54th Army (Soviet Union)

54th Army
Active	August 1941 – December 1944
Country	Soviet Union
Branch	Red Army
Type	Infantry
Part of	Leningrad Front Volkhov Front 3rd Baltic Front
Engagements	Siege of Leningrad Lyuban Offensive Operation Operation Polar Star Leningrad-Novgorod Offensive Tartu Offensive Riga Offensive
Commanders
Notable commanders	Col. Gen. I.I. Fedyuninsky Lt. Gen. Aleksandr Sukhomlin Lt. Gen. S. V. Roginsky

The Red Army's 54th Army was a Soviet field army during the Second World War. It was first formed in the Leningrad Military District in August, 1941, and continued in service in the northern sector of the Soviet-German front until the end of 1944. It spent much of the war attempting to break the German siege of Leningrad, in which it helped to achieve partial success in January, 1943, and complete success one year later. During these operations the soldiers of the 54th served under five different commanders, most notably Col. Gen. Ivan Fedyuninsky in the winter of 1941–42. After helping to drive Army Group North away from Leningrad and into the Baltic states in the first nine months of 1944, the army was deemed surplus to requirements on the narrowing front, and was officially disbanded on the last day of the year.