Order of battle for Operation Barbarossa

German advances during the opening phases of Operation Barbarossa

This is the order of battle for Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. It was fought between the German led Axis Forces and the Soviet Forces. The Operations started on June 22, 1941 and ended on December 5, 1941 at the conclusion of Operation Typhoon.

Axis

German Army Group North^[1]

Commanded by Feldmarshal Wilhelm von Leeb (Chief of Staff - Lt.Gen. Kurt Brennecke)

German Sixteenth Army Colonel General Ernst Busch II Corps - General of Infantry Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt 12th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach 32nd Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Wilhelm Bohnstedt 121st Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Otto Lancelle X Corps - General of Infantry Christian Hansen 30th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Kurt von Tippelskirch 126th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Paul Laux XXVIII Corps - General of Infantry Mauritz von Wiktorin 122nd Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Siegfried Macholz 123rd Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Walter Lichel

German Eighteenth Army Colonel General Georg von Küchler (Chief of Staff - Maj.Gen. Kurt Waeger) XXVI Corps - General of Artillery Albert Wodrig 61st Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Siegfried Haenicke 217th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Richard Baltzer 291st Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Kurt Herzog XXXVIII Corps - General of Infantry Friedrich-Wilhelm von Chappuis 58th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Karl von Graffen 254th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Walter Behschnitt I Corps - General of Infantry Kuno-Hans von Both 1st Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Philipp Kleffel 11th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Herbert von Böckmann 21st Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Otto Sponheimer

Panzergruppe 4 Colonel General Erich Hoepner (Chief of Staff - Colonel Walter Chales de Beaulieu) XXXXI Corps (mot.) - General of Panzer Georg Hans Reinhardt 1st Panzer Division - Lt.Gen. Friedrich Kirchner 6th Panzer Division - Lt.Gen. Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma 269th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Ernst von Leyser 36th Infantry Division (mot.) - Lt.Gen. Otto-Ernst Ottenbacher LVI Corps (mot.) - General of Infantry Erich von Manstein 8th Panzer Division - Lt.Gen. Erich Brandenberger 3rd Infantry Division (mot.) - Lt.Gen. Curt Jahn 290th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Theodor Freiherr von Wrede SS-Totenkopf Division - SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Theodor Eicke, on 7. July Matthias Kleinheisterkamp

Army Group assets and reserves[2] XXIII Corps (Army Group Reserve) 251th Infantry Division 206th Infantry Division L Corps (OKH reserve Behind AG North) 86th Infantry Division SS Police Division Army Group rear lines 207th Security Division 281st Security Division 285th Security Division

German Army Group Center^[3]

Commanded by Feldmarshal Fedor von Bock (Chief of Staff - Maj.Gen. Hans von Greiffenberg)

German Fourth Army Colonel General Günther von Kluge VII Corps - General of Artillery Wilhelm Fahrmbacher 7th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Eccard Freiherr von Gablenz 23rd Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Heinz Hellmich 258th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Waldemar Henrici 268th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Erich Straube IX Corps - General of Infantry Hermann Geyer 137th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Friedrich Bergmann 263rd Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Ernst Haeckel 292nd Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Martin Dehmel XIII Corps - General of Infantry Hans Felber 17th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Herbert Loch 78th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Curt Gallenkamp XXXXIII Corps - General of Infantry Gotthard Heinrici 131st Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Heinrich Meyer-Buerdorf 134th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Conrad von Cochenhausen 252nd Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Diether von Boehm-Bezing

German Ninth Army Colonel General Adolf Strauß V Corps - General of Infantry Richard Ruoff 5th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Karl Allmendinger 35th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Walther Fischer von Weikersthal VI Corps - General of Pioneer Otto-Wilhelm Förster 6th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Helge Auleb 26th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Walter Weiss VIII Corps - General of Artillery Walter Heitz 8th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Gustav Höhne 28th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Johann Sinnhuber 161st Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Hermann Wilck XX Corps - General of Infantry Friedrich Materna 162nd Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Hermann Franke 256th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Gerhard Kauffmann

Panzergruppe 2 Colonel General Heinz Guderian XII Corps - General of Infantry Walther Schroth 31st Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Kurt Kalmukoff 34th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Hans Behlendorff 45th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Fritz Schlieper XXIV Corps (mot.) - General of Panzer Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg 3rd Panzer Division - Lt.Gen. Walter Model 4th Panzer Division - Lt.Gen. Willibald Freiherr von Langermann und Erlencamp 10th Infantry Division (mot.) - Lt.Gen. Friedrich-Wilhelm von Loeper 1st Cavalry Division - Lt.Gen. Kurt Feldt 255th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Wilhelm Wetzel 267th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Robert Martinek XXXXVI Corps (mot.) - General of Infantry Heinrich von Vietinghoff 10th Panzer Division - Lt.Gen. Ferdinand Schaal SS-Reich Division - SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Paul Hausser Infantry Regiment Großdeutschland - Maj.Gen. Wilhelm-Hunert von Stockhausen XXXXVII Corps (mot.) - General of Panzer Joachim Lemelsen 17th Panzer Division - Lt.Gen. Hans-Jürgen von Arnim 18th Panzer Division - Lt.Gen. Walther Nehring 29th Infantry Division (mot.) - Lt.Gen. Walter von Boltenstern 167th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Hans Schönhärl

