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58th Combined Arms Army

January 07, 2023

The 58th Combined Arms Army (Russian: 58-я общевойсковая армия) is an army of the Russian Ground Forces, headquartered at Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia-Alania, within Russia's Southern Military District. It was formed in 1941 as part of the Soviet Union's Red Army and has been part of the Russian Army since 1995.

58th Army (I Formation) (Nov. 1941 – Aug. 1942)
58th Army (II Formation) (Aug. 1942 – Oct. 1943)
58th Army (III Formation) (1995–present)
Emblem of the 58th Army
Active1941–present
CountrySoviet Union
Russia (present)
BranchRed Army
Russian Ground Forces (present)
TypeField army
Sizeseveral corps or divisions
Part ofNorth Caucasus Military District (1995–2010)
Southern Military District (2010–present)
Garrison/HQVladikavkaz
Engagements1940-1944 Chechnya insurgency
Second Chechen War
Russo-Georgian War
Russian military intervention in Ukraine
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Commanders
Current
commander		Lieutenant General Mikhail Stepanovich Zusko

World War II

 
Personnel of the directorate of the 58th Combined Arms Army.

It was first formed in the Siberian Military District in November 1941, including the 362nd, 364th, 368th, 370th, 380th, and 384th Rifle Divisions and the 77th Cavalry Division and moved to the Arkhangelsk Military District, but then the Army was redesignated the 3rd Tank Army in May 1942. It was reestablished within the Kalinin Front in June 1942, and in July included the 16th and 27th Guards Rifle Divisions, the 215th and 375th Rifle Divisions, the 35th and 81st Tank Brigades, and other support units.[1]

It was reformed in the Transcaucasian Front from the 24th Army on 28 August 1942, under General Vasily Khomenko of the NKVD. Much of its senior cadre also came from the NKVD, and among its missions was to keep order in the Caucasus, particularly in the Groznyi and Makhachkala regions.[2] This was because of a Chechen uprising that had gone on since 1941 (see 1940-1944 Chechnya insurgency). 58th Army later joined the North Caucasus Front. On 1 November 1942 it consisted of the 271st and 416th Rifle Division, and the Makhachkala Division of the NKVD.[3] Prior to the North Caucasus Front putting its main effort into the Kerch-Eltigen Operation (November 1943) the Army HQ was reorganised as Headquarters Volga Military District in October 1943.[4]

Commanders

  • Vasily Kuznetsov (November 1941)
  • Nikolai Moskvin (November 1941 — May 1942)
  • Aleksei Zygin (June — August 1942)
  • Vasily Khomenko (September — November 1942)
  • Kondrat Melnik (November 1942 — October 1943)

Chief of Staff

Second Chechen War (1999–2000)

The headquarters was reformed in 1995 in the North Caucasus Military District from the 42nd Army Corps at Vladikavkaz.
During the Second Chechen War, the Army was commanded by then Lieutenant General Vladimir Shamanov,[5] who was succeeded by army chief of staff and first deputy commander Major General Valery Gerasimov.[6]

Beslan school siege

In 2004, units from the 58th provided assistance with armoured vehicles to the forces involved storming the school on the third day of the Beslan school siege.

Russo-Georgian War (2008)

On 3 August 2008, five battalions of the Russian 58th Army were moved to the vicinity of Roki Tunnel that links Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia with Russia's North Ossetia.[7]

On 8 August 2008 [8][9][10] the 58th Army crossed the border into Georgia and engaged in combat against Georgian forces, most notably in the city of Tskhinvali.[11][12] Its then-commander, Lieutenant General Anatoly Khrulyov was wounded in action.[13]

Russian invasion of Ukraine (2014–present)

 
BM-21 "27777" launch vehicle at display in Kyiv 2014.

