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1st Shock Army
Active
1941–1945
Country
USSR
Allegiance
Soviet Union
Branch
Regular Army
Type
Shock troops
Size
Varied in the Years
Part of
Military District
Engagements
Tartu Offensive Battle of Moscow Leningrad–Novgorod Offensive Riga Offensive Courland Encirclement
Military unit
The 1st Shock Army (Russian: 1-я ударная армия) was a field army established by the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II.
The 1st Shock Army was created in late 1941 and fought in the northern areas of Russia and the Baltic States until the surrender of Germany in 1945. The Army was created in accordance with prewar doctrine that called for Shock Armies to 'overcome difficult defensive dispositions in order to create a tactical penetration of sufficient breadth and depth to permit the commitment of mobile formations for deeper exploitation.'[1] However, as the war went on, Shock Armies lost this specific role and reverted, in general, to ordinary frontline formations.
The 3rd ShockArmy (Russian: Третья ударная армия) was a field army of the Red Army formed during the Second World War. The "Shock" armies were created...
accordance with prewar planning that saw shockarmies as special penetration formations, the 1stShockArmy was formed in November–December 1941 to spearhead...
ShockArmy was a combined arms army of the Soviet Armed Forces during World War II. The Army was formed from the 27th Army on 25 December 1941 (1st formation)...
Leningrad front, along with the Volkhov Front, the 1st Baltic Front and the 2nd Baltic Front, pushed back Army Group North and broke the 28-month-long blockade...
35 km (22 mi) from the Kremlin; but a powerful counterattack by the 1stShockArmy drove them back. Just northwest of Moscow, the Wehrmacht reached Krasnaya...
5th ShockArmy was a Red Army field army of World War II. The army was formed on 9 December 1942 by redesignating the 10th Reserve Army. The army was...
General Vladimir Petrovich Sviridov) 1stShockArmy (Lieutenant General Vladimir N. Razuvaev) 10th Guards Army (Lieutenant General Mikhail Kazakov) The...
months and near the end of February the 182nd, now under command of 1stShockArmy in 2nd Baltic Front, won an honorific for its part in the liberation...
Army Corps in February 1943. Through the rest of that year it participated in battles in the Staraya Russa region, mostly under command of 1stShock Army...
commander of the 1stShockArmy, Vasily Kuznetsov "was not on the list of candidates for the post of commander of the 1stShockArmy. He was in the hospital...
command of the 1stShockArmy and led it in the Demyansk offensive. On 26 February the army attacked and in conjunction with the 27th Army of the front...
1st Belorussian Front included: 61st Army1st Polish Army 47th Army 3rd ShockArmy 5th ShockArmy 8th Guards Army 69th Army 33rd Army 16th Air Army 18th...
division fought with the 51st Army; the 2nd Guards Army; and the 1stShockArmy. On 1 June 1943 the division was part of the 51st Army. After the war, the 2nd...
The 1st Airborne Shock Infantry Regiment (French: 1er régiment d'infanterie de choc aéroporté, 1eR RICAP), then named the 1stShock Regiment (French:...
Omsk. It did not reach the front until March 1942, assigned to the 1stShockArmy in Northwestern Front. It served under these commands until September...
30th, 31st, 39th of the former, and the 1stShock, 5th, 10th, 16th, 20th, 33rd, 43rd, 49th, and 50th armies and three cavalry corps for the latter. The...
October when it was railed south to join the 1stShockArmy of Northwestern Front; it would remain in that Army until nearly the end of 1944. Over the next...
Ltd. ISBN 1-84574-059-9. Fraser, David (1999). And We Shall Shock Them: The British Army in the Second World War. Phoenix. ISBN 0-304-35233-0. Flanagan...
river line south to Guben. The 1st Guards and 2nd Guards Tank armies and the 3rd Army were in reserve. The 5th Shock and 8th Guards were posted directly...
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