This is the order of battle for

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 ...

, the

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invasion of the

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 ...

during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

. It was fought between the

-led Axis Forces and the

Soviet Forces The Soviet Armed Forces, the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union and as the Red Army (, Вооружённые Силы Советского Союза), were the armed forces of the Russian SFSR (1917–1922), the Soviet Union (1922–1991), and th ...

. The operation started on June 22, 1941, and ended on December 5, 1941, at the conclusion of Operation Typhoon.

Axis

German Army Group North

Commanded by Field Marshal Wilhelm von Leeb (Chief of Staff - Lt. Gen.

Kurt Brennecke Kurt Brennecke (16 December 1891 – 30 December 1982) was a General der Infanterie in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the XXXXIII. Armeekorps. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Kurt Brennecke was c ...

)

German Sixteenth Army

Colonel General Ernst Busch :

II Corps 2nd Corps, Second Corps, or II Corps may refer to: France * 2nd Army Corps (France) * II Cavalry Corps (Grande Armée), a cavalry unit of the Imperial French Army during the Napoleonic Wars * II Corps (Grande Armée), a unit of the Imperial French ...

- General of Infantry

Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt __NOTOC__ Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt (13 July 1887 – 9 May 1943) was a German general ( General of the Infantry) during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt became il ...

:: 12th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach Walther Kurt von Seydlitz-Kurzbach (; 22 August 1888 – 28 April 1976) was a German general during World War II who commanded the LI Army Corps during the Battle of Stalingrad. At the end of the battle, he gave his officers freedom of action ...

:: 32nd Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Wilhelm Bohnstedt Wilhelm Bohnstedt (5 October 1888 – 11 August 1947) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the 32nd Infantry Division. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Bohnstedt surr ...

:: 121st Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Otto Lancelle __NOTOC__ Otto Lancelle (27 March 1885 – 3 July 1941) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II and a recipient of both the Pour le Mérite and Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, the highest military awards of German Empire and ...

X Corps 10th Corps, Tenth Corps, or X Corps may refer to: France * 10th Army Corps (France) * X Corps (Grande Armée), a unit of the Imperial French Army during the Napoleonic Wars Germany * X Corps (German Empire), a unit of the Imperial German Army * X ...

- General of Infantry Christian Hansen :: 30th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Kurt von Tippelskirch :: 126th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Paul Laux : XXVIII Corps - General of Infantry Mauritz von Wiktorin :: 122nd Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Siegfried Macholz :: 123rd Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Walter Lichel __NOTOC__ Walter Lichel (1 May 1885 – 10 December 1969) was a German general during World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Lichel surrendered to the Allied troops in 1945 and was held until 1947. A ...

German Eighteenth Army

Colonel General Georg von Küchler (Chief of Staff - Maj. Gen.

Kurt Waeger Kurt is a male given name of Germanic or Turkish origin. ''Kurt'' or ''Curt'' originated as short forms of the Germanic Conrad, depending on geographical usage, with meanings including counselor or advisor. In Turkish, Kurt means "Wolf" and is ...

) : XXVI Corps - General of Artillery

Albert Wodrig __NOTOC__ Albert Wodrig (16 July 1883 – 31 October 1972) was a German general during World War II who commanded the XXVI. Corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Awards and decorations * Knight's Cr ...

:: 61st Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Siegfried Haenicke Siegfried is a German-language male given name, composed from the Germanic elements ''sig'' "victory" and ''frithu'' "protection, peace". The German name has the Old Norse cognate ''Sigfriðr, Sigfrøðr'', which gives rise to Swedish ''Sigfrid' ...

:: 217th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Richard Baltzer Richard Baltzer ( Danzig, 1 June 1886 – Prague, 10 May 1945) was a German Lieutenant general during World War II who commanded several divisions. Biography In the summer of 1939, during the mobilization for World War II, he was appointed co ...

:: 291st Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Kurt Herzog : XXXVIII Corps - General of Infantry

Friedrich-Wilhelm von Chappuis __NOTOC__ Friedrich-Wilhelm von Chappuis (13 September 1886 – 27 August 1942) was a German general in the ''Wehrmacht'' during World War II who commanded the XXXVIII Army Corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Na ...

:: 58th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Karl von Graffen :: 254th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Walter Behschnitt Walter may refer to: People * Walter (name), both a surname and a given name * Little Walter, American blues harmonica player Marion Walter Jacobs (1930–1968) * Gunther (wrestler), Austrian professional wrestler and trainer Walter Hahn (born 1 ...

I Corps I Corps, 1st Corps, or First Corps may refer to: France * 1st Army Corps (France) * I Cavalry Corps (Grande Armée), a cavalry unit of the Imperial French Army during the Napoleonic Wars * I Corps (Grande Armée), a unit of the Imperial French Arm ...

- General of Infantry

Kuno-Hans von Both __NOTOC__ Kuno-Hans von Both (9 April 1884 – 22 May 1955) was a German general during World War II. He was a recipient of both the Pour le Mérite of the German Empire and the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. He was also awar ...

:: 1st Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Philipp Kleffel __NOTOC__ Philipp Kleffel (9 December 1887 – 10 October 1964) was a German general during World War II who commanded several corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. For 10 days, Kleffel served as the ...

:: 11th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Herbert von Böckmann __NOTOC__ Herbert von Böckmann (24 July 1886 – 3 March 1974) was a German general during World War II who commanded the L Army Corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Böckmann was discharged from the a ...

:: 21st Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Otto Sponheimer __NOTOC__ Otto Sponheimer (19 December 1886 – 14 March 1961) was a German general (General of the Infantry) in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded several corps. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Na ...

Panzergruppe 4 The 4th Panzer Army (german: 4. Panzerarmee) (operating as Panzer Group 4 (german: 4. Panzergruppe) from its formation on 15 February 1941 to 1 January 1942, when it was redesignated as a full army) was a German panzer formation during World War ...

Colonel General

Erich Hoepner Erich Kurt Richard Hoepner (14 September 1886 – 8 August 1944) was a German general during World War II. An early proponent of mechanisation and armoured warfare, he was a Wehrmacht army corps commander at the beginning of the war, leading hi ...

(Chief of Staff - Colonel

Walter Chales de Beaulieu Walter may refer to: People * Walter (name), both a surname and a given name * Little Walter, American blues harmonica player Marion Walter Jacobs (1930–1968) * Gunther (wrestler), Austrian professional wrestler and trainer Walter Hahn (born 19 ...

) : XXXXI Corps (mot.) - General of Panzer

Georg Hans Reinhardt Georg-Hans Reinhardt (1 March 1887 – 23 November 1963) was a German general and war criminal during World War II. He commanded the 3rd Panzer Army from 1941 to 1944, and Army Group Centre in 1944 and 1945, reaching the rank of colonel general ...

:: 1st Panzer Division - Lt. Gen. Friedrich Kirchner ::

6th Panzer Division The 6th Panzer Division ( en, 6th Tank Division) was an armoured division in the German Army (1935–1945), German Army, the ''Heer'', during World War II, established in October 1939. The division, initially formed as a light brigade, particip ...

- Lt. Gen.

Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma Wilhelm Josef Ritter von Thoma (11 September 1891 – 30 April 1948) was a German army officer who served in World War I, in the Spanish Civil War, and as a general in World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Th ...

:: 269th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Ernst von Leyser Ernst Ulrich Hans von Leyser () (18 November 1889 – 23 September 1962) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II who commanded several army corps. After the war, in 1947, Leyser was tried for war crimes committed in ...

:: 36th Infantry Division (mot.) - Lt. Gen.

Otto-Ernst Ottenbacher __NOTOC__ Otto-Ernst Ottenbacher (18 November 1888 – 7 January 1975) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded several corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Ottenbacher was wounded durin ...

: LVI Corps (mot.) - General of Infantry Erich von Manstein :: 8th Panzer Division - Lt. Gen. Erich Brandenberger :: 3rd Infantry Division (mot.) - Lt. Gen.

Curt Jahn General Kurt Jahn, aka Curt Jahn, (February 16, 1892 – November 7, 1966) was a German Army general and commander in Lombardy, Italy during World War II. Born in Schmalkalden, Germany, he was captured west of Milan on 1 May 1945 and interned in B ...

:: 290th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Theodor Freiherr von Wrede :: SS-Totenkopf Division - SS-Obergruppenfuhrer

Theodor Eicke Theodor Eicke (17 October 1892 – 26 February 1943) was a senior SS functionary and Waffen SS divisional commander during the Nazi era. He was one of the key figures in the development of Nazi concentration camps. Eicke served as the seco ...

, on 7. July Matthias Kleinheisterkamp

Army Group assets and reserves

: XXIII Corps (Army Group Reserve) - General of Infantry Albrecht Schubert :: 251st Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Hans Kratzert Hans Kratzert (3 February 1940 – 15 August 2023) was a German screenwriter and film director. Kratzert was born in Heerwegen in the Province of Silesia during the Second World War. He was part of the mass emigration of Germans westward follow ...

:: 206th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Hugo Höfl __NOTOC__ Hugo Höfl (16 June 1878 – 13 April 1957) was a German general during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Höfl retired from active duty in April 1943. Awards * Knight's Cross of th ...

: L Corps (OKH reserve Behind AG North) - Lieutenant General

Georg Lindemann Georg Lindemann (8 March 1884 – 25 September 1963) was a German general during World War II. He commanded the 18th Army (Wehrmacht), 18th Army during the Soviet Kingisepp–Gdov Offensive. World War II In 1936, Lindemann was promoted to Genera ...

:: 86th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Joachim Witthöft __NOTOC__ Joachim Witthöft (23 September 1887 – 7 July 1966) was a German general during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Witthöft commanded Army Group South Rear Area (as Army Group B) during the 1942 ...

SS Police Division The 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division (4. SS-Polizei-Panzergrenadier-Division) or SS Division Polizei was one of the thirty-eight divisions fielded as part of the Waffen-SS during World War II. Formation The division was formed in October ...

- Ss Gr.f. Arthur Mülverstedt :Army Group rear lines :: 207th Security Division - Lt. Gen. Karl von Tiedemann :: 281st Security Division - Lt. Gen.

Friedrich Bayer Friedrich Bayer (born Friedrich Beyer, 6 June 1825 in Barmen now Wuppertal – 6 May 1880 in Würzburg) was the founder of what would become Bayer, a German chemical and pharmaceutical company. He founded the dyestuff factory ''Friedrich Bayer'' ...

:: 285th Security Division - Lt. Gen. Wolfgang von Plotho

German Army Group Center

Commanded by Field Marshal Fedor von Bock (Chief of Staff - Maj. Gen.

Hans von Greiffenberg Hans may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Hans (name), a masculine given name * Hans Raj Hans, Indian singer and politician ** Navraj Hans, Indian singer, actor, entrepreneur, cricket player and performer, son of Hans Raj Hans ** Yuvraj Hans, Punjabi ...

)

German Fourth Army

Field Marshal Günther von Kluge :

VII Corps 7th Corps, Seventh Corps, or VII Corps may refer to: * VII Corps (Grande Armée), a corps of the Imperial French army during the Napoleonic Wars * VII Corps (German Empire), a unit of the Imperial German Army prior to and during World War I * VII R ...

- General of Artillery

Wilhelm Fahrmbacher Wilhelm Fahrmbacher (19 September 1888 – 27 April 1970) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II who commanded several corps, including VII Corps, XXV Corps and LXXXIV Corps, fighting on both the Eastern Front and We ...

:: 7th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Eccard Freiherr von Gablenz __NOTOC__ Eccard Freiherr von Gablenz (26 January 1891 – 17 December 1978) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded several divisions. He participated in the campaigns of Poland, France and the invasion of the Sovi ...

:: 23rd Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Heinz Hellmich Heinz Hellmich (9 June 1890 – 17 June 1944) was a German general (Generalleutnant) in the Wehrmacht during World War II and a posthumous recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. On 1 April 1942, Hellmich was appoint ...

:: 258th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Waldemar Henrici Waldemar Henrici (February 3, 1878 – February 15, 1950) was a Lieutenant General of the German Wehrmacht who commanded a division of the VII Army Corps in the 4th Army during Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of Russia during the Second ...

