The 6th Army, a field army of the Soviet Red Army was formed in August, 1939 in the Kiev Special Military District.
In September 1939 it participated in the Soviet invasion of Poland. At the beginning of war the Army (6th and 37th Rifle Corps, 4th and 15th Mechanized Corps, 5th Cavalry Corps, 4th and 6th Fortified Regions, and a number of artillery and other units) was deployed on the Lvov direction. It started the Second World War as part of the Soviet Southwestern Front. The army's headquarters was disbanded 10 August 1941 after the Battle of Uman. In this battle, the Sixth Army was caught in a huge encirclement south of Kiev along with the Twelfth Army. The 6th Army was reformed by the Soviets twice in 1941 and reformed twice again in 1942. [1] After reformation it was involved in the Second Battle of Kharkov.
In January of 1943, the 6th Army smashed through the defensive lines of the Alpini divisions of the Italian 8th Army as part of Operation Little Saturn.
By February of 1945, the 6th Army besieged Fortress Breslau (Festung Breslau) in the Battle of Breslau.
After the end of World War II, the 6th Army was withdrawn from Germany and stationed briefly in the Orlovskiy Military District before being disbanded in the Voronezh Military District late in 1945. It was reformed in the Leningrad Military District in 1960 with headquarters at Petrozavodsk and disbanded finally after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1997-98.
References and See Also
- ^ Glantz, 2005, p.712n98, 100
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