Western Front

The composition of the Aviation Divisions for 22 June 1941 was not listed in the Soviet order of battle. The Front was deployed along the border from just north of Grodno to just south of Brest. In addition, the NKVD forces operating in the rear area of the WSMD were: 3^rd NKVD Railroad Division and the 42^nd NKVD Brigade plus the 17^th (Brest), 86^th (Augustov), 87^th (Lomzha), 88^th (Shepetovka), 105^th (Kretinga), 106^th (Taurage), 107^th (Mariampol’), Dzerzhinsk and Zhitkovichi Border Guards Detachments.

The 3^rd Army was formed in August 1939 in the Belorussian Special Military District area and participated in the invasion of northeastern Poland in September 1939, advancing first on Glubokoe, then to Postav’ and Sventsyani, and finally ending near Vilno. The Army was responsible for defending the border from just north of Grodno for approximately 80 kilometers westward.

The 10^th Army was formed in August 1939 in the Belorussian Military District. The Army was responsible for defending the border within the Bialystok bulge. In September 1939 it participated in the invasion of Poland, following the Cavalry-Mechanized Group as a second echelon force, advancing from just south of Minsk to Slonim then to Grodno.

The 4^th Army was formed in August 1939 from the Bobruysk Army Group in the Belorussian Military District where it remained until invasion. In the invasion of September 1939, the Army advance from west of Slutsk to Baranovichi then to Kobrin. It was responsible for defending the border around Brest-Litovsk.

	1 January 1941 Summary					1 June 1941 Summary
	Readiness Categories					1 June 1941 Summary	Beginning of War (22 June 1941)
Weapons	1 & 2	3	4	5	Total	Total	Received in June	Total
Field Guns:
45mm AT Gun M1932/1937	1718	57	3	2	1780	2037	117	2154
76mm Regimental Gun M1927	550	68	4	-	622	657	-	657
76mm Divisional Gun M1902/30	213	39	-	-	252	180	110	290
76mm Divisional Gun M1936	502	23	-	-	525	629	-	629
76mm Divisional Gun M1939	107	2	1	-	110	107	-	107
76mm Mountain Gun M1909	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
76mm Mountain Gun M1938	-	-	-	-	-	6	-	6
107mm Gun M1910/30	52	8	-	-	60	102	-	102
122mm Howitzer M1910/30	590	129	5	-	724	719	-	719
122mm Howitzer M1909/37	47	15	-	-	62	48	-	48
122mm Howitzer M1938	42	-	-	-	42	176	84	260
122mm Gun M1931	115	5	-	-	120	156	12	168
152mm Howitzer M1909/30	350	62	-	-	412	400	-	400
152mm Howitzer M1930	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
152mm Howitzer M1910/37	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
152mm Howitzer M1938	96	-	-	-	96	172	6	178
152mm Howitzer Vikkersa	-	-	-	-	-	67	-	67
152mm Howitzer-Gun M1937	266	-	-	-	266	470	24	494
152mm Gun M1910/30	-	-	-	-	-	33	-	33
152mm Gun M1935	54	-	-	-	54	-	-	-
203mm Howitzer M1931	-	-	-	-	-	101	18	119
210mm Gun BR-17 M1939	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
280mm Mortar M1914/15	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
280mm Mortar BP-5 M1939	-	-	-	-	-	6	-	6
305mm Howitzer BR-18 M1914/15, /39	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total Field Guns:	4702	408	13	2	5125	6066	371	6437

Mortars:
50mm Mortar	3128	17	-	-	3145	3875	-	3875
82mm Mortar	1816	79	-	-	1895	2031	-	2031
107mm Mortar	21	-	-	-	21	91	-	91
120mm Mortar	511	4	-	-	515	613	-	613
Total Mortars	5476	100	-	-	5576	6610	-	6610
Total Field Guns and Mortars	10178	508	13	2	10701	12676	371	13047

Anti-Aircraft Guns:
37(40)mm Automatic AA Gun M1939	44	-	-	-	44	164	48	212
76mm AA Gun M1931, M1938	484	28	-	-	512	516	-	516
85mm AA Gun M1939	168	-	-	-	168	328	68	396
Total Anti-Aircraft Guns	696	28	-	-	724	1008	116	1124

Total Guns and Mortars	10874	536	13	2	11425	13684	487	14171

	Readiness Categories
Weapons	1	2	3	4	Totals
1) Basic Tank Types:
Heavy:
KV MB [KV-1	66	9	-	-	75
KV BB [KV-2]	22	-	-	-	22
T-35	-	-	-	-	-
Total Heavy Tanks	88	9	-	-	97

Medium:
T-34 line	203	-	-	-	203
T-34 with radio	25	-	-	-	25
Total T-34s	228	-	-	-	228
T-28	-	19	30	14/6	63
Total Medium Tanks	228	19	30	14/6	291

