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Russian handwriting translation

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Post by Der Alte Fritz » 11 Feb 2017, 09:42

If someone would be kind enough to help me translate the columns headings and other items of this artillery report of 8th Guards Army from January 1945 .......

https://pamyat-naroda.ru/documents/view/?id=133371706

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Post by Art » 12 Feb 2017, 12:02

Columns:
1. Unit name
2. Caliber of weapons in mm
3. Total serviceable weapons
4. Of them on firing positions
5. Ammunition expenditure [in the last day] in rounds
6. Ammunition with weapons (on firing positions) in rounds
7. Ammunition with weapons (on firing positions) in units of fire
8. Total ammunition available in rounds
9. Total ammunition available in units if fire
10. Artillery tractors on strength
11. Of them serviceable
12. Automobiles on strength
13. Of them serviceable
14. Available fuel in loads
15. Available food in daily rations
16. Daily limit of ammunition expenditure in rounds

Lines:
39 Guards Rifle Division/28 Guards Rifle Corps
79 GRD/28 GRC
88 GRD/28 GRC
27 GRD/29 GRC
74 GRD/29 GRC
82 GRD/29 GRC
35 GRD/4 GRC
47 GRD/4 GRC
57 GRD/4 GRC
40 Guards Corps Artillery Regiment
43 Guards Army Cannon Artillery Brigade
266 Guards Army Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment
141 Army Mortar Regiment
878 Army Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment
295 Guards Cannon Artillery Regiment
1958 Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment/41 Anti-Tank Artillery Brigade
1959 Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment/41 Anti-Tank Artillery Brigade
1960 Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment/41 Anti-Tank Artillery Brigade
372 Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment/39 Anti-Tank Artillery Brigade
67 Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment/39 Anti-Tank Artillery Brigade
491 Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment/39 Anti-Tank Artillery Brigade
1026 Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment
6 Artillery Corps: 14 Artillery Division:
411 Mortar Regiment/24 Mortar Brigade
413 Mortar Regiment/24 Mortar Brigade
415 Mortar Regiment/24 Mortar Brigade
1135 Light Artillery Regiment/169 Light Artillery Brigade
1137 Light Artillery Regiment/169 Light Artillery Brigade
1112 Howitzer Artillery Regiment/172 Howitzer Artillery Brigade
1115 Howitzer Artillery Regiment/172 Howitzer Artillery Brigade
1116 Howitzer Artillery Regiment/172 Howitzer Artillery Brigade
176 Heavy Howitzer Artillery Brigade
122 High Power Howitzer Artillery Brigade
21 Heavy Mortar Brigade
6 Guards Mortar Brigade
6 Artillery Corps: 29 Artillery Division:
416 Mortar Regiment/46 Mortar Brigade
419 Mortar Regiment/46 Mortar Brigade
565 Mortar Regiment/46 Mortar Brigade
1154 Light Artillery Regiment/182 Light Artillery Brigade
1191 Light Artillery Regiment/182 Light Artillery Brigade
1262 Howitzer Artillery Regiment/186 Howitzer Artillery Brigade
1283 Howitzer Artillery Regiment/186 Howitzer Artillery Brigade
1285 Howitzer Artillery Regiment/186 Howitzer Artillery Brigade
189 Heavy Howitzer Brigade
184 High Power Howitzer Artillery Brigade
26 Heavy Mortar Brigade
36 Guards Mortar Brigade
32 Sep. Special Power Artillery Battalion
12 Special Power Cannon Artillery Regiment
297 Guards Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment/3 Guards Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division
307 Guards Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment/3 Guards Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division
308 Guards Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment/3 Guards Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division
309 Guards Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment/3 Guards Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division
92 Guards Mortar Regiment
311 Guards Mortar Regiment
16 Guards Mortar Brigade
Attached from 1 Tank Army:
1430 Light Artillery Regiment/179 Light Artillery Brigade
1170 Light Artillery Regiment/179 Light Artillery Brigade
265 Mortar Regiment
270 Mortar Regiment
79 Guards Mortar Regiment
53 Sep. Guards Mortar Battalion
405 Sep. Guards Mortar Battalion
350 Light Artillery Regiment