:: 268th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Erich Straube :

IX Corps 9 Corps, 9th Corps, Ninth Corps, or IX Corps may refer to: France * 9th Army Corps (France) * IX Corps (Grande Armée), a unit of the Imperial French Army during the Napoleonic Wars Germany * IX Corps (German Empire), a unit of the Imperial German ...

- General of Infantry

Hermann Geyer __NOTOC__ Hermann Geyer (7 July 1882 – 10 April 1946) was a German general during World War II who commanded the IX Army Corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Geyer retired in 1943 and committed suici ...

:: 137th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Friedrich Bergmann Friedrich may refer to: Names *Friedrich (surname), people with the surname ''Friedrich'' *Friedrich (given name), people with the given name ''Friedrich'' Other *Friedrich (board game), a board game about Frederick the Great and the Seven Years' ...

:: 263rd Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Ernst Haeckel Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (; 16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919) was a German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist and artist. He discovered, described and named thousands of new sp ...

:: 292nd Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Martin Dehmel : XIII Corps - General of Infantry Hans Felber :: 17th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Herbert Loch :: 78th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Curt Gallenkamp : XXXXIII Corps - General of Infantry

Gotthard Heinrici Gotthard Fedor August Heinrici (25 December 1886 – 10 December 1971) was a German general during World War II. Heinrici is considered as the premier defensive expert of the ''Wehrmacht''. His final command was Army Group Vistula, formed from t ...

:: 131st Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Heinrich Meyer-Buerdorf __NOTOC__ Heinrich Meyer-Buerdorf (13 December 1888 – 1 May 1971) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II who commanded the 131st Infantry Division. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Awards ...

:: 134th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Conrad von Cochenhausen Conrad may refer to: People * Conrad (name) Places United States * Conrad, Illinois, an unincorporated community * Conrad, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Conrad, Iowa, a city * Conrad, Montana, a city * Conrad Glacier, Washington ...

:: 252nd Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Diether von Boehm-Bezing

German Ninth Army

Colonel General Adolf Strauß :

V Corps 5th Corps, Fifth Corps, or V Corps may refer to: France * 5th Army Corps (France) * V Cavalry Corps (Grande Armée), a cavalry unit of the Imperial French Army during the Napoleonic Wars * V Corps (Grande Armée), a unit of the Imperial French Army ...

- General of Infantry

Richard Ruoff Richard Ruoff (18 August 1883 – 30 March 1967) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He commanded the 4th Panzer Army and the 17th Army on the Eastern Front. World War II Ruoff took command of V Army Corps on 1 ...

:: 5th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Karl Allmendinger Karl Allmendinger (3 February 1891 – 2 October 1965) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He commanded the 5th Infantry Division, V Army Corps then 17th Army on the Eastern Front. He was a recipient of the ...

:: 35th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Walther Fischer von Weikersthal Walther Fischer von Weikersthal (15 September 1890 – 11 February 1953) was a German general in the German Army during World War II. A career officer who also served in the Army of Württemberg in World War I and the Weimar Republic's ''Reichswe ...

VI Corps 6 Corps, 6th Corps, Sixth Corps, or VI Corps may refer to: France * VI Cavalry Corps (Grande Armée), a cavalry formation of the Imperial French army during the Napoleonic Wars * VI Corps (Grande Armée), a formation of the Imperial French army dur ...

- General of Pioneer

Otto-Wilhelm Förster __NOTOC__ Otto-Wilhelm Förster (16 March 1885 – 24 June 1966) was a general in the German Army during World War II who commanded several corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Förster retired from active duty in J ...

6th Infantry Division 6th Division may refer to: Infantry divisions * 6th Division (Australia) * 6th Division (Austria) *6th (United Kingdom) Division * Finnish 6th Division (Winter War) *Finnish 6th Division (Continuation War) * 6th Division (Reichswehr) * 6th Divisi ...

- Lt. Gen.

Helge Auleb __NOTOC__ Helge Arthur Auleb (24 March 1887 – 14 March 1964) was a general in the ''Wehrmacht'' of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was born in Gehren. Auleb commanded the 6th Infantry Division as part of VI Army Corps during Operati ...

:: 26th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Walter Weiß :

VIII Corps 8th Corps, Eighth Corps, or VIII Corps may refer to: * VIII Corps (Grande Armée), a unit of the Imperial French army during the Napoleonic Wars *VIII Army Corps (German Confederation) * VIII Corps (German Empire), a unit of the Imperial German Army ...

- General of Artillery

Walter Heitz Walter Heitz (8 December 1878 – 9 February 1944) was a German general (''Generaloberst'') in the Wehrmacht during World War II who served as President of the Reichskriegsgericht, Reich Military Court and commanded part of the 6th Army (Wehrmacht ...

:: 8th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Gustav Höhne :: 28th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Johann Sinnhuber __NOTOC__ Johann Sinnhuber (27 March 1887 – 23 October 1979) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the LXXXII Army Corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Awards and decorations * K ...

:: 161st Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Hermann Wilck : XX Corps - General of Infantry

Friedrich Materna Friedrich Materna (21 June 1885 – 11 November 1946) was a general in the Bundesheer (Austrian Federal Army) in the 1930s and the German Wehrmacht during the World War II. He became a general-major in the Austrian army in 1935, and he was also ...

:: 162nd Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Hermann Franke :: 256th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Gerhard Kauffmann __NOTOC__ Gerhard Kauffmann (29 June 1887 – 16 June 1969) was a German general during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Kauffmann was retired from active service on 30 September 1943. ...

Panzergruppe 2

Colonel General Heinz Guderian :

XII Corps 12th Corps, Twelfth Corps, or XII Corps may refer to: * 12th Army Corps (France) * XII Corps (Grande Armée), a corps of the Imperial French Army during the Napoleonic Wars * XII (1st Royal Saxon) Corps, a unit of the Imperial German Army * XII (Ro ...

- General of Infantry Walther Schroth (Only under Panzergruppe 2 for initial stages of the invasion) :: 31st Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Kurt Kalmukoff :: 34th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Hans Behlendorff Hans Behlendorff (13 August 1889 – 16 March 1961) was a German general during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Awards and decorations * Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 11 Octo ...

:: 45th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Fritz Schlieper Fritz Schlieper (4 August 1892 – 4 June 1977) was a German military officer who served during World War I and World War II, eventually gaining the rank of Generalleutnant. Biography Fritz Schlieper was born 4 August 1892 in Koldromb, Posen. I ...

: XXIV Corps (mot.) - General of Panzer

Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg Leo Dietrich Franz Reichsfreiherr Geyr von Schweppenburg (2 March 1886 – 27 January 1974), was a German general during World War II, noted for his pioneering stance and expertise in the field of armoured warfare. He commanded the 5th Panzer Arm ...

:: 3rd Panzer Division - Lt. Gen.

Walter Model Otto Moritz Walter Model (; 24 January 1891 – 21 April 1945) was a German field marshal during World War II. Although he was a hard-driving, aggressive panzer commander early in the war, Model became best known as a practitioner of defen ...

4th Panzer Division The 4th Panzer Division ( en, 4th Tank Division) was an armored division in the Army of Nazi Germany. In World War II, it participated in the 1939 invasion of Poland, the 1940 invasion of France, and the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union. It ...

- Lt. Gen.

Willibald Freiherr von Langermann und Erlencamp Willibald von Langermann und Erlencamp (29 March 1890 – 3 October 1942) was a German general during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany. Biography Born in 1890, Erlencamp jo ...

:: 10th Infantry Division (mot.) - Lt. Gen.

Friedrich-Wilhelm von Loeper Friedrich-Wilhelm von Loeper (3 August 1888 – 7 October 1983) was a German general (Generalleutnant) in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded several divisions. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. He was marri ...

:: 1st Cavalry Division - Lt. Gen. Kurt Feldt :: 255th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Wilhelm Wetzel __NOTOC__ Wilhelm Wetzel (17 July 1888 – 4 July 1964) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Awards and decorations * Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on ...

:: 267th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Robert Martinek __NOTOC__ Robert Martinek (2 February 1889 – 28 June 1944) was an Austrian general who served in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. An artillery offic ...

: XXXXVI Corps (mot.) - General of Infantry Heinrich von Vietinghoff :: 10th Panzer Division - Lt. Gen. Ferdinand Schaal :: SS-Reich Division - SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Paul Hausser :: Infantry Regiment Großdeutschland - Maj. Gen. Wilhelm-Hunert von Stockenhausen : XXXXVII Corps (mot.) - General of Panzer Joachim Lemelsen :: 17th Panzer Division - Lt. Gen. Hans-Jürgen von Arnim ::

18th Panzer Division The 18th Panzer Division (german: 18. Panzer-Division) was a German World War II armoured division that fought on the Eastern Front from 1941 until its disbandment in 1943. Formation The 18th Panzer Division was formed on 26 October 1940 at ...

- Lt. Gen.

Walther Nehring Walther Nehring (15 August 1892 – 20 April 1983) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the Afrika Korps. Early life Nehring was born on 15 August 1892 in Stretzin, West Prussia. Nehring was the descendant of a ...

:: 29th Infantry Division (mot.) - Lt. Gen.

Walter von Boltenstern __NOTOC__ Walter von Boltenstern (26 November 1889 – 19 January 1952) was a German general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II who commanded several divisions. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Bolten ...

:: 167th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Hans Schönhärl

Panzergruppe 3

Colonel General Hermann Hoth : XXXIX Corps (mot.) - General of Panzer

Rudolf Schmidt Rudolf Schmidt (12 May 1886 – 7 April 1957) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II who commanded the 2nd Panzer Army on the Eastern Front. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leav ...

:: 7th Panzer Division - Lt. Gen.

Hans Freiherr von Funck Hans von Funck (23 December 1891 – 14 February 1979) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II, who commanded the 7th Panzer Division and the XXXXVII Panzer Corps. Career Hans von Funck joined the German army in August 1914 and ...

20th Panzer Division The 20th Panzer Division ( en, 20th Tank Division) was an armoured division in the German Army during World War II. It was created from parts of the 19th Infantry Division. The division fought exclusively on the Eastern Front, taking part in th ...

- Lt. Gen.

Horst Stumpff __NOTOC__ Horst Stumpff (20 November 1887 – 25 November 1958) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. On 1 January 1938 Stumpff was given command of the 3rd Panzer B ...

:: 14th Infantry Division (mot.) - Lt. Gen. Friedrich Fürst :: 20th Infantry Division (mot.) - Lt. Gen. Hans Zorn : LVII Corps (mot.) - General of Panzer

Adolf-Friedrich Kuntzen __NOTOC__ General Adolf-Friedrich Kuntzen (26 July 1889 – 10 July 1964) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the LXXXI Army-Corps under Erwin Rommel in Normandy in 1944. He saw service in World War I, and ...

:: 12th Panzer Division - Lt. Gen. Josef Harpe ::

19th Panzer Division The 19th Panzer Division ( en, 19th Tank Division) was an armoured division in the German Army, the Wehrmacht, during World War II. It was created from the 19th Infantry Division. The division fought exclusively on the Eastern Front, except for ...

- Lt. Gen. Otto von Knobelsdorff :: 18th Infantry Division (mot.) - Lt. Gen.

Friedrich Herrlein __NOTOC__ Eckner's reception in Lübeck in 1925. Top row far right Friedrich Herrlein (27 April 1889 – 28 July 1974) was a German general (General der Infanterie) in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the LV Corps. He was a recip ...

German Army Group South Army Group South (german: Heeresgruppe Süd) was the name of three German Army Groups during World War II. It was first used in the 1939 September Campaign, along with Army Group North to invade Poland. In the invasion of Poland Army Group Sou ...

Commanded by Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt (Chief of Staff - Lt. Gen. Georg von Sodenstern)

German Sixth Army

Field Marshal Walther von Reichenau : XVII Corps - General of Infantry

Werner Kienitz __NOTOC__ Werner Kienitz (3 June 1885 – 31 December 1959) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the XVII. Corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Awards * Knight's ...

:: 56th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Karl von Oven Karl von Oven (29 November 1888 – 20 January 1974) was a German general during World War II who commanded several corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Awards and decorations * Knight's Cross of ...

:: 62nd Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Walter Keiner __NOTOC__ Walter Keiner (30 December 1890 – 23 January 1978) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Awards and decorations * Knight's Cross of the Iron ...

