7th Guards Red Banner Combined Arms Army

7-я гвардейская общевойсковая Краснознамённая армия

Military Unit: 48291

Commanders:

• Colonel General Mikhail Stepanovich Shumilov, 16.4.43 - 25.2.46
• Colonel-General Yakov Grigorevich Kreyzer, 4.46 - 19.4.48
• Colonel General Ivan Ivanovich Fedyuninskiy, 20.4.48 - 16.11.51
• Lieutenant-General Filipp Mikhaylovich Cherokmanov, 17.11.51 - 20.7.55
• Lieutenant-General Ivan Grigorevich Pavlovskiy, 21.7.55 - 16.4.58
• Lieutenant-General Sergey Stepanovich Maryakhin, 30.5.58 - 24.5.60
• Lieutenant-General David Abramovich Dragunskiy, 25.5.60 - 18.6.65
• Lieutenant-General Anatoliy Ivanovich Gribkov, 19.6.65 - 17.12.68
• Lieutenant-General Aleksey Nikolaevich Klyuev, 18.12.68 - 3.11.71
• Lieutenant-General Vasiliy Vasilevich Shakhnovich, 4.11.71 - 31.8.75
• Lieutenant-General Stanislav Ivanovich Postnikov, 1.9.75 - 6.77
• Lieutenant-General Konstantin Alekseevich Kochetov, 6.77 - 1979
• Lieutenant-General Bronislav Aleksandrovich Omelichev, 1979 - 5.82
• Lieutenant-General Yuriy Vasilevich Shatalin, 5.82 - 8.84
• Lieutenant-General Mikhail Petrovich Kolesnikov, 8.84 - 2.87
• no data, 2.87 - 1989
• Lieutenant-General Nikolay Pavlovich Pishchev, 1989 - 1990
• Major-General Evgeniy Ivanovich Meshcheryakov, 1990 - 5.91
• Major-General Fyodor Mikhaylovich Reut, 5.91 - 14.8.92

Activated 16.4.43 from the 64th Combined Arms Army.

Organisation 1960:

• 2nd Guards Motorised Rifle Division (Tbilisi, Georgian SSR)
• 100th Motorised Rifle Division (Kirovakan, Armenian SSR)
• 121st Motorised Rifle Division (Yerevan, Armenian SSR)
• 127th Motorised Rifle Division (Leninakan, Armenian SSR)
• 55th Fortified Area (Leninakan, Armenian SSR)
• 69th Fortified Area (Echmiadzin, Armenian SSR)

In 5.62 the 2nd Guards Motorised Rifle Division became a training division, and was transferred to district control.

Organisation 1970:

• 15th Motorised Rifle Division (Kirovakan, Armenian SSR)
• 127th Motorised Rifle Division (Leninakan, Armenian SSR)
• 164th Motorised Rifle Division (Yerevan, Armenian SSR)
• 7th Fortified Area (Leninakan, Armenian SSR)
• 9th Fortified Area (Echmiadzin, Armenian SSR)

21.2.75 awarded the Red Banner.

Organisation 1980:

• 15th Motorised Rifle Division (Kirovakan, Armenian SSR)
• 127th Motorised Rifle Division (Leninakan, Armenian SSR)
• 164th Motorised Rifle Division (Yerevan, Armenian SSR)
• 7th Fortified Area (Leninakan, Armenian SSR)
• 9th Fortified Area (Echmiadzin, Armenian SSR)

Organisation 1988:

• 15th Motorised Rifle Division (Kirovakan, Armenian SSR)
• 127th Motorised Rifle Division (Leninakan, Armenian SSR)
• 164th Motorised Rifle Division (Yerevan, Armenian SSR)
• 7th Fortified Area (Leninakan, Armenian SSR)
• 9th Fortified Area (Echmiadzin, Armenian SSR)

Disbanded 14.8.92.

Headquarters:

• Veszprem, Hungary, 7.45 - 4.46
• Yerevan, Armenian SSR, 4.46 - 8.92 [40 12 34N, 44 34 39] - today the ministry of defence, with no traces of the old buildings

Subordination:

• Central Group of Forces, 7.45 - 4.46
• Transcaucasus Military District, 4.46 - 8.92