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Re: Soviet Replacement/Reserve Units

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Post by Art » 19 Feb 2009, 15:50

Qvist wrote: It is interesting to note that when the fighting reached German territory, the Germans adjusted by instituting a system very similar to the Soviet: The districts of the EH that was in the zone of operations were absorbed into the Field Army, and the relevant Fielad Army commands took over the EH tasks
Soviet fronts had military districts subordinated to them only in the beggining of the war. In June 1941 four military districts (Leningrad, Baltic, Kiev, Odessa) were transformed into fronts, but districts headquarters continued to function till autumn being subordinated to respective fronts. After autumn 1941 no such practice existed, as far as I know.
As you have pointed out, the absence of a Soviet equivalent to the Ersatzheer, and no clear division between "home" and "field" areas
Returning to the WWI again, the practice of that period was to form a Theatre of Operations under the Supreme commander in chief, incorporating border military districts. The other military districts continued to be subordinated to the War Ministry, which in the first year of the war was completely independent of the Supreme commander. It's an interesing question, how the system was supposed to be organized in the inter-war era and what documents determined the organization of the top echelon of military administartion. It seems that the problem was resolved by simply making the same person the Supreme commander and the commissar for defence (an analogue of the war minister). At least Mikhalev says that pre-WW2 douments (e.g. the regulation on the commissariat for defense) contemplated such arrangement, and then all three Supreme commanders in the period 1939-45 (Voroshilov, Timoshenko, Stalin) held at the same time the post of the People's Commissar for Defence.

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Re: Soviet Replacement/Reserve Units

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Post by Art » 04 Jun 2011, 21:33

As an illustration to the old thread:
In June 1944 the 36 Replacement Rifle Division controlled by the Leningrad Front consisted of a headquarter (Shtat 04/430), 47 Replacement Artillery Regiment (Shtat 08/577, apart from a small cadre 2148 replacement personnel in authorized strength), 48, 78 and 389 Replacement Rifle Regiments (Shtat 04/431, 4240 replacement personnel authorized) plus attached 267 and 392 Replacement Rifle Regiments (Shtat 04/299, 2680 replacement personnel authorized) and 5 convalescents battalions (1st, 2d, 3rd, 4th, 9th; Shtat 04/165, 1500 convalescent men in authorized strength). The division was expanded well above authorized strength and had more then 58 thousands men as of 1.06.44, close to the size of a small army or almost 10 time more than in an average combat division.


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Re: Soviet Replacement/Reserve Units

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Post by kaylan1 » 06 Jun 2011, 20:54

Thanks Art, :)

I hope that in the future there will be more about those units.
thanks art. :D

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Re: Soviet Replacement/Reserve Units

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Post by Art » 08 Jun 2011, 21:54

As a Kazakh akyn I continue to sing about what I see. :)
Theoretically replacement units were not supposed to accumulate reserve of officers, in practice the 36 Division constantly received and dispatched officers (apparently convalescents from hospitals). Most surplus officers on the front level were gathered in the regiment of officers reserve (OPROS). The Leningrad Front had the 38 Regiment. Authorized strength according to the shtat 017/482 in the middle of 1944 was 77 officers+19 NCOs+28 privates = 124 total in a small cadre, plus 2000 in the officer reserve.
Replacements units of the army consisted (summer of 1944 again) of:
- an army replacement rifle regiment (04/299) - 177+119+24=320 in a cadre, 0+243+2437=2680 replacements, total 3 000 men;
- a convalescents battalion (04/769) - 19+7+5=31 in a cadre, 0+48+452=500 convalescents;
- an officers reserve (017/434) - 5+2+4=11 in a cadre, 142 officers in reserve;
- a battery of artillery officers reserve (017/436d) - 3+1+2=6 men in a cadre, 50 officers in reserve.
The sum authorized strength of all four units was 3708 men. Apart from small arms there were 45/76-mm guns and 50/82-mm mortars in the replacement regiment.

