40th Army (Soviet Union)

Army · Soviet Union · December 24, 1979 – February 15, 1989

The Soviet army in Afghanistan.

View on map Fought in Soviet–Afghan War

Sub-units 4

Regiment 345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment
Division 103rd Guards Airborne Division
Division 108th Motor Rifle Division
Division 5th Guards Motor Rifle Division

Attached units 3

November 19, 1987 – January 10, 1988 201st Guards Military Base Under this formation at Operation Magistral (Wikipedia infobox)
November 19, 1987 – January 10, 1988 103rd Separate Guards Airborne Brigade Under this formation at Operation Magistral (Wikipedia infobox)
November 19, 1987 – January 10, 1988 56th Guards Air Assault Regiment Under this formation at Operation Magistral (Wikipedia infobox)

Movements

September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945 World War II
June 22, 1941 – January 7, 1942 Operation Barbarossa
September 8, 1941 – January 27, 1944 Siege of Leningrad
October 2, 1941 – January 7, 1942 Battle of Moscow
February 6, 1942 Toropets–Kholm offensive
June 28 – July 24, 1942 Battle of Voronezh (1942)
February 19 – March 15, 1943 Third Battle of Kharkov
July 12, 1943 Battle of Prokhorovka
August 24 – December 23, 1943 Battle of the Dnieper
April 8 – May 12, 1944 Crimean offensive
May 8, 1944 Second Battle of Târgu Frumos
June 22 – August 19, 1944 Operation Bagration
October 6–29, 1944 Battle of Debrecen
October 21, 1944 Battle of Carei
October 29, 1944 – February 13, 1945 Budapest offensive
April 2–13, 1945 Vienna offensive
May 6–11, 1945 Prague offensive
August 20–21, 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
December 27, 1979 – February 14, 1989 Headquarters at Kabul Map
December 27, 1979 Operation Storm-333
November 19, 1987 – January 10, 1988 Operation Magistral
January 7–8, 1988 Battle for Hill 3234
February 15, 1989 Last troops cross into the Soviet Union at Termez Map
May 5, 1992 – June 27, 1997 Tajikistani Civil War
August 14, 1992 – September 27, 1993 War in Abkhazia (1992–1993)
September 16–27, 1993 Fall of Sukhumi
December 11, 1994 – August 31, 1996 First Chechen War
August 26, 1999 – April 16, 2009 Second Chechen War
March 6–24, 2000 Battle of Komsomolskoye
February 20, 2014 Russo-Ukrainian War
December 8–22, 2016 Palmyra offensive (December 2016)
February 24 – March 2, 2022 Battle of Kherson
February 24, 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
February 25 – April 8, 2022 Battle of Mykolaiv
February 27 – March 31, 2022 Battle of Bucha
2024 Pokrovsk offensive
February 19, 2025 2025 Sumy offensive