52nd Army (Soviet Union)

:1942 ::Tikhvin Offensive ::Lyuban Offensive Operation :1943 ::Chernigov-Poltava Offensive ::Cherkassy Offensive :1944 ::Kirovograd Offensive ::Korsun–Shevchenkovsky Offensive ::Uman–Botoșani Offensive ::[[File:RIAN archive 608409 Issue of newspaper "Battle Red Army" of 52nd Army from June 17, 1944.jpg|thumb|Front cover of the 52nd Army newspaper issue of 17 June 1944]]Second Jassy–Kishinev Offensive :1945 ::Sandomierz–Silesian Offensive ::Lower Silesian Offensive ::Berlin Offensive, (including the Battle of Bautzen) ::Prague Offensive On 3 April 1945 the 52nd Army comprised the [7th Guards Mechanised Corps](7th-guards-mechanized-corps), the [48th Rifle Corps](48th-rifle-corps) ([116th](116th-rifle-division) and [294th Rifle Divisions](294th-rifle-division)), the [73rd Rifle Corps](73rd-rifle-corps) ([50th](50th-rifle-division-soviet-union), [111th](111th-rifle-division) and [254th Rifle Divisions](254th-rifle-division)) and the [78th Rifle Corps](78th-rifle-corps) ([31st](31st-rifle-division), [214th](214th-rifle-division) and [373rd Rifle Divisions](373rd-rifle-division)), the [213th Rifle Division](213th-rifle-division), the 214th Tank Regiment, two artillery units, and service units. At the beginning of the Battle of Bautzen, on April 21, 1945, the Germans drove in between the Polish 2nd Army and the 52nd Army around Bautzen, some 40 km north-east of Dresden and 25 km west of Görlitz, sweeping the Soviet units of the 48th Rifle Corps, and driving towards Spremberg. Major General M. K. Puteiko, commander of the 52nd Army's 254th Rifle Division of the 73rd Rifle Corps was mortally wounded around Bautzen. Subsequently, the 52nd Army took part in the advance on Prague with the 1st Ukrainian Front. Postwar, the army was moved to Poland with its headquarters in Kraków. It soon moved to western Ukraine, with its headquarters at Drohobych. On 12 June 1946 the army was converted into the [8th Tank Army](8th-tank-army) and its headquarters moved to Zhytomyr. The 48th and 78th Rifle Corps were disbanded, along with the 31st, 111th, 116th, 213th, 214th, and 373rd Rifle Divisions. The 73rd Rifle Corps was transferred to the [13th Army](13th-army-soviet-union). ## Commanders The army was commanded by the following generals. - Aug 1941 to Jan 1942 - Nikolai Klykov - Jan 1942 to Jul 1943 - Vsevolod Yakovlev - Jul 1943 to June 1946 - Konstantin Koroteev ## References - ## References 1. http://niehorster.org/012_ussr/45-04-03_Berlin/Army_52.html{{Dead link. (September 2018) 2. (2005). "Companion to Colossus Reborn". *University Press of Kansas*. 3. (1967). ["Poles in the battle of Berlin"](https://books.google.com/books?id=McFVHAAACAAJ). *Ministry of National Defense Pub*. 4. (30 September 1998). ["Fallen Soviet generals: Soviet general officers killed in battle, 1941–1945"](https://books.google.com/books?id=l5aGjQbzkiYC&pg=PA180). *Taylor & Francis*. ::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52nd_Army_(Soviet_Union)) and is available under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the [article history page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52nd_Army_(Soviet_Union)?action=history). ::