: XXIX Corps - General of Infantry

Hans von Obstfelder __NOTOC__ Hans von Obstfelder (6 September 1886 – 20 December 1976) was a German general ( General of the Infantry) in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords. I ...

:: 44th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Friedrich Siebert :: 111th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Otto Stapf :: 299th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Willi Moser __NOTOC__ Willi Moser (2 November 1887 – 18 October 1946) was a German general during World War II who commanded the LXXI Army Corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Moser was taken prisoner by Sovie ...

: XXXXIV Corps - General of Infantry

Friedrich Koch Friedrich Ernst Koch (3 July 1862 – 30 January 1927) was a German composer, cello, cellist and teacher. Biography He was born in Berlin and studied cello with Robert Hausmann and composition with Woldemar Bargiel at the Berlin Berlin Universit ...

:: 9th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Siegmund Freiherr von Schleinitz :: 297th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Max Pfeffer __NOTOC__ Max Pfeffer (7 June 1883 – 21 December 1955) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II who commanded the IV Army Corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Pfeffer surrendered to the S ...

: LV Corps - General of Infantry

Erwin Vierow __NOTOC__ General Erwin Vierow (15 May 1890 – 1 February 1982) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. Between the wars he served on the General Staff of the Reichswehr and in the infantry and by the outbreak of Worl ...

:: 75th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Ernst Hammer __NOTOC__ Ernst Hammer (20 October 1884 – 2 December 1957) was a German-Austrian officer of four armies since 1 October 1903, entering as a one-year volunteer. He was Oberleutnant of the Common Army, Hauptmann of the k.u.k. Armee, Generalmajor ...

:: 57th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Oskar Blümm :: 168th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Hans Mundt Hans may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Hans (name), a masculine given name * Hans Raj Hans, Indian singer and politician ** Navraj Hans, Indian singer, actor, entrepreneur, cricket player and performer, son of Hans Raj Hans ** Yuvraj Hans, Punjabi a ...

:: 298th Infantry Division - Mj. Gen. Walther Graeßner

Panzergruppe 1 The 1st Panzer Army (german: 1. Panzerarmee) was a German tank army that was a large armoured formation of the Wehrmacht during World War II. When originally formed on 1 March 1940, the predecessor of the 1st Panzer Army was named Panzer Group ...

Colonel General Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist : III Corps (mot.) - General of Cavalry Eberhard von Mackensen ::

13th Panzer Division The 13th Panzer Division ( en, 13th Armoured Division) was a unit of the German Army during World War II, established in 1940. The division was organized under the code name Infantry Command IV (''Infanterieführer IV'') in October 1934. On O ...

- Lt. Gen.

Friedrich-Wilhelm von Rothkirch und Panthen __NOTOC__ Friedrich-Wilhelm von Rothkirch und Panthen (16 February 1884 – 24 December 1953) was a German general during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Rothkirch und Panthen retired from a ...

14th Panzer Division The 14th Panzer Division (german: 14. Panzer-Division) was an armoured division in the German Army during World War II. It was created in 1940 by the conversion of the 4th Infantry Division. The division took part in the invasion of Yugoslavia ...

- Lt. Gen.

Friedrich Kühn General Friedrich Kühn (7 August 1889 – 15 February 1944) was a General der Panzertruppe in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. World War II At the start of World War I ...

:: 25th Infantry Division (mot.) - Lt. Gen. Erich-Heinrich Clößner : XIV Corps (mot.) - General of Infantry

Gustav Anton von Wietersheim Gustav Anton von Wietersheim (11 February 1884 – 25 April 1974) was a German general during World War II. He led the XIV Motorized Corps (after 21 June 1941, XIV Panzer Corps) from its creation in 1938 until 14 September 1942 during the Battle ...

9th Panzer Division The 9th Panzer Division was a panzer division of the German Army during World War II. It came into existence after 4th Light Division was reorganized in January 1940. The division was headquartered in Vienna, in the German military district Weh ...

- Lt. Gen.

Alfred Ritter von Hubicki __NOTOC__ Alfred Ritter von Hubicki (5 February 1887 – 14 July 1971) was a Hungarian-born general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. By the time of the Anschluss of Austria in 1938 he had reached the rank of Generalmajor as ...

:: SS-Division (mot.) Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler - SS-Obergruppenführer Sepp Dietrich :: SS-Wiking Division - SS-Brigadeführer Felix Steiner : XXXXVIII Corps (mot.) - General of Panzer Werner Kempf ::

11th Panzer Division The 11th Panzer Division ( en, 11th Tank Division) was an armoured division in the German Army during World War II, established in 1940. The division saw action on the Eastern and Western Fronts during the Second World War. The 11th Panzer Div ...

- Lt. Gen. Ludwig Crüwell ::

16th Panzer Division The 16th Panzer Division (german: 16. Panzer-Division) was a formation of the German Army in World War II. It was formed in November 1940 from the 16th Infantry Division. It took part in Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union in ...

- Lt. Gen. Hans-Valentin Hube :: 16th Infantry Division (mot.) - Lt. Gen.

Sigfrid Henrici __NOTOC__ General Sigfrid Henrici (10 May 1889 – 8 November 1964) was a German general during World War II. During the invasion of Poland in 1939, Henrici was the commander of the 16th Infantry Division (motorised). He commanded XXXX P ...

German Seventeenth Army

General of Infantry

Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel Carl-Heinrich Rudolf Wilhelm von Stülpnagel (2 January 1886 – 30 August 1944) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who was an army level commander. While serving as military commander of German-occupied France and as comm ...

: IV Corps - General of Infantry Viktor von Schwedler :: 24th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Hans von Tettau __NOTOC__ Hans von Tettau (30 November 1888 – 30 January 1956) was a German general ( General of the Infantry) in the Wehrmacht during World War II who held commands at the divisional and corps level. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cros ...

:: 71st Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Alexander von Hartmann :: 262nd Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. ::

295th Infantry Division The 295th Infantry Division (german: 295. Infanterie-Division) was an Infantry Division, infantry division of the German German Army (1935–1945), Heer during World War II. Operational history Formation The division was formed on 10 February ...

- Lt. Gen. Herbert Geitner :: 296th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Wilhelm Stemmermann __NOTOC__ Wilhelm Stemmermann (23 October 1888 – 18 February 1944) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II who commanded the XI Army Corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. He ...

XXXXIX Mountain Corps XXXXIX Mountain Corps was a mountain corps of the German Army during World War II that participated in the invasion of Yugoslavia. In June 1941, it participated in Operation Barbarossa as part of Army Group South. It fought in the Battle of Uma ...

- General of Infantry

Ludwig Kübler Ludwig Kübler (2 September 1889 – 18 August 1947) was a German ''General der Gebirgstruppe'' (Lieutenant General) who commanded the 1st Mountain Division, XXXXIX Mountain Corps, 4th Army and the Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littora ...

:: 68th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Georg Braun Georg Braun (also ''Brunus, Bruin''; 1541 – 10 March 1622) was a German topo-geographer. From 1572 to 1617, he edited the ''Civitates orbis terrarum,'' which contains 546 prospects, bird's-eye views and maps of cities from all around the ...

:: 257th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Karl Sachs Karl may refer to: People * Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name * Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne * Karl Marx, German philosopher and political writer * Karl of Austria, last Austria ...

:: 1st Mountain Division - Lt. Gen. Hubert Lanz : LII Corps - General of Infantry Kurt von Briesen :: 101st Light Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. Erich Marcks :: 97th Light Infantry Division - Mj. Gen. Maximilian Fretter-Pico :: 100th Light Infantry Division - Mj. Gen. Werner Sanne : Hungarian Fast Corps - Gen.

Béla Miklós Béla Miklós de Dálnok, Vitéz of Dálnok (11 June 1890 – 21 November 1948) was a Hungarian military officer and politician who served as acting Prime Minister of Hungary, at first in opposition, and then officially, from 1944 to 1945. He ...

:: 1st Hungarian Motorized Brigade - Bg. Gen.

Jenő Major Jenő Major (6 August 1891 – 13 January 1972) was a Hungarian military officer, who served as the last Commander of the Hungarian Second Army during the Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviat ...

:: 2nd Hungarian Motorized Brigade - Bg. Gen.

János Vörös János Vörös (25 March 1891 – 23 July 1968) was a Hungarian military officer and politician, who served as Minister of Defence in the unofficial Interim National Government which led by Béla Miklós. He fought in the First World War at th ...

:: 1st Hungarian Cavalry Brigade - Bg. Gen : Slovak Expeditionary Army Group - Gen. Ferdinand Čatloš :: Slovakian Mobile Brigade - LTC. :: 1st Slovakian Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Antonin Pulanich Antonin may refer to: People * Antonin (name) Places ;Poland * Antonin, Jarocin County, Greater Poland Voivodeship * Antonin, Kalisz County, Greater Poland Voivodeship * Antonin, Oborniki County, Greater Poland Voivodeship * Antonin, Ostrów ...

:: 2nd Slovakian Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Romanian Army Group Antonescu

General

Ion Antonescu Ion Antonescu (; ; – 1 June 1946) was a Romanian military officer and marshal who presided over two successive wartime dictatorships as Prime Minister and ''Conducător'' during most of World War II. A Romanian Army career officer who made ...

: Romanian Third Army - Lt. Gen.

Petre Dumitrescu Petre Dumitrescu (; 18 February 1882 – 15 January 1950) was a Romanian general during World War II who led the Romanian Third Army on its campaign against the Red Army in the Eastern Front. Early life and military career Dumitrescu was born i ...

:: Romanian 4th Army Corps - Mj. Gen. Constantin Sănătescu :::

- Br. Gen. ::: 7th Infantry Division- Br. Gen. :: Cavalry Corps - Mj. Gen. Ioan Mihail Racoviță :::5th Cavalry Brigade - Col. :::8th Cavalry Brigade - Col. ::Mountain Corps - Mj. Gen. Gheorghe Avramescu :::1st Mountain Brigade - Br. Gen.

Mihail Lascăr Mihail Lascăr (; November 8, 1889 – July 24, 1959) was a Romanian general during World War II and Romania's Minister of Defense from 1946 to 1947. He was born in Târgu Jiu, Gorj County, Kingdom of Romania, and graduated from the Infantry O ...

:::2nd Mountain Brigade - Br. Gen.

Ioan Dumitrache Ioan Dumitrache (25 August 1889 – 6 March 1977) was a Romanian major general during World War II, in command of the 2nd Mountain Division. His troops ('' vânători de munte'') were recognized as the elite troops of the Romanian Army throughout ...

:::4th Mountain Brigade - Br. Gen.

Gheorghe Manoliu Gheorghe Manoliu ( 21 May 1888 – 28 August 1980) was a Romanian major general during World War II. Biography He was born in 1888 in Piatra Neamț, the son of Vasile and Andromaca Manoliu, both civil servants, originally from the Ceahlău regio ...

German Eleventh Army

Colonel General

Eugen Ritter von Schobert Eugen Siegfried Erich Ritter von Schobert (13 March 1883 – 12 September 1941) was a German general during World War II. He commanded the 11th Army during Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. Schobert died when his observatio ...

XI Corps 11 Corps, 11th Corps, Eleventh Corps, or XI Corps may refer to: * 11th Army Corps (France) * XI Corps (Grande Armée), a unit of the Imperial French Army during the Napoleonic Wars * XI Corps (German Empire), a unit of the Imperial German Army * XI ...

- General of Infantry

Joachim von Kortzfleisch Joachim Otto August Achatius von Kortzfleisch (3 January 1890 – 20 April 1945) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II. As the commander of the Military District III (Berlin), he played a role in the failure of the attempted ...

:: 76th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Maximilian de Angelis __NOTOC__ Maximilian de Angelis (2 October 1889 – 6 December 1974) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. On 4 April 1946 Angelis was ext ...

:: 239th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Ferdinand Neuling Ferdinand Neuling (22 August 1885 – 20 February 1960) was a general of the Heer during World War II. In September 1939, German troops under his command occupied the Polish part of Upper Silesia and cities of Katowice, Mikołów, Chorzów, commi ...

:: 1st Romanian Armored Division - Bg. Gen.

Ioan Sion Alecu Ioan Sion (September 28, 1890 – November 24, 1942) was a Romanian soldier and a major general in the Romanian Land Forces, Land Forces. Born in Pitești, he attended the military high school from Iași and then studied at the milita ...