Panzergruppe 3 Colonel General Hermann Hoth XXXIX Corps (mot.) - General of Panzer Rudolf Schmidt 7th Panzer Division - Lt.Gen. Hans Freiherr von Funck 20th Panzer Division - Lt.Gen. Horst Stumpff 14th Infantry Division (mot.) - Lt.Gen. Friedrich Fürst 20th Infantry Division (mot.) - Lt.Gen. Hans Zorn LVII Corps (mot.) - General of Panzer Adolf-Friedrich Kuntzen 12th Panzer Division - Lt.Gen. Josef Harpe 19th Panzer Division - Lt.Gen. Otto von Knobelsdorff 18th Infantry Division (mot.) - Lt.Gen. Friedrich Herrlein

German Army Group South ^[4]

Commanded by Feldmarshal Gerd von Rundstedt (Chief of Staff - Lt.Gen. Georg von Sodenstern)

German Sixth Army Colonel General Walther von Reichenau XVII Corps - General of Infantry Werner Kienitz 56th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Karl von Oven 62nd Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Walter Keiner XXIX Corps - General of Infantry Hans von Obstfelder 44th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Friedrich Siebert 111th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Otto Stapf 299th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Willi Moser XXXXIV Corps - General of Infantry Friedrich Koch 9th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Siegmund Freiherr von Schleinitz 297th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Max Pfeffer LV Corps - General of Infantry Erwin Vierow 75th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Ernst Hammer 57th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Oskar Blümm 168th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Hans Mundt 298th Infantry Division - Mj.Gen. Walther Graeßner Panzergruppe 1 Colonel General Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist III Corps (mot.) - General of Cavalry Eberhard von Mackensen 13th Panzer Division - Lt.Gen. Friedrich-Wilhelm von Rothkirch und Panthen 14th Panzer Division - Lt.Gen. Friedrich Kühn 25th Infantry Division (mot.) - Lt.Gen. Erich-Heinrich Clößner XIV Corps (mot.) - General of Infantry Gustav Anton von Wietersheim 9th Panzer Division - Lt.Gen. Alfred Ritter von Hubicki SS-Division (mot.) Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler - SS-Obergruppenführer Sepp Dietrich SS-Wiking Division - SS-Brigadeführer Felix Steiner XXXXVIII Corps (mot.) - General of Panzer Werner Kempf 11th Panzer Division - Lt.Gen. Ludwig Crüwell 16th Panzer Division - Lt.Gen. Hans-Valentin Hube 16th Infantry Division (mot.) - Lt.Gen. Sigfrid Henrici

German Seventeenth Army Colonel General Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel IV Corps - General of Infantry Viktor von Schwedler 24th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Hans von Tettau 71st Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Alexander von Hartmann 262nd Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Edgar Theißen 295th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Herbert Geitner 296th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Wilhelm Stemmermann XXXXIX Mountain Corps - General of Infantry Ludwig Kübler 68th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Georg Braun 257th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Karl Sachs 1st Mountain Division - Lt.Gen. Hubert Lanz LII Corps - General of Infantry Kurt von Briesen 101st Light Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Erich Marcks 97th Light Infantry Division - Mj.Gen. Maximilian Fretter-Pico 100th Light Infantry Division - Mj.Gen. Werner Sanne Hungarian Fast Corps - Gen. Béla Miklós 1st Hungarian Motorized Brigade - Bg.Gen. Jenő Major 2nd Hungarian Motorized Brigade - Bg.Gen. János Vörös 1st Hungarian Cavalry Brigade - Bg.Gen Lajos Veress Slovakian Expeditionary Group - Gen. Ferdinand Čatloš Slovakian Mobile Brigade - LTC. Rudolf Pilfousek 1st Slovakian Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Antonin Pulanich 2nd Slovakian Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Alexandr Čunderlik

Romanian Army Group Antonescu General Ion Antonescu Romanian Third Army - Lt.Gen. Petre Dumitrescu Romanian 4th Army Corps - Mj. Gen. Constantin Sănătescu 6th Infantry Division - Br.Gen. Romulus Ioanovici 7th Infantry Division- Br.Gen. Olimpiu Stavrat Cavalry Corps - Mj. Gen. Ioan Mihail Racoviţă 5th Cavalry Brigade - Col. Vasile Mainescu 8th Cavalry Brigade - Col. Ioan Danescu Mountain Corps - Mj.Gen. Gheorghe Avramescu 1st Mountain Brigade - Br.Gen. Mihail Lascăr 2nd Mountain Brigade - Br.Gen. Ioan Dumitrache 4th Mountain Brigade - Br.Gen. Gheorghe Manoliu

German Eleventh Army Colonel General Eugen Ritter von Schobert XI Corps - General of Infantry Joachim von Kortzfleisch 76th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Maximilian de Angelis 239th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Ferdinand Neuling 1st Romanian Armored Division - Bg.Gen. Ioan Sion 6th Romanian Cavalry Brigade - Mg.Gen. Aurel Racoviţă XXX Corps - General of Infantry Hans von Salmuth 198th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Otto Röttig 8th Romanian Infantry Division - Bg.Gen. Alexandru Orasanu 13th Romanian Infantry Division - Bg.Gen. Gheorghe Rozin 14th Romanian Infantry Division - Bg.Gen. Gheorghe Stavrescu LIV Corps - General of Cavalry Erick-Oskar Hansen 50th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Karl-Adolf Hollidt 170th Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Walter Wittke 5th Romanian Infantry Division - Bg.Gen. Petre Vlasescu Italian Expeditionary Corps - Lt.Gen.Giovanni Messe 9th Italian Motorized Infantry Division - Gen. Vittorio Giovanelli 52nd Italian Motorized Infantry Division - Gen. Luigi Manzi 3rd Italian Cavalry Division - Gen. Mario Marazzani 22nd Infantry Division - Lt.Gen. Hans Graf von Sponeck