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Re: Soviet Replacement/Reserve Units

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Post by Art » 04 Dec 2016, 16:37

Reorganization of replacement units in early 1942.
In 1941 each replacement brigade consisted of brigade HQ, three replacement rifle regiments, replacement artillery regiment, replacement sapper battalion, replacement signal battalion.
New tables of organization issued before January 1942. Replacement rifle brigade now consisted of:
Brigade HQ (shtat 04/815) - 48 men
four replacement rifle regiments (shtat 04/816) - 596 permanent personnel and 4479 replacement personnel
replacement artillery battalion (04/817) - 83+644 men
replacement signal company (04/818) - 28+227
replacement sapper company (04/819) - 24+225
https://pamyat-naroda.ru/dou/?docID=130453329
https://pamyat-naroda.ru/dou/?docID=130453317
It's not clear of the new organization was uniformly applied to all replacement brigades.

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Re: Soviet Replacement/Reserve Units

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Post by Art » 14 Sep 2019, 13:00

Replacement units of the Red Army as of 1 December 1941:

Rifle troops [infantry]- authorized strength 1,045,069
Artillery - 25,773
Cavalry - 77,571
Armor - 98,841
Airborne - 30,170
Chemical - 9,235
Anti-aircraft - 44,565
Mortar - 4,020
Total combat - 1,335,244

Signal - 25,935
Engineer - 22,439
Railroad, road maintenance, motor transport, survey etc - 92,048
Total service - 140,422
All replacement units - 1,475,666

Shaposhnikov proposed and Stalin approved to reduce replacement units to about 1,2 million strength.

A partial list of replacement units from the same document:
3, 9, 11, 14, 16, 19, 36, 38 Replacement Rifle Brigades x 30,926 men authorized
30 and 33 Replacement Rifle Brigades x 32,173
6, 10, 21, 22, 23, 34, 43 Replacement Ski Brigades x 32,173
2, 5, 7, 10, 13, 15, 17, 18, 24, 26, 31, 36, 37, 38, 39, 42, 44, 45 Replacement Rifle Brigades x 22,697
29 Replacement Ski Brigade x 34,543
five replacement corps artillery regiments x 3,086
four high power artillery regiments x 1,835
eight replacement anti-aircraft machine-gun battalions x 877
seven replacement air warning battalions x 716
sixteen replacement cavalry regiments x 4,370
twelve army horses depots x 221
nine replacement engineer regiments x 1,625
seven replacement pontoon battalions x 989
three replacement chemical defense battalions x 980
eight replacement chemical resistance battalions x 740
six replacement railroad regiments x 2,134
three replacement road operation regiments x 1,003
ten replacement airborne regiments x 3,017
nineteen replacement automobile regiments x 2,864
four replacement tractor regiments x 3,939
seventeen replacement tank regiments x 4,430
three replacement armor regiments x 2,945
four replacement motorcycle regiments x 3,067

Marshal Shaposhnikov to Stalin on 20.12.1941:
http://sovdoc.rusarchives.ru/#showunit& ... 29;tab=img

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Re: Soviet Replacement/Reserve Units

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Post by Art » 03 Nov 2020, 09:23

Soviet infantry replacement units during the war:

July 41 - 17 replacement brigades
August 1941 - 39 replacement brigades
December 1941 - 41 replacement brigades
July 1942 - 41 replacement brigades, 4 separate national regiments, 1 separate national battalion
December 1942 - 41 replacement brigades, 5 training brigades, 11 separate training regiments, 4 separate national regiments, 1 separate national battalion, 1 women replacement regiment
July 1943 - 33 replacement brigades, 5 separate replacement regiments, 11 training brigades, 11 separate training regiments, 2 separate national regiments, 1 separate national battalion, 1 women replacement regiment
December 1943 - 33 replacement brigades, 5 separate replacement regiments, 11 training brigades, 5 separate training regiments, 2 separate national regiments, 1 separate national battalion, 1 women replacement regiment
July 1944 - 36 replacement divisions, 8 separate replacement regiment, 11 training divisions, 5 separate training regiments, 1 separate national regiment, 1 separate national battalion
December 1944 - 38 replacement divisions, 8 separate replacement regiment, 11 training divisions, 7 separate training regiments, 2 separate national regiments
May 1945 - 38 replacement divisions, 8 separate replacement regiment, 11 training divisions, 7 separate training regiments, 2 separate national regiments

Authorized strength in May 1945 - 1,110,000 men including 933,400 replacements.

