20th Guards Red Banner Combined Arms Army

20-я гвардейская общевойсковая Краснознамённая армия

Military Unit: 83379

Commanders:

• Lieutenant-General Vasiliy Mikhaylovich Badanov, 15.7.43 - 29.3.44
• Colonel General Dmitriy Danilovich Lelyushenko, 29.3.44 - 30.8.47
• Lieutenant-General Viktor Timofeevich Obukhov, 30.8.47 - 15.12.51
• Major-General Pyotr Ivanovich Kalinichenko, 15.12.51 - 11.5.53
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Nikolaevich Komarov, 11.5.53 - 10.1.55
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Filippovich Chizh, 10.1.55 - 22.1.60
• Lieutenant-General Viktor Filippovich Kotov, 22.1.60 - 9.12.64
• Lieutenant-General Mikhail Grigorevich Khomulo, 9.12.64 - 12.5.68
• Lieutenant-General Ivan Leontevich Velichko, 12.5.68 - 12.5.70
• Lieutenant-General Nikolay Ivanovich Lapygin, 12.5.70 - 19.10.72
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Ivanovich Sivenok, 6.12.72 - 7.7.75
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Mikhaylovich Arkhipov, 7.7.75 - 17.4.79
• Lieutenant-General Ivan Vasilevich Chelombeev, 17.4.79 - 12.81
• Lieutenant-General Albert Mikhaylovich Makashov, 9.1.82 - 1.86
• Lieutenant-General Aleksandr Petrovich Chumakov, 1.86 - 4.88
• Lieutenant-General Mikhail Ivanovich Arkhipov, 4.88 - 22.12.91
• Lieutenant-General Nikolay Vasilevich Pugachyov, 23.12.91 - 28.6.93
• Major-General Aleksey Dmitrievich Nefyodov, 29.6.93 - 1994
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Petrovich Chuzhikov, 1994 - 3.2000
• Major-General Sergey Afanasevich Makarov, 3.2000 - 8.2002
• Lieutenant-General Aleksandr Nikolaevich Postnikov-Streltsov, 8.2002 - 11.2004
• Major-General Sergey Yakovlevich Chaban, 11.2004 - 2.2005
• Lieutenant-General Andrey Vitalevich Tretyak, 2.2005 - 4.2008
• Major-General Sergey Vladimirovich Surovikin, 4.2008 - 11.2008
• Major-General Sergey Segeevich Yudin, 6.2009 - 4.2013
• Major-General Aleksandr Pavlovich Lapin, 4.2013 - 7.2014
• Major-General Aleksandr Yurevich Chayko, 7.2014 - today

Activated 15.7.43 as the 4th Tank Army, from the 19th Cavalry Corps.

17.3.45 renamed 4th Guards Tank Army.

4.7.46 renamed 4th Guards Mechanised Army.

31.10.46 reduced to the 4th Guards Mechanised Division (mobilisation) - the attached divisions became regiments.

17.3.50 again enlarged, and became the 4th Guards Mechanised Army.

29.4.57 renamed 20th Guards Combined Arms Army.

Organisation 1960:

• 10th Guards Tank Division (Krampnitz, East Germany)
• 25th Heavy Tank Division (Vogelsang, East Germany)
• 6th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Bernau, East Germany)

Re-organised in 6.64:

• 10th Guards Tank Division was transferred to the 3rd Combined Arms Army
• 25th Heavy Tank Division was transferred to the 2nd Guards Tank Army in exchange for the 19th Motorised Rifle Division
• 14th Guards Motorised Rifle Division was attached from the departing 18th Guards Combined Arms Army

Organisation 1970:

• 6th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Bernau, East Germany)
• 14th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Jüterbog, East Germany)
• 35th Motorised Rifle Division (Olympisches Dorf, East Germany)

Red Banner awarded 17.1.74.

Organisation 1980:

• 6th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Bernau, East Germany)
• 14th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Jüterbog, East Germany)
• 35th Motorised Rifle Division (Olympisches Dorf, East Germany)

In 5.83 the 25th Tank Division was attached from the 2nd Guards Tank Army.

Organisation 1988:

• 25th Tank Division (Vogelsang, East Germany)
• 32nd Guards Tank Division (Jüterbog, East Germany)
• 90th Guards Tank Division (Bernau, East Germany)
• 35th Motorised Rifle Division (Krampnitz, East Germany)

Headquarters:

• Szombathely, Hungary, 6.46 - 5.47
• Eberswalde, East Germany, 5.47 - 1991 [52 49 16N, 13 49 31E] [US designation: Eberswalde 242]
• Voronezh, Voronezh Oblast, 1991 - 2007
• Mulino, Nizhniy Novgorod Oblast, 2007 - today

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 - 1.6.89
• Western Group of Forces, 1.6.89 - 1991
• Moscow Military District, 1991 - 20.9.2010
• Western Military District, 20.9.2010 - today