1st Armored Guard Army

- 1st Guard Panzer Army - XXXX
Guard badge
active	January 20, 1944 until ...
Country	Soviet Union Russian Federation
Armed forces	Soviet Army , Russian Armed Forces
Armed forces	Land Forces of the USSR , Russian Army
Insinuation	WGT
Stationing place	Dresden , Albertstadt
Calls	Second World War
Awards	Guard Association Red Banner Order
commander
Commander	see list of commanders
Important commanders	II Jakubowski

The 1st Guard Panzer Army , also 1st Guard Panzer Army , (short: 1st GPA ; Russian 1-я гвардейская танковая армия ) is a large unit of the Russian Army , which was first established as part of the Red Army in World War II .

Second World War

Association badge for "Veterans 1st GPA"

The former 1st Panzer Army was accepted into the guards of the Red Army on April 25, 1944 as an award . It was renamed the 1st Guard Armored Army with simultaneous partial reclassification. Some of the units and units of the 1st Guards Armored Army had received the Guard title earlier.

As part of the 1st Ukrainian Front , the 1st Guards Armored Army took part in the Lviv-Sandomierz Operation in 1944 in the summer and autumn of 1944 and fought in the Vistula bridgeheads south of Warsaw . As part of the 1st Belarusian Front , the 1st Armored Guard Army advanced in the Vistula-Oder operation from the Magnuszew bridgehead via Łódź and Posen to the Oder. Relocated to the area north of Landsberg (Warthe) , the 1st Armored Guard Army took part in the East Pomeranian operation . About Kolberg and Kammin was Baltic coast reached. As part of the 2nd Belorussian Front , the 1st Armored Guard Army fought on towards Stolp - Lauenburg and reached the Gdansk Bay near Gdynia , which was conquered. Then the 1st Guards Armored Army returned to the 1st Belarusian Front and took part in the Berlin operation .

Army organization on April 16, 1945

8th Guards Mechanized Corps - Major General Ivan Fyodorowitsch Drjomow

• 19th, 20th, 21st Guards Mechanized Brigade
• 1st Guards Tank Brigade

11th Guards Panzer Corps - Colonel Amazasp Khachaturovich Babashanyan

• 40th, 44th and 45th Guards Tank Brigade
• 27th Guards Mechanized Brigade
• 64th Guards Tank Brigade

11th Panzer Corps - Major General Ivan Ivanovich Yushuk

• 20th, 36th, 65th tank brigade
• 12th motorized rifle brigade
• 7th Guards Tank Brigade

From the Seelower Heights area , the city of Berlin was bypassed to the south in the direction of Müncheberg / Erkner and then swung in to advance via Adlershof - Bohnsdorf along Wilhelmstrasse to the city center of Berlin.

Commander

1. Katukow, Michail Efimowitsch - Garde GenO , 1943–1947
2. Below, Jeftichin Jemeljanowitsch - Garde GenLt , 1947–1951
3. Goworunenko, Pyotr Dmitrijewitsch - Garde GenLt, 1951–1953
4. Jakubowski, Iwan Ignatjewitsch - Garde GenLt, 1953–1957
5. Tolubko, Wladimir Fjodorowitsch - Guard GenMaj , 1957–1958
6. Uchow, Wladimir Dmitrijewitsch - Guard GenMaj, 1958–1961
7. Iwanowski, Evgeni Filippowitsch - Guard GenMaj, 1961–1964
8. Koschanow, Konstantin Grigoryevich - Garde GenLt, 1964–1968
9. Gerasimow, Iwan Alexandrowitsch - Garde GenLt, 1968–1971
10. Luschew, Pyotr Georgievich - Guard GenLt, 1971–1973
11. Snetkow, Boris Wassiljewitsch - Garde GenLt, 1973–1975
12. Popow, Nikolai Ivanovich - Garde GenLt, 1975–1979
13. Sawotschkin, Roman Michailowitsch - Garde GenLt, 1979–1981
14. Ossipow, Wladimir Wassiljewitsch - Garde GenLt, 1981–1983
15. Schein, Boris Petrowitsch - Garde GenLt, 1983–1986
16. Tschernyschow, Anatoli Kuprijanowitsch - Garde GenLt, 1986–1990
17. Kolyshkin, Gennadi Andreevich - Garde GenLt, 1990–1992
18. Schewzow, Leonti Pawlowitsch - Garde GenLt, 1992–1993
19. Sossedow, Wassili Petrowitsch - Garde GenLt, 1993-1995
20. Roschtschin, Viktor Michailowitsch - Garde GenLt, 1995–1999
21. NN -, 2000-2013
22. Tschaiko, Alexander Jurjewitsch - Guard GenLt, 2014-….

