14th Panzer Division: Major-General Kuehn
652nd Tank Destroyer Battalion (motorized)
191st Assault Gun Battalion (motorized)
eight motorized artillery battalions (105mm to 240mm)
ILVIII (48th) Motorized Corps: General of Panzer Troops Kempf
11th Panzer Division: Major-General Cruewell
16th Panzer Division: Major-General Hube
57th Infantry Division: Lieutenant-General Bluemm
197th Assault Gun Battalion
six motorized artillery battalions (105mm to 240mm)
XIV (14th) Motorized Corps: General of Infantry von Wietersheim
9th Panzer Division: Lieutenant-General von Hubicki
Motorized Division SS “Wiking”: Brigadenfuehrer Steiner
APPENDIX B
Kiev Special Military District Order of Battle
Commander: Col. Gen. M. P. Kirponos
Political Deputy: Corps Commissar N. N. Vashugin (later Nikita Khruschev)
Chief of Staff: Lt. Gen. M. A. Purkayev
Deputy Commander: Lt. Gen. F. S. Ivanov
Deputy Commander: Lt. Gen.V. F. Yakovlev
Deputy Commander, District Armored Forces: Maj. Gen. R. N. Morgunov
Deputy Commander, District Air Forces: Lt. Gen. E. S. Ptukhin
Deputy Commander, Intelligence: Col. G. I. Bondarev
FORCES DIRECTLY SUBORDINATED TO HQ KIEV SPECIAL MILITARY DISTRICT
Armor
IX Mechanized Corps (20th, 35th Tank Divisions, 131st Motorized Rifle Division)
XV Mechanized Corps (10th, 37th Tank Divisions, 212th Motorized Rifle Division)
XIX Mechanized Corps (40th, 43rd Tank Divisions, 213th Motorized Rifle Division)
XXIV Mechanized Corps (45th, 49th Tank Divisions, 216th Motorized Rifle Division)
1st Separate Armored Train Detachment (35th Heavy and 15th, 17th Light Armored Trains)
Infantry
VII Rifle Corps (147th, 196th, 206th Rifle Divisions)
XXXI Rifle Corps (193rd, 195th, 200th Rifle Divisions)
XXXVI Rifle Corps (140th, 146th, 228th Rifle Divisions)
XXXVII Rifle Corps (80th, 139th, 141st Rifle Divisions)
XLIX Rifle Corps (190th, 197th, 199th Rifle Divisions)
LV Rifle Corps (130th, 169th, 189th Rifle Divisions)
Additional ground forces
V Cavalry Corps (14th Cavalry Division)
1st Airborne Corps (three brigades)
Aviation
17th Bomber Division
18th Bomber Division
19th Bomber Division
36th Fighter (PVO) Division
315th Air Reconnaisance Regiment
316th Air Reconnaisance Regiment
Separate Medical Evacuation Squadron
Fortified districts
1st (Kiev) Fortified District
3rd (Letichev) Fortified District
5th (Korosten) Fortified District (two to seven separate machine-gun battalions)
7th (Novograd-Volynskiy) Fortified District (one machine-gun and one artillery battalion)
13th (Proskurov) Fortified District
14th (Starokonstankinov) Fortified District
15th (Shepetovka) Fortified District
16th (Ostropol) Fortified District
Air Defense Command
(PVO: Protivo-Vozdushnaya Oborona)
Kiev PVO District (3rd PVO Division, 135th and 141st Separate Air Defense Artillery Battalions, 4th Early Detection Regiment)
Lvov PVO District (4th PVO Division, 11th PVO Brigade, 19th Early Detection Battalion, 146th Separate Air Defense Artillery Battalion)
Rovno PVO District (256th, 286th, 374th, 87th Separate Air Defense Artillery Battalions, 29th Early Detection Battalions)
Stanislav PVO District (227th, 85th, 334th Separate Air Defense Battalions, 4th Early Detection Battalion)
Ternopol PVO District (186th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 34th, 126th Separate Air Defense Artillery Battalions)
Zhitomir PVO District (139th, 254th Separate Air Defense Artillery Battalions, 22nd Early Detection Battalion)
Vinnitsa PVO District (375th Separate Air Defense Artillery Battalion, 122nd Air Defense Machine Gun Company, 14th Early Detection Battalion)
