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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] |
Yefim Pushkin
Yefim Grigoryevich Pushkin (; 28 January 1899 – 11 March 1944) was a Red Army lieutenant general and a Hero of the Soviet Union. Early life Yefim Grigoryevich Pushkin was born on 28 January 1899 in the ''stanitsa'' of , Labinsky otdel, Kuban oblast. He lived in the village of Krutets, Saratov Governorate. Before military service, Pushkin worked in the fishing industry in Kharbayskaya ''volost'', Astrakhan Governorate. World War I and Russian Civil War He joined the Red Army in January 1918 during the Russian Civil War, serving as a clerk at the headquarters of the 11th Army in the North Caucasus. In May he was transferred to the 3rd Kuban Cavalry Brigade of the 3rd Rifle Division, with which he served as a quartermaster in the North Caucasus Regiment. With this unit he participated in battles on the Southern Front against the Volunteer Army. In October, being a platoon commander, Pushkin took part in the suppression of the Astrakhan revolt. Selected for junior commander ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
8th Tank Army
The 8th Tank Army was one of ten Soviet tank armies. It was formed from the 52nd Army after the end of World War II. It was stationed around the city of Zhytomyr, in the western Ukrainian SSR, part of the Carpathian Military District. During the Cold War, the army was involved in the crushing of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Operation Whirlwind, and the crushing of the Prague Spring, Operation Danube. After the Dissolution of the Soviet Union, the 8th Tank Army became the Ukrainian 8th Army Corps. History The 8th Mechanised Army was initially formed on 12 June 1946 with its headquarters at Zhytomyr in the Carpathian Military District, under the command of Nikolay Pukhov. The army was formed from the headquarters of the 52nd Army. It initially comprised the 18th, 23rd and 31st Tank Divisions (the former 18th Tank Corps, 23rd Tank Corps, 31st Tank Corps) and the 11th Guards and 32nd Guards Mechanised Divisions. The army also included the 28th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carpathian Military District
The Red Banner Carpathian Military District (, ) was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces during the Cold War and subsequently of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the early Post-Soviet period. It was established on 3 May 1946 on the base of the 1st Ukrainian Front, 4th Ukrainian Front, and Lviv Military District. It became part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 1991 and was disbanded by being redesignated the Western Operational Command in January 1998. History Two districts were formed in what was to become the district's territory in 1944 and 1945. During May 1944 in the freed territory of the West Ukraine the Lvov Military District was formed, headed by the former deputy commander of the 2nd Ukrainian Front. On 9 July 1945 the Carpathian Military District (PrikVO) was ordered created from the headquarters of the 4th Ukrainian Front in Chernovtsy. under the command of former front commander Army General Andrey Yeryomenko. It was responsible for troops on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ovruch
Ovruch (, ) is a city in Korosten Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, northern Ukraine, first mentioned as Vruchiy in 977. It was the capital city of the Drevlians in the 900s, later conquered by the Mongols in the 13th century, then later part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. In the 16th century it became part of Poland, as a royal city. After the second partition of Poland in 1793 it became part of the Russian Empire, and then part of Ukraine. Until 2020, it was the Capital city, administrative center of the former Ovruch Raion, until it was merged into Korosten Raion. It has a population of approximately and is home to the Ovruch (air base), Ovruch air base. Name In addition to the Ukrainian language, Ukrainian (''Ovruch''), in other languages the name of the city is and . History Ovruch originated as an important town of Kievan Rus', first mentioned as Vruchiy in 977. Later after the sack of Korosten, Iskorosten it became the capital city of Drevlian. Saint Hyacinth of Poland evangeli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
52nd Army (Soviet Union)
The 52nd Army was a field army of the Red Army of the Soviet Union in World War II, formed twice. History It was created on 25 August 1941 from the headquarters of the 25th Rifle Corps and defended north of Novgorod. On 26 September 1941, the 52nd Army headquarters was used to form the 4th Army (II Formation). The 52nd Army headquarters was reestablished on 28 September 1941. In May 1943, the army was moved to control of the Reserve of the Supreme High Command (''Stavka'' Reserve). ''Stavka'' released the 52nd Army to subordination of the Steppe Front in July 1943, and the 52nd Army thereafter fought in Ukraine, southern Poland, southeastern Germany, and finally in northern Czechoslovakia. The army took part in the following operations: :1941 ::Tikhvin Defensive Operation :1942 ::Tikhvin Offensive ::Lyuban Offensive Operation :1943 ::Chernigov-Poltava Offensive ::Cherkassy Offensive :1944 ::Kirovograd Offensive :: Korsun–Shevchenkovsky Offensive ::Uman–Botoșani Offensi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
7th Tank Brigade
Seventh is the ordinal form of the number seven. Seventh may refer to: * Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution * A fraction (mathematics), , equal to one of seven equal parts Film and television *"The Seventh", a second-season episode of ''Star Trek: Enterprise'' Music * A seventh (interval), the difference between two pitches ** Diminished seventh, a chromatically reduced minor seventh interval ** Major seventh, the larger of two commonly occurring musical intervals that span seven diatonic scale degrees ** Minor seventh, the smaller of two commonly occurring musical intervals that span seven diatonic scale degrees ** Harmonic seventh, the interval of exactly 4:7, whose approximation to the minor seventh in equal temperament explains the "sweetness" of the dominant seventh chord in a major key ** Augmented seventh, an interval * Leading-tone or subtonic, the seventh degree and the chord built on the seventh degree * Seventh chord, a chord consisting of a triad plu ... [...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] |
