8th Guards Army

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Guards formation Soviet military unit field army

The 8th Guards Army was an elite Soviet Red Army formation renowned for its pivotal role in World War II, particularly in the Battle of Stalingrad and subsequent offensives into Eastern Europe and Germany.

Aliases (2)

8-я гвардейская армия ×1
Soviet 8th Guards Army ×1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Guards formation → Soviet military unit → field army →
associatedWith	Soviet advance into Germany → Soviet victory at Stalingrad →
awardedTitleFor	distinguished service at Stalingrad →
conflict	Cold War → World War II →
country	Soviet Union →
eliteUnit	true →
formedFrom	62nd Army after Battle of Stalingrad →
garrison	East Germany →
hasCommander	Aleksei Tsvetayev → Ivan Fedyuninsky → Pyotr Lashchenko → Vasily Chuikov → Vasily Popov → Yevgeny Ivanovsky →
hasMilitaryDesignation	8-я гвардейская армия →
honorificTitle	Guards →
militaryBranch	Ground forces →
militaryFunction	frontline shock army →
notableCommander	Vasily Chuikov →
notableFor	Battle of Berlin → Battle of Stalingrad → East German occupation duty → Silesian Offensives → Vistula–Oder Offensive → urban warfare experience →
operationalTheater	Central Europe → Eastern Front →
participatedIn	Battle of Berlin → Battle of Stalingrad → Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive → Donbas Strategic Offensive → East Pomeranian Offensive → Lublin–Brest Offensive → Vistula–Oder Offensive →
partOf	Red Army →
precededBy	62nd Army →
role	occupation force → offensive operations →
subordinateTo	1st Belorussian Front → 2nd Ukrainian Front → Soviet High Command →
successorUnit	Group of Soviet Forces in Germany components →
tookPartIn	capture of Berlin →

Referenced by (4)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
8th Guards Army ("8-я гвардейская армия") →	hasMilitaryDesignation
Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany ("Soviet 8th Guards Army") →	hasPart
Soviet 62nd Army →	laterDesignation
Warsaw–Praga offensive →	militaryUnit