The 10th Army is an operational combined arms association ( army ) as part of the Armed Forces of the USSR before, during and after the Great Patriotic War .
| 10th Army 10 A | |
|---|---|
 Emblem of the USSR Armed Forces | |
| Years of existence | 1939-1944 |
| A country |  the USSR |
| Subordination | Belarusian Special Military District (BOVO) |
| Included in | |
| Type of | army |
| Wars | The Second World War |
| Participation in | Polish campaign of the Red Army
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| Commanders | |
| Famous commanders | K. D. Golubev F. I. Golikov V. S. Popov |
Short name - 10 A.
First Formation
Formed in 1939 in the Belarusian Special Military District . In September 1939, she participated in the Polish campaign of the Red Army .
By the summer of 1941, it was located in the Bialystok ledge and was part of the Western Front . On June 21, 1941, the army was controlled, two ( 6th and 13th ) mechanized (the number of tanks - 1,021 and 282, respectively), one (6th) cavalry and two (1st and 5th) rifle corps, one separate (155th) rifle and one ( 9th ) mixed aviation division (409 aircraft). There are 15 divisions in the 10th Army. Including rifle - 6, tank - 4, motorized - 2, cavalry - 2 and aviation - 1. Thus, the 10th army was at that time the second most powerful (after the 9th ) of all the armies that took part in the reflection aggression.
With the beginning of the war with Germany, she participated in a frontal counterattack in the Grodno region and in defensive battles in Belarus in the Bialystok direction. By the end of June, German forces of Army Group Center surrounded the 3rd , 4th, and 10th armies in the Białystok-Minsk “cauldron” . As a result, all formations and units of the 10th Army were defeated. On June 30, while trying to cross the Baranavichy-Minsk highway, the army’s command was destroyed, the remaining troops who left the encirclement were turned to manning the 4th army .
Major General K. D. Golubev , commander of the 10th Army , and Major General M. M. Barsukov, head of the artillery of the army, left the encirclement as part of the combined group of the 86th August border guard detachment of the NKVD of the USSR, at the end of July Golubev was appointed commander of the 13th th army , which participated at that moment in the battle of Smolensk .
Composition of the army on 06.22.1941
- control
- 1st Rifle Corps (Major General F. D. Rubtsov , Bialystok )
- 2nd Infantry Division (Colonel M.D. Grishin , Osovets )
- 8th Infantry Division (Colonel N.I. Fomin , Staviski )
- 5th Rifle Corps (Major General A.V. Garnov , Belsk )
- 13th Infantry Division (Major General A.Z. Naumov , Zambrov )
- 86th Infantry Division (Colonel M.A. Zashibalov , Tsekhanovets )
- 6th Mechanized Corps (Major General M.G. Khatskilevich , Bialystok )
- 4th Panzer Division (Major General A. G. Potaturchev , Bialystok )
- 7th Panzer Division (Major General S.V. Borzilov , Khoroshch )
- The 29th Motorized Division The Finnish Proletariat (Major General I.P. Bikzhanov , relocated from Slonim to Bialystok )
- 4th motorcycle regiment
- 185th Separate Communications Battalion
- 41st Separate Motor Engineering Battalion
- 13th Mechanized Corps (Major General P.N. Akhlyustin , Belsk )
- 25th Panzer Division (Colonel N.M. Nikiforov, Paws )
- 31st Panzer Division (Colonel S. A. Kalikhovich , Bock )
- 208th Motorized Division (Colonel V.I. Nichiporovich , Gaynovka )
- 6th Cossack Cavalry Corps named after I.V. Stalin (Major General I.S. Nikitin , Lomza )
- 6th Cavalry Division (Major General M.P. Konstantinov , Lomza )
- 36th Cavalry Division (Major General E. S. Zybin , Volkovysk )
- 113th Infantry Division (Major General Kh. N. Alaverdov , Semyatichi )
- 155th Infantry Division (Major General P. A. Alexandrov , Baranovichi )
- 64th Zambrovsky (Zambrowsky) Fortified area (now Zambrow , Poland, commandant - Colonel N. A. Berdnikov , chief of staff - Colonel Shitov, Mikhail Vasilievich )
- 66th Osovets Fortified Area ( commandant - Colonel S. N. Drolin )
- 6th anti-tank artillery brigade
- 124th howitzer regiment RGK
- 375th howitzer regiment RGK
- RGK 311st Artillery Regiment
- 10th Engineering Regiment
- a number of individual parts
- 9th mixed air division (commander - Major General C. A. Chernykh ). It was based on the airfields of Bialystok, Seburchin, Vysoké-Mazowiecki, Dolubovo, Tarnava. The division headquarters was located in Bialystok. The division included:
- 41st Iap (Seburchin)
- 124th IAP
- 126th IAP (based at the Dolubovo airport (now Dołubowo, Poland) 22 km from the border)
- 129th IAP (based on the Tarnovo airfield (now Tarnowo-Goski, near Bialystok, Poland) 12 km from the border)
Before the war, pilots retrained for MiG-3 aircraft. At the airfields were also old I-16 , I-15 bis aircraft. In the 41st IAP, there were 100 MiG-3 and 19 I-15 bis aircraft, in the 124th IAP - 78 MiG-3 and 29 I-16, in the 126th IAP - 68 MiG-3 and 23 I-16, in the 129th IAP - 57 MiG-3 and 61 I-16. In total, in the 9th garden, there were 435 fighters.
