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36th Army (Soviet Union)

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Active
  
1 August 1941 – 1992

Type
  
Field Army

36th Army (Soviet Union)

Country
  
USSR, Russian Federation

Allegiance
  
Soviet Armed Forces, Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

Branch
  
Soviet Ground Forces, Russian Ground Forces

Part of
  
Trans-Baikal Military District Transbaikal Front Zabaikalsk-Amur Military District

The 36th Army was a military formation of the Red Army and Soviet Ground Forces. It participated in the protection of the state border of the USSR Trans-Baikal and Soviet-Japanese War.

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History

Formed in July 1941 and Transbaikal Military District based on 12th Rifle Corps. Originally it consisted of the following military units:

  • 65th Rifle Division
  • 93rd Rifle Division
  • 94th Rifle Division
  • 114th Rifle Division
  • 31st Fortified Region
  • 32nd Fortified Region
  • Number of artillery and other units

    • In September 1941 it was included in the Transbaikal Front, and it includes defending the USSR state border in Baikal. In August e 1945 and participated in Mukden Khingan-operation, as follows:

  • 2nd Rifle Corps
  • 86th Rifle Corps
  • 293rd Infantry Division
  • 298th Infantry Division
  • 31st Fortified Region
  • 32nd Fortified Region
  • Number of tanks, artillery and other units and units

    • It was disbanded in 1992.

    Command

  • 'Command:'
  • Major-General, the October 1943 Lieutenant General Fomenko SS (June 1941 – June 1945);
  • Lieutenant General, from September 1945 Colonel-General A.A.Luchinsky (June 1945 – to the end of Soviet-Japanese War).

    • References

    36th Army (Soviet Union) Wikipedia
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