:: 6th Romanian Cavalry Brigade - Mg. Gen. : XXX Corps - General of Infantry Hans von Salmuth :: 198th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Otto Röttig Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', '' Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity". The name is recorded f ...

:: 8th Romanian Infantry Division - Bg. Gen. :: 13th Romanian Infantry Division - Bg. Gen. :: 14th Romanian Infantry Division - Bg. Gen. : LIV Corps - General of Cavalry

Erick-Oskar Hansen __NOTOC__ Erick-Oskar Hansen (27 May 1889 – 18 March 1967) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Biography Born in Hamburg, Hansen entered the army ...

:: 50th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Karl-Adolf Hollidt Karl-Adolf Hollidt (25 April 1891 – 22 May 1985) was a German army commander and war criminal during World War II. He was a general (''Generaloberst'') in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany who commanded the 6th Army. Career Hollidt enlisted in th ...

:: 170th Infantry Division - Lt. Gen. :: 5th Romanian Infantry Division - Bg. Gen. Petre Vlădescu : Italian Expeditionary Corps - Lt. Gen. Giovanni Messe ::

9th Infantry Division "Pasubio" The 9th Infantry Division Pasubio ( it, 9ª Divisione di fanteria "Pasubio") was an infantry Division (military), division of the Royal Italian Army during World War II. The Pasubio was classified as an auto-transportable division, meaning it had ...

- Gen. Vittorio Giovanelli ::

52nd Infantry Division "Torino" The 52nd Infantry Division "Torino" ( it, 52ª Divisione di fanteria "Torino") was an infantry division of the Royal Italian Army during World War II. The Torino was named after the city of Turin ( it, Torino) and classified as an auto-transporta ...

- Gen. Luigi Manzi ::

3rd Cavalry Division "Principe Amedeo Duca d'Aosta" The 3rd Cavalry Division " Principe Amedeo Duca d'Aosta" ( it, 3ª Divisione celere "Principe Amedeo Duca d'Aosta") was a Cavalry or "Celere" (Fast) division of the Royal Italian Army during World War II. The division was formed in 1934, and duri ...

- Gen. Mario Marazzani : 22nd Infantry Division - Lt. Gen.

Hans Graf von Sponeck Hans Emil Otto Graf von Sponeck (12 February 1888 – 23 July 1944) was a German general during World War II who was imprisoned for disobeying orders and later executed. Pre-World War II career Sponeck was born in 1888 in Düsseldorf. He rece ...

Romanian Fourth Army The Fourth Army (Armata a 4-a Română) was a field army (a military formation) of the Romanian Land Forces active from the 19th century to the 1990s. History World War I The Fourth Army fought under the name of "Northern Army" or "Army of ...

- Lt. Gen. Nicolae Ciupercă :: Romanian 3rd Army Corps - Mj. Gen.

Vasile Atanasiu Vasile Atanasiu (April 25, 1886 – June 6, 1964) was a Romanian general in World War II. Biography He was born in Târgoviște, Romania in 1886, in a Greek-Romanian family, the son of Ștefan and Paulina Atanasiu. He graduated from the "Milit ...

:::Guards Division - Mj. Gen. :::15th Infantry Division - Mj. Gen. :::35th Reserve Divisions - Br. Gen. :: Romanian 5th Army Corps - Lt. Gen. :::Border Division - Br. Gen. :::21st Division - Mj. Gen. :: Romanian 11th Army Corps - Mj. Gen. I. Aurelian :::two fortress brigades :Other assets :: Romanian 2nd Army Corps - Mj. Gen.

Nicolae Macici Nicolae Macici (7 November 1886 – 15 June 1950) was a Romanian lieutenant general during World War II, when he commanded the Romanian First Army, first on the side of the Axis (1941–1944) and then on the side of the Allies (1944–1945). Con ...

:::9th Infantry Division - Br. Gen. Hugo Schwab :::10th Infantry Division - Br. Gen. Ion Glogojanu :::7th Cavalry Brigade - Col. :::11th Infantry Division - Br. Gen.

David Popescu David Popescu (25 May 1886 – 11 April 1955) was a Romanian general during World War II and Interior Minister in 1940. Biography He was born in 1886 in Comarnic, Prahova County, Kingdom of Romania, the son of Iulian (a priest) and Maria. He a ...

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

Stavka The ''Stavka'' (Russian and Ukrainian: Ставка) is a name of the high command of the armed forces formerly in the Russian Empire, Soviet Union and currently in Ukraine. In Imperial Russia ''Stavka'' referred to the administrative staff, a ...

The "Main Command of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (''Stavka Glavnogo Komandovaniya'') was formed on 23 June, largely from the existing People's Commissariat for Defence. Commander in Chief: Marshal

Semyon Timoshenko Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko (russian: link=no, Семён Константи́нович Тимоше́нко, ''Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko''; uk, Семе́н Костянти́нович Тимоше́нко, ''Semen Kostiantyno ...

(until July 19), then

Josef Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretar ...

Deputy Commander-in-Chief: Army General

Georgy Zhukov Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov ( rus, Георгий Константинович Жуков, p=ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj kənstɐnʲˈtʲinəvʲɪtɕ ˈʐukəf, a=Ru-Георгий_Константинович_Жуков.ogg; 1 December 1896 – ...

(from August 8)
Chief of the General Staff: Army General Georgy Zhukov (until July 21), then Marshal

Boris Shaposhnikov , birth_name = Boris Mikhailovitch Shaposhnikov , birth_date = , death_date = , birth_place = Zlatoust, Ufa GovernorateRussian Empire , death_place = Moscow, Soviet Union , placeofburial = Kremlin Wall Necropolis , placeofbu ...

16th Army

Lieutenant General

Mikhail Lukin Mikhail Lukin (russian: Михаи́л Дми́триевич Луки́н); born 10 October 1971) is a Russian theoretical and experimental physicist and a professor at Harvard University. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Scien ...

32nd Rifle Corps The 32nd Rifle Corps was a corps of the Red Army during World War II, formed twice. Each formation was a distinct unit, unrelated to the other. First formation The corps headquarters formed in the Transbaikal Military District in September 1939 ...

- Major General

Trofim Kolomiets Trofim Kolomiets (1894 – April 1971) was a Soviet Army commander. Biography Kolomiets was born in Elisavetgrad, in the Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine). He fought in the Imperial Russian Army during World W ...

46th Rifle Division The 46th Rifle Division was a rifle division of the Red Army. History The division was formed in 1923 as a territorial unit, assigned to the 14th Rifle Corps of the Ukrainian Military District. Based in Kiev, it included the 136th, 137th, and 13 ...

- Major General

Alexander Filatov Alexander Alekseyevich Filatov (russian: Александр Алексеевич Филатов; born September 5, 1940) is a Russian politician. Filatov graduated from the Kuzbass Polytechnic Institute. He worked as a miner in the city of Poly ...

152nd Rifle Division Fifteen or 15 may refer to: *15 (number), the natural number following 14 and preceding 16 *one of the years 15 BC, AD 15, 1915, 2015 Music *Fifteen (band), a punk rock band Albums * ''15'' (Buckcherry album), 2005 * ''15'' (Ani Lorak album) ...

- Colonel Pyotr Chernyshov : 5th Mechanized Corps - Major General

Ilya Alekseyenko Ilya Prokofyevich Alekseyenko (; 20 June 1899 – 3 August 1941) was a Ukrainian Red Army major general. After joining the Red Army in 1918, Alekseyenko served as a junior commander in machine gun units during the Russian Civil War and the Polish ...

:: 13th Tank Division - Colonel Fyodor Grachev :: 17th Tank Division - Colonel

Ivan Korchagin Ivan Petrovich Korchagin (russian: Иван Петрович Корчагин; – 24 July 1951) was a Soviet Army lieutenant general and a Hero of the Soviet Union. Korchagin volunteered for the Imperial Russian Army during World War I, during ...

:: 109th Motor Rifle Division - Colonel Nikolai Krasnoretsky

19th Army

Lieutenant General Ivan Konev :

38th Rifle Division The 38th Rifle Division (38-я стрелковая дивизия) was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II. Formed in 1918 as the 2nd Don Infantry Division. In February 1919, as part of the 1st Army, the Div ...

- Colonel Maxim Kirillov :

25th Rifle Corps The 25th Army Corps was an army corps of the Soviet Ground Forces active from 1957–1960 and 1980–89. In its first period of existence it was in the Odessa Military District, and in its second period of existence it garrisoned the remote Kamchatk ...

- Major General Sergey Chestohvalov ::

127th Rifle Division 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...

- Major General Timofey Korneyev :: 134th Rifle Division - Major General Vladimir Kuzmich Bazarov ::

162nd Rifle Division Sixteen or 16 may refer to: *16 (number), the natural number following 15 and preceding 17 *one of the years 16 BC, AD 16, 1916, 2016 Films * '' Pathinaaru'' or ''Sixteen'', a 2010 Tamil film * ''Sixteen'' (1943 film), a 1943 Argentine film d ...

- Colonel Nikolai Kolkunov :

34th Rifle Corps The 34th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the 19th Army. It took part in the Great Patriotic War. Organization * 129th Rifle Division * 158th Rifle Division * 171st Rifle Division Commanders * Divisional comma ...

- Major General Raphael Khmelnitsky ::

129th Rifle Division 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...

- Major General Auxentios Gorodnyansky :: 158th Rifle Division - Colonel V.I. Novozhilov :: 171st Rifle Division - Major General Alexander Budyho

20th Army

Lieutenant General

Fyodor Remezov Fyodor Nikitich Remezov (; 6 June 1990) was a Soviet Army general during World War II who commanded several armies and military districts. Remezov joined the Red Army in 1918 and fought in the Russian Civil War as a junior commander. After the ...

: 18th Rifle Division - Colonel Karp Sviridov : 61st Rifle Corps - Major General

Fyodor Bakunin Fyodor Alexeyevich Bakunin (; 2 March 1898 22 January 1984) was a Soviet Army major general. Bakunin briefly served in the Imperial Russian Army in 1917 and in 1919 joined the Red Army, fighting in the Russian Civil War. He became an officer and ...

110th Rifle Division The 110th Rifle Division was a formation of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the course of World War II, which was formed, dissolved, and re-formed three times throughout the war. History First formation The division was first formed 20 Septem ...

- Colonel Vasily Khlebtsov :: 144th Rifle Division - Major General Mikhail Pronin ::

172nd Rifle Division The 172nd Rifle Division () was an infantry division of the Red Army during World War II, formed thrice. First formation On 22 June 1941 it was part of the 61st Rifle Corps of the 20th Army in the Reserve of the Supreme High Command. By ...

- Major General

Mikhail Timofeyevich Romanov Mikhail Timofeyevich Romanov (; 3 November 1891 – 13 December 1941) was a Red Army major general. Romanov served with the Imperial Russian Army in World War I and joined the Red Army; he held command positions during the Russian Civil War. In ...

69th Rifle Corps The 69th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the 20th Army. It took part in the Great Patriotic War. Organization * 73rd Rifle Division * 229th Rifle Division * 233rd Rifle Division Commanders * Major General Yev ...

- Major General Yevdokim Mogilovchik :: 73rd Rifle Division - Colonel

Alexander Akimov Aleksandr Fyodorovich Akimov (russian: Александр Фёдорович Акимов; 6 May 1953 – 11 May 1986) was a Soviet engineer who was the supervisor of the shift that worked at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Reactor Unit 4 on t ...

:: 229th Rifle Division - Major General Mikhail Ivanovich Kozlov :: 233rd Rifle Division - Colonel Grigory Kotov : 7th Mechanized Corps - Major General Vasily Ivanovich Vinogradov ::

14th Tank Division 14 (fourteen) is a natural number following 13 and preceding 15. In relation to the word "four" ( 4), 14 is spelled "fourteen". In mathematics * 14 is a composite number. * 14 is a square pyramidal number. * 14 is a stella octangula number. ...

- Colonel

Ivan Dmitrievich Vasilyev Ivan () is a Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John) from Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. The earliest person known to bear the name was Bulgari ...

:: 1st Motor Rifle Division - Colonel Yakov Kreizer

21st Army

Lieutenant General Vasily Gerasimenko : 63rd Rifle Corps - Lieutenant General

Leonid Petrovsky Leonid Grigorevich Petrovsky (11 June 1897 – 17 August 1941) was a Soviet lieutenant general. He was the oldest son of Grigory Petrovsky. He was born in what is now Donetsk Oblast in Ukraine. He was promoted to Komkor from Komdiv in 1937. While ...