5th Searchlight Regiment
Rear Echelon Support Services
Transportation: Special Railroad Corps (seven regiments); one transportation (truck) regiment; Transportation Depot
Artillery Supply: nineteen ammunition depots, one artillery weapons systems depot
Fuel: One distribution depot; forty-two storage depots; one laboratory; one repair depot
Supply: sixteen food storage depots; one bread-baking factory; four equipment/uniform depots; three repair depots
Medical: seventeen hospitals; five medical supply/equipment depots; four laboratories
Veterinary: two vet hospitals; two vet laboratories; two vet supply/equipment depots
FIFTH ARMY
Commander: Maj. Gen. M. I. Potapov
Political Deputy: Division Commissar M. S. Nikishev
Chief of Staff: Maj. Gen. D. S. Pisarevskiy
XV Rifle Corps (45th, 62nd Rifle Divisions)
XXVII Rifle Corps (87th, 124th, 135th Rifle Divisions)
XXII Mechanized Corps (19th, 41st Tank Divisions, 215th Motorized Rifle Divisions) 39th Fighter Division
14th Mixed Air Division
62nd Bomber Division
1st Antitank Artillery Brigade (Reserves of High Command)
589th Howitzer Artillery Regiment (Reserves of High Command)
87th, 295th, 374th Separate Air Defense Artillery Batttalions, PVO
22nd Early Detection Battalion
2nd (Vladimir-Volynskiy) Fortified District
(19th, 20th, 145th, 146th Separate Machine-Gun Battalions, 85th, 92nd Separate Artillery Battalions)
9th (Kovel) Fortified District (47th, 201st Separate Machine-Gun Battalions)
Two sections of 4th (Strumilov) Fortified District
SIXTH ARMY
Commander: Lt. Gen. I. N. Muzychenko
Political Deputy: Division Commissar N. K. Popov
Chief of Staff: Brigade Commander N. P. Ivanov (rank equivalent to Major-General)
VI Rifle Corps (41st, 97th, 159th Rifle Divisions)
IV Mechanized Corps (8th, 32nd Tank Divisions, 81st Motorized Rifle Divisions)
3rd Cavalry Division
15th Mixed Air Divisions
16th Mixed Air Divisions
3rd Antitank Artillery Brigade (Reserves of High Command)
135th Artillery Regiment (Reserves of High Command)
324th Howitzer Artillery Regiment (Reserves of High Command)
4th (Strumilov) Fortified District (35th, 42nd Separate Machine-Gun Battalions)
6th (Rava-Russkaya) Fortified District (21st, 36th, 141st Separate Machine-Gun Battalions)
TWELFTH ARMY
Commander: Maj. Gen. P. G. Ponedelin
Political Deputy: Brigade Commissar I. P. Kulikov
Chief of Staff: Maj. Gen. B. I. Arushanyan
XIII Rifle Corps (44th, 192nd Rifle Divisions)
XVII Rifle Corps (60th, 96th Mountain Rifle Divisions, 164th Rifle Division)
XVI Mechanized Corps (15th, 39th Tank Divisions, 240th Motorized Rifle Division)
58th Mountain Rifle Division
44th Fighter Division
64th Fighter Division
4th Antitank Artillery Brigade (Reserves of High Command)
168th Howitzer Artillery Regiment (Reserves of High Command)
37th Engineer Regiment
20th, 30th Separate Air Defense Artillery Battalions, PVO
293rd Separate Communications Battalion
46th Early Detection Battalion
10th (Kamenets-Podolskiy) Fortified District (31st, 149th Separate Machine-Gun Battalions)
11th (Chernigov) Fortified District
12th (Mogilev-Podolskiy) Fortified District
TWENTY-SIXTH ARMY
Commander: Lt. Gen. F. Y. Kostenko
Political Deputy: Brigade Commissar D. E. Kolesnikov
Chief of Staff: Col. I. S. Varennikov
VIII Rifle Corps (99th, 173rd Rifle Divisions, 72nd Mountain Rifle Division)
VIII Mechanized Corps (12th, 34th Tank Divisions, 7th Motorized Rifle Division)
63rd Fighter Division
46th Mixed Air Division
2nd Antitank Artillery Brigade (Reserves of High Command)
376th Howitzer Artillery Regiment (Reserves of High Command)
