How many tanks did Stalin have?
For many years, doing research of the initial period of the Great Patriotic War, I occasionally come across questions about how many armored vehicles there were in the USSR on 22 June 1941 of the year? How many tanks were in the mechanized corps of the border military districts on the eve of the attack of Germany and its allies on the USSR? What number of combat vehicles was efficient, and what - no? What was the ratio of our tank fleet and the similar fleet of enemy vehicles? There are quite comprehensive answers to the questions asked. But at the beginning, a little about the background to the study of the problem of the number of Soviet tanks on the eve of the Second World War.
Serial armored vehicles in the USSR began to be produced in the middle of the 20-s of the twentieth century. Already then, an understanding began all over the world that in the future "big war" tanks and other armored vehicles would play a decisive role in combat operations on land fronts. Initially, the use of tanks in various local conflicts in the period between the two world wars did not give an unequivocal answer to the question of the use of armored fighting vehicles in a large-scale war. And only the Second World War, which began in 1939, revealed to the world the “sword of the kladenets” of modern highly maneuverable military operations - large mechanized formations.
In the USSR, they independently came up with a similar concept of the use of tank forces, and also tried to take into account the experience of the use of the Wehrmacht in the Polish and Western campaigns of strike tank groups.
In 1940, in our country, mechanized corps were organized, uniting the vast majority of the Red Army armored vehicles. Mechanized corps were the main striking force of the ground forces and were very powerful units. The number of vehicles in them was a long time, as well, and the total number of tanks in the USSR on the 1941 year, "a terrible military secret." Soviet historians had a hard time recognizing that the Red Army, surpassing Germany and its allies in terms of the number of armored vehicles, about three and a half times, and twice in border districts, could not realize such a solid advantage, having lost almost all of them in border battles. all cash armored vehicles.
As a rule, the official point of view of the Soviet historical science sounded something like this: "Soviet designers, even before the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, developed a new model of the T-34 medium tank and the KV heavy tank ... However, the production of these tanks began only at the end of 1940, and therefore, by the beginning of the war with the fascist Germany, our tank troops had them in a limited number. ”[1] Or like this: “Soviet designers have created samples of first-class tanks (T-34 and KV), but their mass production has not yet been deployed.” [2] Or even this: “Since the summer of 1940, new T-34 tanks began to enter the corps, of which 1940 were produced in 115, and from the beginning of 1941 - and KV tanks. But by the beginning of the war there were still few new tanks. ”[3]
Even in the specialized literature at that time, neither the number of tanks in the army was reported, nor, even more so, their distribution by mechanized corps. For example, in the secret textbook of the Military Academy of Armored Forces "The History of the Armored and Mechanized Forces of the Soviet Army," only about the tank fleet of the USSR on the eve of the war is said: "By the summer of 1941, i.e. by the time of the treacherous attack of Nazi Germany on the Soviet Union, our tank and motorized divisions and mechanized corps as a whole were not fully equipped with new military equipment, which undoubtedly had a negative impact on the course of hostilities in the initial period of the Great Patriotic War ... our troops did not have enough tanks, especially medium and heavy ones, which at that time were just entering service. ”[4]
In the 60s, the number of new types of tanks (meaning, of course, KV and T-34) became "generally known", probably from the six-volume encyclopedia of the history of the Great Patriotic War, the number "1861 new tank" began to wander from book to book. For example, the book "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" reports: "However, on the eve of the war, the factories managed to produce only 636 heavy KV tanks and 1225 medium T-34 tanks." Those. in total, allegedly, before the start of the war, 5 new T-1861 and KV tanks were produced. In the book of Marshal Zhukov "Memories and Reflections" this number is also given: “As for the KV and T-34, by the beginning of the war the factories had produced 34 tanks. This, of course, was not enough. ”[1861]
In fact this is not true. Back in 1960, in the first volume of the history of the Great Patriotic War, the entire production of new heavy and medium tanks was scheduled: “The machines of new types - KB and T-34, significantly superior in quality to the German ones, were not produced in 1939, and in 1940 they were released a little: 243 KB and 115 T-34. Only in the first half of 1941 did the production of new tanks noticeably increase. During these six months the industry produced 393 KB tanks and 1110 T-34 tanks. ”[7] That is, 1861 new types of tank were produced on July 1, 1941.
