About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 56. Chapters: List of Soviet armies, 21st Army, 3rd Shock Army, 5th Army, 51st Army, Separate Coastal Army, Leningrad Narodnoe Opolcheniye Army, 8th Army, 4th Army, 19th Army, 16th Army, 11th Army, 22nd Army, 13th Army, 14th Army involvement in Transnistria, 2nd Shock Army, 33rd Army, 40th Army, 58th Army, 39th Army, 18th Army, 41st Army, 17th Army, 1st Red Banner Army, 35th Army, 12th Army, Red Banner Caucasus Army, Sapper army, 8th Guards Army, 1st Shock Army, 3rd Guards Army, 23rd Army, 1st Guards Army, 26th Army, 2nd Guards Army, 1st Cavalry Army, 10th Army, 30th Army, 20th Army, 11th Guards Army, Western Army, 62nd Army, 63rd Army, 29th Army, 7th Guards Army, 27th Army, 47th Army, 2nd Red Banner Army, 38th Army, 4th Guards Army, 2nd Cavalry Army. Excerpt: An army, besides the generalized meanings of 'a country's armed forces' or its 'land forces', is a type of formation in militaries of various countries, including the Soviet Union. This article serves a central point of reference for Soviet armies without individual articles, and explains some of the differences between Soviet armies and their U.S. and British counterparts. During the Russian Civil War, most Soviet armies consisted of independent rifle and cavalry divisions, and corps were rare. During World War II, ordinary Soviet armies initially consisted of a number of rifle corps. In the emergency of June 1941 it was found that inexperienced commanders had difficulty controlling armies with subordinate corps, and they were abolished, to be recreated later in the war. Thus Soviet High Command's (Stavka's) Circular 01, of July 15, 1941, directed several changes to Red Army force structure, including the elimination of rifle corps headquarters and subordination of rifle divisions directly to rifle army headquarters. Following the Second World War, an army was reorganised ...