:: 53rd Rifle Division - Colonel Ivan Bartenev :: 148th Rifle Division - Colonel

Filipp Cherokmanov Filipp Mikhailovich Cherokmanov (Russian: Филипп Михайлович Черокманов; 16 November 1899 – 8 June 1978) was a Soviet Army lieutenant general and Hero of the Soviet Union. Cherokmanov joined the Red Army during the Russia ...

167th Rifle Division The 167th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army of the Soviet Union, formed twice. History First Formation The division was formed at Balashov in the Volga Military District in July 1940, under the command of ''Kombrig'' V ...

- Major General

Vasily Rakovsky Vasily Stepanovich Rakovsky (; 1 January 1898 – 7 January 1978) was a Soviet Army major general. Drafted into the Imperial Russian Army during World War I, Rakovsky briefly served as a non-commissioned officer without seeing action in 1917 befo ...

: 66th Rifle Corps - Major General

Fyodor Sudakov 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: Giv ...

:: 61st Rifle Division - Major General Nikolay Prishchepa ::

117th Rifle Division The Soviet 117th Rifle Division was a rifle division that served during the Second World War. Originally formed in 1939 destroyed and reformed during the war. History First Formation Formed on 23 August 1939 in the Volga Military District, under ...

- Colonel Spiridon Chernyugov :: 154th Rifle Division - Colonel Yakov Fokanov : 25th Mechanized Corps - Major General Semyon Krivoshein :: 50th Tank Division - Colonel

Boris Bakharov Boris may refer to: People * Boris (given name), a male given name *:''See'': List of people with given name Boris * Boris (surname) * Boris I of Bulgaria (died 907), the first Christian ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire, canonized after his d ...

:: 55th Tank Division - Colonel Vasily Badanov :: 219th Motor Rifle Division - Major General Pavel Korzun

22nd Army

Lieutenant General

Filipp Yershakov Filipp Afanasyevich Yershakov (; – 9 June 1942) was a Red Army lieutenant general who held field army command during World War II. Yershakov led the 22nd Army (Soviet Union), 22nd Army during the Battle of Smolensk (1941), Battle of Smolensk an ...

51st Rifle Corps The 51st Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the 22nd Army. It took part in the Great Patriotic War. Organization * 98th Rifle Division * 112th Rifle Division Eleven or 11 may refer to: *11 (number), the natural nu ...

:: 98th Rifle Division ::

112th Rifle Division Eleven or 11 may refer to: *11 (number), the natural number following 10 and preceding 12 * one of the years 11 BC, AD 11, 1911, 2011, or any year ending in 11 Literature * ''Eleven'' (novel), a 2006 novel by British author David Llewellyn *'' ...

:: 153rd Rifle Division :

62nd Rifle Corps The 62nd Rifle Corps was a corps of the 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 t ...

:: 170th Rifle Division :: 174th Rifle Division :: 186th Rifle Division

24th Army

: 52nd Rifle Corps :: 91st Rifle Division ::

119th Rifle Division The 119th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army, formed three times. It was originally raised at Krasnoyarsk in 1939 as a motor rifle division until the following year when it was reorganized as a standard Red Army rifle divisio ...

:: 166th Rifle Division :

53rd Rifle Corps The 53rd Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the 24th Army. It took part in the Great Patriotic War. After a brief period on occupation duty in Germany after the war ended, the 17th Rifle Division (III Formation) was r ...

107th Rifle Division 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1 ...

133rd Rifle Division The 18th Guards Motor Rifle Division was formed originally as 133rd Rifle Division at Novosibirsk or Biysk in 1939. The division was part of 1st Shock Army on 1 December 1941 during the Battle of Moscow. It was redesignated as the 18th Guards ...

:: 178th Rifle Division

Northern Front

General Colonel

Markian Popov Markian Mikhaylovich Popov (; 1902–1969) was a Soviet military commander, Army General (26 August 1943), and Hero of the Soviet Union (1965). Early life Markian Popov was born in 1902 in Ust-Medvediskaya in the Don Host Oblast (now Volgograd O ...

The front was the

Leningrad Military District The Leningrad Military District was a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In 2010 it was merged with the Moscow Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District. Hi ...

until 24 June.

7th Army (Separate)

Lieutenant General Filip Danilovich Gorelenko :

54th Rifle Division The 54th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army and Soviet Army, formed twice. The division was formed in 1936 and fought in the Winter War. The division spent most of World War II in Karelia fighting with Finnish tr ...

- Maj. Gen. I.V. Panin : 71st Rifle Division - Col. V.N. Fedorov : 168th Rifle Division - Col. A.L. Bondarev :

237th Rifle Division The 237th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army, originally formed in the months just before the start of the German invasion, based on the ''shtat'' (table of organization and equipment A table of organization and equipment (TO ...

- Maj. Gen. D.F. Popov :

55th Mixed Aviation Division The 55th Mixed Aviation Division was an Aviation Division of the Soviet Air Forces during World War II. History The division was formed on 25 February 1941 in the Leningrad Military District. It formed part of the 'operational army' from 22 June ...

- Colonel

Alexander Bogradetsky Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...

14th Army

Lieutenant General Valerian A. Frolov : 14th Rifle Division - Col. A.A. Zhurba :

52nd Rifle Division The 52nd Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War, the interwar period, World War II, and the Cold War, formed once during the Russian Civil War and three times during the existence of the Soviet Union. ...

- Mj. Gen. N.N. Nikishin : 1st Tank Division - Major General Viktor Ilyich Baranov :

42nd Rifle Corps The 42nd Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the 14th Army. It took part in the Great Patriotic War. Its initial commander was Major General Roman Ivanovich Panin. The corps was disbanded on 14 October 1941. The Corps ...

- Major General

Roman Ivanovich Panin Roman Ivanovich Panin (; 28 September 1897 – 1 June 1949) was a Soviet major general from during World War II. An Imperial Russian Army junior officer in World War I, he joined the Red Army in 1919. Panin fought in the Russian Civil War and cont ...

104th Rifle Division 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...

- Mj. Gen. S.I. Morozov :: 122nd Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. P.S. Shevchenko : 1st Mixed Aviation Division

23rd Army

Lieutenant General

P.S. Pshennikov Pyotr Stepanovitch Pshennikov (russian: Пётр Степанович Пшенников, Moscow, 28 January 1895 – Trosnyansky District, 28 December 1941) was a Soviet Lieutenant-General (1940). Biography Pshennikov participated in the Fi ...

19th Rifle Corps 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 - ...

- Major General

M.N. Gerasimov MN may refer to: Places * Mongolia (ISO 3166-1 country code) * Montenegro (former ISO 3166 country code) * Monaco (FIPS 10-4 country code) * Minnesota, US (postal abbreviation) * Manipur, a state in northeast India * Province of Mantua, or of Ma ...

:: 142nd Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. S.P. Mikul’skii :: 115th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. V.F. Kon’kov :

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 * 70t ...

- Major General V.I. S'cherbakov :: 43rd Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. Vladimir Kirpichnikov ::

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 Wint ...

- Major General Andrey Fedyunin ::

123rd Rifle Division 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...

- Col. Ye.Ye. Tsukanov : 10th Mechanized Corps - Major General I. G. Lazarev :: 21st Tank Division - Col. L.V. Bunin ::

24th Tank Division The 24th Tank Division was a tank division of the Soviet Union, formed twice. The division's first formation was formed in the spring of 1941 and fought in the Leningrad Strategic Defensive before being broken up into two smaller brigades. The d ...

- Col. M.I. Chesnokov :: 198th Motor Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. Vladimir Kryukov : 5th Mixed Aviation Division : 41st Bomber Aviation Division

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: 177th Rifle Division - Col. A.F. Mashoshin :

191st Rifle Division 191st may refer to: *191st (Southern Alberta) Battalion, CEF, a unit in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War * 191st Air Refueling Squadron, a unit of the Utah Air National Guard *191st Airlift Group, an airlift unit located ...

- Col. D.K. Luk’yanov : 1st Mechanized Corps - Major General M. L. Cherniavsky :: 3rd Tank Division - Col. K.Yu. Andreev :: 163rd Motor Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. N.M. Kuznetsov Frontal aviation : 2nd Mixed Aviation Division : 39th Fighter Aviation Division : 3rd PVO Fighter Aviation Division : 54th PVO Fighter Aviation Division

Northwestern Front The Northwestern Front (Russian: ''Северо-Западный фронт'') was a military formation of the Red Army during the Winter War and World War II. It was operational with the 7th and 13th Armies during the Winter War. It was re-cre ...

General Colonel

Fyodor Isodorovich Kuznetsov Fyodor Isidorovich Kuznetsov (russian: Фёдор Иси́дорович Кузнецо́в; 29 September 1898 – 22 March 1961) was a Colonel General and military commander in the Soviet Union. Biography Born to a peasant family in Mogilev G ...

Source: Baltic Special Military District until 22 June.

8th Army

Lieutenant General Pyotr Sobennikov :

10th Rifle Corps The 10th Rifle Corps (Military Unit Number 16058 until June 1956) was an infantry corps of the Red Army, which later became the 10th Army Corps after the Second World War. Interwar period The corps was formed by an order dated 12 July 1922 in ...

- Major General I.F. Nikolaev :: 10th Rifle Division - Col. I.I. Fadeev :: 48th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. P.V. Bogdanov :: 90th Rifle Division - Col. Mikhail Golubev :

11th Rifle Corps The 11th Rifle Corps () was a corps of the Red Army, formed twice. The 11th was first formed in 1922 in the Petrograd area but soon moved to the Belorussian Military District. After fighting in the Soviet invasion of Poland, the corps moved to Li ...

- Major General

M.S. Shumilov Mikhail Stepanovich Shumilov (; November 17, 1895 – June 28, 1975) was a Soviet Colonel general and commander of the 64th Army during the Battle of Stalingrad. There he defended the southern outskirts of the city and the bridgehead of Beketov ...

:: 11th Rifle Division - Col. N.A. Sokolov ::

125th Rifle Division 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...

- Mj. Gen. P.P. Bogaichuk : 12th Mechanized Corps - Major General N.M. Shestopalov :: 23rd Tank Division - Col. T.S. Orlenko :: 202nd Motor Rifle Division - Col. V.K. Gorbachev

11th Army

Lieutenant General V. I. Morosov :

23rd Rifle Division The 23rd Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army and Soviet Army, formed three times. It was formed in July 1922 in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, inheriting the Order of the Red Banner from the predecessor Zavolzhskaya ...

- Mj. Gen. V.F. Pavlov :

126th Rifle Division 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1 ...

- Mj. Gen. M.A. Kuznetsov :

128th Rifle Division 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...

- Mj. Gen. A.S. Zotov :

16th Rifle Corps The 16th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army, formed twice. It took part in the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 and destroyed in the Baltic Operation during Operation Barbarossa. Reformed in 1942, the corps fought through the rest ...

- Major General F.S. Ivanov :: 5th Rifle Division - Col.

Fyodor Ozerov Fyodor Petrovich Ozerov (; 6 February 1899 – 18 November 1971) was a Soviet Army lieutenant general who held field army command during World War II. Early life and Russian Civil War Fyodor Petrovich Ozerov was born on 6 February 1899 in the ...

33rd Rifle Division The 33rd Rifle Division was a rifle division of the Red Army and Soviet Army, formed twice. The division was formed in 1922 at Samara and moved to Belarus in the next year. It fought in the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939 and in the O ...

- Mj. Gen.

Karp Zheleznikov Karp Afanasyevich Zheleznikov (; 13 October 1895 – 16 January 1957) was a Soviet Army major general who held division command during World War II. Early life, World War I, and Russian Civil War A Belarusians, Belarusian, Karp Afanasyevich Zhel ...

:: 188th Rifle Division - Col. P.I. Ivanov :

29th Rifle Corps The 29th Rifle Corps ( lt, 29-asis teritorinis šaulių korpusas) was formed several times in Soviet Red Army, each formation primarily seeing combat on the Eastern Front during World War II. The first formation of the 29th Rifle Corps was known ...

