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The 70th Army was a Soviet field army during World War II. It was the last combined-arms army, and the highest-numbered, to be formed by the STAVKA during the war. It was active at the Battle of Kursk, the Lublin–Brest Offensive, and the Berlin Strategic Offensive, among other actions. ==Formation== The army began forming in October 1942 near Sverdlovsk in Siberia as a separate NKVD Army of the STAVKA Reserve.〔Walter S. Dunn, Jr.; ''Stalin's Keys to Victory''; Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA, 2007; p 121〕 It was recruited primarily from NKVD border guards, with other redundant manpower from lines of communications troops and GULAG personnel.〔Charles C. Sharp, ''"Red Swarm", Soviet Rifle Divisions Formed From 1942 to 1945, Soviet Order of Battle World War II, Vol. X'', 1996, pp 38, 39, 54, 65, 71, 73〕 In a decree signed by Gen. G.K. Zhukov the army became part of the Red Army: The reinforcing and support units included the 27th Separate Tank Regiment and 378th Anti-Tank Regiment. 70th Army was assigned to the re-deploying Don Front (soon re-designated Central Front) under command of Gen. K.K. Rokossovsky. It was some time before Rokossovsky could knock it into shape as a front-line formation, forcing him to remove many senior, ex-NKVD officers.〔David Glantz, "Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky", in ''Stalin's Generals'', (Harold Shukman, Ed.), Phoenix Press, 2001, p 187〕 From 28 February the 70th Army took part in both offensive and defensive operations to the northwest of Kursk. Central Front exploited a gap between the weak Second German Army and the Second Panzer Army, but was brought to a halt by the spring rasputitsa, German reserves released by their evacuation of the Rzhev Salient, and the German counter-offensive to the south. The Front's armies created defenses in depth during the lull in operations during the spring. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「70th Army (Soviet Union)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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