34th, 259th Separate Air Defense Artillery Battalions (Reserves of High Command)
6th, 12th Separate Machine-Gun Companies
8th (Peremyshl) Fortified District (52nd, 150th Separate Machine-Gun Battalions)
FORCES LOCATED ON THE TERRITORY OF KIEV SPECIAL MILITARY DISTRICT, BUT NOT SUBORDINATE TO IT
Reserves of High Command
1st Air Corps (40th, 50th Bomber Divisions, 56th Fighter Division)
2nd Air Corps (35th, 48th Bomber Divisions, 67th Fighter Division)
5th Antitank Artillery Brigade (Reserves of High Command)
Internal Security Troops (NKVD)
4th NKVD Motorized Rifle Division
10th NKVD Railroad Division
21st NKVD Cavalry Regiment
4th, 16th, 56th, 64th, 66th NKVD Rifle Regiments
Border Guard Troops (NKVD), 20,000+ men (individual detachments rounded to nearest hundred)
Commander: Maj. Gen. A. V. Khomenko
HQ located in Lutsk, 200 men
98th (Lyuboml) Detachment: 1,600 men
90th (Vladimir-Volynskiy) Detachment: 1,900 men
91st (Rava-Russkaya) Detachment: 2,100 men
92nd (Peremyshl) Detachment: 2,300 men
93rd (Liskov) Detachment: 2,100 men
94th (Skolensk) Detachment: 2,200 men
95th (Nadvornya) Detachment: 2,200 men
97th (Chernovski) Detachment: 3,000 men
Separate (Kolomiya) Detachment: 500 men
20th (Slavuta) Detachment: 1,600 men
22nd (Volochisk) Detachment: 1,100 men
APPENDIX C
Order of Battle of Soviet Mechanized Corps
VIII Mechanized Corps, Twenty-sixth Army, Kiev Special Military District, HQ in Drogobych
Commander; Lt. Col. Dmitriy I. Ryabyshev
Political Deputy: Brigade Commissar Nikolay K. Popel
Chief of Staff: Col. Fedor G. Katkov
12th Tank Division: Col. Petr S. Fotchenkov
23rd Tank Regiment
24th Tank Regiment
12th Motorized Rifle Regiment
12th Howitzer Regiment
Support units
34th Tank Division: Col. Ivan V. Vasilyev
67th Tank Regiment
68th Tank Regiment
34th Motorized Rifle Regiment
34th Howitzer Regiment
Support units
7th Motorized Rifle Division: Col. Aleksandr V. Gerasimov
27th Motorized Rifle Regiment
300th Motorized Rifle Regiment
405th Tank Regiment
23rd Artillery Regiment
Support units
2nd Motorcycle Regiment
IX Mechanized Corps, Kiev Special Military District, HQ in Novograd-Volynskiy
Commander: Maj. Gen. Konstantin K. Rokossovskiy
Political Deputy: Brigade Commissar Dmitriy Kamenev
Chief of Staff: Maj. Gen. Aleksei G. Maslov
20th Tank Division: Col. Mikhail Katukov
39th Tank Regiment
40th Tank Regiment
20th Motorized Rifle Regiment
20th Howitzer Artillery Regiment
Support units
35th Tank Division: Col. Nikolay A. Novikov
69th Tank Regiment
70th Tank Regiment
35th Motorized Rifle Regiment
35th Howitzer Regiment
Support units
131st Motorized Rifle Division: Col. Nikolay V. Kalinin
509th Motorized Rifle Regiment
743rd Motorized Rifle Regiment
58th Tank Regiment
409th Artillery Regiment
Support Units
32nd Motorcycle Regiment
XV Mechanized Corps/Sixth Army, Headquartered at Brody
Commander: Maj. Gen. Ignatiy I. Karpezo
Executive Officer: Col. Georgiy I. Yermolayev
Political Officer: Brigade Commissar Ivan V. Lutai
Chief of Staff: Maj. Gen. Mikhail K. Nozdrunov
10th Tank Division: Maj. Gen. Sergei Y. Ogurtsov
19th Tank Regiment
20th Tank Regiment
10th Motorized Rifle Regiment
10th Howitzer Regiment
Support Units
37th Tank Division: Col. Fedor G. Anikushkin
73rd Tank Regiment
74th Tank Regiment
37th Motorized Rifle Regiment
37th Howitzer Regiment
Support Units
212th Motorized Rifle Division: Maj. Gen. Sergei V. Baranov
669th Motorized Rifle Regiment
692nd Motorized Rifle Regiment
131st Tank Regiment
655th Artillery Regiment
Support units
25th Motorcycle Regiment
XIX Mechanized Corps, Kiev Special Military District, HQ in Berdichev
