28th Army (Soviet Union)

28th Army
28th Army
28-я армия
	Memorial stone to the 248th Rifle Division near Divnoe (Дивное) Stavropol Krai
Active	June – 10 August 1941; September 1942 – 1993
Country	Soviet Union
Branch	Red Army / Soviet Army
Type	Combined arms
Size	Field Army; Several corps
Engagements	World War II Eastern Front Donbas strategic offensive (July 1943); Donbas strategic offensive (August 1943); Melitopol Offensive; Battle of Smolensk; Second Battle of Kharkov; Battle of Stalingrad; Prague Offensive; ; Dnieper–Carpathian offensive Nikopol–Krivoi Rog offensive; Bereznegovatoye–Snigirevka offensive; ; Operation Bagration Bobruysk offensive; Minsk offensive; Lublin–Brest offensive; Gumbinnen Operation; ; East Prussian offensive Insterburg-Konigsberg operation; Battle of Berlin; Prague offensive; ; ; ; Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia;
Commanders
Notable; commanders	Lieutenant-General Vladimir Kachalov

The 28th Army (Russian: 28-я армия) was a field army of the Red Army and the Soviet Ground Forces, formed three times in 1941–42 and active during the postwar period for many years in the Belorussian Military District.