Romanian Fourth Army - Lt.Gen. Nicolae Ciupercă Romanian 3rd Army Corps - Mj.Gen. Vasile Atanasiu Guards Division - Mj.Gen. N. Sova 15th Infantry Division - Mj.Gen. Cosma Marin Popescu 35th Reserve Divisions - Br.Gen. Emil Procopiescu Romanian 5th Army Corps - Lt.Gen. Gheorghe Leventi Border Division - Br.Gen. Potopeanu Potopeanu 21st Division - Mj.Gen. Cristache Popescu Romanian 11th Army Corps - Mj.Gen. I. Aurelian two fortress brigades Other assets Romanian 2nd Army Corps - Mj.Gen. Nicolae Macici 9th Infantry Division - Br.Gen. Hugo Schwab 10th Infantry Division - Br.Gen. Ion Glogojanu 7th Cavalry Brigade - Col. Gheorghe Savoiu 11th Infantry Division - Br.Gen. David Popescu

Soviet

Stavka

The "Main Command of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (Stavka Glavnogo Komandovaniya) was formed on 23 June, largely from the existing People's Commissariat for Defence.

Commander in Chief: Marshal Semyon Timoshenko (until July 19), then Josef Stalin
Deputy Commander-in-Chief: Army General Georgy Zhukov (from August 8)
Chief of the General Staff: Army General Georgy Zhukov (until July 21), then Marshal Boris Shaposhnikov

16th Army Lieutenant General Mikhail Lukin 32nd Rifle Corps - Major General Trofim Kolomiets 46th Rifle Division - Major General Alexander Filatov 152nd Rifle Division - Colonel Pyotr Chernyshov 5th Mechanized Corps - Major General Ilya Alexeyenko 13th Tank Division - Colonel F.W. Grachev 17th Tank Division - Colonel Ivan Korchagin 109th Motor Rifle Division - Colonel Nikolai Krasnoretsky

19th Army Lieutenant General Ivan Konev 38th Rifle Division - Colonel Maxim Kirillov 25th Rifle Corps - Major General Sergey Chestohvalov 127th Rifle Division - Major General Timofey Korneyev 134th Rifle Division - Major General Vladimir Kuzmich Bazarov 162nd Rifle Division - Colonel Nikolai Kolkunov 34th Rifle Corps - Major General Raphael Khmelnitsky 129th Rifle Division - Major General Auxentios Gorodnyansky 158th Rifle Division - Colonel V.I. Novozhilov 171st Rifle Division - Major General Alexander Budyho

20th Army Lieutenant General Fedor Remezov 18th Rifle Division - Colonel Karp Sviridov 61st Rifle Corps - Major General Fedor Bakunin 110th Rifle Division - Colonel Vasily Khlebtsov 114th Rifle Division - Major General Mikhail Pronin 172nd Rifle Division - Major General Mikhail Timofeyevich Romanov 69th Rifle Corps - Major General Yevdokim Mogilovchik 73rd Rifle Division - Colonel Alexander Ivanovich Akimov 229th Rifle Division - Major General Mikhail Ivanovich Kozlov 233rd Rifle Division - Colonel Grigory Kotov 7th Mechanized Corps - Major General Vasily Ivanovich Vinogradov 14th Tank Division - Colonel Ivan Dmitrievich Vasilyev 1st Motor Rifle Division - Colonel Yakov Kreizer

21st Army Lieutenant General Vasyl Herasymenko 63rd Rifle Corps - Lieutenant General Leonid Petrovsky 53rd Rifle Division - Colonel Ivan Bartenev 148th Rifle Division - Colonel Filipp Cherokmanov 167th Rifle Division - Major General Vasily Rakovsky 66th Rifle Corps - Major General Fyodor Sudakov 61st Rifle Division - Major General Nikolay Prishchepa 117th Rifle Division - Colonel Spyridon Chernyugov 154th Rifle Division - Colonel Yakov Fokanov 25th Mechanized Corps - Major General Semyon Krivoshein 50th Tank Division - Colonel Boris Bakharov 55th Tank Division - Colonel Vasily Badanov 219th Motor Rifle Division - Major General Pavel Korzun

22nd Army 51st Rifle Corps 98th Rifle Division 112th Rifle Division 153rd Rifle Division 62nd Rifle Corps 170th Rifle Division 174th Rifle Division 186th Rifle Division

24th Army 52nd Rifle Corps 91st Rifle Division 119th Rifle Division 166th Rifle Division 53rd Rifle Corps 107th Rifle Division 133rd Rifle Division 178th Rifle Division

Northern Front^[5]

General Colonel Markian Popov

The front was the Leningrad Military District until 24 June.

