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Airborne Corps (Soviet Union)
The Soviet Airborne Troops formed a number of Airborne Corps during World War II. Airborne corps 22 June 1941 Order of Battle Each airborne corps was to have 8020 soldiers in total, armed with:Воздушно-десантные войска : история российского десанта / Алёхин Р. В. - М. : Эксмо, 2009 * 4500 semi-automatic rifles ( SVT-40) * 1257 submachine guns (PPD-40 and PPSh-41) * 440 light machine guns ( DP) * 18 heavy machine guns * 111 50 mm mortars * 21 82 mm mortars * 39 45 mm anti-tank guns * 18 76,2 mm guns * 50 light tanks ( T-38 and T-40) * 864 flamethrowers ( ROKS) * 241 automobiles Units There were five airborne corps in total. Source soldat.ru forums. * 1st Airborne Corps: - became 37th Guards Rifle Division in August 1942 **Major General Matvei Usenko (23 June – October 1941) **Colonel, 19 January 1942 Major General Viktor Zholudev (15 December 1941 – July 1942) * 2nd Airborne Corps: - becam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Airborne Troops
The Soviet Airborne Forces or VDV (from ''Vozdushno- desantnye voyska SSSR'', Russian: Воздушно-десантные войска СССР, ВДВ; Air-landing Forces) was a separate troops branch of the Soviet Armed Forces. First formed before the Second World War, the force undertook two significant airborne operations and a number of smaller jumps during the war and for many years after 1945 was the largest airborne force in the world. The force was split after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, with the core becoming the Russian Airborne Forces, losing divisions to Belarus and Ukraine. Troops of the Soviet Airborne Forces traditionally wore a sky blue beret and blue-striped ''telnyashka'' and they were named ''desant'' (Russian: Десант) from the French ''Descente''. The Soviet Airborne Forces were noted for their relatively large number of vehicles, specifically designed for airborne transport, as such, they traditionally had a larger complement of heavy weaponr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Tikhonov
Mikhail Fyodorovich Tikhonov (; 11 November 1900 – 11 February 1971) was a Soviet Army lieutenant general and Hero of the Soviet Union. Tikhonov fought in the Russian Civil War and the Winter War. He commanded the 39th Guards Rifle Corps during the Vienna Offensive. After the end of World War II, Tikhonov continued his career in the Soviet Armed Forces and was the chief Soviet advisor to the Hungarian People's Army during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Early life Mikhail Tikhonov was born on 11 November 1900 in Odessa to a family of workers. In 1912, he graduated from the 4th class in the Vladivostok City College. He graduated from the vocational school in Kimry in 1914. Tikhonov worked as a messenger for a Moscow bookstore and at a Moscow slaughterhouse. From 1916, he was a mechanic at the railroad depot at Petrograd's Finland Station. He became a plumber in the Moscow City food department in June 1918. In October, he was in the Red Army. Tikhonov first participated in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
6th Airborne Corps
6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second smallest composite number, behind 4; its proper divisors are , and . Since 6 equals the sum of its proper divisors, it is a perfect number; 6 is the smallest of the perfect numbers. It is also the smallest Granville number, or \mathcal-perfect number. As a perfect number: *6 is related to the Mersenne prime 3, since . (The next perfect number is 28.) *6 is the only even perfect number that is not the sum of successive odd cubes. *6 is the root of the 6-aliquot tree, and is itself the aliquot sum of only one other number; the square number, . Six is the only number that is both the sum and the product of three consecutive positive numbers. Unrelated to 6's being a perfect number, a Golomb ruler of length 6 is a "perfect ruler". Six is a con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terentiy Parafilo
Terentiy Mikhaylovich Parafilo (russian: Тере́нтий Михай́лович Парафи́ло; 28 October 1901 – was a Soviet military commander. Parafilo is primarily remembered for his service during World War II, in which he first participated as commander of a Naval Infantry brigade attached to the Baltic Sea Fleet during Nazi Germany's incursion into the Baltics, then as a major general commanding the shore-based 7th Airborne Guards Division of the Soviet Army. Biography Trentiy Parafilo was born on 28 October 1901 in Brovarky, in Kremenchugsky Uyezd of Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine). He enjoyed a long military career, having served in the Soviet Army as a simple soldier long before World War II. Tributs, V. F. ''Балтийцы сражаются'' (''The Baltic Sailors Fight''). Moscow: Voyennoye Izdatelstvo, 1985. P. 64. In 1940, Colonel Parafilo was assigned to command the newly formed 1st Naval Infantry Brigade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fedor Afanasev