In the 70-80s. XX-th century "whistle" with the number of T-34 and KV continued: some authors pointed to the almost canonized "1861 new tank", others continued to confuse the first half of the year and the entire period before the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, i.e. dates July 1 and June 22, 1941, and sometimes June 1: "By June 1941, the Soviet Armed Forces numbered 5373 thousand people, over 67 thousand guns and mortars, 1861 tanks, over 2700 combat aircraft of new types." 8] Moreover, they were confused even when the source said in black and white “in the first half of the year” (as you know, the first half of the year ends on June 31st, and not at all on the 22nd).
The official public (and erroneous!) Version was presented by the Soviet Military Encyclopedia, which indicated that on the eve of World War II there was an 1861 tank KV and T-34 in the army, of which 1475 was in the western border districts. [9]
But if it was more or less clear with tanks of new types, then with the number of the rest of the armored vehicles there was a complete mess. Soviet historians, indicating the number of new KV and T-34 tanks, "modestly" did not explain how many tanks of all types were in the army. As a result, all other tanks (except for the KV and T-34) began to be called impersonally "tanks of obsolete designs" and "light weapons" or simply "light and outdated". This definition, in general, was very sly, the number of these "outdated" tanks was not given anyway, which later allowed writers like V. Rezun or V. Beshanov to play a complete carte blanche and make fun of Soviet historians and memoirists.
There were a lot of reasons for such classification (and intentional silence), and some were completely objective, but the main among them, I think, were the fears of the political leadership. After all, the average reader, who had no idea about the size of the Soviet tank park and brought up on another version of the beginning of the war, such revelations could cause sharply anti-Soviet sentiment, ultimately affecting not only the position of party historians, but also the state itself. What actually happened later in the restructuring. One of the tools for the destruction of the Soviet Union was a change in the mass consciousness of the population, in which all sorts of disclosures of secrets of party and state power, hidden from the people until the end of 80, played an important role. For the Soviet people who were unprepared for such revelations, such publications caused a shock first, and then a reaction that most accurately characterized the slogan “We were all lied to!” and, as a consequence, total stifling of any Soviet source and, at the same time, blind trust in any work and her and the author who argued with Soviet sources (especially if this controversy was “revealing”).
It is quite understandable that Soviet historians acted incorrectly, suppressing information about the actual state of the army by June 22, 1941, including its tank forces. But the complexity of the situation in which the leadership found itself was that, having widely announced such statistics, they would have to face new problems. After all, having received information about the number of tanks, the average reader is asked "how many tanks were there in the USSR?" automatically moved on to the question "how, having so many tanks, did we manage to suffer such a crushing defeat at the beginning of the war?" What would the party ideologists have to do, given that the answer to the question was given long ago, and on the false statement that the enemy was superior to us (including the number of tank troops)? And this was only part of the general problem of misinterpreting the causes of the 1941 disaster. Fearing a revision of the "approved" official version of the reasons for our defeat in 1941, the Soviet leadership preferred to pretend that the problem did not exist, maniacally keeping silent and classifying everything that could become the basis for doubts, including statistics on the state of the army and its armored forces ...
However, the mechanism of keeping silent about the present state of the Red Army in 1941 fell apart. So, in 1964, in the multivolume "History of Russian artillery" - a book that was in the libraries in the public domain - the number of Soviet tanks in the spring of 1941 was indicated! On the number of tanks in the Red Army, information was given by years, starting from 1933 (4906 tanks and 244 armored vehicles) and ending with two dates - on 15.09.40 (23364 units, including 27 KV, 3 T -34, and 4034 BA) and on April 1.04.41, 23815 (364 tanks, including 537 KV and 34 T-4819, and 10 BA) [XNUMX]
Unfortunately, the figures given in this book were practically not noticed by professional historians, or by amateurs of military history.
However, the situation was somewhat different in the works marked "secret" or chipboard. Regarding the number of armored troops of the Red Army in the pre-war period, no special secrets were made in such works. So, back in 1960, Lieutenant Colonel M.P. Dorofeev, in a brochure published by the Military Academy of Armored Forces, cited data on the number of personnel, tanks, armored vehicles, guns and mortars, cars, tractors and motorcycles in the mechanized corps of the western border districts, although from his calculations somehow "dropped out" 16- th MK. But even without the 16th MK, according to M.P. Dorofeev in 19 mechanized corps of the border western districts, there were 11 combat vehicles [000]:
District | Chassis | Number of tanks | Artillery | Mortars |
---|---|---|---|---|
Lvo | 1 microns | 1037 | 148 | 146 |
10 microns | 469 | 75 | 157 | |
Pribovo | 3 microns | 651 | 186 | 181 |
12 microns | 749 | 92 | 221 | |
SOBOVO | 6 microns | 1131 | 162 | 187 |
11 microns | 414 | 40 | 104 | |
13 microns | 282 | 132 | 117 | |
14 microns | 518 | 126 | 114 | |
17 microns | 63 | 12 | 104 | |
20 microns | 94 | 58 | 76 | |
Cova | 4 microns | 979 | 134 | 152 |
8 microns | 898 | 142 | 152 | |
9 microns | 298 | 101 | 118 | |
15 microns | 749 | 88 | 139 | |
19 microns | 453 | 65 | 27 | |
22 microns | 712 | 122 | 178 | |
24 microns | 222 | - | - | |
OdVO | 2 microns | 517 | 162 | 189 |
18 microns | 282 | 83 | 30 | |
Total | - | 11000 | 1928 | 2392 |
On the other hand, the real number of armored vehicles in the Red Army before the war was a kind of “Opening's secret”, and was quite calculated by the attentive reader even from open sources. For example, according to the memoirs of G.K. Zhukova:
"The production of tanks grew rapidly. During the first five-year plan, 5 thousands were produced, by the end of the second army there are already 15 thousands tanks and tankettes ...