In June 2014 Ukrainian troops captured a damaged BM-21 Grad launcher, which the Ukrainians identified as equipment of the 58th Army of the Russian Federation.[14]

Major general Sergey Kuzovlev became commander of the army on 18 August 2016.[15] In late 2016 the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division had been reformed from the 8th Guards Mountain Motor Rifle Brigade, the 17th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, and the 18th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade.[16] In January 2017, 20th Guards Army commander Major general Yevgeny Nikiforov replaced Kuzovlev.[17]

On the eve of the 2022 Russo-Ukraine War, it was reported that the headquarters of the 58th Army had deployed to Crimea commanding between 12 and 17 battalion tactical groups.[18][19]

About 300 South Ossetian soldiers of 4th Guards Military Base were reported in late March to have refused to return to combat after five days on the frontline in Ukraine, and instead gone back to South Ossetia.[20][21]

Order of Battle, 2003

 
Structure 58th Army (2003).

The Army operates in a close coordination with the 4th Air Force and Air Defence Army of the district, and includes:[22]

  • 42nd Motor Rifle Division – Khankala and Kalinovskaya in the Chechnya
  • 19th Motor Rifle Division – Vladikavkaz
  • 205th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade – Budyonnovsk
  • 136th Guards Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade – Buynaksk, Dagestan
  • 135th Separate Motorized Rifle Regiment – Prochladny, Kabardino-Balkaria
  • 291st Separate Artillery Brigade – Maikop – (equipped with 2A65)
  • 943rd Multiple Rocket Launcher Regiment – Krasnooktabrsky (Uragan 220mm MRL)
  • 1128th Anti-Tank Regiment – Maikop
  • 67th Separate Anti-Aircraft Rocket Brigade (SAM) – Volgograd area (SA-11 'Buk' SAM)
  • 487th Separate Helicopter Regiment (Mi-8/Mi-24) – Budyonnovsk
  • 11th Separate Engineer Regiment – Kavkazskay
  • 234th Separate Signals Regiment – Vladikavkaz
  • 22nd Separate Regiment of Electronic Warfare- Vladikavkaz

Order of Battle, 2016

Order of Battle, 2021

PP-2005 pontoon bridge of the 78th Logistic Support Brigade. 31 January 2020.

