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1 History  



1.1  Formation and Soviet era  





1.2  Transnistrian War  





1.3  Disbandment  







2 Structure  



2.1  19601989  





2.2  1988  





2.3  19901992  







3 Equipment  



3.1  Vehicles  





3.2  Artillery  





3.3  Aircraft  







4 Commanders of the Army  





5 See also  





6 References  














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14th Guards Combined Arms Army
14-я гвардейская общевойсковая армия
Active25 November 1956 – June 1995
Country Soviet Union (until 1991)
 Russia (1991–1995)
TypeField army
Part ofOdessa Military District
Moscow Military District
HeadquartersChișinău (1956–1984)
Tiraspol (1984–1995)
Equipment

EngagementsWarsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
Transnistria War (unofficially)
DecorationsOrder of the Red Banner Order of the Red Banner
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Alexander Lebed

The 14th Guards Combined Arms Army (Russian: 14-я гвардейская общевойсковая армия) was a field army of the Red Army, the Soviet Ground Forces, and the Russian Ground Forces, active from 1956 to 1995. By the 1990s, according to sources within the 14th Army, the majority of its troops came from what would become the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, with 51% of officers and 79% of draftees coming from this region.[1]

History

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Formation and Soviet era

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The 14th Army was established on 25 November 1956 from the Odessa Military District's 10th Guards Budapest Rifle CorpsinChișinău.[2][3] The rifle corps took part in the Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive as part of the 5th Shock Army and the Budapest Offensive as part of the 46th Army. After the war, units of the army such as the 33rd Guards Motor Rifle Division were stationed in the Romanian People's Republic until they were withdrawn (or disbanded, in 33rd Guards MRD's case[4]) between 1958 and 1960. On 3 November 1967, the army was renamed the 14th Guards Combined Arms Army on the orders of Marshal of the Soviet Union Rodion Malinovsky. In August 1968, one of the army's divisions, the 48th Motor Rifle Division, took part in the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, joining the Central Group of Forces. The army was awarded the Order of the Red Banner on 28 October 1974, by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. It began to recruit Transnistrian youths for military service in the early 70s, which would later become the army's main ethnic majority. In the early 1980s, the headquarters was moved to Tiraspol, the capital of Soviet Transnistria.[5] On 1 April 1992, the President of Russia Boris Yeltsin ordered that the 14th Guards Combined Arms Army come under the jurisdiction of the Russian Army.[6]

Transnistrian War

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At the start of the Transnistrian War in March 1992, the Russian government adopted an official policy of neutrality. Despite this, many 14th Guards Army personnel were sympathetic to the creation of the PMR and therefore defected and joined Transnistrian units and participated in the fighting as part of the Armed Forces of Transnistria.[7] Even its own commanding officer, General G. I. Yakovlev, defected to the Transnistrian side, eventually playing a role in the republic's founding and serving as a career politician. Once he accepted the position of Chairman of the Department of Defense PMR on 3 December 1991, Yevgeny Shaposhnikov (Commander-in-Chief of the CIS Armed Forces at the time) immediately and permanently relieved him of his Russian military service.[8] The number of Russian personnel of the army located in Moldova totaled about 14,000 soldiers (conscripts and officers), all of which were supported by 9,000 Transnistrian militiamen who were armed and trained by the 14th Guards Army.[9][10] On 23 June, Major General Alexander Lebed arrived at the headquarters 14th Army in the Transnistrian capital under the orders from the Russian Ground Forces to inspect the army and evacuate the weapons depot.[citation needed]

On close to two weeks later, in the early hours of 3 July, Lebed ordered a massive artillery strike from the left bank of the Dniester onto a Moldovan contingent in Gerbovetskii forest (near Bender). This was considered to be the conflict's climax which ultimately resulted in the end of the conflict's military phase and the beginning of trilateral negotiations between Russia, Transnistria, and Moldova.[11][12]

Disbandment

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After the war, the unit's number of personnel was reduced dramatically, with subordinate units were split between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Armed Forces of Russia. The units that remained were reformed into the Moscow Military District's Operational Group of Russian Forces in Moldova between April–June 1995. This was done at the behest of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. It is generally accepted by the Military of Moldova and the Government of Transnistria that the 14th Army played a critical role in preventing the installation of Moldovan control in the area. Many veterans of the former Russian 14th Army were given local residence in and around Tiraspol.[citation needed]

Structure

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1960–1989

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The following divisions were assigned to the 14th Army in 1960:[2]

In 1964, the 88th Motor Rifle Division became the 180th Motor Rifle Division, and the 118th Motor Rifle Division was redesignated as the 48th Motor Rifle Division.

1988

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Source: Holm, 14th Guards Combined Arms Army.[2]

1990–1992

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As of 19 November 1990, the 14th Guards Army consisted of the units mentioned below:[15]

By 1991, the army was made up of the 59th Guards Motor Rifle Division, two storage bases, and other smaller units, and the 1162nd Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment remaining.

Equipment

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At its peak, the army utilized 229 tanks, 305 various armored vehicles, 328 artillery guns, mortars, and rocket launchers and 74 pieces of aviation transportation.

Vehicles

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Artillery

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Aircraft

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Commanders of the Army

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Lieutenant General Grigory Yashkin delivering an address to troops of the 14th Army on the occasion of the Moldovan SSR's golden jubilee.

The following generals commanded the 14th Guards Army:

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Edward Ozhiganov, "The Republic of Moldova: Transdniester and the 14th Army," in "Managing Conflict in the Former Soviet Union: Russian and American Perspectives," Alexei Arbatov, et al. eds. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997), p. 179.
  • ^ a b c Michael Holm. "14th Guards Red Banner Combined Arms Army". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
  • ^ ""Russian troops in Transnistria – a threat to the security of the Republic of Moldova"". Archived from the original on 2007-10-15. Retrieved 2019-06-06.
  • ^ Holm, 33rd Guards Khersonskaya Red Banner order of Suvorov Motorised Rifle Division
  • ^ https://m.zn.ua/POLITICS/komanduyuschiy_14-y_rossiyskoy_armiey_v_pridnestrovie_aleksandr_lebed_pod_moimi_vorotami_mozhno_vizz.html[permanent dead link]
  • ^ Указ Президента России от 01.04.1992 № 320 «О переходе под юрисдикцию Российской Федерации воинских частей Вооруженных Сил бывшего СССР, находящихся на территории Республики Молдова»
  • ^ Transnistria: relic of a bygone era
  • ^ "Leader". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2019-06-06.
  • ^ "Borderland Europe: Transforming Transnistria?". Archived from the original on 2007-03-25. Retrieved 2019-06-06.
  • ^ Analysis of the Transnistrian Conflict
  • ^ "U.S. and Russian Policymaking With Respect to the Use of Force", chapter 4, Trans-Dniestria
  • ^ "Вождь в чужой стае"
  • ^ a b Holm, Michael. "86th Guards Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
  • ^ Holm, Michael. "180th Motorised Rifle Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2024-05-17.
  • ^ Dnestriansky, I. (26 April 2011). "The 14th Russian Army in the Transnistria Conflict". Art of War. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
  • ^ Holm, Michael. "173rd Missile Brigade". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
  • ^ Holm, Michael. "189th Guards Missile Brigade". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
  • ^ Holm, Michael. "156th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
  • ^ a b V.I. Feskov et al., Вооруженные Силы СССР после Второй мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской (часть 1: Сухопутные войска)" by V.I. Feskov, V.I. Golikov, K.A. Kalashnikov and S.A. Slugin, Tomsk 2014, 640 pages. The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II, from the Red Army to the Soviet (Part 1: Land Forces), 2013, 495.

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