Cold War

From 1945 to 1993 the 1st Armored Guard Army formed part of the group of the Soviet Armed Forces in Germany or the Western Group of Troops and was stationed in and around Dresden . Her staff was first in Radebeul near Dresden, and later in Dresden's Albertstadt . The first post-war commander was Lieutenant General Schalin. The army was withdrawn to the Smolensk area by 1993 and reclassified in 1998.

The army

The 1st Guard Armored Army had the following inventory in 1991 ( 11th GPD and 20th GMSD incomplete):

Direct subordinates

designation			Location	Cover name	Troop №	comment
Army headquarters			Dresden ( location ) Albertstadt barracks property	"Lira"	08608	also staff of the army
	234th Independent Guard and Security Battalion
	602. Independent Spetsnaz Reconnaissance Company				33811	in the sense of remote spying forces (active)
	1044. Independent Air Storm Battalion		Koenigsbrück	"Yefedin"	47518	until 1990
	147th Independent Guard Panzer Regiment		Plauen	«Niski»	93259	until 1989, then reformed to the 734th MSR
	101st Independent Tank Training Regiment		Dresden	«Fljus»	86747	in the sense of teaching regiment
	181st Guards Missile Brigade		Kochstedt ( location )			TR "R-17" (Elbrus)
	432nd Missile Brigade		Wurzen ( location )
	53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade		Altenburg ( location )
	308th Artillery Brigade		Zeithain ( location )	"Tekstilschtschik"	25526	72 × 2S5 , 6 × PRP-3 , 6 × 1 W18, 2x R-145BM , 1xR156, 2x BTR-60
	154. Independent anti-tank division
	225th Independent Combat Helicopter Regiment		Allstedt			40 × Мi-24 , 9 × Мi-8 , withdrawal to Ryazan
	485th Independent Combat Helicopter Regiment		Brandis			40 × Мi-24.8 × Мi-8,
	6. Independent helicopter squadron		Dresden- Hellerberge			6 × Mi-8, 2 × Mi-6 , 2 × Mi-24K, 2 × Mi-24R
	269. Independent drone squadron		Brandis	«Optika»	38676
	443rd Independent Engineer Brigade
	68th Independent Pontoon Bridge Regiment		Dresden ( location )
	6. Independent tugboat engineer battalion
	3. Independent Guard Telecommunications Regiment		Dresden		46678
	829th Radio Link Cable Battalion		Meissen	«Proba»	75235
	253rd Independent Radio Technology Regiment 51st Independent Radio Technology Battalion		Merseburg			in the sense of radar or operational command service
		Radio control post 411	Waxed
		Radio control post 412	Geba
		Radio control post 413	Eckardtshausen
		Radio engineering post 722	Steinheid			Pine
		Radio control post 7211	Stilts ( Siegmundsburg )			Bleßberg also: removed FuT post
		Radio engineering post 723	Schöneck
		Radio engineering post 733	Alperstedt
	106th Independent EloKa Battalion		Merseburg
	595th Independent Battalion Chemical Defense		Chemnitz			12 × K-611
	41st Logistics Brigade		Dresden		05091
	303rd Independent Repair and Maintenance Battalion
	338th Independent Repair and Reconditioning Battalion
	338th Independent Repair and Reconditioning Battalion
	Vocal and dance ensemble		Dresden		15337

