15th Army (Soviet Union)

15th Army
Active	1940 (1940)-1945
Country	Soviet Union
Branch	Red Army
Size	several divisions
Part of	Far Eastern Front
Engagements	Winter War, Soviet invasion of Manchuria

The 15th Army was a field army of the Soviet Red Army during the Second World War.

The 15th Army, as part of the 8th Army, took part in the Winter War from February 12 to March 13.

Reformed at Birobidzhan, Soviet Union, from the 2nd Red Banner Army in June 1940. It formed in July 1940 as part of the Far Eastern Front. Until August 1945 the army defended the Far Eastern borders of the USSR. On August 5 it was incorporated into the newly created 2nd Far Eastern Front. On August 9, during the Soviet-Japanese War, the 15th Army, consisting of shock troops, participated in the Sungari operation. Its advance units entered Harbin on August 20. Through the end of August the 15th Army destroyed the scattered pieces of the Japanese Kwantung Army. Conducted border operations through mid-1945. Participated in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria and the crossing of the Amur River in August 1945.

Composition April 1943

• 34th Rifle Division
• 39th Rifle Division
• Novoye Fortified Area
• 203rd Tank Brigade

Composition August 1945

• 34th Rifle Division
• 361st Rifle Division
• 388th Rifle Division
• 171st Tank Brigade

External links

• Leo Niehorster, - Order of battle 22 June 1941