1st Army

1-ва армия

Military Unit: 22490

Organisation 1980:

• 1st Motorised Rifle Division (Slivnitsa, Bulgaria)
• 3rd Motoried Rifle Division (Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria)
• 21st Motorised Rifle Division (Pazardzhik, Bulgaria)
• 9th Tank Brigade (Gorna Banya, Bulgaria)
• 46th Army Missile Brigade (Samokov, Bulgaria)
• 5th Army Artillery Regiment (Samokov, Bulgaria)
• 35th Army Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment (Samoranovo, Bulgaria)
• 1st Army Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment
• 88th Army Engineer Regiment (Kyustendil, Bulgaria)
• 4th Army Communications Regiment (Sofia, Bulgaria)
• 38th Army Chemical Defence Battalion (Musachevo, Bulgaria)
• 1st Cable-Layer Communications Battalion (Sofia, Bulgaria)
• 1st independent Electronic Warfare Battalion (Sofia, Bulgaria)
• 1st Army Parchute Reconnaissance Battalion (Gorna Banya, Bulgaria)

Organisation 1988:

• 1st Motorised Rifle Division (Slivnitsa, Bulgaria)
• 3rd Motoried Rifle Division (Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria)
• 21st Motorised Rifle Division (Pazardzhik, Bulgaria)
• 9th Tank Brigade (Gorna Banya, Bulgaria)
• 46th Missile Brigade (Samokov, Bulgaria)
• 5th Army Artillery Regiment (Samokov, Bulgaria)
• 35th Army Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment (Samoranovo, Bulgaria)
• 1st Army Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment
• 88th Army Engineer Regiment (Kyustendil, Bulgaria)
• 4th Army Communications Regiment (Sofia, Bulgaria)
• 38th Army Chemical Defence Battalion (Musachevo, Bulgaria)
• 1st Cable-Layer Communications Battalion (Sofia, Bulgaria)
• 1st independent Electronic Warfare Battalion (Sofia, Bulgaria)
• 1st Army Parchute Reconnaissance Battalion (Gorna Banya, Bulgaria)

Headquarters:

• Sofia, Bulgaria, 1945 - 1992

Army coordinates:

• Gorna Banya barracks [US designation: Knyazhevo Army Barracks 001]: 42 39 52N, 23 14 08E (9th Tank Brigade and 1st Army Parchute Reconnaissance Battalion)
• Samokov barracks [US designation: Samokov Army Barracks West 001]: 42 20 05N, 23 32 36E (46th Missile Brigade)
• Samokov barracks [US designation: Samokov Army Barracks South 002]: 42 19 19N, 23 33 55E (5th Army Artillery Regiment)
• Samoranovo barracks [US designation: Stanke Dimitrov Army Barracks Southeast 002]: 42 15 57N, 23 09 17E (35th Army Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment)
• Musachevo barracks [US designation: Musachevo Army Barracks 001]: 42 40 31N, 23 34 32E (38th Army Chemical Defence Battalion)
• Kyustendil barracks [US designation: Kyustendil Army Barracks Southwest 001]: 42 16 26N, 22 40 32E (88th Army Engineer Regiment)
• Sofia barracks [US designation: Sukhodol Army Barracks 001]: 42 41 36N, 23 14 21E (4th Army Communications Regiment, 1st Cable-Layer Communications Battalion and 1st independent Electronic Warfare Battalion)

Subordination:

• Army Command, 1945 - 1992