3rd strike army

The army command was formed in November 1941 in the Moscow military district as the command of the 60th (from the end of 1941 - the 3rd strike ) army and led the operations of formations and units of the North-West, Kalininsky, Baltic, during the Great Patriotic War, 2nd Baltic and (since December 1944) 1st Belorussian fronts.

After the war, she was part of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany ( GSVG → ZGV ). The military unit field mail (V / H P.P.) No. 16736, the call sign - " Jasmine ". Headquarters - Magdeburg ( East Germany → Germany ).

In 1954, the 3rd strike army was transformed into the 3rd army .
On January 15, 1974, the army was awarded the Order of the Red Banner and became known as the 3rd Red Banner Army .

After the war , the 3rd strike army was part of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany .

As for the 3rd Shock Army , to which you have been appointed, it is the largest and most powerful army in the world. The most formidable army.

Yes, yes, ”the marshal continued, noticing my surprised look,“ I am not exaggerating. ” We have the 11th Guards Army - it has more divisions , but the total number in comparison with the 3rd Shock is lower, and in terms of the number of tanks it has no analogues at all. Of its five divisions, four are tank divisions, plus two tank regiments of heavy tanks for covering the border and two training tank regiments of 350 tanks each. Not every front during the war had so much in the direction of the main blow. And the personnel of the army is 75 thousand! I'm not talking about rocket launchers and gunners. In short, this is an ultramodern army. And it stands in the main operational area - it reliably covers the exit to Berlin , but in case of enemy aggression - in two or three days it will be on the Rhine and successfully crosses it , as our Cossack corps did 150 years ago when they attacked Paris .

- V.I. Varennikov , The Unique. Part IV Operational and strategic echelon. GSVG

During the Great Patriotic War, the troops of the 3rd shock army liberated the cities :

• Great Luke - January 17, 1943
• Nevel - October 6, 1943
• Idritsa - July 12, 1944
• Sebezh - July 17, 1944
• Rezhitsa (now Rezekne , Latvia ) - July 27, 1944 (together with the troops of the 10th Guards Army )
• Wangerin (now Wegorzyno , Poland ) - March 3, 1945
• Labes (now Lobez , Poland) - March 3, 1945 (together with the troops of the 1st Guards Tank Army )
• Freienwalde (now Hotsivel , Poland) - March 4, 1945
• Dramburg (now Dravsko-Pomorsk , Poland) - March 4, 1945 (together with the troops of the 1st Army of the Polish Army and the 1st Guards Tank Army)
• Regenwalde (now Resko , Poland) - March 4, 1945
• Gyultsov (now Golchevo , Poland) - March 5, 1945
• Cummin (now Stone-Pomeranian , Poland) - March 6, 1945
• Gollnov (now Goleniow , Poland) - March 7, 1945 (together with the troops of the 2nd Guards Tank Army )
• Stepenitz (now Stepnitsa, Poland) - March 7, 1945
• Pankov (a suburb of Berlin) - April 23, 1945
• Berlin - May 2, 1945 (together with other armies of the 1st Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian fronts)

Post-war army commanders:

•   Kuznetsov, Vasily Ivanovich , Colonel General , from March 16, 1945 to May 10, 1948;
•   Luchinsky, Alexander Alexandrovich , Colonel General , from 05/10/1948 to 04/11/1949;
•   Ryzhov, Alexander Ivanovich , lieutenant general , from 04/11/1949 to 12/04/1950;
•   Andreyev, Andrey Matveevich , lieutenant general , from 4/12/1950 to 6/01/1954;
• Alekseev, Dmitry Fedorovich , Lieutenant General (from 08/08/1955 - Colonel General ): 6.01.1954 - 06/29/1956;
• Baukov, Leonid Ivanovich , Major General (11/26/1956 - Lieutenant General): 06/29/1956 - 12/12/1959;
• Frolenkov, Mikhail Nikolaevich , Major General of the Tank Forces (from 7.05.1960 - Lieutenant General : 12/11/1959 - 08/11/1962;
• Klukanov, Alexander Ivanovich , Major General (from April 13, 1964 - Lieutenant General): 08/11/1962 - 07/07/1965;
•   Kurkotkin, Semyon Konstantinovich , lieutenant general of tank troops: 07/07/1965 - 08/18/1966;
•   Gorban, Vasily Moiseevich , major general (from 26.11.1956 - lieutenant general of tank troops: 08/18/1966 - 08/29/1969;
•   Varennikov, Valentin Ivanovich , Major General (from April 29, 1970 - Lieutenant General): 08/29/1969 - 11/11/1971;
• Touzakov, Evgeny Alexandrovich , Major General (from 8/8/1971 - Lieutenant General): 06/11/1971 - 01/24/1973;
• Kuznetsov, Leonid Ivanovich , major general (from 4.11.1973 - lieutenant general): 01.24.1973 - 11.15.1974;
• Makarchuk, Peter Efimovich , Major General (from 13.02.1976 - Lieutenant General): 11/15/1974 - 07/21/1977;
• Sotskov, Mikhail Mikhailovich , lieutenant general: 07/21/1977 - July 1979;
• Skokov, Victor Vasilievich , Lieutenant General: July 1979 - December 1982;
• Pyankov, Boris Evgenievich , Major General (from 16.12.1982 - Lieutenant General): December 1982 - July 1985;
• Chechevatov, Victor Stepanovich , major general (from 31.10.1986 - lieutenant general): July 1985 - 1987 ;
• Mityukhin, Alexei Nikolaevich , major general (from 3.05.1989 - lieutenant general): 1987 - October 1991.

