51st Combined Arms Army

51-я общевойсковая армия

Military Unit: 00000

Commanders:

• Lieutenant-General Ivan Sergeevich Ivanov, 28.3.60 - 8.12.63
• Major-General Grigoriy Panteleevich Shaforost, 9.12.63 - 27.3.66
• Lieutenant-General Dmitriy Semyonovich Sukhorukov, 28.3.66 - 21.12.69
• Lieutenant-General Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Popov, 21.12.69 - 1.73
• Major-General Leonid Borisovich Lubgan, 1.73 - 3.76
• Major-General Valeriy Anisimovich Patrikeev, 3.76 - 1979
• Lieutenant-General Lev Sergeevich Shustko, 1979 - 1983
• no data, 1983 - 1985
• Lieutenant-General Vitaliy Pavlovich Kovalyov, 1985 - 2.87
• Lieutenant-General Viktor Andreevich Kopylov, 2.87 - 1989
• Lieutenant-General Yuriy Dmitrievich Bukreev, 1989 - 1991

Activated 28.3.60 in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalinskaya Oblast, as the 2nd Army Corps.

Organisation 1961:

• 56th Motorised Rifle Division (Khomutovo, Sakhalinskaya Oblast)
• 79th Motorised Rifle Division (Leonidovo, Sakhalinskaya Oblast)
• 410th independent Motorised Rifle Regiment (Sovetskaya Gavan, Khabarovsk Kray)

Organisation 1970:

• 56th Motorised Rifle Division (Khomutovo, Sakhalinskaya Oblast)
• 79th Motorised Rifle Division (Leonidovo, Sakhalinskaya Oblast)

1977 renamed 51st Combined Army Army.

In 7.78 the 18th Machine-Gun Artillery Division arrived from Khabarovsk.

Organisation 1980:

• 56th Motorised Rifle Division (Khomutovo, Sakhalinskaya Oblast)
• 79th Motorised Rifle Division (Leonidovo, Sakhalinskaya Oblast)
• 18th Machine-Gun Artillery Division (Goryachie Klyuchi, Iturup Island)

Organisation 1988:

• 56th Motorised Rifle Division (Khomutovo, Sakhalinskaya Oblast)
• 79th Motorised Rifle Division (Leonidovo, Sakhalinskaya Oblast)
• 18th Machine-Gun Artillery Division (Goryachie Klyuchi, Iturup Island)

1997 renamed 68th Army Corps.

Headquarters:

• Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalinskaya Oblast, 3.60 - today

Subordination:

• Far Eastern Military District, 3.60 - 9.2010
• Eastern Military District, 9.2010 - today