7th Army (Separate) Lieutenant General Filip Danilovich Gorelenko[6] 54th Rifle Division - Maj. Gen. I.V. Panin 71st Rifle Division - Col. V.N. Fedorov 168th Rifle Division - Col. A.L. Bondarev 237th Rifle Division - Maj. Gen. D.F. Popov 55th Mixed Aviation Division - Colonel Alexander Bogradetsky

14th Army Lieutenant General Valerian A. Frolov 14th Rifle Division - Col. A.A. Zhurba 52nd Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. N.N. Nikishin 1st Tank Division - Mj.Gen. V.I. Baranov 42nd Rifle Corps - Major General Roman Ivanovich Panin 104th Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. S.I. Morozov 122nd Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. P.S. Shevchenko 1st Mixed Aviation Division

23rd Army Lieutenant General Pshennikov P.S. 19th Rifle Corps - Major General M.N. Gerasimov 142nd Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. S.P. Mikul’skii 115th Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. V.F. Kon’kov 50th Rifle Corps - Major General V.I. S'cherbakov 43rd Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. V.V. Kirpichnikov 123rd Rifle Division - Col. Ye.Ye. Tsukanov 10th Mechanized Corps - Major General I. G. Lazarev 21st Tank Division - Col. L.V. Bunin 24th Tank Division - Col. M.I. Chesnokov 198th Motor Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. V.V. Kryukov 5th Mixed Aviation Division 41st Bomber Aviation Division

Front Assets 177th Rifle Division - Col. A.F. Mashoshin 191th Rifle Division - Col. D.K. Luk’yanov 1st Mechanized Corps - Major General M. L. Cherniavsky 3rd Tank Division - Col. K.Yu. Andreev 163rd Motor Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. N.M. Kuznetsov Frontal aviation 2nd Mixed Aviation Division 39th Fighter Aviation Division 3rd PVO Fighter Aviation Division 54th PVO Fighter Aviation Division

Northwestern Front

General Colonel Fyodor Isodorovich Kuznetsov Source:^[7]

Baltic Special Military District until 22 June.

8th Army Lieutenant General P.P. Sobennikov 10th Rifle Corps - Major General I.F. Nikolaev 10th Rifle Division - Col. I.I. Fadeev 48th Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. P.V. Bogdanov 90th Rifle Division - Col. V.P. Evdokimov 11th Rifle Corps - Major General M.S. Shumilov 11th Rifle Division - Col. N.A. Sokolov 125th Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. P.P. Bogaichuk 12th Mechanized Corps - Major General N.M. Shestopalov 23rd Tank Division - Col. T.S. Orlenko 202nd Motor Rifle Division - Col. V.K. Gorbachev

11th Army Lieutenant General V. I. Morosov 23rd Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. V.F. Pavlov 126th Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. M.A. Kuznetsov 128th Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. A.S. Zotov 16th Rifle Corps - Major General F.S. Ivanov 5th Rifle Division - Col. F.P. Ozerov 33rd Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. K.A.Zheleznikov 188th Rifle Division - Col. P.I. Ivanov 29th Rifle Corps - Major General A.G. Samokhin 179th Rifle Division - Col. A.I. Ustinov 184th Rifle Division - Col. M.V. Vinogradov 3rd Mechanized Corps - Major General A.V. Kurkin 2nd Tank Division - Mj.Gen. E.N. Solyankin 5th Tank Division - Col. F.F. Fedorov 84th Motor Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. P.I. Fomenko

27th Army Lieutenant General N. E. Berzarin 16th Rifle Division - Maj.Gen. I.M. Lyubovtsev 67th Rifle Division - Maj.Gen. N.A. Dedaev 3rd Rifle Brigade 22nd Rifle Corps - Major General M.P. Dukhanov 180th Rifle Division - Col. I.I. Missan 182nd Rifle Division - Col. I.I. Kuryshev 24th Rifle Corps - Major General K. Kachalov 181st Rifle Division - Col. P.V. Borisov 183rd Rifle Division - Col. P.N. Tupikov

Front Assets 5th Airborne Corps - Major General Ivan Bezugly 9th Airborne Brigade 10th Airborne Brigade 201st Airborne Brigade Frontal aviation 57th Fighter Aviation Division 4th Mixed Aviation Division 6th Mixed Aviation Division 7th Mixed Aviation Division 8th Mixed Aviation Division 21st PVO Fighter Aviation Division

Western Front^[8]

General Colonel Dmitry Grigorevich Pavlov

Western Special Military District until 22 June.

3rd Army Lieutenant General Vasily Kuznetsov 4th Rifle Corps- Major General E. A. Jegorov 27th Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. A.M. Stepanov 56th Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. S.P. Sakhnov 85th Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. A.V. Bondovskii 11th Mechanized Corps - Major General D.K. Mostevenko 29th Tank Division - Col. N.P. Studnev 33rd Tank Division - Col. Mikhail Panov 204th Motor Rifle Division - Col. A.M. Pirogov

4th Army Lieutenant General Alexander A. Korobkov 49th Rifle Division - Col. C.F. Vasil’ev 75th Rifle Division - Col. Nedwigin 28th Rifle Corps - Major General V.S. Popov 6th Rifle Division - Col. M.A. Popsiu-Shapko 42nd Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. I.S. Lazarenko 14th Mechanized Corps - Major General S.I. Oborin 22nd Tank Division - Mj.Gen. V.P. Puganov 30th Tank Division - Col. Semen Bogdanov 205th Motor Rifle Division - Col. F.F. Kudjurov

