43rd Army (Soviet Union)

43rd Army
Active	1941–1945
Country	Soviet Union
Branch	Red Army
Type	Combined arms
Size	11 divisions
Part of	Western Front Reserve Front 2nd Belorussian Front 3rd Belorussian Front Kalinin Front
Engagements	Battle of Moscow Battle of Smolensk Operation Bagration Baltic Offensive East Prussian Offensive
Commanders
Notable commanders	Konstantin Golubev

The 43rd Army was a Red Army field army of World War II that served on the Eastern Front.

Order of Battle

The official Soviet archives list the composition of the Army on 10 August 1941:^[1]

38th Rifle Division

53rd Rifle Division

145th Rifle Division

149th Rifle Division

211th Rifle Division

217th Rifle Division

222nd Rifle Division

279th Rifle Division

303rd Rifle Division

104th Tank Division

109th Tank Division

Commanders

Lieutenant General I.G. Zakharkin (1 August 1941 - 08 August 1941)

Lieutenant General P. Kurochkin (8 August 1941 – 22 August 1941)

Lieutenant General D. Seleznev (22 August 1941 – 2 September 1941)

Lieutenant General I. Bogdanov (2 September 1941 – 5 September 1941)

Major General P. Sobennikov (5 September - 10 October 1941)

Lieutenant General S. Akimov (10 October 1941 – 29 October 1941)

Major General K. Golubev (29 October 1941 - 22 May 1944)

Lieutenant General P.A. Beloborodov (22 May 1944 - until the end of the war)

Sources

1. Приложение № 2 к директиве Генерального штаба 1970 года № Д-043

• Mikheenkov, Sergey. The road of death. 43rd Army in the battles on the Warsaw highway. Fight with the "Typhoon". 1941-1942. - M.: Tsentrpoligraf, 2013. - 408 p. - (The Forgotten Army. Forgotten army commanders). - 3000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-227-04133-3 OCLC 862347389