Separate Coastal Army

Separate Coastal Army
ActiveAugust 10, 1941 – July 7, 1942 (1st Formation)
November 15, 1943 – August 1945 (2nd Formation)
CountrySoviet Union
BranchRed Army
TypeCombined Arms Army
RoleField Army
SizeVaries
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The Separate Coastal Army (Russian: Приморская армия), also translated to English as Independent Coastal Army,[1] was an army-level unit in the Red Army that fought in World War II. It was established on July 18, 1941, by the order of the Southern Front from the forces of 9th Army’s Coastal Group and was stood up on July 20, 1941.

  1. ^ Citino, Robert (2007). Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaign of 1942. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. p. 62. ISBN 9780700615315.