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Seventh Guards Army

7th Guards Army
Soviet Guards Order.png
Active 1943–1991
Country  Soviet Union
Branch Soviet Ground Forces
Type Army
Garrison/HQ Yerevan (April 1946 – August 1992)
Engagements

World War II

Commanders
Notable
commanders

Mikhail Shumilov
Yakov Kreizer
Ivan Fedyuninsky
Filipp Cherokmanov

David Dragunsky

World War II

Mikhail Shumilov
Yakov Kreizer
Ivan Fedyuninsky
Filipp Cherokmanov

The Red Army's 7th Guards Army was re-designated from the Soviet 64th Army on April 16, 1943.

64th Army had originally been formed from 1st Reserve Army in July 1942, and alongside the 62nd Army, fought the German offensive during the Battle of Stalingrad to a standstill, for which it was raised to Guards status. General Lieutenant M.S. Shumilov, who had commanded the 64th Army, continued to command 7th Guards Army through the rest of the war, though he was promoted to General Colonel in October 1943.

It included the 15th, 36th, 72nd, 73rd, 78th and 81st Guards Rifle Divisions, which were incorporated in the 24th and 25th Guards Rifle Corps. As part of the Voronezh Front and the Steppe Front since July 18, 1943, the Army participated in the Battle of Kursk and the Battle for the Dnieper River from July through August, 1943. Subsequently, as part of the 2nd Ukrainian Front, it participated in the Kirovograd Offensive, and those of Uman and Botoşani, Iassy-Kishinev, Debrecen, Budapest, Bratislava and Brno, and Prague.


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