The Red Army's 22nd Army was formed in June 1941 in the Ural Military District. Originally it comprised 51st and 62nd Rifle Corps, and several separate regiments. Headquarters was at Veliky Luki by 22 June 1941. As part of the Soviet Western Front, since October, 17th the Kalinin Front the Army conducted defensive operations on the Idritsa–Drissa–Vitebsk frontier, participated in the Battle of Smolensk, the Kalinin defensive operation, and the Battles of Rzhev in 1942. 1943 In structure of North-Western Front (since April, 21st), then since October, 13th Baltic Front (since October, 20th, 1943 - 2nd Baltic) fronts defended on the river Lovat on a site the Hill, Velikie Luki, participated in Leningrad-Novgorod, Staraya Russa–Novorzhev, Rzhev–Dvina and the Riga offensive operations (part of the Baltic Offensive). Since October, 1944 together with the other armies of the Front it carried out blockade of a grouping of the opponent on the Courland peninsula. Immediately after the war ended, its HQ along with the 109th Rifle Division arrived in the South Ukraine in May 1945. In the Northern summer of 1945, together with the headquarters of the Independent Coastal Army, located in the Crimea, it was reorganised as the new but short-lived Tavricheskiy Military District.
The 22nd Army Headquarters was reformed from 13th Army Corps in the early 1990s in the Moscow Military District at Nizhni Novgorod, to control the new 3rd Motor Rifle Division among other formations.
Its wartime commanders were:
- F.A. Ershakov (June - August 1941), the general-lieutenant;
- V.A. Yushkevich (August-October, 19th 1941, April-December 1942 and March 1943-April 1944), General-Major, since March 1943 General-Lieutenant; Yushkevich went on to command 31st Army, and after the war, the Odessa Military District briefly)
- Century I. Vostrukhov (on October, 20th 1941 - March 1942), the major general;
- M. Seleznev (December 1942 - March 1943), the major general;
- Of Item Korotkov (April 1944 - May 1945), the general-lieutenant.
See also
- http://samsv.narod.ru/Arm/a22/arm.html
- http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/9059/RussianArmedForces.html for current units
- Orbat.com/Niehorster, Order of Battle 22 June 1941
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