- Major General A.G. Samokhin :: 179th Rifle Division - Col. A.I. Ustinov ::

184th Rifle Division The 18th Machine Gun Artillery Division is a division of the Russian Ground Forces stationed in the Sakhalin Oblast with administration over the Kuril Islands. It is currently deployed to Eastern Ukraine. First formation It was first formed as ...

- Col. M.V. Vinogradov : 3rd Mechanized Corps - Major General Alexey Kurkin :: 2nd Tank Division - Mj. Gen.

Yegor Solyankin Yegor Nikolaevich Solyankin (; 21 April 190126 June 1941) was a Red Army major general. Solyankin led the 2nd Tank Division during the Battle of Raseiniai, a Soviet counterattack after the German invasion of the Soviet Union. He was killed in act ...

:: 5th Tank Division - Col. F.F. Fedorov :: 84th Motorized Division - Mj. Gen. P.I. Fomenko

27th Army

Lieutenant General

Nikolai Berzarin Nikolai Erastovich Berzarin (Russian: Никола́й Эра́стович Берза́рин; 1 April 1904 – 16 June 1945) was a Soviet officer in the Red Army during the Stalinist era and the Second World War. In 1945 he became the first tow ...

16th Rifle Division The 16th Rifle Division (russian: 16-я стрелковая Литовская Клайпедская Краснознамённая дивизия, translit=16-ya strelkovaya Litovskaya Klaypedskaya Krasnoznamonnaya diviziya; ; lt, 16-oji 'Lie ...

- Maj. Gen. I.M. Lyubovtsev :

67th Rifle Division The 67th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army. The 20th Rifle Division (territorial defence) was formed from militia brigades in the Leningrad Military District in 1923. On May 21, 1936, it was named the 67th Rifle Division. In ...

- Maj. Gen. N.A. Dedaev : 3rd Rifle Brigade :

22nd Rifle Corps The 22nd Rifle Corps was a corps of the Red Army, formed thrice. It was initially formed from the Estonian Army after the Soviet occupation of that country in June 1940. The corps was destroyed during the Baltic Operation. After large-scale de ...

- 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 ...

180th Rifle Division The 180th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Red Army, formed twice. Poirer and Connor write that it was first formed 1940 in the Baltic Special Military District and became the 28th Guards Rifle Division on 3 May 1942. The ...

- Col. I.I. Missan ::

182nd Rifle Division Eighteen or 18 may refer to: * 18 (number), the natural number following 17 and preceding 19 * one of the years 18 BC, AD 18, 1918, 2018 Film, television and entertainment * ''18'' (film), a 1993 Taiwanese experimental film based on the shor ...

- Col. I.I. Kuryshev :

24th Rifle Corps The 24th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Red Army. It was part of the 27th Army and took part in the Great Patriotic War. It appears to have been initially formed in the Kalinin Military District, around what is today Tver, in 1939. In 1940 it wa ...

- Major General K. Kachalov ::

181st Rifle Division The 181st Rifle Division was a division of the Red Army, active from 1940 to at least 1945, formed from the remnants of the Latvian National Armed Forces, Latvian Army after the Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940. First Formation It was formed in ...

- Col. P.V. Borisov :: 183rd Rifle Division - Col. P.N. Tupikov

Front Assets

5th Airborne Corps Fifth is the Ordinal number (linguistics), ordinal form of the number 5, five. Fifth or The Fifth may refer to: * Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as in the expression "pleading the Fifth" * Fifth column, a political term * Fifth ...

- Major General

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, th ...

:: 9th Airborne Brigade :: 10th Airborne Brigade ::

201st Airborne Brigade First or 1st is the ordinal form of the number one (#1). First or 1st may also refer to: *World record, specifically the first instance of a particular achievement Arts and media Music * 1$T, American rapper, singer-songwriter, DJ, and rec ...

Frontal aviation : 57th Fighter Aviation Division : 4th Mixed Aviation Division : 6th Mixed Aviation Division :

7th Mixed Aviation Division 7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, s ...

: 8th Mixed Aviation Division : 21st PVO Fighter Aviation Division

Western Front Western Front or West Front may refer to: Military frontiers Western Front (World War I), a military frontier to the west of Germany Western Front (World War II), a military frontier to the west of Germany *Western Front (Russian Empire), a majo ...

General Colonel Dmitry Grigorevich Pavlov Western Special Military District until 22 June.

3rd Army

Lieutenant General Vasily Kuznetsov :

4th Rifle Corps The 4th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Red Army, active from the 1920s. First Formation It was formed during the Russian Civil War as part of the Western Front of the Red Army in May and June 1922. The corps headquarters was stationed in Vitebsk ...

- Major General Yevgeny Yegorov ::

27th Rifle Division The 27th Rifle Division (russian: 27-я стрелковая дивизия) was a tactical unit in the Red Army of Soviet Russia and then the Soviet Union, active between 1918 and 1945. First formed during the Russian Civil War on November 3, 1 ...

- Mj. Gen. Aleksandr Stepanov :: 56th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. Semyon Sakhnov :: 85th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. Aleksandr Bondovsky : 11th Mechanized Corps - Major General Dmitry Mostevenko :: 29th Tank Division - Col. N.P. Studnev :: 33rd Tank Division - Col. Mikhail Panov :: 204th Motor Rifle Division - Col. A.M. Pirogov

4th Army

Lieutenant General

Aleksandr Korobkov Aleksandr Andreyevich Korobkov (; 20 June 1897 – 22 July 1941) was a Red Army major general who commanded the 4th Army in the early stages of the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa). Early life, World War I, and Russian C ...

49th Rifle Division The 49th Rifle Division was a Soviet Army infantry division, formed three times. First formed as a territorial division in 1931, the 49th Rifle Division's first formation became a regular division by 1939 and fought in the Winter War. For its action ...

- Col. C.F. Vasil’ev : 75th Rifle Division - Col. Nedwigin :

28th Rifle Corps The 28th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the 4th Army. It took part in the Great Patriotic War. Battle Organization * 6th Rifle Division * 42nd Rifle Division The 42nd Rifle Division was a unit of the Red Ar ...

- Major General Vasily Popov :: 6th Rifle Division - Col. M.A. Popsiu-Shapko ::

42nd Rifle Division The 42nd Rifle Division was a unit of the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War. The division, first formed in 1940, was nearly destroyed in the opening days of the Operation Barbarossa defending the Brest Fortress. Disbanded in late Decembe ...

- Major General Ivan Lazarenko : 14th Mechanized Corps - Major General

Stepan Oborin Stepan Ilyich Oborin (; 15 August 1892 – 16 October 1941) was a Red Army major general. Oborin served as a gunner in the Imperial Russian Army in World War I and subsequently joined the Red Army. He fought in the Russian Civil War and became an ...

:: 22nd Tank Division - Mj. Gen. V.P. Puganov :: 30th Tank Division - Col.

Semen Bogdanov Semyon Ilyich Bogdanov (russian: Семён Ильи́ч Богда́нов; – 12 March 1960) was a Soviet Marshal of tank forces, and twice Hero of the Soviet Union. Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union, he was deputy commander ...

:: 205th Motor Rifle Division - Col. F.F. Kudjurov

10th Army

Lieutenant General

Konstantin Golubev Konstantin Dmitryevich Golubev (27 March 1896 – 9 June 1956) was a Soviet general and army commander. He was born in Petrovsk, Saratov Governorate (in present-day Saratov Oblast). He fought in World War I in the Imperial Russian Army before goi ...

1st Rifle Corps First or 1st is the ordinal form of the number one (#1). First or 1st may also refer to: *World record, specifically the first instance of a particular achievement Arts and media Music * 1$T, American rapper, singer-songwriter, DJ, and reco ...

- Major General F.D. Rubtzov :: 2nd Rifle Division - Col. M.D. Grishin :: 8th Rifle Division - Col. N.I. Fomin :

5th Rifle Corps The 5th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Union's Red Army, formed twice. Formed in 1922, the corps was based at Bobruisk in Belarus for most of the interwar period. It fought in the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939, with elements ...

- Major General A.V. Garnov :: 13th Rifle Division - Col. A.Z. Naumov ::

86th Rifle Division The 86th Rifle Division () was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during the interwar period, World War II, and the early postwar period, formed twice. Interwar period By an order of the Volga Military District on 23 May 1922 ...

- Col. M.A. Zashibalov :: 113th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. Kh.N. Alaverdov : 6th Cavalry Corps - Major General I.S. Nikitin :: 6th Cavalry Division - Mj. Gen. Mikhail Konstantinov :: 36th Cavalry Division - Mj. Gen. E.S. Zybin : 6th Mechanized Corps - Major General Mikhail Khatskilevich :: 4th Tank Division - Mj. Gen. A.G. Potaturchev :: 7th Tank Division - Mj. Gen. S.V. Borzilov ::

29th Motor Rifle Division 9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and ...

- Mj. Gen. I.P. Bikdjanov : 13th Mechanized Corps - Major General

Pyotr Akhlyustin Pyotr Nikolayevich Akhlyustin (; 12 June 1896 – 28 July 1941) was a Red Army major general. Akhlyustin fought in World War I as a cavalryman and joined the Red Army during the Russian Civil War, becoming a junior commander. He held command posi ...

:: 25th Tank Division - Col. N.M. Nikiforov :: 31st Tank Division - Col. S.A. Kalikhovich :: 208th Motor Rifle Division - Col. Vladimir Nichiporovich

Front Assets

2nd Rifle Corps The 2nd Rifle Corps was an infantry corps of the Red Army during the interwar period and World War II, formed twice. First formation It was formed in September 1922 as the 2nd Army Corps in accordance with orders dated 10 June, 18 July, and 12 ...

- Major General Arkady Yermakov ::

100th Rifle Division The 100th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II, formed twice. In November 1923 in the Belaya Tserkov area of the Ukrainian Military District, the 45th Territorial Rifle Division was established. ...

- Major General

Ivan Russiyanov Ivan Nikitich Russiyanov (; 11 September 1900 – 21 March 1984) was a Soviet Army lieutenant general and a Hero of the Soviet Union. Russiyanov served as a clerk and in staff positions after joining the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. Afte ...

161st Rifle Division The 161st Ivano-Frankivsk Red Banner Order of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Mechanised Brigade was a brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces from 1957 to 1992. 1st Formation The division first formed from July 1 to Aug. 28, 1940, at Mogilev in the Western Sp ...

- Colonel Alexey Mikhaylov :

21st Rifle Corps The 21st Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the Western Front. It took part in the Great Patriotic War. The headquarters formed in the Moscow Military District in September 1939. Assigned to the WSMD with the 17th, ...

- Major General

Vladimir Borisov Vladimir Borisovich Borisov (; 15 July 1902 – 30 June 1941) was a Red Army major general. A veteran of the Russian Civil War, Borisov served in command positions at military schools during the 1920s and in the late 1930s rose to division comman ...

17th Rifle Division The 17th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II. First Formation The division was first formed on 23 October 1918 from the 1st Vitebsk Rifle Division and 2nd Smolensk Rifle Division by the orde ...

- Major General Terenty Batsanov :: 24th Rifle Division - Major General Kuzma Galitsky ::

37th Rifle Division The 37th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II. It served in the North Caucasus Military District; established at Novocherkassk in 1919. In June–July 1939 it was at Omsk preparing for action a ...

- Colonel Andrey Chekharin :

44th Rifle Corps The 44th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Red Army of the Soviet Union. It took part in the Great Patriotic War in 1941 and 1943-45. On 22 June 1941, the corps consisted of the 64th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 64th Rifle Division and the 108th R ...

- Major General

Vasily Yushkevich Vasily Alexandrovich Yushkevich (; – 15 March 1951) was a Soviet Army colonel general. Conscripted into the Imperial Russian Army during World War I, Povetkin rose from private to second lieutenant during the war. Drafted into the Red Army du ...

64th Rifle Division The 64th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Soviet Union's Red Army which existed between 1942 and 1945. History There was a previous 64th Rifle Division active between July 1925 and 26 September 1941, which it was renamed the 7th G ...

- Colonel Sergey Iovlev :: 108th Rifle Division - Major General

Alexander Mavrichev Alexander Ivanovich Mavrichev (; 21 July 1901 – 12 September 1974) was a Soviet Army major general. Drafted into the Red Army during the Russian Civil War, Mavrichev fought on the Eastern Front and after the end of the war spent several years ...