10th Army Lieutenant General K. D. Golubev 1st Rifle Corps - Major General F.D. Rubtzov 2nd Rifle Division - Col. M.D. Grishin 8th Rifle Division - Col. N.I. Fomin 5th Rifle Corps - Major General A.V. Garnov 13th Rifle Division - Col. A.Z. Naumov 86th Rifle Division - Col. M.A. Zashibalov 113th Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. Kh.N. Alaverdov 6th Cavalry Corps - Major General I.S. Nikitin 6th Cavalry Division - Mj.Gen. M.P. Konstantinov 36th Cavalry Division - Mj.Gen. E.S. Zybin 6th Mechanized Corps - Major General M.G. Khatskilevich 4th Tank Division - Mj.Gen. A.G. Potaturchev 7th Tank Division - Mj.Gen. S.V. Borzilov 29th Motor Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. I.P. Bikdjanov 13th Mechanized Corps - Major General P.N. Akhliustin 25th Tank Division - Col. N.M. Nikiforov 31st Tank Division - Col. S.A. Kalikhovich 208th Motor Rifle Division - Col. V.I. Nichiporovich

Front Assets 2nd Rifle Corps - Major General A.N. Ermakov 100th Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. I.N. Russiyanov 161st Rifle Division - Col. A.I. Mikhailov 21st Rifle Corps - Major General V.B. Borisov 17th Rifle Division - Col. T.K. Batsanov 24th Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. K.N. Galitskii 37th Rifle Division - Col. A.E. Chekharin 44th Rifle Corps - Major General V.A. Yushkevich 64th Rifle Division - Col. S.I. Iovlev 108th Rifle Division 47th Rifle Corps - Major General S.I. Povetkin 50th Rifle Division - Col. V.P. Evdokimov 55th Rifle Division - Col. D.I. Ivanyuk 121st Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. P.M. Zykov 143rd Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. D.P. Safonov 4th Airborne Corps - Major General A.S. Zhandov 7th Airborne Brigade 8th Airborne Brigade 214th Airborne Brigade 17th Mechanized Corps - Major General M.P. Petrov 27th Tank Division - Col. A.O. Akhmanov 36th Tank Division - Col. S.Z. Miroshnikov 209th Motor Rifle Division - Col. A.I. Murav'ev 20th Mechanized Corps - Major General A.G. Nikitin 26th Tank Division - Mj.Gen. V.T. Obukhov 38th Tank Division - Col. S.I. Kapustin 210th Motor Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. F.A. Parkhomenko Frontal aviation 43rd Fighter Aviation Division 12th Bomber Aviation Division 13th Bomber Aviation Division 9th Mixed Aviation Division 10th Mixed Aviation Division 11th Mixed Aviation Division 184th PVO Fighter Aviation Division Additionally 59th and 60th Fighter Aviation Divisions were forming.

Southwestern Front^[9]

General Colonel Mikhail Kirponos

Kiev Special Military District until 22 June.

5th Army Lieutenant General M.I. Potapov 15th Rifle Corps - Major General Ivan Fedyuninsky 45th Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. G.I. Sherstyuk 62nd Rifle Division - Col. M.P. Timoshenko 27th Rifle Corps - Major General P.D. Artememko 87th Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. F.F. Alyabushev 124th Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. F.G. Sushii 135th Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. F.N. Smekhotvorov 22nd Mechanized Corps - Major General S.M. Kondrusev 19th Tank Division - Mj.Gen. K.A. Semenchenko 41st Tank Division - Col. P.P. Pavlov 215th Motor Rifle Division - Col. P.A. Barabanov Transferred to 5th Army from Front command on evening of June 22nd 9th Mechanized Corps - Major General K.K. Rokossovsky 20th Tank Division - Col. M.E. Katukov 35th Tank Division - Mj.Gen. N.A. Novikov 131st Motor Rifle Division - Col. N.V. Kalinin 19th Mechanized Corps - Major General N.V. Feklenko 40th Tank Division - Col. M.V. Shirobokov 43rd Tank Division - Col. I.G. Tsibin

6th Army Lieutenant General I.N. Muzyrchenko 6th Rifle Corps - Major General I.I. Alekseev 41st Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. G.N. Mikushev 97th Rifle Division - Col. N.M. Zakharov 159th Rifle Division - Col. I.A. Mashchenko 37th Rifle Corps - Major General S.P. Zibin 80th Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. V.I. Prokhorov 139th Rifle Division - Col. N.L. Loginov 141st Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. Ya.I. Tonkonogov 5th Cavalry Corps - Major General F.V. Kamkov 3rd Cavalry Division - Mj.Gen. M.F. Maleev 14th Cavalry Division - V.D. Kryuchenkin 4th Mechanized Corps - Major General Andrey Vlasov 8th Tank Division - Col. P.S. Fotchenkov 32nd Tank Division - Col. E.G. Pushkin 81st Motor Rifle Division - Col. P.M. Varipaev Transferred to 6th Army from 26th Army on evening of June 22nd 8th Mechanized Corps - Major General Dmitry Ryabyshev 12th Tank Division - Mj.Gen. T.A. Mishanin 34th Tank Division - Col. I.V. Vasil'ev 7th Motor Rifle Division - Col. A.G. Gerasimov Transferred to 6th Army from Front command on evening of June 22nd 15th Mechanized Corps - Major General I.I. Karpezo 10th Tank Division - Mj.Gen S.Ya. Ogurtsov 37th Tank Division - Col. F.G. Anikushkin 212th Motor Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. S.V. Baranov

