3rd Shock Army (1941–1954) 3rd Combined Arms Army (1954–1974) 3rd 'Red Banner' Combined Arms Army (1974–1992)
Active
25 December 1941–1992
Country
Soviet Union
Branch
Soviet Army
Size
Varied over time
Part of
Military District
Engagements
Toropets–Kholm Offensive Velikiye Luki Offensive Operation Battle of Nevel (1943) Baltic Offensive Vistula–Oder Offensive East Pomeranian Offensive Battle of Berlin
Military unit
The 3rd Shock Army (Russian: Третья ударная армия) was a field army of the Red Army formed during the Second World War. The "Shock" armies were created with the specific structure to engage and destroy significant enemy forces, and were reinforced with more armoured and artillery assets than other combined arms armies. Where necessary the Shock armies were reinforced with mechanised, tank, and cavalry units. During the Second World War, some Shock armies included armoured trains and air–sled equipped units.[1]
^p.762, Military Encyclopaedic dictionary, Editor in chief C.F. Akhromeyev, Moscow, Voyenizdat, 1986
The 3rdShockArmy (Russian: Третья ударная армия) was a field army of the Red Army formed during the Second World War. The "Shock" armies were created...
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the Red Army during World War II. She attained the rank of lieutenant and commanded a separate women’s sniper company of the 3rdShockArmy during World...
Order of the Red Banner and shockarmy. The famous image of the flag over the Reichstag was of men from the 3rdShockArmy's 150th Rifle Division. In accordance...
Küstrin, the 47th Army, 3rd and 5th Shockarmies, and the 8th Guards Army were concentrated for the attack. The 69th Army and 33rd Army covered the river...
five Soviet armies—from east to west, the 5th ShockArmy, the 8th Guards Army, the 1st Guards Tank Army and Rybalko's 3rd Guards Tank Army (part of the...
Bogdanov's 2nd Guards Tank Army was bogged down just south of Siemensstadt. Colonel-General Vasily Kuznetsov's 3rdShockArmy had bypassed the Humboldthain...
Rzhev/Vyaz'ma salient. The 3rdShockArmy, now allocated to Kalinin Front, started the operation on 24 November by attacking Third Panzer Army at Velikiye Luki...
division was awarded a battle honor. Shortly after it was reassigned to 3rdShockArmy, still in Kalinin Front (soon renamed 1st Baltic Front). During the...
the 3rdShockArmy became the 3rd Red Banner Combined Arms Army (Russian: 3-я краснознаменная общевойсковая армия). The 3rd Guards Mechanized Army became...
of the Southwestern Front (June–July 1941), and later the 60th Army and 3rdShockArmy. In 1942–43 he served as commander of the Kalinin Front and from...
developed in mid-November 1942 using troops from the 3rd and 4th Shockarmies, and 3rd Air Army. The city itself was defended by the 83rd Infantry Division...
of the 100th Rifle Brigade in the 21st Guards Rifle Division of the 3rdShockArmy on the Kalinin Front during the Second World War. She became the first...
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the 29th Army in the Battles of Rzhev. After the lack of success in the latter Shvetsov was reduced to deputy commander of the 3rdShockArmy, but after...
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...
atrocities committed by both sides. At daybreak on 9 May, the 3rdShockArmy of the Red Army took the city almost unopposed. The majority (about 50,000 people)...
3rd Air Army 2nd Baltic Front commanded by Army-General Andrey Yeryomenko 3rdShockArmy commanded by Lieutenant-General Nikolai Simoniak 22nd Army commanded...
It was ultimately relocated to Hillersleben as part of the 3rdShockArmy (later the 3rdArmy) and served there with the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany...
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