27th Army
27-я армия
Active	May – December 1941 1942–1946
Country	Soviet Union
Branch	Red Army
Type	Combined arms
Size	Field Army
Engagements	World War II Baltic Operation Operation Barbarossa Demyansk Pocket Battle of Korsun-Cherkassy Second Jassy–Kishinev offensive Battle of Debrecen Vienna Offensive
Commanders
Notable commanders	Nikolai Berzarin

The27th Army (Russian: 27-я армия) was afield army of the Soviet Union'sRed Army, which fought in World War II.

The 27th Army was formed in May 1941, under the command of Major GeneralNikolai Berzarin. On 22 June 1941 it consisted of the22nd and24th Territorial Rifle Corps, the16th and67th Rifle Divisions, 3rd Separate Rifle Brigade, two artillery regiments, and two anti-tank regiments.^[1] It became part of theNorthwestern Front on the outbreak ofOperation Barbarossa, fighting in the Soviet defense of the Baltic, known in Soviet historiography as theBaltic Strategic Defensive Operation.

From June to October 1941 the 27th Army fought on theDvina River, during theStaraya Russa Offensive, and atKholm andDemyansk. By 1 November 1941 the army's forces had been reduced to the23rd and33rd Rifle Divisions, the 613th Artillery Regiment of theReserve of the Supreme High Command (RVGK), the28th Tank Division, and three Battalions of engineers.^[2]

In December 1941 the first formation of the army was renamed the4th Shock Army.

The army reformed in May 1942, within theNorthwestern Front, consisting of five rifle divisions. In April 1943 it was moved into Stavka reserve. From July 1943, it participated in many famous battles, assigned to theSteppe Front, then theVoronezh Front, in theBelgorod-Kharkov operation and theBukrin bridgehead. From October 1943, it fought in the Kiev offensive (with1st Ukrainian Front). Thereafter, assigned to the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Front, it was part of theZhitomir–Berdichev Offensive, theKorsun–Shevchenkovsky Offensive, theUman-Botosani Offensive, theIassy-Kishinev Offensive, theBattle of Debrecen, and theVienna Offensive.^[3]

After the end of the war, it was ordered withdrawn to Romania by 20 August 1945, and concentrated in the areas ofBrăila,Buzău, andGalați in eastern Romania. By November it included the33rd (78th,206th, and337th Rifle Divisions) and the37th Rifle Corps (163rd,316th, and320th Rifle Divisions), as well as the35th Guards Rifle Corps (66th,108th, and the125th Guards Rifle Divisions). Shortly afterwards, the 27th Army was withdrawn to theCarpathian Military District.^[4] There, its headquarters was disbanded on 4 August 1946,^[5] and its three rifle corps were directly subordinated to the district headquarters.^[6]

• Major GeneralNikolai Berzarin (5 May – 25 December 1941)
• Major GeneralFyodor Ozerov (22 May 1942 – 29 January 1943)
• Lieutenant GeneralSergei Trofimenko (29 January 1943 – 9 July 1945), Colonel-General in September 1944
• Colonel GeneralIvan Boldin (9 July 1945 – 5 July 1946)

• Glantz, David; Rikmenspoel, Marc J.; McMichael, Scott R.; Foster, Hugh; Myers, Steven; Khonko, Uri; Khonko, Natalya; Bonn, Keith E. (2005).Slaughterhouse: The Handbook of the Eastern Front.Bedford, Pennsylvania: Aberjona Press.ISBN 0-9717650-9-X.
• Feskov, V.I.; Golikov, V.I.; Kalashnikov, K.A.; Slugin, S.A. (2013).Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской [The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II: From the Red Army to the Soviet: Part 1 Land Forces] (in Russian). Tomsk: Scientific and Technical Literature Publishing.ISBN 9785895035306.

• Field armies of the Soviet Union
• Military units and formations established in 1941
• Military units and formations disestablished in 1946
• 1941 establishments in the Soviet Union
• 1946 disestablishments in the Soviet Union

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