The 10th Guards Army was formed on 16 April 1943 from the 30th Army and fought under command of the Western, Kalinin, 2nd Baltic, and Leningrad Fronts from 1943 until the end of the war. Upon formation in 1943, the army was located southwest of Vyazma. The 10th Guards Army had four commanders during the war against Germany: * Apr 1943 - May 1943 Vladimir Kolpakchi * May 1943 - Sep 1943 Kuzma Petrovich Trubnikov * Sep 1943 - Jan 1944 Aleksandr Vasilevich Sukhomlin * Jan 1944 - May 1945 Mikhail Ilyich Kazakov