4th Red Banner Combined Arms Army

4-я общевойсковая Краснознамённая армия

Military Unit: 23872

Commanders:

• Lieutenant-General Ivan Gerasimovich Sovetnikov, 15.1.44 - 31.1.46
• Colonel-General Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Luchinskiy, 2.2.46 - 18.2.47
• Colonel-General Ivan Mefodevich Managarov, 19.2.47 - 31.3.49
• Colonel-General Issa Aleksandrovich Pliev, 1.4.49 - 26.6.55
• Lieutenant-General Sergey Antonovich Bobruk, 27.6.55 - 31.12.57
• Lieutenant-General Konstantin Ivanovich Provalov, 28.1.58 - 2.6.59
• Lieutenant-General Mikhail Vasilevich Lugovtsev, 3.6.59 - 24.2.61
• Lieutenant-General Anatoliy Demidovich Andrushchenko, 25.2.61 - 3.12.64
• Lieutenant-General Ivan Moiseevich Tretyak, 4.12.64 - 21.9.67
• Lieutenant-General Andrey Vlasovich Bolibrukh, 22.9.67 - 19.1.73
• Lieutenant-General Dmitriy Timofeevich Yazov, 19.1.73 - 19.5.74
• Lieutenant-General Vasiliy Konstantinovich Kirilyuk, 20.5.74 - 11.78
• Lieutenant-General Aleksandr Vasilevich Kovtunov, 12.78 - 6.81
• no data, 6.81 - 5.85
• Lieutenant-General Viktor Nikolaevich Samsonov, 5.85 - 5.87
• Lieutenant-General Anatoliy Aleksandrovich Shapovalov, 5.87 - 2.89
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Sergeevich Sokolov, 2.89 - 6.12.91
• Major-General Nikolay Glebovich Popov, 7.12.91 - 14.8.92

Activated 15.1.44 from the 34th Combined Arms Army.

Organisation 1960:

• 25th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Kirovabad, Azerbaizhan SSR)
• 49th Motorised Rifle Division (Baku, Azerbaizhan SSR)
• 60th Motorised Rifle Division (Lenkoran, Azerbaizhan SSR)
• 75th Motorised Rifle Division (Nakhichevan, Nakhichevanskaya ASSR)

Organisation 1970:

• 23rd Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Kirovabad, Azerbaizhan SSR)
• 60th Motorised Rifle Division (Lenkoran, Azerbaizhan SSR)
• 75th Motorised Rifle Division (Nakhichevan, Nakhichevanskaya ASSR)
• 295th Motorised Rifle Division (Baku, Azerbaizhan SSR)

21.2.74 awarded the Red Banner.

Organisation 1980:

• 23rd Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Kirovabad, Azerbaizhan SSR)
• 60th Motorised Rifle Division (Lenkoran, Azerbaizhan SSR)
• 75th Motorised Rifle Division (Nakhichevan, Nakhichevanskaya ASSR)
• 295th Motorised Rifle Division (Baku, Azerbaizhan SSR)

Organisation 1988:

• 23rd Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Kirovabad, Azerbaizhan SSR)
• 60th Motorised Rifle Division (Lenkoran, Azerbaizhan SSR)
• 75th Motorised Rifle Division (Nakhichevan, Nakhichevanskaya ASSR)
• 295th Motorised Rifle Division (Baku, Azerbaizhan SSR)

Disbanded 14.8.92.

Headquarters:

• Tabriz, Iran, 1.44 - 4.47
• Baku, Azerbaizhan SSR, 4.47 - 8.92 [possibly 40 24 08N, 49 49 19E]

Subordination:

• General Staff RKKA, 7.45 - 2.46
• General Staff Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, 2.46 - 4.47
• Transcaucasus Military District, 4.47 - 8.92