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The Fourth Army was created in August 1939 in the Special Belorussian Military District as part of the Belarussian Front . In September 1939 , the Fourth Army took part in the campaign in western Belarus and Poland . Its order of battle in that operation is listed Here . After the start of the Great Patriotic War , it comprised a part of the Western Front and had the 28th Rifle Corps, 14th Mechanised Corps, and two other Rifle Divisions, including the 75th. It took part in the defenses of the area around Brest, Belarus and subsequently Propoisk . At the end of July 1941 , the Fourth Army began to dissolve. The Fourth Army's staff members were absorbed into the general staff of the Central Front , and the troops were absorbed into other armies. At the end of September 1941 , the Fourth Army was formed as an independent army for the second time. The Fourth Army participated in the defense and attack of Tikhvin from October to December 1941 . On December 17 , 1941 , the Fourth Army was allocated to the Volkhov Front . From January 1942 to November 1943 , the Fourth Army fought on the front in Volkhov and Leningrad while also doing many rear-area duties. Unlike in other parts of the Eastern Front , the Red Army was not making significant gains in the north by 1943 . The Fourth Army was disbanded in November 1943 and set up again in January 1944 as part of the Transcaucasus Front . The staff of the Fourth Army was composed of the staff of the 34th Army . The Fourth Army was stationed in Iran until August 1945 in accordance with the Soviet-Iranian Treaty Of 1921 . Commanders During World War II
POSTWAR The Fourth Army was stationed in the years after World War II in the Azerbaijan SSR within the Transcaucasus Military District until the fall of the Soviet Union. It was headquartered at Baku , and after it arrived from Iran in 1946 the Baku Military District was abolished. Most of the divisions listed below joined the Army's forces in the Baku region toward the end of the 1940s. From its wartime divisions, toward the end of the 1980s only the 60th Motor Rifle Division 'named for Marshal of the Soviet Union F.I. Tolbukhin' (the former 296th, then 6th Rifle Division) remained. In the late 1980s the Fourth Army was comprised of:
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