March replacements sent to the front from military districts - 12,161,643 men, incl.:
1941 - 2,216,406
1942 - 3,999,569
1943 - 1,911,513
1944 - 2,716,122
1945 - 1,318,033

Capacity of specialists replacements units by the end of the war:
318,000 replacements total, including:
artillery - 72,500
tank - 103,500
cavalry - 19,500
Signals - 30,500
Engineer - 17,200
Automobile - 26,400
Mortar - 12,000
Road - 8,200
Airborne - 2,800
Air forces specialists - 10,000

All numbers from V.V. Gradoselsky in Russian "Military History Journal" No.3, 2002

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Re: Soviet Replacement/Reserve Units

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Post by Dann Falk » 03 Nov 2020, 18:04

I found this during my research.

17 July 1944
This influx of recruits leads to the interesting situation within the 53rd A of having accumulated more than 20,000 men in the army’s reserve regiment, two full strength rifle divisions worth! With half being new conscripts and the other half returns from hospital.

This info is from the Boris Sokolov book, Marshal Malinovskii: Hero of the Soviet Union, Helion & Company, 2017, p 270, 280.

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Re: Soviet Replacement/Reserve Units

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Post by Art » 03 Nov 2020, 20:56

Yes, we've discussed it before. 2 Ukrainian Front took about 1/4 million men from Ukrainian territory in March-April 1944:
viewtopic.php?f=79&t=195900
As a result there were not less than 130,000 men in replacement rifle regiments of the front by 1 May 1944. They couldn't be even properly armed for a lack of weapons:
viewtopic.php?p=2044912#p2044912

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Re: Soviet Replacement/Reserve Units

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Post by Eric13051966 » 03 Nov 2020, 22:58

Another important thing are the March-companies and batalions send by the replacement units.Does someone have some more info about them.

Each Replacement Regiment send the replacements to the front in march units. A Regiment could send until the end of the war
Hundreds of Companies and batalions to the front.

Companies have high numbers of designation.
There must be thousands of them raised.

Is there more info about them?


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Re: Soviet Replacement/Reserve Units

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Post by Art » 04 Nov 2020, 09:49

At present, the author is also creating an electronic database of march battalions and march companies of the Red Army in 1941. Information about them is literally scattered in many thousands of documents at various levels - from the Glavupraform to the departments of staffing and military communications of the headquarters of armies and fronts. Moreover, in each of them, as a rule, something is missing: if a number of a march company and a destination address are available then there is no place of its formation and dispatch (reserve regiment, point) or if there is a number and a place of formation there is no destination and unloading station, and sometimes there are only numbers of companies and echelons in the absence of other data. Fortunately, the documentation of events in our office work was multi-layered: not in one, so in another, second, third source the missing is found. But not immediately, not in a consolidated form, but bit by bit and bit by bit.

Thanks to these documents, it is already possible to trace the movement of each registered battalion and company - from a rear reserve brigade (regiment) to a division and even its units. A "chain" of information arises, according to which it is possible to investigate the combat path of an individual soldier, starting with the recruiting office, ending with a part at the front. The knowledge of the military unit guarantees 50-70% of the result when searching for the fate of a missing soldier and allows, through the preserved documents of this military unit, to establish the place of possible death of a person with an accuracy of the village and hour. Collected together in an integrated database, all three reference books, even in the unfinished form of two of them, are already helpful in making inquiries about the fate of soldiers. And if in addition to use the numerous reference books of the composition and formations of the Red Army for 1941-1945, the conventional names of military units and field post stations, the administrative division of the USSR and the union republics, military operations and documents, which have not yet been tied to them, then in considerable quantity cases, the resolution of many issues becomes a "matter of technology."
https://military.wikireading.ru/4778

The work is in progress:
http://www.soldat.ru/news/1256.html

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Re: Soviet Replacement/Reserve Units

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Post by Art » 07 Nov 2020, 10:23

From general Schadenko's report to Stalin of 14 February 1943.
March replacements sent from military districts to operational fronts during 1942:
1st half - 2,147,437 men
2nd half - 1,159,941 men
Total 3,307,378

Distribution by fronts ( including personnel incorporated from replacement units on the spot)

Karelian front - 68,062
7 Separate Army - 22,994
Leningrad Front - 293,836
Volkhov Front - 311,739
North-West Front - 265,125
Kalinin Front - 483,131
West Front - 774,045
Bryansk Front - 240,195
Voronezh Front - 79,156
Don Front - 81,369
South-West Front (I) - 272,889
South-West Front (II) - 39,052
South Front (I) - 313,179
Stalingrad Front - 186,476
Transcaucasus and Caucasus Fronts - 137,380
Crimean Front - 112,330
Totals 3,680,958

