61st_Army_(Soviet_Union) Knowpia

61st Army
61st Army
Country	Soviet Union
Branch	Red Army
Engagements	Operation Kutuzov; Operation Bagration; Riga Offensive of 1944; Courland Pocket; East Pomeranian Offensive; Battle of Berlin
Commanders
Notable; commanders	Fyodor Kuznetsov; Markian Popov; Pavel Alexeyevich Belov

The 61st Army was a field army of the Red Army and the Soviet Ground Forces. It was created in 1941 and disbanded in 1945. It took part in Operation Bagration and the Riga Offensive of 1944.^[1]^[2]

Structure during the Battle of Kursk edit

During the Battle of Kursk the army was part of the Bryansk Front.^[3]

9th Guards Rifle Corps
- 12th Guards Rifle Division
- 76th Guards Rifle Division
- 77th Guards Rifle Division
97th Rifle Division
110th Rifle Division
336th Rifle Division
356th Rifle Division
415th Rifle Division
12th Anti-Tank Artillery Brigade
68th Tank Brigade
36th Tank Regiment
1539th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment
31st Railroad Armoured Regiment
45th Railroad Armoured Regiment
310th Engineer Battalion
344th Engineer Battalion
60th Guards Artillery Regiment
67th Guards Artillery Regiment
554th Artillery Regiment
547th Mortar Artillery Regiment
533rd Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment
1282nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment
13th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division
- 1065th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment
- 1173rd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment
- 1175th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment
- 1218th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment

The following officers commanded the army:^[4]

Colonel General Fyodor Kuznetsov (10 November–18 December 1941)
Lieutenant General Markian Popov (18 December 1941–28 June 1942)
Lieutenant General Pavel Belov (promoted to Colonel General 26 July 1944; 28 June 1942–after May 1945)

^ Коллектив авторов (1966). Боевой состав Советской Армии. Часть II. (Январь — декабрь 1942 г.) (Военно-Научное управление Генерального Штаба ed.). М.: Военное издательство Министерства обороны СССР. p. 266. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
^ Коллектив авторов (1972). Боевой состав Советской Армии. Часть III. (Январь — декабрь 1943 г.) (Военно-Научное управление Генерального Штаба ed.). М.: Ордена Трудового Красного Знамени Военное издательство Министерства обороны СССР. p. 336. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
^ "61st Army, Bryansk Front, Battle of Kursk, 04.07.1943". niehorster.org. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
^ Beloborodov 1963, pp. 515–516.

Beloborodov, Afanasy, ed. (1963). Военные кадры Советского государства в Великой Отечественной войне 1941 – 1945 гг [Military Leaders of the Soviet State in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945] (in Russian). Moscow: Voenizdat.