Fyodor, Fedor (russian: Фёдор) or Feodor is the Russian form of the name "Theodore" meaning “God’s Gift”. Fedora () is the feminine form. Fyodor and Fedor are two English transliterations of the same Russian name. It may refer to: Given names ;Fedor *Fedor Andreev (born 1982), Russian / Canadian figure skater *Fedor von Bock (1880–1945), German field marshal of World War II *Fedor Bondarchuk (born 1967), Russian film director, actor, producer, clipmaker, TV host *Fedor Emelianenko (born 1976), Russian mixed martial arts fighter *Fedor Flinzer (1832–1911), German illustrator *Fedor den Hertog (1946–2011), Dutch cyclist *Fedor Klimov (born 1990), Russian skater *Fedor Tyutin, Russian ice hockey player ;Feodor *Feodor Chaliapin (1873–1938), Russian opera singer *Feodor Machnow (1878–1912), "The Russian Giant" *Feodor Vassilyev (1707–1782), whose first wife holds the record for most babies born to one woman ;Fjodor *Fjodor Xhafa (born 1977), Albanian football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
7th Guards Airborne Division
, image = Great emblem of the 7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division.svg , image_size = 200 , caption = 7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division great emblem , dates = 1942–1945 (1st formation)1948–present (2nd formation) , country = (19421991)(1991present) , allegiance = , branch = , command_structure = Russian Armed Forces , garrison = Novorossiysk , nickname = , motto = ''Мужество, отвага, честь!'' (Courage, valor, honor!) , colors = , march = , battles = World War IIHungarian Revolution of 1956Prague Spring * Operation Danube Black JanuaryFirst Chechen WarSecond Chechen WarWar of DagestanWar in DonbasInvasion of Ukraine *Southern Ukraine off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reserve Of The Supreme High Command
The Reserve of the Supreme High Command (Russian: Резерв Верховного Главнокомандования; also known as the '' Stavka'' Reserve or RVGK ( ru , РВГК)) comprises reserve military formations and units; the Stavka Reserve acted as the principal military reserve of the Soviet Red Army during World War II, and the RVGK now operate as part of the Russian Armed Forces under the control of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armed Forces ( ru , Верховный главнокомандующий) - the President of the Russian Federation. History World War II Forces from the Reserve were assigned by the '' Stavka'' (Supreme High Command) to individual '' fronts'' (army groups) that were conducting major operations. These formations were designed to support any forms of operations but especially penetrations and exploitations in accordance with the Soviet deep battle doctrine. Beginning in 1943, the formations and units in the Rese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stepan Guryev
Stepan Savelevich Guryev (russian: Степан Савельевич Гурьев; 1 August 1902 - 22 April 1945) was a Soviet Red Army officer and major-general in World War II who led the 5th Airborne Corps, which was reformed into the 39th Guards Rifle Division in August 1942 and fought at Stalingrad.Walsh, Stephen (2000). ''Stalingrad: The Infernal Cauldron, 1942-1943''. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press. p. 80. . Biography Appointed commander of the 16th Guards Rifle Corps in 1944, he led the Corps into East Prussia and the Battle of Königsberg. The general was killed in action at Pillau (today Baltiysk) on 22 April 1945, three days after being awarded the honorary title of Hero of the Soviet Union by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. The city Guryevsk in the Russian Federation's Kaliningrad Oblast Kaliningrad Oblast (russian: Калинингра́дская о́бласть, translit=Kaliningradskaya oblast') is the westernmost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Bezugly
Ivan Semyonovich Bezugly (sometimes transliterated as Bezuglyi or Bezuglyy: russian: Иван Семёнович Безуглый; 1897–1983) was a Soviet Red Army officer who served as commander of the Red Army's 5th Airborne Corps in 1941, the first airborne corps of the Red Army to fight in World War II after the German invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941.Glantz, David M. (1994)''A History of Soviet Airborne Forces''.London: Frank Cass. p. 49. , . Suffering heavy casualties just south of Daugavpils in combat against the advancing ''Panzer'' units of Army Group North in the summer of 1941, the unit made its way to the Moscow Military District on 15 August. Promoted to lieutenant-general later in the war, Bezugly took part in the Soviet operations against Imperial Japan following the end of World War II in Europe as commanding officer of the 5th Guards Rifle Corps, which fought as part of Colonel-General Ivan Lyudnikov's 39th Army in the Soviet invasion of Manch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
