1st shock army

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1st shock army

active November 1941 to July 1945
Country Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union Soviet Union
Armed forces Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union Red Army
Armed forces Land Forces
Type army

The 1st Shock Army ( Russian 1-я ударная армия ) was part of the Red Army in World War II and mostly deployed on the Northern Eastern Front. During the war, the army was subordinate to the West , Northwest , 2nd and 3rd Baltic Fronts , the Volkhov - and finally the Leningrad Front .

history

The army was formed in November 1941 by reorganizing the 19th Army . As part of the Western Front, the army took part in the battle of Moscow from November 29 with the following formations :

  • 133rd Rifle Division
  • 29th, 44th, 47th, 50th, 55th, 56th, 71st and 84th Rifle Brigades
  • 17th Cavalry Division
  • 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 16th, 18th, 19th and 20th ski battalion

During the counter-offensive, the troops operated in the Dmitrov , Yachroma and Krasnaya Polyana area . On January 21, 1942, the army was withdrawn into the reserve of the Stawka and then took part in the Demjansk operations .

From November 20, 1943 the army became part of the 2nd Baltic Front and from February 2, 1944 part of the Volkhov Front (2nd formation). From February 16, 1944, the 1st Shock Army took part in the Leningrad-Novgorod operation and liberated Staraya Russa two days later .

On July 7, 1944, the army was assigned to the 3rd Baltic Front under the leadership of Lieutenant General Sachwatajew and took part in the Pskov-Ostrover , the Tartu and the Baltic operations . Army units liberated Antsla on August 13 and Valmiera on September 24 . The 1st shock army broke through the defense of the German XXXVIII. Army Corps and advanced almost 50 kilometers by the evening of September 17th. The 12th Guards Rifle Corps succeeded in conquering Valga (Walk) on September 19th .

Together with the troops of the 67th, 61st and 10th Guards Army, Riga , the capital of the Latvian SSR, was recaptured on October 15, 1944 . From October 16, 1944 she took part in the blockade of the German Army Group Courland as part of the 2nd Baltic Front . On April 1, 1945, the army became part of the Courland Army Group (Reserve) of the Leningrad Front and was disbanded in September 1945.

Army organization in May 1945

112th Rifle Corps

  • 123rd Rifle Division
  • 377th Rifle Division

119th Rifle Corps

  • 44th Rifle Division
  • 360th Rifle Division
  • 374th Rifle Division

123rd Rifle Corps

  • 21st Guards Rifle Division
  • 37th Rifle Division
  • 376th Rifle Division
  • 155th Rifle Division

14th Rifle Corps

  • 158th Rifle Division
  • 378th Rifle Division

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Commander in chief

  • Lieutenant General Vasili Ivanovich Kuznetsov (November 1941 – May 1942),
  • Lieutenant General Wladimir Sacharowitsch Romanowski (May – November 1942),
  • Lieutenant General Wassili Iwanowitsch Morosow (November 1942 – February 1943),
  • Major General Gennady Petrovich Korotkow (February 1943 – April 1944; promoted to Lieutenant General in October 1943),
  • Colonel-General Nikandr Jewlampijewitsch Tschibissow (April – May 1944),
  • Lieutenant General Nikanor Dmitrijewitsch Sachwatajew (May 1944 – January 1945),
  • Lieutenant General Vladimir Nikolayevich Rasuwajew (February – May 1945).

Chiefs of staff

  • Major General ND Sakvatataev (November 1941 - May 1942);
  • Colonel I. Yes. Fursin (May - September 1942);
  • Colonel GS Lukjanschenko (September - December 1942);
  • Major General WW Korchits (December 1942 - April 1944);
  • Lieutenant General LF Minjuk (April - October 1944);
  • Major General VN Nichuschkin (October - December 1944);
  • Major General AK Kondratjew (from December 1944 until the end of the war).

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