Total mobilized Soviets in the whole war

[Erich Ludendorff]

Any information on that?

[daveh]

Col Gen Krivosheev in Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses ISBN 1 85367 208 7

in thousands

Numerical strength of armuy and navy at start of war: 4826.9
formations in other deparments on people's defence commissariat ration strength: 74.9

Called up/mobilized during war: 29574.9

Total drafted during war into army, navy, formations in other departments, for work in industry, including those above: 34476.7

[Wulpe]

Soviet Union Manpower (at beginning of war / max. during the war)

Army: 9,000,000 / 13,000,000

Navy: 50,000

Air Force: 200,000 / 500,000*

Total 9,250,000 / 13,550,000



* est.

Source: "Der zweite Weltkrieg", 1979, p. 360 ISBN 3 87070 127 7

"Beginning of War" means Operation Barbarossa (June 1941)

[Yevgeniy B.]

Wulpe: This is only counted by documents, what about partisans, and non-documented casualties

I think total is: your total+ a couple of millions

Yevg