Kiev Special Military District
6th Combined Arms Army took place in which location from 1918 to Jul 1941?
6th Combined Arms Army The 6th Army was a field army of the Soviet Red Army formed four times during World War II and active with the Russian Ground Forces until 1998 . It appears to have been reformed in 2010 . It was first formed in August , 1939 in the Kiev Special Military District from the Volochiskaya Army Group ( a corps-sized formation ) . First Formation . In September 1939 it participated in the Soviet invasion of Poland . At the beginning of war the Army ( 6th Rifle Corps , 37th Rifle Corps ( which included the 80th , 139th , and 141st Rifle Divisions ) , 4th and 15th Mechanized Corps , 5th Cavalry Corps , 4th Fortified Region , and 6th Fortified Region ( Rava-Ruska ) , and a number of artillery and other units ) was deployed on the Lviv direction . It started the Second World War as part of the Soviet Southwestern Front . The armys headquarters was disbanded 10 August 1941 after the Battle of Uman . In this battle , the 6th Army was caught in a huge encirclement south of Kiev along with the 12th Army . Second Formation . It was immediately reformed within the Southern Front on the basis of 48th Rifle Corps and other units , and defended the west bank of the Dnepr River northwest of Dnipropetrovsk . On 1 September 1941 it consisted of 169th , 226th , 230th , 255th , 273rd , and 275th Rifle Divisions , 26th and 28th Cavalry Divisions , 47th Rifle Regiment ( 15th NKVD Rifle Division ) , 269th , 274th , and 394th Corps Artillery Regiments , 522nd High-power Howitzer Artillery Regiment гап б/м , 671st Artillery Regiment of the Reserve of the Supreme High Command ( ап РВГК ) , 14th , 27th Separate Anti-Aircraft Artillery Divisions , and 8th Tank Division . It was then transferred to the Soviet Southwestern Front and took part in defensive actions in the Donbas , the Barvenkovo-Lozovaia operation , and the Second Battle of Kharkov , but along with the 57th Army , was surrounded in the Izium pocket with the loss of 200,000 plus men in casualties alone , and afterwards formally disbanded . Third Formation . The Army was reformed in July 1942 for the third time from the 6th Reserve Army , comprising the 45th , 99th , 141st , 160th , 174th , 212th , 219th , and 309th Rifle Divisions plus the 141st Rifle Brigade . It was assigned in sequence to the Voronezh , Southwestern , and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts . In January 1943 , the 6th Army smashed through the defensive lines of the Alpini divisions of the Italian 8th Army as part of Operation Little Saturn . In September 1943 it consisted of the 4th Guards Rifle Corps ( 38th Guards , 263rd , 267th Rifle Divisions ) , 26th Guards Rifle Corps ( 25th Guards , 35th and 47th Guards Rifle Divisions ) , and the 33rd Rifle Corps ( 50th , 78th , 243rd Rifle Divisions ) . In 1944 it took part in the Nikopol-Kryvyi Rih , Bereznogova-Snigorovka , and Odessa offensives . Disbanded in June 1944 . Fourth Formation . Reformed in December 1944 with troops from 3rd Guards and 13th Armies . On 1 January 1945 the Army consisted of the 22nd Rifle Corps ( 218th and 273rd Rifle Divisions ) , the 74th Rifle Corps ( 181st and 309th Rifle Divisions ) , the 359th Rifle Division , the 77th Fortified Region , and other support units . During 1945 the Army took part in the Sandomierz–Silesia , and the Lower Silesia offensives . During the Lower Silesia offensive in February 1945 , 6th Army , commanded by Marshal Ivan Koniev , besieged Fortress Breslau ( Festung Breslau ) in the Battle of Breslau . The army besieged the city on February 13 , 1945 , and the encirclement of Breslau was completed the following day . The 1st Ukrainian Front forces besieged the city with the 22nd and 74th Rifle Corps , and the 77th Fortified Region , as well as other smaller units . Even approximate estimates vary greatly concerning the number of German troops trapped in Breslau . Some sources claim that there were as many as 150,000 defenders , some 80,000 and some 50,000 . The Siege of Breslau consisted of destructive house-to-house street fighting . The city was bombarded to ruin by artillery of the 6th Army , as well as the 2nd Air Army and the 18th Air Army . During the siege , both sides resorted to setting entire districts of the city on fire . After the end of the Second World War , the 6th Army was withdrawn from Germany and stationed briefly in the Orel Military District before being disbanded in the Voronezh Military District late in 1945 . Fifth