Maps 1942

(Western Direction)

UpdatedOctober 15, 2009
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Typical Soviet Abbreviations

Some typical coding of Soviet military maps and battle schemes

Abbreviations of units

upKalinin Front
# Title Area Unit subordination Date Lang. Source
upMoscow Counter-Offensive
KF4201 Course of operations of the Kalinin Front Rzhev area KF Jan. 1-7 Rus 6
KF4202 Operations in Rzhev area Rzhev area KF Jan 4-11 Rus 3
KF4203

Fights of the 31st Rifle Brigade and partisans in Ushitsy area

Rem AMVAS: Seems a typo exists here. The 237th Rifle Division was formed later. Possibly it was the 257th Rifle Division/3rd Shock Army

NW from Rzhev 3 SA/KF Jan.28-29 Rus 7
 
upMisc. operations
KF4204 Course of operations against Velikiye Luki and Novosokol'niky Velikiye Luki - Novosokol'niky KF Nov. 24- Dec. 10 Rus 9
KF4205 The 881st Rifle Regiment offensive on Rzhev direction Rzhev area 158RD/39A/KF Nov. 25 Rus 1
KF4206 Course of operations in Velikiye Luki area Velikiye Luki area KF Dec. 10'42- Jan. 12'43 Rus 2

 

upWestern Front
# Title Area Unit subordination Date Lang. Source
upMoscow Counter-Offensive
WF4201 Breaking the Lama river defensive line by the troops of the 20th Army W. from Volokolamsk 20 A/WF Jan. 9-15 Rus 12
WF4202 Maneuver of the 1162nd Rifle Regiment in breaking-through the enemy defense on Lama river Lama river 352 RD/20A/WF Jan. 13-15 RusEng 1
WF4203 108th Rifle Division in fights for Mozhaisk Mozhaisk area 5A/WF Jan. 17-20 Rus 4
WF4204 Operations of landing party in Vyazma area Vyazma area; Znamenka village 201ABde/5AbnC/WF Jan 18-29 Rus 8
WF4205

Offensive of the 33rd Army against Vyazma (bad quality)

Vyazma area WF Jan 25 - Feb 1 Rus 8
WF4206 Fights of the 108th Rifle division for Vasilkov strongpoint Mozhaisk area? 5A/WF Jan. 25-Mar.3 Rus 4
upMisc. operations
WF4207 Counter-attacks of the 144th Rifle Division Ivanniki area 5A/WF June 28 Rus 7
WF4208 Course of the Pogorelo-Gorodishchevskaya operatsiya. Rzhev-Zubtsov area WF July 30-Aug. 23 Rus 2
WF4209 Attacks of the 1104th and 1108th Rifle Regiments Derzha river area 331 RD/20A/WF August Rus 10
WF4210 Deployment of the 20th Army prior to offensive and its missions for the first two days of operation Pogoreloye Gorodishche area (Zubtsov district) 20 A/WF Aug. 4 Rus 13
WF4211 Operations of the 82nd Rifle Division in Sychevka vicinityNEW Karmanovo - Sychevka area 82 RD/20A/WF Aug. 4'42 - Mar. 13'43 Rus 14
WF4212 Meeting engagement of the right wing of the Western front Sychevka area WF Aug. 6-9 Rus 13
WF4213 Operations of the 20th Army Sychevka area 20 A/WF Aug.10-23 Rus 13
WF4214 Defensive operations of the 1085th Rifle Regiment on Resseta river Khat'kovo area 322 RD/16A/WF Aug 11 Rus 1
WF4215 Fights of the 3th Tank Corps in Kozelsk area Kozelsk area 3 TC/61A/WF Aug. 12 Rus 11
WF4216 Operations of the 10th Tank Corps Sukhinichi area 16A/WF Aug. 12-Sept. 3 Rus 5

 

upBryansk Front
# Title Area Unit subordination Date Lang. Source
BF4201 Combat in Kastornoye region Kastornoye vicinities BrF July 4 RusEng 8
BF4202 Course of night attack of the 605th and 721st Rifle Regiments' detachments Kshen' river 132 RD/13A/ BrF Sept. 5-6 '42 Rus 1

Check also Moscow battle 1941

Abbreviations

A - Army

ABde-Airborne Brigade

AbnC - Airborne Corps

BrF- Bryansk Front

RD - Rifle Division

SA - Shock Army

WF - Western Front

Literature:
  1. "Taktika v boevykh primerakh. Polk", Voyennoe izdatelstvo Ministerstva Oborony SSSR, Moscow, 1974. (cited from docs.vif2.ru)
  2. A. Isaev, "Kogda Vnezapnosti uzhe ne bylo. Istoriya VOV, kotoruyu my ne znali", "Yauza", "EKSMO", 2005
  3. D. Khazanov, "Rzhevskiy rubezh", AviaMaster, 6/2001
  4. I.I. Birichev, "V Bitve za Moskvu", Moscow, 1974
  5. I.M. Kravtchenko, V.V. Burkov, "Desyatyi Tankovyi Dneprovskiy. Boyevoi put' (Boyevoi put' 10-go tankovogo Dneprovakogo ordena suvorova korpusa (cited from http://samsv.narod.ru)
  6. Sbornik Voyenno-Istoricheskikh materialov Velikoy Otechestvennoy vojny, No. 7, Moscow, Voyenizdat, 1952 (cited from militera.lib.ru).
    Rem. AMVAS: Draw attention to the table of typos put into the lower right corner of some battle schemes from this source. The 2nd column stays for written text, the 3rd column - for the corrected.
  7. "Taktika v boevykh primerakh. Divizia", Voyennoe izdatelstvo Ministerstva Oborony SSSR, Moscow, 1976. (cited from docs.vif2.ru)
  8. www.rkka.ru
  9. F. Paulman, "V boyakh za Velikiye Luki", Tallinn, Eesti Ramaat, 1973 (cited from nskslovar.narod.ru)
  10. "Taktika v boevykh primerakh. Polk", Voyennoe izdatelstvo Ministerstva Oborony SSSR, Moscow, 1974. (cited from docs.vif2.ru)
  11. V.N. Nechaev, Gvardejskiy Umanskiy, Moskva, Voyenizdat, 1989
  12. D.Z. Muriev, "Proval operatsii "Taifun", Moskva, Voyenizdat, 1966 (cited from http://pretich2005.narod.ru)
  13. Unknown source
  14. Avramov I.F., 82-ja Yartsvskaya, Moskva, Voyenizdat, 1973 (cited from http://www.history.h15.ru)
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