Commander: Maj. Gen. Nikolai V. Feklenko
Political Deputy: Regimental Commissar Ivan S. Kalyadin
Chief of Staff: Col. Kuzma G. Devyatov
40th Tank Division: Col. Mikhail V. Shirobokov
79th Tank Regiment
80th Tank Regiment
40th Motorized Rifle Regiment
40th Howitzer Regiment Support Units
43rd Tank Division: Col. Ivan G. Tsibin
85th Tank Regiment
86th Tank Regiment
43rd Motorized Rifle Regiment
43rd Howitzer Regiment Support Units
213th Motorized Rifle Division: Col. Vasiliy M. Osminskiy
702nd Motorized Rifle Regiment
739th Motorized Rifle Regiment
132nd Tank Regiment
671st Artillery Regiment
Support Units
21st Motorcycle Regiment
XXII Mechanized Corps, Fifth Army, Kiev Special Military District, HQ in Rovno
Commander: Maj. Gen. Semen M. Kondrusev
Political Deputy: Brigade Commissar Aleksandr P. Sinitsin
Chief of Staff: Maj. Gen. Vladimir S. Tamruchi
19th Tank Division: Maj. Gen. Kuzma A. Semenchenko
37th Tank Regiment
38th Tank Regiment
19th Motorized Rifle Regiment
19th Howitzer Regiment
Support units
41st Tank Division: Col. Petr P. Pavlov
81st Tank Regiment
82nd Tank Regiment
41st Motorized Rifle Regiment
41st Howitzer Regiment
Support units
215th Motorized Rifle Division: Col. Pavlin A. Barabanov
707th Motorized Rifle Regiment
711th Motorized Rifle Regiment
133rd Tank Regiment
667th Artillery Regiment
Support Units
23rd Motorcycle Regiment
APPENDIX D
Organization of German Motorized Infantry Division
APPENDIX E
Organization of German Panzer Division
APPENDIX F
Organization of Soviet Antitank Artillery Brigade
APPENDIX G
Organization of Soviet Mechanized Corps and Tank Division
Note:
1) By the start of the war, none of mechanized corp formed an air force squadron
2) By the start of the war, only some of mechanized corps formed a flamethrower tank battalion.
APPENDIX H
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Organization of Soviet Motorized Rifle Division
APPENDIX I
Organization of Soviet Rifle Division
APPENDIX J
Unit Symbols
APPENDIX K
Comparative Strength of Armored Units
APPENDIX L
German Armored Vehicles
Note: This chart does not include Czech tanks because they did not take part in events described in the book.
APPENDIX M
Soviet Armored Vehicles
Part I
Soviet Armored Vehicles
PART II
MAPS
Notes
CHAPTER 1
1. Ihr Schrodek, Glaube galt dem Vaterland: Geschichte des Panzer-Regiments 15, 121.
2. Halder, 337.
3. Mackensesn, 4.
4. Halder, 316.
5. Ibid., 297.
6. Guderian, 144.
7. Stolfi, 19.
8. Halder, 345.
9. Ibid., 314.
10. Ibid., 324.
11. Ibid., 345.
12. Ibid., 318.
13. Based on a two-battalion regiment. Nine panzer regiments had three battalions, none of them belonging to Army Group South.
14. Isayev, 73.
CHAPTER 2
1. Habek, 264.
2. Zhukov, 220.
3. Grigorenko, 59.
4. Zhukov, 224.
5. Grigorenko, 90.
6. Ibid., 111.
7. In the Soviet/Russian military, the term “military academy” is applied to learning institutions for officers of field and general grades. The term “military school” is applied to a primary officer training institutions producing lieutenants.
8. Bagramyan, 71.
9. Kiev Special, 14.
10. Zhukov, 218.
11. Vladimirskiy, page 26.
12. Habeck, 92–97.
13. Ibid., 186.
14. Drogovoz, 3.
15. RKKA, “The Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army,” commonly shortened to “The Red Army.”
16. Tank Encyclopedia, 251.
17. Baryatinskiy, 96.
18. Ibid., 154–155.
19. Tank Encyclopedia, 138.
20. Zhukov, vol. 1, 309.
21. Drogovoz, 16.
22. Glantz, 161.
CHAPTER 3
1. Zhukov, 335.
2. Vladimirskiy, 33.
CHAPTER 4
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