Formation . Its fifth formation was ( re ) formed from 31st Rifle Corps on 2 April 1952 in Murmansk , Murmansk Oblast . That year it comprised the 45th Rifle Division ( Pechenga , Murmansk Oblast ) ; the 67th Rifle Division ( Murmansk , Murmansk Oblast ) ; the 341st Rifle Division ( Alakurtti , Murmansk Oblast ) ; and the 367th Rifle Division ( Sortavala , Karelian ASSR ) . The army was disbanded at Murmansk in early 1960 . The army was reformed again from Headquarters Northern Military District in May–June 1960 with headquarters at Petrozavodsk . On 15 January 1974 , it was awarded the Order of the Red Banner . In 1988 it consisted of : - 16th Motor Rifle Division ( Petrozavodsk ) ( mobilisation ) - 109th Motor Rifle Division ( Alakurtti ) ( mobilisation ) - 116th Motor Rifle Division ( Nagorniy/Нагорный ) ( Murmansk ) ( mobilisation ) - 54th Motor Rifle Division ( Alakurtti ) Established on 4 June 1957 in Alakurtti from the 54th Rifle Division . Composed of 338th Guards Tank Regiment , 221st Guards и 251 ( Кандалакша ) , 281st Motor Rifle Regiments , 441st Artillery Regiment , 454 зрап . In 1987 the 338th Guards Tank Regiment was reduced and renamed 82nd independent Tank Battalion . - 111th Motor Rifle Division ( Sortavala ) , 379th Tank Regiment ( Lakhdenpokhya , Karelian ASSR ) 182* и 185 ( Лахденпохья ) , 184 109 ап , 1037 зрап . In 1987 the tank regiment was reduced to a battalion . - 131st Motor Rifle Division ( Pechenga ) - 88th Independent Helicopter Squadron ( Apatity , Murmansk Oblast , from 1977 ) Disbanded 1991 or 1994 . ( Kirovsk-Apatity Airport ) - 840th Independent Engineer-Sapper Battalion - 6th Missile Brigade ( Pinozero ) - and several other independent brigades , regiments , and battalions One of the other listed brigades was the 6th Rocket Brigade at Pinozero in Murmansk Oblast . Up until 1991 it had been equipped with the Scud . From 1991 it was reequipped with the Tochka . It was disbanded in 1998 . In 1989 the 16th Motor Rifle Division ( mobilisation ) became the 5186th Base for Storage of Weapons and Equipment ( БХВТ ) ( 30th мотострелковая бригада ) , and the 37th similarly became a weapons and equipment storage base ( VKhVT ) . In 1994-95 the 111th Motor Rifle Division ( Sortavala ) became the 20th Independent Motor Rifle Brigade and shifted into the 30th Guards Army Corps . In January 1996 it consisted of the 161st Artillery Brigade , the 182nd MRL Regiment , the 485th Separate Helicopter Regiment , the 54th Motor Rifle Division ( Allakurtti ) , and the 131st Motor Rifle Division ( Pechenga ) . It finally disbanded after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1997-98 . Sixth Formation . In 2010 , as part of the creation of the Western Military District / Western Operational-Strategic Command with headquarters at St . Petersburg , the army was reformed . The new 6th Army may include : - 6th Combined Arms Army Headquarters in Agalatovo , Leningrad Oblast - 95th Command Brigade in Gorelovo , Leningrad Oblast - 132nd Signals Brigade in Agalatovo , Leningrad Oblast - 25th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade in Luga , Leningrad Oblast - 138th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade in Kamenka , Leningrad Oblast - 9th Separate Guards Artillery Brigade in Luga , Leningrad Oblast - 5th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade in Lomonosov , Leningrad Oblast - 26th Missile Brigade , Luga , Leningrad Oblast - 30th Engineering Regiment , Kerro , Leningrad Oblast - 6th Separate Counter Biological , Radiological , and Nuclear Regiment in Sapyornoye , Leningrad Oblast - 51st Logistics Brigade in Saint Petersburg , Leningrad Oblast World War II commanders . - Lieutenant-General Filipp Golikov ( 09/28/1939 - July 1940 ) - Lieutenant-General Ivan Muzychenko ( 07.26.1940 - 08/10/1941 ) ( captured ) - Major General , Lieutenant-General Rodion Malinovsky ( 08/25/1941 - 12/24/1941 ) - Major General , Lieutenant-General Auxentios Gorodnyansky ( 01/25/1942 - 05/27/1942 ) ( died 05/27/1942 ) - Major General , Lieutenant-General Fyodor Kharitonov ( 07/08/1942 - 05/20/1943 ) ( died 05/28/1943 ) - Lieutenant-General Ivan Shlemin ( 05/21/1943 - 05/28/1944 ) - Colonel General Vyacheslav Tsvetayev ( September 12 , 1944 - September 28 , 1944 ) - Major General Fyodor Kulishev ( 09/29/1944 - 12/06/1944 ) - Lieutenant-General Vladimir Gluzdovsky ( 12/07/1944 - 05/09/1945 ) References . - http://samsv.narod.ru/Arm/a06/arm.html - Keith E . Bonn , Slaughterhouse : The Handbook of the Eastern Front , Aberjona Press , Bedford , PA , 2005