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382:, 9th Army stepped off on 17 November as part of an assault by both Southern and Southwestern Fronts, and by 29 November, 9th Army in conjunction with 56th Army and other units had cleared Rostov and the city was back in Soviet hands. 9th Army then joined Timoshenko's strategic reserve, to join the battle again when the
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bulge in the front. While being in a secondary sector, 9th Army took much of the force of the German response, Operation
Fridericus. Eight hours into the German counterstroke, at noon on 17 May, elements of the First Panzer and Seventeenth Armies were ten miles into 9th Army's positions and
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operation began. 9th Army joined this assault in
January 1942 when it broke into the German front on the northern Donets along with 6th and 57th Armies, reaching the line Balakleya-Lozovaia-Slavyansk before being halted by repeated German counterattacks.
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about breaking off the
Kharkov offensive in response did not come quickly enough, and 6th and 57th Armies were surrounded in the Izyum pocket with the loss of 200,000 plus men in casualties alone.
332:. Tyulenev ordered a counterattack, and soon 48th Rifle and 2nd Cavalry Corps plus 2nd Mechanised Corps from Southern Front reserve were engaged at Bălți and Stefanesti. Tyulenev then drew off
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under repeated German blows, and by 17 August across the River
Ingulets and over to the eastern bank of the Dnieper. The 'Coastal Group' was meanwhile falling back on
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The
Soviets' next move was a planned offensive orchestrated by Timoshenko, GlavKom Southwest. After still more retreats and the loss of
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threatening the neighbouring 57th Army's rear. Commander, Southern Front, General
Lieutenant R. Ya. Malinovskii, at once drew
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798:"Biography of Marshal of Soviet Union Matvei Vasilevich Zakharov – (Матвей Васильевич Захаров) (1898 – 1972), Soviet Union"
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General Major
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Note: This order of battle disagrees in the matter of the 150th Rifle
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Oreshkin A., " Defensive operation of 9-th army (October – November 1941) ", Moscow, 1960
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as well as assigned aviation units. 9th Army was initially tasked with the capture of
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By 1941 the Army was designated the 9th Separate Army (briefly) and included the
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Military units and formations of the Soviet Union in the Winter War
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as chief of staff, it was tasked to cover the Bălți, Chisinau, and
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War of the White Death: Finland Against the Soviet Union, 1939-40
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and 163rd Rifle Divisions, were defeated by the Finns during the
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245:. It appears to have been disbanded after the end of the war.
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11th Rifle Corps (19th, 57th, 84th, 131st Rifle Brigades)
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9th Rifle Corps (34th, 43rd, 157th, 256th Rifle Brigades)
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Grechko A., " fight for Caucasus ", 2 изд., Moscow, 1973
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Lieutenant General Konstantin Koroteev (March–May 1943)
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Administrative Order of Battle, 9th Army, 22 June 1941
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Robert Kirchubel: Unternehmen Barbarossa, Oxford 2003.
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5th Cavalry Corps (30th, 34th, 60th Cavalry Divisions)
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and the Black Sea coast. (This group later became the
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Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
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Military units and formations disestablished in 1943
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11th Rifle Corps (19th, 84th, 131st Rifle Brigades)
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9th Rifle Corps (43rd, 157th, 256th Rifle Brigades)
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253:In 1940 the Army was created to take part in the
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559:35th Rifle Corps (brigadier I. F. Daschitschew)
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521:Major General (Lieutenant General October 1943)
544:14th Rifle Corps (General Major D. G. Jegerov)
504:Major General (Lieutenant General April 1943)
363:. By early 9 October Army was falling back on
355:By early August, 9th Army was falling back to
316:The first engagement came when Von Schobert's
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375:shattered 9th Army, virtually destroying it.
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237:. Two divisions attached to the army, the
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860:http://samsv.narod.ru/Arm/a09/arm.html
697:1 February 1943 (North Caucasus Front)
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320:crashed into the juncture of 9th and
257:. It was disbanded on 10 July 1940.
830:Erickson, 2003, pp. 255–6, 265
277:(the last under then General Major
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758:Irincheev, Bair (1 January 2012).
716:1 July 1943 (North Caucasus Front)
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616:(General Major J. W. Nowosetski)
598:2nd Cavalry Corps (General Major
445:(22 December 1939 – 5 April 1940)
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574:48th Rifle Corps (major general
508:(September 1942 – February 1943)
466:(9 September 1941 – 20 May 1942)
438:(21 November – 22 December 1939)
41:
213:against Finland as part of the
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305:approaches as part of General
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515:(11 February – 22 March 1943)
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384:Barvenkovo–Lozovaya Offensive
16:WW2 Soviet Red Army formation
635:(Generalmajor P. V. Woloch)
582:30th Mountain Rifle Division
459:(22 June – 9 September 1941)
196:, active from 1939 to 1943.
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344:, the northern bank of the
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487:(24 June – 17 July 1942)
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392:Second Battle of Kharkiv
114:Second Battle of Kharkiv
626:15th Motorised Division
473:(20 May – 18 June 1942)
1460:Guards Tank/Mechanized
821:Erickson, 2003, p. 168
499:Vladimir Marcinkiewicz
420:Battle of the Caucasus
410:Later, as part of the
188:of the Soviet Union's
119:Battle of the Caucasus
729:351st Rifle Divisions
685:333rd Rifle Divisions
633:18th Mechanised Corps
416:Transcaucasian Fronts
350:Separate Coastal Army
338:150th Rifle Divisions
291:18th Mechanised Corps
243:Battle of Suomussalmi
92:Battle of Suomussalmi
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608:9th Cavalry Division
605:5th Cavalry Division
592:150th Rifle Division
568:176th Rifle Division
539:, Stumbling Colossus
525:(June–November 1943)
295:Operation Barbarossa
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587:74th Rifle Division
563:95th Rifle Division
553:51st Rifle Division
548:25th Rifle Division
506:Konstantin Koroteev
483:Lieutenant General
457:Yakov Cherevichenko
448:Lieutenant General
166:Konstantin Koroteev
156:Yakov Cherevichenko
711:207th Tank Brigade
641:47th Tank Division
638:44th Tank Division
622:16th Tank Division
619:11th Tank Division
501:(8–28 August 1942)
492:Feofan Parkhomenko
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576:Rodion Malinovsky
480:(18–24 June 1942)
464:Fyodor Kharitonov
401:5th Cavalry Corps
369:First Panzer Army
324:Armies. North of
283:2nd Cavalry Corps
279:Rodion Malinovsky
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371:. The resulting
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