Light:
a) Scout Tanks
T-37 line	-	73	81	51/16	205
T-37 with radio	-	10	7	11/3	28
Total T-37s	-	83	88	62/19	233
T-38 line	3	95	48	40/16	186
T-38 with radio	-	6	6	1	13
Total T-38s	3	101	54	41/16	199
T-40 line	30	-	-	-	30
T-40 with radio	-	-	-	-	-
T-40 for training	-	-	-	-	-
Total T-40s	30	-	-	-	30
Total Scout Tanks	33	184	142	103/35	462
b) Regular Tanks
T-26 2-Turret	-	135	39	37/20	211
T-26 Line	43	544	38	76/55	701
T-26 with radio	57	230	26	28/13	341
T-26 LT3	18	-	-	-	18
T-26 RT3	-	-	-	-	-
Total Regular Tanks	118	909	103	141/88	1271
c) Operations Tanks
BT-2	-	39	19	10/8	68
BT-5 Line	-	57	17	14/8	88
BT-5 with Radio	-	67	8	13/8	88
BT-5 Diesel Engine	-	7	-	-	7
Total BT-5	-	131	25	27/16	183
BT-IS	-	-	-	-	-
BT-7 Line	-	198	29	7/4	234
BT-7 Artillery	-	-	2	-	2
BT-7M Line	-	4	-	-	4
BT-7 with radio	-	100	24	9/3	133
BT-7M with radio	-	35	1	-	36
BT-7 RSMK	-	1	-	-	1
BT-7 Anti-Aircraft	-	-	-	-	-
BT-7M Anti-Aircraft	-	-	-	-	-
Total BT-7s	-	338	56	16/7	410
BT-8	-	-	-	-	-
Total Operations Tanks	-	508	100	53/31	661
Total Light Tanks	151	1601	345	297/154	2394
Total Basic Tank Types	467	1629	375	311/160	2782

	Readiness Categories
Weapons	1	2	3	4	Totals
2) Specialized Tank Types
Chemical (Flamethrower)
T-37 Chemical	-	-	-	-	-
T-26 M130	3	33	9	5	50
T-26 TT-131	-	-	-	-	-
T-26 TU-132	-	-	-	-	-
T-26 M133	-	22	-	-	22
T-26 M134	-	-	-	-	-
T-26 BKM-3	-	35	-	3/3	38
T-26 TOS	-	-	-	-	-
BT-2 Chemical	-	-	-	-	-
BT-7 Chemical	-	-	-	-	-
Total Specialized Tanks	3	90	9	8/3	110
Total Basic & Specialized Tanks	470	1719	384	319/163	2892

3) Self-Propelled Units
T-26 SU-5	-	3	1	4	8
Total Tanks and SU	470	1722	385	323/163	2900

4) Armored Vehicles based on Tanks
T-26 Sapper	-	-	1	7	8
T-26 Tractor	-	31	4	7/4	42
Total Armored Vehicles	-	31	5	14/4	50

5) Tankettes
T-27 Line	-	157	86	149	392
T-27 Tractor	-	-	-	-	-
T-27 Chemical	-	-	3	-	3
Total Tankettes	-	157	89	149	395

Total Armored Vehicles	470	1910	479	486/167	3345

Aircraft	Total	Non-Operational	Operational	Combat Crews
1) Combat Aircraft:
Bombers:
AR-2	22	8	14	0
DB-3	-	-	-	-
DB-3a	-	-	-	-
DB-3f	-	-	-	-
DB-A	-	-	-	-
"Douglas"	-	-	-	-
Pe-2	54	-	54	0
SB	384	40	344	438
TB-1	-	-	-	-
TB-3	1	-	1	0
TB-7	-	-	-	-
Yak-2	12	-	12	-
Yak-4	16	-	16	47
Total Bombers:	489	48	441	485

Fighters:
"Glouster"	-	-	-	-
DI-6	-	-	-	-
I-153	269	27	242	163
I-15	35	3	32	0
I-15bis	64	3	61	80
I-16	417	66	351	172
LaGG-3	-	-	-	-
"Mails"	-	-	-	-
MiG-1	37	13	24	63
MiG-3	201	25	176	148
Yak-1	20	-	20	0
Total Fighters:	1043	137	906	626

Assault:
Il-2	8	-	8	0

Reconnaissance:
R-6	-	-	-	-
R-zet	108	19	89	99
S-2	9	1	8	0
Kor-1	-	-	-	-
Kor-2	-	-	-	-
Mbr-2	-	-	-	-
R-10 *	19	1	18	15
R-5 *	5	-	5	6
SSS *	1	-	1	0
Su-2 *	89	26	63	25
Total Recon.:	231	47	184	145

Total Combat Aircraft:	1771	232	1539	1256

Aircraft	Total	Non-Operational	Operational	Combat Crews
2) Other Aircraft:
Passenger:
Ps-84	-	-	-	-