The annual production of 740 tanks in 1930-1931 reached 1938 in 2271 year ...
From January 1939 to June 22, 1941, the Red Army received more than seven thousand tanks, in 1941 the industry could provide about 5,5 thousand tanks of all types ... "[6]
Taking the calculator in hand, according to the above quotes from the book of Georgy Konstantinovich, the total number of tanks in the USSR by June 1941 of the year can be estimated in 24 000 units.
But with the beginning of "glasnost" and "perestroika", the situation changed dramatically. In 1988, an article by V.V. Shlykov "And our tanks are fast", where the author, without hesitation, multiplied the standard number of armored vehicles in the Red Army tank divisions by the number of divisions themselves, having received the upper limit of the number of 22 combat vehicles, while the lower limit of his calculations gave the number of 875 tanks and tankettes. However, despite the approximately correct result (± 20 pcs.), The method of counting Shlykov was incorrect, because none of the tank and motorized divisions of the Red Army had a full-time tank fleet. Despite this, the article caused a huge resonance, forcing the official historical science to come out of hibernation.
Soon VIZH published an article by the editor on the history of strategy and operational art of the Military Historical Journal, Colonel V.P. Krikunova “Simple arithmetic by V.V. Shlykov ", where, in addition to criticizing Shlykov's method, Colonel Krikunov provides archival data on the presence and distribution of tanks among the mechanized corps of the pre-war Red Army [12]:
District | Chassis | Number of tanks | Of these, HF and T-34 |
---|---|---|---|
Lvo * | 1 and 10 MK | 1506 | 15 |
Pribovo | 3 and 12 MK | 1393 | 109 |
SOBOVO | 11 microns | 237 | 31 |
6 microns | 1021 | 352 | |
13 microns | 294 | - | |
14 microns | 520 | - | |
17 microns | 36 | - | |
20 microns | 93 | - | |
Cova | 4 microns | 892 | 414 |
8 microns | 858 | 171 | |
9 microns | 285 | - | |
15 microns | 733 | 131 | |
19 microns | 280 | 11 | |
22 microns | 647 | 31 | |
16 microns | 608 | - | |
24 microns | 222 | - | |
OdVO | 2 microns | 489 | 60 |
18 microns | 280 | - | |
MBO * | 7 and 21 micron, 51 reject | 1134 | 9 |
HVO * | 25 microns | 300 | 20 |
ORVO | 23 microns | 413 | 21 |
SCWO | 26 microns | 184 | - |
ZakVO | 28 microns | 869 | - |
SAVO | 27 microns | 356 | - |
ZabVO * | 5 MK, 57 and 61 TD, 82 MD | 2602 | - |
DVF * | 30 micron, 59 td, 69 md | 2969 | - |
The number of tanks was given by V. Krikunov, taking into account the existing ones in military formations, military schools, courses, training centers, civilian higher educational institutions.
At about the same time, pseudo-historical studies of dilettantes from history and falsifiers like V. Rezun (pseudonym - V. Suvorov) fell from the cornucopia. It is with Shlykov's article that the chapter "What tanks are considered light?" his book "The Last Republic". V. Rezun was not alone in his revelations, one way or another, almost all modern pseudo-historians - V. Beshanov, B. Sokolov, I. Bunich and others - touched upon the issue of the number of tanks in the Soviet Union before the Great Patriotic War, but the author of "Icebreaker" was among them, of course, the most famous and read. However, they all used either the data of Krikunov or Dorofeev, and did not bring anything new to the study of the issue of the number of Soviet armored vehicles by the beginning of the Second World War.
