aircraft artillery division; 150th tank brigade; 78th Okremiy Engineering Battalion; 513th okremiy sapper battalion.

3. Pislyavonny hour (Group of Radianskih Vіysk at Nіmechchyna)

3rd Foreign Army The first educational form was transferred to the territory of Bilorus, de її management complemented the management of Bilorusko-Litovskiy vіyskovy district. Before the її warehouse, until the tziy hour, there were 3 military buildings (9 divisions). Nadal all z "ednannya, surrounded by the 120th Strelets division, bully formed.

3rd Foreign Army The second form is leading its history from the third Shock Army of the day, which in the 1950s was changed assault ... At that hour before the warehouse of the 2nd corps, there were chotiri divisions: in the 9th corps - the 94th Guards Strelets division and the 18th mechanized division (which was the case for the rocky nimetsko-radianskoi divisions - the 416th line of the division) to the Berlinsky Shooting Corps - 207th Shooting Division and 15th Mechanized Division (at the rock of Great Victory Day 230th sd). Another division - the 11th tank division - was at the reserve.

Until the end of the 1980s, pp. Zhodna zhdivizi was not lost at the warehouse of the army - the 11th tank and the 15th mechanized were formed in the mid-1950s, and the sieve bullets were transferred to the warehouse of the second armies. The divisions, who came to the army, all the guards 7, 10, 12, 47 tank divisions were already booming.

3.1. Command

Commanders:

Members of the War Council:

Chiefs of Staff:

3.2. Military warehouse of the army camp for 1988 rik

Headquarters of the 3rd Foreign Army of the Red Army (Magdeburg)

Guards Tankov Kyiv-Berlinska Order of Lenin Dvichi Chervonopraporn Order of Suvorov Division (Roslau)

(55th Guards Tank Vasilkivsky Order of Lenin of the Red Order of the Red Banner of the Order of Suvorov and Kutrumen Order of Suvorov and B. Khmelnitsky Regiment (Lutherstadt-Wittenberg) Berlin Motorized Rifle Regiment (Bernburg) 670th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Lviv Order of the Red Star Regiment (Kochstadt) 287th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment Lvov Order of the Red Star Regiment (Roslau)

10 guards tank

Ural-Lviv

Order of the October Revolution Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Volunteer Division named after

Marshal of the Soviet Union

(Altengrabov)

61st Guards Tank Sverdlovsk - Lvov Order of Lenin Red Banner Orders of Suvorov, Kutuzov and Bohdan Khmelnitsky Regiment (Altengrabov) 62 Guards Tank Perm-Keletskaya Red Banner Orders of Suvorov, Kutuzov and B. Khmelnitsky Ordinary Petroleum Regiment 63 Regiment (Altengrabov) 248th Guards Motorized Rifle Unechsky Order of Lenin Red Banner Orders of Suvorov, Kutuzov, Bogdan Khmelnitsky and A. Nevsky Regiment (Shonebek) 744 Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Ternopil, Orders of Suvorov, Bogitsky, Kutanauzov A. ) 359th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Lviv Orders of Kutuzov, A. Nevsky and Red Star Regiment (Altengrabov)

12th Guards Tank

Uman Order of Lenin Red Banner Order of Suvorov

division (

Neuruppin)

48th Guards Tank Vapnyarskoe-Warsaw Order of Lenin Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Regiment (Neuruppin) 332th Guards Tank Warsaw Red Banner Order of A. Nevsky Regiment (Neuruppin) 353 Guards Tank Vapnyarskoe - Berlin Red Banner Order of the Order of the Nevsky Lenin Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Regiment (Burg) 117 Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment (Malvinkel) 933 Anti-aircraft Missile Verkhnedneprovsk Red Banner Order of A. Nevsky Regiment (Burg)

47th Guards Tank Lower Dnieper Red Banner

Order of B. Khmelnitsky Division (Hillersleben)

26th Tank Feodosia Order of A. Nevsky Regiment (Hillersleben) 153th Tank Smolensk Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Regiment (Hillersleben) 197 Guards Tank Vapnyarskoe-Warsaw Order of Lenin Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Malt Regiment Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Pomeranian Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Regiment (Malvinkel) 1009 Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment of the Order of the Red Star (Hillersleben)

Formations and units of army subordination

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