1st Guards Red Banner Tank Army

1-я гвардейская танковая Краснознамённая армия

Military Unit: 08608

Commanders:

• Colonel General Mikhail Efimovich Katukov, 30.1.43 - 20.4.48
• Lieutenant-General Evtikhiy Emelyanovich Belov, 25.5.48 - 20.11.50
• Lieutenant-General Pyotr Dmitrievich Govorunenko, 20.11.50 - 21.12.53
• Lieutenant-General Ivan Ignatevich Yakubovskiy, 21.12.53 - 10.7.57
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Fyodorovich Tolubko, 10.7.57 - 16.4.58
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Dmitrievich Yakhov, 16.4.58 - 11.3.61
• Lieutenant-General Evgeniy Filippovich Ivanovskiy, 11.3.61 - 29.12.65
• Lieutenant-General Konstantin Grigorevich Kozhanov, 29.12.65 - 18.10.68
• Lieutenant-General Ivan Aleksandrovich Gerasimov, 18.10.68 - 22.11.71
• Lieutenant-General Pyotr Georgievich Lushev, 22.11.71 - 30.7.73
• Lieutenant-General Boris Vasilevich Snetkov, 30.7.73 - 7.75
• Lieutenant-General Nikolay Ivanovich Popov, 7.75 - 13.4.79
• Lieutenant-General Roman Mikhaylovich Savochkin, 13.4.79 - 6.1.81
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Vasilevich Osipov, 6.1.81 - 5.83
• Lieutenant-General Boris Petrovich Shein, 5.83 - 9.86
• Lieutenant-General Anatoliy Kupriyanovich Chernyshev, 9.86 - 7.90
• Lieutenant-General Gennadiy Andreevich Kolyshkin, 7.90 - 2.92
• Lieutenant-General Leontiy Pavlovich Shevtsov, 2.92 - 2.93
• Lieutenant-General Vasiliy Petrovich Sosedov, 2.93 - 8.95
• Lieutenant-General Viktor Mikhaylovich Roshchin, 8.95 - 1.5.98

Activated 30.1.43 in Ostaskov, Kalinin Oblast, as the 1st Tank Army, from the 29th Army.

25.4.44 renamed 1st Guards Tank Army.

4.7.46 renamed 1st Guards Mechanised Army.

29.4.57 renamed 1st Guards Tank Army.

Organisation 1960:

• 11th Guards Tank Division (Dresden, East Germany)
• 13th Heavy Tank Division (Riesa, East Germany)
• 20th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Grimma. East Germany)

In 6.64 took over the 6th Guards and the 7th Guards Tank Divisions from the departing 18th Guards Combined Arms Army, and the 21st Guards Motorised Rifle Division from the 8th Guards Combined Arms Army, in exchange for the 20th Guards Motorised Rifle Division.

22.2.68 awarded the Red Banner.

Organisation 1970:

• 6th Guards Tank Division (Wittenberg, East Germany)
• 7th Guards Tank Division (Rosslau, East Germany)
• 9th Tank Division (Riesa, East Germany)
• 11th Guards Tank Division (Dresden, East Germany)
• 27th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Halle, East Germany)

12.9.79 the 6th Guards Tank Division was ordered to transfer to Grodno, Grodno Oblast - the transfer was completed in 3.80.

Organisation 1980:

• 7th Guards Tank Division (Rosslau, East Germany)
• 9th Tank Division (Riesa, East Germany)
• 11th Guards Tank Division (Dresden, East Germany)
• 27th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Halle, East Germany)

In 5.83 re-organised:

• 7th Guards Tank Division was transferred to the 3rd Combined Arms Army
• 27th Guards Motorised Rifle Division was transferred to the 8th Guards Combined Arms Army, in exchange for the 20th Guards Motorised Rifle Division

Organisation 1988:

• 9th Tank Division (Riesa, East Germany)
• 11th Guards Tank Division (Dresden, East Germany)
• 20th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Grimma. East Germany)

1994 renamed 1st Guards Combined Arms Army.

Disbanded 1.5.98.

Headquarters:

• Radebeul, East Germany, 7.45 - 1946
• Dresden, East Germany, 1946 - 1994 [50 59 24N, 13 47 38E]
• Smolensk, Smolensk Oblast, 1994 - 5.98

Subordination:

• 1st Belorussian Front, 20.10.43 - 11.6.45
• Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany, 11.6.45 - 26.3.54
• Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, 26.3.54 - 1.6.89
• Western Group of Forces, 1.6.89 - 31.8.94
• Moscow Military District, 31.8.94 - 5.98