28th Red Banner Combined Arms Army

28-я общевойсковая Краснознамённая армия

Military Unit: 34405

Commanders:

• Lieutenant-General Vasiliy Filippovich Gerasimenko, 8.9.42 - 29.11.43
• Lieutenant-General Aleksey Aleksandrovich Grechkin, 30.11.43 - 19.5.44
• Colonel-General Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Luchinskiy, 20.5.44 - 25.2.46
• Lieutenant-General Frants Iosifovich Perkhorovich, 25.2.46 - 6.5.46
• Lieutenant-General Pyotr Grigorevich Shafranov, 6.5.46 - 4.3.47
• Colonel-General Nikolay Ivanovich Gusev, 4.3.47 - 1.4.49
• Colonel-General Ivan Mikhaylovich Chistyakov, 1.4.49 - 21.12.53
• Colonel-General Andrey Matveevich Andreev, 28.1.54 - 14.6.57
• Lieutenant-General Aleksandr Vasilevich Yakushov, 6.57 - 7.10.60
• Lieutenant-General Mikhail Georgievich Fomichyov, 7.10.60 - 11.8.62
• Lieutenant-General Mikhail Nikolaevich Frolenkov, 11.8.62 - 26.8.67
• Lieutenant-General Grigoriy Ivanovich Salmanov, 26.8.67 - 28.11.69
• Lieutenant-General Nikolay Borisovich Abashin, 28.11.69 - 9.2.73
• Major-General Valentin Ivanovich Krapivin, 9.2.73 - 10.4.74
• Lieutenant-General Sergey Ivanovich Varichenko, 10.4.74 - 2.76
• Lieutenant-General Grigoriy Georgievich Armenopolov, 2.76 - 1978
• Lieutenant-General Ivan Petrovich Volkonskiy, 1978 - 6.79
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Nikolaevich Lobov, 6.79 - 29.10.81
• Lieutenant-General Yuriy Aleksandrovich Gusev, 29.10.81 - 4.84
• Lieutenant-General Mikhail Nikolaevich Kalinin, 4.84 - 4.86
• Major-General Boris Vsevolodovich Gromov, 4.86 - 1.87
• Major-General Sergey Pavlovich Seleznyov, 1.87 - 3.89
• Lieutenant-General Pavel Pavlovich Kozlovskiy, 3.89 - 7.91
• Major-General Vladimir Mikhaylovich Chilindin, 7.91 - 17.11.92

Activated 8.9.42.

Organisation 1960:

• 28th Tank Division (Slonim, Grodno Oblast)
• 33rd Guards Tank Division (Brest, Brest Oblast)
• 50th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Brest, Brest Oblast)
• 55th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Grodno, Grodno Oblast)

In 8.68 the 15th Guards Tank Division and the 30th Guards Motorised Rifle Division took part in the invasion of Czechoslovakia, and became part of the Central Group of Forces - as replacements two mobilisation divisions were activated in 10.68: 76th Tank Division (mobilisation) and 84th Motorised Rifle Division (mobilisation).

Organisation 1970:

• 28th Tank Division (Slonim, Grodno Oblast)
• 50th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Brest, Brest Oblast)
• 76th Tank Division (mobilisation) (Brest, Brest Oblast)
• 84th Motorised Rifle Division (mobilisation) (Grodno, Grodno Oblast)

15.1.74 awarded the Red Banner.

In 8.79 the 84th Motorised Rifle Division (mobilisation) was transferred to the 7th Tank Army, to make room for the 6th Guards Tank Division, which would arrive from Germany in 3.80.

Organisation 1980:

• 6th Guards Tank Division (Grodno, Grodno Oblast)
• 28th Tank Division (Slonim, Grodno Oblast)
• 50th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Brest, Brest Oblast)
• 76th Tank Division (mobilisation) (Brest, Brest Oblast)

Organisation 1988:

• 6th Guards Tank Division (Grodno, Grodno Oblast)
• 28th Tank Division (Slonim, Grodno Oblast)
• 50th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Brest, Brest Oblast)
• 514th Territorial Training Center (Brest, Brest Oblast)

20.3.92 taken over by Belarus.

Headquarters:

• Grodno, Grodno Oblast, 7.45 - 3.92 [53 40 47N, 23 50 29E]

Subordination:

• Baranovichi Military District, 7.45 - 4.2.46
• Belorussian Military District, 4.2.46 - 20.3.92