4th Shock Army

• Army defended the frontier along the eastern shore of lakes Velye, Seliger.
• January - February 1942 - participated in the Toropets–Kholm Offensive.

comprising 249th, 332nd, 334th, 358th and 360th Rifle Divisions, 21, 39, 48 and 51st rifle brigades, two tank battalions, 2 rocket launcher battalions (batteries), 2 RGK artillery regiments

• 22 January 1942, reassigned to the Kalinin Front (20 October 1943, the 1st Baltic Front).
• Participated in the following operations of the Byelorussian Strategic Offensive (1943):
  • Nevel Offensive
  • Gorodok Offensive
  • Polotsk–Vitebsk Offensive
• The second half of 1944 reassigned to the 2nd Baltic (4 July), and 1st Baltic (from 8 August) fronts, participating in the
  • Rezhitsa–Dvinsk Offensive
  • Riga Offensive
  • Memel Offensive
  • culminating combat operations in the Courland blockade.
• 9 February 1945, the army was reassigned to the 2nd Baltic Front.
• 1 April 1945, the Army is included in the Leningrad Front.
• From the Baltic in the summer of 1945, the army was dispatched to northern Kazakhstan, where its headquarters formed the basis of the new Steppe Military District (on 9 May 1945? - source Ruwiki). Two rifle corps and six rifle divisions arrived alongside the army.[1]

4th Shock Army separate reserve battalion airfield services (4 March 1942 to 28 April 1942). Reformed as the 832th separate battalion airfield services 28 April 1942.[2]

• 320 separate ski-destroyer battalion
• 262 - 266 separate ski battalions (February to May 1942)[3]

• Colonel-General Andrey Yeryomenko (December 1941 - February 1942)
• Lieutenant General Filipp Golikov (February - March 1942)
• Major-General, in May 1942, Lieutenant-General Vladimir Kurasov (March 1942 - April 1943)
• Major General Dmitry Seleznev (April - May 1943)
• Major-General, to October 1943, Lieutenant-General Vasily Shvetsov - May - December 1943
• Lieutenant General Pyotr Malyshev - (December 1943 – September 1945)[4]

• Brigadier Commissioner Rudakov, Mikhail - December 1941 - November 1942
• Major General Tevchenkov, Alexander - November 1942 - April 1943
• Colonel, in September 1943, Major General Belik Trofim Ya - April 1943 - until the end of the war.

• Major General Kurasov, Vladimir V. - December 1941 - March 1942
• Colonel Portugal VK - March–May 1942
• Major General Glinsky, Peter Yevstigneyevich - May 1942 - June 1943
• Major General Kudryashov, Alexander - June 1943 - before the end of the war.

• Dudarenko ML, lists G., Eliseev T. et al. | title = liberation of the city: A Guide to the liberation of the city during World War II
• Еременко, Андрей Иванович, В начале войны (Eremenko, Andrei Ivanovich, In the beginning of the war)