General Kachalov was killed by artillery fire on 4 August 1941 during the breakout from the encirclement.

The third formation began on 9 September, from forces assigned to the Stalingrad Military District and Southeastern Front, and was tasked with defending the port city of Astrakhan on the Caspian Sea's northern coast, as well as the lower reaches of the Volga.

On its formation it was under the direct command of the STAVKA, but on 30 September it was subordinated to Stalingrad Front.

On 19 November, just before Operation Uranus began south of Stalingrad, the army was comprised as follows: As of 19 November, the army's ration strength was 64,265 men, with 47,891 men assigned to its combat forces.

[citation needed] In September 1954, the 12th Guards Mozyr Mechanised Division and the 50th Guards Stalino Rifle Division, part of the troops of the 128th Gumbinnen Rifle Corps, were used to form the test units utilised at Totskoye range during the test of a 40-kiloton nuclear bomb.

The 6th Guards Kiev-Berlin Tank Division transferred to Grodno in March 1980 from East Germany.

[6] On the dissolution of the Soviet Union the 28th Army, headquartered at Grodno, included the 6th Guards Tank Division (Grodno), 6314th Weapons and Equipment Storage Base (Slonim), 50th Guards Motor Rifle Division (Brest), and the 5356th Weapons and Equipment Storage Base, also at Brest.