15th Combined Arms Army

15-я общевойсковая армия

Military Unit: 41615

Commanders:

• Colonel-General Nikolay Ivanovich Krylov, 22.4.53 - 9.53
• Lieutenant-General Semyon Antonovich Kazak, 9.53 - 24.12.53
• Colonel-General Nikolay Ivanovich Trufanov, 22.1.54 - 6.1.56
• Lieutenant-General Pyotr Iosifovich Zalizyuk, 23.4.56 - 14.9.57
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Vladimirovich Turantaev, 16.4.58 - 23.5.60
• no data, 24.5.60 - 28.7.67
• Lieutenant-General Nikolay Kuzmich Silchenko, 29.8.67 - 7.9.69
• no data, 8.9.69 - 9.11.72
• Lieutenant-General Ivan Sidorovich Yakimovich, 10.11.72 - 1975
• no data, 1975 - 9.79
• Lieutenant-General Nikolay Vasilevich Kalinin, 9.79 - 26.4.83
• Lieutenant-General Mikhail Alekseevich Moiseev, 27.4.83 - 7.85
• Lieutenant-General Viktor Ivanovich Novozhilov, 7.85 - 10.87
• Lieutenant-General Valeriy Stepanovich Tretyakov, 10.87 - 10.88
• no data, 10.88 - 5.98

Activated 22.4.53 in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalinsk Oblast, from HQ Far Eastern Military District.

Organisation 1960:

• 56th Motorised Rifle Division (Khomutovo, Sakhalinskaya Oblast)
• 79th Motorised Rifle Division (Leonidovo, Sakhalinskaya Oblast)
• 410th independent Motorised Rifle Regiment (Sovetskaya Gavan, Khabarovsk Kray)

Organisation 1961:

• 129th Motorised Rifle Division (Khabarovsk, Khabarovsk Kray)
• 98th Guards Airborne Division (Belogorsk, Amur Oblast)

In 5.62 the 129th Motorised Rifle Division became a training division, and was transferred to district control.

27.7.67 renamed 18th Combined Arms Army.

In 6.68 the 73rd Motorised Rifle Division arrived from the North Caucasus Military District.

19.8.69 again renamed 15th Combined Arms Army.

Organisation 1970:

• 73rd Motorised Rifle Division (Komsomolsk-na-Amure, Khabarovsk Kray)
• 2nd Fortified Area (Bolshoy Ussuriyskiy Island, Khabarovsk Kray)
• 17th Fortified Area (Dalnerechensk, Primorskiy Kray)

In 11.72 the 81st Guards Motorised Rifle Division and 135th Motorised Rifle Division joined the army, when the 45th Army Corps was disbanded.

In 3.70 the 270th Motorised Rifle Division was activated.

Organisation 1980:

• 73rd Motorised Rifle Division (Komsomolsk-na-Amure, Khabarovsk Kray)
• 81st Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Bikin, Khabarovsk Kray)
• 135th Motorised Rifle Division (Lesozavodsk, Primorskiy Kray)
• 270th Motorised Rifle Division (Krasnaya Rechka, Khabarovsk Kray)
• 2nd Fortified Area (Bolshoy Ussuriyskiy Island, Khabarovsk Kray)
• 17th Fortified Area (Dalnerechensk, Primorskiy Kray)

Organisation 1988:

• 73rd Motorised Rifle Division (Komsomolsk-na-Amure, Khabarovsk Kray)
• 81st Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Bikin, Khabarovsk Kray)
• 135th Motorised Rifle Division (Lesozavodsk, Primorskiy Kray)
• 270th Motorised Rifle Division (Krasnaya Rechka, Khabarovsk Kray)
• 2nd Fortified Area (Bolshoy Ussuriyskiy Island, Khabarovsk Kray)
• 17th Fortified Area (Dalnerechensk, Primorskiy Kray)

11.10.93 renamed 43rd Army Corps.

Disbanded 1.5.98.

Headquarters:

• Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalinsk Oblast, 4.53 - 3.60
• Khabarovsk, Khabarovsk Kray, 3.60 - 5.98 [48 22 00N, 135 02 38E]

Subordination:

• Far Eastern Military District, 4.53 - 5.98