2nd Guards Red Banner Tank Army

2-я гвардейская танковая Краснознамённая армия

Military Unit: 03428

Commanders:

• Lieutenant-General Prokofiy Logvinovich Romanenko, 15.1.43 - 12.2.43
• Lieutenant-General Aleksey Grigorevich Rodin, 12.2.43 - 9.9.43
• Colonel General Semyon Ilich Bogdanov, 9.9.43 - 23.7.44
• Lieutenant-General Aleksey Ivanovich Radzievskiy, 23.7.44 - 20.11.44
• Marshal of Tank Forces Semyon Ilich Bogdanov, 22.11.44 - 27.5.47
• Lieutenant-General Aleksey Ivanovich Radzievskiy, 28.5.47 - 17.9.50
• Lieutenant-General Amazasp Khachaturovich Babadzhanyan, 18.9.50 - 30.5.56
• Lieutenant-General Matvey Kuzmich Shaposhnikov, 30.5.56 - 23.5.60
• Lieutenant-General Boris Sergeevich Likhachyev, 23.5.60 - 28.1.65
• Lieutenant-General Semyon Konstantinovich Kurkotkin, 28.1.65 - 7.7.65
• Lieutenant-General Boris Viktorovich Kurtsev, 7.7.65 - 12.2.67
• Lieutenant-General Viktor Georgievich Kulikov, 14.2.67 - 4.5.67
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Leonidevich Govorov, 1.7.67 - 28.5.69
• Lieutenant-General Ivan Ivanovich Tenishchev, 28.5.69 - 19.7.72
• Lieutenant-General Mikhail Ivanovich Sorokin, 19.8.72 - 19.8.74
• Lieutenant-General Anatoliy Ivanovich Kirillov, 19.8.74 - 6.76
• Lieutenant-General Nikolay Fyodorovich Grachyov, 6.76 - 7.80
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Mikhaylovich Shuralyov, 10.80 - 3.84
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Ilich Semenchukov, 3.84 - 2.85
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Pavlovich Rushchenkov, 2.85 - 5.88
• Lieutenant-General Valeriy Ivanovich Mironov, 5.88 - 5.1.89
• Lieutenant-General Stanislav Stepanovich Rumyantsev, 5.1.89 - 3.5.91
• Lieutenant-General Vasiliy Timofeevich Sobkov, 3.5.91 - 6.92
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Ivanovich Popov, 6.92 - 7.94
• Lieutenant-General Aleksandr Ivanovich Baranov, 7.94 - 12.96
• Lieutenant-General Nikolay Egorovich Makarov, 12.96 - 11.97

Activated 15.1.43 in Kalinin, Kalinin Oblast, as the 2nd Tank Army, from the 3rd Reserve Army.

20.11.44 renamed 2nd Guards Tank Army.

12.6.46 renamed 2nd Guards Mechanised Army.

29.4.57 renamed 2nd Guards Tank Army.

Organisation 1960:

• 9th Guards Tank Division (Neustrelitz, East Germany)
• 12th Guards Tank Division (Neuruppin, East Germany)
• 19th Motorised Rifle Division (Olympisches Dorf, East Germany)

Re-organised in 6.64:

• 19th Motorised Rifle Division was transferred to the 20th Guards Combined Arms Army, in exchange for the 25th Heavy Tank Division
• 18th Motorised Rifle Division was attached from the 3rd Combined Arms Army
• 94th Guards Motorised Rifle Division was attached from the 3rd Combined Arms Army

22.2.68 awarded the Red Banner.

Organisation 1970:

• 12th Guards Tank Division (Neuruppin, East Germany)
• 16th Guards Tank Division (Neustrelitz, East Germany)
• 25th Tank Division (Vogelsang, East Germany)
• 21st Motorised Rifle Division (Perleberg, East Germany)
• 94th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Schwerin, East Germany)

Organisation 1980:

• 12th Guards Tank Division (Neuruppin, East Germany)
• 16th Guards Tank Division (Neustrelitz, East Germany)
• 25th Tank Division (Vogelsang, East Germany)
• 21st Motorised Rifle Division (Perleberg, East Germany)
• 94th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Schwerin, East Germany)

Re-organised in 5.83:

• 12th Guards Tank Division was transferred to the 3rd Combined Arms Army in exchange for the 207th Motorised Rifle Division
• 25th Tank Division was transferred to the 20th Guards Combined Arms Army

Organisation 1988:

• 16th Guards Tank Division (Neustrelitz, East Germany)
• 21st Motorised Rifle Division (Perleberg, East Germany)
• 94th Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Schwerin, East Germany)
• 207th Motorised Rifle Division (Stendal, East Germany)

11.11.93 renamed 2nd Guards Combined Arms Army.

Disbanded 1.5.98 - the honors and awards were transferred to the new 2nd Guards Combined Arms Army in 9.2001.

Headquarters:

• Fürstenberg, East Germany, 6.46 - 12.93 [53 10 50N, 13 07 26E]
• Samara, Samara Oblast, 10.12.93 - 5.98

Subordination:

• 1st Belorussian Front, 20.10.43 - 11.6.45
• Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany, 11.6.45 - 26.3.54
• Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, 26.3.54 - 1.6.89
• Western Group of Forces, 1.6.89 - 1993
• Volga Military District, 1993 - 1.5.98