16th Army (Soviet Union)
The 16th Army Headquarters was formed in July 1940 in the Transbaikal Military District to command Soviet forces deployed in the Dauriya area. On 25 May 1941, four weeks before the commencement of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa, the army received orders to deploy (with six Trans-Baikalian divisions) to the Ukraine to be subordinated to the Kiev Special Military District. The first 16th Army units to arrive (109th Motorized Division of the 5th Mechanized Corps) in Berdichev on 18 June 1941. The Army was commanded by Lieutenant-General М. F. Lukin, and on 22 June the Army Headquarters was located in Orel.
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16th Army (Soviet Union)
The 16th Army Headquarters was formed in July 1940 in the Transbaikal Military District to command Soviet forces deployed in the Dauriya area. On 25 May 1941, four weeks before the commencement of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa, the army received orders to deploy (with six Trans-Baikalian divisions) to the Ukraine to be subordinated to the Kiev Special Military District. The first 16th Army units to arrive (109th Motorized Division of the 5th Mechanized Corps) in Berdichev on 18 June 1941. The Army was commanded by Lieutenant-General М. F. Lukin, and on 22 June the Army Headquarters was located in Orel.
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16 Armia – związek operacyjny ...... en. mjr Konstanty Rokossowski.
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16-я а́рмия (СССР) — оперативн ...... я Великой Отечественной войны.
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The 16th Army Headquarters was ...... as part of the Western Front.
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16 Armia – związek operacyjny ...... en. mjr Konstanty Rokossowski.
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16-я а́рмия (СССР) — оперативн ...... я Великой Отечественной войны.
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The 16th Army Headquarters was ...... dquarters was located in Orel.
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16 Armia (ZSRR)
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16-я армия (СССР)
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16th Army (Soviet Union)
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