12th Army Lieutenant General P.G. Ponedelin 13th Rifle Corps - Major General N.K. Kirillov 44th Mountain Division - Mj.Gen. S.A. Tkachenko 58th Mountain Division - Mj.Gen. N.I. Proshkin 192nd Mountain Division - Col. S.D. Gubin 17th Rifle Corps - Major General I.V. Galanin 60th Mountain Division - Mj.Gen. M.B. Salikhov 96th Mountain Division - Mj.Gen. I.M. Shepetov 164th Rifle Division - Col. A.N. Chervinskii 16th Mechanized Corps - Major General A.D. Sokolov 15th Tank Division - Col. V.I. Polozkov 39th Tank Division - Col. N.V. Starkov 240th Motor Rifle Division - Col. I.V. Gorbenko

26th Army Lieutenant General F. Ya. Kostenko 8th Rifle Corps - Major General M.G. Snegov 72nd Mountain Division - Mj.Gen. P.I. Abramidze 99th Rifle Division - Col. N.I.Dement'ev 173rd Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. S.V.Verzin

Front Assets 31st Rifle Corps - Major General Anton Lopatin 193rd Rifle Division - Col. A.K. Berestov 195th Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. V.N. Nesmelov 200th Rifle Division - Col. I.I. Ljudnikow 36th Rifle Corps - Major General P.V. Sisoev 140th Rifle Division - Col. L.G. Basanets 146th Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. I.M. Gerasimov 228th Rifle Division - Col. A.M. Il’in 49th Rifle Corps - Major General Ivan Alekseyevich Kornilov 190th Rifle Division - Col. G.A. Zverev 197th Rifle Division - Col. S.D. Gubin 199th Rifle Division - Col. A.N. Alekseev 55th Rifle Corps - Major General Konstantin Koroteev 130th Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. V.A. Vizzhili 169th Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. I.E. Turunov 189th Rifle Division - Combrig A.S. Chichkanov 1st Airborne Corps - Major General M.A. Usenko 1st Airborne Brigade 204th Airborne Brigade 211th Airborne Brigade 213rd Motor Rifle Division - Col. V.M.Osminskiy 24th Mechanized Corps - Major General A.V. Kurkin 45th Tank Division - Col. M.D. Solomatin 49th Tank Division - Col. K.F. Shvetsov 216th Motor Rifle Division - Col. A. Sarkisyan Frontal aviation 44th Fighter Aviation Division 64th Fighter Aviation Division 19th Bomber Aviation Division 62nd Bomber Aviation Division 14th Mixed Aviation Division 15th Mixed Aviation Division 16th Mixed Aviation Division 17th Mixed Aviation Division 63rd Mixed Aviation Division 36th PVO Fighter Aviation Division

Southern Front^[9]

General Colonel Ivan Tyulenev

9th Army(Separate) Lieutenant General Yakov Cherevichenko 14th Rifle Corps - Major General E.G. Egorov 25th Rifle Division - Col. A.S. Zakharchenko 51st Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. P.G. Tsirul’nikov 35th Rifle Corps - Major General I.F. Dashichev 95th Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. A.I. Pastrevich 176th Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. V.M.Martsinkevich 48th Rifle Corps - Major General Rodion Malinovsky 30th Mountain Division - Mj.Gen. S.G. Galaktionov 74th Rifle Division - Col. F.Ye. Sheverdin 150th Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. I.I. Khorun 2nd Cavalry Corps - Major General Pavel Alexeyevich Belov 5th Cavalry Division - Col. V.K. Baranov 9th Cavalry Division - Col. A.F. Bychkovsky 2nd Mechanized Corps - Major General Y.V. Novoselsky 11th Tank Division - Col. G.I. Kuzmin 16th Tank Division - Col. M.I. Mindro 15th Motor Rifle Division - Col. N.N. Belov 18th Mechanized Corps - Major General P.V. Volokh 44th Tank Division - Col. V.P. Krimov 47th Tank Division - Col. G.S. Rodin 218th Motor Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. F.N. Shilov 20th Mixed Aviation Division 21st Mixed Aviation Division 45th Mixed Aviation Division 65th Fighter Aviation Division (forming) 66th Fighter Aviation Division (forming)

Front Assets 7th Rifle Corps - Major General K.L. Dobroserdov 116th Rifle Division - Col. Ya.F. Eremenko 196th Rifle Division - Maj. Gen. K.E. Kulikov 206th Rifle Division - Col. S.I. Gorshkov 9th Rifle Corps - Major General Pavel Batov 106th Rifle Division - Combrig M.S. Tkachev 156th Rifle Division - Mj.Gen. P.V. Chernyaev 32nd Cavalry Division - Col. A.I. Batskalevich 3rd Airborne Corps - Major General Vasili Glazunov 5th Airborne Brigade - Colonel Alexander Rodimtsev 6th Airborne Brigade - Colonel Viktor Zholudev 212th Airborne Brigade - Colonel Ivan Zatevakhin 47th Rifle Division

Air Forces

Luftwaffe

The directive issued to the Luftwaffe for Barbarossa ordered that Luftflotte 2, under the command of Albert Kesselring was to be the strongest Air Fleet. Kesselring was assigned to supporting Army Group Centre, which was to capture Minsk, Smolensk and Moscow. Kesselring was given Fliegerkorps VIII (a specialised ground attack Corps, commanded by tactical specialist Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen), Fliegerkorps II (commanded by Bruno Loerzer) and the 1st Anti-Aircraft Corps (1st AA Corps under Walther von Axthelm). Army Group South was supported by Luftflotte 4, containing Fliegerkorps V (under Robert Ritter von Greim) and Fliegerkorps IV (under Kurt Pflugbeil). The Air Fleet and Army Group were responsible for capturing Kiev, the Crimea and the Caucasus oilfields. Army Group North was supported by Luftflotte 1, and Luftflotte 5. Luftflotte 5 conducted operations in the Arctic near Murmansk. Luftflotte 1 supported operations in the Baltic Sea, Baltic States and near, in and over Leningrad. Luftflotte 1 contained Fliegerkorps I under the command of Helmuth Förster.^[10]

