5th Searchlight Regiment
Rear Echelon Support Services
Transportation: Special Railroad Corps (seven regiments); one transportation (truck) regiment; Transportation Depot
Artillery Supply: nineteen ammunition depots, one artillery weapons systems depot
Fueclass="underline" One distribution depot; forty-two storage depots; one laboratory; one repair depot
Supply: sixteen food storage depots; one bread-baking factory; four equipment/uniform depots; three repair depots
Medicaclass="underline" seventeen hospitals; five medical supply/equipment depots; four laboratories
Veterinary: two vet hospitals; two vet laboratories; two vet supply/equipment depots
FIFTH ARMY
Commander: Maj. Gen. M. I. Potapov
Political Deputy: Division Commissar M. S. Nikishev
Chief of Staff: Maj. Gen. D. S. Pisarevskiy
XV Rifle Corps (45th, 62nd Rifle Divisions)
XXVII Rifle Corps (87th, 124th, 135th Rifle Divisions)
XXII Mechanized Corps (19th, 41st Tank Divisions, 215th Motorized Rifle Divisions) 39th Fighter Division
14th Mixed Air Division
62nd Bomber Division
1st Antitank Artillery Brigade (Reserves of High Command)
589th Howitzer Artillery Regiment (Reserves of High Command)
87th, 295th, 374th Separate Air Defense Artillery Batttalions, PVO
22nd Early Detection Battalion
2nd (Vladimir-Volynskiy) Fortified District
(19th, 20th, 145th, 146th Separate Machine-Gun Battalions, 85th, 92nd Separate Artillery Battalions)
9th (Kovel) Fortified District (47th, 201st Separate Machine-Gun Battalions)
Two sections of 4th (Strumilov) Fortified District
SIXTH ARMY
Commander: Lt. Gen. I. N. Muzychenko
Political Deputy: Division Commissar N. K. Popov
Chief of Staff: Brigade Commander N. P. Ivanov (rank equivalent to Major-General)
VI Rifle Corps (41st, 97th, 159th Rifle Divisions)
IV Mechanized Corps (8th, 32nd Tank Divisions, 81st Motorized Rifle Divisions)
3rd Cavalry Division
15th Mixed Air Divisions
16th Mixed Air Divisions
3rd Antitank Artillery Brigade (Reserves of High Command)
135th Artillery Regiment (Reserves of High Command)
324th Howitzer Artillery Regiment (Reserves of High Command)
4th (Strumilov) Fortified District (35th, 42nd Separate Machine-Gun Battalions)
6th (Rava-Russkaya) Fortified District (21st, 36th, 141st Separate Machine-Gun Battalions)
TWELFTH ARMY
Commander: Maj. Gen. P. G. Ponedelin
Political Deputy: Brigade Commissar I. P. Kulikov
Chief of Staff: Maj. Gen. B. I. Arushanyan
XIII Rifle Corps (44th, 192nd Rifle Divisions)
XVII Rifle Corps (60th, 96th Mountain Rifle Divisions, 164th Rifle Division)
XVI Mechanized Corps (15th, 39th Tank Divisions, 240th Motorized Rifle Division)
58th Mountain Rifle Division
44th Fighter Division
64th Fighter Division
4th Antitank Artillery Brigade (Reserves of High Command)
168th Howitzer Artillery Regiment (Reserves of High Command)
37th Engineer Regiment
20th, 30th Separate Air Defense Artillery Battalions, PVO
293rd Separate Communications Battalion
46th Early Detection Battalion
10th (Kamenets-Podolskiy) Fortified District (31st, 149th Separate Machine-Gun Battalions)
11th (Chernigov) Fortified District
12th (Mogilev-Podolskiy) Fortified District
TWENTY-SIXTH ARMY
Commander: Lt. Gen. F. Y. Kostenko
