The Russian mechanized corps in 1941 ?

[Thor]

Hello everyone ,
Please does anyone know the Orders of Battle (Orbats) and the specific organizational, troop ,types of vehicles and their number by battalions (TO&E) of the military units that made up the Russian mechanized corps in june 1941?
Cheers,
Thor

[kustenjaeger]

I'm away from home this week but I've got Charles Sharp's Soviet organisation books at home which has this data.

Edward

[fsn]

From Steve Zaloga's "Red Army Handbook"

[pierre the shy]

Hello everyone ,
Please does anyone know the Orders of Battle (Orbats) and the specific organizational, troop ,types of vehicles and their number by battalions (TO&E) of the military units that made up the Russian mechanized corps in june 1941?
Cheers,
Thor

Hello Thor

I have found Professor Niehorster's WW2 Organisation site to be very useful when organising Russian forces for use with the Spearhead ruleset. It covers a lot of countries and is very well researched. The Russian Mechanised Corps in June 1941 is found here:

http://www.niehorster.org/012_ussr/41_organ/corps_mech/mc.html

It uses standard NATO symbols, but if you need to know what a symbol means click on the symbol button at the bottom of the page. Any symbol with shading round the bottom and right hand side can be clicked into to see the organisation of that unit (e.g. Division/Regiment/Battalion). You should be able to see what equipment each unit was equipped with.

Please be patient as the pages can take a while to load.

Does that help?
 

[sultanbev]

There are some organisation lists in the MicroMark collection over on the Wargames Vault:

R12A: Russian Tank Division, Aug'40-June 1941, East Europe (generic list)
R13B: Russian Mechanised Division, Russia, August 1940-July 1941  (generic list)
R211A: Russian 34th Tank Division, 8th Mech Corps, Ukraine, Feb-July 1941
R212A: Russian 12th Tank Division, 8th Mech Corps, Ukraine, Feb-July 1941
R346: Russian Mechanised Corps support units, including Motorcycle Reg, Russia, Aug'40-July 1941 (generic list)
R347: Russian 7th Mechanised Division of 8th Mechanised Corps,Russia, Aug 1940-July 1941
R348: Russian 40th Tank Division, 19th Mechanised Corps, Russia,February-July 1941
R349: Russian 43rd Tank Division, 19th Mechanised Corps, Russia, Feb-July 1941
R350: Russian 213th Mechanised Division, 19th Mechanised Corps,Russia, Feb-July 1941
R351A: Russian 20th Tank Division, 9th Mechanised Corps, Ukraine, February-July 1941
R352A: Russian 35th Tank Division, 9th Mechanised Corps, Ukraine, April-August 1941
R353A: Russian 131st Mechanised Division, 9th Mechanised Corps, Ukraine, February-July 1941
R372: Russian 9th Mechanised Corps Support, Ukraine, May-July 1941

https://www.wargamevault.com/en/publisher/3426/micromark-army-lists

It is clear that each corps had quite some variation in equipment and organisation, these can be picked out to some extent on the Niehorster site, but the go to source are the Nigel Askey Operation Barbarossa books.

Mark

[fsn]

Hello everyone ,
Please does anyone know the Orders of Battle (Orbats) and the specific organizational, troop ,types of vehicles and their number by battalions (TO&E) of the military units that made up the Russian mechanized corps in june 1941?
Cheers,
Thor

Well, you did ask.

[steve_holmes_11]

Russian / Soviet OOBs changed regularly during their Great Patriotic War.

I attempted to track the changes to mere Infantry Companies.
The paper OOBs went through around seven revisions.
Goodness knows how many of these made it to the front, and how many variants emerged in practice.

This is sufficiently confused that Google (my usual recommendation) won't help.
In this case I recommend a reliable book.
One of those mentioned above, or another with glowing reviews.

[Thor]

Thank you all.