Strength of replacement units, military school, courses and academies:
1.1.42 - 1,256,997
1.1.43 - 1,422,569

Available replacements at the start of 1943:
In replacement units of all arms - 750,500
In training units - 248,000
in sniper schools - 37,600
Cadets of military schools of ground forces - 312,300
Cadets of military schools of air forces - 53,000
Officers at training courses - 31,400

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Re: Soviet Replacement/Reserve Units

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Post by Art » 04 Apr 2021, 16:41

From regulation on replacement units published on 28 February 1941:
Regulation on replacement units of the ground forces in wartime

1. General Provisions

A. Purpose of replacement units

1. Replacement units are formed in wartime for all arms and have a purpose:

a) Training of personnel and horses to replenish the losses of military units both at the front and in the country’s interior;
b) Training of candidates assigned by orders of the Mobilization Directorate of the General Staff of the Red Army for staffing military schools from men with higher and secondary education or with training that meets the requirements for admission to military schools;
c) Creation of new military units and formations.

2. Replacement units are divided into:

a) Rear units, subordinate to commanders of the districts and constituting the reserve of the main command for replenishment of losses of field troops;
b) Army units, subordinate to army commanders or corps commanders and constituting an army’s or corps’s reserve of trained replacements.

3. Rear replacement units are combined into brigades.

4. By order of the General Staff of the Red Army, replacement rifle, cavalry, artillery, tank and motor transport units can be assigned to certain field military formations and units of the corresponding combat arms, for which they prepare replacements.

Recovering wounded and sick officers evacuated from the front and discharged from hospitals, but who could not be sent to the front for health reasons, as a rule, are sent to their replacement units.

Note: When replenishment of the operational army is urgently needed or corresponding contingents of personnel are absent in the assigned replacement units, the headquarters of the districts and fronts have the right to staff the units, regardless of assignment.

5. By the order of the commander of the district, army or corps replacement units may be employed for combat and garrison service if field or garrison troops are absent in the area of their location.

B. Formation of replacement units

6. Replacement units are formed
a) At mobilization – in accordance with the mobilization plan;
b) In wartime – by orders of the main command

Cadres of military schools of field units are assigned for formation of replacement units during mobilization.

In addition, during mobilization replacement units receive from field units privates and NCOs with higher and completed secondary education, except those sent directly to officer schools. The detached personnel continue their training in replacement units until receiving instruction on their transfer to military schools.

C. Organization of replacement units

10. Organization and strength of replacement units is determined by tables of organization

11. The replacement unit, as a rule, consists of the following elements:
1) Training units (training battalions, training batteries, schools etc) for training of junior commanders [non-commissioned officers], first of all from privates who have completed active military service or have been trained during reservists’ call-ups.
2) Main units by specialty:
a) Battalions, companies, squadrons, artillery battalions, batteries, platoons and others – for specialized training of personnel;
b) reception centers - for quarantine, initial training for conscripts entering replacement units, as well as for training privates intended for staffing non-combatant positions;
c) Horse remount batteries - for quarantine, physical development, riding and training of horses.

3) Headquarter and service units (staffs, political organs, party-political apparatus, medical and veterinary units, technical units, supply units)
4) Units formed when the need arises:
a) Parties formed at training units to prepare candidates for military schools;
b) Parties for the improvement of the officers, arriving from military schools and from the reserve;
c) Convalescent units (battalions, companies) formed by the order of the command of the military district or army and having the purpose of medical treatment of lightly sick wounded, who do not need placement in military medical institutions, the provision of ambulant treatment and rest for patients upon discharge from medical institutions.
Educational and political-educational work with transient personnel of convalescent units is carried out according to special programs.

12. Replacement units, in the event they receive personnel exceeding their authorized strength, may form supplementary units (companies, squadrons, batteries, platoons etc.), which exist on the same basis as main units.
Supplementary units are formed entirely from transient personnel and they are disbanded when the personnel departs. Formation and disbandment is carried out by order of the unit commander.

D. Personnel of replacement units

13. The personnel of replacement units is divided into:

a) permanent personnel, intended for combat training and servicing of transient personnel and
b) transient personnel, prepared for replenishment of operational units.