Political Deputy: Brigade Commissar D. E. Kolesnikov
Chief of Staff: Col. I. S. Varennikov
VIII Rifle Corps (99th, 173rd Rifle Divisions, 72nd Mountain Rifle Division)
VIII Mechanized Corps (12th, 34th Tank Divisions, 7th Motorized Rifle Division)
63rd Fighter Division
46th Mixed Air Division
2nd Antitank Artillery Brigade (Reserves of High Command)
376th Howitzer Artillery Regiment (Reserves of High Command)
34th, 259th Separate Air Defense Artillery Battalions (Reserves of High Command)
6th, 12th Separate Machine-Gun Companies
8th (Peremyshl) Fortified District (52nd, 150th Separate Machine-Gun Battalions)
FORCES LOCATED ON THE TERRITORY OF KIEV SPECIAL MILITARY DISTRICT, BUT NOT SUBORDINATE TO IT
Reserves of High Command
1st Air Corps (40th, 50th Bomber Divisions, 56th Fighter Division)
2nd Air Corps (35th, 48th Bomber Divisions, 67th Fighter Division)
5th Antitank Artillery Brigade (Reserves of High Command)
Internal Security Troops (NKVD)
4th NKVD Motorized Rifle Division
10th NKVD Railroad Division
21st NKVD Cavalry Regiment
4th, 16th, 56th, 64th, 66th NKVD Rifle Regiments
Border Guard Troops (NKVD), 20,000+ men (individual detachments rounded to nearest hundred)
Commander: Maj. Gen. A. V. Khomenko
HQ located in Lutsk, 200 men
98th (Lyuboml) Detachment: 1,600 men
90th (Vladimir-Volynskiy) Detachment: 1,900 men
91st (Rava-Russkaya) Detachment: 2,100 men
92nd (Peremyshl) Detachment: 2,300 men
93rd (Liskov) Detachment: 2,100 men
94th (Skolensk) Detachment: 2,200 men
95th (Nadvornya) Detachment: 2,200 men
97th (Chernovski) Detachment: 3,000 men
Separate (Kolomiya) Detachment: 500 men
20th (Slavuta) Detachment: 1,600 men
22nd (Volochisk) Detachment: 1,100 men
APPENDIX C
Order of Battle of Soviet Mechanized Corps
VIII Mechanized Corps, Twenty-sixth Army, Kiev Special Military District, HQ in Drogobych
Commander; Lt. Col. Dmitriy I. Ryabyshev
Political Deputy: Brigade Commissar Nikolay K. Popel
Chief of Staff: Col. Fedor G. Katkov
12th Tank Division: Col. Petr S. Fotchenkov
23rd Tank Regiment
24th Tank Regiment
12th Motorized Rifle Regiment
12th Howitzer Regiment
Support units
34th Tank Division: Col. Ivan V. Vasilyev
67th Tank Regiment
68th Tank Regiment
34th Motorized Rifle Regiment
34th Howitzer Regiment
Support units
7th Motorized Rifle Division: Col. Aleksandr V. Gerasimov
27th Motorized Rifle Regiment
300th Motorized Rifle Regiment
405th Tank Regiment
23rd Artillery Regiment
Support units
2nd Motorcycle Regiment
IX Mechanized Corps, Kiev Special Military District, HQ in Novograd-Volynskiy
Commander: Maj. Gen. Konstantin K. Rokossovskiy
Political Deputy: Brigade Commissar Dmitriy Kamenev
Chief of Staff: Maj. Gen. Aleksei G. Maslov
20th Tank Division: Col. Mikhail Katukov
39th Tank Regiment
40th Tank Regiment
20th Motorized Rifle Regiment
20th Howitzer Artillery Regiment
Support units
35th Tank Division: Col. Nikolay A. Novikov
69th Tank Regiment
70th Tank Regiment
35th Motorized Rifle Regiment
35th Howitzer Regiment
Support units
131st Motorized Rifle Division: Col. Nikolay V. Kalinin
509th Motorized Rifle Regiment
743rd Motorized Rifle Regiment
58th Tank Regiment
409th Artillery Regiment
Support Units
32nd Motorcycle Regiment