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50th Rifle Corps
The 50th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the 23rd Army on 22 June 1941. It took part in the Great Patriotic War. Organization On 22 June 1941, the corps included the following units: * 43rd Rifle Division * 70th Rifle Division * 123rd Rifle Division Commanders * Komkor Filipp Gorelenko (08.1939 - 05.1940) * Komkor Panteleimon Zaitsev (05.1940 - 08.1940) * Major General Vladimir Shcherbakov (17.01.1941 - 04.08.1941) * Major General Sarkis Martirosyan (25.06.1943 - 24.04.1944) * Major General Pavel Batitsky Pavel Fyodorovich Batitsky ( ua, Павло Федорович Батицький; russian: Па́вел Фёдорович Бати́цкий; 27 June 1910 – 17 February 1984) was a Soviet military leader awarded the highest honorary title of ... (25.04.1944 - 27.05.1944) * Major General Serafim Merkulov (28.05.1944 - 20.04.1945) * Major General Nikolai Tavartkiladze (21.04.1945 - 11.05.1945) References Citations Bibliog ... [...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] |
43rd Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
The 43rd Rifle Division was a formation of the Red Army, which took part in the Second World War, known to the Soviets as the "Great Patriotic War". History The 43rd Rifle Division was formed in 1924–1925 in the Velikiye Luki region as part of the Leningrad Military District under the name of the 43rd Territorial Division. Stationed in the Western Special Military District. In autumn 1937 it was relocated directly in Leningrad. The division was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for participation in the Winter War. Fought at Oranienbaum. On June 24, 1941, when the Northern Front was formed, it became part of the 50th Rifle Corps, 23rd Army. In 1941 it fought in the defence of the Karelian isthmus during the Continuation War. Then from 1941 to 1944 in the siege of Leningrad, in 1944 in the Leningrad-Novgorod Offensive, the Krasnoye Selo–Ropsha Offensive, Kingisepp–Gdov Offensive, the Baltic Offensive, Tartu Offensive, the Riga Offensive, and the Memel Offensive. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
70th Rifle Division
The 70th Rifle Division () was an infantry division of the Red Army and briefly of the Soviet Army, formed twice. Formed in 1934 at Samara, the division was transferred to the Leningrad Military District in the late 1930s and fought in the Winter War, receiving the Order of Lenin for its participation in the breakthrough of the Mannerheim Line at the end of the war. After the beginning of Operation Barbarossa on 22 June 1941, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the division was relocated south and participated in counterattacks against the German advance at Soltsy in early July. After the beginning of the siege of Leningrad the division defended the line of the Neva, capturing the Nevsky Pyatachok during the Sinyavino Offensive of September 1942. For this action it became the 45th Guards Rifle Division in mid-October. The division was reformed in April 1942 at Kaluga from the 47th and 146th Rifle Brigades. It fought in the Battle of Smolensk in mid-1943, then advanced i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
123rd Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
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Filipp Gorelenko
Filipp Danilovich Gorelenko (russian: Филипп Данилович Гореленко, Cherkasy Raion, 25 November 1888 – Leningrad, 25 January 1956) was a Soviet Army Lieutenant-General, lieutenant general and a Hero of the Soviet Union. Biography Gorelenko participated in the First World War and the Russian Civil War. From June 1937 until August 1939 he was commander of the 14th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 14th Rifle Division. From August 1939 to July 1940 he led the 50th Rifle Corps during the Winter War with Finland. In February 1940, parts of his Corps broke through the Mannerheim Line together with the 34th Rifle Corps. For skilful leadership of the corps and personal courage, on 21 March 1940 Gorelenko was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. He was the only corps commander to be awarded this title at the end of the war. From July 1940 he was deputy commander of the Leningrad Military District. On 28 January 1941, F. D. Gorelenko became commander of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Shcherbakov (general)
Vladimir Ivanovich Shcherbakov (russian: Щербаков, Владимир Иванович, (14 July 1901 – 4 November 1981) was a Soviet general of the Red Army during World War II. Biography Born in a village in the Oryol Governorate (today in the Izmalkovsky District in Lipetsk Oblast), he entered the Red Army in 1919 by attending the officers course of the South-Western Front in Serpukhov. As part of the course, he participated in the fighting against the forces of General Denikin in the Kalach-na-Donu area in the period May–June 1919, and subsequently against the Cossack Mamontov Raid in the Yelets region. In July 1920 he took part in the Soviet-Polish War, fighting against the Poles and the Ukrainian forces of Simon Petlyura with the south-western front of General Yegorov, reaching the rank of company commander. In 1939-1940, as commander of the 104th Mountain Infantry Division of the 14th Army, he took part in the Winter War, in the Arctic sector of the front. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarkis Martirosyan
Sarkis may refer to: * Sarkis, Iran, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran * Saint Sarkis the Warrior, a saint of the 4th century * Patriarch Sarkis of Jerusalem (other), three Armenian patriarchs, from the 13th to 16th centuries **Patriarch Sarkis I of Jerusalem (r. 1281–1313) **Patriarch Sarkis II of Jerusalem (r. 1394–1415) **Patriarch Sarkis III of Jerusalem (r. 1507–1517) * Sarkis I of Armenia, Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church between 992 and 1019 * Sarkis II the Relic-Carrier, Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church between 1469 and 1474. * Aïbeg and Serkis, 13th century Mongol envoys Saint Sarkis / Mar Sarkis *Saint Sarkis also known as Saint Sergius -- see Saints Sergius and Bacchus *The Church of Saint Sarkis, Tekor known as Tekor Basilica, a 5th-century Armenian church built in historical Armenia, now in the town of Digor in the Kars Province of Turkey *Mar Sarkis, a number of churches and monasteries **Monastery of Mar Sarkis and Bakh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Batitsky
Pavel Fyodorovich Batitsky ( ua, Павло Федорович Батицький; russian: Па́вел Фёдорович Бати́цкий; 27 June 1910 – 17 February 1984) was a Soviet military leader awarded the highest honorary title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1965 and promoted to Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1968. Batitsky served in the Red Army from 1924 and was commander-in-chief of the Air Defense Forces from 1966 to 1978. Following the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, he was chosen to execute Lavrentiy Beria, the former head of the NKVD. Biography He was born in Kharkov, in the Russian Empire, and joined the Red Army in October 1924. At the age of 14, he entered the Kharkov Military Preparatory School (soon relocated to Poltava) and in 1926, was sent to study at the Military Cavalry School, graduating in 1929. From March 1929 to May 1935, he served in the cavalry and commanded a platoon and squad in the Belorussian Military District. In 1938, he graduated w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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