18th Guards Combined Arms Army

18-я гвардейская общевойсковая армия

Military Unit: 13208

Commanders:

• Marshal of Tank Troops Pavel Andreevich Rybalka, 14.5.43 - 2.47
• Lieutenant-General Vasiliy Andreevich Mitrofanov, 2.47 - 5.50
• Lieutenant-General Vasiliy Vasilevich Butkov, 5.50 - 30.9.53
• Colonel General Viktor Timofeevich Obukhov, 1.10.53 - 15.4.58
• Lieutenant-General Sergey Leonidovich Sokolov, 16.5.58 - 21.1.60
• Lieutenant-General Georgiy Stepanovich Anishchik, 22.1.60 - 28.8.64

Activated 14.5.43 in Plavst, Tula Oblast, as the 3rd Guards Tank Army.

4.7.46 renamed 3rd Guards Mechanised Army.

31.10.46 reduced to the 3rd Guards Mechanised Division (mobilisation) - the attached divisions became regiments.

17.3.50 again enlarged, and became the 3rd Guards Mechanised Army.

29.4.57 renamed 18th Guards Combined Arms Army.

Organisation 1960:

• 6th Guards Tank Division (Wittenberg, East Germany)
• 7th Guards Tank Division (Rosslau, East Germany)
• 14th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Jüterbog, East Germany)

28.8.64 renamed Operations Group Turkmenistan Military District, but 4.3.69 became the 18th Combined Arms Army (the Guards title was lost 8.64), until finally (24.6.69), the HQ was used to activate the Central Asian Military District.

Headquarters:

• Pardubice, Czechoslovakia, 6.46 - 5.47
• Jüterbog, East Germany, 5.47 - 6.64 [51 59 59N, 13 03 18E]
• Alma-Ata, 6.64 - 6.69 [43 13 00N, 76 52 25E]

Subordination:

• 1st Ukrainian Front, 1944 - 11.6.45
• Central Group of Forces, 11.6.45 - 5.47
• Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany, 5.47 - 26.3.54
• Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, 26.3.54 - 6.64
• Turkestan Military District, 6.64 - 6.69