Command
- Army Commander - Major General Golubev K. D.
- Chief of Staff - Major General P. Lyapin
- Member of the Military Council - Brigadier Commissar Dubrovsky D. G.
Second Formation
It was formed on October 1, 1941 on the basis of the directive of the Supreme Command of the Supreme Command of September 30, 1941, in the south-west direction (on the Southern Front ) with direct subordination to the Headquarters of the Supreme Command . Due to the tense situation, the formation was not completed and the troops were transferred to other military units. October 17, 1941 the army was disbanded.
Command
- Army Commander - Lieutenant General M. Efremov G. (September - October 1941)
- Chief of Staff - Major General I. Ivanov (September - October 1941)
- Member of the Military Council - corps commissar Nikolaev T. L. (October 1941)
- Air Force Commander - Colonel Nestertsev Viktor Efimovich (October - November 1941)
Third Formation
It was established on November 1, 1941 on the basis of the directive of the Supreme High Command Headquarters of October 21, 1941 No. 004038 (TsAMO f.148a op. 3763 d.93 l.77) in the Volga Military District . The army included: 326th Infantry Division - Penza; 324th - Penza; 322nd - Kuznetsk; 330th - Syzran; 323rd Infantry Division - Petrovsk. In addition, two rifle brigades were supposed to arrive from the Ural military district. Army headquarters was deployed in the city of Kuznetsk . On November 29, 1941, units of this army (according to the directive No. op / 2995 of November 24, 1941) were redeployed to the following points: 328th Rifle Division - Turlatovo, Vygorodok; 322nd Infantry Division - Fish; 330th Rifle Division - Ryazan; 323rd Infantry Division - Spassk-Ryazan; 326th Infantry Division - Shilovo; 57th Cavalry Division - Kanino (northeast of Ryazhsk); 75th Cavalry Division - Ryazan. Army headquarters and communications units were in Shilovo. It was directly subordinate to the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command , subsequently transferred to the subordination of the Western Front , took part in the battle for Moscow . Then, until August 1943, she waged defensive battles in the Kirov region (Kaluga region), and from August to October she took part in the 1943 Smolensk operation .
On April 23, 1944, the army was disbanded on the basis of the directive of the Supreme High Command Headquarters of April 19, 1944. On the basis of the army command, a field command of the 2nd Belorussian Front was created, and the troops and the defense line occupied by the army were transferred to the 49th army .
Composition
- control
- 322nd Infantry Division
- 323rd Infantry Division
- 324th Infantry Division
- 325th Infantry Division
- 326th Infantry Division
- 328th Infantry Division
- 330th Infantry Division
- 57th Cavalry Division
- 75th Cavalry Division
- Air Force 10th Army
- artillery, engineering and other parts
The Air Force of the 10th Army consisted of aviation units:
| Period | Name |
|---|---|
| 02/01/42 - 02/28/1942 | 20th Fighter Aviation Regiment [1] |
| 01/25/1942 - 02/10/1942 | 32nd Fighter Aviation Regiment [1] |
| 01/25/1942 - 03/30/1942 | 66th Fighter Aviation Regiment [1] |
| 12/02/1941 - 01/25/1942 | 706th Night Bomber Aviation Regiment |
| 01/07/1942 - 05/22/1942 | 681st short-range bomber aviation regiment |
| 01/25/1942 - 03/30/1942 | 685th Night Bomber Aviation Regiment |
| 05/09/1942 - 03/01/1943 | 880th Mixed Aviation Regiment |
| 02/28/1942 - 05/28/1942 | 359th Separate Aviation Squadron |
Commanders
First Formation
- Chernikov, Alexander Nikiforovich (From 1939 to 07.26.1940), Major General
- Golubev, Konstantin Dmitrievich (03.1941 - 07.07.1941), major general, army disbanded
Second Formation
- Efremov, Mikhail Grigoryevich (10/01/1941 - 10/17/1941), Lieutenant General, the army was disbanded
Third Formation
- Golikov, Filipp Ivanovich (11/01/1941 - 02/01/1942), Lieutenant General
- Popov, Vasily Stepanovich (02.02.1942 - 04.1944), major general, since June 1942, lieutenant general.
- Kryuchenkin, Vasily Dmitrievich (04.1944 -), Lieutenant General
Chiefs of Staff
- Lyapin, Petr Ivanovich
- Ivanov Ivan Ivanovich
- Dronov, Nikolai Sergeevich
- Lubarsky, Stepan Ivanovich
Members of the Military Council
- Dubrovsky, Dmitry Georgievich
- Nikolaev, Timofey Leontyevich
- Karpenkov, Daniil Avdeevich
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Anokhin V.A. Bykov M.Yu. All fighter aviation regiments of Stalin. The first complete encyclopedia. - Popular science. - Moscow: Yauza-press, 2014 .-- 944 p. - 1,500 copies - ISBN 978-5-9955-0707-9 .
Literature
- Mikheenkov, Sergey. Secret of anonymous height. 10th Army in the Moscow and Kursk battles. From Silver Ponds to Roslavl. 1941-1943. - M .: Centerpolygraph, 2014 .-- 318 p. - (Forgotten armies. Forgotten commanders). - 3000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-227-05443-2 ..