15th Army (USSR)

The 15th Army was formed on February 11, 1940 on the basis of the Southern Group of Forces of the 8th Army , after which during the Soviet-Finnish War it took part in hostilities from February 12 to March 13 in the northeastern Ladoga area in the Salmi - Pitkäranta region - Kitilä - Käsnyaselkä .

After the end of the Finnish war on March 28, the army’s command was transformed into the command of the Arkhangelsk military district .

Command

Commanders:

• 2nd rank commander Kovalev, Mikhail Prokofievich (12.2. - 25.2.1940)
• 2nd rank commander Kurdyumov, Vladimir Nikolaevich (25.2. - 28.3.1940)

Members of the Military Council:

• corps commissioner Vashugin, Nikolai Nikolaevich
• A. I. Gusev

Chiefs of Staff:

• brigade commander M.I. Kozlov (11.-12.2.1940)
• Colonel (then - brigade commander) P. A. Ivanov

Army Air Force Commanders:

• Colonel T. E. Kovalev (03.1942 - 08.1942)

Assistant Commander of the 15th Army Rear Guard:

• Rakutin, Konstantin Ivanovich

The 15th army of the second formation was formed in July 1940 as part of the Far Eastern Front . Army headquarters was in Birobidzhan .

Until August 1945, the army defended the Far Eastern borders of the USSR. Since August 9, during the Soviet-Japanese War, the 15th Army took part in the Sungarian operation , during which the advanced units entered Harbin on August 20. Until the end of August, the 15th Army conducted military operations to destroy the Japanese Kwantung Army, and on September 2, 1945 ended the hostilities.

As part of

• 2 FEF - August 5 - September 2, 1945

Commanders

• Cheremisov, Leonty Georgievich
• Savvushkin, Mikhail Sergeevich
• Mamonov, Stepan Kirillovich

Chiefs of Staff

• Gorodinsky, Yudel Leontyevich
• Drugov, Pavel Ilyich
• Ivanov, Semyon Akimovich
• Forgiveness, Victor Andrianovich

Members of the Military Council

• Ibragimov, Vali Sarachevich
• Romanov, George Pavlovich

The 15th Army of the third formation was formed on April 16, 1953 on the basis of the Directorate of the Far Eastern Military District . Army headquarters was in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk . The army included troops deployed in the Sakhalin Region ( Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands ) ^[1] :

• 85th rifle corps consisting of 3 separate brigades: 2nd rifle brigade, 7th and 15th machine gun and artillery brigades (Kuril Islands, corps headquarters - Kurilsk ),
• 87th Infantry Corps as part of 3 infantry divisions: 79th (then 79th Motor Rifle, 264th (since 1955 - 41st Motor Rifle), 342th (since 1955 - 56th motorized rifle) (on Sakhalin, headquarters - Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk).
• 5th separate machine gun and artillery division ( Sovetskaya Gavan );
• 203rd separate heavy tank regiment ( Aniva ).

In 1960, the army headquarters was transferred to Khabarovsk , and units in the Khabarovsk Territory and the Amur Region were subordinate to it.

In the period from 07/27/1967 to 08/19/1969. the army was called the 18th combined-arms army , then it was returned to its previous name .

In the early 1990s, the 15th Army was disbanded, the remaining troops were transferred to the 43rd Army Corps .

Command

Commanders

• Krylov, Nikolai Ivanovich , Colonel General (April 1953 - September 1953)
• Kozak, Semyon Antonovich , Lieutenant General (September 1953 - December 1953)
• Trufanov, Nikolai Ivanovich , Colonel General (January 1954 - January 1956)
• Zalizyuk, Peter Iosifovich , lieutenant general (April 1956 - September 1957)
• Turantaev, Vladimir Vladimirovich , major general , from May 1959 lieutenant general (April 1958 - May 1960)
• Silchenko, Nikolay Kuzmich , lieutenant general (July 1967 - September 1969)
• Yakimovich, Ivan Sidorovich , major general, from October 1974 lieutenant general (November 1972-1975)
• Kalinin, Nikolai Vasilievich , major general, from May 1981 lieutenant general (September 1979 - April 1983)
• Moiseev, Mikhail Alekseevich , major general, from February 1984 lieutenant general (April 1983 - July 1985)
• Novozhilov, Viktor Ivanovich , major general, from May 1987 lieutenant general (July 1985 - October 1987)
• Tretyakov, Valery Stepanovich , major general, from April 1988 lieutenant general (October 1987 - October 1988)

First Deputy Commanders

• Gervasiev, Andrei Nikitich , Major General (November 1956 - September 1958)

Chiefs of Staff

• Zalizyuk, Peter Iosifovich , Major General (1953-1954)
• Egorovsky, Alexander Alexandrovich , Major General of the Tank Troops (1957-1958)
• Morozov, Ivan Sergeevich , Major General (1980-1982)

1940

The association at the time of formation in July 1940 had:

• control
• 20th Rifle Corps
• Ust-Sungaria fortified area
• 202nd Airborne Brigade
• 19th light tank brigade
• 12th Fighter Aviation Regiment
• RGK 181st Artillery Regiment

Units and individual units poured into the army in August 1945:

• 34th Infantry Division
• 255th Infantry Division
• 361st Infantry Division
• 388th Infantry Division
• 4th, 192th fortified areas
• 165 , 171 and 203th tank brigades

1989

In the late 1980s, the army included: ^[2]

Units and units of army submission

Divisions

• 73rd Motor Rifle Novozybkovskaya Order of Lenin, Krasnoznamennaya, Order of Suvorov Division (headquarters - Komsomolsk-on-Amur) - reduced staff, October 29, 1989 reorganized into 5505th BHVT;
• 81st guards motorized rifle Krasnograd Red Banner Order of Suvorov 2nd degree division (headquarters - Bikin );
• The 135th Motor Rifle Division (headquarters - Lesozavodsk ) was reorganized in October 1989 into the 130th Machine Gun and Artillery Division;
• 270th motorized rifle division (headquarters - p. Krasnaya rechka - Khabarovsk -41):

• 15th Army - the formation of the period of the civil war and intervention in Russia.

• Feskov V.I., Golikov V.I., Kalashnikov K.A., Slugin S.A. Armed Forces of the USSR after the Second World War: from the Red Army to the Soviet. Part 1: Ground Forces. - T .: Tomsk University Press, 2013. - 640 p. - ISBN 978-5-89503-530-6 .
• Fifteenth Army // Under Ch. ed. N.V. Ogarkov. Soviet Military Encyclopedia. - Moscow: Military Publishing House , 1997. - T. 7. - S. 339. - 687 p. - 106,000 copies.

• Lists of joining formations and units of the Red Army in the army in 1939-1945.
• The operations of the Red Army 1941-1945.
• 15th army.