consisted of: 16th Motor Rifle Division (Petrozavodsk) (mobilisation) 109th Motor Rifle Division (Alakurtti) (mobilisation) 116th Motor Rifle Division (Nagorniy/Нагорный) (Murmansk) (mobilisation) 54th Motor Rifle Division (Alakurtti) Established on 4 June 1957 in Alakurtti from the 54th Rifle Division. Composed of 338th Guards Tank Regiment, 221st Guards и 251 (Кандалакша), 281st Motor Rifle Regiments, 441st Artillery Regiment, 454 зрап. In 1987 the 338th Guards Tank Regiment was reduced and renamed 82nd independent Tank Battalion. 111th Motor Rifle Division (Sortavala), 379th Tank Regiment (Lakhdenpokhya, Karelian ASSR) 182* и 185 (Лахденпохья), 184 109 ап, 1037 зрап. In 1987 the tank regiment was reduced to a battalion. 131st Motor Rifle Division (Pechenga) 88th Independent Helicopter Squadron (Apatity, Murmansk Oblast, from 1977) Disbanded 1991 or 1994. (Kirovsk-Apatity Airport) 840th Independent Engineer-Sapper Battalion 6th Missile Brigade (Pinozero, Murmansk Oblast), equipped with R-11 and R-17 SRBMs until 1991, and then OTR-21 Tochka SRBMs until its disbandment in 1998 and several other independent brigades, regiments, and battalions In 1989 the 16th Motor Rifle Division (mobilisation) became the 5186th Base for Storage of Weapons and Equipment (БХВТ) (30th мотострелковая бригада), and the 37th similarly became a weapons and equipment storage base (VKhVT). In 1994-95 the 111th Motor Rifle Division (Sortavala) became the 20th Independent Motor Rifle Brigade and shifted into the 30th Guards Army Corps. In January 1996 it consisted of the 161st Artillery Brigade, the 182nd MRL Regiment, the 485th Separate Helicopter Regiment, the 54th Motor Rifle Division (Allakurtti), and the 131st Motor Rifle Division (Pechenga). It finally disbanded after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1997–98. Sixth Formation In 2010, as part of the creation of the Western Military District / Western Operational-Strategic Command with headquarters at St. Petersburg, the army was reformed. The new 6th Army may include: 6th Combined Arms Army Headquarters in Agalatovo, Leningrad Oblast 95th Command Brigade in Gorelovo, Leningrad Oblast 132nd Signals Brigade in Agalatovo, Leningrad Oblast 25th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade in Vladimirsky Lager, Pskov Oblast 138th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade in Kamenka, Leningrad Oblast 9th Guards Artillery Brigade in Luga, Leningrad Oblast 5th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade in Lomonosov, Leningrad Oblast 26th Missile Brigade, Luga, Leningrad Oblast 30th Engineering Regiment, Kerro, Leningrad Oblast 6th Counter Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Regiment in Sapyornoye, Leningrad Oblast (MUN 12086) 51st Logistics Brigade in Saint Petersburg, Leningrad Oblast The army took part in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Its units fought during the