The 23rd Mechanized Corps (Military Unit Number 9841) was a Mechanized corps of the Red Army. Its divisions fought in the Battle of Smolensk (1941) but...

The 12th Mechanized Corps was a formation in the Soviet Red Army during the Second World War. Formed in March 1941 in response to the German victories...

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...

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...

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...

assigned to it on 30 June. The corps was slow in deploying forward from Kharkov. As a result, the 23rd Mechanized Corps supported the 19th Army instead...

April 1942. 15th Cavalry Corps (Soviet Union) - 1 January 1942. In May 1943 still in Iran with 23rd Cavalry Division (Soviet Union) and smaller units. Disbanded...

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...

China in July 1937, the Soviet Union sent the 57th Special Corps led by Ivan Konev to Mongolia. On 13 June, Genrikh Lyushkov, a Soviet NKVD major general who...

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...

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...

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...

District, where it became the 7th Mechanized Army. In 1957 it became the 7th Tank Army. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union the army became part of the...

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)...

The 23rd Army was a Field Army of the Soviet Union's Red Army. Formed in May 1941 in Karelia, it fought in the Continuation War against Finland in the...

The 24th Mechanized Brigade (Ukrainian: 24-та окрема механізована бригада, abbreviated 24 ОМБр) is a mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces...

Efimovich Varfolomeev Georgy Zhukov Operational art Tank Corps (Soviet) Mechanized Corps (Soviet) Blitzkrieg Simpkin, Richard E. (1987). Deep battle: The...

25th Mechanized Corps in June 1941. 51st Tank Division – with 23rd Mechanized Corps in June 1941. 52nd Tank Division – with 26th Mechanized Corps in June...

When Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941 Rokossovsky was serving as the commander of the 9th Mechanized Corps with the 35th and 20th Tank...

invasion of the Soviet Union. The battle was fought between the elements of the German 4th Panzer Group and the Soviet 3rd Mechanized Corps with the 12th...

of the Soviet Union 1917–1957. It lists infantry divisions in the Soviet Union from the Russian Revolution to the reorganization of the Soviet Army in...

The 72nd Mechanized Brigade named after the Black Zaporozhians is a mechanized infantry brigade formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. It was founded...

Guards Mechanized Division became the 14th Guards Motor Rifle Division. In 1958, the 82nd Motor Rifle Division, the former 9th Mechanized Corps, was withdrawn...

Cavalry Corps of the Soviet Union's Red Army was a cavalry corps active during the Second World War. It was formed from the 8th Cavalry Corps in February...

on the headquarters of the 3rd Rifle Corps. Its first commander was Lieutenant General and Hero of the Soviet Union Stepan Chernyak. On 23 August the army...

of VI Corps on 1 July 1951 as 35,500 men and thought that it consisted of the 9th, 18th and 23rd infantry divisions as well as the 17th Mechanized Division...

23rd Mechanized Infantry Division – formed in 1972 and participated in the October 1973 War. Currently part of the Third Army (Egypt) 33rd Mechanized...

Soviet Union in June 1941, the 11th Army included the 16th Rifle Corps (which included the 5th, 33rd and 188th Rifle Divisions), the 29th Rifle Corps...

Division – Col. C. F. Vasil’ev 75th Rifle Division – Col. Nedwigin 14th Mechanized Corps – Major General S. I. Oborin 22nd Tank Division – Maj. Gen. V. P. Puganov...

the imminence of mechanized warfare. Even after Tukhachevsky's arrest, the Red Army never stopped developing large scale mechanized corps, and each front...