AMVAS

As there were too large number of mistakes in Bigduke6's post, I rewrote it as such: --- - 13th Army 15 Rifle Corps (8, 148, 211 RD) 28 Rifle Corps (181, 336, 415 RD) 19 Gds Gun Art Rgt 874 Antitank Art Rgt 476,477th Mortar Rgts 10 Antiaircraft Division, (802,975,984 AA Art. Rgts) 1287 Antiaircraft Regiment 275 Separate Engineer Battalion 49 Pontoon Bn 50 Pontoon Bn - 38th Army 23 Rifle Corps (23, 30 RD) 50 Rifle Corps (163, 167, 232, 340 RD) 51 Rifle Corps (136, 180, 240 RD) 21 Rifle Corps (71, 74 RD) 1st Czechoslovakian Infantry Brigade 7th Breakthrough Art Corps, consisting of: 13th Breakthrough Art Div: (42 Lgt Art Bde, 47 Howitzer Art Bde, 88,91 Hvy Art Bdes, 101 High-Power Howitzer Bde, and 17th Mortar Bde) 17th Breakthrough Art Div: (37th Light Art. Bde, 39th Gun Art. Bde, 50th howitzer Art. Bde, 92nd Heavy howitzer Bde, 108th High-power Howitzer Bde, 22nd Mortar Bde) 3rd Gds Mortar Div (Rem.AMVAS - Katyushas), (15, 18, and 19 Gds Mortar Bde) -- end of the corps forces -- 112th Gds Gun Art. Regt 1950th Gun Art. Regt 805,839th howitzer rEgts, 9th Gds Antitank Bde 28th Antitank Bde 4th Gds, 316th Gds, 202, 868, 1075, 1660, and 1666 Antitank Artillery Regts 12th Mortar Bde 491,492nd Mortar REgts 5,16,66,83 Gds. Mortar Regts (Katyushas) 8 Antiaircraft Div (797, 848, 978, and 1063 AA Art. Rgts) 21 Antiaircraft Div (1044, 1334, 1340, 1346 AA Art Rgt) 994th Antiaircraft Art. Regt/10th AA Div. 1288th Antiaircraft Art. Regt. 5th Gds Tank Corps: (20, 21, 22 Gds Tank Bdes; 6 Gds Motorised Rifle Bde, 48 Gds Tank Rgt, 80 Motorcycle Bn, 1499 AntitankArtillery Rgt, 754 Separate Antitank Artillery Bn, 454 Mortar Rgt, 1696 Antiticraft Rgt) 39 Separate Tank Rgt 7, 235, 268, and 1505 Separate Engineer Battalions 108 Pontoon Rgt - 60th Army 17 Gds Rifle Corps (6 and 70 Gd RD) 18 Gds Rifle Corps (2, 3, and 4 Gds Airborne Divsions) 24 Rifle Corps (112 and 226 RD) 30 Rifle Corps (75 Gd and 121 RD) 77 Rifle Corps (132, 141, 143, and 280 RD) 248th Rifle Bde 1 Gds Artillery Division (3 Gds Lgt Art Bde, 1st Gds Gun Art Bde) 1156 Gun Art. Rgt 130, 493, 1178, and 1689 Antitank Artillery Rgt 128, 138, 497 Mortar Rgts 25 Antiaircraft Division (1067,1356,1362,1368 Antiaircraft Art. Rgts) 217th Antiaircraft Art. Rgt 129 and 150 Tank Bde 59 Separate Tank Rgt 37, 49, and 58 Separate Armored Train Battalions 59th Enginee-Sapper Bde 317th Separate Engineer Bn 9,21 Pontoon Bns 3rd Guards Tank Army 91 Gds Mortar Regiment (Katyushas) 1381 and 1394 Antiaircraft Art. Regiment 6 Gd Tank Corps (51, 52, and 53 Gds Tank Bdes; 22nd Gd Motorised Rifle Bde, 1442 and 1893 SP gun Artillery Rgts, 3 Gds Motorcycle Bn, 289th Gds. Antitank Art. Regt. 55 Separate Gds Antitank Art Bn, 272 Gds Mortar Rgt, 286 Gds Antiaircraft Art Rgt) 7 Gd Tank Corps (54, 55, and 56 Gd Tank Bdes; 23 Gd Motorised Rifle Bde, 1419 and 1894 SP gun Artillery Rgt, 4th Gds Motorcycle Bn, 56 Separate Gds Antitank Bn, 467 Gds Mortar Rgt, 287 Gds Antiaircraft Art. Rgt) 9 Mechanised Corps (69, 70, and 71 Mechanised Bdes; 47,59 Gds Tank Rgts, 1823 SP gun Artillery Rgt, 100 Motorcycle Bn, 396 Separate Antitank Art. Bn, 386 Separate Antitank Art. Rgt, 616 Mortar Rgt, 1719 Antiaircraft Art. Rgt) 91 Tank Brigade 166 Separate Tank Rgt 1835 and 1836 SP gun Artillery Rgt 50 Motorcycle Rgt 182nd Separate engineer Bn Front Assets 218 and 322 RD 3 Gd Parachute Bde 3rd Gds. Airborne Division 1 Gds Cavalry Corps (1, 2, and 7 Gds Cav Div; 1461 SP gun Artillery Rgt; 143 Gds Antitank Art, Rgt, 1 Separate Gds Antitank Artillery Bn, 1 Gds Mortar Rgt (Katyushas), 49 Gds Mortar Bn, 319 Antiaircraft Art. Rgt) 24 Gds Gun Artillery Bde 7 Gds Antitank Artillery Bde 2nd Antitank Artillery Bde 317 Gds, 269, 563, 680, 1076, 1593, 1672 Antitank Artillery Rgts 494 Mortar Rgt 36, 98, 314, 316, and 323 Gds Mortar Rgts (Katyushas) 1488 and 1954 Antiaircraft Art. Rgts 332 Separate Antiaircraft Art. Bn 1454 SP gun Artillery Rgt 45th Separate Armored Train Bn 4 and 9 Engineer-Sapper Bde 15 Assault Engineer-Sapper Bde 42 Special Destination Engineer Bde 3 and 6 Pontoon Bdes 13 Gds Miner Bn 20 Pontoon Bn -- Rem. Russian terms "Diviziya"=Division and "Divizion"=Battalion (Artillery, Armored Train and some others) Also I prefer to specify "Katyushas" rocket launcers units to distinguish them with Gds. units of ordinary mortars. Of course for them we can use Gds. Rocket Artillery Regiment/Bn... designation too Regards Alex