Notes

  1. ^ Combat Composition of the Soviet Army 20 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine, 1 July 1942
  2. ^ David Glantz, personal correspondence, December 2007
  3. ^ BSSA via
  4. ^ David Glantz, Companion to Colossus Reborn, 2005, p.59
  5. ^ p.109, Murphy
  6. ^ "Из суворовцев – в стратеги". redstar.ru. Retrieved 13 May 2022.
  7. ^ . BBC Monitoring, 6 August 2008
  8. ^ Torrey Clark and Greg Walters, Putin Says `War Has Started,' Georgia Claims Invasion (Update4), Bloomberg.com, 8 August 2008
  9. ^ Finn, Peter (9 August 2008). "Russian Air, Ground Forces Strike Georgia". The Washington Post.
  10. ^ "Russian tanks enter South Ossetia". BBC News. 8 August 2008.
  11. ^ http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L8402970.htm Oleg Shchedrov reporting for Reuters, Russian troops close to S. Ossetian capital, Moscow, 8 13 August:38:12 GMT (Reuters)
  12. ^ http://lenta.ru/news/2008/08/08/peacekeepers/ Минобороны РФ заявило о расстреле российских миротворцев, Lenta.ru, Rambler Media Group, Saturday, 09.08.2008, 03:45:33
  13. ^ Solovyov, Dmitry (9 August 2008). "Russian general wounded in Georgia's rebel region". Reuters. Retrieved 9 August 2008.
  14. ^ "Statement by the Delegation of Ukraine at the 774-th FSC plenary meeting " OSCE, 12/10/2014.
  15. ^ "Заместителем командующего войсками ЮВО стал генерал-лейтенант Андрей Гурулев" [Lieutenant General Andrei Gurulev new Southern Military District deputy commander]. TASS (in Russian). 18 August 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
  16. ^ "В ЮВО на территории Чечни завершается формирование 42-й мотострелковой дивизии". structure.mil.ru. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  17. ^ "Генерал-майор Евгений Никифоров назначен командующим 58-й армией" [Major general Yevgeny Nikiforov appointed 58th Army commander]. TASS (in Russian). 15 January 2017. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
  18. ^ @HN_Schlottman (20 February 2022). "Updated map of BTG deployments IVO #Ukraine. 110 to match released US intel assessments. ~90 are located on this ma…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  19. ^ Batashvili, David (20 February 2022). "Rondeli Russian Military Digest: Issue 121, 14 February - 20 February 2022". Georgian Foundation For Strategic and International Studies. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
  20. ^ "S. Ossetian Servicemen Make Puzzling Retreat from Ukraine". Civil.ge. 1 April 2022. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
  21. ^ "Псков, Краснодар, Южная Осетия: сколько военных и откуда отказываются воевать в Украине". BBC Russian Service (in Russian). 7 April 2022. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
  22. ^ Russian Ground Forces in the North Caucasus Military District v.1.0 1 December 2003, Colin Robinson (editing and some text), Vadim Teplitskiy(unit list), and Craig Crofoot (history text), via http://www.orbat.com
  23. ^ a b "Чеченские мотострелки передислоцированы на Ставрополье" [Chechen motor rifles relocated to Stavropol]. Caucasian Knot (in Russian). 26 August 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  24. ^ "Войсковая часть 27777 (18-я ОМСБр)" [Military Unit No. 27777 (18th OMSBr)]. voinskayachast.net (in Russian). 4 September 2015. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
  25. ^ "Войсковая часть 20634 (19-я ОМСБр)" [Military Unit Number 20634 (19th OMSBr)]. voinskayachast.net (in Russian). 17 March 2015. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  26. ^ "Войсковая часть 22220 (20-я Гв.ОМСБр)" [Military Unit Number 22220 (20th Gv OMSBr]. voinskayachast.net (in Russian). 7 May 2015. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  27. ^ "Войсковая часть 63354 (136-я ОМСБр)" [Military Unit Number 63354 (136th OMSBr)]. voinskayachast.net (in Russian). 10 March 2015. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  28. ^ "Войсковая часть 64670 (291-я АртБр)" [Military Unit Number 64670 (291st ArtBr)]. voinskayachast.net (in Russian). 16 November 2015. Retrieved 3 October 2016.

