The Soviet
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...
's 29th Army was a
field army
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of the
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...
and it is presently part of the
Russian Ground Forces
The Russian Ground Forces (russian: Сухопутные войска ВSukhoputnyye voyska V}), also known as the Russian Army (, ), are the land forces of the Russian Armed Forces.
The primary responsibilities of the Russian Ground Forces ...
.
History
It was first formed in July 1941 in the
Moscow Military District on the basis of
30th Rifle Corps
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. The
245th,
252nd,
254th and
256th Rifle Divisions, and a number of smaller units made up the Army. It joined the
Front of reserve armies and conducted defensive works at
Staraya Russa,
Demyansk, Ostashkov,
Selizharovo. It was reassigned on July 21, 1941, to the
Soviet Western Front, and with Western Front it took part in the
Battle of Smolensk, conducted defensive fights in area to the south of the city of
Toropets and on left I protect Volga on a site Rzhev,
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;Rural localities
* Staritsa, Astrakhan Oblas ...
. As part of the
Soviet Western Front, since October 17 of the
Kalinin Front it participated in the defense of Kalinin, and the Kalinin, Rzhev–Vyazma 1942, and Rzhev–Sychyovka offensive operations (the
Battles of Rzhev). From the end of August 1942 the army defended occupied boundaries on the left bank of the
Volga River
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. In the beginning of February, 1943 the Army's units were transferred to
5th
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and
20th Armies, and the headquarters was reorganised as headquarters
1st Tank Army
The 1st Guards Tank Army () is a tank army of the Russian Ground Forces.
The army traces its heritage back to the 1st Tank Army, formed twice in July 1942 and in January 1943 and converted into the 1st Guards Tank Army in January 1944. The arm ...
.
Commanders
''First formation:''
*
General-Lieutenant
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I. I. Maslennikov (July 4, 1941 – December 11, 1941)
*
General-Major
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Vasily Shvetsov
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*Vasili I of Moscow Grand Prince from 1389–1425
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(December 12, 1941 – September 1942)
* General-Major
Yevgeny Zhuravlev
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Biography
Zhuravlev was born in the village of Roudkovka in the Chernigov ...
(September 1942 – January 1943)
''Third formation:''
* General-Lieutenant Aleksandr Vladimirovich Romanchuk (August 2010 – 2014)
* General-Lieutenant Aleksei Yuryevich Avdeyev (Juli 2014 – April 2017)
* General-Major Evgeniy Valentinovich Poplavskiy (April 2017 – November 2018)
* General-Lieutenant
Roman Borisovich Berdnikov
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(November 2018 – November 2021)
* General-Major
Andrei Borisovich Kolesnikov (December 2021 – March 11, 2022)
*
Maj.Gen Ignatenko Aleksandr Nikolaevich (at least September, 13th, 2022–present)
Reformation
In Arkhangelsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast, the 44th Special Rifle Corps was activated on 22 June 1956 from HQ
Arkhangelsk Military District. In June 1957 it was renamed 44th Special Army Corps. Three years later it comprised the 69th and 77th Motor Rifle Divisions. In August 1961 it was renamed the 44th Army Corps. In the late 1960s the Chinese threat to the Soviet Union appeared to be increasing, and as part of the response, the corps was moved eastward. In 1967 it was moved to the
Transbaikal Military District, and established its headquarters at
Ulan Ude
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.
On 12 May 1970 the 44th Army Corps was renamed the 29th Combined Arms Army.
In 1970 the
91st Motor Rifle Division
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was formed at Chistye Kluychi (Shelekhovo), and moved to Mongolia in 1979. The
12th Motor Rifle Division
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also moved to Mongolia, and the
198th Motor Rifle Division was formed in its place, coming under the control of 29th Army. In 1987 the 91st MRD was withdrawn to
Nizhneudinsk
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, and came under the control of 29th Army.
On 1.12.1987 the
52nd and 91st Motor Rifle Divisions were redesignated the 978th and 497th Territorial Training Centres.
In 1988 the army comprised the:
*198th Motor Rifle Division (
Divizionnaya, Buryatskaya ASSR)
*
245th Motor Rifle Division (
Gusinoozersk, Buryatskaya ASSR)
*497th Territorial Training Center (
Nizhneudinsk
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, Irkutsk Oblast)(ex 91 MRD)
*978th Territorial Training Center (Nizhneudinsk, Irkutsk Oblast)
*12th Fortified Area (
Blagoveshchensk, Amur Oblast)
The 29th Army was disbanded by being redesignated 57th Army Corps on 28 February 1988. The corps was disbanded in 1993.
29th Army was then reformed from 57th Army Corps at
Ulan-Ude
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in 2004, and was active in the
Siberian Military District
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until 2007, when it was apparently again disbanded. Its units in July 2003 included
5th Guards Tank Division
The 5th Guards Tank Division was an armored division of the Soviet Ground Forces and Russian Ground Forces, active from 1945 to 2009, in two different formations.
First Formation
The 5th Guards "Stalingradsko-Kievskaya Order of Lenin Red Banner ...
, the recently reformed
245th Motor Rifle Division at
Gusinoozyorsk
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, and the
11th Air Assault Brigade.
29th Army was reformed once again in 2010-2011, with confirmation coming with a Kremlin decree of 9 January 2011 naming the army's commander. General-Major Aleksandr Vladimirovich Romanchuk, named Commander, 29th Army, was relieved of duty as Chief of Staff, First Deputy Commander,
41st Army.
Current structure
*
36th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
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(
Borzya
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)
* 200th Artillery Brigade (
Gorny)
* 3rd Rocket Brigade (Gorny)
*
140th Separate Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade (
Domna)
* 101st Headquarters Brigade (
Chita)
* 104th Separate Logistics Brigade (Chita)
* 19th Separate NBC Protection Regiment (Gorny) (MUN 56313)
* 225th Weapon Storage and Repair Base (
Yasnaya)
Role in 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
In 2022 it was reported that, in the context of the
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
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, elements of the 29th Army (including units from the 36th Motor Rifle Brigade and 200th Artillery Brigade) had been deployed to
Belarus
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. According to
Ukrainian
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* So ...
officials, the commander of the army, major general
Andrei Kolesnikov, was killed on 11 March 2022.
References
External links
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