May 1, 1945

On May 1, 1945

12th Guards Rifle Red Banner Corps :

• 23rd Guards Rifle Dnovsko-Berlin Red Banner Division
• 33rd Rifle Kholm-Berlin Red Banner Order of the Suvorov Division

7th Rifle Corps :

• 146th Infantry Ostrovskaya Red Banner Order of the Suvorov Division
• 265th Infantry Division Vyborg
• 364th Infantry Division reorganized into 15th mechanized Tosno Red Banner Division

38th Rifle Corps:

• 52nd Guards Rifle Division
• 64th Infantry Division
• 89th Infantry Division

79th Rifle Corps:

• 150th Infantry Division
• 171st Infantry Division
• 207th Infantry Division

4th Breakthrough Artillery Corps

5th Guards Mortar Division

19th anti-aircraft artillery Crimean Red Banner of the orders of Kutuzov and Bogdan of the Khmelnytsky division

End of 1945

• Management (headquarters, Magdeburg );
  • 899th Separate Air Assault Battalion
• 7th Rifle Corps :
  • 146th Infantry Ostrovskaya Red Banner Order of the Suvorov Division
  • 265th Infantry Division Vyborg
  • 364th Infantry Division reorganized into 15th mechanized Tosno Red Banner Division
• 12th Guards Rifle Red Banner Corps :
  • 23rd Guards Rifle Dnovsko-Berlin Red Banner Division
  • 33rd Rifle Kholm-Berlin Red Banner Order of the Suvorov Division
  • 52nd Guards Rifle Division reorganized into 22nd Guards Mechanized Riga-Berlin Order of Lenin Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division
• 79th Rifle Berlin Corps :
  • 150th Idritsko-Berlin Order of the Kutuzov Division
  • The 171st Infantry Division was reorganized into the 16th mechanized Idritsko-Berlin Red Banner Order of Kutuzov
  • 207th Infantry Pomeranian Red Banner Order of the Suvorov Division

1946

• the control of 7 rifle and 12 guards rifle corps disbanded;
• 146 rifle division disbanded
• 265 rifle division disbanded
• 15th mechanized division disbanded
• 23rd Guards Rifle Division disbanded
• 33 rifle division disbanded
• 16 mechanized division disbanded
• 150 rifle division disbanded

1947

• 22th Guards Mechanized Division disbanded
• from the disbanded 5th Shock Army, the 9th Rifle Corps arrived, consisting of:
  • 94th Guards Rifle Division
  • 18th mechanized division
• from the 8th Guards Army , the 19th Guards Mechanized Division (formerly the 47th Guards Rifle Division ) arrived in the 79th Rifle Corps

In 1954 , the army was renamed the 3rd combined arms army.

1954

• 9th Rifle Corps :
  • 94th Guards Rifle Division
  • 18th mechanized division
• 79th Rifle Corps
  • 207th Infantry Division
  • 19th Guards Mechanized Division

1955

• 23rd Rifle Corps
• 32nd Infantry Division

1956

• 9th Rifle Corps disbanded
• 23rd Rifle Corps disbanded

1957

As a result of the reform of the Armed Forces of the USSR (Khrushchev’s reduction), by the end of 1957, the following changes took place:

• The 19th Guards Mechanized Reorganized into the 26th Guards Tank Division;
• The 18th mechanized division is reorganized into the 18th motorized rifle division;
• The 94th Guards and 32nd Rifle Divisions became the 94th Guards and 32nd Motor Rifle Divisions.