9th Armored Division

designation			Location	Cover name	Troop №	comment
	9th Armored Division					Management of the division 7xBTR-80, 8xBTR-60, 1xPRP-3, 1xR-145BM, 1xR-156xBTR
	Staff 9th PD		Riesa ( location )	«Strelka»	60990
		1st Guards Panzer Regiment	Zeithain ( location )		58846
		70th Guards Panzer Regiment	Zeithain ( location )	«Sharovoy»	60513	1992 moved to Smolensk
		302nd Motorized Rifle Regiment	Riesa ( location )	«Plaschka»	52262
		1321st Motorized Rifle Regiment	Zeithain ( location )	«Sharovan»	58639
		96th Guards Panzer Artillery Regiment	Borna ( location )		67749	also SPG artillery regiment
		216th Anti-aircraft Missile Regiment	Zeithain ( location )		11458
		13th Independent Reconnaissance Battalion	Zeithain ( location )		47442
		696th Independent Telecommunications Battalion	Riesa ( location )		47364
		109th Independent Engineer Battalion	Oschatz ( location )		10885
		112th Independent Battalion Chemical Defense	Riesa ( location )		25478
		1017th Independent Logistics Battalion	Oschatz ( location )		47314
		68th Independent Repair and Reconditioning Battalion	Zeithain ( location )		92016
		200th Independent Medical Battalion	Riesa ( location )		58818
Total inventory, end of 1990 Main battle tank T-80 = 238; Infantry fighting vehicle BMP = 343 ( BMP-2 = 271, BMP-1 = 143, BRM-1K = 29); Armored personnel carrier BTR = 24 ( BTR-70 = 10, BTR-60 = 14); Tank artillery SAU = 126 (2S1 «Gwosdika» = 72, 2SЗ «Akazija» = 54); Mine thrower 2S2 «Sani» = 36 (120 mm); Multiple rocket launcher RSSO BM-21 «Grad» = 18

11th PD and 20th GMSD

Unit, unit, unit			Location	use		comment
				until 1945	after 1991-1994
1			2	3	4th	5
11th Armored Division			Dresden ( location )
	7th Guards Panzer Regiment		Meissen ( location )
	40th Guards Panzer Regiment		Königsbrück ( location )
	44th Guards Panzer Regiment		Königsbrück ( location )
	249th Guards Mot Rifle Regiment		Dresden- Nickern ( location )
	841th Guards Tank Artillery Regiment		Chemnitz ( location )
	1018th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment		Meissen ( location )
20th Guards Mot rifle division			Grimma ( location )
	29th Guards Mot Rifle Regiment		Plauen ( location )
	67th Guards Mot Rifle Regiment		Grimma ( location )
	242nd Guards Mot Rifle Regiment		Spice up
	576th Guards Mot Rifle Regiment		Glauchau
	944th Guards Panzer Artillery Regiment		Quietly
	358th AA Missile Regiment

Re-establishment of the 1st Guards Armored Army

In 2015, international media reported the beginning of the re-establishment of the 1st Armored Guard Army on the Russian western border and the stationing of the 1st Armored Brigade in Boguchar ( Voronezh region ) as a tribe of the 1st Armored Guard Army, and in 2016 the establishment of a 2nd Armored Division of the 1st Armored Guard Army in the area Chelyabinsk . The headquarters of the Guards Panzer Army is in Odintsovo, near Moscow. The aim is to mass highly mobile elite units as an army for rapid military reactions.

Outline 2016

• 4th Guards Panzer Division "Kantemirowskaja" (Headquarters: Naro-Fominsk , near Moscow)
• 2nd Motorized Guards Panzer Grenadier Division "Tamanskaya" (Headquarters: Moscow)
• One tank and one infantry brigade each (including 6th tank brigade, 27th Guards-Mot rifle division "Sevastopol")

See also

List of Soviet military bases in Germany

literature

• Soviet troops in Germany 1945 to 1994 , memorial album, Moscow edition, «Junge Garde» publishing house, 1994; ISBN 5-235-02221-1 , pages 74 and 75 - Commander in Chief.
• The radio technical troops of the air defense of the GDR , history and stories, by Wolf-Rüdiger Stuppert and Siegfried Fiedle, 1st edition 2013 (pages: 89–96), Steffen Verlag /, ISBN 978-3-942477-39-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Location database NVA and GSSD: structure and deployment
2. ↑ Jan Foitzik; Nikita W. Petrow : The Soviet secret services in the SBZ / GDR from 1945 to 1953. P. 235.
3. ^ Soviet troops in Germany 1945 to 1994, memorial album, edition Moscow, published by "Jang Guard", 1994; ISBN 5-235-02221-1 , pages 15-22.
4. ↑ Russia is said to have received a new tank army: "Means of deterrence" , Sputniknews, accessed February 4, 2016
5. ↑ "The hammer that smashes every defense" . In: stern.de . July 9, 2016 ( stern.de [accessed February 13, 2017]).
6. ↑ Russian Heavy Metal: Meet The 1st Guards Tank Army. Retrieved February 13, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Two new armored divisions: Russia fundamentally changes its military infrastructure , Sputniknews, accessed February 4, 2016
8. ↑ Russia reactivates legendary Guards tank army . In: The press . ( diepresse.com [accessed February 13, 2017]).
9. ↑ Russian Heavy Metal: Meet The 1st Guards Tank Army. Retrieved February 13, 2017 . 

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