The 41st Army was reformed on 1 December 1998 from the former headquarters of the
Siberian Military District at
Novosibirsk, part of the Siberian Military District. In 2002, the
122nd Guards Motor Rifle Division was relocated to
Aleysk and became part of the army. During the
Russian military reform in 2009, the division was converted into the 35th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade. On 1 September 2010, the army was transferred to the
Central Military District after the Siberian Military District was disbanded. A dedicated
electronic warfare battalion is scheduled to be formed within the 41st Combined Arms Army by the end of 2019.
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine In the context of the
prelude to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, major elements of the 41st Army were reported to have deployed west to reinforce units in the
Western and
Southern Military Districts assembled to threaten Ukraine. These units were said to include elements of the 35th, 55th Mountain and
74th Guards Motorised Rifle Brigades, as well as elements of the 120th Artillery Brigade, and 119th Missile Brigade, and the 6th Tank Regiment of the
90th Guards Tank Division. All told, some 700 MBTs, IFVs, and SPHs, as well as
Iskander ballistic missile launchers were reported to have been repositioned to the west. Starting during the early hours of February 24, 2022, elements of the 41st Army
invaded Ukraine, crossing the border in the area of
the tripartite border (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus) and going on the
offensive towards
Kyiv. Units of the 41st Army, including the
35th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, the
74th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, and the
55th Mountain Motor Rifle Brigade were reportedly operating near the city of Chernihiv throughout February and March 2022. Major-General
Andrei Sukhovetsky, the deputy chief of the 41st army, was killed during the invasion on February 28. In May 2022, parts of the 41st Combined Arms Army were part of the forces fighting in the
battle of the Siverskyi Donets. By February 2023, the army continued fighting in
Luhansk along the Svatove–Kreminna line where the army's 35th Motor Rifle Brigade was seen fighting Ukrainian forces at
Chervonopopivka. During the 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive, the army was observed to be in the process of a slow redeployment from Luhansk to southern Ukraine in August as fighting intensified there. ==Structure==