The next big step in researching the state of the Red Army tank forces at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War was the analytical work "1992 - Lessons and Conclusions" published in 1941 under the DSP stamp. The number of new tanks by the beginning of the war is given approximately - "only about 1800 units", but there is a total number of combat vehicles: "over 23 thousand units." The book also describes the distribution of tanks among the mechanized corps of the western border districts "by the beginning of the war", including the 16th mechanized corps "forgotten" by Lieutenant Colonel Dorofeev [13]:
District | Chassis | Number of tanks | Of these, HF and T-34 |
---|---|---|---|
Lvo | 1 microns | 1039 | 15 |
10 microns | 469 | - | |
Pribovo | 3 microns | 672 | 110 |
12 microns | 730 | - | |
SOBOVO | 6 microns | 1131 | 452 |
11 microns | 414 | 20 | |
13 microns | 282 | - | |
14 microns | 518 | - | |
17 microns | 63 | - | |
20 microns | 94 | - | |
Cova | 4 microns | 979 | 414 |
8 microns | 899 | 171 | |
9 microns | 316 | - | |
15 microns | 749 | 136 | |
16 microns | 478 | 76 | |
19 microns | 453 | 5 | |
22 microns | 712 | 31 | |
24 microns | 222 | - | |
OdVO | 2 microns | 527 | 60 |
18 microns | 282 | - | |
20 Mechanical Corps total | - | 11029 | 1306 |
From the above tables it can be seen that the number of tanks in the mechanized corps of the Red Army from different authors does not coincide with each other.
An article by N.P. Zolotov and S.I. Isaev put a peculiar feature in the debate about the number of Soviet armored vehicles for June 1941. They gave not only the distribution of tanks by districts on June 1, but also for the first time showed the qualitative state of the fleet of combat vehicles using the standard classification scheme for reporting that time [14]:
District | Total tanks and ACS | Including by category | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 category | 2 category | 3 category | 4 category | ||
Lvo | 1857 | 7 | 1536 | 210 | 104 |
Pribovo | 1549 | 378 | 896 | 203 | 72 |
SOBOVO | 2900 | 470 | 1722 | 375 | 323 |
Cova | 5465 | 1124 | 3664 | 298 | 379 |
OdVO | 1011 | 178 | 565 | 151 | 117 |
ZakVO | 877 | 6 | 711 | 122 | 38 |
SAVO | 363 | 0 | 288 | 44 | 31 |
DVF | 3201 | 191 | 2772 | 134 | 104 |
ZabVO | 2496 | 131 | 1943 | 232 | 190 |
ArchVO | 26 | 9 | 16 | 0 | 1 |
MVO | 1173 | 29 | 920 | 150 | 74 |
HALT | 443 | 28 | 307 | 86 | 22 |
ORVO | 321 | 23 | 176 | 78 | 44 |
HVO | 305 | 27 | 193 | 35 | 50 |
SCWO | 157 | 0 | 133 | 14 | 10 |
Urvo | 53 | 0 | 48 | 3 | 2 |
SibVO | 216 | 10 | 189 | 5 | 12 |
Rembazy NKO | 677 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 677 |
NKO warehouses | 16 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 8 |
Total in the Red Army | 23106 | 2611 | 16080 | 2157 | 2258 |
Finally, in 1994, a truly "bible" of historians dealing with the problems of the initial period of the Second World War was published, the publication of the Institute of Military History of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation "Combat and numerical strength of the armed forces of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Statistical collection No. 1 (June 22, 1941 g.) ". True, the circulation of this edition is mesmerizing - as many as 25 copies! The collection turned out to be a unique work, nothing of the kind was published either before or after its publication. Specifically for the tank fleet, information was given on the distribution of tanks by type (including a breakdown into radium and linear, chemical and artillery, etc.) and by districts, as well as by category as of June 1, 1941 and the supply of equipment in June 1941. . [fifteen]:
District | HF | T-35 | T-34 | T-28 | T-26 | BT | T-37, T-38, T-40 | Chem. tanks | SAA | Bronir tank-based vehicles (sapper, transport) | T-27 * | Total armored units |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lvo | 6 | - | 8 | 89 | 531 | 897 | 180 | 146 | - | 19 | 101 | 1977 |
Pribovo | 78 | - | 50 | 57 | 507 | 691 | 146 | 20 | - | 3 | 94 | 1646 |
SOBOVO | 97 | - | 228 | 63 | 1271 | 661 | 462 | 110 | 8 | 50 | 395 | 3345 |
