The 5th sapper army - the army of sappers in the armed forces of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War .
| 5th sapper army | |
|---|---|
| Years of existence | 1941 - 1942 |
| A country |  the USSR |
| Type of |  Ground troops |
| Commanders | |
| Famous commanders | A.N. Komarovsky I.E. Pruss |
Content
History
It was formed in October 1941 in the North Caucasus Military District consisting of the 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th combat brigades of 21 battalions each and then transferred to the Stalingrad Military District . The army headquarters was in Stalingrad .
Initially, it was located at the Khvalynsk - Saratov - Kamyshin - Stalingrad line , and then it built two external defensive lines of the city of Stalingrad, the Astrakhan defensive line on the section Zamost - Chernyshevskaya - Boguchar and the defensive line of the city of Astrakhan.
At the end of 1941, the 5th sapper army was transferred to the South Urals for the construction of the Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant , subsequently forming the basis for the Chelyabmetallurgstroy of the NKVD of the USSR [1] .
On February 4, 1942, the GKO adopted Decree No. 1239ss, according to which the command of the army and some combat brigades were disbanded, and part of the forces were transferred to the 7th combat army of the South-Western Front and the 8th combat army of the Southern Front .
Command
Commanders:
- brig engineer A.N. Komarovsky (October 25, 1941 - January 1942)
- Colonel I.E. Pruss (January 1942 - March 1942)
Notes
- ↑ Chapter 17. Site selection // V.N. Novoselov, V. S. Tolstikov. Nuclear project: The Secret of the “Forty” / Yekaterinburg: Ural Worker, 1995, 240 pp., ISBN 5-85383-082-1 .