24th Mechanized Corps (Soviet Union)

24th Mechanized Corps
24th Mechanized Corps
Active	1941
Country	Soviet Union
Branch	Red Army
Type	Mechanized corps
Engagements	World War II Battle of Uman;
Commanders
Notable; commanders	Vladimir Chistyakov

The 24th Mechanized Corps (Military Unit Number 7161) was a mechanized corps of the Red Army, active from spring 1941 to late 1941. On June 22, 1941, at the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, it was located at Proskurov in the Kiev Special Military District.^[1]

The corps commander was Maj. Gen. Vladimir Chistyakov. Its chief of staff was Colonel Alexander Danilov, who died in the Uman Pocket. The corps' three divisions were seemingly destroyed at Uman in August 1941.^[2]

Units

45th Tank Division (Military Unit Number 1703)

Commander - Brigade Commander, with 08/12/41, Major General Mikhail Solomatin. Deputy Head of the Political Department - Battalion Commissar Vinogradov Vakhrouchev.

89 Tank Regiment - military unit number 1727
90 Tank Regiment - military unit number 1731
45 motorized infantry regiment - military unit number 1720
45 Howitzer Artillery Regiment - military unit number 1737
Other units: (air defence divizion - military unit number 1717, intelligence battalion - military unit number 1705, pontoon battalion - military unit number 1737, separate communications battalion - military unit number 1709, medical sanitary battalion - military unit number 1812, motor transport battalion - military unit number 1802, repair and restoration battalion - military unit number 1807 regulation company - military unit number 1713, field bakery - military unit number 1824)

49th Tank Division (Military Unit Number 9405)

Commander - Colonel Konstantin Shvetsov. Artillery commander - Colonel Nicanor Nikanorovich Lyubimov (died in captivity)

97 Tank Regiment - military unit number 9513
98 Tank Regiment - military unit number 9528
49 motorized infantry regiment - military unit number 9493
49 Howitzer Artillery Regiment - military unit number 9554
other units (air defence divizion - military unit number 9483, intelligence battalion - military unit number 9421, pontoon battalion - military unit number 9578, separate communications battalion - military unit number 9442, medical sanitary battalion - military unit number 9606, motor transport battalion - military unit number 9586, repair and restoration battalion - military unit number 9597, regulation company - military unit number 9461, field bakery - military unit number 9622)

216th Motorized Division (Military Unit Number 9250)

Commander - Colonel Ashot Sargsyan Sarkisovich. Head of engineering department - Ivan Lebedev.

647 motorized infantry regiment - military unit number 9262
665 motorized infantry regiment - military unit number 9273
134 Tank Regiment - military unit number 9282
656 Artillery Regiment - military unit number 9276
42 separate antitank battalion - military unit number 9319
215 separate anti-aircraft artillery battalion - military unit number 9306
290 Reconnaissance Battalion - military unit number 9291
370 easy-to- engineer battalion - military unit number 9302
590 separate communications battalion - military unit number 9297
214 artillery park division - military unit number 9348
356 medical and sanitary battalion - military unit number 9324
685 Motor Transport Battalion - military unit number 9357
160 repair and refurbishment battalion - military unit number 9342
34 company regulation - military unit number 9365
460 Field Bakery - military unit number 9329
725 Field postal station
586 Field ticket office of the State Bank

Corps troops

17 Motorcycle Regiment - military unit number 7145
551 separate communications battalion - military unit number 7372
81 separate motoinzhenerny battalion - military unit number 7431
124 separate Corps Air Squadron - military unit number 5601

References

^ Drig, Yevgeny (6 January 2012). "24 механизированный корпус" [24th Mechanized Corps]. mechcorps.rkka.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2013-06-24. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
^ Glantz, Stumbling Colossus, p. 231.

[:0-1] Drig, Yevgeny (6 January 2012). "24 механизированный корпус" [24th Mechanized Corps]. mechcorps.rkka.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2013-06-24. Retrieved 21 August 2016.

[2] Glantz, Stumbling Colossus, p. 231.

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