Cova | 278 | 51 | 496 | 215 | 1698 | 1819 | 651 | 248 | 9 | 35 | 394 | 5894 |
OdVO | 10 | - | 50 | - | 214 | 494 | 225 | 18 | - | 5 | 103 | 1119 |
ArchVO | - | - | - | - | - | - | 26 | - | - | - | 16 | 42 |
MVO | 4 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 275 | 553 | 142 | 184 | - | 44 | 173 | 1390 |
HALT | 19 | 6 | 23 | 10 | 73 | 123 | 153 | 36 | - | 10 | 205 | 658 |
ORVO | 8 | - | 16 | - | 67 | 136 | 94 | - | - | 7 | 146 | 474 |
HVO | 4 | - | 16 | - | 173 | 7 | 101 | 4 | - | 4 | 79 | 388 |
SCWO | - | - | - | - | 2 | 86 | 66 | 3 | - | 1 | 80 | 238 |
Urvo | - | - | - | - | - | - | 53 | - | - | - | 36 | 89 |
SibVO | - | - | - | - | 53 | - | 153 | 10 | - | 2 | 98 | 316 |
"South" (ZakVO and SAVO) | - | - | - | - | 854 | 160 | 91 | 135 | - | 3 | 23 | 1266 |
Vostok (ZabVO and DVF) | - | - | - | - | 2735 | 1770 | 894 | 287 | 11 | 66 | 427 | 6190 |
Rembazy and warehouses | - | - | - | 39 | 294 | 138 | 145 | 77 | - | 19 | 188 | 900 |
Total: | 504 | 59 | 892 | 481 | 8747 | 7535 | 3582 | 1278 | 28 | 268 | 2558 | 25932 |
Including 1 category | 420 | - | 845 | - | 951 | 53 | 330 | 12 | - | 1 | - | 2612 |
2 category | 81 | 48 | 46 | 292 | 6436 | 6104 | 2008 | 1049 | 16 | 152 | 1134 | 17366 |
3 category | 3 | 5 | 1 | 100 | 522 | 822 | 605 | 92 | 7 | 34 | 584 | 2775 |
4 category | - | 6 | - | 89 | 838 | 556 | 639 | 125 | 5 | 81 | 840 | 3179 |
* - including T-27 chemical and engineering.
The statistical compendium became, without doubt, the most complete and reliable source for the number of armored vehicles in the Red Army on the eve of the Second World War for a long time.
In 2000, M. Meltyukhov published his book "Stalin's Lost Chance". In several chapters, the author, on a documentary basis, describes in detail the process of the pre-war construction of the Red Army and, naturally, cannot ignore the issue of the state of its tank forces. The author pays the main attention to the organizational measures carried out in 1939-41. in ABTV, but statistics are not forgotten either. So, in the appendices based on the materials of the RGASPI, tables of the availability of tanks in the Red Army by type and district for 15.09.40/1.01.41/1.04.41, 1.06.41, 1930 and 44 are compiled, the production of armored vehicles in the USSR in 1-1934 is highlighted. In addition, information is given on the types of tanks available in the Red Army for different dates, starting from January 1989, XNUMX. But the manning of the mechanized corps at M. Meltyukhov by the beginning of the war, unfortunately, is secondary and repeats the data of Colonel V.P. Krikunov XNUMX g.
A serious approach to the study of the problem of the number of armored forces of the Red Army in 1941 is demonstrated by such authors as Maksim Kolomiets and Yevgeny Drig, who in their works consider in great detail the quantitative and qualitative composition of almost every mechanized corps of the pre-war Red Army. Maxim Kolomiets gives the following figures for the presence of armored vehicles in two mechanized corps of PribOVO [16]:
mk. | 3 Mechanic Corps | 12 Mechanic Corps |
---|---|---|
KB-1 | 32 | - |
KB-2 | 19 | - |
T-34 | 50 | - |
T-28 | 57 | - |
BT-7 | 431 | 242 |
T-26 of all types | 53 | 497 |
T-27 | - | 8 |
Other foreign tanks | - | 59* |
Total: | 642 | 806 |
* - from the composition of the former armies of the Baltic states
A unique collection of documents on tank forces was published in 2004, it is called the Main Armored Directorate. Several interesting documents were published in it, incl. the report of the head of the GABTU, Lieutenant-General Fedorenko, who gave the total number of tanks in mechanized corps and individual divisions on June 1, 1941
At the same time, the most complete data is contained in E. Drig in his book “The Mechanized Corps of the Red Army in Battle” released in the “Unknown Wars” series by AST in 2005. Yevgeny Drig used all available sources, including the appendix to the report of the head of GABTU, Lieutenant General Fedorenko. Naturally, we are primarily interested in the mechanized corps of the border districts. So let's start from north to south.
