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19th Mechanized Brigade (Soviet Union, 1934–1938)
The 1st Light Tank Brigade () was an armored brigade of the Red Army that fought in the Winter War. The brigade was formed as the 19th Mechanized Brigade in 1934 and was one of the units combined to form the 1st Tank Division in 1940. History The 19th Mechanized Brigade was formed in May 1934 in Detskoye Selo, part of the 7th Mechanized Corps of the Leningrad Military District. The brigade was relocated to Pushkin by 1938. The brigade was reorganized as the 1st Light Tank Brigade in 1938. The brigade took part in the Winter War as part of the 10th Tank Corps, which it rejoined on 13 October 1939. After the disbandment of the corps headquarters the brigade was assigned to the 7th Army as a separate tank brigade. By the beginning of the Winter War, the brigade fielded 178 tanks and 23 armored cars. After the end of the Winter War, the brigade returned to Pushkin. Its headquarters and three tank battalions were used to form the 1st Red Banner Tank Division of the 1st Mechanize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union. The army was established in January 1918 by a decree of the Council of People's Commissars to oppose the military forces of the new nation's adversaries during the Russian Civil War, especially the various groups collectively known as the White Army. In February 1946, the Red Army (which embodied the main component of the Soviet Armed Forces alongside the Soviet Navy) was renamed the "Soviet Army". Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union it was split between the post-Soviet states, with its bulk becoming the Russian Ground Forces, commonly considered to be the successor of the Soviet Army. The Red Army provided the largest land warfare, ground force in the Allies of World War II, Allied victory in the European theatre of World War II, and its Soviet invasion of Manchuria, invasion of Manchuria assisted the un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winter War
The Winter War was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940. Despite superior military strength, especially in tanks and aircraft, the Soviet Union suffered severe losses and initially made little headway. The League of Nations deemed the attack illegal and expelled the Soviet Union from its organization. The Soviets made several demands, including that Finland cede substantial border territories in exchange for land elsewhere, claiming security reasonsprimarily the protection of Leningrad, from the Finnish border. When Finland refused, the Soviets invaded. Most sources conclude that the Soviet Union had intended to conquer all of Finland, and cite the establishment of the Finnish Democratic Republic, puppet Finnish Communist government and the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1st Tank Division (Soviet Union)
The 1st Tank Division was a Division sized unit of the Red Army that existed from 1940–42. It was later reformed, from a separate formation, with a different lineage. Within the Soviet Ground Forces it existed as a second line ready division from 1945–2008, at Kaliningrad in the Baltic Military District. First formation The division was first formed in July 1940 and had the following structure: * Headquarters under Colonel Vasiliy Ivanovich Ivanov ** 1st Tank Regiment ** 2nd Tank Regiment ** 1st Motorized Rifle Regiment ** 1st Motorized Howitzer Regiment ** 1st Reconnaissance Battalion ** 1st Motorized Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion ** 1st Motorized Pontoon Battalion ** 63rd Field Post Office ** 204th State Bank Field Officer When under the control of the Leningrad Military District the division was assigned to the 1st Mechanized Corps where it remained until its disbandment. When the division was disbanded the division was broken up and used to create the new 122n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detskoye Selo
Tsarskoye Selo (, , ) was the town containing a former residence of the Russian House of Romanov, imperial family and visiting nobility, located south from the center of Saint Petersburg. The residence now forms part of the Pushkin, Saint Petersburg, town of Pushkin. Tsarskoye Selo forms one of the World Heritage Site Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments, Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments. The town bore the name Tsarskoye Selo until 1918. The new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia renamed it as Detskoye Selo (), which it held from 1918–1937. At that time, it was renamed under Josef Stalin, Stalin's government as Pushkin () after Alexander Pushkin, the famous Russian poet and writer. It is still known by that name. History The area of Tsarskoye Selo, once part of Swedish Ingria, first became a Russian royal/imperial residence in the early 18th century as an estate of the Empress-consort Catherine (later Empress-regnant as Cath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
7th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union)
The 7th Mechanized Corps was a mechanized corps of the Red Army, formed three times. The corps was first formed in 1934 in the Leningrad Military District and was converted into the 10th Tank Corps in 1938. The corps was reformed in the summer of 1940 in the Moscow Military District and fought in the Battle of Smolensk, after which its headquarters became part of Group Yartsevo's headquarters. The corps was formed a third time in August and September 1943. The third formation fought in the Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive, Uman–Botoșani Offensive, Second Jassy–Kishinev Offensive, Battle of Debrecen, Budapest Offensive, Bratislava–Brno Offensive, Prague Offensive, and the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. Postwar, the corps' third formation became a division and was disbanded in 1957. History First Formation The corps (Military Unit Number 4862) was formed in June 1934 as part of the Leningrad Military District, under the command of Komdiv Mikhail Bakshi. The corps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leningrad Military District
The Order of Lenin Leningrad Military District () is a military district of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The district was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1968. In 2010, it was merged with the Moscow Military District, the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet to form the new Western Military District. In December 2022, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu proposed to reestablish it along with the Moscow Military District, a decision confirmed in June 2023 by Deputy Chief of the General Staff Yevgeny Burdinsky. On December 17, 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced plans to recreate the Leningrad Military District as a reaction to Finland joining NATO. The district was formally reconstituted on 26 February 2024 by a Presidential Decree No.141, transferring the Northern Fleet under its command. Colonel General Aleksandr Lapin took over as the new district's commander on 16 May 2024. It is one of two military districts of the Russian Armed Forces, with its j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pushkin, Saint Petersburg