I'm not sure, but maybe next year I'll be passing Kiev. Not sure though... There can't be any data abuot strength. Strength records are archival ones. There were about 300Mb, or so. I think the best way is to translate abbreviations. Regards Alex

Welcome... Now you can spend them for something else... Yes, the "BSSA" book is very interesting source. However it contains some typos, especially in the last volume. Install freeware DjVu plugin from www.lizardtech.com Links I gave above are better than from Soldat.ru Multi-volume RAR files from Soldat.ru can need some tricks (i.e. renaming) to be opened. Yes, you are right.. One specification though. Besides "Perechen" lists exists some additions (see www.Soldat.ru site), which introduces some additions/corrections to that volumes Regards Alex

Well, I'd say it's the same sort of docs, which you can find online on the link at the bottom of your post... Just the link I mentined. "BSSA" is one of the main books for the Soviet OOBs. I gave it to Vasiliy (the author of that site) typical abbreviations for them translated into english I gathered in the next file: http://www.rkkaww2.armchairgeneral.com/abbreviations/OOB_abbr.doc Also draw attention to another set of books - so called "Perechen'" listings - a 36 volume set, containing VERY large amount of info. try this thread for downloading them (if the links are workable...) http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54156 Regards Alex

Welcome I have hundreds of unprocessed schemes. But as I need to be patient to requests of different sort of people I try to provide different sorts of info

Sorry for some pop-in windows. As I got some complains on this I'll remove them in September! Regards, Alex

I have to say that Russian archival records very often operates with general specifications of tanks, i.e. "M3M", "M3L" and similar, without any details for their modifications. the same picture is with Soviet tanks - T-34, KVs et. al. You always can see its type, but not modification. The only way to trace modifications seems to check, for example, archival records which describes from which plant were this or that specific vehicle received. IMHO, too hard work to do.. Regards, Alex