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28-579: It was established on 3 May 1946 on the base of the 1st Ukrainian Front , 4th Ukrainian Front , and Lviv Military District. It became part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 1991 and was disbanded by being redesignated the Western Operational Command in January 1998. Two districts were formed in what was to become the district's territory in 1944 and 1945. During May 1944 in the freed territory of

56-535: A Western army group . They took part in the capture of Berlin , the capital of Nazi Germany . The Voronezh front was established at the end of June 1942 when tanks of the German Wehrmacht 's 6th Army reached Voronezh during the early stages of Operation Blau . It was split off the earlier Bryansk Front in order to better defend the Voronezh region. The name indicated the primary geographical region in which

84-693: A legacy of the Prague Spring events. The armies that were part of the 1st Ukrainian Front included: 3rd Rifle Corps Winter War World War II Pavel Batov Grigory Kulik Konstantin Leselidze Nikolai Gagen Aleksi Inauri Mikhail Mikhailovich Ivanov The 3rd Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army which saw service in World War II and in the 1950s. The corps

112-662: The 133rd Rifle Corps at Stanislav was disbanded with its two divisions. The 31st Tank Division (the former 31st Tank Corps ) was also directly subordinated to the district at Proskurov . By a decree of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union on 3 May 1946, the Lvov and Carpathian Military Districts were merged as the Carpathian Military District with headquarters at Lvov. The District's territory included 10 regions of

140-653: The 50th , 280th , and 395th Rifle , 18th Tank , and the 23rd and 25th Mechanized Divisions were disbanded. The 3rd Mountain Rifle Corps was in the Lvov Military District in September 1945. It became part of the 38th Army in the Carpathian Military District, but disbanded by 1957. Troops of the district, including 57th Air Army, took part in 'Operation Danube,' the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia . Defector Vladimir Rezun (" Viktor Suvorov ") detailed

168-585: The Battle of Kursk in August 1943, the front operated on the southern shoulder, during which it commanded the Battle of Prokhorovka on the Soviet side. During Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev , which began on August 3, 1943, the front included 38th , 40th , 27th Armies ; the 6th and 5th Guards ; and the 1st and 5th Guards Tank Armies. During this battle both the 1st and 5th Guards Tank Armies made their main effort in

196-780: The German Wehrmacht , leaving Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic behind and moving into Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic . During 1944, the front participated with other fronts in the battles of Korsun-Shevchenkivskyy , and the battle of Hube's Pocket in Ukraine. It conducted the Lviv-Sandomierz Offensive , during which the Front was controlling the Soviet 1st Guards Tank Army , 3rd Guards Tank Army , 4th Tank Army , 3rd Guards , 5th Guards Army , 13th , 38th , and 60th Armies and 1st Guards Cavalry Corps . It then took part in

224-616: The Soviet Air Defence Forces were also located there. Scott and Scott reported the HQ address in 1979 as Lviv-8, Vulytsa Vatutina, Bud 12. On 1 September 1990, the 66th Artillery Corps was formed in Novye Belokorovichi, Zhitomir Oblast , from parts of the disbanded HQ 50th Rocket Division , 43rd Rocket Army . This was the first artillery corps, an experiment, formed since the post-World War II demobilization. It took under command

252-558: The Soviet invasion of Hungary and was disbanded there in 1957. Its headquarters was absorbed by the 38th Army . In June 1941 it included the 4th Rifle , 20th Mountain Rifle and the 47th Mountain Rifle Division , as part of Transcaucasus Military District . Upgraded to 46th Army in July 1941 with 4th Rifle, and 9th and 47th Mountain , and in 1941-42 part of Transcaucasus Front , watching

280-659: The Ukrainian SSR – Vinnytsia, Volyn , Zhitomir , Zakarpattia, Stanislav (Ivano-Frankivsk from 1962), Lvov , Rovno , Kamenets-Podolsk (Khmelnitsky from 1954), Ternopol, and Chernovtsy. Simultaneously, the 52nd Army began reorganizing on the district's territory as the 8th Mechanized Army . The newly created district included the 13th and 38th Armies, with air support provided by the 14th Air Army . The 13th and 38th Armies totalled five rifle corps headquarters and seventeen divisions (one tank, five mechanized, one cavalry, two mountain rifle, and eight rifle) between them. In 1947,

308-801: The Vistula-Oder offensive , and conducted the Silesian and Prague Operations, and the siege of Breslau . It also participated in the Berlin operations in Germany and Poland. The front also conducted the major part of the Halbe Encirclement , in which most of the German 9th Army was destroyed south of Berlin. By this time the Polish Second Army was operating as part of the Front. Finally 1st Ukrainian Front provided

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336-806: The West Ukraine the Lvov Military District was formed, headed by the former deputy commander of the 2nd Ukrainian Front . On 9 July 1945 the Carpathian Military District (PrikVO) was ordered created from the headquarters of the 4th Ukrainian Front in Chernovtsy . under the command of former front commander Army General Andrey Yeryomenko . It was responsible for troops on the territory of Stanislav , Ternopol , Chernovtsy , Vinnitsa , Zakarpattia , and Kamenets-Podolsk Oblasts , excluding Berezdovsky , Polonsky , Shepetovsky , Isyaslavsky , and Slavutsky Districts . The district's troops were mainly from

364-520: The 13th Army, as commander of the district on April 7, 1994, in Presidential Ukaz N 143/94. Former Soviet and Western sources agree on an end-1980s figure of three tank divisions and nine or ten motor rifle divisions in the District. In its last years under Ukrainian control the District saw a large reduction in the number of troops within it as Ukraine reduced the 780,000 troops it had inherited from

