14th Army ( Soviet Union ) The 14th Army ( Ist formation ) was formed in October 1939 in the Leningrad Military District . It participated in the Soviet - Finnish war , during which its 52nd and 104th Rifle Divisions fought in the Battle of Petsamo . From 24 June 1941 the Army included The Army was initially subordinated to the Northern Front and conducted defensive operations on the Murmansk , Kandalaksha and Ukhtinsk directions against the German - Finnish Operation Silver Fox ( 29 June 1941 - 19 September 1941 ) and in coordination with the 7th Separate Army , in the Defensive Operations on the Petrozavodsk , Ukhtinsk , Rugozersk , and Olonetsk directions ( 1 July 1941 - 10 October 1941 ) . From the middle of July it was able to stop Finnish enemy forces advance , and subsequently until October 1944 ( from 23 August 1941 as part of the Karelian Front ) it solidly retained its sector positions , and conducted active offensive combat for the purpose of improvement in the position it occupied . On 18 October 1944 , the 14th Army after rearrangement was involved in the second stage of the Petsamo - Kirkenes Operation . From south to north in the battle were introduced 127th Light Rifle Corps , the reserve of the 31st Rifle Corps , 99th Rifle Corps , 126th Light Rifle Corps , 131st Rifle Corps . At that time , battles were mainly in the pursuit of the retreating enemy . 127th Light Rifle Corps and 31st Rifle Corps advanced on the Nickel , the 99th Rifle Corps and the 126th Light Rifle Corps on Ahmalahti , 131st Rifle Corps on Tarnet . By 20 October 1944 127th Light Rifle Corps and 31st Rifle Corps semicircle covered Nickel from the north , south and south - west , 21 October 1944 126th Light Rifle Corps reached the lake Klistervati , 99th Rifle Corps 22 October 1944 released the road Ahmalahti - Kirkenes . 131st Rifle Corps has released 10 / 17 / 1944 to the state border and entered 18 October 1944 on Norwegian soil . Nickel was taken 22 October 1944 . Forcing Yar Fjord 24 – 25 October 1944 year Army troops fanned out in Norway . 31st Rifle Corps , without forcing the bay , and ran down the deep south , and reached Nausta 27 October 1944 , coming on the Norwegian - Finnish border . 127th Light Rifle Corps carried out an offensive in the same direction , but on the western shore of the fjord . 126th Light Rifle Corps undertook deep inroads in the west and reached the city 27 October 1944 Neiden 99th Rifle Corps and the 131st Rifle Corps rushed to Kirkenes , which was released on 25 October 1944 , the then 99th Rifle Corps also sent the city Neiden . By 29 October 1944 , the Petsamo - Kirkenes operation was over , and with it the 14th Army ' s combat role . It destroyed the opposing enemy and took the city of Petsamo ( today Pechenga ) and northern regions of Norway . Subsequently until the end of the war the Army defended the newly occupied territory and the state borders of the USSR with Finland and Norway . Commanding officers On 31 July 1945 the Army HQ was disbanded and the personnel were used to fill out Headquarters Belomorsky Military District . The Army may have been re - established in 1947 with the 121st Rifle Corps and 1222nd Artillery Regiment . According to some data , there were plans for its use in Chukchi Peninsula and , in the case of war , landing in Alaska . It was probably disbanded in the middle 1950s .