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The 8th Guards Order of Lenin Combined Arms Army (abbreviated 8th GCAA) was an army of the Soviet Army, as a successor to the 62nd Army of the Soviet Union's Red Army, which was formed during World War II and was disbanded in 1998 after being downsized into a corps.
The division was formed by an order of the Moscow Military District and was based on the 5th Moscow Infantry Division, 1st Infantry Division in Tula, 2nd Infantry Division in Tambov and the 5th Infantry Division in Kaluga. In September 1918 it was named the 8th Infantry Division. On 11 October 1918, it was renamed the 8th Rifle Division.
Units from the 8th Guards Army participated in the Russian invasion of Ukraine under the command of Lieutenant General Andrei Sychevoi. [11] [12]According to experts, the 8th Combined Arms Army was intended to be a centrepiece of the Southern Military District in the southern European part of the Russian Federation, protecting from threats in that region.
17th Artillery Division – with 13th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front 5.45. 18th Breakthrough Artillery Division – with 8th Guards Army of the 1st Belorussian Front May 1945. 19th Breakthrough Artillery Division – with 3rd Ukrainian Front 5.45. 20th Breakthrough Artillery Division – Fought at Kursk, and in East Prussia and Kurland.
19th Army Lt. Gen. Mikhail Lukin. 50th Rifle Division 89th Rifle Division 91st Rifle Division 166th Rifle Division 244th Rifle Division 1/10th Guards mortar regiment M-13 19th Guards mortar battery M-13. 16th Army Lt. Gen. Konstantin Rokossovsky. 38th Rifle Division 108th Rifle Division 112th Rifle Division 8th Guards Rifle Division 127th Tank ...
Formed as a Soviet Red Army division during World War II, it was dissolved in 2003 but established anew in 2011. Its full title is 8th Guards Rezhitskaya Motorized Rifle Division Named after Hero of the Soviet Union Major General Ivan Vasilyevich Panfilov, awarded the Orders of Lenin, the Red Banner and Suvorov.
Created in the Carpathian Military District, when elements of the 52nd and 18th Armies were reorganised as the 8th Mechanised Army. Parts of the Army participated in the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. The 8th Mechanised Army was redesignated the 8th Tank Army in 1957. 9th Mechanised Army: 1946: 1947: Formed from 57th Army.
The Soviets had a division for almost all roads leading west to the Finnish border. The Eighth Army was led by Ivan Khabarov, but on 13 December he was replaced by Grigori Shtern. The Vice Commander of the Southern Group was Vladimir Kurdyumov from December 1939, who later was appointed the Vice Commander of the 15th Army. [3]