1964-1965 years

In order to maintain military traditions and in honor of the 20th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the numbering of the times of the Great Patriotic War was returned to three divisions in the army:

• The 26th Guards Tank Division becomes the 47th Guards Tank Division
• The 18th Motor Rifle Division becomes the 21st Motor Rifle Division
• The 32nd Motor Rifle Division becomes the 207th Motor Rifle Division .

Early 1980s

As a result of further organizational measures, the army consists of 4 tank divisions:

• 7th Guards Tank Division (arrived from the 18th Guards Combined Arms Army );
• 10th Guards Tank Division (arrived from the 20th Guards Combined Arms Army );
• 12th Guards Tank Division (arrived from the 2nd Guards Tank Army );
• 47th Guards Tank Division .

Three ( 94th guards , 21st and 207th) motorized rifle divisions were transferred to the 2nd Guards Tank Army.

By the early 1990s

By the beginning of the 1990s, the 3rd All-Arms Red Banner Army included 4 tank divisions of the standard staff of three tank, motorized rifle, self-propelled artillery and anti-aircraft missile regiments.

1991

• Army Headquarters - Magdeburg

Units and units of army submission

Army submission divisions

• The 7th Guards Tank Order of the Kiev-Berlin Order of Lenin twice the Red Banner Order of the Suvorov Division ( Roslau ), military unit 58391, callsign - Addressee - in the 1980s the tank fleet of the 7th Guards. TD amounted to T-64 . In 1990, the division was withdrawn from the GDR, with the disbandment of the compound.
• 10-я гвардейская танковая Уральско-Львовская ордена Октябрьской революции Краснознамённая орденов Суворова и Кутузова добровольческая дивизия имени Маршала Советского Союза Р. Я. Малиновского ( Альтенграбов ), в/ч 60550, позывной — Аленький — всего 364 танка, 300 БМП, 11 БТР, 108 САУ, 30 миномётов, 18 РСЗО, после вывода из ГДР, находилась в составе ВС России , дислоцировалась в г. Богучаре в составе 20-й Гв. ОА . Части дивизии располагалась в трёх гарнизонах : Богучарский — штаб дивизии и основной состав частей, Воронежский — 248-й мотострелковый полк, Курский — 6-й мотострелковый полк (вошёл в состав дивизии после расформирования 63-го гв. тп и 6-й гв. омсбр).
• 12-я гвардейская танковая Уманьская ордена Ленина Краснознамённая ордена Суворова дивизия ( Нойруппин ), в/ч 58440 позывной — История — в 1990 году начался вывод 12-я гвардейской танковой дивизии с территории ГДР с расформированием соединения. На начало 1991 года в Восточной Германии не оставались танков (перед выводом дивизия была оснащена танками Т-80 ), БМП и БТР. На 19 ноября 1990 дивизия располагала в Германии 54 САУ 2С1 «Гвоздика» и 34 2СЗ «Акация» .
• 47-я гвардейская танковая Нижнеднепровская Краснознамённая ордена Богдана Хмельницкого дивизия ( Хиллерслебен ), В/Ч П. П. 60700 позывной — Редис — 322 танка, 271 БМП, 14 БТР, 108 САУ, 30 миномётов, 18 РСЗО.

Третья армия фигурирует в ряде западных романов о Третьей Мировой войне :

• « Красный шторм поднимается » Тома Клэнси: После начала Третьей Мировой 20 июня 1986 года, 3-я ударная армия предприняла два наступления на Гамбург . В ходе второго армии удалось выйти на подступы к городу ценой потери почти всех танков. Далее война была остановлена капитуляцией Союза ССР.
• « Третья мировая война » Джона Хекетта: в ходе начавшейся 4 августа 1985 года Третьей мировой войны 3-я ударная армия в течение двух недель достигла Нидерландов, где, по заявлению автора, её командир генерал-лейтенант Рязанов и личный состав «последовали примеру 2-й ударной армии Власова», перейдя на сторону NATO и назвав себя Русской освободительной армией, чем задержала советское наступление, дав Североатлантическому союзу (САС) возможность стабилизировать фронт. После капитуляции и распада СССР 22 августа, остатки армии составили оккупационный контингент NATO в районе Москвы.
• « Красная армия » Ральфа Питерса: несколько сюжетных линий посвящены офицерам 3-й ударной армии и её командующему генерал-лейтенанту Владимиру Старухину. В ходе начавшейся Третьей мировой войны, 3 УА за двое суток нанесла поражение 1-у Британскому корпусу СГА и вышла к Везеру на фронте от Миндена до Хамельна , где перешла к обороне в связи с начавшимся американским контрнаступлением. На следующие сутки война была окончена капитуляцией ФРГ . После этого части армии беспрепятственно достигли Рейна .

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