#11th army

[deutschland-im-krieg]

Heer (German army) enlisted man and a Feldwebel (NCO), part of the German 11th Army, who distinguished themselves in the Battle of the Kurch Peninsula against the Red Army and were awarded 2nd class Iron Crosses. The soldier and Feldwebel are armed with MP 38 machine pistols, Spring 1942

[fyeah-history]

The 11th Red Army marching down a street in Yerevan, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Armenia on November 29, 1920 The 11th Army (1st formation) of the Red Army was a unit of the then newly created Soviet armed forces. It was formed by the Bolsheviks on October 3, 1918 from the Red Northern Caucasus Army. In February 1919 it was dissolved and was again deployed in March 1919 as a subdivision of the Caspian-Caucasian Front. It took a prominent part in the sovietization of the three republics of the southern Caucasus in 1920-21, when Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia were brought within the orbit of Soviet Russia. In 1939 the 11th Army (2nd formation) was formed in the Belarussian Special Military District (BSMD) from the former Minsk Army Group.

[fuldagap]

11th Army of the Red Army in Baku, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, 1920.