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Property	Value
rdf:type	Military Unit
rdfs:label	8th Army (Soviet Union)
rdfs:comment	The 8th Army was a field army of the Soviet Red Army during the Second World War. The 8th Army was formed in October 1939 (or 14 September 1939) from the Novgorod Army Operational Group of the Leningrad Military District with the task of providing security of the Northwestern borders of the USSR. (The Novgorod Group had been created a month before, on 13 August 1939 by the order No. 0129 of the Chairman of the People's Commissariat for Defence, Marshal of the Soviet Union K.E. Voroshilov. The Group was created for operations in Estonia and Latvia.)
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Branch	Red Army
command structure	dbkwik:resource/LbYFm1ZJla2iEBqyuz3sZQ==
Country	Soviet Union
Dates	-1945
Unit Name	8
Battles	Siege of Leningrad Operation Barbarossa Winter War Battle of Narva (1944)
Size	several corps
abstract	The 8th Army was a field army of the Soviet Red Army during the Second World War. The 8th Army was formed in October 1939 (or 14 September 1939) from the Novgorod Army Operational Group of the Leningrad Military District with the task of providing security of the Northwestern borders of the USSR. (The Novgorod Group had been created a month before, on 13 August 1939 by the order No. 0129 of the Chairman of the People's Commissariat for Defence, Marshal of the Soviet Union K.E. Voroshilov. The Group was created for operations in Estonia and Latvia.)