4th Guards Combined Arms Army

4-я гвардейская общевойсковая армия

Military Unit: 39351

Commanders:

• Lieutenant-General Grigoriy Ivanovich Kulik, 16.4.43 - 22.9.43
• Lieutenant-General Aleksey Ivanovich Zygin, 22.9.43 - 27.9.42
• Lieutenant-General Ivan Vasilevich Galanin, 28.9.42 - 5.1.44
• Major-General Aleksandr Ivanovich Ryzhov, 6.1.44 - 2.2.44
• Lieutenant-General Ilya Kornilovich Smirnov, 3.2.44 - 22.2.44
• Lieutenant-General Ivan Vasilevich Galanin, 28.2.44 - 25.11.44
• General of the Army Georgiy Fyodorovich Zakharov, 29.11.44 - 1.3.45
• Lieutenant-General Nikanor Dmitrievich Zakhvataev, 3.45 - 4.46
• Colonel General Vladimir Zakharovich Romanovskiy, 4.46 - 20.4.48

Activated 16.4.43 from the 24th Combined Arms Army.

Organisation 6.45:

• 20th Guards Rifle Corps
  • 5th Guards Airborne Division
  • 7th Guards Airborne Division
  • 80th Guards Rifle Division
• 21st Guards Rifle Corps
  • 41st Guards Rifle Division
  • 62nd Guards Rifle Division
  • 69th Guards Rifle Division
• 31st Guards Rifle Corps
  • 4th Guards Rifle Division
  • 34th Guards Rifle Division
  • 40th Guards Rifle Division

In 12.45 the 20th Guards Rifle Corps was transferred to the 7th Guards Combined Army, and was replaced by the 25th Guards Rifle Corps.

Organisation 5.46:

• 21st Guards Rifle Corps
  • 4th Guards Rifle Division
  • 69th Guards Rifle Division
  • 18th Guards Mechanised Division
• 25th Guards Rifle Corps
  • 111th Guards Rifle Division
  • 113th Guards Rifle Division
  • 16th Guards Mechanised Division
• 31st Guards Rifle Corps
  • 34th Guards Rifle Division
  • 62nd Guards Rifle Division
  • 17th Guards Mechanised Division

In 5.46 the 31st Guards Rifle Corps was disbanded.

In 4.47 the 21st Guards Rifle Corps was disbanded.

Organisation 5.47:

• 10th Guards Rifle Corps (Kishinev, Moldavian SSR)
  • 33rd Guards Mechanised Division (Komrat, Moldavian SSR)
  • 59th Guards Rifle Division (Tiraspol, Moldavian SSR)
  • 86th Guards Rifle Division (Dubossary, Moldavian SSR)
• 24th Guards Rifle Corps (Tiraspol, Moldovian SSR)
  • 35th Guards Mechanised Division (Bolgrad, Odessa Oblast)
  • 180th Rifle Division (Belgorod-Dnestrovskiy, Odessa Oblast)
• 82nd Rifle Corps (Odessa, Odessa Oblast)
  • 34th Guards Mechanised Division (Nikolayev, Nikolayev Oblast)
  • 28th Guards Rifle Division (Odessa, Odessa Oblast)

Disbanded 20.4.48.

Headquarters:

• Austria, 6.45 - 8.46
• Tiraspol, Moldavian SSR, 8.46 - 4.48

Subordination:

• Central Group of Forces, 6.45 - 8.46
• Odessa Military District, 8.46 - 4.48