10th Army ( Soviet Union ) The 10th Army of the Soviet Union ' s Red Army was a field army active from 1939 to 1944 . History . The Army was formed in September 1939 in the Moscow Military District , and then deployed to the Western Special Military District . During the Soviet invasion of Poland it consisted , according to Steven Zagola , of the 11th Rifle Corps ( 6th , 33rd , and 121st RD ) , the 16th Rifle Corps ( 8th , 52nd , and 55th RD s ) and the 3rd Rifle Corps ( in reserve ) ( 33 and 113 RDs ) , under General I . G . Zakharin . On 22 June 1941 , at the onset of Operation Barbarossa the Army was part of the Soviet Western Front . It consisted of the 1st Rifle Corps ( 2nd and 8th Rifle Division s ) , 5th Rifle Corps ( including 13th , 86th , and 113th Rifle Division s ) , 6th Cavalry Corps ( 6th and 36th Cavalry Division s ) , and 6th and 13th Mechanised Corps , under General K . D . Golubev . It was encircled by German forces during the in June 1941 and largely destroyed . By late June , the German Army Group Centre surrounded the 3rd , 4th and the 10th Armies in the Battle of Białystok - Minsk . In the end , all the formations and units of the 10th Army were defeated . On 30 June while trying to cross the highway Minsk - Baranovichi the army headquarters was destroyed , coming out of the remnants of the environment were addressed by fitting of the 4th Army . The headquarters was officially disbanded on 5 July 1941 . The commander of the 10th Army , Major General KD Golubev , and the army artillery commander , Major General M . Barsukov , escaping from the encirclement in a consolidated group with the August 86th Border Detachment of the NKVD , in late July Golubev was appointed commander of 13th Army , which participated in the Battle of Smolensk . It was formed three times in 1941 , next in October in the Southern Front , but its formation ' was halted due to severe battle conditions ' . It was then reformed in November 1941 in the Volga region , with nine divisions , seven of which were new formations . Soviet official websites give the nine divisions as the 322nd , 323rd , 324th , 325th , 326th , 328th and 330th Rifle , and 57th & 75th Cavalry , thus including two cavalry divisions . Nine of these divisions had been formed in the space of three weeks from the reserve of the Moscow Military District and been trained for 12 hours a day . General Lieutenant Filipp Golikov took command . Golikov ' s 1967 book describes how the army finished its concentration in the Penza area on 8 November 1941 , after which 15 days were devoted to combat training and 5 days to construction of living quarters and other facilities . There were shortages of everything including warm winter clothing . The majority of the troops were between 30 and 40 years of age , and in some cases up to 65 % of the men had no military training . Initially part of the Stavka reserve , it was reassigned to the Western Front for the Battle of Moscow , after moving up to Ryazan attacking on the morning of 6 December 1941 . In 1942 it continued its defensive operations on the central axis , and in 1943 took part in the Battle of Smolensk . The 10th Army headquarters with associated units was withdrawn from the Western Front to the Stavka Reserve in early April ( General Staff ' s directive of 7 . 04 . 44 ) . From 10 April it was moved to Roslavl , where it was to take control of the 81st and 103rd Rifle Corps ( total 5 divisions ) . That same month the army was disbanded , and its headquarters formed the basis of Headquarters 2nd Belorussian Front while its formations were reassigned to the 49th Army .