1st Guards Red Banner Combined Arms Army

1-я гвардейская общевойсковая Краснознамённая армия

Military Unit: 11705

Commanders:

• Colonel General Vyacheslav Dmitrievich Tsvetaev, 24.12.47 - 30.1.48
• Lieutenant-General of Artillery Vladimir Petrovich Sviridov, 30.1.48 - 20.4.49
• Colonel General Nikolay Ivanovich Gusev, 20.4.49 - 23.6.50
• Colonel General Filipp Ivanovich Golikov, 3.9.50 - 17.1.56
• Colonel General Andrey Lavrentevich Getman, 17.1.56 - 17.4.58
• Lieutenant-General Vasiliy Sergeevich Arkhipov, 17.4.58 - 23.5.60
• Colonel General Aleksandr Ilich Rodimtsev, 23.5.60 - 18.3.66
• Lieutenant-General Grigoriy Mikhaylovich Balatov, 18.3.66 - 13.6.69
• Lieutenant-General Sergey Ivanovich Molokoedov, 13.6.69 - 2.9.70
• Lieutenant-General Grigoriy Dmitrievich Gorodetskiy, 2.9.70 - 1973
• no data, 1973 - 1976
• Lieutenant-General Aleksandr Sidorovich Elagin, 1976 - 9.79
• Lieutenant-General Aleksey Konstantinovich Fyodorov, 9.79 - 5.82
• Lieutenant-General Aleksey Arsenevich Demidov, 5.82 - 1984
• no data, 1984 - 5.88
• Lieutenant-General Valentin Sergeevich Bobryshev, 5.88 - 1.8.91
• Major-General Andrey Ivanovich Nikolaev, 1.8.91 - 2.92

Activated 24.12.47 in Bucharest, Romania, as the Special Mechanised Army.

Organisation 1947:

• 2nd Guards Mechanised Division (Craiova, Romania)
• 4th Guards Mechanised Division (Sofia, Bulgaria)
• 25th Guards Mechanised Division (Constanza, Romania)

In 4.48 the 4th Guards Mechanised Division was transferred to the Kiev Military District.

In 8.49 the 2nd Guards Mechanised Division was transferred to Hungary, and was replaced, a month later, by the 33rd Guards Mechanised Division.

Organisation 1950:

• 25th Guards Mechanised Division (Constanza, Romania)
• 33rd Guards Mechanised Division (Timisoara, Romania)

In 11.53 the 81st Guards Rifle Division arrived from the Kiev Military District.

Organisation 1950:

• 25th Guards Mechanised Division (Constanza, Romania)
• 33rd Guards Mechanised Division (Timisoara, Romania)
• 81st Guards Rifle Division (Arad, Romania)

4.6.57 renamed 1st independent Combined Arms Army.

In 7.57 the 81st Guards Motorised Rifle Division returned to the Kiev Military District.

Organisation 1958:

• 37th Guards Tank Division (Constanza, Romania)
• 33rd Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Timisoara, Romania)

7.58 renamed 1st Combined Arms Army.

Organisation 1960:

• 72nd Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Belaya Tserkov, Kiev Oblast)
• 81st Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Konotop, Sumskaya Oblast)
• 115th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Lubny, Poltava Oblast)
• 35th Guards Tank Division (Cherkassy, Cherkassy Oblast)

5.10.67 renamed 1st Guards Combined Arms Army, inheriting the Guards title from the old 1st Guards Combined Arms Army, at the behest of Defence Minister Grechko, who had commanded this army in World War 2.

22.2.68 awarded the Red Banner.

In 7.69 the 81st Guards Motorised Rifle Division was transferred to the Far East, and was replaced by the 47th Motorised Rifle Division.

Organisation 1970:

• 25th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Lubny, Poltava Oblast)
• 47th Motorised Rifle Division (Konotop, Sumskaya Oblast)
• 72nd Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Belaya Tserkov, Kiev Oblast)
• 41st Guards Tank Division (Cherkassy, Cherkassy Oblast)

Organisation 1980:

• 25th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Lubny, Poltava Oblast)
• 47th Motorised Rifle Division (Konotop, Sumskaya Oblast)
• 72nd Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Belaya Tserkov, Kiev Oblast)
• 41st Guards Tank Division (Cherkassy, Cherkassy Oblast)

In 1981 the 200th and 204th Motorised Rifle Divisions (mobilisation) were activated.

Organisation 1988:

• 25th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Lubny, Poltava Oblast)
• 47th Motorised Rifle Division (Konotop, Sumskaya Oblast)
• 72nd Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Belaya Tserkov, Kiev Oblast)
• 41st Guards Tank Division (Cherkassy, Cherkassy Oblast)
• 850th Territorial Training Center (Piryatin, Poltava Oblast)
• 851st Territorial Training Center (Uman, Cherkasskaya Oblast)

1.92 taken over by Ukraine.

Headquarters:

• Bucharest, Romania, 12.47 - 7.58
• Chernigov, Chernigov Oblast, 7.58 - 1.92 [51 29 53N, 31 19 15E]

Subordination:

• General Staff Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, 12.47 - 7.58
• Kiev Military District, 7.58 - 1.92