List of Soviet armies
Shock armies

List of Soviet armies

Section Title: Shock armies
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Army	Date formed	Date disbanded	Notes

1st Shock Army	25/11/1941	1945	Formed from the 19th Army (2nd formation). After the war ended the Army was moved together with a number of its components to Central Asia, where its headquarters during July 1945 became HQ Turkestan Military District.

2nd Shock Army	25/12/1941	1946	Formed from the 26th Army. Destroyed twice in 1942.

3rd Shock Army	25/12/1941	1992	Formed from the 60th Army (1st formation). Traced its history from the 3rd Shock Army of the Second World War.

4th Shock Army	25/12/1941	1945	Formed from the 27th Army (1st formation) From the Baltic States in the summer of 1945 was directed to North Kazakhstan, where its HQ formed HQ Steppe District.

5th Shock Army	9/12/1942	1945-6	Formed from the 10th Reserve Army. Redesignated as HQ South-Eastern Front October 1942, with its forces transferred to 24th Army, reestablished from 63rd Army in November 1942, renamed 3rd Guards Army in December 1942, and that same month reformed from 4th Reserve Army.

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The 1st Shock Army was one of the Soviet Army.

final_sentence: The 1st Shock Army was one of the Soviet Army.