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19th Rifle Corps (Soviet Union)
The 19th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the 23rd Army. It took part in the Great Patriotic War. Organization * 142nd Rifle Division * 115th Rifle Division Commanders * Kombrig Vsevolod Yakovlev (14.07.1937 - 8.01.1938), * Major General Filipp Starikov (01.09.1938 -01.01.1940) * Lieutenant General M.N. Gerasimov (09.07.1940 - 05.08.1941), * Major General Filipp Starikov (06.08.1941 - 22.09.1941) * Major General Mikhail Dukhanov Mikhail Pavlovich Dukhanov, (russian: Михаил Павлович Духанов), Kiev, 14 July 1896 – Leningrad, 2 September 1969) was a Soviet Lieutenant-General (1943). Biography Dukhanov participated in the First World War and the Rus ... (04.10.1941 - 24.10.1941) Rifle corps of the Soviet Union {{Russia-mil-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk ( Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The army was established in January 1918. The Bolsheviks raised an army to oppose the military confederations (especially the various groups collectively known as the White Army) of their adversaries during the Russian Civil War. Starting in February 1946, the Red Army, along with the Soviet Navy, embodied the main component of the Soviet Armed Forces; taking the official name of "Soviet Army", until its dissolution in 1991. The Red Army provided the largest land force in the Allied victory in the European theatre of World War II, and its invasion of Manchuria assisted the unconditional surrender of Imperial Japan. During operations on the Eastern Front, it accounted for 75–80% of casual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Front (World War II)
The Eastern Front of World War II was a Theater (warfare), theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers against the Soviet Union (USSR), Polish Armed Forces in the East, Poland and other Allies of World War II, Allies, which encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northern Europe, Northeast Europe (Baltic states, Baltics), and Southeast Europe (Balkans) from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945. It was known as the Great Patriotic War (term), Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union – and still is in some of its successor states, while almost everywhere else it has been called the ''Eastern Front''. In present-day German and Ukrainian historiography the name German-Soviet War is typically used. The battles on the Eastern Front of the Second World War constituted the largest military confrontation in history. They were characterised by unprecedented ferocity and brutality, wholesale destruction, mass deportations, and immense loss of life due to combat, starvation, expos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa (german: link=no, Unternehmen Barbarossa; ) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during the Second World War. The operation, code-named after Frederick Barbarossa ("red beard"), a 12th-century Holy Roman emperor and German king, put into action Nazi Germany's ideological goal of conquering the western Soviet Union to repopulate it with Germans. The German aimed to use some of the conquered people as forced labour for the Axis war effort while acquiring the oil reserves of the Caucasus as well as the agricultural resources of various Soviet territories. Their ultimate goal was to create more (living space) for Germany, and the eventual extermination of the indigenous Slavic peoples by mass deportation to Siberia, Germanisation, enslavement, and genocide. In the two years leading up to the invasion, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed political and economic pacts for st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
23rd Army (Soviet Union)
The 23rd Army was a Field Army of the Soviet Union's Red Army. Formed in May 1941 in Karelia, it fought in the Continuation War against Finland in the Karelian Isthmus, defending the northwestern approaches to Leningrad during World War II. After Finland withdrew from World War II in September 1944, the army remained on the Finnish border. It continued to garrison the Karelian Isthmus postwar and was disbanded in 1948. World War II It was formed in May 1941 in the Leningrad Military District for the defence of the southernmost part of the Soviet Union's border with Finland, north and northeast of Vyborg. The 7th Army was located on its right flank. The Army initially included the 19th and 50th Rifle Corps, the 10th Mechanized Corps (which included the 21st Tank Division, the 24th Tank Division and the 198th Mechanised Division), the 27th Vyborg Fortified Region, the 28th Keksgolm Fortified Region, plus artillery and other units. On 24 June the Army was included in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
142nd Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
The 142nd Rifle Division began service in August 1939 as a standard Red Army rifle division, which participated in the Winter War against Finland. It remained on the Karelian Isthmus and had a relatively uneventful war facing the Finns until the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive began on June 10, 1944, from which point it saw much more active service. Following the end of the Continuation War, the division was transferred to 2nd Shock Army in 2nd Belorussian Front. Its soldiers distinguished themselves in the capture of the German city of Graudenz and ended the war fighting through Pomerania. Formation The division began forming in August 1939, north of Leningrad, where it would spend most of the war. On November 30 the Winter War with Finland began, and the division performed creditably enough that it was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. On June 22, 1941, the division was in 19th Rifle Corps of 23rd Army near the Finnish border in Leningrad Military District. Its order of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vsevolod Yakovlev
Vsevolod or Wsewolod (russian: Все́волод ; uk, Все́волод ) is a Slavic male first name. Its etymology is from Slavic roots 'vse' (all) and 'volodeti' (to rule) and means 'lord-of-everything/everybody', (similar to another princely name, "Vladimir" or "Volodymyr"). It is equivalent to the Belarusian ''Usievalad'', Polish ''Wszewład'', Lithuanian ''Visvaldas'', Latvian ''Visvaldis'' and German ''Wissewald''. The corresponding Russian patronymic is Vsevolodovich. Vsevolod may refer to: Medieval princes * (c. 983–1013), Prince of Volyn', son of Vladimir I of Kiev * Vsevolod I of Kiev (Yaroslavich) (1030–1093), Grand Prince of Kievan Rus' * Vsevolod Mstislavich (other) * Vsevolod II of Kiev (Olegovich) (d. 1146), Grand Prince of Kievan Rus' * Vsevolod III Yuryevich aka Vsevolod the Big Nest (1154–1212), Prince of Vladimir * Vsevolod IV of Kiev (Svyatoslavich the Red) (d. 1215), twice Grand Prince of Kievan Rus' and Prince of Chernigov * Visvaldis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filipp Starikov
Filipp Nikiforovich Starikov (russian: Фили́пп Никано́рович Ста́риков; – 2 October 1980) was a Soviet military commander. Biography Starikov was born in the village of Novo-Torzhatskaya in Urzhumsky District in Vyatka Governorate (now in Kirov Oblast). He entered the Imperial Russian Army in 1915 as a private. During World War I he served as senior clerk of an infantry regiment on the Romanian Front. He joined the Red Army in 1918 and served in the Russian Civil War as a platoon commander, fighting the White movement on the Eastern Front and Southern Front as well as the Basmachi movement in Russian Turkestan. In 1928 he completed the Vystrel course intended to train battalion and regimental officers for the Soviet infantry. on encyclopedia.mil.ru In 1938 Starikov received ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Dukhanov
Mikhail Pavlovich Dukhanov, (russian: Михаил Павлович Духанов), Kiev, 14 July 1896 – Leningrad, 2 September 1969) was a Soviet Lieutenant-General (1943). Biography Dukhanov participated in the First World War and the Russian Civil War. Later, he was Senior Instructor at several Military Schools. In August 1938, he became deputy commander of the Leningrad Military District. At the outbreak of the Soviet-Finnish Winter War (1939-1940), without much experience, he was appointed the commander of the 9th Army, which operated at the beginning of the war in the Kandalaksha and Rebolsk directions. On December 22, 1939, after a series of defeats and by decision of the Headquarters, he was removed from the post of commander of the 9th Army and sent into the reserve. After the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, Dukhanov was first in August 1941 Assistant Commander in Chief of the Northern Front and then on 19 September became commander of the 10th Rifle Divis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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