Training:
"Avro"	-	-	-	-
U-2	-	-	-	-
USB	41	3	38	0
Total Training:

Miscellaneous:
Ambo-41	-	-	-	-
Ambo-51	-	-	-	-
"Buiker-Brams"	-	-	-	-
"Dragon"	-	-	-	-
DS	-	-	-	-
PON	-	-	-	-
PTO	-	-	-	-
PTO-4	-	-	-	-
SB-5	-	-	-	-
"Flit"	-	-	-	-
"Khalkerkhart"	-	-	-	-
"Khenshel’"	-	-	-	-
"Ung-Maister"	-	-	-	-
Total Miscellaneous:	-	-	-	-
Total Other Aircraft:	41	3	38	0

Total All Aircraft:	1812	235	1577	1256

3^rd Army	10^th Army	4^th Army

Headquarters, 13^th Army

2^nd Rifle Corps:	21^st Rifle Corps:		44^th Rifle Corps:		47^th Rifle Corps:
100^th Rifle Division	17^th Rifle Division		64^th Rifle Division		55^th Rifle Division
161^st Rifle Division	24^th Rifle Division		108^th Rifle Division		121^st Rifle Division
	37^th Rifle Division				143^rd Rifle Division

4^th Airborne Corps:		17^th Mechanized Corps		20^th Mechanized Corps
7^th Airborne Brigade		27^th Tank Division		26^th Tank Division
8^th Airborne Brigade		36^th Tank Division		38^th Tank Division
214^th Airborne Brigade		209^th Mechanized Division		210^th Mechanized Division
		22^nd Motorcycle Regiment		24^th Motorcycle Regiment

50^th Rifle Division

58^th (Sebezhskii)[Sebezh] Fortified Region	61^st (Polotskii)[Polotsk] Fortified Region

63^rd (Minsko-Slutskii)[Minsk-Slutsk] Fortified Region	64^th (Zambrovskii)[Zambruv] Fortified Region

65^th (Moz’rskii)[Mozyr] Fortified Region

8^th Anti-Tank Artillery Brigade

293^rd Gun Artillery Regiment		611^th Gun Artillery Regiment

360^th Howitzer Artillery Regiment

5^th High-powered Howitzer Artillery Regiment RGK		318^th High-powered Howitzer Artillery Regiment RGK

612^th High-powered Howitzer Artillery Regiment RGK

29^th Corps Artillery Regiment		49^th Corps Artillery Regiment

56^th Corps Artillery Regiment		151^st Corps Artillery Regiment

467^th Corps Artillery Regiment		587^th Corps Artillery Regiment

32^nd Separate Special-powered Artillery Battalion RGK

24^th Separate Mortar Battalion

86^th Separate Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion

10^th Engineer Regiment		23^rd Engineer Regiment

33^rd Engineer Regiment

34^th Pontoon Bridge Regiment		35^th Pontoon Bridge Regiment

275^th Separate Engineer Battalion

43^rd Fighter Aviation Division	9^th Mixed Aviation Division	10^th Mixed Aviation Division

11^th Mixed Aviation Division	12^th Bomber Aviation Division	13^th Bomber Aviation Division

4^th Rifle Corps:	11^th Mechanized Corps:
27^th Rifle Division	29^th Tank Division
56^th Rifle Division	33^rd Tank Division
85^th Rifle Division	204^th Mechanized Division
	16^th Motorcycle Regiment

	Commander: General-Army D. G. Pavlov Member of the Military Soviet: Corps Commissar A. Ya. Fominikh Chief of Staff: General-Major V. Ye. Klimovskikh





General-Army
D. G. Pavlov

1^st Rifle Corps:	5^th Rifle Corps:	6^th Cavalry Corps:
2^nd Rifle Division	13^th Rifle Division	6^th Cavalry Division
8^th Rifle Division	86^th Rifle Division	36^th Cavalry Division
	113^th Rifle Division

6^th Mechanized Corps:	13^th Mechanized Corps:
4^th Tank Division	25^th Tank Division
7^th Tank Division	31^st Tank Division
29^th Mechanized Division	208^th Mechanized Division
4^th Motorcycle Regiment	18^th Motorcycle Regiment

28^th Rifle Corps:	14^th Mechanized Corps:
6^th Rifle Division	22^nd Tank Division
42^nd Rifle Division	30^th Tank Division
49^th Rifle Division	205^th Mechanized Division
75^th Rifle Division	20^th Motorcycle Regiment

Manpower:	On Rolls:	599,450
	In Training Courses:	71,715
	Total:	671,165

Small-Arms:	Rifles and Carbines:	773,445
	Sub-machineguns:	24,237
	Crew-served machineguns:	27,574
	Anti-Aircraft machineguns (12.7mm):	98

Transport Means:	Vehicles (total)	35,102
	Of which Cargo Trucks	24,925
	Tractors	5,706
	Horses	68,648