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Boevoi sostav Sovetskoi armii ("Combat composition of the Soviet army") is an official Second World War Soviet Army order of battle published in five parts from 1963 through 1990 by the Voroshilov Academy of the General Staff and Voenizdat.
This is a list of orders of battle, ... Soviet Army divisions: 1917–1945 Soviet Army divisions: 1989–1991 Swiss Armed Forces: Current structure Turkish Army: 2008
This is the order of battle for Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. It was fought between the German -led Axis Forces and the Soviet Forces . The operation started on June 22, 1941, and ended on December 5, 1941, after Operation Typhoon .
Soviet War Memorial (Tiergarten). The Soviet Union's Red Army raised divisions during the Russian Civil War, and again during the interwar period in 1926.Only a few of the Civil War divisions were retained in this period, and even fewer survived the reorganization of the Red Army during the 1937–1941 period.
On 22 June 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, [17] but by December the Soviet Army managed to stop the attack just shy of Moscow. On Stalin's orders, the Soviet Union launched a counter-attack on Nazi Germany, which finally succeeded in 1945. [18]
Soviet postage stamp depicting a politruk throwing a grenade with the phrase "Not a Step Back!". Order No. 227 (Russian: Приказ № 227, romanized: Prikaz No. 227) was an order issued on 28 July 1942 by Joseph Stalin, who was acting as the People's Commissar of Defence. It is known for its line "Not a step back!"
The German 1st Panzer Group and 6th Army attacked and broke through the Soviet 5th Army. [233] Starting on the night of 23 June, the Soviet 22nd and 15th Mechanised Corps attacked the flanks of the 1st Panzer Group from north and south respectively. Although intended to be concerted, Soviet tank units were sent in piecemeal due to poor ...
The plan was for the Red Army to the west of the line to be defeated in a quick military campaign in 1941 before the onset of winter. [5] The Wehrmacht assumed that the majority of Soviet military supplies and the main part of the food and population potential of the Soviet Union existed in the lands that lay to the west of the proposed A-A line. [5]