Totals in the army
Total 965/956 mortars
1389/1323 artillery guns
Total 2354/2279 guns and mortars


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Post by Der Alte Fritz » 12 Feb 2017, 20:34

Art, you are a star!
I have done the unit listing from the previous one which has many fewer artillery units and was dreading having to sort this lot out.

The 1026th SU Regt was armed with SU-85 (quite a rare beast by this stage of the war)

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Post by Der Alte Fritz » 15 Feb 2017, 18:42

What does "РГС" or RGS refer to in this list for example "6 АКП РГС" 6th Artillery Corps PRS
My Soviet Military Glossary only refers to "Direction Finding"

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Post by GregSingh » 16 Feb 2017, 22:52

Hi, looks like РГК to me?

Резерв главного командования = reserve of High Command

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Post by Der Alte Fritz » 17 Feb 2017, 05:54

Yes I think you are right, always hard to tell with handwritten notes.

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Post by Der Alte Fritz » 28 Feb 2017, 10:16

Could someone please read/translate these row headings for me:
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Post by Jeff Leach » 28 Feb 2017, 11:54

my guess is

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tank forces
artillery
forces PVO
engineering forces

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Post by Art » 28 Feb 2017, 22:56

In rifle divisions
Tank units
Artillery
Anti-aircraft units
"64 Engineer-Sapper Brigade" changed for "Engineer units"
Total Army

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Post by Der Alte Fritz » 01 Mar 2017, 20:18

Thank you Jeff and Art

I think column 13 is сам. оруд which would be "self propelled artillery"
The note on the second page says that the Army has 14 SU-85 and 15 SU-76 and then the other note says 22 85mm AA and the rest 37mm AA

From https://pamyat-naroda.ru/documents/view/?id=133352658

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Post by Art » 01 Mar 2017, 21:07

Der Alte Fritz wrote: I think column 13 is сам. оруд which would be "self propelled artillery"
Right.
The note on the second page says that the Army has 14 SU-85 and 15 SU-76
No, column 14 - SU-85, column 16 - SU-76. If understand it correctly the army had 28 SU-85 and 85 SU-76 operational, and 9 SU-85 and 19 SU-76 in need of repair. Total 141. Also 29 tanks were operational and 3 in need of repair, total 32.

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Post by Der Alte Fritz » 02 Mar 2017, 09:22

Thanks Art
you see I am learning Russian albeit very slowly!

So column 14 has a crossed out note "21 SU-85" and then in column 13 there is a figure 21 for additional Artillery SU-85.
The figure below is 390/9 which is the number of guns/howitzers of 122 mm and above and adds with the Infantry total of 108 to give the total at the bottom of 498/9.

Column 22 shows 32 85 mm AA and 160 37 mm AA

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Post by Der Alte Fritz » 16 Mar 2017, 18:24

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Help 5th column along прогие грубт ???

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Post by Der Alte Fritz » 16 Mar 2017, 19:07

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Columns I cannot read at all
Rows:
Cars
Gas-AA
Gas-AAA
ZIS-5
????????????????
Tractors
ZIS-8 Bus

Availability of Vehicles
27.5.1942
https://pamyat-naroda.ru/documents/view/?id=153527542

441-0008452-0029
28th Army SouthWestern Front

Timeshenkos offensive at Kharkov

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Post by fandorin » 16 Mar 2017, 20:25

Der Alte Fritz wrote:Columns I cannot read at all
Rows:
Cars
Gas-AA
Gas-AAA
ZIS-5
????????????????
Tractors
ZIS-8 Bus...
"Специальных машин" - "a special cars"

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