4th Shock Army

History

• Army defended the frontier along the eastern shore of lakes Velye, Seliger.
• January - February 1942 - participated in the Toropets–Kholm Offensive.
• 22 January 1942, reassigned to the Kalinin Front.
• Participated in the following operations of the Byelorussian Strategic Offensive :
• * Nevel Offensive
• * Gorodok Offensive
• * Polotsk–Vitebsk Offensive
• The second half of 1944 reassigned to the 2nd Baltic, and 1st Baltic fronts, participating in the
• * Rezhitsa–Dvinsk Offensive
• * Riga Offensive
• * Memel Offensive
• * culminating combat operations in the Courland blockade.
• 9 February 1945, the army was reassigned to the 2nd Baltic Front.
• 1 April 1945, the Army is included in the Leningrad Front.
• From the Baltic in the summer of 1945, the army was dispatched to northern Kazakhstan, where its headquarters formed the basis of the new Steppe Military District. Two rifle corps and six rifle divisions arrived alongside the army.

  Battle composition

• 320 separate ski-destroyer battalion
• 262 - 266 separate ski battalions

  Commanders

• Colonel-General Andrey Yeryomenko
• Lieutenant General Filipp Golikov
• Major-General, in May 1942, Lieutenant-General Vladimir Kurasov
• Major General Dmitry Seleznev
• Major-General, to October 1943, Lieutenant-General Vasily Shvetsov - May - December 1943
• Lieutenant General Pyotr Malyshev -

  The members of the Military Council

• Brigadier Commissioner Rudakov, Mikhail - December 1941 - November 1942
• Major General Tevchenkov, Alexander - November 1942 - April 1943
• Colonel, in September 1943, Major General Belik Trofim Ya - April 1943 - until the end of the war.

  Chiefs of Staff

• Major General Kurasov, Vladimir V. - December 1941 - March 1942
• Colonel Portugal VK - March–May 1942
• Major General Glinsky, Peter Yevstigneyevich - May 1942 - June 1943
• Major General Kudryashov, Alexander - June 1943 - before the end of the war.