Maps 1942

(Western Direction)

April 26, 2008

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• Kalinin Front
  • Moscow Counter-Offensive
  • Misc. Operations
• Western Front
  • Moscow Counter-Offensive
  • Misc. Operations
• Bryansk Front

Typical Soviet Abbreviations

Some typical coding of Soviet military maps and battle schemes

Abbreviations of units

Kalinin Front # Title Area Unit subordination Date Lang. Source Moscow Counter-Offensive KF4201 Course of operations of the Kalinin Front Rzhev area KF Jan. 1-7 6 KF4202 Operations in Rzhev area Rzhev area KF Jan 4-11 3 KF4203 Fights of the 31st Rifle Brigade and partisans in Ushitsy area Rem AMVAS: Seems a typo exists here. The 237th Rifle Division was formed later. Possibly it was the 257th Rifle Division/3rd Shock Army NW from Rzhev 3 SA/KF Jan.28-29 7   Misc. operations KF4204 Course of operations against Velikiye Luki and Novosokol'niky Velikiye Luki - Novosokol'niky KF Nov. 24- Dec. 10 9 KF4205 The 881st Rifle Regiment offensive on Rzhev direction Rzhev area 158RD/39A/KF Nov. 25 1 KF4206 Course of operations in Velikiye Luki area Velikiye Luki area KF Dec. 10'42- Jan. 12'43 2   Western Front # Title Area Unit subordination Date Lang. Source Moscow Counter-Offensive WF4201 Maneuver of the 1162nd Rifle Regiment in breaking-through the enemy defense on Lama river Lama river 352RD/20A/WF Jan 1 WF4202 108th Rifle Division in fights for Mozhaisk Mozhaisk area 5A/WF Jan. 17-20 4 WF4203 Operations of landing party in Vyazma area Vyazma area; Znamenka village 201ABde/5AbnC/WF Jan 18-29 8 WF4204 Offensive of the 33rd Army against Vyazma (bad quality) Vyazma area WF Jan 25 - Feb 1 8 WF4205 Fights of the 108th Rifle division for Vasilkov strongpoint Mozhaisk area? 5A/WF Jan. 25-Mar.3 4 Misc. operations WF4206 Counter-attacks of the 144th Rifle Division Ivanniki area 5A/WF June 28 7 WF4207 Course of the Pogorelo-Gorodishchevskaya operatsiya. Rzhev-Zubtsov area WF July 30-Aug. 23 2 WF4208 Attacks of the 1104th and 1108th Rifle Regiments Derzha river area 331 RD/20A/WF August 10 WF4209 Defensive operations of the 1085th Rifle Regiment on Resseta river Khat'kovo area 322 RD/16A/WF Aug 11 1 WF4210 Operations of the 10th Tank Corps Sukhinichi area 16A/WF Aug. 12-Sept. 3 5   Bryansk Front # Title Area Unit subordination Date Lang. Source BF4201 Combat in Kastornoye region Kastornoye vicinities BrF July 4 8 BF4202 Course of night attack of the 605th and 721st Rifle Regiments' detachments Kshen' river 132 RD/13A/ BrF Sept. 5-6 '42 1

Check also Moscow battle 1941

Abbreviations

A - Army

ABde-Airborne Brigade

AbnC - Airborne Corps

BrF- Bryansk Front

RD - Rifle Division

SA - Shock Army

WF - Western Front

Literature:

1. "Taktika v boevykh primerakh. Polk", Voyennoe izdatelstvo Ministerstva Oborony SSSR, Moscow, 1974. (cited from docs.vif2.ru)
2. A. Isaev, "Kogda Vnezapnosti uzhe ne bylo. Istoriya VOV, kotoruyu my ne znali", "Yauza", "EKSMO", 2005
3. D. Khazanov, "Rzhevskiy rubezh", AviaMaster, 6/2001
4. I.I. Birichev, "V Bitve za Moskvu", Moscow, 1974
5. I.M. Kravtchenko, V.V. Burkov, "Desyatyi Tankovyi Dneprovskiy. Boyevoi put' (Boyevoi put' 10-go tankovogo Dneprovakogo ordena suvorova korpusa (cited after http://samsv.narod.ru)
6. Sbornik Voyenno-Istoricheskikh materialov Velikoy Otechestvennoy vojny, No. 7, Moscow, Voyenizdat, 1952 (cited from militera.lib.ru).
   Rem. AMVAS: Draw attention to the table of typos put into the lower right corner of some battle schemes from this source. The 2nd column stays for written text, the 3rd column - for the corrected.
7. "Taktika v boevykh primerakh. Divizia", Voyennoe izdatelstvo Ministerstva Oborony SSSR, Moscow, 1976. (cited from docs.vif2.ru)
8. www.rkka.ru
9. F.I. Paulman, "V boyakh za Velikiye Luki", Tallinn, 1973 (forgot from which site I got it)
10. "Taktika v boevykh primerakh. Polk", Voyennoe izdatelstvo Ministerstva Oborony SSSR, Moscow, 1974. (cited from docs.vif2.ru)