7th Red Banner Tank Army

7-я танковая Краснознамённая армия

Military Unit: 57295

Commanders:

• Colonel General Pavel Ivanovich Batov, 12.6.46 - 29.4.49
• Lieutenant-General Ksenofant Mikhaylovich Malakhov, 30.4.49 - 27.4.53
• Marshal of Armoured Forces Semyon Ilich Bogdanov, 28.4.53 - 7.5.54
• Colonel General Pavel Fyodorovich Batitskiy, 8.5.54 - 27.8.54
• Lieutenant-General Mikhail Fyodorovich Panov, 10.54 - 7.10.58
• Lieutenant-General Nil Grigorevich Vedenichev, 8.10.58 - 24.5.60
• Major-General Pyotr Mikhaylovich Bordyukov, 25.5.60 - 10.8.62
• Major-General Aleksey Nikolaevich Zhilin, 11.8.62 - 1.9.64
• Major-General Sergey Ilich Kremenskoy, 2.9.64 - 30.6.67
• Lieutenant-General Mikhail Petrovich Voshchinskiy, 1.7.67 - 17.10.68
• Lieutenant-General Sergey Fyodorovich Akhromeev, 18.10.68 - 29.5.72
• Lieutenant-General Nikolay Moiseevich Semenyuta, 4.6.72 - 16.6.76
• Lieutenant-General Nail Mirsantovich Akhunov, 17.6.76 - 12.11.81
• Lieutenant-General Ivan Ivanovich Korbutov, 13.11.81 - 26.6.84
• Lieutenant-General Vladimir Tikhonovich Shevtsov, 27.6.84 - 1.86
• no data, 1.86 - 31.5.87
• Lieutenant-General Viktor Petrovich Dubynin, 1.6.87 - 5.88
• Lieutenant-General Mikhail Grigorevich Kenduykhov, 5.88 - 3.89
• Major-General Suffiyan Uzeirovich Beppaev, 3.89 - 10.91
• Major-General Viktor Nikolaevich Isaychenkov, 10.91 - 6.5.92
• Major-General Anatoliy Vasilevich Kvashnin, 7.5.92 - 24.8.92
• Major-General Mikhail Fedorovich Kozlov, 9.92 - 1993

Activated 12.6.46 in Lodz, Poland, from the 65th Combined Arms Army.

20.12.46 reduced to the 7th Tank Division (mobilisation) - the attached divisions became regiments.

21.3.50 again enlarged, and renamed 7th Mechanised Army.

20.5.57 renamed 7th Tank Army.

Organisation 1960:

• 34th Heavy Tank Division (Borisov, Minsk Oblast)
• 3rd Guards Tank Division (Zaslonovo, Vitebsk Oblast)
• 39th Guards Tank Division (Borovukha, Vitebsk Oblast)
• 47th Guards Tank Division (Pechi, Minsk Oblast)

In 4.65 the 47th Guards Tank Division became a training division, and came under district control.

Organisation 1970:

• 3rd Guards Tank Division (Zaslonovo, Vitebsk Oblast)
• 37th Guards Tank Division (Borovukha, Vitebsk Oblast)
• 34th Tank Division (Borisov, Minsk Oblast)

15.1.74 awarded the Red Banner.

Organisation 1980:

• 3rd Guards Tank Division (Zaslonovo, Vitebsk Oblast)
• 37th Guards Tank Division (Borovukha, Vitebsk Oblast)
• 34th Tank Division (Borisov, Minsk Oblast)

Organisation 1988:

• 3rd Guards Tank Division (Zaslonovo, Vitebsk Oblast)
• 37th Guards Tank Division (Borovukha, Vitebsk Oblast)
• 34th Tank Division (Borisov, Minsk Oblast)

6.92 taken over by Belarus, and 18.8.93 renamed 7th Army Corps, and 1994 65th Army Corps.

Headquarters:

• Lodz, Poland, 6.46 - 5.48
• Borisov, Minsk Oblast, 5.48 - 6.92 [54 13 30N, 28 30 44E]

Subordination:

• Northern Group of Forces, 6.46 - 5.48
• Belorussian Military District, 5.48 - 6.92