• and 18th Armies. The 2nd Mechanized Corps was heavily involved in the first battles of Operation Barbarossa, helping to defend Soviet occupied Bessarabia...
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  • 1st Mechanized Corps was a mechanized corps of the Red Army during World War II that formed twice. In 1946, the Corps became the 1st Mechanized Division...
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  • The 9th Mechanized Corps was a mechanized corps of the Soviet Red Army, formed twice. It was first formed in November 1940 and disbanded in September...
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  • tanks. The formation of two mechanized corps was authorized in 1932. The first two corps formed were the 11th Mechanized Corps in the Leningrad Military...
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    The corps consisted of the 31st Mechanized Brigade and the 33rd Rifle and Machine Gun Brigade, left behind after the transfer of the 11th Mechanized Corps...
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  • The 13th Mechanized Corps (Military Unit Number 9825) was a mechanized corps of the Red Army, formed in March 1941. Stationed in the Białystok salient...
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  • The 8th Mechanized Corps, was a mechanized corps of the Soviet Ground Forces. It was destroyed in 1941 in the beginning of Operation Barbarossa. The formation...
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  • 2nd Mechanised Corps may refer to: 2nd Mechanised Corps (Poland) 2nd Mechanised Corps (Soviet Union) This disambiguation page lists articles about military...
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    Guards Mechanized Corps, like all Soviet mechanized corps, was reorganized as a division in mid-late 1945, and was renamed the 2nd Guards Mechanized Division...
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    the Front following an offensive, paired with either a tank corps or a mechanized corps, providing additional mobile infantry component that could escort...
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  • as the T-34. In Soviet Russia, the so-called armoured forces (броневые силы) preceded the Tank Corps. They consisted of the mechanized armoured units (автобронеотряды)...
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  • The corps consisted of the following units: Combat Units 1st Guards Mechanized Rifle Brigade 2nd Guards Mechanized Rifle Brigade 3rd Guards Mechanized Rifle...
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    Semyon Bogdanov (category Second convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union)
    134th Mechanized Brigade in May 1934 when the division became the 45th Mechanized Corps. Transferred to the Military Academy of Mechanization and Motorization...
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  • battalion. The 5th Mechanized Corps became the 15th Tank Corps, the 7th Mechanized Corps became the 10th Tank Corps, the 11th Mechanized Corps became the 20th...
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    Operation Barbarossa was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and several of its European Axis allies starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during...
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    Mechanised Corps 11th Guards Tank Corps 2nd Guards Tank Army (HQ Fürstenberg) Soviet 1st Mechanized Corps 9th Tank Corps 12th Guards Tank Corps 4th Guards...
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    The military ranks of the Soviet Union were those introduced after the October Revolution of 1917. At that time the Imperial Russian Table of Ranks was...
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    brigades and most of the 20th Mechanized Corps. Then on 2 July Stalin appointed Semyon Timoshenko, Marshal of the Soviet Union and People's Commissar for...
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  • formed as the 19th Mechanized Brigade in 1934 and was one of the units combined to form the 1st Tank Division in 1940. The 19th Mechanized Brigade was formed...
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    at the Battle of Sedan. He led the 2nd Panzer Army during Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. The campaign ended in failure after...
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    Battle of Brody (1941) (category Battles and operations of World War II involving the Soviet Union)
    between the 1st Panzer Group's III Army Corps and XLVIII Army Corps (Motorized) and five mechanized corps of the Soviet 5th Army and 6th Army in the triangle...
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    The 24th Mechanized Brigade (Ukrainian: 24-та окрема механізована бригада, abbreviated 24 ОМБр) is a mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces...
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    Battle of Białystok–Minsk (category Battles involving the Soviet Union)
    Kuznetsov 4th Rifle Corps 11th Mechanized Corps 4th Army – Lieutenant General Aleksandr Korobkov 28th Rifle Corps 14th Mechanized Corps 10th Army – Konstantin...
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    weapons. Under Stalin's campaign for mechanization, the army formed its first mechanized unit in 1930. The 1st Mechanized Brigade consisted of a tank regiment...
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    Ivan Korchagin (category Heroes of the Soviet Union)
    18th Tank Corps in the Battle of Voronezh. He became commander of the 2nd Mechanized Corps, which later became the 7th Guards Mechanized Corps, in September...
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    1943, the 2nd Tank Army had been reorganized as a fully mechanized formation, with the following order of battle: 2nd Tank Army 3rd Tank Corps (Major General...
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  • the USSR, was a military formation of the Soviet Ground Forces. It was formed from the 6th Mechanized Corps created in 1940 and destroyed in 1941 in the...
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    Gyorshadtest (variously translated "Rapid Corps", "Fast Corps" or "Mobile Corps") was the most modern and best-equipped mechanized unit of the Royal Hungarian Army...
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  • 3rd Mechanized Corps (Russian: 3-й механизированный корпус) was a mechanized corps of the Red Army. Formed in June 1940 during World War II, the corps was...
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    Issa Pliyev (category Candidates of the Central Committee of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union)
    During World War II, Pliyev commanded several mechanized cavalry units, ranging from regiments to army corps. The military historians David Glantz and Jonathan...
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