14th Guards Red Banner Combined Arms Army

14-я гвардейская общевойсковая Краснознамённая армия

Military Unit: 13962

Commanders:

• Lieutenant-General Ivan Mikhaylovich Afonin, 25.11.56 - 24.5.60
• Lieutenant-General Grigoriy Mikhaylovich Shcherbak, 25.5.60 - 28.5.69
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Kirillovich Meretskov, 28.5.69 - 30.11.71
• Lieutenant-General Grigoriy Petrovich Yashkin, 30.11.71 - 4.12.75
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Aleksandrovich Vostrov, 4.12.75 - 7.80
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Fyodorovich Ermakov, 7.80 - 6.5.82
• Lieutenant-General Boris Ivanovich Tkach, 7.5.82 - 15.9.84
• Lieutenant-General Ivan Vasilevich Fuzhenko, 16.9.84 - 16.12.86
• Lieutenant-General Anatoliy Ipatovich Sergeev, 17.2.86 - 1987
• Lieutenant-General Gennadiy Ivanovich Yakovlev, 1987 - 1.92
• Major-General Yuriy Maksimovich Netkachyov, 15.1.92 - 27.6.92
• Lieutenant-General Aleksandr Ivanovich Lebed, 28.6.92 - 25.6.95

Activated 25.11.56 in Kishinev, Moldovian SSR, as the 14th Combined Arms Army, from the 10th Guards Rifle Corps.

Organisation 1960:

• 59th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Tiraspol, Moldavian SSR)
• 86th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Beltsy, Moldavian SSR)
• 88th Motorised Rifle Division (Belgorod-Dnestrovskiy, Odessa Oblast)
• 118th Motorised Rifle Division (Bolgrad, Moldavian SSR)

3.11.67 renamed 14th Guards Combined Arms Army, inheriting the Guards title from the old 10th Guards Army Corps.

In 8.68 the 48th Motorised Rifle Division took part in the invasion of Czechoslovakia, and became part of the new Central Group of Forces.

Organisation 1970:

• 59th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Tiraspol, Moldavian SSR)
• 86th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Beltsy, Moldavian SSR)
• 180th Motorised Rifle Division (Belgorod-Dnestrovskiy, Odessa Oblast)

In 1970 the 158th Motorised Rifle Division was activated - disbanded 1987.

28.10.74 awarded the Red Banner.

Organisation 1980:

• 59th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Tiraspol, Moldavian SSR)
• 86th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Beltsy, Moldavian SSR)
• 180th Motorised Rifle Division (Belgorod-Dnestrovskiy, Odessa Oblast)
• 158th Motorised Rifle Division (mobilisation) (Kagul, Moldovian SSR)

Organisation 1988:

• 59th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Tiraspol, Moldavian SSR)
• 86th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Beltsy, Moldavian SSR)
• 180th Motorised Rifle Division (Belgorod-Dnestrovskiy, Odessa Oblast)

Disbanded 25.6.95.

Headquarters:

• Kishinev, Moldovian SSR, 11.56 - 9.84
• Tiraspol, Moldavian SSR, 9.84 - 6.95 [46 50 40N, 29 36 30E]

Subordination:

• Odessa Military District, 11.56 - 1.92
• General Staff Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, 1.92 - 7.5.92
• General Staff Armed Forces the Russian Federation, 7.5.92 - 25.6.95