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34th Rifle Corps (Soviet Union)
The 34th Rifle Corps was a corps of the Soviet Red Army. It was part of the 19th Army. It took part in the Great Patriotic War. Organization * 129th Rifle Division * 158th Rifle Division * 171st Rifle Division Commanders * Divisional commander Vasily Matveyevich Gonin (until February 1940) * Divisional commander Konstantin Pyadyshev (February 1940 to May 1940) * Division commander Prokofy Romanenko (May 1940 to June 1940) * Major General Raphael Khmelnitsky Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), now generally known in English as Raphael ( , ), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composi ... (June 21, 1940 to August 9, 1941) * Colonel Adrian Zakharovich Akimenko (July 24 to August 10, 1941) References Rifle corps of the Soviet Union {{Russia-mil-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet Union, it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country by area, extending across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and sharing Geography of the Soviet Union#Borders and neighbors, borders with twelve countries, and the List of countries and dependencies by population, third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of Republics of the Soviet Union, national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, Government of the Soviet Union, its government and Economy of the Soviet Union, economy were Soviet-type economic planning, highly centralized. As a one-party state go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet 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 ground force in the Allied victory in the European theatre of World War II, and its invasion of Manchuria assisted the unconditional surrender of Japan. During its operations on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Front (World War II)
The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War (term), Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in modern Germany and Ukraine, was a Theater (warfare), theatre of World War II fought between the European Axis powers and Allies of World War II, Allies, including the Soviet Union (USSR) and Polish Armed Forces in the East, Poland. It encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northern Europe, Northeast Europe (Baltic states, Baltics), and Southeast Europe (Balkans), and lasted from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945. Of the estimated World War II casualties, 70–85 million deaths attributed to World War II, around 30 million occurred on the Eastern Front, including 9 million children. The Eastern Front was decisive in determining the outcome in the European theatre of World War II, European theatre of operations in World War II, eventually serving as the main reason for the defeat of Nazi Germany and the Axis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Barbarossa
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 World War II. More than 3.8 million Axis troops invaded the western Soviet Union along a front, with the main goal of capturing territory up to a line between Arkhangelsk and Astrakhan, known as the A-A line. The attack became the largest and costliest military offensive in history, with around 10 million combatants taking part in the opening phase and over 8 million casualties by the end of the operation on 5 December 1941. It marked a major escalation of World War II, opened the Eastern Front—the largest and deadliest land war in history—and brought the Soviet Union into the Allied powers. The operation, code-named after the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa ("red beard"), put into action Nazi Germany's ideological goals of eradicating communism and conquering the western Soviet Union to repopulate it w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th Army (Soviet Union)
The 19th Army was a field army of the Soviet Union's Red Army, formed in 1941 and active during the Second World War. The army was formed three times, although only two of its formations saw combat. Its third formation was disbanded in June 1945 and its troops used to reinforce the Northern Group of Forces. First formation The army was first formed in June 1941 in the North Caucasus Military District under the command of General Lieutenant Ivan Konev. Division Commissar I.P. Sheklanov became Member of the Army's Military Soviet. Initially the army consisted of * 25th Rifle Corps (127th Rifle Division, 134th Rifle Division, and 162nd Rifle Division) * 34th Rifle Corps ( 129th Rifle Division, 158th Rifle Division, and 171st Rifle Division) * 38th Rifle Division * 442nd Corps Artillery Regiment * 471st Corps Artillery Regiment * and other units. Sources disagree as to whether a Mechanized Corps, either the 25th or the 26th, was directly subordinate to the Army as well. Three w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
129th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
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158th Rifle Division
The 158th Rifle Division was originally formed as an infantry division of the Red Army on September 15, 1939 in the North Caucasus Military District, based on the ''shtat'' (table of organization and equipment) of that month. After remaining in that District through 1940 it was moving through Ukraine in June 1941 as part of 19th Army (Soviet Union), 19th Army when the German invasion began. Shortly after arriving at the fighting front it was pocketed by forces of Army Group Center west of Smolensk, along with most of its Army. The division fought in semi-encirclement through the latter half of July under command of 16th Army (Soviet Union), 16th Army, suffering heavy casualties, before its remnants were able to withdraw across the Dnieper, Dniepr River in the first days of August. These came under 20th Army (Soviet Union), 20th Army briefly before the 158th was disbanded by August 15. The second division of this number was designated in January 1942 from the 5th Moscow Workers Rifle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
171st Rifle Division
The 171st Rifle Division was originally formed as an infantry division of the Red Army in the North Caucasus Military District on September 18, 1939, based on the ''shtat'' (table of organization and equipment) of that same month. It was in the Kharkov Military District at the time of the German invasion, and it was soon moved to the northwest of Kyiv as part of Southwestern Front. It would remain defending the Ukrainian capital into September, eventually as part of 37th Army, when it was deeply encircled and destroyed. A new 171st was designated in January 1942, based on a 400-series division that had begun forming the previous month in the Ural Military District. After several months to complete formation and training the division was railed to Northwestern Front where it joined 34th Army near Demyansk. Over the next ten months it mostly held the line containing the German forces in the pocket around that town, occasionally participating in unsuccessful attacks against well-pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstantin Pyadyshev
Konstantin Pavlovich Pyadyshev (; December 1890 – 15 June 1944) was a Red Army lieutenant general who held corps command in the Winter War and senior command in World War II. Early life, World War I and Russian Civil War Konstantin Pavlovich Pyadyshev was born in December 1890 in Saint Petersburg, the son of a white-collar employee. He graduated from a realschule and passed the examination for praporshchik of the reserve in 1910. When World War I began, he was called up for active service. Pyadyshev served as a company commander, regimental adjutant, and senior adjutant for the Operations Section of the staff of an infantry division. He was wounded three times, rising to the rank of staff captain. Pyadyshev joined the Red Army in December 1918 during the Russian Civil War. He served as assistant chief of staff and chief of staff of the 1st Petrograd Special Purpose Rifle Brigade, commanding the 2nd (later 164th) Brigade of the 55th Rifle Division and the 61st Brigade of the 21 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prokofy Romanenko
Prokofy Logvinovich Romanenko (; – 10 March 1949) was a Ukrainian Soviet Army colonel general. Serving in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I, Romanenko joined the Red Army during the Russian Civil War, becoming a cavalry commander. He quickly moved up in rank during the interwar period, fighting in the Spanish Civil War as an adviser and in the Winter War as commander of the 10th Tank Corps. After commanding a rifle corps and the 1st Mechanized Corps, he led the 17th Army in the Soviet Far East from early 1941. He was sent west to command the 3rd Tank Army in May 1942, leading it during the failed Kozelsk Offensive in the summer. Afterwards, Romanenko was transferred to lead the 5th Tank Army in Operation Uranus, the Soviet counteroffensive in the Battle of Stalingrad. After the end of the battle in February 1943, he became commander of the 2nd Tank Army, but after an unsuccessful attack became commander of the 48th Army in March. Romanenko led the 48th Army u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raphael Khmelnitsky
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), now generally known in English as Raphael ( , ), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. His father Giovanni Santi was court painter to the ruler of the small but highly cultured city of Urbino. He died when Raphael was eleven, and Raphael seems to have played a role in managing the family workshop from this point. He probably trained in the workshop of Pietro Perugino, and was described as a fully trained "master" by 1500. He worked in or for several cities in north Italy until in 1508 he moved to Rome at the invitation of Pope Julius II, to work on the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican. He was given a series of important commissions there a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