At mobilization positions of permanent personnel are filled with: personnel detached from active units … and reservists called up with mobilization.

15. In wartime, replacement units are supplied with personnel:

a) permanent personnel (commanders and privates):
- evacuated from the front,
- called up from the reserve,
- appointed from units of the operational army or combat units located in the rear,
- command personnel graduated from training courses;

Note: The junior commanders [NCOs], in addition, are replenished with those who have completed training in the training elements of replacement units.

b) transient personnel:
1) officers
- evacuated from the front,
- called up from the reserve,
- graduating from military schools and
- officers graduating from improvement courses;
2) junior commanders [NCOs]:
- called up from the reserve,
- convalescents and subject to return to active units,
- trained in the training elements of the replacement units;
3) enlisted personnel:
- recruits from new drafts,
- convalescents, subject to return to the front;
4) horses arriving by mobilization from civil economy, from remount commissions and stud farms;
5) combat and transport vehicles coming from factories or from motor depots; transport vehicles and tractors arriving by mobilization from the civil economy;
6) training elements of replacement units are supplied with transient personnel, primarily from those called up from the reserve who have been trained in peacetime, special units should receive personnel with at least 6-7 grades of school education.

16. All called up enlisted reservists, upon arrival to replacement units go directly to the reception center, where their sanitary treatment is carried out, the degree of their military expertise, literacy, business and political qualities is ascertained, and depending on the results, their further purpose is determined and they are distributed to appropriate elements of the replacement unit. In units that do not have reception centers, quarantine, examination and distribution is carried out by one of the units as appointed by the unit commander.

Note: Men with completed secondary and higher education are sent from the reception center to preparatory parties or directly to military schools.

17. Army replacement regiments during mobilization are supplied exclusively with trained personnel and subsequently they receive transient personnel which completed training in replacement units of the rear.

18. The permanent personnel of replacement units is gradually replaced by men evacuated from the units operating at the front, simultaneously no more than 1/3-1/2 can be replaced (by each specialty).

The total duration of stay of the permanent personnel of replacement units is not more than one year, with the exception of men recognized as unfit or limitedly fit for service in the active army for health reasons, but fit for replacement units - for them the service term in replacement units is not limited.

19. For officers, graduated from military schools and called up from the reserve, as a rule, a 1-2 month period of stay in the replacement units is established to give them skills in commanding military units.


G. Dispatch of replacement from replacement units to operational units.

22. Call-up of personnel to the rear replacement units and the replenishment of field troops in wartime is carried out according to the following scheme:

a) Requests for replenishment of losses are submitted by the headquarters of the front (separate army) to the Red Army’s General Staff. The Red Army’s General Staff based on requests from the front headquarters gives orders to the headquarters of the military districts for sending reinforcements to cover the losses;
b) Rear replacement units, based on the orders of the district headquarters, form marching units composed of trained personnel and send them to the army replacement regiments;
c) army replacement regiments according to the orders of the army headquarters or corps headquarters (if the army regiments are subordinate to the corps) send replenishment to the troops;
d) Replenishment of the rear replacement units is carried out by the headquarters of the district according to the orders of the Mobilization Directorate.

The procedure for sending replenishment from the rear replacement regiments to the operational armies is as follows:

A. Privates and NCOs: Marching units:

a) whole units (companies, squadrons, batteries, platoons);
b) composite parties;

B. Officers:

a) Men appointed as commanders of marching units (platoons, companies, batteries, squadrons) following with these units;
b) Men by personal orders or numerical allocations of the Red Army’s Personnel Directorate and personnel departments of districts, following singly or in teams.

23. In case of urgent need, privates and NCO specialist can be dispatched individually.
..

25. Assigned to replenishments are first of all those who have completed military training and are considered physically fit for respective positions.

28. The commanders of replacement units send reports on each dispatch of replacements to the General Staff of the Red Army (Mobilization Directorate), and the headquarters of the districts notify the headquarters of the fronts (separate armies) where the replenishment is sent.

29. Officers accompanying the marching units do not return to the replacement units and are employed to staff operational units.

2. Replacement rifle units

30. Principal replacement rifle units are replacement rifle regiments combined into brigades and subordinated to the commanders of military districts and army replacement regiment subordinated directly to army and corps commanders.