47th Rifle Corps The 47th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Red Army of the Soviet Union. It took part in the Great Patriotic War. The corps headquarters was established in the summer of 1939. It took part in the Winter War. By June 1941, the corps was located in B ...

- Major General

Stepan Povetkin Stepan Ivanovich Povetkin (; 15 August 1895 – 1 May 1965) was a Red Army lieutenant general. Conscripted into the Imperial Russian Army during World War I, Povetkin rose from private to ensign during the war. Joining the Red Army during the Rus ...

50th Rifle Division The 50th Rifle Division was an infantry division of the Red Army from 1936 to 1946. The division took part in the Soviet invasion of Poland and the Winter War. After Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, the 50th fought in the Battle of Moscow, ...

- Major General Vasily Yevdokimov :: 55th Rifle Division - Colonel Dmitry Ivanyuk ::

121st Rifle Division The 121st Rifle Division () was an infantry division of the Red Army during World War II. Formed in September 1939 in Belarus, the division participated in the Soviet invasion of Poland later that month and in the June 1940 occupation of Lithuani ...

- Major General

Pyotr Zykov Pyotr Maximovich Zykov (; 14 January 1890 – 22 September 1960) was a Red Army major general. Zykov left his native village to work as a gold miner and was drafted into the Imperial Russian Army in 1911, becoming a non-commissioned officer. Se ...

:: 143rd Rifle Division - Major General Dmitry Safonov :

4th Airborne Corps The 4th Airborne Corps was an airborne corps of the Red Army in World War II. It fought in the Vyazma airborne operation, an unsuccessful landing during the Rzhev-Vyazma Offensive. History The corps was formed in the spring of 1941 in the Weste ...

- Major General Alexey Zhadov :: 7th Airborne Brigade - Colonel Mikhail Tikhonov ::

8th Airborne Brigade 8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of t ...

- Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Onufriyev :: 214th Airborne Brigade - Colonel Alexey Levashov : 17th Mechanized Corps - Major General Mikhail Petrov :: 27th Tank Division - Colonel Alexey Akhmanov :: 36th Tank Division - Colonel Sergey Miroshnikov :: 209th Motorized Division - Colonel Alexey Muravyov : 20th Mechanized Corps - Major General Andrey Nikitin :: 26th Tank Division - Major General

Viktor Obukhov Viktor Timofeyevich Obukhov (; – 26 November 1975) was a Soviet Army colonel general and a Hero of the Soviet Union. The son of an Orenburg Cossack, Obukhov fought on the Eastern Front of the Russian Civil War and commanded cavalry against the ...

::38th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 38th Tank Division - Colonel Sergey Kapustin (officer), Sergey Kapustin ::210th Motorized Division (Soviet Union), 210th Motorized Division - Major General Feofan Parkhomenko Frontal aviation :43rd Fighter Aviation Division :12th Bomber Aviation Division :13th Bomber Aviation Division :9th Mixed Aviation Division :10th Mixed Aviation Division :11th Mixed Aviation Division :184th PVO Fighter Aviation Division :Additionally 59th Fighter Aviation Division, 59th and 60th Fighter Aviation Divisions were forming.

Southwestern Front (Soviet Union), Southwestern Front

General Colonel Mikhail Kirponos Kiev Special Military District until 22 June.

5th Army (Soviet Union), 5th Army

Lieutenant General M.I. Potapov :15th Rifle Corps - Major General Ivan Fedyuninsky ::45th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 45th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. G.I. Sherstyuk ::62nd Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 62nd Rifle Division - Col. M.P. Timoshenko :27th Rifle Corps (Soviet Union), 27th Rifle Corps - Major General P.D. Artememko ::87th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 87th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. Filipp Alyabushev ::124th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 124th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. F.G. Sushii ::135th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 135th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. F.N. Smekhotvorov :22nd Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union), 22nd Mechanized Corps - Major General S.M. Kondrusev ::19th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 19th Tank Division - Mj. Gen. K.A. Semenchenko ::41st Tank Division (Soviet Union), 41st Tank Division - Col. P.P. Pavlov ::215th Motor Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 215th Motor Rifle Division - Col. P.A. Barabanov :''Transferred to 5th Army from Front command on evening of June 22nd'' :9th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union), 9th Mechanized Corps - Major General Konstantin Rokossovsky ::20th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 20th Tank Division - Col. Mikhail Katukov ::35th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 35th Tank Division - Mj. Gen. N.A. Novikov ::131st Motorized (Soviet Union), 131st Motorized Division - Col. N.V. Kalinin :19th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union), 19th Mechanized Corps - Major General Nikolay Feklenko ::40th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 40th Tank Division - Col. M.V. Shirobokov ::43rd Tank Division (Soviet Union), 43rd Tank Division - Col. I.G. Tsibin

6th Army (Soviet Union), 6th Army

Lieutenant General Ivan Muzychenko :6th Rifle Corps - Major General I.I. Alekseev ::41st Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 41st Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. G.N. Mikushev ::97th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 97th Rifle Division - Col. N.M. Zakharov ::159th Rifle Division (1940–1941), 159th Rifle Division - Col. Ivan Mashchenko :37th Rifle Corps - Major General S.P. Zibin ::80th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 80th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. V.I. Prokhorov ::139th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 139th Rifle Division - Col. N.L. Loginov ::141st Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 141st Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. Ya.I. Tonkonogov :5th Cavalry Corps (Soviet Union), 5th Cavalry Corps - Major General F.V. Kamkov ::3rd Cavalry Division (Soviet Union), 3rd Cavalry Division - Major General Mikhail Maleyev ::14th Cavalry Division (Soviet Union), 14th Cavalry Division - Vasily Kryuchenkin :4th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union), 4th Mechanized Corps - Major General Andrey Vlasov ::8th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 8th Tank Division - Col. P.S. Fotchenkov ::32nd Tank Division (Soviet Union), 32nd Tank Division - Col. E.G. Pushkin ::81st Motor Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 81st Motor Rifle Division - Col. P.M. Varipaev :''Transferred to 6th Army from 26th Army on evening of June 22nd'' :8th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union), 8th Mechanized Corps - Major General Dmitry Ryabyshev ::12th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 12th Tank Division - Mj. Gen. T.A. Mishanin ::34th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 34th Tank Division - Col. I.V. Vasil'ev ::7th Motor Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 7th Motor Rifle Division - Col. A.G. Gerasimov :''Transferred to 6th Army from Front command on evening of June 22nd'' :15th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union), 15th Mechanized Corps - Major General I.I. Karpezo ::10th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 10th Tank Division - Mj. Gen S.Ya. Ogurtsov ::37th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 37th Tank Division - Col. F.G. Anikushkin ::212th Motor Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 212th Motor Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. S.V. Baranov

12th Army (Soviet Union), 12th Army

Lieutenant General Pavel Ponedelin :13th Rifle Corps - Major General Nikolai Kirillov ::44th Mountain Division (Soviet Union), 44th Mountain Division - Mj. Gen. S.A. Tkachenko ::58th Mountain Division (Soviet Union), 58th Mountain Division - Mj. Gen. N.I. Proshkin ::192nd Mountain Division (Soviet Union), 192nd Mountain Division - Col. S.D. Gubin :17th Rifle Corps - Major General Ivan Galanin ::60th Mountain Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. M.B. Salikhov ::96th Mountain Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. Ivan Shepetov ::164th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 164th Rifle Division - Col. A.N. Chervinskii :16th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union), 16th Mechanized Corps - Major General A.D. Sokolov ::15th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 15th Tank Division - Col. V.I. Polozkov ::39th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 39th Tank Division - Col. N.V. Starkov ::240th Motor Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 240th Motor Rifle Division - Col. I.V. Gorbenko

26th Army (Soviet Union), 26th Army

Lieutenant General F. Ya. Kostenko :8th Rifle Corps (Soviet Union), 8th Rifle Corps - Major General M.G. Snegov ::72nd Mountain Division (Soviet Union), 72nd Mountain Division - Mj. Gen. Pavle Abramidze, P.I. Abramidze ::99th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 99th Rifle Division - Col. N.I.Dement'ev ::173rd Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 173rd Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. S.V.Verzin

Front Assets

:31st Rifle Corps (Soviet Union), 31st Rifle Corps - Major General Anton Lopatin ::193rd Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 193rd Rifle Division - Col. A.K. Berestov ::195th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 195th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. V.N. Nesmelov ::200th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 200th Rifle Division - Col. Ivan Lyudnikov :36th Rifle Corps (Soviet Union), 36th Rifle Corps - Major General P.V. Sisoev ::140th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 140th Rifle Division - Col. Luka Basanets ::146th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 146th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. I.M. Gerasimov ::228th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 228th Rifle Division - Col. A.M. Il’in :49th Rifle Corps (Soviet Union), 49th Rifle Corps - Major General Ivan Alekseyevich Kornilov ::190th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 190th Rifle Division - Col. G.A. Zverev ::197th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 197th Rifle Division - Col. S.D. Gubin ::199th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 199th Rifle Division - Col. A.N. Alekseev :55th Rifle Corps (Soviet Union), 55th Rifle Corps - Major General Konstantin Koroteev ::130th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 130th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. V.A. Vizzhili ::169th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 169th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. I.E. Turunov ::189th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 189th Rifle Division - Combrig A.S. Chichkanov :1st Airborne Corps (Soviet Union), 1st Airborne Corps - Major General Matvei Usenko ::1st Airborne Brigade (Soviet Union), 1st Airborne Brigade ::204th Airborne Brigade (Soviet Union), 204th Airborne Brigade ::211th Airborne Brigade (Soviet Union), 211th Airborne Brigade ::213rd Motor Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 213rd Motor Rifle Division - Col. V.M.Osminskiy :24th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union), 24th Mechanized Corps - Major General Vladimir Chistyakov ::45th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 45th Tank Division - Col. Mikhail Solomatin ::49th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 49th Tank Division - Col. K.F. Shvetsov ::216th Motor Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 216th Motor Rifle Division - Col. A. Sarkisyan Frontal aviation :44th Fighter Aviation Division :64th Fighter Aviation Division :19th Bomber Aviation Division :62nd Bomber Aviation Division :14th Mixed Aviation Division :15th Mixed Aviation Division :16th Mixed Aviation Division :17th Mixed Aviation Division :63rd Mixed Aviation Division :36th PVO Fighter Aviation Division

Southern Front (Soviet Union), Southern Front

General Colonel Ivan Tyulenev

9th Army (Soviet Union), 9th Army (Separate)

Lieutenant General Yakov Cherevichenko :14th Rifle Corps (Soviet Union), 14th Rifle Corps - Major General E.G. Egorov ::25th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 25th Rifle Division - Col. A.S. Zakharchenko ::51st Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 51st Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. P.G. Tsirul’nikov :35th Rifle Corps (Soviet Union), 35th Rifle Corps - Major General Ivan Dashichev, I.F. Dashichev ::95th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 95th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. A.I. Pastrevich ::176th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 176th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. V.M.Martsinkevich :48th Rifle Corps (Soviet Union), 48th Rifle Corps - Major General Rodion Malinovsky ::30th Mountain Division (Soviet Union), 30th Mountain Division - Mj. Gen. S.G. Galaktionov ::74th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 74th Rifle Division - Col. F.Ye. Sheverdin ::150th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 150th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. I.I. Khorun :2nd Cavalry Corps (Soviet Union), 2nd Cavalry Corps - Major General Pavel Alexeyevich Belov ::5th Cavalry Division (Soviet Union), 5th Cavalry Division - Colonel Viktor Kirillovich Baranov ::9th Cavalry Division (Soviet Union), 9th Cavalry Division - Col. A.F. Bychkovsky :2nd Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union), 2nd Mechanized Corps - Major General Y.V. Novoselsky ::11th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 11th Tank Division - Col. G.I. Kuzmin ::16th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 16th Tank Division - Col. M.I. Mindro ::15th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 15th Motorized Division - Col. Nikolay Belov (general), Nikolay Belov :18th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union), 18th Mechanized Corps - Major General P.V. Volokh ::44th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 44th Tank Division - Col. V.P. Krimov ::47th Tank Division (Soviet Union), 47th Tank Division - Col. Georgy Rodin ::218th Motor Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 218th Motor Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. F.N. Shilov :20th Mixed Aviation Division :21st Mixed Aviation Division :45th Mixed Aviation Division :65th Fighter Aviation Division (forming) :66th Fighter Aviation Division (forming)

