not taken until 30 April. The final brief offensive of 38th Army began on 6 May when it was one of more than 20 Soviet armies to launch an offensive against the German Army Group Centre in western Czechoslovakia, the key objective of which was Prague. Against collapsing opposition 38th Army advanced more than 100 kilometres west from the Ostrava area before the final surrender of Army Group Centre on 10 May. On 1 May 1945, the army, still part of 4th Ukrainian Front, consisted of the 11th Rifle Corps (30th, 221st, 276th Rifle Divisions), 52nd Rifle Corps (121st, 241st, 305th Rifle Divisions), 101st Rifle Corps (70th Guards Rifle Division, 140th, 183rd, 226th Rifle Divisions), 126th Light Mountain Rifle Corps (31st, 32nd, 72nd Guards Rifle Brigades), 24th Artillery Breakthrough Division (174th Gun Artillery Brigade, 177th Howitzer Brigade, 180th Heavy Howitzer Artillery Brigade, 126th Super-Heavy Howitzer Brigade (габр БМ), 40th Mortar Brigade, 47th Heavy Mortar Brigade, 34th Guards Rocket Artillery Brigade), 3rd Corps Artillery Brigade, 135th Gun Artillery Brigade, 901st Mountain Corps Artillery Regiment, 6th Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment, 130th, 1506th, 1642nd, 1663rd, 1672nd Anti-Tank Artillery Regiments, 197th, 253rd, 496th Mountain Mortar Regiments, 276th, 491st Mortar Regiments, 5th and 16th Guards Rocket Artillery Regiments, 76th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division (223rd, 416th, 447th, 591st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiments), 1954th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment. WW II Commanders Lieutenant General Dmitry Ryabyshev (July - August 1941) Major General of the Tank Forces Nikolay Feklenko (August - September 1941) Major General Viktor Tsyganov (September - December 1941) Major General Aleksey G. Maslov (December 1941 - February 1942) Major General Gavril I. Sherstyuk (February - March 1942) Artillery Major General Kirill Moskalenko (March - July 1942) Colonel-General Nikandr Chibisov (August 1942 - October 1943) Colonel-General Kirill Moskalenko (October 1943 - August 1948) Colonel-General Yakov Kreizer (April 1949 - June 1955) Postwar In January 1951 it comprised 3rd Rifle Corps (128th Guards and 318th RDs), and 35th Guards Rifle Corps (66th and 70th Guards Rifle Divisions). By November 19, 1990, it was located in Ivano-Frankivsk as part of the Carpathian Military District. The army had 413 tanks, 758 BTR and BMP armored personnel carriers, 197 artillery guns and multiple rocket launcher systems, 40 attack and 36 transport helicopters of army aviation. During the late 1980s, the army included the following units: 17th Guards Motor Rifle Division (Khmelnitsky) 128th Guards Motor Rifle Division (Mukachevo) 70th Guards Motor Rifle Division (Ivano-Frankivsk) (disbanded 1991)