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23rd Tank Corps
The 23rd Budapest Red Banner Order of Suvorov Tank Corps was a tank corps of the Red Army during World War II. It was part of the "operational army" or "active army" ( :ru:Действующая армия и флот) from April 12, 1942, to May 9, 1945. History The corps was formed in 1942. With the 21st Tank Corps, it was earmarked for the Soviet offensive that became the Second Battle of Kharkiv. At the end of May 1942, during the battle and after large numbers of Soviet troops had been encircled, near the village of Lozovenka, Barvinkove Raion(?), the brigade took part in the breakthrough from the Barvenkovo pocket as part of the combined tank group of Major General Kuzmin, which consisted of the remnants of 5th Guards, 7th, 37th, 38th, and 43rd tank brigades, as well as the remnants of the 21st and 23rd Tank Corps. The breakthrough was accompanied by very heavy losses for the Soviet troops. In the summer of 1945, the corps was transformed into a tank division, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tank Corps (Soviet Union)
A tank corps () was a type of Soviet armoured formation used during World War II. Pre-war development of Soviet mechanized forces In Soviet Russia, the so-called armored forces (броневые силы) preceded the Tank Corps. They consisted of the motorized armored units (автобронеотряды) made of armored vehicles and armored trains. The country did not have its own tanks during the Civil War of 1918–1920. In January 1918, the Red Army established the Soviet of Armored Units (Совет броневых частей, or Центробронь), later renamed to Central Armored Directorate and then once again to Chief Armored Directorate (Главное броневое управление). In December 1920, the Red Army received its first light tanks, assembled at the Krasnoye Sormovo Factory. In 1928, it began the production of the MS-1 tanks (Малый Сопровождения -1, where M stands for "small" and S – for "convoy"). In 1929, it es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
37th Tank Brigade
37th may refer to: *37th (Howitzer) Brigade Royal Field Artillery, a brigade of the Royal Field Artillery which served in the First World War *37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot, raised in Ireland in February 1702 * 37th (Northern Ontario) Battalion, CEF, raised in Halton during World War I *37th Academy Awards honored film achievements of 1964 *37th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron (37th ARRS), a rescue squadron of the USAF active during the Vietnam War *37th Air Army of the High Supreme Command (Strategic Purpose), the strategic bomber force of the Russian Air Force from 1998 to 2009 *37th Air Division (37th AD), an inactive United States Air Force organization * 37th Airlift Squadron (37 AS), part of the 86th Airlift Wing at Ramstein Air Base, Germany *37th Annie Awards, honoring the best in animation for 2009, held in 2010 at Royce Hall in Los Angeles, California *37th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (1862–1865), a Confederate Army infantry regiment during the American Ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexey Akhmanov
Alexey Osipovich Akhmanov (; – 17 November 1949) was a Soviet Army lieutenant general and a Hero of the Soviet Union. Conscripted into the Imperial Russian Army during World War I, Akhmanov was captured and spent more than two years as a prisoner of war. Returning to Russia, he was drafted into the Red Army and served as a junior commander during the Russian Civil War. Akhmanov held a variety of command and staff positions during the interwar period and from the early 1930s served in mechanized units. At the outbreak of Operation Barbarossa he commanded a tank division in Belarus that was destroyed, but managed to escape encirclement with the remnants of his unit. Akhmanov served in staff positions coordinating army and front-level armored troops for the next several years of the war and in early 1944 was given command of the 23rd Tank Corps, which he led for the rest of the war. Made a Hero of the Soviet Union for his leadership of the corps in the repulse of German attempts t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
