newly occupied territory and the state borders of the USSR with Finland and Norway. Commanding officers Lieutenant General V. A. Frolov (October 1939 – August 1941) Major General Roman Ivanovich Panin (August 1941 – March 1942) Major General Vladimir I. Shcherbakov (March 1942 – May 1945), from the end of April 1943 lieutenant general. On 31 July 1945 the army headquarters was disbanded and the personnel were used to fill out Headquarters Belomorsky Military District. 14th Assault Army (1948–1953) The army was reformed in June 1948 from the 126th Light Mountain Rifle Corps as the 14th Army (Assault). According to some data, there were plans for its use in Chukchi Peninsula and, in the case of war, landing in Alaska. The army included the 116th, 117th and 121st Rifle Divisions, all former mountain rifle brigades. These divisions were not equipped like standard rifle divisions and lacked tank and antitank artillery battalions. The army included the 1221st and 1222nd Separate Cannon Artillery Regiments, the 280th Separate Engineer-Sapper Battalion and the 187th and 493rd Separate Communications Battalions as well as the 687th and 1252nd Separate Communications Companies. It was commanded by Lieutenant General Nikolay Oleshev. In 1949, the 95th Mixed Aviation Division (converted to fighters in 1952) at Anadyr became part of the army. On 4 May 1951, Major General Georgy Latyshev took command of the army. Lieutenant General Ivan Rubanyuk became the army commander on 14 April 1952. The army was disbanded in May 1953 after Stalin's death. References Sources Lenskii, Ground forces of RKKA in the pre-war years: a reference (Сухопутные силы РККА в предвоенные годы. Справочник.) — St Petersburg, B & K, 2000 014 Military units and formations established in 1939 Military units and formations disestablished in 1953 1939 establishments in the Soviet Union Military units and formations of the Soviet Union in the Winter War