2nd Red Banner Army

2nd Red Banner Army
Active	July 1938 – December 1945
Country	Soviet Union
Branch	Red Army
Size	9 August 1945: around 54,000 men[1] 240 tanks[2] 1,270 guns and mortars[2]
Part of	Far Eastern Front
Engagements	Invasion of Manchuria
Decorations	Order of the Red Banner
Commanders
Notable commanders	Ivan Konev

The 2nd Red Banner Army (Russian: 2-я Краснознамённая армия, romanized: 2-ya Krasnoznamennaya armiya) was a Soviet field army of World War II that served as part of the Far Eastern Front.

The army was formed at Khabarovsk in the Soviet Far East in 1938 as the 2nd Army. After the Far Eastern Front was split in September that year it became the 2nd Independent Red Banner Army. When the front was reformed in June 1940, the army was redesignated as the 2nd Red Banner Army, stationed in the Blagoveshchensk area. It spent the bulk of World War II guarding the border in that area, sending formations to the Eastern Front while undergoing several reorganizations. In August 1945, the army fought in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, capturing the Japanese fortified regions of Aihun and Sunwu adjacent to its sector of the border, and advancing into Manchuria to Qiqihar. The army was disbanded after the war in late 1945.