Strength of the Rifle Units Involved in
the Prokhorovka Battle

on July 12

UpdatedJanuary 16, 2008
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Unit Date* Total power Took part in fights Comments
The main forces of the counter-stroke group
33rd Guards Rifle Corps/5th Guards Army
6th GAbnD July 10 8894 6226 Set as reserve. didn't take part in fights July 12
52nd GRD*1 evening July 11 3380 2366  
9th GAbnD   8906 6234 casaulities of July 11 included
42nd GRD*2 July 10 8046 4134  
95th GRD +
108th SPenC*3
July 11 9099 6442 casaulities of July 11 included
97th GRD+
110th SPenC*3
July 10 9150 6488  
Total Corps   47475 25921 (209+48)*4  
Auxiliary counter-stroke Group
23rd Rifle Corps/6th Guards Army
71st GRD July 10 6000 4200  
184th RD July 10 8221 5754  
204th RD on morning July 12 7247 5073  
219th RD July 10 8734 6114  
Total corps   30202 21141  
Blocking forces of the 7th Guards Army
49th Rifle Corps
111th RD July 10 7487 4492  
270th RD July 10 7491 4495  
Total Corps   14978 8987  

Rem.: Besides mentioned units were planned to use the 11th Motorised Rifle Brigade/10th Tank Corps (in Psel scroll - northern outskirts of Vasiljevka and Andreevka), 6th Motorised Rifle Brigade/5th Guards Stalingrad Tank Corps (Belenikhino - Liski area). Strength of these units on the morning July 12 is not specified by now.

* -Strength data are given on this date

*1 - Because of large casaulities the number of staff took part in fights is conventional

*2 - Without 132nd Guards Rifle Regiment (1986 men on July 2) and 45th Guards Antitank Artillery Battalion (182 men), which didn't take part in fights of July 12 (excluding the 1st Battery (24 men))

*3 - Both the 108th and 110th Penalty Companies in full strength took part in fihgts of July 12. Strength of the 108th SPenC on July 1 was 12 men fixed staff and 229 men variable staff; 110th SPenC on July 10 - 13 men fixed staff and 263 men variable staff.

*4 - In this figure included units of the 8th Guards Airborne Regiment and 2/5 Separate Antitank Artillery Battalion/6th GABnD

Rem. AMVAS - Sum total of all cells gives 32090 men.


Abbreviations

GAbnD - Guards Airborne Division

GRD - Guards Rifle Division

RD - Rifle Division

SPenC - Separate Penalty Company


Literature

1.V.Zamulin, "Zasekrechennaya Kurskaya Bitva", Moscow, Yauza, Eksmo, 2007


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