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The Soviet order of battle for the invasion of Poland in 1939 details the major combat units arrayed for the Soviet surprise attack on Poland on September 17, 1939. As a result of joining battle after the Germans had already launched their invasion, the Soviets, prepared for battle in secrecy, met comparatively limited resistance. Several skirmishes between the German and Soviet forces did occur, but neither government was prepared for starting a larger conflict, and these were soon referred to as "misunderstandings".〔 Like the Germans, the Soviets employed two primary offensive axes, each managed by a Front. Each Front commander had at his disposal a mobile group of forces created from cavalry and mechanised troops; a precursor of the cavalry-mechanised groups of the Second World War. The effects of the purge are visible in the ranks of the commanders in the order of battle, with only one Army commander serving in the appropriate rank of the Army General, in this case 2nd Class (Komandarm 2nd rank, (ロシア語:командарм 2 ранга)), the rest serving in being Corps (Komcor) and Divisional (Komdiv) Commander rank ((ロシア語:комкор, комдив)) ==Belorussian Front== The Belorussian Front included four Armies and was the northern of the two fronts invading. Its commander was Komandarm 2nd rank Mikhail Kovalyov. As of September 17, 1939, the Front included: *The 3rd Army (under Komkor Kuznetsov) consisting of one Corps and one operational group. # ''4th Rifle Corps'' ## 27th Rifle Division ## 50th Rifle Division # ''Lepelska Group'' (staging area in and around the city of Lepiel) ## 5th Rifle Division ## 24th Cavalry Division ## 22nd Tank Brigade ## 25th Tank Brigade :''According to narod.ru, the 3rd Army also included the 150th Rifle Division (in Odessa Military District as third echelon)'' *The 11th Army (under Komdiv Medvedev) # ''16th Corps'' ## 2nd Rifle Division ## 100th Rifle Division # ''3rd Cavalry Corps'' ## 7th Cavalry Division ## 36th Cavalry Division ## 6th Tank Brigade *Cavalry-mechanised Group (under Komkor I.V. Boldin).〔( Bochka i obruchi ili Kogda nachalas' Velikaya Otechestvennaya voyna? (Chasti 1,2) ) Электронная библиотека echitalka.ru〕 # ''5th Corps''.〔Table 27 in ( Сентябрь 1939 года. Война с запада ) 〕 ## 4th Rifle Division ## 13th Rifle Division # ''6th Cavalry Corps'' ## 4th Cavalry Division ## 6th Cavalry Division ## 11th Cavalry Division # ''15th Tank Corps'' ## 2nd Tank Brigade ## 21st Tank Brigade ## 27th Tank Brigade ## 20th Motorised Rifle Brigade *The 10th Army〔Transferred from the Kalinin Military District.〕 (Komkor Zakharkin) comprised one corps. # ''11th Corps'' ## 6th Rifle Division ## 33rd Rifle Division ## 121st Rifle Division * The 4th Army (''Komdiv'' Vasily Chuikov) # 8th Rifle Division # 29th Tank Brigade # 32nd Tank Brigade * ''23rd Rifle Corps'' # 52nd Rifle Division # Dnieper Flotilla 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Soviet order of battle for invasion of Poland in 1939」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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