Other Axis air forces

The Romanian Air Force was considered weak by the OKL, and therefore unlikely to play a great role in the ground fighting. Far more attention was given by the OKW to training and preparing the Romanian Army. Hitler, on 18 June 1941, declared that the primary mission of the Romanian air arm was to defend Romania and the Romanian oilfields. Only when those forces were sufficient, could they divert the remaining forces to ground support operations for Barbarossa. On 21 June 1941, it possessed a balanced fleet of 53 Squadrons; 11 bomber (five modern), 17 fighter (nine modern), 15 reconnaissance, six liaison, two flying boat, one transport and one air ambulance unit. On the 22 June, there was 160 fighters and 82 bombers in service. Total strength amounted to 380 aircraft. Only 30 of the Romanian fighters were Bf 109s, of the E model.^[11] However, this small force did not remain inferior in numbers for along. Despite a weak inter-war economy, the aircraft industry was run very efficiently, and they were able to produce some very capable aircraft; such as the IAR 37 and IAR 39. Unlike the army that stagnated, it was able to garner the cream of the Romanian officer corps. With the right support, organisation and modern equipment, it was able to grow in number and match its enemies in quality. In air defence and ground support operations it performed well, but failed in strategic bomber and naval operations owing to a lack of doctrine.^[12] Within a few weeks of Barbarossa beginning, it was able to put up 1,061 aircraft, including 400 trainers.^[13] The modern combat aircraft were focused into one unified Air Combat Command, or GAL (Gruparea Aeriana Lupta), while the obsolete types were given the Romanian Fourth Army, operating under the German Army Group South.^[14]

Soviet

Organisation

Since 1935, Soviet military aviation had been divided between the army (VVS KA) and the navy (VVS VMF). The VVS KA had been split into four different organisations owing to fulty conclusions drawn from the Winter War. Owing to a lack of coordination in close support operations with the Red Army, the entire VVS KA was subordinated to the field armies. The existence of too many different branches under separate commands in Soviet air power caused coordination problems (made worse by Axis bombing during Barbarossa). Most Soviet bomber units could not coordinate with fighter aviation, consequently they did not have fighter escort for long periods.^[15]

The total strength of the VVS amounted to 61 divisions; 18 fighter, nine bomber and 34 mixed. Five brigades were also included. The Front Air Forces were divided into Districts (later 'Fronts') and the home defence, the PVO. This element had 40.5 per cent of the Soviet air strength. The Army Air Forces comprised 43.7 per cent of the VVS' strength. The liaison squadrons were a collection of individual squadrons assigned to different army corps of the ground army (KAE). They comprised only 2.3 per cent.^[15]

The Soviet order of battle:

Leningrad and Baltic Fronts

VVS Leningrad Military District, later the VVS Northern Front 1st Composite Air Division (1st SAD), subordinate to the 14th Army 10 BAP (Bomber Aviation Regiment) 137 BAP 145th Fighter Aviation Regiment (145 IAP) 147 IAP 55th Composite Aviation Division (55 SAD) (subordinated to the 7th Army) 72 SBAP (High Speed Bomber Aviation Regiment) 153rd Fighter Aviation Regiment 5 SAD (subordinated to the 23rd Army) 7 IAP 159 IAP 158 IAP 41 SAD (subordinate to the 23rd Army) 201 SBAP 202 SBAP 205 SBAP 3rd Fighter Aviation Division (IAD) 19 Fighter Aviation Regiment (IAP) 44 IAP 54 IAD 26 IAP 157 IAP 311 RAP 2 SAD 2 SBAP SBAP 44 58 SBAP 65 ShAD (Ground Attack Aviation Division) 39 IAD 154 IAP 155 IAP 156 IAP The total strength of the front was 1,270 aircraft.[16]

VVS Baltic Special Military District, later the VVS North-Western Front 8 SAD 15 IAP 31 IAP 61 ShAP. 57 IAD 42 IAP 49 IAP 54 SBAP 7 SAD 10 IAP 9 SBAP 46 BAP 241 SBAP 6 SAD 21 IAP 31 SBAP 40 BAP 148 IAP 4 SAD 38 IAP 35 SBAP 50 SBAP 53 SBAP The total strength of the front was 1,211 aircraft.[16]

Western and South Western Fronts

VVS Western Military District, later the VVS Western Front 313 RAP 314 RAP 9 Mixed Air Division (SAD) (attached to 10th Army near Bialystock) 13 SBAP 41 Fighter Aviation Regiment (IAP) 124 IAP 126 IAP 129 IAP 10 SAD (attached to 4th Army near Brest-Litovsk) 33 IAP 74 ShAP 123 IAP 39 SBAP 11 SAD (attached to 3rd Army near Grodno-Lida) 16 SBAP 122 IAP 127 IAP 12 BAD (Vitebsk) 6 SBAP 43 SBAP 128 SBAP 209 SBAP 215 SBAP 43 IAD (Minsk and Smolensk) 160 IAP 161 IAP 162 IAP 163 IAP 13 BAD (Bobruysk) 24 SBAP 97 SBAP 121 SBAP 125 SBAP 130 SBAP The total strength of the front was 1,789 aircraft.[16]