Front Assets

:7th Rifle Corps - Major General K.L. Dobroserdov ::116th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 116th Rifle Division - Col. Ya.F. Eremenko ::196th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 196th Rifle Division - Maj. Gen. K.E. Kulikov ::206th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 206th Rifle Division - Col. Sergey Gorshkov (general), Sergey Gorshkov :9th Rifle Corps (Soviet Union), 9th Rifle Corps - Major General Pavel Batov ::106th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 106th Rifle Division - Combrig M.S. Tkachev ::156th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 156th Rifle Division - Mj. Gen. P.V. Chernyaev ::32nd Cavalry Division (Soviet Union), 32nd Cavalry Division - Col. A.I. Batskalevich :3rd Airborne Corps (Soviet Union), 3rd Airborne Corps - Major General Vasili Glazunov ::5th Airborne Brigade (Soviet Union), 5th Airborne Brigade - Colonel Alexander Rodimtsev ::6th Airborne Brigade (Soviet Union), 6th Airborne Brigade - Colonel Viktor Zholudev ::212th Airborne Brigade (Soviet Union), 212th Airborne Brigade - Colonel Ivan Zatevakhin :47th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 47th Rifle Division

Air Forces

Axis

Luftwaffe

The directive issued to the Luftwaffe for Barbarossa ordered that Luftflotte 2, under the command of Albert Kesselring was to be the strongest Air Fleet. Kesselring was assigned to supporting Army Group Centre, which was to capture Minsk, Smolensk and Moscow. Kesselring was given 8th Air Corps (Germany), Fliegerkorps VIII (a specialised ground attack Corps, commanded by tactical specialist Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen), 2nd Air Corps (Germany), Fliegerkorps II (commanded by Bruno Loerzer) and the 1st Anti-Aircraft Corps (1st AA Corps under Walther von Axthelm). Army Group South was supported by Luftflotte 4, containing 5th Air Corps (Germany), Fliegerkorps V (under Robert Ritter von Greim) and 4th Air Corps (Germany), Fliegerkorps IV (under Kurt Pflugbeil). The Air Fleet and Army Group were responsible for capturing Kiev, the Crimea and the Caucasus oilfields. Army Group North was supported by Luftflotte 1, and Luftflotte 5. Luftflotte 5 conducted operations in the Arctic near Murmansk. Luftflotte 1 supported operations in the Baltic Sea, Baltic States and near, in and over Leningrad. Luftflotte 1 contained 1st Air Corps (Germany), Fliegerkorps I under the command of Helmuth Förster.

Other Axis air forces

The Romanian Air Force was considered weak by the OKL, and therefore unlikely to play a great role in the ground fighting. Far more attention was given by the OKW to training and preparing the Romanian Army. Hitler, on 18 June 1941, declared that the primary mission of the Romanian air arm was to defend Romania and the Romanian oilfields. Only when those forces were sufficient, could they divert the remaining forces to ground support operations for ''Barbarossa''. On 21 June 1941, it possessed a balanced fleet of 53 Squadrons; 11 bomber (five modern), 17 fighter (nine modern), 15 reconnaissance, six liaison, two flying boat, one transport and one air ambulance unit. On the 22 June, there was 160 fighters and 82 bombers in service. Total strength amounted to 380 aircraft. Only 30 of the Romanian fighters were Bf 109s, of the E model. However, this small force did not remain inferior in numbers for along. Despite a weak inter-war economy, the aircraft industry was run very efficiently, and they were able to produce some very capable aircraft; such as the IAR 37 and IAR 39. Unlike the army that stagnated, it was able to garner the cream of the Romanian officer corps. With the right support, organisation and modern equipment, it was able to grow in number and match its enemies in quality. In air defence and ground support operations it performed well, but failed in strategic bomber and naval operations owing to a lack of doctrine. Within a few weeks of ''Barbarossa'' beginning, it was able to put up 1,061 aircraft, including 400 trainers. The modern combat aircraft were focused into one unified Air Combat Command, or GAL (Gruparea Aeriana Lupta), while the obsolete types were given the Romanian Fourth Army, operating under the German Army Group South.

Soviet

Organisation

Since 1935, Soviet military aviation had been divided between the army (VVS KA) and the navy (VVS VMF). The VVS KA had been split into four different organisations owing to faulty conclusions drawn from the Winter War. Owing to a lack of coordination in close support operations with the Red Army, the entire VVS KA was subordinated to the field armies. The existence of too many different branches under separate commands in Soviet air power caused coordination problems (made worse by Axis bombing during ''Barbarossa''). Most Soviet bomber units could not coordinate with fighter aviation, consequently they did not have fighter escort for long periods.Bergström 2007, p. 134. The total strength of the VVS amounted to 61 divisions; 18 fighter, nine bomber and 34 mixed. Five brigades were also included. The Front Air Forces were divided into Districts (later 'Fronts') and the home defence, the PVO. This element had 40.5 per cent of the Soviet air strength. The Army Air Forces comprised 43.7 per cent of the VVS' strength. The liaison squadrons were a collection of individual squadrons assigned to different army corps of the ground army (KAE). They comprised only 2.3 per cent. The Soviet order of battle:

Leningrad and Baltic Fronts

*VVS

, later the VVS Northern Front **1st Composite Air Division (1st SAD), subordinate to the 14th Army *** 10 BAP (Bomber Aviation Regiment) *** 137 BAP *** 145th Fighter Aviation Regiment (145 IAP) *** 147 IAP **55th Composite Aviation Division (55 SAD) (subordinated to the 7th Army) *** 72 SBAP (High Speed Bomber Aviation Regiment) *** 153rd Fighter Aviation Regiment ** 5 SAD (subordinated to the 23rd Army) *** 7 IAP *** 159 IAP *** 158 IAP ** 41 SAD (subordinate to the 23rd Army) *** 201 SBAP *** 202 SBAP *** 205 SBAP ** 3rd Fighter Aviation Division (IAD) *** 191 Fighter Aviation Regiment (IAP) *** 44 IAP ** 54 IAD *** 26 IAP *** 157 IAP *** 311 RAP ** 2 SAD *** 2 SBAP *** SBAP 44 *** 58 SBAP *** 65 ShAD (Ground Attack Aviation Division) ** 39 IAD *** 154 IAP *** 155 IAP *** 156 IAP The total strength of the front was 1,270 aircraft.Bergström 2007, p. 131. * VVS Baltic Special Military District, later the VVS North-Western Front ** 8 SAD *** 15 IAP *** 31 IAP *** 61 ShAP. ** 57 IAD *** 42 IAP *** 49 IAP *** 54 SBAP ** 7 SAD ***10 IAP *** 9 SBAP *** 46 BAP *** 241 SBAP ** 6 SAD *** 21 IAP *** 31 SBAP *** 40 BAP *** 148 IAP ** 4 SAD *** 38 IAP *** 35 SBAP *** 50 SBAP *** 53 SBAP The total strength of the front was 1,211 aircraft.

Western and South Western Fronts

*VVS Western Military District, later the VVS Western Front ** 313 RAP **314 RAP ** 9 Mixed Air Division (SAD) (attached to 10th Army near Bialystock) *** 13 SBAP *** 41 Fighter Aviation Regiment (IAP) *** 124 IAP ***126 IAP ***129 IAP ** 10 SAD (attached to 4th Army near Brest-Litovsk) *** 33 IAP *** 74 ShAP *** 123 IAP *** 39 SBAP ** 11 SAD (attached to 3rd Army near Grodno-Lida) ***16 SBAP *** 122 IAP *** 127 IAP ** 12 BAD (Vitebsk) *** 6 SBAP *** 43 SBAP *** 128 SBAP *** 209 SBAP *** 215 SBAP ** 43 IAD (Minsk and Smolensk) *** 160 IAP *** 161 IAP *** 162nd Fighter Aviation Regiment, 162 IAP *** 163 IAP ** 13 BAD (Bobruysk) *** 24 SBAP *** 97 SBAP *** 121 SBAP *** 125 SBAP *** 130 SBAP The total strength of the front was 1,789 aircraft. * VVS Kiev Special Military District, later the VVS South-Western Front ** 315 RAP and 316 RAP ** 14 SAD (5th Army (Soviet Union), 5th Army, Lutsk area) *** 17 IAP *** 46 IAP *** 89 IAP ** 62 BAD (Kiev) *** 52 SBAP *** 94 SBAP *** 243 SBAP *** 245 SBAP ** 15 SAD (attached to the 6th Army (Soviet Union), 6th Army), Lvov) *** 23 IAP *** 28 IAP *** 66 ShAP *** 164 IAP ** 16 SAD (attached to 6th Army (Soviet Union), 6th Army), Ternopol) *** 86 SBAP *** 87 IAP *** 92 IAP *** 226 SBAP *** 227 SBAP ** 63 SAD (attached to 26th Army (Soviet Union), 26th Army), Stryy) *** 20 IAP *** 62 IAP *** 91 IAP *** 165 IAP **64 SAD (12th Army (Soviet Union), 12th Army), Stanislav ***12 IAP *** 149 IAP *** 166 IAP *** 246 IAP *** 247 IAP **17 BAD (Proskurov) ***48 SBAP ***224 SBAP ***225 SBAP ***242SBAP ***244 SBAP **36 IAD (Kiev) *** 2 IAP *** 43 IAP *** 254 IAP *** 255 IAP ** 19 BAD (Bila Tserkva) *** 33 SBAP ***136 BAP *** 38 SBAP ** 44 IAD (Vinnitsa) *** 88 IAP *** 248 IAP *** 249 IAP *** 252 IAP The total strength of the front was 1,913 aircraft.Niehorster
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Odessa Front and Long Range Aviation

*VVS Odessa Military District, later the VVS Southern Front ** 146 RAP ** 317 RAP ** 20 SAD (Beltsy and Tiropol) *** 4 IAP *** 45 SBAP *** 55 IAP *** 211 SBAP ** 21 SAD (Bolgrad-Vorms) *** 5 BAP *** 69 IAP *** 67 IAP *** 168 IAP *** 299 ShAP The total strength of the front was 950 aircraft.Bergström 2007, p. 132. Db3 at museum

* DBA (Long-range Strategic Bomber Aviation) ** 1 BAK (Bomber Aviation Group) (Novgorod) *** 40 DBAD *** 53 DBAD *** 200 DBAD *** 7 TDBAP ** 2 BAK (Kursk) *** 35 DBAD *** 100 DBAD *** 219 DBAD *** 223 DBAD *** 48 DBAD *** 51 DBAD *** 220 DBAD *** 221 DBAD *** 222 DBAD ** 3 BAK (Smolensk) *** 52 DBAD *** 3 TBDAP *** 98 DBAD *** 212 DBAD *** 42 DBAD *** 1 TBDAP *** 96 DBAD *** 207 DBAD ** 4 BAK (Zaporozhye) *** 22 DBAD *** 8 DBAD *** 11 DBAD *** 21 DBAD *** 50 DBAD *** 81 DBA *** 299 DBAP *** 231 DBAP *** 228 DBAP ** 18 DBAD (Independent Division) (Skomorokhy and Boryspil) *** 14 TDBAP *** 90 DBAP *** 93 DBAP The total strength of the front was 1,332 aircraft; 1,122 DB-3s, 20 TB-3s, and nine TB-7s.

Notes

Bibliography

* Bergström, Christer. ''Barbarossa - The Air Battle: July–December 1941'', London: Chevron/Ian Allan, 2007. . * Plocher, Hermann. ''The German Air Force versus Russia, 1941''. United States Air Force Studies, Washington, 1968. * Plocher, Hermann. ''The German Air Force versus Russia, 1942''. United States Air Force Studies, Washington, 1968. * Statiev, Alexander. ''Antonescu's Eagles against Stalin's Falcons: The Romanian Air Force, 1920-1941'', in 'The Journal of Military History', Volume 66, No. 4 (Oct. 2002), pp. 1085–1113 * {{cite book , last = Glantz , first = David M. , title = The Battle for Leningrad 1941-1944 , publisher = Kansas University Press , year = 2002 , isbn = 0-7006-1208-4 , url-access = registration , url = https://archive.org/details/battleforleningr00glan

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