8th Red Banner Tank Army

8-я танковая Краснознамённая армия

Military Unit: 57949

Commanders:

• Colonel General Nikolay Pavlovich Pukhov, 12.6.46 - 11.2.48
• Lieutenant-General Ivan Petrovich Korchagin, 11.2.48 - 15.9.50
• Lieutenant-General Aleksey Semenovich Burdeynyy, 15.9.50 - 25.11.53
• Colonel General Dmitriy Danilovich Lelyushenko, 25.11.53 - 6.1.56
• Lieutenant-General Amazasp Khachaturovich Babadzhanyan, 30.5.56 - 27.2.58
• Lieutenant-General Pyotr Alekseevich Belik, 27.2.58 - 23.5.60
• Lieutenant-General Vasiliy Zinovevich Bisyarin, 23.5.60 - 9.12.64
• Lieutenant-General Viktor Filippovich Kotov, 9.12.64 - 31.1.67
• Lieutenant-General Viktor Arkadevich Merimskiy, 31.1.67 - 16.12.69
• Lieutenant-General Aleksey Mikhaylovich Yamshchikov, 16.12.69 - 24.5.72
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Ivanovich Ivanov, 24.5.72 - 4.12.75
• Lieutenant-General Nikolay Mikhaylovich Mokropolov, 4.12.75 - 1.79
• Major-General Vladimir Mikhaylovich Shuralyov, 1.79 - 7.80
• Lieutenant-General Sergey Alekseevich Surodeev, 7.80 - 6.83
• Major-General Valentin Pavlovich Sadovnikov, 7.83 - 7.85
• Lieutenant-General Anatoliy Andreevich Golovnyov, 7.85 - 7.88
• Lieutenant-General Leonid Sergeevich Zolotov, 8.88 - 5.90
• Lieutenant-General Aleksey Mikhaylovich Torshin, 5.90 - 6.93

Activated 12.6.46 in Zhitomir, Zhitomir Oblast, as the 8th Mechanised Army, from the 52nd Combined Arms Army.

1.5.57 renamed 8th Tank Army.

Organisation 1960:

• 23rd Tank Division (Ovruch, Zhitomir Oblast)
• 30th Guards Tank Division (Novograd-Volynskiy, Zhitomir Oblast)
• 31st Tank Division (Khmelnitskiy, Khmelnitskiy Oblast)
• 41st Guards Tank Division (Berdichev, Zhitomir Oblast)

In 8.68 the 31st Tank Division took part in the invasion of Czechoslovakia, and became part of the Central Group of Forces - replaced by the newly activated 50th Tank Division (mobilisation) in 12.68.

1.11.68 the 117th Guards Tank Division became a training division, and was transferred to district control.

Organisation 1970:

• 23rd Tank Division (Ovruch, Zhitomir Oblast)
• 30th Guards Tank Division (Novograd-Volynskiy, Zhitomir Oblast)
• 50th Tank Division (mobilisation) (Zhitomir, Zhitomir Oblast)

15.1.74 awarded the Red Banner.

Organisation 1980:

• 23rd Tank Division (Ovruch, Zhitomir Oblast)
• 30th Guards Tank Division (Novograd-Volynskiy, Zhitomir Oblast)
• 50th Tank Division (mobilisation) (Zhitomir, Zhitomir Oblast)

Organisation 1988:

• 23rd Tank Division (Ovruch, Zhitomir Oblast)
• 30th Guards Tank Division (Novograd-Volynskiy, Zhitomir Oblast)
• 686th Territorial Training Center (Zhitomir, Zhitomir Oblast)

1.92 taken over by Ukraine.

Headquarters:

• Zhitomir, Zhitomir Oblast, 6.46 - 1.92 [50 15 12N, 28 40 03E]

Subordination:

• Carpathian Military District, 6.46 - 1.92