Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The 10th Army of the Soviet Union's Red Army was a field army active from 1939 to 1944.The Army was formed in September 1939 in the Moscow Military District, and then deployed to the Western Special Military District. During the Soviet invasion of Poland it consisted, according to Steven Zagola, of the 11th Rifle Corps (6th, 33rd, and 121st RD), the 16th Rifle Corps (8th, 52nd, and 55th RDs) and the 3rd Rifle Corps (in reserve) (33 and 113 RDs), under General I.G. Zakharin.On 22 June 1941, at the onset of Operation Barbarossa the Army was part of the Soviet Western Front. It consisted of the 1st Rifle Corps (2nd and 8th Rifle Divisions), 5th Rifle Corps (including 13th, 86th, and 113th Rifle Divisions), 6th Cavalry Corps (6th and 36th Cavalry Divisions), and 6th and 13th Mechanised Corps, under General K.D. Golubev. It was encircled by German forces during the Battle of Bia ystok-Minsk in June 1941 and largely destroyed. T