VVS Kiev Special Military District, later the VVS South-Western Front 315 RAP and 316 RAP 14 SAD (5th Army, Lutsk area) 17 IAP 46 IAP 89 IAP 62 BAD (Kiev) 52 SBAP 94 SBAP 243 SBAP 245 SBAP 15 SAD (attached to the 6th Army), Lvov) 23 IAP 28 IAP 66 ShAP 164 IAP 16 SAD (attached to 6th Army), Ternopol) 86 SBAP 87 IAP 92 IAP 226 SBAP 227 SBAP 63 SAD (attached to 26th Army), Stryy) 20 IAP 62 IAP 91 IAP 165 IAP 64 SAD (12th Army), Stanislav 12 IAP 149 IAP 166 IAP 246 IAP 247 IAP 17 BAD (Proskurov) 48 SBAP 224 SBAP 225 SBAP 242SBAP 244 SBAP 36 IAD (Kiev) 2 IAP 43 IAP 254 IAP 255 IAP 19 BAD (Bila Tserkva) 33 SBAP 136 BAP 38 SBAP 44 IAD (Vinnitsa) 88 IAP 248 IAP 249 IAP 252 IAP The total strength of the front was 1,913 aircraft.[16][17]

Odessa Front and Long Range Aviation

VVS Odessa Military District, later the VVS Southern Front 146 RAP 317 RAP 20 SAD (Beltsy and Tiropol) 4 IAP 45 SBAP 55 IAP 211 SBAP 21 SAD (Bolgrad-Vorms) 5 BAP 69 IAP 67 IAP 168 IAP 299 ShAP The total strength of the front was 950 aircraft.[18] Ilyushin DB-3 bomber.

DBA (Long-range Strategic Bomber Aviation) 1 BAK (Bomber Aviation Group) (Novgorod) 40 DBAD 53 DBAD 200 DBAD 7 TDBAP 2 BAK (Kursk) 35 DBAD 100 DBAD 219 DBAD 223 DBAD 48 DBAD 51 DBAD 220 DBAD 221 DBAD 222 DBAD 3 BAK (Smolensk) 52 DBAD 3 TBDAP 98 DBAD 212 DBAD 42 DBAD 1 TBDAP 96 DBAD 207 DBAD 4 BAK (Zaporozhye) 22 DBAD 8 DBAD 11 DBAD 21 DBAD 50 DBAD 81 DBA 299 DBAP 231 DBAP 228 DBAP 18 DBAD (Independent Division) (Skomorokhy and Boryspil) 14 TDBAP 90 DBAP 93 DBAP The total strength of the front was 1,332 aircraft; 1,122 DB-3s, 20 TB-3s, and nine TB-7s.[18]

Notes

1. http://niehorster.org/011_germany/41-oob/ag-nord/_ag_nord.html
2. Glantz 2002, p. 531
3. http://niehorster.org/011_germany/41-oob/ag-mitte/_ag_mitte.html
4. http://niehorster.org/011_germany/41-oob/ag-sued/_ag-sued.html
5. Operation Barbarossa 1941 (2): Army Group North (Campaign) (v. 2)=Robert Kirchubel. Osprey Publishing. 2005. p. 29. ISBN 978-1-84176-857-1.
6. Ammentorp, Steen. "The Generals". Retrieved 27 July 2013.
7. Operation Barbarossa 1941 (2): Army Group North (Campaign) (v. 2) Robert Kirchubel. Osprey Publishing. 2005. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-84176-857-1.
8. Operation Barbarossa 1941 (3): Army Group Center (Campaign) (v. 3)Robert Kirchubel. Osprey Publishing. 2007. p. 31. ISBN 978-1-84603-107-6.
9. Operation Barbarossa 1941 (1): Army Group South (Campaign) (v. 1)Robert Kirchubel. Osprey Publishing. 2003. p. 31. ISBN 978-1-84176-697-3.
10. Plocher 1968, pp. 9, 28-29.
11. Statiev 2002, pp. 1091-1092.
12. Statiev 2002, p. 1112.
13. Statiev 2002, p. 1093.
14. Statiev 2002, pp. 1093, 1097.
15. Bergström 2007, p. 134.
16. Bergström 2007, p. 131.
17. Niehorster, Air Forces, Western Special Military District
18. Bergström 2007, p. 132.

Bibliography

• Bergström, Christer. Barbarossa - The Air Battle: July–December 1941, London: Chervron/Ian Allen, 2007. ISBN 978-1-85780-270-2.
• Plocher, Hermann. The German Air Force versus Russia, 1941. United States Air Force Studies, Washington, 1968. ISBN 978-0-405-00044-7
• Plocher, Hermann. The German Air Force versus Russia, 1942. United States Air Force Studies, Washington, 1968. ISBN 978-0-405-00045-4
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• Glantz, David M. (2002). The Battle for Leningrad 1941-1944. Kansas University Press. ISBN 0-7006-1208-4.

External links

• Soviet Rifle Division, 22 June 1941
• Soviet Tank Division, 22 June 1941
• Soviet Cavalry Division, 22 June 1941
• Soviet Mountain Rifle Division, 22 June 1941
• Soviet Mechanized Division, 22 June 1941