5th Guards Red Banner Tank Army

5-я гвардейская танковая Краснознамённая армия

Military Unit: 36809

Commanders:

• Marshal of Armoured Forces Pavel Alekseevich Rotmistrov, 22.2.43 - 8.8.44
• Colonel General Mikhail Dmitrievich Solomatin, 9.8.44 - 18.8.44
• Colonel-General Vasiliy Timofeevich Volskiy, 19.8.44 - 16.3.45
• Lieutenant-General Maksim Dmitrievich Sinenko, 16.3.45 - 1.46
• Colonel General Mikhail Dmitrievich Solomatin, 1.46 - 26.4.46
• Lieutenant-General Pavel Pavlovich Polyboyarov, 27.4.46 - 23.3.49
• Lieutenant-General Mikhail Fyodorovich Panov, 23.3.49 - 17.9.51
• Colonel General Mikhail Efimovich Katukov, 17.9.51 - 23.6.55
• Lieutenant-General Pyotr Ivanovich Kalinichenko, 23.6.55 - 16.4.58
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Ivanovich Smirnov, 13.5.58 - 7.5.60
• Lieutenant-General Semyon Konstantinovich Kurkotkin, 7.5.60 - 28.1.65
• Lieutenant-General Boris Sergeevich Likhachev, 28.1.65 - 13.11.67
• Lieutenant-General Saltan Kekkezovich Magometov, 13.11.67 - 2.12.69
• Lieutenant-General Mikhail Mitrofanovich Zaytsev, 2.12.69 - 11.8.72
• Lieutenant-General Valeriy Aleksandrovich Belikov, 11.8.72 - 20.5.74
• Lieutenant-General Vitaliy Vasilevich Saltykov, 3.6.74 - 5.11.76
• Lieutenant-General Ivan Andreevich Gashkov, 5.11.76 - 7.79
• Lieutenant-General Pyotr Vasilevich Ledyaev, 7.79 - 1982
• Lieutenant-General Vyacheslav Dmitrievich Khaydorov, 1982 - 1984
• Lieutenant-General Valeriy Ivanovich Fursin, 1984 - 1987
• Lieutenant-General Anatoliy Anatolevich Ushakov, 1987 - 1989
• Major-General Valeriy Vladimirovich Lagoshin, 1989 - 2.5.91
• Lieutenant-General Stanislav Stepanovich Rumyantsev, 3.5.91 - 12.9.82

Activated 22.2.43.

12.6.46 renamed 5th Guards Mechanised Army.

31.10.46 reduced to the 5th Guards Mechanised Division (mobilisation) - the attached divisions became regiments.

28.10.48 again enlarged, and became the 5th Guards Mechanised Army.

29.4.57 renamed 5th Guards Tank Army.

Organisation 1960:

• 5th Heavy Tank Division (Osipovichi, Mogilev Oblast)
• 8th Guards Tank Division (Osipovichi, Minsk Oblast)
• 29th Tank Division (Slutsk, Minsk Oblast)
• 36th Tank Division (Bobruisk, Bobruisk Oblast)

29.3.60 the 5th Heavy Tank Division was disbanded.

Organisation 1970:

• 8th Guards Tank Division (Marina Gorka, Minsk Oblast)
• 29th Tank Division (Slutsk, Minsk Oblast)
• 193rd Tank Division (Bobruisk, Bobruisk Oblast)

21.2.74 awarded the Red Banner.

From 8.79 the 84th Motorised Rifle Division (mobilisation) was attached to the tank army.

Organisation 1980:

• 8th Guards Tank Division (Marina Gorka, Minsk Oblast)
• 29th Tank Division (Slutsk, Minsk Oblast)
• 193rd Tank Division (Bobruisk, Bobruisk Oblast)
• 84th Motorised Rifle Division (mobilisation) (Marina Gorka, Minsk Oblast)

In 1987 the 84th Motorised Rifle Division (mobilisation) was disbanded.

Organisation 1988:

• 8th Guards Tank Division (Marina Gorka, Minsk Oblast)
• 29th Tank Division (Slutsk, Minsk Oblast)
• 193rd Tank Division (Bobruisk, Bobruisk Oblast)

6.92 taken over by Belarus, and 12.8.92 renamed 5th Guards Army Corps.

Headquarters:

• Slutsk, Minsk Oblast, 7.45 - 2.46
• Bobruisk, Mogilev Oblast, 2.46 - 6.92 [53 07 22N, 29 15 00E]

Subordination:

• 2nd Belorussian Front, 20.10.43 - 7.45
• Minsk Military District, 7.45 - 2.46
• Belorussian Military District, 2.46 - 6.92