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The 58th Combined Arms Army Russian 58 ya obshevojskovaya armiya is an army of the Russian Ground Forces headquartered at Vladikavkaz North Ossetia Alania within Russia s Southern Military District It was formed in 1941 as part of the Soviet Union s Red Army and has been part of the Russian Army since 1995 58th Army I Formation Nov 1941 Aug 1942 58th Army II Formation Aug 1942 Oct 1943 58th Army III Formation 1995 present Emblem of the 58th ArmyActive1941 presentCountrySoviet UnionRussia present BranchRed ArmyRussian Ground Forces present TypeField armySizeseveral corps or divisionsPart ofNorth Caucasus Military District 1995 2010 Southern Military District 2010 present Garrison HQVladikavkazEngagements1940 1944 Chechnya insurgencySecond Chechen WarRusso Georgian WarRussian military intervention in Ukraine 2022 Russian invasion of UkraineCommandersCurrentcommanderLieutenant General Mikhail Stepanovich Zusko Contents 1 World War II 1 1 Commanders 1 2 Chief of Staff 2 Second Chechen War 1999 2000 2 1 Beslan school siege 3 Russo Georgian War 2008 4 Russian invasion of Ukraine 2014 present 5 Order of Battle 2003 6 Order of Battle 2016 7 Order of Battle 2021 8 NotesWorld War II Edit Personnel of the directorate of the 58th Combined Arms Army It was first formed in the Siberian Military District in November 1941 including the 362nd 364th 368th 370th 380th and 384th Rifle Divisions and the 77th Cavalry Division and moved to the Arkhangelsk Military District but then the Army was redesignated the 3rd Tank Army in May 1942 It was reestablished within the Kalinin Front in June 1942 and in July included the 16th and 27th Guards Rifle Divisions the 215th and 375th Rifle Divisions the 35th and 81st Tank Brigades and other support units 1 It was reformed in the Transcaucasian Front from the 24th Army on 28 August 1942 under General Vasily Khomenko of the NKVD Much of its senior cadre also came from the NKVD and among its missions was to keep order in the Caucasus particularly in the Groznyi and Makhachkala regions 2 This was because of a Chechen uprising that had gone on since 1941 see 1940 1944 Chechnya insurgency 58th Army later joined the North Caucasus Front On 1 November 1942 it consisted of the 271st and 416th Rifle Division and the Makhachkala Division of the NKVD 3 Prior to the North Caucasus Front putting its main effort into the Kerch Eltigen Operation November 1943 the Army HQ was reorganised as Headquarters Volga Military District in October 1943 4 Commanders Edit Vasily Kuznetsov November 1941 Nikolai Moskvin November 1941 May 1942 Aleksei Zygin June August 1942 Vasily Khomenko September November 1942 Kondrat Melnik November 1942 October 1943 Chief of Staff Edit Yakov Dashevsky March 1943 Second Chechen War 1999 2000 EditThe headquarters was reformed in 1995 in the North Caucasus Military District from the 42nd Army Corps at Vladikavkaz During the Second Chechen War the Army was commanded by then Lieutenant General Vladimir Shamanov 5 who was succeeded by army chief of staff and first deputy commander Major General Valery Gerasimov 6 Beslan school siege Edit In 2004 units from the 58th provided assistance with armoured vehicles to the forces involved storming the school on the third day of the Beslan school siege Russo Georgian War 2008 EditOn 3 August 2008 five battalions of the Russian 58th Army were moved to the vicinity of Roki Tunnel that links Georgia s breakaway South Ossetia with Russia s North Ossetia 7 On 8 August 2008 8 9 10 the 58th Army crossed the border into Georgia and engaged in combat against Georgian forces most notably in the city of Tskhinvali 11 12 Its then commander Lieutenant General Anatoly Khrulyov was wounded in action 13 Russian invasion of Ukraine 2014 present Edit BM 21 27777 launch vehicle at display in Kyiv 2014 In June 2014 Ukrainian troops captured a damaged BM 21 Grad launcher which the Ukrainians identified as equipment of the 58th Army of the Russian Federation 14 Major general Sergey Kuzovlev became commander of the army on 18 August 2016 15 In late 2016 the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division had been reformed from the 8th Guards Mountain Motor Rifle Brigade the 17th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade and the 18th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade 16 In January 2017 20th Guards Army commander Major general Yevgeny Nikiforov replaced Kuzovlev 17 On the eve of the 2022 Russo Ukraine War it was reported that the headquarters of the 58th Army had deployed to Crimea commanding between 12 and 17 battalion tactical groups 18 19 About 300 South Ossetian soldiers of 4th Guards Military