LenVO
1 th mechanized corps, district subordination. The Pskov Corps Department, 31348 personnel, or 87% of the state. Armored vehicles fully equipped. On 22 June, there are no new types of tanks in the corps. On 22.06.41 tanks available:
Total | BT-5 | BT-7 | Total BT | T-26 | HT | T-28 | BA | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mehkorpus | 1039 | 187 | - | - | - | 104 | - | - |
1-I TD | 370 | 89 | 176 | 265 | 18 + 50 XT-26 | - | 38 | 53 |
3-I TD | 338 | - | 232 | 232 | 68 (70) | - | 38 (40) | 74 |
163-I MD | - | 25 | - | - | 229 | - | - | - |
10th Mechanized Corps, 23rd Army. Office of the corps in New Peterhof, personnel 26065, or 72% of the state. On 22.06.41 there are tanks:
Total | BT-2 | BT-5 | T-26 | T-26 | HT | T-38 | T-27 | BA | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mehkorpus | - | 139 | 142 | - | - | 38 | - | - | - |
21-I TD | 201 (217) | - | - | 177 | 9 | 38 | - | - | 41 |
24-I TD | 282 | 139 | 142 | 3 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 45 |
198-I MD | ? | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
1-th MK was one of the most powerful mobile connections of the Red Army. In addition, it was a “exemplary” mechanized corps, which has always been the focus of attention of the leadership. The two mechanized corps of the Leningrad Military District numbered about 1540 tanks.
Pribovo
3 th mechanized corps, 11 th army. The Vilnius Corps Administration, 31975 personnel, or 87% of the state. On 20.06.41 tanks are available:
Total | KB-1 | KB-2 | T-34 | T-28 | BT-7 | T-26 | HT | BA-10 | BA-20 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mehkorpus | 669 | 32 | 19 | 50 | 57 | 431 | 41 | 12 | 166 | 58 |
Management | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 5 |
2-I TD | 252 | 32 | 19 | - | 27 | 116 | 19 | 12 | 63 | 27 |
5-I TD | 268 | - | - | 50 | 30 | 170 | 18 | - | 56 | 20 |
84-I MD | 149 | - | - | - | - | 145 | 4 | - | 42 | 6 |
12th Mechanized Corps, 8th Army. Directorate of the Shauliai corps (from 18.06.41), personnel of 29998, or 83% of the staff. As of 22.06.41, there are tanks:
Total | BT-7 | T-26 | Fiat xnumx | Renault FT-17 | Wedges | HT | T-26 tractor | Vikkers | BA-10 | BA-20 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mehkorpus | 806 | 242 | 483 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 10 | 4 | 42 | 23 | 73 |
Management | 6 | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 18 |
23-I TD | 381 | - | 350 | - | - | 2 | 9 | 3 | 17 | 5 | 15 |
28-I TD | 314 | 236 | 68 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 9 | 15 | 25 |
202-I MD | 105 | - | 65 | 6 | 6 | 11 | - | 1 | 16 | 3 | 15 |
Thus, in the two mechanized corps of Pribovo there were 1475 tanks available (without tankettes and BA).
SOBOVO
6th Mechanized Corps, 10th Army. Office of the Corps of Bialystok, personnel 24005, or 67% of the state. On 22.06.41 there are tanks:
Total | T-26 | BT-2 | BT-5 | BT-5 / 7 | T-34 | HF | HT | other | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mehkorpus | 1021 (1031) | 126 | 30 | 37 | 416 | 238 (239) | 113 (114) | 44 | 127 |
4-I TD | ND * | nd | nd | nd | nd | 88 | 63 | nd | nd |
7-I TD | 368 | 42 | - | 37 | 125 | 150 | 51 | - | - |
29-I MD | nd | nd | nd | nd | nd | nd | nd | nd | nd |
*- no data
According to some reports, the corps also had T-28 tanks (included in the number of T-34) and KV-2 (included in the number of KV).