392-470: The 4th Ukrainian Front, but also included units transferred from the Lvov and Kiev Military Districts . By the fall of 1945, the district included the 27th and 38th Armies , transferred from the Southern and Central Groups of Forces , respectively. The 35th Guards , 33rd , and 37th Rifle Corps were directly subordinated to the district headquarters when 27th Army disbanded around this time. On 8 September

420-527: The 5th Guards Army sector, and succeeded eventually in liberating both Belgorod and Kharkov. One of the divisions in the 5th Guards Army was the 13th Guards Rifle Division . The front also fought in the subsequent liberation of eastern Ukraine . On October 20, 1943, the Voronezh Front was renamed to the 1st Ukrainian Front. This name change reflected the westward advance of the Red Army in its campaign against

448-478: The 7th Regiment of the 24th Mechanized Brigade. The task of creating a new museum was assigned to Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Rogozhin, with the process taking up 3 months in early 1996. 1st Ukrainian Front The 1st Ukrainian Front ( Russian : Пéрвый Украи́нский фронт ), previously the Voronezh Front ( Воронежский Фронт ), was a major formation of the Red Army during World War II , being equivalent to

476-596: The Black Sea coast and the Caucasian passes. Feskov 2013 lists 3rd Mountain Rifle Corps in the Lvov Military District in July 1945 with the 128th Guards Mountain Rifle Division , 242nd , and 318th Mountain Rifle Divisions . By January 1948 242nd RD had disbanded. In 38th Army , Carpathian Military District with 128th Guards Rifle Division and 318th Rifle Division in January 1951. The same two divisions remained in

504-608: The Soviet Union to comply with the treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe . The District's forces at the end of the 1980s included: The Carpathian Military District's commanders included: The Museum of the History of the Troops of the Carpathian Military District ( Ukrainian : Музей історії військ Прикарпатського військового округу ) is a military history museum in Lviv depicting the history of

532-570: The USSR border with Turkey and the Black Sea. Assigned to Steppe Front and then 2nd Ukrainian Front from Sept 1943. The 3rd Mountain Rifle Corps was ordered to form on 7 June 1942 as part of 46th Army with headquarters in Sukhumi . It included the 20th Mountain Rifle Division, 394th Rifle Division , 63rd Cavalry Division and the Sukhumi Infantry School. The corps was tasked with the defense of

560-464: The battle for Ternopil'. The front participated or conducted battles in Ukraine , Poland , Germany , and Czechoslovakia during 1944 and 1945. The 1st Ukrainian often spearheaded the whole Eastern front. The 1st Ukrainian and the 1st Belorussian fronts were the largest and most powerful of all Soviet fronts as they had the objective of reaching Berlin and ending the war. In 1945, the front participated in

588-536: The decision to put it up for sale. In 1999, a multi-story hotel was planned to be built there, but during the excavation work, human bones were found by excavator, which resulted in the ceasing of construction at the request of members of the Lviv City Council. Lieutenant General Shulyak decided to transfer the funds of the former museum to the premises of the Iron Division Museum, located on the territory of

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616-846: The defence against the counter-attacks by Armee Wenck which aimed to relieve Berlin and the 9th Army , later uniting with the Americans on the Elbe River. The front then completed the Prague Offensive which became the final battle of World War II in Europe , therefore ending the war. Following the war, the Front headquarters formed the Central Group of Forces of the Red Army in Austria and Hungary till 1955, and re-instituted in 1968 in Czechoslovakia as

644-489: The disorganization the resulting mobilisation caused in his book The Liberators (1981). The District became subordinate to the Western Strategic Direction in the late 1970s/early 80s. The 8th Tank (formed from 8th Mechanised Army in 1957, which in its turn was formed from the 52nd Army in 1946), 13th, and 38th Armies were stationed in the District for most of its existence. The 14th Air Army and 2nd Army of

672-569: The district. It is located on Stryjska Street on the territory of the 24th Mechanized Brigade . The museum was inaugurated on 7 May 1965 on the eve of the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the victory in the Second World War . It was created on the basis of the Museum of the Great Patriotic War. In 1995, due to lack of funds for the maintenance of the museum, the district authorities made

700-615: The front first fought, based on the town of Voronezh on the Don River. The Voronezh Front participated in the Battle of Voronezh , the defensive operations on the approaches to Stalingrad, and in the December 1942 Operation Saturn , the follow-on to the encirclement of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad where it destroyed the Hungarian Second Army . Following Operation Saturn, the front

728-419: The pre-existing 26th and 81st Artillery Divisions, the 188th heavy howitzer artillery brigade, the 980th anti-tank and 440th reconnaissance artillery regiments and the 1596th property storage base (artillery), the former 72nd Artillery Division (cadre). After the dissolution of the Soviet Union , President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk appointed Lieutenant General Petro Ivanovich Shulyak , former commander of

756-686: Was first formed in 1923 from the 3rd Army Corps in the Moscow Military District and fought in the Soviet invasion of Poland and the Winter War . The corps was disbanded in the summer of 1941 and its headquarters became the 46th Army . The 3rd Mountain Rifle Corps was formed in summer 1942 and fought in the Caucasus, Crimea, Dukla Pass, Carpathia and at Prague. The corps was retained in the Soviet Army postwar and moved to Uzhhorod . The corps fought in

784-568: Was involved in Operation Star , which included the Third Battle of Kharkov , which resulted in a long battle from 2 February to 23 March 1943, and the reversal of much of the Soviet gains by the Germans. During Zvezda the front included the 38th , 40th , 60th , and 69th Armies plus the 3rd Tank Army , resulting in the reorganisation of the 3rd Tank Army as the 57th Army due to its destruction. In

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