Red Army order of battle at the Battle of Stalingrad
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The Order of Battle of the Red Army at the Battle of Stalingrad. Order of Battle is as at 19th November 1942.
Red Army Order of Battle
| Stavka Representatives: | Army General G.K. Zhukov Georgy Zhukov Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov , was a Russian career officer in the Red Army who, in the course of World War II, played a pivotal role in leading the Red Army through much of Eastern Europe to liberate the Soviet Union and other nations from the Axis Powers' occupation... |
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| Colonel-General of Artillery N.N. Voronov | ||
| Colonel-General A.M. Vasilevsky Aleksandr Vasilevsky Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Vasilevsky was a Russian career officer in the Red Army, promoted to Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1943. He was the Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces and Deputy Minister of Defense during World War II, as well as Minister of Defense from 1949 to 1953... |
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| Stalingrad Front | Colonel-General A.I. Yeremenko | |
| N.S. Khrushchev Nikita Khrushchev Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964... |
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| 8th Air Army | General T.T. Khryukin Timofey Khryukin Timofey Timofeyevich Khryukin was a Soviet aviator, Spanish Civil War volunteer, and colonel-general of the Soviet Air Force. Emerging from an impoverished working-class background, he rose to command the 8th Air Army and 1st Air Army during the Second World War, being twice decorated as a Hero of... |
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| 28th Army | LtG. D.I. Ryabyshev Dmitry Ryabyshev Dmitry Ivanovich Ryabyshev , was a Soviet military commander, commander of 8th mechanized corps .- Before World War II :Ryabyshev was born in Kolotovka, , Russian Empire. Following the Russian Revolution of 1917 he was a commander of the 42nd Brigade, 14th Division of the 1st Cavalry Army during... |
Rifle Divisions: 34th Guards, 248th |
| Special Brigades: 52nd, 152nd, 159th | ||
| Tank Brigades: 6th Guards | ||
| Stalingrad Front Reserve: 330th Rifle Div, 85th Tank Bde | ||
| 51st Army | General N.I. Trufanov | Rifle Divisions: 15th Guards, 91st, 126th, 302nd |
| Special Brigades: 38th | ||
| Tank Brigades: 254th | ||
| Armoured formations added for Operation Uranus: IV Mechanised Corps, IV Cavalry Corps | ||
| 57th Army | General F.I. Tolbukhin Fyodor Tolbukhin Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin was a Soviet military commander.-Biography:Tolbukhin was born into a peasant family in the province of Yaroslavl, north-east of Moscow. He volunteered for the Imperial Army in 1914 at the outbreak of World War I. He was steadily promoted, advancing from private to... |
Rifle Divisions: 169th, 422nd |
| Special Brigades: 143rd | ||
| Tank Brigades: 90th, 235th | ||
| Armoured formations added for Operation Uranus: XIII Mechanised Corps | ||
| 62nd Army | General V.I. Chuikov Vasily Chuikov Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov was a Russian lieutenant general in the Red Army during World War II, twice Hero of the Soviet Union , who after the war became a Marshal of the Soviet Union.-Early life and career:Born into a peasant family in the village of Serebryanye Prudy, he joined the Red Army during... |
Rifle Divisions: 13th Guards, 37th Guards, 39th Guards, 45th, 95th, 112th, 138th, 193rd, 196th, 244th, 284th, 308th, 10th NKVD |
| Naval Infantry Brigades: 92nd | ||
| Special Brigades: 42nd, 115th, 124th, 149th, 160th | ||
| Tank Brigades: 84th, 137th, 189th | ||
| 64th Army | General M.S. Shumilov | |Rifle Divisions: 36th Guards, 29th, 38th, 157th, 204th |
| Naval Infantry Brigades: 154th | ||
| Special Brigades: 66th, 93rd, 96th, 97th | ||
| Tank Brigades: 13th, 56th | ||
| Don Front | Colonel-General K.K. Rokossovsky Konstantin Rokossovsky Konstantin Rokossovskiy was a Polish-origin Soviet career officer who was a Marshal of the Soviet Union, as well as Marshal of Poland and Polish Defence Minister, who was famously known for his service in the Eastern Front, where he received high esteem for his outstanding military skill... |
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| 24th Army | General I.V. Galanin | Rifle Divisions: 49th, 84th, 120th, 173rd, 233rd, 260th, 273rd |
| Tank Brigades: 10th | ||
| 65th Army | General Lieutenant-General P.I. Batov Pavel Batov Pavel Ivanovich Batov was a senior Red Army general during the Second World War and afterwards.... |
Rifle Divisions: 4th Guards, 27th Guards, 40th Guards, 23rd, 24th, 252nd, 258th, 304th, 321st |
| Tank Brigades: 121st | ||
| 66th Army | Major-General A.S. Zhadov | Rifle Divisions: 64th, 99th, 116th, 226th, 299th, 343rd |
| Tank Brigades: 58th | ||
| 16th Air Army Special Purpose Command The Special Purpose Command was a formation of the Russian Air Force, the strongest among the tactical aviation and anti-aircraft groupings. Its zone of responsibility amounted to 1.3 million km², taking in 40 million people, as well as the country's capital, Moscow... |
Major-General S.I. Rudenko | |
| South-West Front | General N.F. Vatutin Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin was a Soviet military commander during World War II.-Before World War II:Vatutin was born in Chepuhino village near Valuiky in Voronezh Governorate , into a Russian peasant family. Commissioned in 1920 to the Red Army, he fought against the Ukrainian peasant partisans... |
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| 1st Guards Army | General D.D. Lelyushenko | Rifle Divisions: 1st, 153rd, 197th, 203rd, 266th, 278th |
| Front Reserve: I Guards Mechanised Corps | ||
| 5th Tank Army | General P.L. Romanenko | Rifle Divisions: 14th Guards, 47th Guards, 50th Guards, 119th, 159th, 346th |
| Armoured formations added for Operation Uranus: I Tank Corps, XXVI Tank Corps, VIII Cavalry Corps | ||
| 21st Army 21st Army (Soviet Union) -June to September 1941:21st Army was a part of the Second Operational Echelon of the RKKA. It was formed from the forces of the Volga Military District in May 1941 and was initially based on 63rd Rifle Corps and 66th Rifle Corps. The army was under the command of Lieutenant-General Vasilii... |
Major-General I.M. Chistyakov | Rifle Divisions: 63rd, 76th, 96th, 277th, 293rd, 333rd |
| Tank Regiments: 4th Guards, 1st, 2nd | ||
| Armoured formations added for Operation Uranus: IV Tank Corps, III Guards Cavalry Corps | ||
| 2nd Air Army 2nd Air Army The 2nd Air Army was a formation of the Aviation of the Red Army as part of the Soviet Armed Forces during the Second World War... |
Colonel K. Smirnov | |
| 17th Air Army | Major-General S.A. Krasovsky | |