Base were reported in late March to have refused to return to combat after five days on the frontline in Ukraine and instead gone back to South Ossetia 20 21 Order of Battle 2003 Edit Structure 58th Army 2003 The Army operates in a close coordination with the 4th Air Force and Air Defence Army of the district and includes 22 42nd Motor Rifle Division Khankala and Kalinovskaya in the Chechnya 19th Motor Rifle Division Vladikavkaz 205th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade Budyonnovsk 136th Guards Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade Buynaksk Dagestan 135th Separate Motorized Rifle Regiment Prochladny Kabardino Balkaria 291st Separate Artillery Brigade Maikop equipped with 2A65 943rd Multiple Rocket Launcher Regiment Krasnooktabrsky Uragan 220mm MRL 1128th Anti Tank Regiment Maikop 67th Separate Anti Aircraft Rocket Brigade SAM Volgograd area SA 11 Buk SAM 487th Separate Helicopter Regiment Mi 8 Mi 24 Budyonnovsk 11th Separate Engineer Regiment Kavkazskay 234th Separate Signals Regiment Vladikavkaz 22nd Separate Regiment of Electronic Warfare VladikavkazOrder of Battle 2016 Edit8th Guards Mountain Motor Rifle Brigade Borzoy 23 17th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade Shali 23 18th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade Khankala and Kalinovskaya Chechnya 24 19th Motor Rifle Brigade Vladikavkaz 25 20th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade Volgograd 26 136th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade Buynaksk 27 291st Artillery Brigade Troitskaya 28 Order of Battle 2021 Edit source source source source source source source source source source source source source source PP 2005 pontoon bridge of the 78th Logistic Support Brigade 31 January 2020 19th Motor Rifle Division upgraded from brigade to division level strength in 2020 Vladikavkaz 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division Khankala Shali Kalinovskaya Borzoy in Chechnya 136th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade Buynaksk in Dagestan 12th Rocket Brigade Mozdok 67th Anti Aircraft Rocket Brigade Vladikavkaz 291st Artillery Brigade Troitskaya 100th Reconnaissance Brigade Mozdok 7 4th Guards Military Base Java and Tskhinvali in South Ossetia 34th Headquarters Brigade Vladikavkaz 40th NBC Protection Regiment Troitskaya 31st Engineer Sapper Regiment Prokhladny 78th Logistic Support Brigade Budyonnovsk 14th Electronic Warfare Battalion Vladikavkaz Notes Edit Combat Composition of the Soviet Army Archived 20 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine 1 July 1942 David Glantz personal correspondence December 2007 BSSA via David Glantz Companion to Colossus Reborn 2005 p 59 p 109 Murphy Iz suvorovcev v strategi redstar ru Retrieved 13 May 2022 Talking Through Gritted Teeth BBC Monitoring 6 August 2008 Torrey Clark and Greg Walters Putin Says War Has Started Georgia Claims Invasion Update4 Bloomberg com 8 August 2008 Finn Peter 9 August 2008 Russian Air Ground Forces Strike Georgia The Washington Post Russian tanks enter South Ossetia BBC News 8 August 2008 http www alertnet org thenews newsdesk L8402970 htm Oleg Shchedrov reporting for Reuters Russian troops close to S Ossetian capital Moscow 8 13 August 38 12 GMT Reuters http lenta ru news 2008 08 08 peacekeepers Minoborony RF zayavilo o rasstrele rossijskih mirotvorcev Lenta ru Rambler Media Group Saturday 09 08 2008 03 45 33 Solovyov Dmitry 9 August 2008 Russian general wounded in Georgia s rebel region Reuters Retrieved 9 August 2008 Statement by the Delegation of Ukraine at the 774 th FSC 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June 2022 Pskov Krasnodar Yuzhnaya Osetiya skolko voennyh i otkuda otkazyvayutsya voevat v Ukraine BBC Russian Service in Russian 7 April 2022 Retrieved 5 June 2022 Russian Ground Forces in the North Caucasus Military District v 1 0 1 December 2003 Colin Robinson editing and some text Vadim Teplitskiy unit list and Craig Crofoot history text via http www orbat com a b Chechenskie motostrelki peredislocirovany na Stavropole Chechen motor rifles relocated to Stavropol Caucasian Knot in Russian 26 August 2016 Retrieved 3 October 2016 Vojskovaya chast 27777 18 ya OMSBr Military Unit No 27777 18th OMSBr voinskayachast net in Russian 4 September 2015 Retrieved 12 August 2016 Vojskovaya chast 20634 19 ya OMSBr Military Unit Number 20634 19th OMSBr voinskayachast net in Russian 17 March 2015 Retrieved 3 October 2016 Vojskovaya chast 22220 20 ya Gv OMSBr Military Unit Number 22220 20th Gv OMSBr voinskayachast net in Russian 7 May 2015 Retrieved 3 October 2016 Vojskovaya chast 63354 136 ya OMSBr 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