Pushkin () is a administrative divisions of Saint Petersburg, municipal town in Pushkinsky District, Saint Petersburg, Pushkinsky District of the federal cities of Russia, federal city of Saint Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia, located south from the center of St. Petersburg proper, and its railway station, Tsarskoye Selo Railway, Tsarskoye Selo, is directly connected by railway to the Vitebsky Rail Terminal of the city. Pushkin was founded in 1710 as an imperial residence named ''Tsarskoye Selo'' () and received status of a town in 1808. The first public railways in Russia, Tsarskoye Selo Railways, were opened here in 1837 and connected the town to the capital, St. Petersburg. After the October Revolution, the town was renamed to ''Detskoye Selo'' (). Its name was further changed in 1937 to Pushkin to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. The town contains an ensemble of the 18th century Tsarskoye Selo. This museum com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
10th Tank Corps
The 10th Tank Corps was a tank corps of the Red Army, formed twice. First Formation In May–June 1938, the 7th Mechanized Corps headquarters was relocated from Novy Petergof to Luga and converted into the 10th Tank Corps when the Red Army mechanized forces transitioned from a mechanized corps structure to a tank corps structure. On 4 August 1938, the 107th Separate Air Liaison Flight was formed as part of the corps at Luga. On 27 September 1939, the corps was relocated to the Pskov area on the Estonian border, to back up threats of force against that country. On 2 October it was moved to the Latvian border to threaten Latvia as well. Both of these movements were made to force the two Baltic states into signing the Soviet–Estonian Mutual Assistance Treaty and the Soviet–Latvian Mutual Assistance Treaty, respectively, which established Soviet military bases on the territory of both countries. On 10 October, the 18th Light Tank Brigade was transferred to another unit and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
7th Army (Soviet Union)
The 7th Army (Russian: 7-я армия) was a Soviet Red Army field army during World War II, primarily against Finland. It was disbanded in 1944. It first saw action in the 1939–40 Winter War against Finland. In November 1939, just before the initial Soviet attack, it consisted of the 19th Rifle Corps (24th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 24th Rifle Division, 43rd Rifle Division, 43rd, 70th Rifle Division, 70th, 123 RD), 50th Rifle Corps (49 RD, 90 RD, 142nd Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 142 RD), 10th Tank Corps, 138th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), 138th Rifle Division, and an independent tank brigade. The Army was first under Commander (Second rank) Vsevolod Yakovlev, but he was removed from command of his army and returned to Leningrad. Command of the war operation Kirill Meretskov was called-off due to extensive failures and heavy casualties, and he replaced Yakovlev as the commander of the Seventh Army.#Edwards2006, Edwards 2006, p. 125 7th Army was reformed in Autumn ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1st Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union)
The 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. World War II First formation The Leningrad Military District was directed to form the 1st Mechanized Corps from the 20th Heavy Tank Brigade, the 1st and 13th Light Tank Brigades, the 25th Cavalry Division, and the 163rd Rifle Division, which was converted to the 163rd Motorized Division beginning on July 1. The formation of the corps was to be completed by 30 June 1940, but the reorganization was interrupted by the Soviet invasion of Estonia. For the latter, the 13th Light Tank Brigade moved to Pskov by 13 June, assigned to the 8th Army. The corps was initially formed in March 1940 attached to the Leningrad Military District, and held in reserve near the Pskov Fortified Region. It was under the command of Major General when the German Operation Barbarossa began in June 1941. It initially comprised the 1st and 3rd Tan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strugi Krasnye
Strugi Krasnye () is an urban locality (a work settlement) and the administrative center of Strugo-Krasnensky District of Pskov Oblast, Russia, located northeast of Pskov. Municipally, it is incorporated as Strugi Krasnye Urban Settlement, the only urban settlement in the district. Population: History Named after a nearby village, the settlement was founded in the mid-19th century as the railway station of Belaya () during the construction of the railroad. At the time, it belonged to Luzhsky Uyezd of Saint Petersburg Governorate. In 1905, it was renamed Strugi Belye (), after the estate of N. M. Lakhtin. In 1919, Strugi Belye was an arena of important events of the Russian Civil War. Originally, the area east of Lake Peipus was under control of the revolutionary government. On October 4, 1919 the White Army troops of Nikolai Yudenich during an advance captured the station of Strugi Belye. On November 6, 1919, it was given its present name by the order of G.& ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3rd Tank Division (Soviet Union)
3rd Division may refer to: Air divisions *3d Air Division, United States * 3d Attack Wing, United States Anti-air divisions * 3rd Flak Division, Nazi Germany Armoured divisions *3rd Armoured Division (Australia) * 3rd Armored Division (France) *3rd Light Mechanized Division (France) *3rd Panzer Division (Wehrmacht) * 3rd Panzer Division (Bundeswehr) *3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf, Nazi Germany * 3rd Tank Division (Imperial Japanese Army) * 3rd Armored Division (Jordan) * 3rd Division (Nigeria) * 3rd Tank Division (Soviet Union) * 3rd Armoured Division (Syria) *3rd Armored Division (United States) Cavalry divisions * 3rd Cavalry Division (German Empire) * 3rd Cavalry Division (Reichswehr), Weimar Republic *3rd Light Division (Wehrmacht) * 3rd Cavalry Division ''Amedeo Duca d'Aosta'', Italian Army during World War II * 3rd Cavalry Division (United Kingdom) * 3rd Mounted Division, United Kingdom * 3rd Cavalry Division (United States) Infantry divisions * 3rd (Lahore) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
