Around the Problem of Organisation and Numerical State of the Armoured Forces and Cavalry of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army at the Threshold of German-Soviet War in Summer 1941 (Introductory Remarks)

• 發表在: Review (Institute of National Remembrance)
• 主要作者: Aleksander Smoliński
• 格式: Article
• 語言: 英语
• 出版: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej - Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu 2023-12-01
• 主題: Red Army; Great Patriotic War; 1941; armoured units; cavalry; order of battle
• 在線閱讀: https://czasopisma.ipn.gov.pl/index.php/inrr/article/view/2464
• ISSN: 2658-1566; 2957-1715

This paper discusses the state of the armoured and cavalry units of the Red Army in the period directly prior to the outbreak of the “Great Patriotic War” in 1941. The paper contains information on order of battle of the Soviet armoured and mobile forces in the Western military districts in Summer 1941, as well as other organisation features and numerical state (including the number and types of weapons), along with remarks on the development of Soviet armoured forces in the years directly preceding the outbreak of the Soviet-German war. Reworked Polish version of this paper was published under title:  Aleksander Smoliński, "Stan organizacyjny i liczebny kawalerii oraz broni pancernej Robotniczo-Chłopskiej Armii Czerwonej na dzień 22 czerwca 1941 r.", in Do szarży marsz, marsz... Studia z dziejów kawalerii, vol. 10, ed. A. Smoliński. Toruń: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, 2024: 237-398. DOI: https://doi.org/10.12775/978-83-231-5308-5.