The 17th Army is an operational military association (combined arms army) in the Armed Forces of the USSR from 1940 to 1946. It was deployed in Mongolia (army headquarters - Ulan Bator ) [1] .
 17th army ( 17 A ) | |
| Type of: | combined arms army |
| Number of formations: | one |
| As part of the fronts: | Transbaikal Military District , Transbaikal Front Trans-Baikal-Amur Military District |
| Commanders | |
| Kurochkin Pavel Alekseevich , lieutenant general Romanenko Prokofy Logvinovich , major general Gastilovich Anton Iosifovich , lieutenant general Danilov Alexey Ilyich | |
| Combat operations | |
| Khingano-Mukden operation | |
Content
History
The 17th Army was formed on June 21, 1940 by order of the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR in the Trans-Baikal Military District on the basis of the 1st Army Group [1] . September 15, 1941 became part of the troops of the Transbaikal Front . Participated in the Khingan-Mukden operation of 1945. After the end of the Soviet-Japanese war, it became part of the forces of the Trans-Baikal-Amur Military District . In July-August 1946 it was disbanded.
Khingano-Mukden Operation
During the Soviet-Japanese War , on the night of August 9, 1945, without artillery and aviation training, the 17th Army began military operations and went on the offensive. By the end of the day, the main army forces had advanced to a depth of 50 km, and the advanced units, having traveled about 70 km in a day, reached the area of Lake Tabun-Nur . On the third day of the Khingan-Mukden operation, in cooperation with the Soviet-Mongolian horse-mechanized groups, the troops of the 17th army approached the southwestern spurs of the Greater Khingan mountain range. In the days that followed, the army’s troops successfully overcame it and also repelled the enemy’s counterattack in the Linxi area. Towards the end of the day , August 14, 1945, the 17th Army took possession of the border of Dabanshan , Jingpen . On August 16, Wudangcheng City was liberated. At the end of August 1945, in cooperation with a horse-mechanized front group, the main forces of the 17th Army entered the Lingyuan area, and one of the army divisions - on the coast of Liaodong Bay near the city of Shanhaiguan . In the same place, on August 31, 1945, the 17th Army completed the hostilities [2] .
Command [2] [3]
Commanders
- from June 21, 1940 to January 1941 - Lieutenant General P. A. Kurochkin (from April 1940 - commander of the 1st Army Group of Forces (from which the 17th Army was formed); from January 1941 - commander of the Trans-Baikal Military District, in which included the 17th army);
- from May 14, 1941 to May 15, 1942 - Lieutenant General P.L. Romanenko ;
- from May 15, 1942 to November 18, 1943 - Major General A.I. Gastilovich ;
- from November 18, 1943 until the end of the Soviet-Japanese War - Lieutenant General A.I. Danilov .
Members of the Military Council
- from 1940 to November 28, 1943 - division commissar, from December 20, 1942 Major General S. M. Novikov ;
- from November 28, 1943 to August 6, 1946 - Major General, from September 8, 1945, Lieutenant General V. M. Emelyanov .
Chiefs of Staff
- from 1940 to May 15, 1942 - Major General A.I. Gastilovich ;
- from May 15, 1942 to November 09, 1942 - Colonel S. M. Protas ;
- from November 9, 1942 to August 15, 1946 - colonel, from December 1942, Major General A.Ya. Spirov .
Composition
- 29th Mechanized Corps (March - May 7, 1941). [four]
Rewards
- The 17th Army was awarded the Order of the Battle Red Banner of the Mongolian People’s Republic [5]
See also
- Mongolia in World War II
- Fights on Khalkhin Gol
- 1st Army Group
- Transbaikal Front
- 17th Army (Germany)
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Text of the order of the People’s Commissar of Defense of the USSR No. 0029 dated June 21, 1940 , scanned order: [1] , [2]
- ↑ 1 2 According to the Ministry of Defense of Russia. Archived December 21, 2012. Archived December 21, 2012.
- ↑ According to the database "The command staff of the Red Army and the RKVMF in 1941-1945"
- ↑ Website Mechanized Corps of the Red Army. 29th mechanized corps.
- ↑ Order of the Battle Red Banner Archived April 20, 2009 to Wayback Machine Archived April 20, 2009. . // Website “Awards of Mongolia”
Literature
- 17th Army // 60th Anniversary of the Great Victory . Appendix to the official website of the Ministry of Defense of Russia.
- Malinovsky R. Ya., Zakharov M.V., Grylev A.N. et al. Final. Historical and memoir essay on the defeat of imperialist Japan in 1945. (Series: World War II in research, memoirs, documents). 2nd edition, rev. and add. - M .: Nauka, 1969 .-- 416 p.