11th Mechanized Corps, 3rd Army. Directorate of the Volkovysk corps, personnel of 21605, or 60% of the state. On 22.06.41 there are tanks:
Total | HF | T-34 | BT | T-26 | HT | T-26 tractor | BA-10 | BA-20 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mehkorpus | 241 | 3 | 28 | 44 | 141 | 19 (20) | 6 | 96 | 45 |
29-I TD | 66 | 2 | 26 | - | 22 | 16 | - | 38 | 20 |
33-I TD | 118 | 1 | 2 | 44 | 65 | 2 | 4 | 47 | 25 |
204-I MD | 57 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
13th Mechanized Corps, 10th Army. Office of the Corps of Biala Podlaska, personnel 17809, or 49% of the state. On 22.06.41 there are tanks:
Total | BT | T-26 | T-26 double-tower | HT | T-37 / 38 / 40 | T-26 tractor | BA-10 | BA-20 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mehkorpus | 295 | 15 | 196 | 48 | 19 (20) | 16 | 1 | 29 | 5 |
Management | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
25-I TD | 228 | - | 175 | 30 | 18 | 5 | - | 1 | 2 |
31-I TD | 40 | - | 20 | 18 | 1 | - | 1 | 15 | 3 |
208-I MD | 27 | 15 | 1 | - | - | 11 | - | 12 | - |
14 th mechanized corps, 4 th army. Management Corps Kobrin, 15550 personnel, or 43% of the state.
Total | T-26 | HT | BT | T-37 / 38 / 40 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mehkorpus | 534 | 528 (of which 14 tractors) | 25 | 6 | 10 |
Management | 6 | - | - | 6 | - |
22-I TD | 256 | 251 | - | - | 5 |
30-I TD | 211 | 211 | - | - | - |
205-I MD | 61 | 56 | - | - | 5 |
17 th mechanized corps, district subordination. Management Corps Baranavichy, 16578 personnel, or 46% of the state. On 22.06.41 tanks available:
Total | BT | T-26 | HT | T-37 / 38 / 40 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mehkorpus | 36 | 24 | 1 | 2 | 11 |
27-I TD | 9 | 9 | - | - | - |
36-I TD | 27 | 15 | 1 | - | 11 |
209-I MD | - | - | - | - | - |
20 th mechanized corps, district subordination. The Borisov Corps Department, 20389 personnel, or 57% of the state. On 22.06.41 tanks available:
Total | T-26 | HT | BT | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mehkorpus | 93 | 80 | 3 | 13 |
26-I TD | 44 | 31 | - | 13 |
38-I TD | 43 | 43 | - | - |
210-I MD | 6 | 6 | - | - |
Thus, there were 2220 tanks in six ZAPOV mechanized corps. And only one of the six mechanized corps had a regular number of tank fleet, namely the 6-th MK of the 10-th army. 17-th and 20-th mechanized corps are generally difficult to consider as units of tank forces. Rather, it is educational units. Not much better things were in 13-m and 11-m MK. Both the one and the other were from the strength of a tank division. Tanks of new types in a significant amount were also received only in the 6-th MK, the material part of the other buildings consisted mainly of tanks T-26 and BT various modifications.
Cova
4th Mechanized Corps, 6th Army. Office of the corps in Lviv, personnel 28097, or 78% of the state. The corps attracts attention primarily because of its commander, the infamous General Vlasov. However, in fact, the 4th MK is interesting to others: the corps QUALITATIVELY was the strongest mobile unit of the Red Army in June 1941. Although the quantitative estimates of the tank fleet of the corps do not coincide in various sources. On 22.06.41 there are tanks:
Total | T-40 | T-26 | HT | T-27 | BT-7 | Total BT | T-28 | T-34 | HF | Total T-34 and KV | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mekhkorpus * | 892, (950), (979) | 13 | 103 | 23 | 38 | 62 | 290 | 75 | 313 (327) | 89 (101) | 414 |
8-I TD | 325 | - | 36 | - | - | 31 | - | 68 | 140 | 50 | - |
32-I TD | 361 | - | 70 | - | 38 | 31 | - | nd | 173 | 49 | - |
81-I MD | 283 | 13 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
* Total number of tanks in the hull: 892 according to A. Isaev, 950 according to the Kiev Museum of the Second World War, 979 according to the book "1941 Year - Lessons and Conclusions". - M .: Military Publishing, 1992.
8 th mechanized corps, 26 th army. The Drohobych Corps Department, 31927 personnel, or 89% of the state. A very powerful compound is the hero of the counterstroke on Dubno. On 22 June available tanks:
Total | HT | SU-5 | BT-2 | BT-5 | T-34 | T-35 | HF | T-26 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mehkorpus | 858 * (899) (932) | 50 | 2 | 14 | 109 | 100 | 48 | 71 (69 HF-1 and 2 HF-2) | 344 |
12-I TD | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
34-I TD | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 48 | 6 HF-2 (?) | - |
7-I MD | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
* Total number of tanks in the hull: 858 according to A. Isaev, 899 according to the book "1941 year - lessons and conclusions." - M .: Voenizdat, 1992, 932, according to the memoirs of l. DI. Ryabyshev.