31. Trained in the rear replacement rifle regiments are:
a) Privates
- for rifle, machine gun, mortar and 45-mm gun elements organic to rifle units and battalions of 45-mm guns of rifle divisions;
- for service units organic to rifle divisions and corps;
- medics of all units and establishments organic to and non-organic to divisions and corps;

b) junior commanders (NCOs):
- for all rifle, machine gun, mortar and 45-mm guns elements organic to rifle divisions and corps;
- for service units and establishments organic to rifle corps and divisions

Note: other privates and junior commanders are trained in replacement units of corresponding arms.

32. Training of personnel classified as unfit for combat service and meant for filling positions, which don’t require combat or specialized training is carried out in reception centers of replacement units.

33. The length of training is rear replacement units as set as follows: 15 days in the reception center, 1.5-2 months in main units, and 3 months in training units. The length of training of mortar and gun crews is increased to 3 months in main units and 4 months on training units.

34. Army replacement rifle regiments are composed of personnel trained in rear replacement units of all arms by all specialties available in rifle divisions and corps.

35. Army replacement rifle regiments, subordinate to corps commanders, are, as a rule, located in the areas of supply stations and can be employed by special order of the front headquarters to protect the rear area and corps transport routes.

36. Rifle corps and divisions receive personnel from army replacement rifle regiments by orders of the army headquarters or corps headquarters (if the regiments are subordinate to the corps commanders).
From:
http://rkka.ru/docs/real/zap/main.htm

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Re: Soviet Replacement/Reserve Units

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Post by Art » 04 Apr 2021, 17:14

Also from this regulation

Length of replacements training in:

Artillery units: up to 1 month in the reception center, 2 months in main units, in training units - 4 months for gun commanders and 3 months for others
Cavalry units: 2 months in main units and 3 months in training units
Horse artillery units: 3 months in main units and 4 months in training units
Motor transport units: 2 months for privates and 3 months for NCOs
Tank and armored units: 4 months for drivers, vehicles commanders, gunners and radio operators, 3 months for gun loaders
Anti-aircraft units: 3/4 months for privates/NCO gun masters and range finders, 2/3 months for others
Antiaircraft machine gun units: 2 months, 3 months in training units
Air observation units: 2 months, 3 months in training units
Survey units: 3 months for all specialists
Armored train units: 3-4 months for privates and NCOs, 1-2 months of retraining of officers and NCOs
Engineer units: 3 months for sappers of GHQ engineer units, 2 months for other sappers, 3 months for pontoon engineers, hydro technicians, electrical technicians, camouflage engineers. In training units – 3 months for sappers, 4 months for pontoon engineers, mechanics hydro mechanics, electrical mechanics.
GHQ signals units: 6/9 months for private/NCO BODO telegraph operators, 4/6 months for private/NCO ST-35/Morse telegraph operators, 6 months for NCO telegraph mechanics, 5/5 months for radio operators, 4/6 for telegraph station operators, 1/2 months for telephone wiremen, 4/6 months for electrical mechanics, 1/2 months for lineman, 3 months for private electricians, 3/4 months for air signalers.
Replacement signal battalions for corps and divisions: 3 months for NCOs, private telegraph and radio operators, 2 months for other privates, 1 month in the reception center.
Degassing and chemical protection units: 3/4 months for privates/NCOs
Road operating units: 14 days in the reception center, 2 months for private road and bridge engineers, 1 months for private traffic controllers, 4 months for NCO bridge engineers, 3 months for NCO road engineers and traffic controllers
Railroad units: 14 days in the reception center, 4/6 months for locomotive drivers, 4/6 months for electrical and signals masters, ¾ months for bridge engineers, 3/4 months for power station mechanics, 3/4 months for metal-processing specialists, ¾ months for mechanics and drivers of railroad machines, 2/3 months for other specialists.

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Re: Soviet Replacement/Reserve Units

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Post by KDF33 » 04 Apr 2021, 21:15

Art wrote:
07 Nov 2020, 10:23
From general Schadenko's report to Stalin of 14 February 1943.
March replacements sent from military districts to operational fronts during 1942:
1st half - 2,147,437 men
2nd half - 1,159,941 men
Total 3,307,378
Hi Art. Thanks for this very interesting information.

Do you know if the march replacements included returned wounded/sick? Given the scale of losses taken in 1942, I find this unlikely given the above figures.

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