14th Guards Combined Arms Army | |
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14-я гвардейская общевойсковая армия | |
Active | 25 November 1956 – June 1995 |
Country | Soviet Union (until 1991) Russia (1991–1995) |
Type | Field army |
Part of | Odessa Military District Moscow Military District |
Headquarters | Chișinău (1956–1984) Tiraspol (1984–1995) |
Equipment | |
Engagements | Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia Transnistria War (unofficially) |
Decorations | Order of the Red Banner |
Commanders | |
Notable commanders | Alexander Lebed |
The 14th Guards Combined Arms Army (Russian: 14-я гвардейская общевойсковая армия) was a field army of the Red Army, the Soviet Ground Forces, and the Russian Ground Forces, active from 1956 to 1995. By the 1990s, according to sources within the 14th Army, the majority of its troops came from what would become the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, with 51% of officers and 79% of draftees coming from this region.[1]