9th Mechanized Corps of District Subordination. Office of the corps in Novograd-Volynsk, personnel 26833, or 74% of the staff. Tanks available for June 22:
Total | T-37 | T-26 | HT | BT | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mehkorpus | 300 | - | - | 4 | - |
20-I TD | 36 | - | 3 | 3 | 30 BT-5 |
35-I TD | 142 | - | 141 | 1 | - |
131-I MD | 122 | 18 | - | - | 104 |
15 th mechanized corps, 6 th army. The Office of the Brody Corps, 33935 personnel, or 94% of the state. On 22 June available tanks:
Total | HF | T-34 | T-28 | BT-7 | T-26 | HT | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mehkorpus | 733 (749) | 64 | 72 | 51 | 439 | 44 | 9 |
10-I TD | 363 | 63 | 38 | 51 | 181 | 22 | 8 |
37-I TD | 316 | 1 | 34 | - | 258 | 22 | 1 |
212-I MD | ? | - | - | - | - | - | - |
16 th mechanized corps, 12 th army. The head office of the Kamenetz-Podolsk Corps, 26380 personnel, or 73% of the state. On 22 June available tanks:
Total | T-28 | BT | T-26 | HT | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mehkorpus | 680 (608) | 75 | 360 | 214 | 31 (32) |
15-I TD | 347 | 75 | - | - | - |
39-I TD | 209 | - | - | 196 | 13 |
240-I MD | 112 | - | - | - | - |
19th District Mechanized Corps. Directorate of the corps of Berdichev, personnel 22654, or 63% of the state. Tanks available for June 22:
Total | T-26 | HT | T-34 | HF | KV and T-34 | other | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mehkorpus | 280 (453) | 291 | 47 | 2 (9) | 5 | 7 (14) | 152 |
40-I TD | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
43-I TD | - | - | - | > = 5 | - | - | - |
213-I MD | - | - | - | - | - | - |
22nd Mechanized Corps, 5th Army. Office of the Corps of Rivne, personnel of 24087, or 67% of the staff. Tanks available for June 22:
Total | KB-2 | BT | T-26 | HT | T-37 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mehkorpus | 707 | 31 | 163 | 464 | 49 | - |
19-I TD | 163 | - | 34 | 122 | 7 | - |
41-I TD | 415 | 31 | - | 342 | 41 | 1 |
215-I MD | 129 | - | 129 | - | - |
24th Mechanized Corps of District Subordination. Office of the Corps of the city of Proskurov, personnel of 21556, or 60% of the state. Tanks available for June 22:
Total body | 222* | 4 XT |
---|---|---|
45-I TD | ? | ? |
49-I TD | ? | ? |
216-I MD | ? | ? |
* On 30.06.41 available: BT-7 glad. - 10, T-26 pleased. - 52, T-26 ling. - 70, T-26 dvuhbash. - 43, XT - 3, T-27 - 7. Total 185 tanks and tank shoes.
Thus, in eight mechanized KOVO hulls on 22 June from 4672 tanks to 4950 tanks according to different sources. Moreover, two of the five most powerful mechanized corps are deployed precisely in KOVO.
OdVO
2nd Mechanized Corps, 9th Army. Office of the Corps of Tiraspol, personnel 32396, or 90% of the state. Tanks available for June 22:
Total | HF | T-34 | BT | T-26 | BA | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mehkorpus | 450 | 10 | 50 | 318 | 62 | 185 |
Management | - | - | - | - | 6 | 20 |
11-I TD | 193 | 10 | 50 | 117 | 56 | 73 |
16-I TD | 90 | - | - | 34 | - | 51 |
15-I MD | 167 | - | - | 167 | - | 4 |
18th Mechanized Corps, 9th Army. Office of the corps of Ackerman, personnel of 26879, or 75% of the state. Tanks available for June 22:
Total | BT | T-26 | T-37 / 38 | HT | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mehkorpus | 282 (280) | 106 (BT-5 - 14) | 150 (153) | 14 (29) | 12 |
44-I TD | ? | - | - | - | - |
47-I TD | ? | - | - | - | - |
218-I MD | ? | - | - | - | - |
Therefore, in two mechanized corps of OdVO in the presence of the entire 732 tank. That given the minority of the county is not surprising.
In all the mechanized corps of border districts from 10639 to 10917 combat vehicles (although of these, the 3 tank belonged to the 4 and 2232 category). And this is only in mechanized buildings, without taking into account other parts and formations that were armed with tanks.
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